If you want to make an impact in this world, you need to be able to do what's important but not urgent. Whether you want to improve your health, write a book or run a marathon, the same principles apply. Here's how they've worked for me. Show Notes: Get your FREE ecopy of One New Habit, One New Goal: Change Your Life in 10 Weeks (no email address required) The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan The Healthy Habit Revolution: The Step by Step Blueprint to Create Better Habits in 5 Minutes a Day by Derek Doepker The Power of Small Wins by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website.  Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy helps people with extreme reactivity. Here's how it can help you to be a non-anxious presence. Show Notes: How to calm your inner storm by Sheri Van Dijk Non-Violent Communications Feelings Inventory Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website.  Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Non-anxious leaders have a confidence that is based in knowing their goals and values, as well as embracing humility, curiousity and courage. This is both attractive and influential. Here's how it works. Show Notes: 5 habits of confident people by Stephanie Vozza Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website.  Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

A non-anxious leader understands how emotions spread and how to be a positive influence. This episode is a rebroadcast of Episode 133: Emotions Are Contagious - Here's What You Need to Know. It's been re-titled because it focuses mainly on how to be a non-anxious presence when others are unhappy. Show Notes: Those Who Share a Roof Share Emotions by Arthur C. Brooks Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Self-differentiation is the ability to define your own goals and values, express them in healthy ways AND remain emotionally connected to the most anxious in the relationship system. Here are eight ways that you can fall short, along with strategies to do better in the future. Show notes: Minding the Gaps in Our Own Maturity by Kathleen Smith Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website.  Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

The triangle is the most stable form of human relationship. Learning to recognize a triangle and how to manage it is essential to being a non-anxious leader. Show Notes: Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website.  Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Understanding the nuances of emotional process will make you a better leader. These four tips will help. Show Notes: The Center for Family Process The Center for Pastoral Effectiveness in the Rockies The Family Systems Institute The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family Tending the Fire Lombard Mennonite Peace Center Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Surrounding togetherness pressure makes it hard to self-differentiate. Understanding how this works and how you can respond will help you to be a non-anxious leader. Show Notes: Dr. Kathleen Smith Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

The political, cultural and theological divisions continue to widen. A non-anxious leader understands why AND how to respond. Show Notes: The Center for Family Process Only My Opinion Counts: Myside Bias by Jamie Hale, M.S. The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking by Keith E. Stanovich Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Self-differentiation is acting in accordance with your goals and values, especially in anxious moments. This episode shows you how, as well as what to do when you don't. Show Notes: Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety  If You Met My Family, You'd Understand: A Family Systems Primer Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.