Moving forward with

I strive to have my blogs encourage the leader within you to take action, think newly, challenge the system and yourself, and always create trusting and compassionate relationships.

This post is no different. There are leadership lessons here, though the path to find them may feel not well-marked. However it feels, know that it’s intentional and that I trust you to find your way.

The article that gave me a life-affirming way to hold the current chaos is from NYTimes called: We Must Learn to Look at Grief by Sunita Puri, a palliative care physician.  Google it or try this link.  If you aren’t able to access the article, here are the main points:

• The suffering we’re experiencing with COVID might ignite a way to hold the grief with our shared humanity.
• Rather than trying to get beyond grief and just move on, the author sees the possibility for us to become united by seeing this suffering.
• Our collective grief can unite us when nothing else can.
• The challenging question is: Can we move forward with grief? Can we find a way to integrate loss into life and carry it with us?

Now, think about Ukraine.

I can’t go through my day and not feel the crush of what’s happening in Ukraine. The adjectives of disbelief (Unfathomable. Horrible. Unthinkable.) don’t change what’s happening.

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Let’s not wish to escape what’s happening.

Let’s be so deeply touched that the way we relate to each other

shifts from we’ve got our own problems to solve to we have shared problems to solve.

From us-them to we-together.

Moving forward with, author Sunita Puri’s invitation, calls on us to have something to move forward toward.  That shared future is the tip of the arrow for a leader and their people – it begins the shift.

Begin today to move forward with.