Leaders, Find Your Mojo

The flowers are pushing through because that’s what they do. On my walk the other day, I gave a happy start to see that here in the Southeastern United States, spring is on the way. For those in warmer climes, the excitement can be hard to relate to, but after winter’s onslaught, a particularly brutal one in the U.S. this year, spring can’t come soon enough.

Leaders, like flowers now is the time to be reminded of your purpose, to push through and raise your head, to gather attention to yourself not as a form of egoism but as an offering of bravery. By leaders, I mean anyone leading a team, organization, network, online following, cluster, anyone in a position of influence over others – in short everyone. Leaders, during the burn of this metaphorical winter – the funding freezes, firings, attacks, and cruelty of the Trump administration – now is the time to find your mojo.

To lead, especially during vertiginous times, requires entering “the zone,” as good athletes and performers do. For good leadership is indeed a form of athleticism requiring both practice and exquisite concentration. So leaders, in order to do what you must—to make spring, to give hope and direction through showing what is possible—you will have to let go of other things. Please delegate some decision-making to others. Protect your time. Shed your tears, if doing so makes you stronger. Leaders, we all need you. Leaders, we need all of you.