When you’re tired but busy, try microdosing joy.
Look for opportunities to microdose on things that lift your mood and energy.
1. Write a list of things that make you happy eg buying flowers for yourself or someone else or reading a book in the sunshine.
2. Next to each item on the list, note how long each takes eg 5 mins to dance to your favourite Beyonce song, 1 hour for coffee with a friend or 30 mins for a walk in the park with your puppy.
3. Look for things in your diary you could stop doing or remove - permanently or just temporarily until you’ve bounced back.
4. In this newly...
During NOvember, I'm practising saying NO.
NO to habits that aren't useful anymore, NO to distractions and NO to rabbit holes. Leaders I am working with are joining me in saying NO to meetings and superfluous emails. At my Retreat in Byron last weekend, we said NO to things that were holding us back and getting in the way.
As we head into summer and think about how 2023 might be different, it's time to prune and create space for the right things.
What could you say NO to in NOvember? Who can be your NO buddy to share your wobbles and wins with over the next 30 days? Join me in clearing some...
For my first year out of corporate roles, I set myself a target of reading 50 books. Of course in the pursuit of working out which books to read I bought over 100! but my tsundoku habit is another story.
Here are twelve of the books I've loved that have shifted my thinking. I often recommend these to leaders I am working with.
Culture and Leadership
Impact Players - I loved Liz Wiseman's Multipliers book from a few years ago and her latest book on those people in your organisation who punch above their weight is worth a read.
Unlearning &...
The last two days in CBR with Exec team and Leadership Accelerator groups final sessions of their Leadershift programs and graduation dinners. Celebrating the shift over the last 9 months. Third group of ELT direct reports graduating today. I love working with CEOs who believe in the power of leadership to shift Culture.
Connection, Capability, Commitment… Doing it on purpose. Culture
#magichappens #cultureshift #leadershift #shift #culture #leadership #leadershipdevelopment
We just got back from a weekend away in the sunshine coast hinterland.
I feel like I have been away for a week.
We had booked the weekend away two months in advance (which according to research, is a great way to optimise happiness from a holiday).
And while some research suggests that the optimum length of a holiday is eight days, there is also research to suggest that treating your weekend like a vacation (regardless of whether or not you actually take one), is a great way to increase happiness.
As you might imagine, we have just...
When you’re the only one in the room, something happens.
Yes, you relax sometimes and forget for a while, especially when you know and like the others in the room.
Still.
You’re the only one in the room.
It’s hard to be unaffected.
It’s important not to be ineffective or to waste the opportunity.
It’s exhausting bearing the weight of representation and expectation.
Some topics pass by or are easy to contribute to. Others are fraught. Your question, or your answer, may be weighted or seen as representative, because you’re the only one in the room.
You may...
Cultures are shaped by what you pay attention to.
Like any currency, Attention is valuable because it is finite and scarce.
What are you paying attention to?
As a leader, you know what metrics your CEO and Board care about by what they focus on in meetings. ...by what they pay attention to.
What metrics they interrogate
What initiatives catch their interest
How they open and close conversations
Weight of focus during meetings
Outcomes that are rewarded and punished
Most of your team members can tell you what you pay attention to. Could...
What’s stopping you from playing to your strengths?
Maybe you don’t know yet what your strengths are?
Or do you know your strengths but something, or someone, is stopping you?
What’s stopping you from using your strengths each day?
You don’t need to set a goal to get unfit!
Reflecting on the week (we made it!) and a couple of habits that have crept back in...
I believe that if you aren’t changing it, you’re choosing it.
This weekend it’s time to get back on the path. I’m choosing positive, healthy habits.
What are you choosing to change?
If you tend to the more introverted side of things, you know how exhausting it can be to operate in a world often designed by, and for, those more extroverted.
I love working with quiet leaders and helping them find their quiet power... helping them embrace their quiet power... learning to leverage their quiet strength... it would have to be one of my favourite coaching and mentoring journeys is the blossoming of a wonderfully quiet person into a proud, confident quiet person.
Does this sound like you?
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