“Alright,” she said, with a look of exasperation written across her face, “I’m overwhelmed.” She was. So were others. Yesterdays practice was tough sledding uphill.
Whenever someone is overwhelmed, regardless the reason, I always remind them to get to the root, back to their CORE.
The stronger your CORE the less likely you are to get distressed by circumstances, too many priorities, the end of the quarter, being alone, being too busy or too bored.
Lower back pain, remember, is not the problem. Lower back pain is the number one pain problem in America. The root problem is that we are weak in our core and therefore our spine cannot handle the weight load we’ve taxed it with. The bodies reaction is simply to shoot pain through our lower back region. We will not fix the root with pain pills. The answer is more acute pain to eliminate the chronic pain. The answer is to embrace the pain of strengthening your core.
During yesterdays practice we taxed everybody with a ton of information that could build them stronger and build their teams stronger too. We loaded them up. We took ’em just to the edge of the challenge zone and for some we crossed over into the panic zone. This is where high performance individuals, teams, and leaders take up residence. Right on the hairy edge.
And, whenever you go too far, as I am prone to do. Always gain clarity on what is most important, what must get done, what will I do now, by going back to your CORE.
Busy or bored, there is never enough time to build your core. Build it anyway. The same is true for your CORE…
BUILT TO LEAD 