6 Things You Should Recommit to As A Leader Entering 2024

Ok, so let me just say this ... I am not for the New Year angst hype. So this Edition won't be anything near coercing you to make changes and pivotal decisions just because a New Year is here. I am of the belief that the moment you change the moment you decide is your New Year. But since 2024 is practically here... Here goes.

As we stand at the door of a new year per the calendar, we are given the opportunity as we are everyday to shed outdated versions of ourselves and make space for renewed growth and direction. Leader, leaving the crossroads may take you in a new direction, and that's ok.

The New Year holds so many invitations for self-examination. What may 2024 hold for you as a leader? How might revisiting past truths prepare you for whatever emerges next on your path?

I find when seasons change, committing to internal resets guides me to show up as my best self. Mostly, it helps me to discern better as a leader, to grow in my emotions by understanding what worked then won't work now. And finding the balance of understanding the season and lean into it, not against it!

Here are 6 key areas I recommend leaders like you re-center around when entering a New Year (remember New Years is when you take action):

1. Recommit to Yourself

The wider world will always make claims on your time and attention as a leader. But the foundation for managing these demands with wisdom, grace and discernment starts from within.

Are you giving yourself the necessary caretaking required to handle responsibilities healthily without depleting your precious energy reserves? Make your new year a year for courageously naming any areas you’ve compromised.

Then recenter your daily practices around replenishing your fuller being—body, mind and spirit. Tend regularly to these personal wells feeding you on a deeper level. Protect this space fiercely, understanding every external achievement sequentially flows from internal foundations built secure.

2. Recommit to Knowing What You Want.

When last did you pause long enough asking yourself what YOU want next in your leadership journey? Are you ignoring feelings of discontentment and un-fulfillment? What key priorities or outcomes would allow you to feel more creatively self-expressed through professional pursuits? Committing time for self-inquiry seems indulgent when obligations stack high. But failing to check-in and dig deeper inwardly about whether you remain pointed towards what matters most risks disorientation.

Clarity around your sovereign desires and intentions empowers decision-making. I like to call it empowered decision making. You become better able to discern where to spend precious focus for maximal fulfillment. Recenter in 2024 around reconnecting to your personal definition of purposeful success. From this reference point, you’ll lead others most powerfully by walking the integrity between inner and outer worlds.

3. Recommit to Being Ok If You Must Go Another Direction

Part of knowing what you want means accepting when it requires a course correction from prior paths, especially those no longer spirit-fueling. What if leadership success metrics you’ve lived or judged yourself by no longer hold same meaning or currency? Consider openly examining whether redefining the rules by which you play could allow more creative fulfillment.

Recommit in 2024 to defining your own standards of integrity, contribution and values-alignment. No longer settle for environments or expectations feeling inauthentic or drainingly compromising just because they’ve always been so.

Give yourself full permission for joyful self-determination around growth’s terms for this next chapter!

4. Recommit to Releasing the Need to Please Others

Female leaders often walk an exhausting tight-rope trying to balance assertiveness with likeability. This breeds an overdeveloped need to meet external expectations—even conflicting ones!—hoping to win secure approval.

But people-pleasing is an endless hamster wheel draining power better used serving your higher aims. So recenter in 2024 around releasing attachment to outside validation determining your worth or efficacy.

Shine self-assured in your decision-making authority, no longer looking sideways wondering what select others may think. You’ll be surprised the respect this earns! And you’ll serve as a role model for those wishing they could stand more firmly in their truth too.

5. Recommit to Small Bites Adding Up to Big Change When seeking life upgrades —like more purposeful work or better lifestyle alignment—it’s easy feeling overwhelmed trying to manifest major complex changes at once.

This “boil the ocean” mentality where lack of immediate sweeping transformation breeds discouragement is common. But it’s unnecessary! Better momentum comes sustaining commitment to small, manageable action steps compounding over time. So recenter intentions around faithful bite-sized progress in 2024. What micro habits create momentum carrying you to the macro of envisioned big change within a few months’ time?

Small consistent actions—like 30 dedicated minutes daily to your dream or saying No to non-essential obligations—make the impossible inevitable! Keep recommitting to this process mindset for reliable results.

6. Recommit to Confidently Staying In Your Lane

Female leaders often uniquely excel supporting others’ growth and collaborative achievement. But have you stayed overly focused externally versus developing self-led goals? Be mindful in 2024 of creating space on your plate solely dedicated to your solo flights of aspiration. No apologies given for chasing personalized measures of impact.

Give yourself full permission sending exploratory energy towards how your one-of-a-kind talents deserves more of your attention. What niche calling have you subdued or silenced for too long that deserves your fullest voice in 2024?

Reclaim this maverick space as a leader and change maker – the ground only you can cultivate because of who you uniquely are. From here, the ripple effects flowing out into the world will be both amazing and essential.

Stand Tall in Your Truth

Recommits take many forms. But what grounds them all is a decision that 2024 will reflect more of YOUR authentic identity as a leader—unapologetically self-expressed and in your truth. This stand often requires releasing outdated attachments, assumptions and external pressures built over time. But clearing space allows your renewed growth and direction to fruit most freely.

I hope these suggestions give ideas for clarifying any recalibrations that feel timely. Here’s to the emergence of your highest form of leadership rooted in personal fulfillment and purpose alignment this 2024. The world requires your special voice and vision!

With Grace and Determination,

Coach K (Kemerlin) ??

Kemerlin Richards is a Self-Mastery Coach who helps women leaders thrive beyond skillsets and partners with forward-thinking organizations to build resilient, emotionally intelligent, and authentic leaders. She empowers women in leadership to make empowered decisions, cultivate authentic leadership, and embrace fulfilling lives and careers.

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