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.

Practicing breath work, gratitude, visualization, fitness, and consistent routines is used so we are able to utilize them in everyday life. When I say everyday life; I mean home with the kids, wife, girlfriend, partner, work, traffic jams, everywhere. Those sayings and statements of “practice what you preach”, and “in times of stress you default back to our lowest level of training”. It applies to the work we do each day to become our best we can today and our future selves. I slowly began to realize implementing the tools I mentioned above in everyday life. Fitness to keep up with my kids and be healthier. Breath work to be in control of my body and mind, visualization to help plan the day and work towards goals, gratitude to appreciate all the things I’ve have, had, lived, loved, lost, and what’s to come. Discipline to do it all over again each day I’m still living consistently. These tools have and are teaching me that when you continue to practice, use them in life events, and go back to practicing again, they become more valuable and meaningful to building as well as living everyday. I encourage everyone to continue to learn and grow with the tools we learn here, group, community, or reaching out to each other. What are some breakthroughs you have had over the past few days, weeks, month?

I had a bit of trouble making a video. My software wasnt allowing me to load large files. Finally realized that pushing each piece into an iphone gallery collection allows the phone to mock up a slideshow from that collection and makes it shareable as an mp4 file. That worked great! It clipped some out of each video piece so there’s not much time showing in the water.

Big or small, every win counts here. Maybe you had a tough conversation, made it to the gym, said no to something that drains you, or just showed up when you didn’t feel like it. Post it here and let’s stack momentum.