Part 1: Stop Waking Up and Starting Your Day in a Deficit

One of the most common issues I hear in conversations with leaders and parents is the frustration in their voice about not being able to turn a situation around. It may be a management issue at the office, a performance struggle that is keeping you up at night, or a parenting challenge that feels impossible. Regardless of which category you fall into, they all make you feel the same way – anxious and frustrated.

And there’s nothing worse than starting your day with the anxiety that you may not make progress today. You wonder if you’re going to end the day the same way you ended yesterday...or maybe  even worse.

You can change this.

This struggle is universal, and it‘s core to growing in our leadership and parenting skills. However, that doesn’t make it any more palatable. There’s no quick fix, but there is one major adjustment that will begin to alleviate frustration:

Stop trying to carry all of the weight yourself.

This is what we do. We find ourselves in a predicament, and we tell ourselves we’ve got to figure this out for ourselves. The result is you end up carrying so much weight regarding the relationships or circumstances you’re hoping to improve that it begins to become debilitating, and we often don’t even realize it.

(continued in Part 2: Stop Waking Up and Starting Your Day in a Deficit)