Move With the Tides, Not the Ticking of the Boxes

Productivity is not the point.

We’ve been taught to fear slowness.

Slowness in business.
Slowness in progress.
Slowness in being.

And instead, to pursue a relentless, inhuman pace.

But nothing meaningful grows at sprint speed.
Nature doesn’t rush, and yet everything still blooms.

Discipline is not always movement.
Sometimes discipline is stillness.

Lying still at the end of yoga each week, despite my attempts to bend myself into a pretzel for most of the class, is often the hardest move.

The world worships urgency.
But urgency rarely builds wisdom.
Or integrity.
Or trust.

And it’s not sustainable.
If it’s not sustainable, it’s only short-term success.
And none of that is true leadership.

Energy is precious, and finite.
Yet so many leaders I work with find themselves completely depleted, spread too thin, focusing too hard, relentlessly pushing on already drained physical, mental, and emotional resources.

So as a leader, consider this:
How do you truly lead well, not through fear or force, but through depth, embodiment, and humanity, starting with yourself?

How do you build with soul, your business, team, movement, career, art, or family. You know, the things that actually matter?

Your time, health, magnetism, and brilliance are precious.
Don’t waste them.
Don’t wait for permission to be devoted to yourself.

Without yourself, you have nothing to offer the people who rely on you.

Hold the mirror up.
Do the work.
Heal the wounds.

Choose courage over comfort.
Integrity over image.

Reclaim your energy, your time, your voice, your magic.

Because power without soul is empty.
Success without freedom is a cage.
And leadership without humanity is over.

Claim the impact you want to make, but start with the impact you want to create, for you.