Leading With Authenticity

Mondays, we're gonna go with that. My name is Jean Nicholls. I'm back. It only took me two attempts to come back, but I'm back. So if you watched the first one today, my little snafu, just know. I apologize. But I am determined today to be here with you. I Speak Wonder. You asked me if Major was here. He's still here. He's paying attention. I'm back again. So note to self, when they say in the instructions to put your phone in do not disturb, that is practice number one. Cuz when you don't, crazy things happen with technology.

But thank you for coming back. It's nice to be here. I saw that you had typed when I came back in the last time, my whole screen was white so I couldn't see anything. So I didn't know if I was back or not. So thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you. We're gonna try this again. I know. Speak Wonder. You had typed in the chat before. What inspired you? If you wouldn't mind typing it again on this Monday? I'm just looking for inspirations. What motivates you, what inspires you, what brings you joy on this.

And it doesn't have to be what brought you joy yesterday. It doesn't have to be what you're looking forward to. It's literally in this moment. Hello, Newfie lover. Sue. I love that name. Happy Monday. I am a golden lover. This is Major. He will make appearances from time to time. Mostly he will make appearances almost every time unless I'm not home or walking him. So as you pop in today, I am simply inviting you to type in the chat. What is inspiring you right now, this day, in this moment? Oh, you're working on a jigsaw puzzle.

Amazing. Where are you located? Are you Speak Wonder? Listening to people's voices? Enjoy the texture and nuance. That sounds Lovely. At the St. Paul Winter Carnival in Minnesota, they have a jigsaw puzzle contest. And there are people that have teams that put jigsaw puzzles together. In a Minnesota movie festival a few years ago, there was actually a short film done. Oh, Vermont, how beautiful. There was a short film done on a team that enters into this puzzle competition every year. And it gets to be quite competitive.

I didn't realize that, but I also love jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not joining any competitions anytime soon. But I will ask you, what about jigsaw puzzles do you love? And you can type that in there at any point. So today's conversation around leading with authenticity and knowing that we are on the cusp of a brand new year, the time of year that open up any social media, you will start to see people posting about their resolutions. They might start posting about new fitness journeys that they're doing.

There's always at the beginning of the year, this big 75 challenge. I won't explain it because it's kind of aggressive, but you see all of these things, whether it's fitness focused or goals focused on. See, I'm gonna come here into the chats. Quick new Sue. I agree with you. Puzzles are for relaxation, speak, wonder. An uncanny ability to remember voices of people no longer here. You can hear your great aunt's velvety deep voice. She died last summer. I'm sorry. And you can summer her voice in your heart.

Oh, I love that. Thank you. And thank you for your creative words. So today I want to talk about what motivates us, what inspires us. And when I bring that into conversation, I bring it in from a lens of a few things. One, as a coach, I work with several personality inventories. And it's always funny. Every year I have a series of clients that might want me to come in with a workshop and do a workshop, and they'll ask me if I've heard of this brand new inventory that they just heard of that's probably been on the market for a while.

Some of them are truly brand new. And those sometimes I question based on validity because it takes a lot of time and research for most inventories to fine tune and make sure that they have a good test retest validation so you know that there's accuracy in it. And so I always will start with the question, what, what's motivating them to try a new inventory? And for some of those individuals, it's literally they're innovative and they like to see the hot, fresh new thing. For other people, they are thinking that the ones that we've done in the past, well, they're just not fresh anymore.

So they need to shake it up a little. It doesn't matter really the why, it's really understanding what is the purpose for what we want to accomplish with it. And so when we start the new year, we often feel compelled, or maybe we feel conflicted because we see all these people out there on social media or wherever, because social media can be a really great tool to inspire us. But we hear about it at work, people's New Year's resolutions, their goals for the year. And then sometimes we start to go internal and be like, gosh, I don't have that goal.

Or maybe I should have a goal, maybe I should be. And then we start shoulding ourselves. And my question always is whether it's a new year, a new month, a new week. There's always the opportunity for us to lean in to ourselves. And with that, it's what motivates you. So as a coach, I know that there are different categories of thinking styles, some people, and I'll just make them small categories.