"Leaders need a high degree of self-awareness - ability to see their blind spots, accept holes in their knowledge and shun their years of thinking as a manager to give way to thinking like a leader. To get better, they need to study and practice the skills, knowledge, behaviours and actions of truly great leaders. It’s the commitment to improve and the determination to get better that makes a leader truly stand out. Developing your leadership style is always going to be a work in progress. There’s no end state. But recognising a few essential traits can get you started and help you identify if you are ready for the role."
- Are You Ready for a Leadership Position?
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"We think about mental health on a spectrum from depression to flourishing. Flourishing is the peak of well-being. Depression is the valley of ill-being. Languishing is the neglected middle child of mental health. It’s the void between depression and flourishing — the absence of well-being. You don’t have symptoms of mental illness, but you’re not the picture of mental health either. You’re not functioning at full capacity. Languishing dulls your motivation, disrupts your ability to focus, and triples the odds that you’ll cut back on work. Part of the danger is that when you’re languishing, you might not notice the dulling of delight or the dwindling of drive. You don’t catch yourself slipping slowly into solitude; you’re indifferent to your indifference. When you can’t see your own suffering, you don’t seek help or even do much to help yourself."
- There's a name for the blah you're feeling: It's called languishing
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"There are really only two ways that time can be truly wasted: when you engage in something that crowds out more productive or edifying activities, and when you deliberately engage in something that, on balance, you don’t actually even like. If humans were perfectly rational creatures, we would be able to calculate the costs and benefits of every activity well enough to avoid such mistakes, or at least not repeat them over and over. But most people know from their own lives that things don’t work out that way. Even experts mess this up. These errors occur because without prior planning, the impulsive toddler in our heads who has no concept of tomorrow dominates our executive function. That leads us to overestimate the value of a little short-term pleasure and underestimate the value of our long-term well-being."
- Stop spending time on things you hate
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Small wins matter more because they are so much more likely to occur compared to the big break-throughs in the world. If we only waited for the big wins, we would be waiting a long time. And we would probably quit long before we saw anything tangible come to fruition. What you need instead of big wins is simply the forward momentum that small wins bring.
― Hendrie Weisinger
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What if you paid more attention to what you can do and focus less on what you can't?
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Enjoy your weekend,
Vinita
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