The cognitive load we’ve all been dealing with over the last two-plus years is unlike anything we’ve experienced before. So in her June 13 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte shares a very simple but effective leadership tip: Give yourself a break—and allow your mind, body and spirit to rest and recover. That’s the only way you’ll be ready for whatever comes next.
Transcript of Your Best Next Move: Using Personal Agency to Give Yourself a Break
Hi everyone, Bobbie LaPorte here again with my weekly leadership tip for your Best Next Move, where I help you see continuing curveballs as an opportunity. This year, I will help you actively use your personal agency to accelerate what you want to accomplish in 2022.
This week’s tip is short. Why? Because I’m tired, and from my conversations with many of you over the last few weeks….my sense is you are too.
So, this is nothing new, you are thinking. True. We’ve all been through a lot over the last two+ years. But I don’t think many of us, sometimes myself included, have acknowledged just how challenging it was.
The cognitive load we have all been under was unlike anything most of us have ever experienced before.
And while we’d like to believe that we are “coming out of it,” the curveballs just keep coming. As a colleague said recently: “The planet just hasn’t had a break.”
So, here’s my tip:
Give yourself a break. I know we’d all like to believe that we can catch up on all the things we missed, that we can work harder, and achieve more. But I think we need to adjust our expectations.
Those of you who have worked with me have probably heard me say it’s OK to not always be an A+ student.
Often a B or B- effort gets the job done, and more importantly, allows our mind, body and spirit to regroup and recover. At least for long enough to feel like we’ve used our personal agency in a very personal way to get ready for what’s next.
That’s my tip for this week. I am recording this on Sunday. Today I’m going to do just a little work (despite the to-do’s that are looming ahead of me this coming week), watch the Giants sweep the Dodgers, hang out in the yard with Posey, and Nilla, and – just – sit.
For more help on using your personal agency to make uncertainty a part of your success strategy – check out my new book – “When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World”, and my new online leadership course – “Leading Through Uncertainty.”
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