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Last week we began our deep dive into Flourishing Leadership. An innovative model for leading holistically. A model that encourages living well to lead well. If you haven’t had a chance to read that issue, I encourage you to spend a few minutes reading it first.

In this issue, we’re dedicating the entire discussion to a major concept we call Living In The Intersection, which may very well be the heart and soul of Flourishing Leadership. 

Living In The Intersection

The Intersection is a conceptual training ground that exists at the heart of Flourishing Leadership.  It promotes athletic-style training for everyday life! 

A place where individuals go to deliberately and intentionally hone the essential skills necessary for optimal performance and living well.

A place to continually refine our skills and elevate our performance. 

A place to cultivate a healthy obsession for raising our standards for living.

A place to build a deeper commitment by constantly calibrating internally to sync our passions with our purpose.

A place to elevate our effectiveness by constantly calibrating externally to sync our intentions with our impact. 

Through this ongoing calibration we align the way we live to support maximal impact.

The Intersection is more than just a concept; it's a mindset. Distinct from hustle culture, this mindset is conducive to both performance and well-being.

Living in the intersection is a lifelong journey of self-discovery and self-actualization. It fosters a balanced approach to living, avoiding both complacency and burnout. 

It's about finding the sweet spot between pushing oneself and resting, between striving for greatness and embracing the present moment.

Living in the intersection requires full engagement with our lives, being mindful of thoughts, feelings and action without judgment. But, instead in an effort to discover the natural occurring opportunities to practice that arise in everyday life.

At its core, The Intersection is about creating and sustaining harmony in our lives. 

We must find harmony between effort and ease, training and recovery, mastery and humility, ambition and contentment.

Flourishing happens in the intersection. 

It’s where we expand our capabilities, cultivate our full potential, and realize we have the sufficient resiliency to lead ourselves and others well.

Beyond The Intersection

There are certain parts of ourselves that even the most self-aware cannot see, thus we can only see those things through feedback from someone that knows us.

True self-appraisal is achieved through reflective appraisal. We can’t fully understand ourselves removed from the context of our relationships with other people and the identity that comes from that. 

All of the signals we get from our interactions with others add little pieces of tile to our mosaic of our mindset, ultimately shaping our self-belief.

Which is why relationships are so important to Flourishing leadership.

Next week, we’ll dive into relationships as we continue this larger discussion on Flourishing Leadership.

In the meantime, have a lovely Thanksgiving.

Stay The Course,