It Makes Me a Woo-Woo Leader

I’m tired tonight. It’s only Monday. Not a good way to start the week. And this is going to be one of THOSE weeks. It just will be.

Just because I’m tired, though, doesn’t mean that I haven’t had a few thoughts about what to write. Eckhart Tolle says that becoming consumed by your thoughts proves you are still a long way from enlightenment. But…if those thoughts are about enlightenment…what then? Where does that leave you?

I haven’t exactly been thinking about enlightenment so much as what to write about today. I have a bazillion undeveloped ideas rambling around in my head. The one that floats to the top has to do with being authentic at work.

Being authentically you can be hard enough sometimes. I should say, “Being authentically me,” but you get my drift. So, it stands to reason, that being your authentic, whole self at work would be even more difficult. I totally struggle with this. I struggle with the pressure to conform in order to advance. I struggle with being repulsed by that idea. I struggle with being loyal to my true self and honoring that person in his entirety. I dishonor myself when I turn my back on who I am. Yet, there’s that pressure.

Fortunately, I have the good sense to resist that pressure, for the most part. I “get” that I have an obligation to the organization for which I work to perform the responsibilities assigned to me. I do that. What I don’t do is lose myself in the process of making someone else happy. I think you can do both…with a little manipulation. It’s all just a matter of performing your job as described, then performing your job beyond what is described. In that “beyond” space, you find room for your authenticity. At least that’s where I find it.

I don’t think it’s impossible to be authentic at work. Bringing my full spiritual self to work and leveraging what he has to offer makes me the unique the leader that I am.

It makes me a woo-woo leader.