How well the phrase is understood and what a bad reputation it often has when we incorporate distancing ourselves as part of our work day.
Step away to distance yourself from challenges and find clarity.
Move away to legitimize and allow the emotions that prevent us from acting from serenity and equanimity to be diluted.
Step away to review our vocational and professional foundations. Because how many times have business leaders shared with me intimately that they don't know how they arrived at a professional entanglement that no longer excites them or that never excites them. They dreamed of something else, of another life, despite apparent success.
How good to get away, to find on the walk, in the distance, that best friend who lives inside and to whom we do not always give space in case we are called lazy, of not being worried or of not canceling three appointments a day like KPI that makes up the value leader.
The courageous leader reserves time for hospitality, listening, an open door, self-care, and yearning for wisdom.
Saying that time is dedicated to health and inner knowledge is very good to express it during a business lunch, but it is frequently criticized even by the most intimate collaborators if it occurs regularly during the work day even though it can enrich the team and the company. Self-knowledge, moving away, also requires effort, more than warming up a chair by looking at your smartphone, surely, but not many consider it productive.
From my experience, the human leader who begins this work brings light, contact with life, vocation, and is contagious.
A good friend said with great sympathy when things came to us: "I didn't promise you a rose garden."
How great my friend. But its perfume, that of roses and that of friendship, manifests itself to us and guides us from far away.
Until the next meeting.
