A companion piece to the weekly Rise and Stride Newsletter, the Friday Footnote shares a practical tool to interrupt unhelpful patterns and generate change. User-friendly frameworks for growth, recalibration, and forward momentum.
As a woman “examines her leadership,” where is her focus?
Self-assessment is a respectful, insightful, supportive, and continuous review that examines leadership outputs and outcomes.
But successful leaders also assess our inputs.
The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’ ~Alice Walker, U.S. author and social activist
If a younger “you” is still crying, is she also managing your basement data?
Ideas rise, emotions pulse, motivations drive; you think, feel, and want. Those inputs— from a crying or terrified former self—require conscious processing.
Unsupervised, her artistic, intuitive assemblages clear a low bar: “Okay…logical enough.”
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ~Adrienne Rich, U.S. poet and essayist
In my late teens, using a “Skinner box” in a university class, I learned this leadership super-power. My nervous system craved an objective reality measured in behavior.
I counted the outputs of my trauma before I knew of its existence. Measuring “not yet conscious” behavior drove me into the arms of my #1 healing strategy….
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