The New Crop: Issue #58
returning to love + the tension between authentic and adaptive leadership
What’s in this issue:
💭 Thought: Returning to love
📚 Read: The Tension Between Authentic and Adaptive Leadership
😆 Today’s Laugh
In the realm of strange news, read more about this duo of drunk vultures that needed fluids, a good night’s rest, and a BIG breakfast in the morning before returning to their colony.
Source: A Place Called Hope
💭 Today’s Thought
Today’s thought is a gentle reminder that loving yourself and others is something that you already know how to do — because you’ve done it before.
You were born knowing how to love, and knowing that you were worthy of love.
And while we get caught up thinking about ALL of the things we want to have done, seen, and experienced in order for our lives to have been fulfilling, Marianne Williamson reminds us of the one thing that trumps them all:
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
- Marianne Williamson
🖊️ Today’s Reflection
If you’re new to journaling, I highly encourage you to read Nancy Adler’s article: Want to be an outstanding leader? Keep a journal.
This week, find a quiet place and gift yourself 10 minutes to reflect on any of these prompts (or invent your own!):
What is to love?
Where and when in your life do you / have you experienced love? How do you know it’s there?
When is it hard for you to accept love into your heart?
If you were to experience love more fully each day, what would that look like?
📚 Today’s Read
The Tension Between Authentic and Adaptive Leadership
“To what extent must a leader adapt themselves to succeed? How much is too much? And when does adaptation become self-erasure?” Click here for more on the difference between authentic and adaptive leadership, and how to hold these approaches in balance.
See you next week!
xo,
Anne