WHY I WROTE THIS Book

For more than twenty years, across various professional and personal changes in my life, I have emptied my thoughts into small black Moleskine journals. After a while, I began to see a pattern emerge in my thinking about how I was managing my own personal growth; and so I started to keep a separate notebook of thoughts related to the idea of how we each become our own true and best selves. As time passed, those thoughts became the basic ideas and practices outlined in Leaders Lead Themselves First. There are many, many books on the subject of leadership, and just as many on the various practices behind mindful personal development – my goal was simply to produce a small, approachable text that serves as a sort of invitation to those interested in thinking more deeply about how they can better lead themselves, as well those around them.