What’s left when you peel away everything?
Fleeting moments and impactful choices.
Over the last few months I’ve been incredibly grateful to have been in situations speaking with many senior leaders about life…not just from a corporate perspective but as a whole.
The conversations have been so rich, meaningful, deep and transformational… And I said grateful earlier because we both learned from them.
There’s nothing wrong at all with corporate roles.
Heck, I’ve been doing it all my life till just recently.
In fact, there’s never been a time like now that we are in dire need of more great leaders…those who not just lead but also serve.
But, with it comes titles, positions of responsibility, authority, power, decision making expectations, and not to mention all the trappings…
…And trappings that can bind us…or we exercise the choice to be free of them…and how we show up in the world…
Are we a ‘so and so’ by title, are we a mum/dad/partner, are we an engineer/data scientist/public servant, who are we?
The question if embraced with a level of vulnerability and openness always ends up with the same answer…
…That deep down we are all one with an incredibly insignificant and minute amount of time on this planet…and yet with an incredibly significant ability to exercise choice at every moment of time to lead with purpose, values, care and compassion while also keeping an eye on the bottom line…
What’s left when you peel away everything is STILLNESS…
…And the stark choice of deciding who you truly are and how you want to exercise the choice to live, love, learn, lead and serve from moment to moment.
When you peel away everything, that’s all that matters.
It’s really your call.
I’m curious, which path would you choose?
A former Board Member, CPO, and 2022 HR Leader of the Year, Anoop creates the space for C-suite leaders to turn complexity into clarity and strategy into action.