Not me, but mwe.
Not me vs you.
Not us vs them.
Me and you.

The beauty of belonging.

Sure, it's easier to polarize, divide and embrace our specific mirror neurons to confirm our own safety, bias' and successes. But perhaps there are are options to to create genuine community and belonging with others who do not look, behave or think like us.

• I don't believe, nor am I suggesting that all beliefs or behaviours are healthy or helpful.
• I don't believe, nor am I suggesting that all of us should agree on everything.
• I am curious, if in the messy middle of our glaring, blaring, blaming, shaming differences - we are open to see beyond the externals, beyond the yelling, blaming and shoulding - and if there might be space for the beauty of belonging.

Is the mystery of community unsolvable - or is there a way beyond what we've always done, and how we have always behaved?

Notice. Name. Choose for yourself how to bring the beauty of belonging in the great divides of community.

Bittersweet - perhaps that's the best any of us can expect in our wild and wonderful, messy and challenging work and life.

It's okay.
It all belongs.

Given all the circumstances of right now, right here (and the projections of what might yet occur):
1. What is the PERSPECTIVE you want to choose in the next days/season of mind-management?
2. What are YOUR core values that you want to respect and honour?
3. What are your patterns of thinking and doing that are NOT serving the things that are most important to you?
4. When and how frequently will you check in on how you are balancing unending challenges and things outside of your control?

Reframe.
Redirect.
Refocus.
Rewire.

Lead yourself well.

The ONE next thing...

Feeling overwhelmed is consistent with being human.

Long periods of feeling overwhelmed is consistent with unhelpful stress in our body, mind and brain.

The purpose of our right and left hemisphere of our brain can help us out with the overwhelm. When things are overwhelming, the left hemisphere excels at structure, sequence, this-than-that kind of thinking.

Given the circumstances, what is one task that you might act on right now?

Suspend the rest of the overwhelm until that one task is executed. This calms the stress hormones as it communicates that you are controlling your thoughts instead of your thoughts controlling you.

Lead yourself well

Be there.
Full present to the other.
Without judgement or pretense.
Without fault-finding or fixing.
Listening deeply.
Listening to what is said and what is unsaid.
Listening to the visible and the invisible.

Creating respectful space for next steps to surface, be processed in unhurried time and access wisdom for a unique journey and situation.
True listening is a gift we can offer one another.

Notice.
Name.
Choose.

Lead yourself well.