Kuleana in a 5-Beat Rhythm

It is time to debrief our month: Ready for the 5th Beat of our monthly rhythm?

In Beat 5 we make decisions on the habits we will keep, and those we will work to discard based on the new lens or point of view that our value study may have given us. We seek to internalize the value worthiness that has been revealed to us most decisively over the past month's time, pulling the trigger.

When you think of Kuleana, what do you hear loud and clear, emerging from the fullness of what we've explored? When you think of owning up to your personal sense of responsibility, what habits will you be cultivating? Are they with vocabulary and language of intention? With clarity and leadership?

I write this for you late at night sitting in a hotel room. I am here for a three-day conference at which we (people who have been very successful high achievers already) are exploring the leadership statements we want to birth and steward going forward. It is a conference I am participating in, and not conducting this time --- quite a treat! Two days into it, one of the things I have discovered for myself is that I actually want to shed a lot of the responsibility I've carried around with me for quite some time, for it has become quite burdensome for me, and I find that I am craving a far greater amount of freedom. I anticipate it will be a freedom that allows me to select some newer, braver wow projects.

This hasn't been a revelation that is surprising to me at all: You may recall my writing this at the beginning of the month;

This month we study a value that is exceptionally strong for me personally, and stubbornly so; it takes over my entire life quite easily, suppressing all my other values if I allow it to.

My family and my employees have loved me for it. I can also drive them crazy with it. At day's end there are often entries in my Gratitude Journal, where I am immensely grateful that the love trumps so much!

Well, I haven't loved this state of affairs all that much, and so February has been a month for me to trump some old habits with the responsibility I have accepted so that I can be freed up to seize hold of other things. As I go to day 3 of this conference, I want to get a bit clearer on what those "other things" will turn out to be.

Will I hold myself responsible for those "other things" next? Sure I will, however I am making better choices on what I accept and what I don't, what I stop and what I sustain.

What are your choices?

If you've followed along with my main themes this month, it's no secret that I hope the Role of the Manager Reconstructed has resonated with those of you who are in management roles now. I pray you will seriously reconsider your existing role, and bravely reconstruct it as you need to. My last article for the month, Get Responsible about Performance Reviews once and for all, would be a great place to start!

I'd love to hear from you on what has resonated this month: What will now be your Kuleana?

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Mahalo for taking our Kuleana study with us this month!

We will keep all the articles indexed here for you, so you can quickly grab more encouragement on your Kuleana journey.

You can revisit The 5-Beat Rhythm here: Managing with Aloha Coaching in A 5-Beat Rhythm.

Another posting that may be a good filter for you when thinking about your The 5-Beat Rhythm is this one: The MWA Action Sequence: Reading, Talking, Doing.