When Clarity Finds You
For most of my career, I treated clarity like something to chase.
I thought it lived at the end of long meetings, neatly organized spreadsheets, or project plans color coded by priority. Clarity, I believed, was the reward for discipline.
But lately, I’ve realized that clarity doesn’t always arrive on command. Sometimes it finds you in the quiet moments you weren’t planning to have. The pause between decisions. The space after a hard conversation. The early morning stillness when the world hasn’t asked for anything yet.
When I first stepped into leadership, I assumed my job was to have all the answers. The pressure to appear certain was constant, especially in rooms filled with people expecting direction. But certainty and clarity aren’t the same thing. Certainty says, I know the way. Clarity whispers, I can see where I am. There’s a big difference.
Clarity doesn’t demand control. It invites honesty. As I launch Lead Like You Mean It, I keep returning to this idea: clarity is a gift, but it’s also a practice.