Thoughts – December 2007

Relaxed Focus - Listen to the Thought Pod

“... creating a Relaxed Focus that can help me see the things I need to be doing as a leader.”  Leadership Coaching Client

My readership is a wonderfully diverse collective of individuals. In this season of holidays, I wish you the best of relaxation and rejuvenation. There is also in process a diversity of experience taking place as I compose this. While many of you are experiencing mostly normality, some of you are dealing with upsetting news about a loved one and yet others are facing personal fears and challenges.

This holiday season, while bringing its own pressures and challenges, can also yield blessings out of the norm. I'm counting on it. I've blocked much of my calendar to work on those very important things that, in the mind of the world around me, may not be considered urgent.

Therein lies much of the meaning of a relaxed focus. In my Thoughts Confident Forgetting I wrote to you about the concept of floating and the principle "To do some thing for others, you have to be able to do this thing for yourself." To support my continual growth in this floating process, I'm investing days in this season for preparation. While it could easily be called planning, it feels more intentional to call it preparing - preparation for continued success in the coming year - and foundational to my own relaxed focus.

I'm beginning to think this relaxed focus is a state of being while floating. We steer, in this state, as we are motivated by our unique translations and manifestations of faith, hope, and love.

May your holiday season prepare you for your own relaxed focus - a focus that takes you where you need to be by the path you ought to travel.

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