Shifting your approach to life, leadership and performance in the short term may feel like a risk and a challenge but the long-term gains of a flow energy approach will have your key stakeholders thanking you and asking how you managed to create such a sustainable high-performance culture.

When individuals focus on achieving goals that are part of a bigger picture and not only about them, their energy shifts.

What I notice more and more in my work with leadership teams is when they focus on creating a conducive environment for better leadership or performance to happen, without an expectation that it will, more often than not, others step up to the challenge. Not because they have to, but because they want to.

You can choose to turn fear into excitement about the new shores you’ll find and the experiences you’ll have along the way. It really is up to you.

“To be able to sustain yourself, your leadership and your performance in the long term it’s critical to balance periods of intensive focus with cycles of deep learning and rituals of intentional renewal.” – Jeremy Watkins ~ the barefoot leader

It took me a long time, and a lot of deep work, to recognise the impact of the performance patterns and life strategies that I had adopted simply to ‘avoid or overcome’ fear.

Have you ever got to the point when you feel like you’ve just got nothing left in the tank, but somehow you manage to struggle through to the end?