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

What is truly important is not usually even remotely time sensitive.

What have you decided is truly important?
Hold old were you when you made that/those decisions?
How often have you double-clicked on those decisions to ensure they are still reflecting your values and a meaningful work with a life that works?

It's not too late to notice and name what is truly important to YOU.
It's not too late to notice and name that the agendas, quotas, expectations of others have blurred into your list of 'truly important'.

Notice.
Name.
(Process. Sit with it. Be curious. Suspend judgement).
Choose what is truly important and choose values-based actions in alignment.

Lead yourself well.

Self-pity creeping in?

What is in the category of 'too late' for you?
Is it really?
Who and what influenced that definition, those thoughts or 'that way'?

Clear is kind, isn't it?

Perhaps we can also normalize that not all dreams come true, not all expected outcomes within expected outcomes are a current reality.

May we also normalize that almost all of life is dynamic. Indeed our bodies are a process, not merely an entity. May we also normalize that we have become attached to the structure, rather than the form.

Notice and name your narrative, and the attachment to its confines.

It is never too late to make a new friend, to have a courageous conversation or to lead yourself well.

You have my best.