A self-fulfilling prophecy is not a trick of believing—it is a catalyst of becoming. It is a leadership lever.

When you resonantly speak a future into existence, you are planting seeds in the garden of your life, inviting others to cross-pollinate their ideas and influence to help manifest a resonant reality. You expand people’s minds about what is possible.

When you dissonantly speak a future into existence, you are planting weeds of fear, pressuring others to cross-examine their own ideas until they conform to your dissonant reality. You collapse people’s hope in the possible, reducing it to what is merely permissible.

Self-fulfilling prophecy does not judge the prophet—but you, the jury, must stand guard over your agency.

True leaders harness the power of self-fulfilling prophecy without becoming enamored by it. They do not willfully force their outcome; they invite.

And they never stop listening to what the system is saying in return.

You are the way. Become. 👊

Adapted photo by jed owen on unsplash