One of the primary reasons you’re working all nights and all weekends and feel the need to be ‘on call’ all the time (and you are not an emergency worker) is that you’re still attached to the belief that this is where your value comes from.
Unconsciously, there’s an attachment to looking for more work to do and ways to prove your value rather than demonstrating it through your leadership.
To rise to the next level of leadership requires you to hold higher standards for your self-development and care, placing yourself in front of your work and your family despite the urgency calling you in the opposite direction.
The next level of leadership requires you to hold higher standards for your team. Trusting in their ability to receive your delegation and let go of micro-managing.
The next level of leadership requires you to become a better steward of your resources: time, energy, and attention.
And it requires you to trust your intuition, which you can only hear when you slow down enough.
As you rise to this level of leadership, you become a witness to your impact. At this level, you begin to recognize that your true impact as a leader lies within your trustworthiness and integrity, presence, wisdom and guidance, resilience and stable energy in times of crisis, and creativity.
Here, you leave behind the idea that you need to work all nights and weekends and always be on call to prove your value.
All that does is confirm your unworthiness (to yourself).
In this next level of leadership, you realize that you can discern where, when, and to what level you work. That you do it because it’s what is required, not because you feel you need to compensate in any way.
At this level of leadership, even working hard is laden with intention. It energizes you and inspires you. You leave overwhelm behind because you recognize that when aligned, cared for, and trusting, your capacity becomes infinite, and the full expression of your leader can emerge.
If you’re ready for the next level of leadership, I encourage you to reach out to schedule a time for us to connect and explore if one of my 1:1 private coaching spots for 2024 is right for you.
With love,
Mari Carmen
