Give Yourself Permission: The Key to Sustainable Leadership, Ep34 Hardcore and At Ease Shelly Rood

Your next leadership move is not just about having a toolkit. It's about giving yourself permission to use it. Do it. Sit on the floor when you're having a sensory overload instead of just plowing through and hurting people around you. Give yourself permission to leave the restaurant if it's too much. Instead of just suffering all the way to the end. Give yourself permission to say no to that parade, even though everybody expects you to go. Give yourself permission to wear your Greek worry beads with confidence, even if didn't really match your outfit. Because sustainable excellence requires us to be a little bit weird. It requires that you protect your capacity to carry out your mission. And you can't carry much if your nervous system is stuck in 1988 because of that squirrel in the road. Next Week in episode 35, we're exploring something that seems like it should be obvious, but somehow it isn't. The difference between loving what you lead and burning out for it. We all started our missions with passion, so why so many leaders end up resenting the very thing that we once loved? And more importantly, how do you restore that love without lowering your standards?