Studies using brain imaging such as functional MRI suggest that our minds spend approximately 50% in time travel to the future.
If we spend up to 50% of our waking hours projecting the future (especially in light of politics, climate change, polarizing values, rising costs of shelter and food, ever-present loss, wars and rumors of wars etc) the dread and negative bias or conscious worry and stress will influence the health of our body, mind and brain (which will directly influence our leadership capacity).
Perhaps we might eek out a bit of wisdom from Charlie Brown's philosophy about our chosen thoughts for 'one day at a time'.
What we think about grows.
Thoughts that we nurture wire together to create default highways of thinking, being and behaving - all of which directly impacts our desired leadership outcomes.
Notice. Name. Choose.
Lead yourself well.
Empowering leadership that makes a sustainable impact is tough work.
Changing patterns of ways of doing, thinking, being is tough work.
If we want different results, it's much more than changing behaviours. It is noticing the thoughts, feelings, emotions and psychobiology that inform the patterns.
Sustainable patterns that serve values-based, purpose-driven leadership is more than a shuffle of external patterns - they must include a deeper internal change of patterns. That's the juiciness of neuroplasticity and solid, sound leadership effectiveness.
Lead yourself well.
Courage is the tipping point of something better.
Courage is the bravery and willingness to take a stand against previously held negative or disempowering beliefs and actions.
Bringing it to awareness is a courage act of learning, growing, changing and moving thoughts to action. Ultimately, repeated action is the gold of neuroplasticity and change at a cellular level.
It's all really quite brave, don't you think?
Notice. Name. Choose.
Being thankful for all of it, doesn't feel do-able so much of the time.
That's fair.
Befriend the dissonance when and as you can.
Hold gratitude and thankfulness for what you can.
Think on things that are good. Think on the blessings without ignoring the ick.
Everything belongs.
It all matters.
YOU matter.
AND I'm grateful for you.
Are you grateful for you?
Thankfulness is more than a day. It's a chosen way of being. Lead yourself sell.
