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Hi y’all!

Since goals were a major topic for our team this past month, and they were likely on your mind as well, we thought it would be fun to sit down with our whole team to have a conversation about our love/hate relationship with goals, when they work, and when they don't. You can listen to Our Love/Hate Relationship With Goals here.

We also started a new podcast series on power dynamics. Leadership is inherently about the use of power. However, we've noticed how uncomfortable leaders get not just talking about power, but even thinking about it. In this conversation, we look at what power means and how we can use it wisely.You can find part 1 in the series here, Power Dynamics for Trustworthy and Transformative Leaders.

Thanks for reading. I hope you find the resources below helpful. We would love to hear from you too. What have you been learning, thinking about, or encouraged by lately?

Tim

A few of our favorites

9 Ways to Build Grit

Shared by Jim Herrington

Growing your emotional intelligence gives you increasing capacity to flourish in your family, in your workplace, and in your faith community. Growing emotional intelligence is also challenging work that requires you to increase your pain tolerance. This article comes from a team of leaders in the field of emotional intelligence and it contains some pithy guidance for becoming a more emotionally intelligent leader.

• ​9 Ways to Build Grit (4 minute read)

What’s Happening in Our Nervous System?

Shared by Aundrea Baker

I recently discovered this episode of OnBeing where Krista Tippett discusses the neurobiology of the pandemic with her guest Dr. Christine Runyan, a clinical psychologist. Dr. Runyan explains how the pandemic has been traumatic to society, leading us to live in a state of constant anxiety resulting in physical and behavioral issues. From her perspective in neuroscience, she offers helpful strategies we can use to help calm our nervous systems and deal with the ongoing threat of Covid. Their conversation helped me to understand myself and changed my approach to the pandemic. I’m also sharing another podcast in which Dr. Runyon shows us how to offer compassion to ourselves.

• ​Christine Runyan — What’s Happening in Our Nervous Systems? (50 minute episode, transcript available)
• ​Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan (11 minute meditative practice)

Feeling rejected? Look for the triangles.

Shared by Michael De Ruyter

How does triangling show up in your life? How have they been useful? How have they created challenges?

• ​Feeling rejected? Look for the triangles. (3 minute read)

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