With the first few spare minutes I've had in a long time, I took a few minutes to read this wonderful article on leadership and solitude. It resonates deeply with me.
Solitude and "alone time" for thinking is critically important. Having spent the last few months absorbed in far more projects, critical tasks, and personal crises than I can reasonably handle, it's easy for me to see that I've lost some of my edge, focus, vision, passion and drive as the "Chief Instructor" at the dojo. Keeping too many plates spinning has left me just spinning plates, totally forgetting why the plates are on those damn sticks in the first place, and without any sort of plan for what I'll do as soon as my current personal maelstrom comes to an end (as surely it must).
But the rain is letting up now, and the clouds are thinning. The sky is getting brighter. The sun isn't quite poking through the clouds just yet, but the "down time" forecast for next month is looking up. Perhaps then I'll be free enough from the "urgent" stuff to be more able to get some "important" work done.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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