Flourishing individuals in flourishing relationships in a flourishing environment can’t lose.

High performance is taxing and there are realities we can’t look away from or just pretend everything is going well when it’s not. 

But some of the research we’re going to explore today does emphasize the importance of positivity or “positive emotions” in creating healthy, high performing environments. In fact it may help us realize the value in a little negativity as well.

In this issue, we’re going to highlight a few of the unexpected societal sleep trends, Calm revealed in the Snooze Report they released in Q4 of 2023, and discuss their implications on our leadership effectiveness. 

Character development is foundational to leadership development. Yet, it often takes a back seat to other aspects of leadership development.

At any given moment, we’re either languishing or flourishing. Drifting away from our intentions or driving forward with purpose. 

High performance is not what you can do it is what you can recover from. Throughout his time coaching in the NFL, Mike McDaniel has experienced the joys of flourishing and the lows of burnout and languishing. Now, later in his career (even though he’s only 40) he is showing the power of recovery and perspective in leading transformationally.

We’ve submitted many times that leadership is the overflow of your lifestyle. How you lead is merely the overflow of how you live.

If you live stressed - you’ll lead stressed

If you live generous - you’ll lead generous

If you live poised - you’ll lead poised

If you live selfishly - you’ll lead selfishly

If you live pursuing mastery - you’ll lead pursuing mastery.

Dreaming is supposed to be comprehensive.

Somewhere along the way toward “success” and “efficiency” and “optimization” our culture distorted the exercise of dreaming.

Negative self-talk is detrimental to our journey for multiple reasons; it stresses us out, it decreases the likelihood of capitalizing on opportunities, and it limits our potential.