Sunday Thinking

“If you've forgotten the language of gratitude, you'll never be on speaking terms with happiness.”

June 16, 2024

The weekly Sunday Thinking newsletter is quick-hit content that aims to provide a booster shot to your thought process as you end and start your week.

"We're each walking our own journey, and sometimes it's a hard one: a divorce, a career change, grief, or a major life transition. These chapters of our lives can leave us feeling lost and overwhelmed thinking, "How did I end up here?" Most often, the answers we tell ourselves make us feel either stuck on the path or stuck in shame. We are uncomfortable with the discomfort that life inevitably presents. But another possibility is that we allow this question to spark curiosity that inspires and invites us to keep going, step by step, until we arrive on the other side of our journey."

― Yasmine Cheyenne, Wisdom of the Path

I. The Power of Positive Leadership

The framework for great leadership:

Positive Leaders Drive Positive Cultures
Positive Leaders Create and Share a Positive Vision
Positive Leaders Lead with Optimism, Positivity, and Belief
Positive Leaders Confront, Transform, and Remove Negativity
Positive Leaders Create United and Connected Teams
Positive Leaders Build Great Relationships and Teams
Positive Leaders Pursue Excellence
Positive Leaders Lead with Purpose
Positive Leaders Have Grit

Source: Jon Gordon, The Power of Positive Leadership

II. Loss: A Path to Clarity

Not everything you lose is a loss.

Some things are a freedom. Some things are a second chance. Some things are a miracle in disguise.
Some things are a detachment long-needed, a clarity brought to blurry eyes. Some things are an intervention.
Some things are the unexpected answer to a long chanted prayer. Some things are a healing. Some things are a becoming.
Some things are planned long before you ever came to be. Some things are devastation, but others are a kind of vital guidance, the kind of course correction you did not even know you needed.

The kind you did not even realize you were asking for all along.

Source: Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

III. Evolving Without Limits

There is no final version to you.

There is no finish line to growth.
There is no end to your progression.
You’re an endless draft, a poem in constant revision, a story with infinite pages.

Allow yourself to become whoever you want whenever you want without rushing your evolution.

Source: Billy Chapata, Velvet Dragonflies

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V. Question

Where am I avoiding a hard conversation that I need to have?

VI. This Week, I Will

Find time for introspection.
Find time for trying new things.
Find time for movement and nature.
Find time for nurturing relationships.
Find time for the things that ignite the fire within me.

The Last Words…

“Be grateful for the problems you have. They’re specifically designed for you, your growth, your development and the things you need to possess as an individual in order to grow and become the individual you’re destined to become.”

― Inky Johnson, Serendipity Podcast