We lead the way by embodying and sharing a better way to work where we can get what matters done over what’s latest or loudest. This can happen when we recognize our human tendencies of avoiding pain and seeking pleasure, where pain is the discomfort we feel when we share our work like publishing this post or doing that presentation or being afraid to start or finish, or even feeling all our feelings, and pleasure is that Dopamine hit we get scrolling our social media feed away from the work we need to do.

We lead the way by living purposeful days, where we make tiny, consistent and meaningful progress in our wellbeing. We eat well and move and meditate and pray and get in touch with the most important people in our life and save money and make more money and keep learning.

We lead the way when we have an idea of how we want to be remembered and what impact we want to leave the world better for living in it.

We lead the way when we bring joy and lightheartedness wherever we go. And when we fall short, which we will do as humans, we stand up again.

We lead the way by believing in the power of starting over and making amends. We lead by giving second chances and setting boundaries to protect our mental health and energy. We lead by taking care of ourselves to be able to help others who need us to lean on. We lead by quitting the belief in sacrifice as a badge of honor and martyrdom in our role as mothers.

We also lead the way by being in service to others and shining a spotlight on their wins.

(Thank you Forwardlink for this prompt)