Reset Yourself

Professionally many of us are feeling detached, fatigued, and perhaps even completely burned out. But we can always choose to begin again. In this episode, Ralph and Bill discuss a practice you can use to reset yourself and recommit to your mission.

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Bill Berthel: Welcome to the Get Emergent Podcast, where we discuss various leadership topics, team and organizational development ideas and current leadership challenges and success. I’m Bill Berthel.

Ralph Simone: And I’m Ralph Simone. And today’s topic is about recommitting yourself. And I, I’m assuming Bill, that means recommitting yourself to your work.

But, what does it mean and why did we choose, this topic?

Bill Berthel: Yeah. I think what we’re gonna discuss today, you could apply to other places, but I we’re gonna keep in the context of recommitting to your role or to your work. Maybe it’s recommitting to a specific project that you’re working on.

Sometimes it’s a feeling of, I’m just stalled, or it’s a little stagnant. Maybe I’m in the doldrums. Maybe it’s more significant. Maybe it’s, you know, do I stay in this role? Do I stay with this organization? Or am I looking at leaving a lot of fatigue out there today? A lot of burnout. You know, I, I just learned these new topics of specific empathy and compassion fatigue.

I was working with some healthcare leaders and certainly with, you know, with the pandemic, there’s this very real feeling of not just burnout and exhaustion, but fatigue around their compassion and their empathy. Sure. Causing some health leaders to wanna look for something different.

Ralph Simone: I like this concept because I think it, what it brings up in my mind is that we can always choose to begin again.

I think we. Yeah. And you know, I was, and for me it’s, there’s a couple steps, right? First of all, being aware of what is and not resisting it. So here’s the current situation, but then I think this recommitting yourself is about. You know, changing the thoughts, rethinking what it could be or even what it was, and then kind of listening to the nudges that you get to take some action.

So I think this, the idea that you can begin again each and every moment is, I think, extremely empowering and can be helpful in recommitting

Bill Berthel: oneself. And, and I know you absolutely mean this. I wanna clarify for our listeners, this is about doing it authentically, folks, we’re not talking about sugarcoating something or making it fake or saccharin.

This is about taking that strategic pause to authentically look at it differently.

Ralph Simone: And I think when you take the strategic pause, you know, what is your intention? What is it and how is it that you would like to recommit. And then how do you need to show up in order to follow through on that? And I, I think often times it’s thinking about what would this particular situation look like? If it was ideal?

Bill Berthel: What would it look like if I wanted to move towa