Well, it was great to talk to Dave today.

And I love that he was talking about reactivity. And I have a gift for you. I have a cheat sheet that's about toxic leadership behaviors. You might find them in yourself. You might find them in others. You can get that at reactivecheatsheet.experimentalleader.com. I'm proud of this. And I think it's a really helpful way to just think about how you work with others. We are always doing that. And it's important to figure it out. 

I was struck today with this idea of a timeline. And I think it's so important for us to adjust our timelines to fit the situation. If you think about what COVID has done to all of us collectively, it has shortened our timeline, everything became an emergency. And that's burned out our adrenals. It made us tired. It gives us less capacity.

The thing you can do for yourself as you're coming out of it if you want to excel in leadership is to start just leaving space to consider the timeline a year from now two years from now three years from now, maybe five years from now. Not because you can put a plan in place. But because you can put a plan in place that includes that timeline. You may still have the reactive things that are going on in your organization that you have to respond to quickly. That's fine. 

Start to leave space to dream about the future. My challenge to you this week is what's your dream for three years from now? And what do you need to do today for that dream to be possible?

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