You Can Be Yourself, Until People Need You

You know who you are when it's just you. In your own company you can hear yourself clearly, and you trust what you find there. Then someone needs an answer, a decision, a direction, and something shifts. You reach for the old rational mode, the one that has carried you for years, and the person you are when you're alone goes quiet. This is a ten-part journey for anyone who guides or carries other people, in a family, a small team, or something much larger, and who wants to stay themselves while they do it. Through meditation, visualization, and a set of unhurried reflections, you'll move through what it takes to lead without leaving yourself behind, and arrive at a way of leading that still sounds like you.