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What do you choose?

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

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There are countless reasons to worry.

  • The Economy.
  • Tariffs.
  • Oil Price.
  • The Weather.
  • Layoffs.
  • Inflation.
  • Sickness.
  • Upset Clients.
  • Car Repairs...

I could go on, but I won't. Each of the items above has come up in my conversations this week. And some of them were from me! I get it, we see the negative all the time. We can't escape it but we can choose how we respond to it.

As a leader, you have to choose to lean into the positive.

Let me encourage you to acknowledge the negative and then turn your focus to the positive, to the opportunity, to the good, to the solution.

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist and Holocaust survivor, shares a powerful framework for this.

Frankl writes that "between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

My message for you today is simple - take a moment to pause and choose your response. You'll be a better leader because of it.

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Thanks for reading,

Phil

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P.S. I talked to 2 successful leaders recently who had never heard of Frankl or his book Man's Search For Meaning. If that's true for you - hit reply and I'll gift you a copy of the book. Everyone should read this book.

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Phil Klutts has over 2 decades of experience leading in small and large companies. He's done a lot, from starting, growing and exiting his own business to leading teams and projects in a Fortune 200 company. His current project, 405 Leadership Advisors, helps leaders gain the confidence and clarity they need to succeed.

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