Theme: Leading with Steady Action

Art credits: La Tour Eiffel à Paris by Armand Guillaumin

You are here because you are looking for support taking steady action as you lead your life. My hope is to give you useful tools to assess and strengthen the foundations of your life and leadership, all while taking action to improve your life and the world around you. 

Each post will build on the material from the previous post, mirroring a leadership development pathway from start to finish. You can expect to see a lesson, a tool for you to try, and an example of how to use the tool. If you or someone you know would like more support than what is offered here, please send them my way for coaching and/or additional resources. 

Here’s the planned sequence for this year-long project, though I may adjust these as I learn what works: 

#1: How to choose an area of your life to develop or change

What part of your life needs attention to live in integrity with your values?

#2: How to care for your health to steady your leadership

What do nutrition, exercise, relaxation, and sleep have to do with leading?

#3: How to create a motivating goal to start taking action

What would be different if you achieved this goal? How will you celebrate?

#4: How to see your inner strengths and use them at the right time

What parts of you can you activate to start taking action?

#5: How to see the path from here to where you want to be

What array of paths lead toward your goal and which will you try first?

#6: How to find your way past the inner and outer obstacles

What specific things can support you to step over obstacles?

#7: How to start taking specific steps along the path to your goal

How can you design simple experiments to enable learning as you go?

#8: How to track your position & assess your progress

How can tracking help you see where you are on the path to your goal? What is your position telling you about your direction, pace, and what lies ahead?

#9: Adjusting your approach based on new information

How to adjust your progress based on what you learn as you go

#10: Crossing the finish line

How to celebrate what you have accomplished and sustain the change. 

A Leadership Tip

If you are interested in setting a goal for the year, consider starting with a 3 month goal. Shorter-term goals are easier to envision and follow through on than longer-term goals. As you get more comfortable setting goals, you can play around with different time frames.