A few days before Thanksgiving, I sent a group text to gather expectations from my family about what would make Thanksgiving Day a great experience for them.  I’m sure there were a few eye rolls when the text came in, but everyone went along with it and shared what they wanted most from our day together…

Many of us celebrated the US Thanksgiving on Thursday, and I’m sure we all experienced many emotions influenced by our relationships and the circumstances we find ourselves in.

I hosted one of the monthly Leadership Endurance Round Tables earlier this week. The focus of our discussion was on Leadership Endurance: Preparing for the holidays and the year-end sprint.  We got into a great discussion about how we see the “race” we’re running and why we’re doing it which led to setting an intention for the next six weeks or so:

In a client meeting earlier this week, we were talking about priorities and which meetings made sense to defer based on more pressing deadlines.  One of the leaders shared an interesting perspective when we identified a specific meeting to skip…they said, “unless you’re procrastinating on purpose,” and shared that they sometimes do this themselves.

As you’ve heard me start talking about more recently, leadership is an endurance sport, and we need to treat it like this vs. a sprint.  Part of that endurance is finding ways to manage our heavy emotions during a crisis because we’re not just responsible for ourselves…

At least for me, when I feel like this, I start focusing on all the little things that might be contributing to this feeling. This year feels like a lot of unsettled moments, particularly related to my living situation…

Earlier this week In the group coaching session I’m part of, I was sharing that I hadn’t made progress on the items that I took last week.  I knew there were a lot of competing priorities coming - a training session, move prep, speaking at a conference, closing, moving, and unpacking.  Adding something new might not happen but I was optimistic that I would have knocked it out last week because it was just about writing an email and reaching out to ~10 people.

Last weekend, one of my Facebook memories included photos of the Pennsylvania Ragnar Road Relay I did with a team of 12 women in 2 vans last year, each running 3 legs over about a 36-hour time window.  As you would expect from a relay, part of the experience is handing the baton (or something to represent it) off to the next runner. Each time you handed off, there was a…

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to participate in a great workplace summit, primarily targeted at CHROs, focusing on the new leadership playbook required for success today and in the future.  As you might expect, there was a discussion about where people work and what AI will bring to the workplace.

We made the decision several months ago to have a house built in a relatively new neighborhood versus buying something that we might want or need to refresh and renovate.  We’re now just two weeks out from our closing which is super exciting and also a bit daunting because we need to pack up all of the things we’ve been living with over the past two months and start making decisions about what to do first with the house.