You can’t pour from an empty cup; it took me a long time to learn that lesson! This book, Your Oxygen Mask First walks high achievers, leaders, and entrepreneurs through a cadence in how we need to care for ourselves. These above-mentioned roles have an extra ‘pour’ associated with them, and so being sure you take extra and specific care of yourself is of utmost importance. This was the book that really gave me an Ah-ha and almost ‘permission’ to prioritize taking good care of myself and not feeling guilty. I understood the importance of my sustainability for the whole, not only my marriage, and family, but my organization!
Kevin Lawrence goes through how to throw out the idea of work-life balance (anyone who know me knows how much I hate that term), he talks about the importance of investing in our ‘sweet spots’ the things we love to do, the stuff that makes the light in our eyes turn on! He discusses “licking the toad” but my team calls that “eating the frog” – doing the hard thing first and getting it out of the way! He touches on the importance of managing our emotional and mental ‘junk’ and boy is that a good one, so often neglected. Seeking out honest feedback as a means to growth – this has become a huge passion of mine; I want to know my blind spots. He talks about being a chief problem solver, which now when I talk to my team – we discuss how we want to become solution centers. It’s fine to identify a problem, but that it the easy part, how can we fix the problem…be a solution center, take your thought process one step past identifying the problem. He talks about having tough conversations, which is an area I have seen a lot of growth in the last couple of years. How to hold your standards, and let others rise to them. That is all in a tiny nutshell…there is so much more, but the thing is…this book digs deep, it’s actionable and convicting to be honest. A true gift to entrepreneurs. In close, Darren Hardy has stated that for every $1 we invest in ourselves, we get $30 back! We are our own best investment; I could NOT agree more. This is not just for coaching and knowledge but wholistic, it’s also for our mental, emotional and physical selves too, this book really ties into that idea and helps pull it all together. Here is a LINK to the book on Amazon (no I don’t get paid). If you do read this book, I’d so love to hear tour take aways! B.
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