What is Your Current Season Teaching You?

Every season of life seems to have its own curriculum.

Some seasons teach patience. Others teach resilience. Some expose blind spots you didn't know you had.

This current season... balancing a growing coaching practice, a mayoral campaign, and the rest of life... has been teaching me a few lessons that continue to surface in different forms.

• Everything is an opportunity.   An opportunity to help.  Opportunity to lead.  To strengthen skills.  To build more and better relationships.   To rise to a challenge.  To grow thicker skin.   To rally people behind a vision.   And to integrate living a good life with exciting projects. 

  
  

• Anytime you put yourself out there in pursuit of growth or leadership, expect a wide range of opinions. That's part of the journey.

  
  

• The narratives shared on social media – sometimes accurate, sometimes not – are but a small piece of the real stories.   The truest version of facts is found by having many conversations, at deeper levels, with people who are actually ‘in the know’.  The ones involved and who are charged with making decisions.   That’s where the closest version to the truth is to be found.

  
  

• At our core, we all really want the same things.   Safety and security.  Some autonomy, meaning & satisfaction.  And loving relationships with people that matter.  These needs can be expressed positively or negatively.   Our actions and words often reveal what's driving us - whether integrity & courage… or righteous, fear-driven behavior.

  
  

• Serving one’s community in a leadership role can be one of the most fulfilling, gratifying ways to serve others.  And it’s not for everyone.

On the surface these thoughts may not all seem related.  But the more I reflect on these, the more I realize they are all connected by the same thread.  They all point toward what leadership, growth, and service have been teaching me lately. 

To bring increasing clarity.  To stay focused by strengthening my attention.  To be grateful.  And to always appreciate the amazing people around me.

Maybe one of these reflections resonates with something you're experiencing.  Maybe it doesn't. Either way, life has a funny way of presenting the next opportunity... if we're paying attention.

What’s your next adventure?