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What to Do When You’re Confused, Frustrated, and Doubt Your Leadership Abilities (It Starts with You)

Why self-care is the key to inspired leadership and meaningful change.

Darren Stehle 🏳️‍🌈
4 min readJan 8, 2025
Are you flexible and yielding when it comes to self-care? (Photo by wee lee / Unsplash)

Neglecting your own well-being is one of the greatest obstacles to effective leadership

Here’s what I believe:

You can’t care for others if you don’t first care about yourself.

You can’t make a meaningful, influential, or transformative difference in the world if you are ignoring your physical and emotional health and well-being.

Some might call this “self-care” but I like to think of this as self-mastery.

Mastery calls up images of an artisan or an Olympic athlete, each having abilities that appear unattainable, but are the result of countless hours of dedicated focus, motivation, and the desire to become expertly proficient at their task.

Self-mastery doesn’t need to be thought of as an unattainable goal, like a Sage or Buddha having mastery of their emotions and well-being.

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Darren Stehle 🏳️‍🌈
Darren Stehle 🏳️‍🌈

Written by Darren Stehle 🏳️‍🌈

Empowering compassionate change-makers to share their wisdom with those who need it most, inspiring others to support a common humanity. DarrenStehle.com

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