The Mindful Leader in You:
Inspiring growth in yourself and those around you.

Dear Community,

I write this first newsletter in a new series with a newfound intention and clarity. I’m not sure where it will take me and those who choose to read, but it's time to give it a go.

The intention is this: To be real, authentic, and sincere as I work to help cultivate mindful leaders in this community. ​
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Five months ago, I started waking up at 5 AM to “get stuff done.” My intention then was to pound out a bunch of content to create a newsletter and then drip it out to the masses. I did create a bunch of content. I even think some of it could be helpful. The problem was that even as I was working to connect to my values and intentions, my methods were misguided. I would write a stream of consciousness, including my favorite resources, and then have Chat GPT tighten it up.

While Chat GPT’s writing was much more polished and slick, I lost my voice. After about 10 of these, I lost the connection to the purpose and consequently my motivation to keep going. It felt robotic - much of it was literally roBOTic.

While I am in no way “anti-A.I.,” I do see that there’s a need in our society right now to seek out the authentic in ourselves and others. This is really at the heart of Mindful Leadership. In a new AI-driven world (with more to come), the ability to cultivate that which makes us human will be and already is, in my opinion, the primary job of leaders.

What makes us human? Beyond our knack for overconsumption and the fact that we still get wisdom teeth even though we don’t need them, is the distinct ability to feel, pause, and choose what we want to do and what we want to manifest in the world.

Kai Fu Lee, an artificial intelligence pioneer, venture capitalist, and former top Google executive, has argued:

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From this capacity to pause, feel, choose, and love, pours creativity and innovation, humor, problem solving, science, and more. When this process happens effectively in collaboration with others, we get synergy, joy, and collective resiliency. The forthcoming content of this newsletter is designed to help us bring this all together with simple steps, mindset adjustments, and practices.

I hope it can be a resource for cultivating the type of mindful leadership that will bring positivity to your life and to those with whom you live, work, and are in community. I aim to create a community of readers from whom I can learn and connect around an authentic collective goal: The goal of inspiring growth, joy, and effective leadership.

Finally, I plan to create a space and time where those who want to can meet to authentically discuss their journeys and mindful leadership practices. More on this soon.
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If you don't want to receive this newsletter, no worries. Feel free to unsubscribe anytime. If you feel intrigued and think it could be helpful to you and those around you, then stay tuned and look for the first edition of The Mindful Leader in You in your inbox in the coming days!

On we go together…

Zach
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Zach is a mindful leadership coach, trainer, and certified systems thinking advanced facilitator. He is also the lead consultant at The Center for Transforming Education in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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