What role are you playing in that thing you are doing? Frustrated, tired, cold, sweating, hungry... doesn't matter - the role needs your focus and your execution based on what the role requires. If we do not understand the role we cannot execute. How does imposter syndrome fit into this? It can be overwhelming to assume a role and fight feelings of inadequacy. If we are going to show up and fulfill responsibility we need to understand the role and disconnect from any negative talk about who we are and who we are not yet. We are becoming and that includes failures. *** An example of these for me that I shared today on the coffee meeting was that I am dealing with a leadership issue of my own. I have found a few things that have done and the way they are playing out that I don't like the way they are going. I realized that these things are continuing because I am not leading correctly in a way that will see to it that these things get addressed and handled by those persons that are responsible for them. What I had initially realized is that I was not delegating effectively. Results are proving that the standard had not been set well enough and if there was to be any improvement I would need to do something new, something unfamiliar to myself. I was going to have to learn yet again. Learning is not unfamiliar - I have just forgotten that learning must actually be continual. Most of the learning in leadership for me up to this point was in how to care for a team, how to lead with empathy, how to be professional, how to be helpful, how to be available. This time the learning is a new thing on how leading is done best. I need to better understand my role as the leader for the team. I am the bottleneck preventing the next improvement. I also believe that I have been masking the "thing" and making up for it in other ways. Well, the "thing" continues to wear me out - literally tired and frustrated. It's not my fault, rather it's my responsibility to do something with this.

My buddy Dave Puhky is joining us for the call. Dave's journey has taken him from working in the oil patch, to building businesses, to getting sober, to completely changing the direction of his life. These days he's living in LA, doing work he's passionate about and helping others do the same. What I respect about Dave is that he's not afraid to talk about the hard stuff. The mistakes, the setbacks, the lessons learned, and what it actually takes to make meaningful changes in your life. We'll be talking about sobriety, business, purpose, relationships, and taking ownership of where you're headed. Bring your coffee and your questions.