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 | Where the Mistake is HeadedPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment We’re reviewing the work again, and there it is. Another mistake, close enough to one we already flagged that it feels less like an accident and more like a pattern. Our first thought goes to our own expectations. Maybe...
18 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 | Room for What Matters NextPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment The year’s final quarter is underway, and the weeks ahead are already packed. The standing meeting is still on it. So is the Sunday night task we have repeated so many times that nobody questions why. Both made sense...
25 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 | What Silence Costs Practical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment We stayed quiet and told ourselves that was the professional thing to do. We didn't have the full picture yet, so we held back the explanation. Somewhere on the other end of that gap, someone was left to fill in what we didn't...
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 | Both at Once Practical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment Fall showed up yesterday. We welcome that kind of change easily; the cooler weather and familiar traditions. But change doesn't always arrive so easily, whether it shows up at work or closer to home. We want the good parts and the...
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 | Slow Enough to Matter Practical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment It keeps coming, at work and at home, faster than we can catch our breath between one thing and the next. We answer by matching it, deciding before we've thought it through. Before one thing has settled, we're already...
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 Today Can’t Show You Practical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The Moment When stuck sets in, it doesn't feel temporary. It feels like the truth. Like the version of things we're looking at right now is the one we'll be looking at from here on out. The job that isn't moving. The relationship...
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 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...
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 | 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...
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 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....
2 months ago • 1 min read