Whilst a lot is out of our control, we do have the ability to take steps to manage our self care, top up that resilience tank and feed our soul.

We have a saying within the riding group and that is “don’t ride the hills before you get there”. Don’t let the worry of what might be ahead detract from the present. Don’t let the fear of something big hold you back from achieving something massive.

We probably don’t have to look too far to find evidence near and far of those whose lives have been impacted to a point that recovery to what life was pre-covid may take many years, if at all.

Learnings from Midnight in Chernobyl

Engaging your team and clients through shared experiences

.  But going to the edge of the limits we have imposed or worse, have allowed others to impose upon us is often where the sweetest of victories are found.  

"If I could master my mood I could master my life." 

If we act with good integrity, good intent, consult where possible and then make a decision that ultimately proves to be incorrect, we will be forgiven.  However, if we fail to make any decision at all for the fear of making the wrong decision we wont be forgiven. True leadership is less about following policy and procedure and more about leading in times when there is no policy and procedure.  It’s about making decisions.

At what point do you decide that you’ve planned enough, you’ve trained enough and it’s time to execute?  If you go too early there’s a risk you will be caught short due to a lack of preparation and planning.  But if you wait too long the risk is someone else will beat you to market, thereby seizing the opportunity. 

Having worked in crisis and disaster areas across the globe including Indonesia following the Bali Bombings, Thailand in the aftermath of the South East Asian tsunami, Saudi Arabia post the deadly floods in Jeddah and Japan following the tsunami of 2011, I have witnessed the response of individual leaders with and without positional authority.