Your dang phone buzzes constantly. Your calendar is slap full with meetings. Your inbox is like playing a game of whack-a-mole: handle one, three more pop up.
Yet somehow you’re supposed to make brilliant strategic decisions in this chaos?
Really?
Here’s the thing: your brain literally wasn’t designed for this level of constant input. (Nobody’s was!!!)
The executives I work with often tell me their best insights come during walks, while they’re driving, or when they’re in the shower. There’s actual science behind this – nature exposure rebuilds the cognitive (brain) resources that focused work depletes. An “nature” is this case is (1) being outdoors (2) seeing nature while driving or (3) feeling and hearing the rush of water.
What if instead of waiting for a stolen moment in the car or shower to access clear thinking, you instead made restoration part of your leadership practice?
One of my clients does this weekly (with or without me, but mostly with me). Her company is exploding in growth. She’s made BIG moves. Moves that would scare other people. But she comes to the forest, practices sit spot, gets quiet, finds her core of peace, and then KNOWS in her bones the next right decision.
The forest is always available. So is your wisdom.
Warmly,
Angie