Emotional agility

Take care of yourself, master emotions.

Leading with emotional agility is essential all the time, but especially during times of change, uncertainty, and growth. Big emotions can flare up when the next steps are unclear and it can be so grounding to show up for each other with real compassion. When members of your team are struggling, there’s often an instinct to fix or solve the problems at hand. What’s most often needed in these moments, however, is for people to simply feel seen and heard.

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Follow these seven steps to get unstuck and live a more meaningful life.

Here are three simple steps you can take to invite more emotional agility into your life each day. 1. Label your emotions. 2. Practice gentle acceptance. 3. Live your values.

Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life. Susan David from the book Emotional Agility

How do you navigate change?In this wild and unpredictable world, the only certainty is uncertainty, and you need to be agile in order to grow and thrive. You have a choice when you’re faced with

Try opening yourself up to your emotions so that you can grow. That is whole-hearted living.

This quote by Victor Frankl perfectly captures the essence of emotional agility:

You have a choice when you're faced with difficult emotions. You can feed into rigid responses like sarcasm, avoidance, or disengagement, or you can do the opposite, moving toward the difficult emotion with compassion, curiosity, and acceptance. Either way, your decision matters because how you process and respond to your emotions informs every aspect of how you love, live, parent, and lead.