What's the point of the expenditure of your energy and focus?

When you are 95 years old and look back to right now, will you smile?

Work and life is dynamic. And while you are doing 'all the things' to provide food and shelter for your chosen set of people, notice and name your sense of purpose and how it supports or distracts from what matters most. (aka, that means that you will also need to have clarity of your core values.)

Ah, it's a bit of a rabbit trail that will provide immense clarity of your current and future decisions and choices.

What you focus on, grows.  What you give energy to, grows.

If you matter to you - do the personal work for your own leadership while you are out there saving the world.

Lead yourself well.

Notice the meh / mundane days.
What's missing?

It is meaning or purpose?
Meaningful connection?
Absence of your favourite contributions, skills, or talents?
A gap of knowing-doing?
Unclear core values or aspirations?
Weariness of not being seen or heard authentically?
Boredom?
Or.... what else?

Is the pain of the unknown less than the pain of the known?
Is the risk too much?
Are there possibilities between same-old and meaningful life/work?

Notice.
Name.
Choose.

Lead yourself well.

Take note of how you want to show up in work and life.

Take note of the current cultural expectations (in the world you are part of) to conform or inform.

Take note of your lived experience and the story you embodied about authentic vulnerability.

Are you a safe space?

Lead yourself well.

My mama and my sister.
Forever entwined by a lifetime of shared experiences, stories and adventures.

Every day, they inspire my personal leadership decisions and journey.

Every day, they inspire both grit and grace in the expected and unexpected bends in the adventure of my work and life.

We hold on.
We hold on to our values, our faith and our aliveness through it all.

Leadership is a lifelong commitment, yes?

With smiles...