The state you’re in as a leader has more impact on your leadership than your core values, aspirational goals, technical knowledge, training, or even your leadership style.

This isn’t just a personal hot take — it’s one of the major findings from a four-decade review of self-leadership literature.

How often do you find yourself frustrated, impatiently waiting for unmet expectations to be realized?

Frustration and anxiety emerge when what we feel has to happen doesn’t happen.

Maybe our environment has fooled us into thinking the possible is impossible?

Maybe our environment is the real source of a limited belief we’ve been holding?

Affirmation consists of four major vices. Approval, Attention, Admiration, and Assurance. To break free from insecurity, we must all reflect on the impact of these four, and begin to engage with personal systems in our heart and mind to live and lead freely.

If you’re aspiring for extraordinary performance it will be imperative that you don’t ever lose your elite ability to play like a beach squirrel, completely free. 

I believe we all operate in five distinct modes. They start in our mindset, impacted by our level of internal well-being and ultimately produced in a mode of operation we behave in. 

Mindset + Health = Behaviors (Leadership Capacity)

The surest way to become less capable is to stay in your comfort zone.

Mastery loves simplicity. When we’re really committed to mastery it builds the margin in life for humble service to others and a commitment to quiet work.  We just need to work on important things and be human.

When faced with a situation that triggers an immediate judgment, pause. Take a breath, and simply say, "Maybe." 

This simple practice can create space for a more balanced perspective, allowing you to move with greater ease and grace.