Trust is eroding as AI generated content can easily deceive us. But we cannot abandon trust altogether as it will only produce fear, anxiety and blanket suspicion disconnecting us further from our team, community and those around us. Instead, our challenge is to thoughtfully choose where to place our trust.

Without self-trust, we’re attached to who we’ve been and the results we’ve already produced. But with trust, it allows us to detach from who we’ve been and gives us the capacity to grow into someone greater.

Humans are born with only two innate fears—falling and loud noises—all other fears are learned over time. Since these additional fears aren't part of our original wiring, we have the power to unlearn them. We can choose to let go of our fear and trust in our ability to grow beyond them.

Fear will only serve to hold us back. It’s trust in a greater possible that will move us to that next level. Instead of focusing solely on what could go wrong, embrace the possibility that challenges may arise, but you can trust in your ability to handle them.

 To shift our results and the world around us – whether it's people, environments, or organizations—we must first transform ourselves. By shifting our mindset, emotions, and perspectives, we unlock the ability to create a ripple effect of broader impact. Personal growth is the foundation of broader change. When we can shift ourselves, we have access to shifting everything around us. 

It doesn’t matter how fast you’re moving if you’re moving in the wrong direction. It’s following the direction of your goals, regardless of your speed, that ultimately leads you to where you want to go. It’s better to move slowly in the right direction than quickly without a plan.

Preaching without practice is empty. It’s through practice that you develop perspective, depth, authenticity and trustworthiness because it’s grounded in actual experience.

The more we can trust, the more we can grow. There’s a positive correlation between the amount of trust we have and the weight of discomfort we can handle and grow from. Trust is essential to overcoming the uncomfortable and uncertain because it provides the internal foundation needed to step forward. When you’ve cultivated trust, you believe in your capacity to navigate and endure any difficult situation ahead.

Leaning out robs you from understanding the heart of your challenge, sentencing you to repeating it over and over again. Leaning in reveals what there really is to deal with, hard work that when addressed, forever frees you from the source of the challenge. Lean in for liberation. Leaning out will only keep you stuck.

Supporting others through challenging times isn’t just about solving their problems. It’s about the presence to acknowledge their hardships, stand in them and face whatever is to come, together.

Give and take is fundamental to any human relationship over time. Without clear intentions we can be left in-tension feeling like we’re against each other, but with them we can align our greater aims to grow, together…

I love writing, speaking and running workshops with leadership teams… but do you know what I love the most? Seeing the impact of our work. Especially engaging with people who really take it to heart and use it to create an inflection point of change in their work, relationships and lives.

Fear is winning as record numbers of people worldwide believe the future will only be worse than today. Economic uncertainty, global instability, AI disruption and rapid change everywhere we turn is leaving people feeling scared, powerless and lost. Unaddressed, it can’t help but stall our personal progress and business growth. And while moving away from those fears and toward growth might seem like a linear path leading to similar outcomes, they actually diverge towards fundamentally different places.

Reasons may be valid. But they don’t have to be an excuse for why we don’t have the results we want. Of course there are always reasons why things are the way they are, but it’s actually not the reasons that matter alone. It’s our response to them. Only once we take the wheel back from circumstances driving us can we steer towards our real goals.