Before you can lead your team well, you have to be intentional about how you lead yourself.
It is easy to spend the week responding to what everyone else needs. But the way you manage your time and energy affects the people counting on you, both at work and at home.
That is the focus of Lead Yourself First, a monthly Friday series hosted by Dustin Booth on the Above the Business podcast.
As the owner, you set the pace
Dustin describes the business owner as the metronome. The metronome sets the pace and keeps everyone else on rhythm. As the owner, you do the same thing for your business, your team, and your family.
If your time is scattered and your energy is drained, the people around you feel it.
Your team feels it when priorities keep shifting. Your family feels it when work keeps spilling into the time you planned to spend with them.
For Dustin, leading himself first starts with being intentional about where his time and energy go.
Create a structure you can follow
Dustin uses tools like a perfect repeatable week, thinking time, and Sunday night planning to help him follow through on what matters.
A repeatable week gives important commitments a consistent place on his calendar. Thinking time creates room to step back and work through questions. Sunday night planning helps him make adjustments before the week begins.
That structure supports more than his work. It gives him more freedom to be the husband, dad, friend, and community leader he wants to be.
When you make room for those commitments ahead of time, you give yourself a better chance of following through.
Look at the pace you are setting
In the Lead Yourself First series, Dustin shares the frameworks and tools that help him bring more intention into his work and life.
Before next week begins, take a look at the pace you are setting:
Is it helping your business move forward, or is it wearing everyone out?
If that pace feels impossible to change because the business still depends on you for every decision, book a Game Plan Call. We’ll look at what keeps pulling you back into the day-to-day and what needs to change.
