7 Simple Shifts to Renew Your Leadership Energy
Small Shifts, Big Impact
Sustaining leadership energy isn’t about working harder or pushing through. It’s about making simple, intentional shifts that align your leadership with what truly fuels you. These seven shifts will help you step into a more effective, energized, and sustainable leadership approach—so you can lead with purpose without sacrificing yourself in the process.
1. Shift Your Perspective: Expand What’s Possible
Instead of being swept away by daily demands, choose to view your challenges from the periphery. Look at the bigger picture.
Where can you create change that aligns with your values? This shift invites you to notice intersections, embrace new approaches, and step into a more expansive way of leading.
Like standing at the edge of a river, you can see both the immediate currents and the broader flow. This vantage point reveals opportunities that remain hidden when you're caught in the middle of the stream.
Allow yourself to step out of the fray. Move to the periphery to find your perspective. Haven’t found it yet? Move farther.
2. Shift Into Presence: Engage Fully in the Moment
Busy leaders often operate on autopilot, reacting instead of truly engaging.
Presence is about tuning in—listening deeply, making intentional decisions, and leading with awareness. When you’re fully present, your leadership becomes more powerful and connected.
Rather than constantly racing to the next thing, choose to ground yourself in the current moment. True presence isn't about doing more—it's about being fully available for what's happening right now. This choice alone can transform your interactions and decision-making.
Stay present. Turn your phone off. Be where you are.
3. Shift Toward Energizing Actions: Prioritize What Fuels You
Leadership isn’t just about getting things done—it’s about doing the right things in a way that sustains you. Identify the tasks, conversations, and routines that bring energy rather than deplete it, and make them a priority.
Stop treating leadership like a burden to bear. Choose to embrace the natural enthusiasm that drew you to this work in the first place. When you align with what genuinely energizes you, your impact naturally expands.
Prioritize activities that give you energy rather than deplete you.
4. Shift from Isolation to Connection: Lead in Community
Leadership is not a solo act. Build relationships that energize, challenge, and support you.
Who are the people who bring clarity, collaboration, and shared momentum? Create your own table rather than waiting to be invited.
Leadership can be lonely, but it doesn't have to be. Choose to build authentic connections rather than shouldering everything alone. Like a strong root system, relationships provide both stability and growth.
Keep yourself fueled through your own networks of relationships.
5. Shift Your Performance Mindset: Success is Sustainable
Success isn’t about pushing harder—it’s about designing rhythms that keep you performing at your best. This shift invites you to develop energizing rituals, set intentional boundaries, and build a leadership approach that is both effective and sustainable.
Instead of pushing until you break, choose sustainable practices that keep you grounded. Honor the basics: rest, movement, nourishment. You can't pour from an empty cup.
Your work is not more important than your well being.
6. Shift to an Abundance Lens: Unlock New Possibilities
Move beyond the scarcity mindset that says there’s never enough—time, resources, or opportunities. Leadership energy expands when you believe in creating rather than competing. This shift invites you to open doors rather than see roadblocks.
When faced with constraints, choose to see them as invitations to creativity rather than roadblocks. Every limit is a doorway to innovation if you're willing to look differently. You may find yourself saying, “Ha! I wish it were that easy.: But…what if it is?
Yes, the door may be locked. The window, closed. But, look—there’s a bike. Maybe it really is that simple.
7. Shift Into Amplified Impact: Use Your Influence Wisely
True leadership is about expanding what’s possible for others as well as yourself. Use your influence to create ripples—whether through mentoring, modeling, or sharing ideas. This shift turns your leadership into a source of lasting, meaningful change.
Rather than forcing influence, choose to lead from your genuine strengths. True power emerges naturally when your actions align with your values. Become an amplifier of power by using your influence to elevate others. Remember that genuine strength—leadership strength and human strength—is about giving, not taking.
Share your influence, create ripples.
Ready to Make a Shift?
Leadership doesn’t have to drain you. These simple shifts are an invitation to align your energy with your impact—so you can lead in a way that is clear, confident, and sustainable.
📖 Want to go deeper?
Get your free copy of 7 Powerful Choices to Reclaim Your Leadership Energy and start integrating these shifts today.
