What can we learn about leadership from planting?

Finding the cross roads between caring plants and helping others.

👩🏽‍🌾 Planting is one of my hobbies.

I collect and care for plants.

I clone some plants.

I watched too many YouTube video on propagating plants.

I use tiny green houses.

I experimented with IKEA growth lamps.

I research to learn about the plants.

I am patient when winter sets in and the plants takes a break.

I make schedule to care and water the plants.

I observe what the plants needs via small experiments.

I give the plants and myself room to adjust to habits, light and adapt to each others.

I make myself accountable for the well-being of the plants.

🏃🏽‍♀️ Leadership is part of my learning program.

I practise active listening.

I learn to make invitation to change, instead of demands.

I train myself to find tiny steps to trigger curiosity.

I research to learn about human belief systems and motivations.

I created possible options for considerations.

I experiment via challenging limiting thoughts.

I ask questions to make decisions accountable for everyone including myself.

I remind myself to give credits that is due.

I express my vulnerabilities to give space to others to voice them theirs.

I allow silence for reflections.

I want to remember to take a break and allow everyone to do the same.

I make my effort part of enlargement of the well-being of the people around me.

🌻 Learning to take the time to learn, to give space and remember self-care to caring for each other.

I am learning a lot from Emily and Amelia Nagoski

Wellness is a state of action. The cure for burnout isn’t self-care, it’s all of us caring for each other. And when we embrace those things, we’re not taking a break from fixing the world, we are already fixing the world.

🦋 Learning about planting & leadership helps me feel I am useful, one day at a time.