Journalling has been identified as one of the four top practices to help leaders be more strategic. Writing your thoughts, beliefs and emotions enables us to explore the depth of our human experience. It helps you understand what drives your reactions. Checking on one's intention and scrutinising them to enable us to act for the highest good. All these are particularly important when we are in leadership roles. These roles require us to be a better kind of human, lest we become a tyrant whose power corrupts.

Simple questions like "What did I learn about myself today?" or "How did I reach to challenges?"

In this episode, I explore the seven main ways to journal.

1. Journaling for goal setting and planning
2. Reflecting on what went well and what didn't
3. Tracking progress
4. Mindset work
5. Mind dumping
6. Recording progress
7. Gratitude

One of the things I have been advocating in my business is to have separate journals for different things, particular for the negative mind dumping - I personally call that journal the "poison journal". It has a black cover and I dispose of it after I complete the journal.

Writing things by hand enables us to retain and understand information better. It also enables us to put a distance between us and our thoughts which then enhances our ability to be critical of them. We are not our thoughts. Our thoughts do not define us. We can choose to activate certain thoughts because they serve our bigger purpose and let go of thoughts that don't.

If you would like me to support you in mindset work in your leadership or entrepreneurial role, book a discovery session with me. If you would like to learn how to make difficult decisions with the help of tarot, sign up for my newsletter to receive the details of my upcoming workshop with this link.

Most of us can get by in life without facing what I call CEO decisions. At one point, though, some of us will. What is a CEO decision? It's a decision that affects not just us but others that are either in our care or that we love.

These decisions feel much more important. They have such consequences that I believe we need a better decision making process that helps us get it right. In this episode, I share the four processes that can be used.

1. See a psychic about it. I recommend listening to EP 35 first where I give you guidance on how to get the best psychic reading. This is not for everyone. Personally, I love this process especially if I have a trusted psychic I can get a reading from. Ultimately, it needs to be our decision.
2. Ask friends and family for advice. I caution against this in the episode.
3. Make a list of pros and cons.
4. Use the seven step process that I have honed over the decades of working with clients.

We will be discussing this process in my upcoming webinar on tarot for decision-making on the 24th of June. To sign up, join my newsletter. This seven step process is also described in my decision journal available on Amazon.

Emma's leadership journey started in her teens where she was put in positions to lead in various activities she took part such as brownies and later student representative. Then she went to work as a lecturer and had to rewrite the curriculum in the Health Science Department. This was the first time she experienced burnout. She felt she was under constant scrutiny by her peers but also her students and this drove her perfectionism to new heights. Her burnout manifested as anxiety, insomnia and self doubt.

As a lot of people do, instead of taking stock and redefining her life, she pushed through, hoping that after each deadline, the hard work would stop. It never did. The thing that helped her the most to recover from that first bout of burnout was listening to her body.

Leadership forced Emma to look at her shadow aspects, in particular her demons. Her upper limit also came up a lot as well as her core wound, which is not enoughness. Moving has been her medicine, especially outdoors.

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