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Leading With Purpose
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Created bySean Fargo
Day 24 of Sean's original 28-day mindfulness series — recorded in his own voice.
In Sean Fargo’s own voice8 min
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Mindfulnessexercises.com. Your 28-day mindfulness challenge. Day 24, leading with purpose. Let's begin this practice on leading with purpose by first finding a posture that feels relaxed and alert. Just taking a moment to allow your body to settle in a comfortable position, feeling your feet on the ground, dropping your shoulders, and closing your eyes or looking downward to limit visual distractions.
Taking a couple of deep breaths, relaxing the belly, and just softening around any areas of tightness or tension. So let's explore leading with purpose. Regardless of your position, whether in an organization or a family, you're called on to lead at some point.
The best leaders have a sense of clarity and purpose with how they engage with the world and how they lead others. They connect with people on a very human level. So I'm going to ask you a series of questions, but instead of thinking about the questions and coming up with responses, I want you to allow the questions to just sink in like pebbles being dropped into a still pond, and I want you to be sensitive to any ripples that you notice.
Just feeling into the nature of the questions. As a leader, what is most important to you? As a leader, what is most important to you? What are you aiming to achieve as a leader? As I ask these questions, just noticing the thoughts and the feelings and any images that come to mind while you breathe in and breathe out.
What are the values that guide you? What may be preventing you from living your values each day? The values that guide you. What may be preventing you from living these each day? Continue breathing in and out, bringing awareness to your body.
Just noticing if the mind is wandering at all, or if it's attaching to any particular thought or feeling that arises. Now I invite you to imagine yourself leading with purpose, truly leading others with a strong sense of purpose. What does that feel like to be leading with a strong sense of purpose?
Imagine, what does that feel like? And now as we begin to reemerge from this reflection, just notice how you feel in your body and in your mind. Finishing with a full deep breath in and a long breath out . May you lead with purpose.
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