Sustainability

#Beingaleader means you need to have sustainability. Sustainable is avoiding depletion. For the long haul. Regenerating. Healthy.

We often hear the term used in reference to the environment or a particular product that is being touted. But sustainability is important for the leader too. You must prepare for the long haul. The adversity. The challenges. The victories. The exhaustion. The exhilaration. The loneliness. The pain. The satisfaction. The goal is to complete the race and not fall down or quit in the midst of the race.

Sustainability is not the same thing as pacing yourself. Pacing yourself is more like keeping the right pace for the energy that you have left so you have sufficient to complete a task. Sustainability is a lifestyle that keeps the energy at the necessary level to complete your life’s journey. Sustainability involves rest, focus, cycles, habits that are life giving, saying “No”, etc. It’s more than just muscling through to completion. It’s living life and enjoying it throughout the process. On purpose.

Sustainability involves restoration. Continual personal and team restoration. It seeks opportunities that will rejuvenate and revive. Less about teeth gritting and more about living life itself. #Beingaleader is about learning how to be sustainable.

#Beingaleader means you need sustainability. Learn how to do more than just endure.