I checked the suicide clause on my life insurance.
This is about your company or your team.
But first a leadership reality.
I was the single income provider for our family.
14 years ago I had a five-year old, three-year old, and a one-year old to feed and house.
Through a set of circumstances I found myself at a terrifying bottom. A death if you will.
I was failing at leading to accomplish the necessary results for my family and an organization I was serving.
I was caught in a web of my own making from two big bad decisions.
The pressure of it all was mounting. Daily hustle for the day's bread. Getting help anywhere and everywhere I could.
I built a custom home at 22 and 28 and now at age 30 I was facing an eviction notice.
At 44 that doesn't feel like a distant memory. I can still taste the poison.
But now the poison has become medicine.
An idea captured me that I'm still not over.
Leaders with a secure identity will lead with a clear mission and build a healthy community.
It's a process. A flow through.
The point of SightShift was never just about individual leaders being transformed.
And this has everything to do with your company or team.
Hold on.
For the first time in that dark time of my life I really thought about my worth.
And I felt that I was worth more dead than alive.
I looked up my life insurance information and found out that my family would still get the money even if it was suicide.
I hope you never taste that hell. But it changed everything for me.
The reality of your fears might be different from mine.
The reality of your fears might hit you differently than mine.
For each of us those wilderness moments define everything about who we are for good or bad.
We become better or worse through our suffering.
There is no middle ground.
Some of you have tasted the bitter moments of a wilderness.
Abandonment. Betrayal. Lost opportunity and potential. Unrealized strengths. Sabotaging weaknesses. A system stacked against you. Some circumstance you've been through that if the whole world knew about we'd all give you some grace
If you know then you know.
Until you've been through some sort of wilderness you'll never know how much your life can really change.
I can coach someone everyday for three years on productivity and it will pale in comparison to one coaching session where they get a revelation or insight about who they are.
Get a revelation about who you are. Get an insight into your most insecure moments. We all have insecurities. Few use the momentum of their insecurities to become life changing insights.
That's how you learn the depths from which your thoughts generate. Then you stop wasting effort trying to change your thoughts. You harness the power of them.
But that's just the beginning. This is the point of that transformation:
A transformed leader transforms their culture.
What started for me in that dark period shifted everything.
How do you change the world? Transformed communities.
How do you transform communities? Lots of leaders secure in their identity who are building teams of healthy leaders will transform cultures.
You know how important culture is.
You're working on yourself and growing.
But have you engaged in a comprehensive and thorough process to integrate a transformation or advancement of your culture?
That's why we made BuildYourLeadershipCulture.com.
(The 1st video is a compelling diagnostic that will inform clear action. The 2nd video you click to watch will teach you more "how" and inspire more vision than your leadership heart may be able to take! And dang it the copy on the 2nd page makes my heart beat so fast.)
With our proprietary process and tools you don't have to assess and guess anymore as you build your team.
You can "measure and match" to build your dream team and dream culture.
We're just getting started in many ways. I'll be sharing more.
We've been serving companies and teams with this bigger vision for a couple years. But now we're telling the story for all to hear.
Your dream team and dream culture awaits.
BuildYourLeadershipCulture.com
In a wilderness? Or are you seeking to become world class?
Either way, our team is ready to serve.
And if you feel anything close to what I dangerously felt those years ago...REACH OUT TO SOMEONE.
Keep growing!
Chris