What you seek is what you’ll find

Imagine you’re a pro basketball player, traveling to play for different teams each season, and then a global pandemic strikes, limiting your travel and effectively stopping your career.

What do you do?

Stop everything? Start a new career? Find a quiet corner and cry?

We all know some version of this story because we’ve lived it in the last two years and each one of us has our own story to tell of how we’re coming through it.

Here’s Taylor Rochestie’s version, a pro basketball player who kept ongoing:

Take it on and continue doing your thing…

Taylor's story is inspiring because he continued to travel and play throughout the period of the pandemic. He spent a lot of time in quarantine in many places, traveled to and lived in 12 countries over those 2 years, sometimes separated from his wife and 2 kids for weeks on end.

You can hear him tell his story on?Leadership Live Podcast Episode 58?- Conversation with Taylor Rochestie - Balancing leadership and life as a pro basketball player in the midst of a global pandemic.

Here are some of his key messages:

• What you seek is what you’re going to find. If you’re looking for inspiration you’re going to find it. If you’re looking for disaster, that’s what you’ll find.
• Fear is in the looking, not the leaping.?Thinking too much before doing something can add to the stress. Doing it and figuring it out along the way is way less overwhelming.
• Don’t forget about the dream you’re living while you’re going for your dream.?Step back from focusing on the outcome and enjoy what’s happening on the way because that’s part of it.
• The goal is important but you also need to ask yourself “Why?”?The 'why' is about who you are and not about what you’re trying to achieve. The 'why' pushes you to keep going even when it’s hard.
• It’s a team effort on the basketball court, as it is in leadership and life.?Take time to relate to people. We’re all working together towards a common goal.

Go to?Episode 58 of?Leadership Live Podcast?– or find it on your favorite podcast platform

I hope it gives you food for thought in terms of how you can take your leadership to the next level. And if you want to discuss how to do this,?hit reply,?and let’s talk.