You decide how you show up.

You also decide if you show up or sit out (even if this doesn’t feel like a choice sometimes, it always is). And showing up is the first step toward the difference you can make through service.

No matter who you are, where you live, or what circumstances you find yourself in: You have the powerful choice to decide your mindset and take action (or stay in inaction) accordingly.

Flexibility is much easier than it sounds and harder than you think. It requires a release of expectations, a willingness to be in the moment, and an acknowledgement that you cannot (and should not) control everything.

As the last few weeks of summer melt into fall, let’s take this month to consider how to approach living and leading with more flexibility, starting with how we relate to what happens…and what doesn’t!

Do you remember when you did something really hard on your own for the first time?

Choosing autonomy challenges and stretches us.

It also creates capacity for the next time we’re faced with something really hard that we decide to take on.

But what gets in the way or trying something new? Learn the three of the most common “autonomy blockers” that we experience at all stages of our lives and what we can do about them!

On the surface, trust appears simple: You either trust someone or you don’t.

But what really makes trust work in our relationships?

And more fundamentally, how do we learn to truly trust ourselves?

This month, we’re examining how to build and maintain trust in our lives.