CARE

Care is the part of our internal way of being that shapes how you see the world, what you find worth committing to, how you take action and is the foundation of meaning and value. As a leader, You are looking to take care of what you and others care about together.

I suggest that you hold this as an open question: knowing that some of what you care about may change over time. The importance is not in having a once-and-for-all definitive final answer, but in using the question to reflect on how you can come closest to living a fulfilling and satisfying life by having your actions and the use of your resources coherent with what means most to us, by becoming your best self.

Consider writing a reflection of your responses to the question, “What do I care about?” This way you have a chance to bring what you care about to the foreground, to be able to turn it over in your heart and mind and see what resonates. Is that what I really care about? In some cases, you may find that there are areas of your life or actions you’ve been taking that don’t really have much to do with what you care about but come more from what our society or family history says you “should” care about. One important opportunity in continuing to ask yourself the question of what you care about is that you can begin to distinguish what it is that you truly care about versus what others have said you should care about – and then you can re-choose in a way that can make the choice truly yours, rather than as a “should.”