Lead Wholeheartedly & Live Intentionally: Recent Episodes
Jennifer Lopez
This podcast is designed to help leaders create space in their lives for what matters most to them while still leading a life they love. If you crave something deeper, more meaningful, and sustainable as you lead and live, you’ve come to the right place.
Setting your week up to feel intentional, meaningful, and more focused usually starts with good Sunday rhythms.
Today, I’m sharing with you what most Sundays look like for me.
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When you’re experiencing a lot of change, complexity, and things that challenge you, it’s helpful to remember that many things are co-existing at the same time. In this episode, we explore 5 big questions for creating more possibility in your life, even when things are changing, you’re navigating complexity, or you are trying to focus on what you want most and can take action on right now.
Recently, I reflected on much of my career and the intersection of creativity and work life.
Listen more to the podcast to hear more about how integrating creativity helps us to live life even more genuinely, engage positive emotions, and explore the idea that we can balance what must be done with doing what we enjoy.
Head to my website for more resources on creativity, positive emotions, and play and to download your free guide to 40 Ways to Savor the Season!
Notes from inside the episode:
Savor the Summer Guide: 40 Ways to Live Intentionally this Season
You’re Worthy of Savoring: Thoughts from Jen Lopez
Key takeaways:
-Have a powerful vision of what you want for your life. What do you want to feel and experience over the next three, five, or ten years? What do you most want?
-Incorporate routines and rituals that support you and ground you to live out this vision, and honor them regularly.
-Let go of perfection so that you can stay committed. For example, maybe you don’t have 30 minutes to work out today, but you can do 10. Take the 10 and let it be enough until the next time. The important thing is to stay committed to the routine that grounds you and supports your well being.
-Adjust a ritual or a routine when you need to so it works with your current schedule. Work and life demands are ever changing. Often we need to reassess how our life is going so we can incorporate the routine into what’s working instead of pushing against things to make things happen and defeating the purpose of it in the first place.
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Learn how to explore around what matters to you and how it’s grounded in building on your strengths.
Take action and test your strengths in a fresh, self-aware way.
No need to start anything new. Start where you are.
Notice how you feel when you use your strength.
Notice barriers that may stop you from wanting to use that strength.
Be a gift to others, step into what’s possible, and see with new eyes.
Return to a sense of trust in yourself. Belief that hope and humility are found in the contribution of our collective strengths. Think about three myths around strengths and how to reframe them into ideas that are simple and helpful. Consider using your strengths for good by remembering the times you have been inspired, challenged, or transformed--what strengths were at play for you? For others?
Highlights:
Go back and review your VIA Strengths Survey Results.
Recall your life-giving stories.
Bring the two together and notice what really stands out.
A Guide To Bringing it All Together
PEA Activity Guide: Strengths
Read this blog post.
Read 5 Ways to Calm Anxiety Right Now
Journal on these questions:
Journal on these thoughts and questions:
Recall a time you felt amazing, alive, and thriving. What were doing? What was happening? Who was there?
Recall a time you felt like you were doing a great job at something—you really felt in flow, or you really felt like you were proud of your work. What were you doing? What did you appreciate about the people you were working with? What was it about you that contributed to the project’s success?
Highlights:
-Realize that life can be sweeter than you imagined, and you want more for your life.
-You’re not alone if you aren’t feeling as inspired as you once did or you’re feeling like you’re losing that connection to your sense of well-being.
-Consider this one way to be part of a community of like-minded leaders as you pursue leading wholeheartedly and living intentionally.
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After you’ve had the chance to take the survey, using what you’ve learned about yourself, focus on one or more of the following to put your strengths into action:
1) Own your leadership style
2) Take a creative break
3) Say yes to the “less is more” approach by focusing on using your strengths to tackle your to-do list.