Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | The Part That Was OursPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment We feel it before we can name it. A clench in the chest, needing this to not be on us. And only after does the mind start supplying the reason, a process, a person, anything that sits outside ourselves. It happens fast...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Action Clears the PathPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment We hit a wall, and there's no answer for what's next. We run the same options through our head a second time, then a third, and land nowhere new. The feeling that fills that gap comes fast, turning into something bigger than...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | The Space AfterPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment We've learned to treat a pause in conversation as something we're responsible for filling. Someone stops speaking, and before the silence settles, we're already offering the next thought or question. To us, it's being attentive....
29 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Comfort's Blind SpotPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment There is a way of working that has carried us for a long time, and we stop questioning it. It becomes how we lead, how we are known. Somewhere inside that certainty, we stop imagining any other path to get there, or stay...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Two Words That LandPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment Well done. It rarely gets said, even when we have earned it. We finish something that actually took effort, and the moment slips by unmarked. We move straight into whatever comes next, because pausing to name it never occurs to...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | The Weight We AddPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment The day was already set. We knew the order of priorities, and what could wait until tomorrow. Then something we did not build room for arrives, a message or a favor we had not planned for, and the ground tilts. Not because of...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | What the Transaction MissesPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentMost of what fills a day is a transaction waiting to be cleared. A request. An email. A Slack message. The line at the store. A note home from a teacher. We move through each one fast, checking it off, reaching for what...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Hidden in the Hard PartsPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentIt was there all along. The opportunity we had been working toward, hoping for, that we deserved. But it came and went while we were consumed by the challenge standing right in front of it. We looked back and saw it...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | The Work of RestingPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentWe get there. The vacation, the long weekend we planned for months. And yet the mind doesn’t follow. We are hours from home on a beach and already working through next week’s deadline. We sit across from the people we love most...
2 months ago • 1 min read