Leadership Development Newsletter Week One

I am Michele Coy, your Leadership and Business Strategist, and your guide during your journey in leadership development. We can go faster alone; however, we can go further together. As your guide, I will walk beside you at your pace and acknowledge you where you are at.

I am happy that you joined us and have made the decision to grow yourself. As you grow yourself, you can grow those around you. As my mentor John Maxwell speaks about, you integrate the knowledge and wisdom that you are learning by sharing and teaching it to others.

One of the greatest ways to grow yourself is utilizing the Law of Reflection. The Law of Reflection provides the pause to reflect and notice if you have any gap in your growth.

During any pause, these are some of the questions that provides me curiosity to discover where I am currently facing some gaps:

• What are my greatest strengths?

• What are my greatest weaknesses?

• What are some fears that are currently bubbling up at this moment?

• What emotions are bubbling up at this moment?

Who is one person that I know that I can lean into to help me over this hump?

During my current journey in life, I realized that I had taken on a project that I had not taken responsibility for. I had a friend suggest that I should take a project and turn it into more than I anticipated when I underwent the project. As I began the journey of taking the project to the next level, I realized that my heart was not in it at this moment. I realized that I had said Yes to something that I didn’t take the time to process. As a result, some of my greatest strengths turned into my greatest weaknesses at this moment. I was not leaning into those strengths. When I realized this, a huge lightbulb went off and I felt the relief go throughout my body.

Do you have a project or task that is currently on your plate that isn’t aligning with who you are at this moment? Is it the entire project or task or just one step in the project or task? Who could you ask for guidance or support to help get you to the other side? Or, is this a project or task that you feel is better suited for another teammate? If you are a business owner, do you know a virtual assistant (VA) or a social media manager that could help you with some of your tasks?

You have more support than you realize. You have mentors, friends, colleagues, other leaders, and coaches that are here to support you and assist you.

For me, I know that I get stuck. I have a business coach, life coach, 2 different accountability partners, and other coaches. Michele, why do you have so many? Each person serves a different role in my life. My accountability partners help me to stay on task and focused. My business coach and life coach help me get unstuck by providing new tools and help to mirror what I am saying. Other coaches guide me in the industry and provide a place to bounce ideas off of.

I trust that this has provided some food for thought.

I trust that you will take some time to do some reflection.

I would love for you to reply back to this email if you had an ah-ha moment or discovered something new about yourself.

I love hearing about reflections from others as they often trigger something within me that I may need to examine that I was not aware of within myself.

Have a blessed week.

Your Guide,

Michele Coy