Maybe I did not mention this before, but I work as an assistant sales manager to enhance sales team performance.

Because I love teaching so much, I started an initiative called “Sales Talk Tuesdays” in late 2019 where I gathered new hires with seasoned sales employees to openly talk about their experience now that they are in the field to support them and motivate them.

I used to think and come up with a topic every week. It was not easy. I did not use slides. However, what helped was using some tips from the book The Art of Gathering which taught me to prime the attendees with a cool invitation and set rules for the meeting and end it sweetly. So I always got some kind of desert like donuts or marshmallows (When I talked about the marshmallow test) for example. Unfortunately, we paused these sessions since 2020 quarantine, and I did not attempt to do them online.

Now that we are all back to work, I kicked off this initiative again with a more structured format that extends 5 weeks. I have created a unique material for each week. This way I can re-use it with each new group while also getting the chance to refine it. The material is not perfect, but it is evolving. I still need to create a feedback form where attendees can let me know what topics they wish I cover more of during these sessions.

I am happy about this initiative, it lets me show up at my best and I created it to make my job more meaningful, what can you do to make your job more meaningful?

I recently committed to #tweet100 initiative by Jay Clause which entails posting daily on Twitter for 100 days. This challenge is the external accountability I needed to re-commit to show up and write daily here on my blog, afterward I share my posts in tweets. 10 Days in and proud.

I have not been reading parenting books like I used to, so my friends and I created a mini book club and chose one to read this month, which we plan to discuss in 2 Zoom sessions. This made reading parenting books more exciting for me.

I have been spending more money than I should on Kindle books, therefore I created a rule where I had to send my friend before any purchase, providing her with the name of the book and its price. This is a friction point that made the spending habit more difficult for me.

That’s what you need to do too to move your goals forward, join a tribe that has the same purpose as yours, or even better, lead the way and create one.

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)