11/15/2025
Each year in the fall we take a team retreat up to the North Shore of Lake Superior to reset, reflect and reconnect.
Some years we are well planned others have been impromptu. This year we saw a tiny gap in our crazy workload and we shot it.
Getting away from the grind makes you keenly aware that “work” is a funny thing. It is something you need to do it to pay the bills, but it also is something closely tied to your identity, purpose, relationships and is literally one of the things you will do most in your life from a time standpoint. So it is of utmost importance to be intentional with it.
This means to me that cultivating a strong team and running effectively with other humans you have the responsibility to make it more than just a transaction. Read that again.
There are seasons where work can just be work and that is fine, there is a lot to learn in the mundane, but it is important to clear your head and heart - get out in the grandness of raw nature with each other and realign.
Thanks to Starlink we were able to keep things moving in the background, but also disciplined ourselves to smack shut the laptops as soon as we could each morning.
Seasons are changing and the world feels a little crazy, so join us in this challenge: get outside. Get in nature. Contemplate the insane improbability of being alive. Take a deep breath. Now do it again. Move from a mindset of fear-based control to one real gratitude rooted in genuine surrender and trust.
As high achievers it may feel like letting your foot off the gas but the opposite is true, the closer you can get to a calm mind and your authentic self the more powerful/valuable you can be to others. You have permission to take care of yourself and those you love! :)