How many times a day do you have people coming up to you with questions and needs? How many people depend on you on any given day? Work needs your focus. Your family needs your patience. Yet your phone keeps ringing, those notifications keep dinging, and before you know it, the day is over, and you never had even a minute to check in on yourself. [Read more…]
What It Means to Lead With Heart
People often remember how a leader made them feel. They may not remember the meetings, the slide deck, or the wording used when a decision was made. But they will remember if they felt respected and heard.
Leading with heart doesn’t mean you have to avoid hard conversations or make every choice easy. It means bringing awareness to the way all of these small moments happen. Soulful leaders can still make clear decisions in the business world. [Read more…]
How to Be Driven Without Feeling Drained
Ambition can be a great thing. It’s something that helps you get out of bed in the morning because it gives you a purpose. It helps you get to that next meeting, start the business you’ve been thinking about, and helps you keep going when it would be easier to stop. [Read more…]
The Everyday Practice of Choosing Peace Over Pressure
How many times during the day do you find yourself making pressure the default? People tend to make pressure normal. How do we do this? Answering one more email, squeezing in one last errand or chore, one more meeting.
Following through with these things often feels easier than explaining why you can’t do them. And before long, you’ll find your day moving faster with your mind struggling to keep up. [Read more…]
Why Strong Leaders Still Need Quiet Moments
Do you constantly feel the pressure to always be on? Leadership has a way of making every minute feel like it has to be productive. You’re always going to have an email you have to answer, some kind of decision to make, a problem you need to solve, or have someone coming to you in search of direction during the day. In the business world, that kind of constant motion can start to look like strength to some. [Read more…]
Can You Build Ambition and Well-Being Together?
The short answer to this commonly asked question is a big, resounding yes. Ambition and well-being don’t have to be opposites in our world. If you want to do something more meaningful, grow a business, lead a team, or chase even bigger dreams, you have to accept that stress is going to be a part of the deal. Ambition isn’t the problem here. The problem is how we pursue it while actively ignoring ourselves. [Read more…]
The Best Communication Says More With Less
Technalink knows that the businesses with the best chance of survival in uncertain times are the ones that retain the enthusiasm and loyalty of employees. One of the best ways to do this is through soulful leadership practices like ensuring you maintain good lines of communication. And one of the best ways to do this is to practice being concise. [Read more…]
Mindfulness Does Not Control Thoughts, But Your Focus
Technalink will always support anyone who decides to cultivate a greater sense of mindfulness in their lives. However, some people may inadvertently seek the state of mindfulness in ways that aren’t appropriate to their frame of mind, tending to believe that this is a process of emptying their mind and being a blank slate. [Read more…]