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“Growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you want to be.”
-John C. Maxwell
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Do you ever feel like you are doing all the ‘right’ things and not seeing the results?
Og Mandino says that “It is those who concentrate on the one thing at a time who advance in the world.”
What are you concentrating on?
We need focus and we need to focus on the right things.
There is no magic formula, however there is a formula.
It's taken alot of trying to get things right, I finally got it...
The gift lies in the journey.
The best gift that a business owner can give their business is the best version of themselves.
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~ Coach Dezi
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Saying Yes to the Right Things: A Leadership Practice for Women Who Carry Too Much
There is a moment in leadership when you look at your life and realize the weight you are carrying is not even yours.
You said yes out of habit.
Yes out of survival.
Yes because you were taught that strength means carrying everything without question.
But leadership demands a different kind of honesty.
Most of the weight women carry is tied to things that never required their yes.
Invisible assignments.
Emotional labor.
Inherited expectations.
Roles we absorbed simply because someone needed to fill the gap.
Decision fatigue affects clarity, emotional wellbeing, and leadership effectiveness (Stanford University, 2019). Yet many women ignore the subtle truth that drains them the most.
The unexamined yes.
You do not build a powerful life by saying yes to everything. You build it by saying yes with intention.
There is a question I return to often.
Where have I been giving my yes too cheaply.
Because your next season is often waiting on one boundary you have not given yourself permission to set. The kind of boundary that protects your clarity, your calling, and your energy.
Discernment is leadership.
And alignment is stewardship.
When you choose the right yes at the right time, your capacity expands.
Your mind quiets.
Your priorities sharpen.
Your leadership becomes honest again.
Say yes only where your purpose has room to breathe.
References
Stanford University, “Decision Fatigue Study,” https://news.stanford.edu/
About Coach Dezi
Desiree Foster-Collins is the Founder of EBD
Collective Coaching & Consulting. She is a Maxwell Leadership Executive Program Team Member and a Certified Human Behavioral Consultant.
"You can have it all. Just not all at once." - Oprah Winfrey
This is the space where I share my thoughts, my wins, my learns and all things in-between on leading and growing my business.
I also share the parts that others won't - the hard parts of being the woman I desire to be and living out my purpose of helping you to grow your business and change lives. It starts and stops with you!
I'm a Mom to two amazing creative human beings. I love all things leadership, creativity, techy, travel and really good food.
I am a woman of faith and I will share about that too!
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