Earlier this month, I facilitated an off-site retreat with one of my non-profit clients.  This organization has had quite the year with many successes but also a high level of pressure.  As we designed the session, we wanted to make sure there was time to celebrate the successes.

I feel like I rarely get sick, and I credit that to living a pretty healthy lifestyle. I prioritize sleep, exercise regularly (not enough strength work), drink water (not enough), take supplements, and try to eat pretty well (but I love french fries, pizza, wine and cheeseburgers a lot too.)  But, sometimes, living a healthy lifestyle isn’t enough, and our body forces us to slow down because we often don’t do it ourselves.

I hosted one of the monthly Leadership Endurance Round Tables earlier this week. The focus of our discussion was on Leadership Endurance: Preparing for the holidays and the year-end sprint.  We got into a great discussion about how we see the “race” we’re running and why we’re doing it which led to setting an intention for the next six weeks or so:

As you’ve heard me start talking about more recently, leadership is an endurance sport, and we need to treat it like this vs. a sprint.  Part of that endurance is finding ways to manage our heavy emotions during a crisis because we’re not just responsible for ourselves…