Why I’m Shifting Focus

From resilience to repetition and the real work of pattern interruption.

For the past few years, my work has often been described as helping leaders become more resilient.

And while that’s not wrong, it’s also not quite right. It’s more than that.

What I’ve learned in my coaching sessions, team workshops, executive meetings, and in my own patterns, is that the problem isn’t that we’re not resilient enough. It’s that we’re repeating patterns we haven’t named.

That’s what’s exhausting us. (Wait, just me?!)

It’s the conversation that ends the same way every time. Funny enough, sometimes it’s the same conversation with different people. Explain that!

It’s the habits we try to start, quit or correct over and over (and over).

It’s the way we get in our own way, whether by letting self-doubt call the shots or maybe the opposite, having a view of ourselves that’s out of touch.

I’ve become obsessed with patterns.

(Spoiler alert: these field notes are from the body of work that’s informing my first book - coming soon.)

So I’m shifting focus.

I’m moving from writing about the fall and the rise of resilience to writing about the loop, and the quiet cues that can break it.

This newsletter is now called Not Again…a nod to the moment we realize: this is happening again. And more importantly, the next moment when we realize we don’t have to let it.

It’s not just for leaders. It’s for all of us. I’ll write about patterns in all domains of life: health, money, careers, relationships, even politics (get ready).

What we repeat, regret, and finally choose to do differently, that’s the real resilience. That’s how we make progress. That’s where we tap into all new possibilities for the future.

Thanks for being here.
More soon.
- Jen