Schedule in these 3 MUST appts if you want to thrive as a leader!

So, you want out of survival mode. You want to enjoy your job more. You want to feel that you have time to get to the meaningful work, not just the crisis of the day. And of course, you also want to enjoy the rest of your life.

What are you doing to get there?
What are you actively doing to move from survival or a place of tolerating, to that point where most days you feel like you are thriving?

In this blog, you'll learn the 3 things you MUST schedule into your daily agenda if you want to get out of survival mode and move to a place of thriving in both leadership and life!

​I start with the phrase ACTIVELY DOING for a reason. Wishing, hoping and praying things will get better won't change them. But I know, you maybe saying you can't actively doing thing yet. Ugh...I know, but....

Please DON'T tell me you are

• Waiting for the right time.
• Waiting for things to slow down.
• Waiting to see if they will leave, change or give you a chance.

These ladies certainly DID NOT wait!

• Rosa Parks did not wait for the right time to stand up for what she believed in.
• Florence Nightingale did not wait for things to slow down before she did her most passionate work.
• Anne Frank did not wait to feel joy and gratitude until they stopped looking for her family.

You don't have to wait anymore either.

You need to realize this:
Let me tell you a little secret: Intentional personal and professional development is your path to success in leadership and in life.

To be intentional about your personal and professional growth and development, you need to treat it like anything else important in your day — You need to schedule it in!


Specifically, what do you need to have actually scheduled in as appointments in your day-timer, calendar or appointment book? These 3 things

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The 3 things you MUST have in your agenda!

Self-Care:
Yes, I am serious. This is the first one. And by self-care, I am not talking about your manicure. I am talking about the fundamentals of eating healthy, moving your body and getting a good nights sleep. If you don't have lunch breaks booked in, time for a 15 min. walk in the afternoon and an alarm that reminds you it's time to start getting ready for bed, you might want to consider those as starting points.

• You CANNOT be your best on an ongoing basis if you are not taking care of you.
• This is a MUST!

Self-Reflection:
To grow personally and professionally requires you to contemplate, ponder and tune in. You will NEVER find time for that if you don't MAKE time for this piece. You may do this on your afternoon walk around the block, create the habit of shutting off the radio, podcast or audiobook on your drive home and use the silent time to reflect about your day and you may make a point of sitting for 15 minutes in the morning journaling.

• However you schedule it in, just ENSURE you have INNER WORK booked as an appointment with yourself.

Self-Improvement:
By self-improvement, I DO NOT mean the training that your organization or sector requires of you. I DO mean learning and growth that YOU want to do. This could be sector related, but it's over and above the mandatory requirements. This is something that you look forward to, want to do and enjoy. I'd encourage you to do both personal and professional development if you see those as different things (I'd argue they aren't, but that's a whole other conversation). Scheduling this in might be the webinar you are attending, time to read or do the online training you are working through.

• But it MUST be on your agenda, not just "when you have time."

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I will not tell you it's easy to schedule these things in. It's not. It requires courage to stand up for yourself, your beliefs and desires. Become your best self by scheduling in self-care, self-reflection and self-improvement. It will be awkward and uncomfortable at times, but that's ok. We are not in a popularity contest. We are here to make a difference in the lives of others, in our families and communities. To do that, we need to be at our best. Please don't apologize for that!