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Leading Lightly: Lower Your Stress, Think with Clarity, and Lead with Ease
A Conscious Approach to Leadership and Life
Leading lightly is about looking at what you do through a radical new lens. It's a way to powerfully transform your performance, make better decisions, gain greater self-awareness, and develop the capacity to manage your work and life with enduring ease and clarity. An alternative to the everyday stress, pace, challenges, and burdens that weigh you down, Leading Lightly shows you how to shift your mindset, live lighter, and optimize your effectiveness. Part leadership, part mental fitness, part health and wellness guide, this book empowers you to work at your best and operate at your fullest potential.
Stress and difficulty don't have to be a given. Learning to lead lightly and live mindfully can profoundly change the trajectory of your day. This book is for anyone who finds themselves overloaded, frustrated, anxious, or exhausted by their life circumstances. It offers more than just tactical strategies for sustained optimal performance at work, but transcends that, helping you develop a conscious approach to all the facets of your life, so you're able to leverage the choices you have each day and take action that puts you in control of your experience. You'll not only be able to create better outcomes, but also do this in a way that energizes and enlivens you.
In Leading Lightly, author Jody Michael brings together 20+ years of her research and work as a psychotherapist, Master Certified Coach, and leadership expert to provide you with a practical, measurable, and proven process for developing your mental fitness. You'll increase your emotional intelligence, discover how to respond to situations with more agility, build stronger interpersonal relationships, and find that the ability to thrive in leadership and life is within your grasp. This book will show you how to think differently, feel lighter, and achieve personal and professional well-being. You'll notice the results immediately, and those around you will, too.
Leading lightly is about looking at what you do through a radical new lens. It's a way to powerfully transform your performance, make better decisions, gain greater self-awareness, and develop the capacity to manage your work and life with enduring ease and clarity. An alternative to the everyday stress, pace, challenges, and burdens that weigh you down, Leading Lightly shows you how to shift your mindset, live lighter, and optimize your effectiveness. Part leadership, part mental fitness, part health and wellness guide, this book empowers you to work at your best and operate at your fullest potential.
Stress and difficulty don't have to be a given. Learning to lead lightly and live mindfully can profoundly change the trajectory of your day. This book is for anyone who finds themselves overloaded, frustrated, anxious, or exhausted by their life circumstances. It offers more than just tactical strategies for sustained optimal performance at work, but transcends that, helping you develop a conscious approach to all the facets of your life, so you're able to leverage the choices you have each day and take action that puts you in control of your experience. You'll not only be able to create better outcomes, but also do this in a way that energizes and enlivens you.
In Leading Lightly, author Jody Michael brings together 20+ years of her research and work as a psychotherapist, Master Certified Coach, and leadership expert to provide you with a practical, measurable, and proven process for developing your mental fitness. You'll increase your emotional intelligence, discover how to respond to situations with more agility, build stronger interpersonal relationships, and find that the ability to thrive in leadership and life is within your grasp. This book will show you how to think differently, feel lighter, and achieve personal and professional well-being. You'll notice the results immediately, and those around you will, too.
Editorial Reviews
A well-reasoned guide to forming the mental habits that lead to success.
-Kirkus Indie
An empowering, motivating guide that lays out a path for leaders looking for a lighter, less stressful life.
-Publishers Weekly Booklife
Leading Lightly recommends leadership improvement techniques that are designed to make its audience more engaged, mindful, and communicative.
-Foreword Clarion
A transformational book that focuses on how to develop the factors that make for good leadership.
-Readers' Favorite
-Kirkus Indie
An empowering, motivating guide that lays out a path for leaders looking for a lighter, less stressful life.
-Publishers Weekly Booklife
Leading Lightly recommends leadership improvement techniques that are designed to make its audience more engaged, mindful, and communicative.
-Foreword Clarion
A transformational book that focuses on how to develop the factors that make for good leadership.
-Readers' Favorite
Readers Top Reviews
MaryA. UtsmanKele
This book couldn’t have come at a better time! The last 2 years have been overwhelming to say the least – both professionally and personally. My work load and stress level has never been higher and my personal life and lack of personal growth are at an all-time low. Jody’s book walks you through a self-assessment to help identify the behaviors you have adopted over time that you think are protecting you, but in fact are adding to the stress, anxiety, and many pain points in your life. Jody gives specific, practical and realistic steps to break old habits/patterns that do not serve you and develop the skills to respond to challenges, both professionally and personally, with optimal performance – become mentally fit. The book gives you tools to manage your emotions, take control, shift your perspective, adjust your mindset and operate at your fullest potential. Leading Lightly was enjoyable, relatable and informative. It was as easy as ABC (SEE)!
Andy CrestodinaAn
...and I've read a bunch. This one starts with the foundation and addresses the underlying success factor: my own mindset. I'm finding myself thinking about mental fitness all the time. I'm more aware of what triggers me and how long it takes me to get un-triggered. It's another level of self awareness, another perspective. I'm grateful for this book. Reading it made a difference for me, even before I'd reached the 3rd chapter.
Anonymous ReaderA
The complexities of our world today - whether in our personal lives, work lives, or in our broader communities - are accelerating at a pace never before seen. This book is a lifeline for all of us trying to find our way through these challenging times - it encourages you to "start where you are" and embraces the heart, mind, and spirit of inner reflection with actionable approaches in your work and personal life. If you have enjoyed reading and applying lessons from Brene Brown, Eckhart Tolle, and/or modern Stoicism you owe it to yourself to read this book and apply this author's powerful lessons to your life.
Steve raysichStev
You ever get that feeling like someone is talking about you or writing about what you are going through? That is exactly how I felt reading this ENTIRE book. As a young leader I thought stress, anxiety and metal fatigue was just part of leadership. Jody’s methodology in Leading lightly on how to create “Mental Fitness” is so powerful. I am so excited this book is out, I have practiced this methodology with Jody for the last few years and not only has it helped me create a balance in my work life, but I can also apply the same lessons in my personal life. I highly recommend this to anyone looking to become a better person or better leader!
AndrewSteve raysi
Leading lightly is an excellent addition to your leadership library. A must read for any established or inspired leader looking to take their leadership to the next level. Jody Michael’s decades of experience as a master certified executive coach/psychotherapist provides you with a practical process to up your leadership game. Her transformative approach to mental fitness offers you the roadmap to become a better leader and a better person. Leading Lightly will empower you to lead with integrity, gain greater self awareness and be more impactful. As you feel “lighter” you can now begin to manager work and every day life with enduring ease and clarity.
