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....
14 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...
21 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 | 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 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 | 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 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 | 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 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 | 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...
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 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...
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 | Someone Else's ScorecardPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentWe carry it with us everywhere. The colleague who seems to be moving faster. The parent who appears to have it all together. The person beside us at the gym who makes us self-conscious about our own effort. We are not...
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 | It Belongs to You TooPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentThere is a version of creativity that feels out of reach right now. The kind that requires space and stillness. The kind that belongs to people with room to think and time to explore. Most of us don't consider ourselves those...
2 months ago • 1 min read