Context, your personal “one-word theme”

My first post of the year was “What is your one-word theme for 2019?”

Since I wrote that, several people have told me they will use that to support them in landing on their own theme for 2019.

With that in mind, I felt to share some related thoughts from a prior post more on the power of this as a personal “driver” and how to land on your personal context

First, that post earlier this week noted:

“As humans, we tend to love complexity and detail, not to mention long project and “to do” lists. However, as leaders, counter-intuitive as it may seem, I’ve found that one of the absolute keys to successful leadership is to distil to simplicity.

It does not matter whether you are leading self, leading family, leading a team, leading a large organisation, leading a country, or whatever level of perceived ease or difficulty of leadership role or opportunity, my advice will almost always be to make it simpler.

The ultimate in simplicity is to get your theme down to one word.”

That post then went on to talk around how to distil down to the simplicity of a one-word theme.

Another word for such a theme is a “context”. An earlier post was “Setting your personal context”, a post which talks more for the coaching…