One of the biggest challenges in leadership is avoiding burnout. Which can be really challenging when your list of responsibilities keeps increasing, the demands on you seem endless, and you frequently get asked to do and be part of more. And when you have a passion for people and enjoy seeing others happy, this can manifest into people-pleasing and having a really hard time telling people no. After all, we genuinely want to help people! The challenge is that the demands on us and the requests of us are going never going to stop. Let’s face it, people think you’re valuable and want you to be a part of what they’re doing! But if you continue to say “yes” to everything, burnout is inevitable. But it doesn’t have to be.

Our daily decisions are driven by what we know about the past and believe to be true about the future. As Richard Slaughter put it, the interplay between someone’s understanding of the past and their "anticipation of the possible futures" are what drive their decisions today. What if what we believe to be true about today and tomorrow aren’t accurate though?