Guest Blogger - Even Now Are You Leading Inspired?

Mercedes Warrick is a good friend of mine and a master of maximizing internal energy. Mercedes is my Guest Blogger today and offers a very insightful blog. Enjoy!

Even Now Are You Leading Inspired?

In one of the most deeply impacted economic regions in the country, Las Vegas professionals are taking emotional hits amplified by feeling the painful impact of a severe financial realignment.

CPAs, CFOs, attorneys, and human resources executives are the lead professionals when deciding who stays and who goes. Loss of employees often also means deciding which essential service stays and which get cuts. These hard decisions are not only affecting the people losing their jobs. These hard choices affect the professionals making the decisions as well.

Recently I had lunch with two of my executive friends, both having had a crucial year of layoffs and heart break. Making choices that were critical to their companies’ imminent survival, they have had to make the tough people decisions that have influenced families and lives. As their stories unfolded I watched these compassion filled men agonize. It is not a view that many see and it was humbling that they let me in a little.

Watching as their body language gave way to their inner feelings; the tough exterior only a façade both are saying that, “life is too short.” One is changing directions totally, seeking to build up people while leading a profession towards recovery. The other, a recognized expert and leader, is in for the “long haul.” He is seeking to build up his work family, re-fortifying trust in an industry and company that is going through a huge identity crisis. Each asks me, “So what are you doing now?”

After spending many years in executive level marketing and corporate communications ~ which I loved ~ and now 3 or so years basically basking in Zen; I quietly say, “I am empowering leaders to lead at the speed of ZEN.”

“What does that mean?” each asked.

It means that even as you are going through this tough time you take an internal inventory and take care of what you need. Simply, are you asking?

What am I learning?

How am I growing? Becoming more compassionate? Standing in my courage?

Am I being true to my values and beliefs?

What inspires me? Soothes me? Comforts me? Even now…

How am I making sure that “this action, idea or belief” is showing up in my life now?

Abraham Maslow simply stated that we have a hierarchy that moves us through a continuum of satisfaction, safety, love, esteem, self actualization, a vision of the personal self and free will. Maslow stated that we must satisfy the lower levels before we can move to a personal utopia.

We are dynamic and the Zen, the place where our soul resides within us, allows for inner reflection. New seeds of desire, wants and inspirations are planted during these hard environments. And, whether we decide to stand our ground or bring new metamorphosis and change, when we lead from a dynamic sense of Self it inspires the people around us to move through their change gracefully, be courageous and transform too. So even as they are losing a job or maybe doing two or three times more work ~ often in fear ~ of what has happened to a family member or friend, your leadership is being noted. Your compassion and your stance present an energy that is dynamic and influential.

So where are you and how are you taking are of Self? Are you emerging? Changing direction? Standing your ground? Leading at the speed of Zen means having a communion with your inner Self knowing that within every time of recycling, room is made for planting. Are you…?

Educating Your Self!

Living Seeking Information and Knowledge

Growing Your Self!

Living with Awareness, Seeking Know- How

Motivating Your Self!

Living Seeking Action, Consistency & Living Inspired. Leading Inspired!

Live Every Moment, Every Day

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Mercedes Warrick is The Intuitive CEO™ at The Achievement Sanctuary®. After a life changing event she decided that life is too precious and now energizes leaders, emerging entrepreneurs and professionals to live inspired, lead inspired…. Leading at the speed of ZEN! Contact Mercedes at: mercedes@TheAchievementSanctuary.com or visit www.TheAchievementSanctuary.com

Mercedes Warrick
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@ The Achievement Sanctuary™

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