We live and lead in an age of permanent stimulation.

Messages, meetings, content, conversations, headlines, dashboards – the stream rarely stops. For most leaders, this has become such a normal backdrop that the real cost is almost invisible:

There is no space left.

No space for unprocessed emoti...

There is a difference between saying “everything is always right” and living as if that were true.

It is easy to agree with phrases like “you can’t fall off your path” when life is stable. It is harder when one year brings:

• The end of a long relationship
• A new city and social circle
• A job endi
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 There are two kinds of work you can do as a leader or entrepreneur.

1. The work that pays the bills.
2. The work that feels like it’s trying to be born through you.

Sometimes they overlap.
Often, for a while, they don’t.

You might:

• Deliver programmes inside organisations whose behaviour you no
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For a long time, many of us were taught to think of life as a system of rules and exchanges.

• If you do X, you get Y.
• If you are disciplined, you are rewarded.
• If you help someone, they owe you.

We were also taught to see ourselves as largely at the mercy of circumstances:

• The economy
• Pol
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Leading people is relatively easy when everyone is in a good mood, open, and willing to change.

The real test comes when:

• Someone you care about is deeply unhappy.
• They complain, blame circumstances, and feel stuck.
• You know there are tools that could help, but they either don’t see them or re
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