Chapters of Leadership - Settling
Emotional Connection - Part I
It Will Take Courage
As much as technology, modernity and progress create instantaneous access to people and cultures around the globe, it has limitations. It attempts to create a sense of connectedness, but if we courageously look we will see it is simply a cubic zirconia - it looks and feels real - but it isn’t. It can certainly be a tool to foster it - taking this post as an example hopefully. But it falls short when compared to people talking face to face in meaningful conversation. Connection is something we all need, even crave, but the courage required to have authentic connection is often too high a price to pay for many.
You Don’t Have Leadership Without Connection
As we spend more time walking through the chapter of SETTLING the roller coaster paradox becomes more tangible. The uncertainty we experience in this chapter of our story does something that can be simultaneously paralyzing and liberating. It exposes the fraud in all of us. In the last ingredient of our chapter we find ourselves in need - not of education, money, title, power or notoriety - of encouragement.
Stay Rooted ~
Deeper Roots
Have you seen or been able to see how technology offers a sense of connectedness, but when you allowed it to run its full course left you wanting and/or needing something more?
What do you actually believe it means to be connected to someone or something?
If you were talking to a close friend and were wanting to describe to them what it means to be connected, how would you describe it?
What feelings would you attribute to it? What words would you use to define it?
How often are you intentionally taking the time to speak face-to-face with someone?
Not through a screen of a computer monitor or phone, but actually real human to human connection.
When was the last time you walked away from a conversation with someone and it felt meaningful to you?
When you think about this, how did that other person make you feel connected?
What did they do during and throughout the conversation that communicated connectedness?
