Women of Faith in Leadership | Leading with integrity, Leadership Self-doubt, Christian Leadership, Leading with confidence, Teamwork

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181 | What to Do When Everything Feels Urgent

181 | What to Do When Everything Feels Urgentvor 5 Tagen23 Min.

When everything feels urgent, it can be difficult to know what actually deserves your attention.

Someone needs an answer. An unexpected problem lands on your desk. A team member is stressed. Your inbox is filling up. And before you know it, the priorities you started the day with have disappeared underneath everyone else’s needs.

In this episode, we’re talking about how to lead when everything feels urgent, without becoming reactive, absorbing everyone else’s stress, or taking responsibility for problems that were never yours to carry.

We’ll also look at what we can learn from the way Jesus responded to pressure and why calm leadership isn’t passive leadership. It’s learning to discern what genuinely requires your attention and having the wisdom to pause before you respond.

In This Episode we talk about:

Why feeling constantly rushed isn’t always a time-management problem

The difference between something needing your attention and needing your attention right now

Why you don’t have to absorb someone else’s urgency in order to care about them

How discomfort can make situations feel more urgent than they really are

What Jesus teaches us about remaining calm when everyone around us is demanding something

Why confident leaders don’t need to have an immediate answer

The importance of asking, “Does this actually require me?”