Grounded Leadership in a Time of Tension and Change

Hey, everyone. Joan, here back again, I wanted to share a little bit more information. I left a video last week about a pivot that Guided Leadership Insights is making in 2026 and how to start thinking about your leadership investment for 2026 and really what matters and and budgeting processes and all that. I know all of that's either done or just in the process of doing that, but I wanted to share a story. I was out on the bike today, and and it was about leadership, but I didn't know it at the time. So I was out on my bike, and I had a morning cycle that I do, and just happened to be raining and cold, which is a little odd for California, but we're heading into that season, right? So my legs are fried from a strength workout I did over the weekend, and so I'm on the road, and we're grinding through and it's just raining and it's cold, and I'm thinking to myself, Oh, this is going to be a grind today, and I'm with the pack, right? So I'm noticing like the pack is ahead of me, and then I just gotta hurry to keep up, and I'm just not feeling it, you know? And so I'm thinking to myself, God, should I just bail? It's just, it's not the right day. Am I just not prepared enough today? It just was the wrong day that I and and I think to myself, you know, how many times does this happen at work? You just show up sometimes. Monday morning, you're just so tired, and we get up to this area, so we're riding, and there's a little incline, and we get up to this town called Black Hawk. It's in Northern California, and it's kind of a pivot town where you can go left or right and in our direction. If I went left, I'd be headed back home, and I wouldn't have gone on on the extended ride with the group, so I decided to take right, and when we took a right to continue going, actually, the sun came out for about 30 minutes, and I felt the sun on my skin, and it got a little warmer, and I thought, how often does this happen in Our leadership journeys where we're just kind of grinding, and sometimes we give up before the Insight happens, or sometimes we are really trying to muscle through something so difficult, and then we just take a path, and all of a sudden the answer just comes, you know, and It's interesting, I'm often thinking about kind of as we look through lead, our leadership inventory, I call it, you know, as we're looking through our impact, our behaviors, what goals are setting for the new year? What goals are thinking about, how are they aligned with the company that you're at? What's happening with AI? What's happening with, you know, either downsizing or shifting roles. What's happening in our country? I think about being grounded first. And how do we get grounded in staying in the grind and also coming up with perhaps a different perspective about why you're in it. So the learning for me, and I want to take it to you, and the question that I have for you is, when you're in the grind and it's feeling difficult, there's two sides to every coin, and there could be another perspective that's preparing you, that could be preparing you for what's coming next in your life, that you just don't know what is around the corner. And I just want to say, reach out as what I would love to do is have a conversation with you about how we check that inventory. What is our perspective on how things are rolling right now, and how do we want to show up? What do you want to be different a year from now? And that has to start with reverse engineering. It So taking a look at what you would love to happen next year in your life, at home, at work, in your social community, spiritually. What have you we go through with me, working with me, I want to work with you on how do we step through that? Thinking the behavior change, maybe goal setting, looking at alignment of your values, and how do we get there to ensure that a year from now, you'll be looking back and saying, ha, absolutely through it all, through these different tensions, and through this perspective I had you, you were able to change up the game. So yeah, quick DM me. You know how to get a hold of me. I'll put all the links here in the chat, but it was great just having a fireside chat with you, and I'll see you again soon. All right. Bye.