Leading With Purpose

Increase your purpose of helping others with this meditation. For better or for worse, we all influence each other with our words, actions and energy. As influencers, why not choose to impact others with a sense of purpose?

Transcript

Leading with purpose.

Let's begin this practice on leading with purpose.

My first finding a posture that feels relaxed and alert.

It's taking a moment to allow your body to settle in a comfortable position.

Feeling your feet on the ground,

Dropping your shoulders,

And closing your eyes or looking downward to limit visual distractions.

Taking a couple of deep breaths,

And relaxing the belly.

And just softening around any areas of tightness or tension.

So let's explore leading with purpose,

And how to lead with purpose.

Regardless of your position,

Whether in an organization or a family,

You're called on to lead at some point.

The best leaders have a sense of clarity and purpose in the world and how they lead others.

They connect with people on a very human level.

So I'm going to ask you a series of questions,

But instead of thinking about the questions and coming up with responses,

I want you to allow the questions to just sink in like pebbles being dropped into a still pond.

And I want you to be sensitive to any ripples that you notice.

Just feeling into the nature of the questions.

As a leader,

What is most important to you?

As a leader,

What is most important to you?

As a leader,

What is most important to you?

What are you aiming to achieve as a leader?

What are you aiming to achieve as a leader?

As I ask these questions,

Just noticing the thoughts and the feelings and any images that come to mind while you breathe in and breathe out,

What are the values that guide you?

What may be preventing you from living your values each day?

The values that guide you,

What may be preventing you from living these each day?

Continue breathing in and out,

Bringing awareness to your body,

Just noticing if the mind is wandering at all or if it's attaching to any particular thought or feeling that arises.

Now I invite you to imagine yourself leading with purpose,

Truly leading others with a strong sense of purpose.

What does that feel like to be leading with a strong sense of purpose?

Imagine,

What does that feel like?

And now as we begin to reemerge from this reflection,

Just notice how you feel in your body and in your mind.

Finishing with a full deep breath in and a long breath out.

May you lead with purpose.

Reviews

Disarming in its simplicity. I had to pause and think several times about the prompting questions.

May I lead with purpose. May I lead from the heart. May I inspire those I lead to be the best version of self. May I lead with courage and humility. May i lead to serve others. May I have empathy.

This was excellent. Today is my first day back in the office where I am a department head, program manager, and Red Cross instructor for my company. My young adult child just graduated last week from high school and simultaneously completed year one of college. With all the celebratory preparations, family flying in and out of town, plus major changes in contracts at work, sifting through the external noise and leading my department forward has been extremely challenging. Today I am assessing everything, top to bottom, trying to get everything back in workable order.

I've always had trouble delegating tasks, which obviously has led to unnecessary high stress for me. I've been trying to determine why this is so difficult for me to do. This recording, practiced during my lunch break after finishing my meal, gave me the first solid glimmer of insight on this matter in VERY long time. Quite simply, I am not living my values. I've tried listing them before, many times, but that seems to have been too active of a process. Allowing the questions to simply sink without expectation of a response did the trick. As a pebble might displace a leaf on the sandy river bottom, so the leaves which represent my actual values floated to the surface as the pebble touched bottom.

Biggest takeaway? I value self-sufficiency, independent thinking, right action, and loyalty/dedication, among other things. How am I to foster that in others if I do not afford them the opportunity to show where they stand in regards to these issues? Perhaps there has been little need for not delegating work all these years. I hired people because I trust them, yet I do not allow them to show me they are trustworthy because I am too controlling of exactly how the work is done when the need is not as great as I make it out to be.

For medical reasons, I already live in direct opposition to one of my values that rose up from the stream's bottom, and I will need to find a way to resolve that particular dichotomy. But THIS, here and now, I can work with. I intend to take a hard look at my assessment list and delegate tasks to my staff, rather than believe I must do it all. I hired people I believed I could trust, and while one is approaching her one year mark, the others have stood by me for nearly a decade and in some cases, more. It's well past time I gave them the opportunity on a regular basis to strut their stuff. A quick task delegation just now as I typed this elicited a huge genuine smile from one of my staff, and it felt equally as good to me.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this with me and the world. I've bookmarked and downloaded this track and will be using it often, I believe. I've ready accomplished far more today than typical, and I've only delegated a few tasks. Having experienced this practice, I will try to let go of additional work to allow my staff to more fully invest themselves in the work and to relieve some of my own stress.

I feel amazing right now. Thank you again, so very much. I see the light in you. 🤲❤️🤲

Inspired thoughtful leadership subtly throughout my day.

Second time listening and got more out of it

I appreciated visualizing the questions as rocks sinking to the bottom of a river, I didn't feel obligated to answer the questions. It was calming to let my mind feel the question rather than stress about answering it. Thank you.

I will be returning to this meditation many times to help me reorient myself.

That was great, thank you!

Very nice. I liked the questions for consideration. Thank you. 🙏

Thank you. This is a very thought provoking meditation. Sometimes we become so stressed in our jobs we forget why we do them! It is so refreshing to stop and remember the importance and impact of being a leader.

Wow! Just what was needed this morning. Keeping it at the top of my bookmarks to do again...and again! Thank you! 😊

Excellent! I really loved this. Will revisit often ❣️

Thank you!🙏🏽🌟

Really great! Far too short and actually just right at the same time. Are the more practices?

This is very thought provoking and one I'll return to on a regular basis. Thank you.

It's wonderful short session. It could be longer to experience the feeling of living with purpose. Thank you.

This really helped me get clarity for my day's work. Thank you!!

Nice way to sow good seed on one's mind.

Good self reflection to think about purpose and important values. I will boookmark this one.

A reminder of some great questions. Thank you for facilitating a revisit for me to these areas. 💜