The quiet life is more practiced and developed than it is purchased or acquired. No easy steps, no copying off someone else’s paper, no borrowing. Only the way of daily, weekly, monthly practice. The lifestyle of a quiet life. 

Four Practices of the Quiet Life

Silence & Solitude

Sabbath

Simplicity

Slowing

Modern society is captivated with the superficial. Our beliefs and value systems are being shaped by surface level activities. 

Digital likes, shares, and affirmations give us temporary hits of happiness. 

While dissenting opinions send us spiraling into a negative state of doubt and depression.

Kate Winslet is a leader on screen and in real life. Her acting career is a wonderful case study on the impact a lifestyle committed to the humble pursuit of mastery can have on the lives of leaders who long to last. Next we’ll dive deeper into ways we grow our leadership through learning on the job.

  • STEP 1: FIND AN EXPERT

  • STEP 2: LEARN THE TOOLS

  • STEP 3: PROTECT THE INNER LIFE

“In your wildest dreams, what would your life look like?” 

Some of the best life and leadership conversations I have with leaders comes back to this question. Most of the time the answers tend to go to two extremes.

In an industry typically marked by the pursuit of fame, fortune, ego, and all the trappings of success, it’s likely what has made Kate Winslet so successful, for going on 30 years is actually an authentic commitment to the pursuit of mastery. It’s a lifestyle she’s living and it’s evidence and fruit is visible to us all. 

Let’s dive into the masterclass in mastery mindset from the career of Kate Winslet.

When you stop and think about it, does the world really need another, “anything?” The reasonable response to that question is always going to be no. Everything’s been done. Nothing’s new! Yet every year someone manages to push past all that reason and present us with a way better version of the same old thing. Something remarkable! 

Everyday there is an assault on our ability to live on purpose and focus on becoming the type of leader we want to be. We’re bombarded with our own sense of drifting. Balancing too many things. Busy schedules. Weighing in on every hot topic. Distractions to do whatever it takes to keep us a little less focused on purpose.