Monday Morning Mantra

Careers don’t crash because you are working too hard. Careers crash because you’re not paying attention — to what’s happening in and outside of your world — and, most important, not paying attention to your own skills and abilities. You have to attend to your vocational health — your commitment to personal mastery and competence. It is what gives you the ability to harness energy and skill to push yourself toward success. It is a part of being a healthy leader.

Create Your Monday Morning Mantra

What practices and habits have you established to ensure you are paying attention? Working on personal mastery and competence? A healthy leader ‘gets inspired’ every Monday morning. She takes the time to organize, to focus moments in the week to work on developing her skills and abilities.  

Here are a couple examples of Monday Morning Mantras:

“I will get feedback from two people this week about my problem solving.”  Regular feedback from trusted peers and advisors helps you learn what is just noise and what is important to pay attention to.

“I will brag about one thing I am good at this week.” But I will also work on one weak spot.

“I will make haste slowly.” Learning is your best investment. Commit to the long haul and persevere through obstacles or frustrations.  

“I will opt for optimism.” How you frame things (“Is the glass half empty or half full?”) can set you up for failure or success. To move forward, to make changes, opting for optimism (the glass is half full) will make your journey easier.

Finally, heed some advice from our CEO Bob Rosen in his upcoming book, Grounded:

“Vocational health is a leadership quality that is becoming increasingly vital because it is directly linked to results and performance. Without strong vocational health, you lose the ability to keep up in a competitive world. You become eclipsed by more competent, knowledgeable individuals and organizations going after the same thing.“

How is your Vocational Health? Find out by taking the Healthy Leader Assessment – Vocational Health.

Discussion for your next staff meeting

Some talking points…

1) What Monday Morning habits do you and your team practice to ‘pay attention’ to what is happening inside and outside  your organization?

2) Is personal mastery and competence valued among your team?

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