Stress is a signal that something inside needs healing. When leaders make employees feel valued and integral to the organization, they perform better. Like a telltale on a sail that shows wind changes, stress cues tell you when to adjust your leadership direction.
True for your entire life. Whatever you're struggling with, whatever you're stressing over, is really just an indicator of what is ready to be healed within yourself. So if you're not getting as much out of your employees as you would like, that's just really an indicator that you're not supporting them. You're not making them feel like they're a valued part of something. They're not going to give their all if they don't feel like they're a key valued part of it. Not only the organization, but any aspect of the work that they're doing. And so, yeah, you really just have to begin to recognize, you know, I'm a sailor and there's this little thread on the forward sail that we call the— do we call that? It's just an indicator that how the wind is changing, you know, it's the telltale is the term we use for that. And it tells me, do I need to head up into the wind a bit more, fall off the Wind a bit.
