Lifestyle Leadership - Mentor Your Life Back to Balance
Posted on November 05, 2018 by William Walker, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
Are you feeling overwhelmed or helpless at the state of your life or a some aspects of it? It's time to assume the leader in you and here is how.
If you are a busy person with multiple and sometimes seemingly competing commitments you likely feel aspects of your self or your life becoming displaced from where you want them to be. Many of us have to lead different areas of our lives as business owners, executives, entrepreneurs, community leaders and within our families. Sometimes these obligations take so much attention and focus we lose track of other areas of our life such as our physical health, needs for intimacy, connection with arts and entertainment or a longing to engage ourselves creatively in a passion project.
One of the disciplines I practice in my own life is lifestyle leadership. Lifestyle leadership is about taking the time and space to bring our leadership capacity and skill to tend to the wholeness and health of our lifestyle, not only to our individual projects or tasks—not an easy thing to do!
In this short article I am going to give you 3 tips how you can mentor your life back into balance using leadership skills you may already have.
Tip 1: Take time at least once a week to do a check in with you life alone, with a partner or trusted group. During this time you give yourself space to sense, feel and embrace both what’s likeable and what might be missing and need space in your life. Once you know what might be missing, you can actually do something about it.
Tip 2: Once you have identified what might need more of your attention in your life, take one small step fast. This will lead to another step. Recently I felt I wasn’t having enough in-person social contact and once I became consciously aware of that I made an effort to connect to a local person in my town and strengthened and nourished my need.
Tip 3: Begin to practice having a ‘meta’ view of your life where you can compassionately take all of it into account. In doing so, you’ll be able to honour the different parts of your life (and their truths) as well as where there may be space to bring in more that can serve you.
Finally, remember that your life is like any other aspect of your life with a life cycle. Sometimes it is time for certain things sometimes it is not. Trust in your own life and its cycles.
