Recruitthebest Daily Digest- On Caring

Care leverages the authority to challege others. Without care, challenge is destructive. Yet without challenge, care is powerless.’

True care does not always feel comfortable.’

When we function outside of self, we have the uncommon ability to not only see the whole system but see past, present, and future, and act accordingly.’

Our care for the other grants us the authority to act out of self and therefore act directly, speak clearly and candidly, and challenge mindfully, thus serving the whole.’

Care serves the whole, rather than individual needs or preferences.’

When care is impulsive, our actions are often misattuned, and we end up applying the wrong tool for the job.’

‘Care is the foundation for any transformative and positive change.’

What then is real care?

‘Care is that genuine desire to attend to the needs of others.’

The leader is the one who is not the mightiest or the most domineering but who cares the most…’

Source:

Kelly Wendorf (2020). Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Wisdom For Living

‘Joy is not happiness; it leaves outside the polarity of good and bad emotions. Joy is a profoundly existential birthright of being fully embodied, present, and alive.’

‘Don’t let your dreams obscure the joy that is already here.’

‘Wilderness is not a departure from sanity but a return to it.’

Authenticity is the willingness to be different, to be totally oneself, knowing you are part of the whole.’

All of life is a verb living itself through you, as you, around you. Just notice everything, all the invisible threads, all the communications, the relationships between things.’

‘The path to becoming more instinctual and thus more connected is to let yourself be more sensitive, not less.’

We are connection-starved. While acknowledging this is painful, it’s the first step toward our healing and reconnection.’

‘When we don’t take our place- or when we take our place with ambivalence- we deny the world our gifts.’

‘We cannot leap into the unknown without the grounded origins of our right footing.’

‘If we deliberately put our attention and energy on beingness throughout the day, our doing is infused with ease, delight, wisdom, and joy.’

Learning the difference between care and caretaking liberates us to powerfully in a way that does not cost us.’

Source: Kelly Wendorf (2020). Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading Change