What if learning to focus simply on what you’ve been called to do could enhance your leadership and influence? In this conversation, entrepreneur, illustrator, and advocate Danielle Coke, shares all the different ways “finding her simple” has impacted her calling, her craft, and her leadership. Listen as this young leader shares her insights on “going viral”, knowing when to step back as a leader, and what it takes to keep creativity flowing in her life.
SUMMARY:
What if learning to focus simply on what you’ve been called to do could enhance your leadership and influence? In this conversation, entrepreneur, illustrator, and advocate, Danielle Coke shares all the different ways “finding her simple” has impacted her calling, her craft, and her leadership. Listen as this young leader shares her insights on “going viral”, knowing when to step back as a leader, and what it takes to keep creativity flowing in her life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
STICK TO YOUR SIMPLE. Find the specific thing you do, do it, and then let others do what they do. There’s power and consistency in what comes natural to you.
FIND THE HEART OF THE MATTER. In complex situations, identify the heart of the matter and communicate that. Ask yourself, “What’s the one thing I can communicate about this?”
SHARE WHAT YOU’RE LEARNING IN THE MOMENT. You don’t need to have all the answers. By “sticking to your simple” you can help others even as you are processing with them.
OUR ATTITUDE IN ADVERSITY MATTERS. Be open to the idea that what we perceive as disaster may actually be opportunity in disguise, pointing us to the work that we actually should be doing.
LEAN INTO HOPE. Conscious optimism is hopeful about the future, but realistic about the work that still needs to be done. We can choose to work to create a better future.
STEP BACK FROM THE PLATFORM. Over-consumption of the news can drown our hope. Over-consumption (through social media) of what other people are doing can drown our creativity through comparison.
STEPPING BACK ALLOWS US TO BE READY WHEN WE’RE NEEDED. By stepping back proactively, we can be ready in times of distress to step up and help in the ways we’ve been gifted.
BE AWARE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERFORMING AND CREATING. Creating flows from inside you and is inherently sustainable. Performing results from acting only for others’ reactions and approval and is inherently unsustainable.
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