Challenge #45: Leaders take time for self-care.
Find a moment in your day where you can pause what you are doing, in the morning when you wake up, before getting out of bed, or during a moment of feeling stressed, or driving down the road and try using this SHARP reflection to re-ground yourself.
S – Stop is about taking a moment to literally stop whatever you are doing and take a look around at what’s happening around you and describing it to yourself.
H – Here is about how engaged you are in what is happening in your life in the given moment; many of us spend a lot of time being engaged in the past or future. Taking notice of where our attention is - is the first step in making a choice of where we want to spend our moments – in the past, future, or now. Most people spend a lot of time in the past and future and forget to take notice of the present moment and what is happening right now. And “now’ is literally all we ever have.
A – Act is taking notice of what you are outwardly doing – what can others see you doing? What is your body language saying, etc. The important part is just to notice – not judge.
R – Respond is looking inside at how you are thinking and feeling with physiological responses (am I feeling angry, calm, nervous, etc., and feeling heat or coolness anywhere or sweating?)
P – Person is our decision point after taking notice of all these aspects of our lives in the moment and then asking the question – with all this in mind, what is the very best thing I can do for myself right now? It is a prompt to take notice of your self-care and to do what is best in the moment. And again it is the moments that shape our lives.
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