You find yourself exhausted, overstressed, lacking the drive to follow-through with your ideas and ambitions, and struggling to find time for your personal life - you are barely surviving.

Corporate life is often likened to navigating the nine circles of hell, a not-so-subtle nod to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Many organizations exhibit an almost obsessive focus on results, driven by a relentless sense of urgency. While this urgency may seem justified when your well-being or livelihood is at stake, failure to pause and strategically set up yourself and your team for success leads to a brute-force approach that prioritizes reaction over reflection.

You set the course for your team, monitor their progress, be available to those who need your support, and reward those who excel. You are a leader of others. And how are you leading yourself?

The depth of this question is not only critical, it’s the most overlooked aspect of improving our leadership performance.

Your foundation for excellence can only be built by addressing your needs before you become unbearably indebted to yourself.