As a leader, when do you learn most about yourself? It is usually when you find yourself with parameters or criteria that you wish you didn’t have.
In Seth Godin’s blog, Boundaries, he states: “I think you can tell a lot about a person or an organization by looking at how they deal with boundaries. Rigid boundaries: What do you do when you hit a wall? Do you have a tantrum? Spend countless resources trying to scale the unscalable? Or do you accept reality and put your energy into something else?”
I love this notion of exploring how we react to boundaries.
Sit with this today. Where do you feel most constrained? Where can you look at the parameters you currently have as creative opportunities? Then take on yourself and decide how you want to react. At the end of the day, your mindset will determine most of what you’re able to achieve.
