Lead with Love—Sept. 29
September 29, 2024
Sunday SAGe Newsletter Volume 2: Lead with Love
Happy Sunday!
Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive. As background, SAGe is an acronym for Self-Actualized Genius. To learn more about being a SAGe, you can access my blog article: On Being a Self-Actualized Genius (SAGe).
Once you read this email, I encourage you to try out the ideas that resonate. See what works during the week. See what you learn. You’ll find that the positive energy you create is all upside! Sunday SAGe can be a great way to keep wellness front and center in your life.
Lead with Love
An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:
You think differently when you put your experiences through the lens of love before passing judgment. You think more clearly and in harmony with your spirit’s inherent goodness.
When you take it a step further and choose the most loving response possible to a situation, you produce love within yourself and the world. That’s leading with love’s ultimate objective: Create as much love as possible from your experiences.
What It Means
When you lead with love, you are empathetic and understand that people are inherently good. They’re trying their best to make life work. They’re not perfect—no one is. When you lead with love, you choose a kind response to the people you interact with. You do good deeds. You go out of your way to bring joy to someone’s life. You take actions that lift the lives of yourself and others, in both big and small ways.
When you lead with love, you intentionally create love in the universe through your thoughts and actions.
Your Call to Action
Focus on “leading with love” throughout the week. Be mindful in your interactions with others and consider what options you have to respond to your circumstances in a loving way. Examples of loving responses could be to:
Offer your time, talents, and resources to help someone in need
Simply say kind words to lift someone’s spirits
Forgive someone
Perform a kind deed
Show genuine appreciation toward someone
Be a positive force at work and lift up everyone’s spirits
Choose the most loving response to a challenging situation in your life that serves both you and others
How else can you lead with love?
To keep your intention to lead with love in front of you, consider writing the word “love” on a Post-It note and placing it on your computer monitor, a bathroom mirror, or in your car. You can also journal to reflect on what impact leading with love is having in your life. The more you keep your intention to lead with love top of mind, the more likely you’ll follow through.
Or, start a streak of leading with love at least once a day. Track it on a calendar. Before you know it, leading with love will become your default position—it will become a habit.
Have a great week!
