Leading the Pivot | The Story Still Ahead


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 Story Still Ahead
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Practical wisdom for the pivots that shape us.


The Moment
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Milestones have a way of making us look back.

We measure the distance traveled. We inventory what we built and what we wish had gone differently.

There is something honest in that pause.

But a milestone is not only a marker of what is behind us.


The Pivot
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Every significant threshold carries two directions.

One faces backward toward everything that shaped us. The other faces forward toward everything that has not yet happened.

The next chapter does not erase what came before. It builds on the whole of it and opens into something new.

Do we lean into what is waiting or become weighed down by what we carry from the season before?

The end of the story has not been written.

And that is not a small thing.


The Move
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Whatever milestone you are standing near right now, look up from what is behind you.

What does the chapter ahead make possible that you have not yet allowed yourself to imagine?


Cheering you on to your best life,
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Amanda Crooks, M.Div, BCC, CMCS, GCDF
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Board Certified Coach | Leadership, Career & Well-Being

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