Are you all set for the week? Will you deliver more than last week? Will your time and attention be tightly focused toward the issues and strategies that support growth? Will everyone be expanding their capabilities? You're all set, right? Bravo!

Now have a good laugh recalling how far you got with your Monday intentions last week.

By failing to include the most powerful dimension - the spiritual - in our planning, we set ourselves up to lose. Too much outside-in thinking leads to feelings of inadequacy and falling short. Stuff always happens. And people need our inspiration, not our disappointment.

This week put some inside-out thinking into planning a better week. Add these questions:

Will you be spending time in prayer, reflection, or affirming your strengths? Or sharing your job-related inner conflicts with someone you trust outside your work? Or meeting with people to refresh and inspire them with the greater purpose for your organization? Or enabling people to discover their greater purpose for being productive?

You will? Super. Now you're really set to be productive. Your chuckle on Friday afternoon will be from joy.

Stephen
ANE = Calm, Confident, Connected Leadership