6d • The Mirror
Currently between opportunities...
I am currently between “opportunities.”
That is the polite professional phrase we often use when we are not sitting inside a formal job title.
But I have found this season to be far more than a pause between positions.
It has become a mirror.
A mirror for what I believe.
A mirror for what I have learned.
A mirror for what I still need to develop.
A mirror for whether I can actually practice the leadership concepts I have spent decades studying, teaching, challenging, and trying to live.
During this time, I have been building out a consultancy with real intention. Not as a hobby. Not as a fallback plan. Not as a placeholder until the next role appears.
As a serious body of work.
In a relatively short period of time, that work has grown into two retained client relationships, both on monthly retainers exceeding $15,000 per month.
That is encouraging.
But the money is not the real point. It just shows that with intention; milestones can be reached.
The real point is that the work has forced me to clarify what I believe leadership actually requires when the room gets quiet, when the title is not carrying the weight for you, and when there is no organization wrapped around you providing structure, momentum, or validation.
At the same time, I have been writing my first books.
That has been its own form of leadership development.
Writing forces a person to stop hiding behind experience.
It asks:
What do you really believe?
Can you explain it clearly?
Can you defend it without overcomplicating it?
Can you make it useful to someone else?
Can you look honestly at your own journey and admit where the lessons came from?
My first book is scheduled to be published on July 6th. Book two is in the works!
I am excited about that.
Not because it is a finish line, but because it feels like a marker on the journey.
A point where years of experience, failure, reflection, frustration, observation, mentoring, and hard-earned belief finally become something that can be shared with others.
RC3 is not about advertising. I get that...I am not promoting my consultancy or my books here.
At least that is not what it is for me.
It is about leadership improvement.
It is about taking the mirror seriously.
It is about recognizing that leadership is not something we claim because we held a title, ran a project, managed a team, or survived a few difficult chapters.
Leadership is something we continue to earn in the way we examine ourselves, refine our thinking, serve others, and stay willing to grow.
Being between opportunities has reminded me of something important:
Sometimes the gap is not empty space.
Sometimes the gap is where the real development happens and genuine opportunity ignites.
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