When You're Fully Aligned With Yourself

I’m seeing people struggling with watching bad leadership on the world stage.

It seems like ethics and virtue are inverted right now.

Leaders who are cruel get rewarded.

And leaders who are incompetent remain in their jobs.

People are asking, “Why should I bother holding myself to high ideals when I'm seeing leaders in high places behaving so poorly?”

There are two answers to that question, one macro and one micro.

The macro answer is that history and game theory both show that greed works in the short-term but gets punished in the end.

The micro answer is that humans are at our most powerful when we are fully aligned with our highest selves.

Some people believe that holding to their highest values limits their strategies and weakens their position. But the truth is the opposite, it focuses their best qualities and makes them stronger.

This is because when you compromise yourself you're fighting with yourself, and you can’t win a war on two fronts.

Besides, we still have to answer to our own consciousness.

Does anyone on their death bed say, "I wish I had compromised my values more"?

A friend recently observed that the throughline of my work is, “You can take on the world if you’re not fighting yourself.”

Amy’d-up that would be:

You can change the world when you’re fully aligned with yourself.

One of my clients said that watching all of this bad leadership cured his Imposter Syndrome, he figures he could not possibly do worse than they are, and yet there they are.

How are you maintaining your values?

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This is the Philosophical Layer of my coaching—how ideas, ethics, and meaning shape leadership.

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