NICHE Style Fall 2017
The style team at NICHE magazine is sharing our favorite designers, collections and trends of this season. From everything you wear, to all that you are - NICHE wants to help you make this your best fall season ever.
The style team at NICHE magazine is sharing our favorite designers, collections and trends of this season. From everything you wear, to all that you are - NICHE wants to help you make this your best fall season ever.
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<strong>NICHE</strong> magazine<br />
ADAPT<br />
by Christina Benty<br />
LEADERSHIP BEGINS WITH YOU.<br />
Call me crazy but I love Mondays. I get excited about<br />
new beginnings: the start of the day, the week, the<br />
month, the season, and the year.<br />
I am especially eager when the fall arrives because<br />
it always symbolizes the season of launching and<br />
learning with the return of routine. So when fall<br />
rolled around, I was surprised to find my usual energy<br />
and enthusiasm waning. Like a tire with a slow leak, I<br />
felt flat and uninspired.<br />
It was a busy summer, and I spent most of it doing<br />
the dance of insanity. I am still in the early years of<br />
a thriving new business and plenty of opportunities<br />
coming my way. All very exciting! However, it also<br />
means burning the candle at both ends physically,<br />
mentally and financially. With too many balls in the<br />
air, too many people to please, too many rabbit trails<br />
to follow, I found myself buried in a tsunami of my<br />
own making. But the real tsunami was the story inside<br />
my head. I indulged the bad habit of repeating a selfdefeating<br />
message of overwhelm and I was starting to<br />
believe it.<br />
either serve us or they don’t. I like my habits to serve<br />
me. In order to get back on track, my habits need to<br />
be intentional.<br />
Philosopher Morpheus said “There is a difference<br />
between knowing the path and walking the path”. If<br />
you truly want to be a leader, then you better lead<br />
your own life first. Leading your own life means<br />
embracing the notion that your primary and ultimate<br />
responsibility is to intentionally take charge of self.<br />
That means your habits. I preach it, I teach it and I<br />
believe it. I knew I had to look myself in the mirror,<br />
and gently give myself some of my own advice! This<br />
fall, I needed to ADAPT. Maybe you do too?<br />
It may mean going back to the basics:<br />
Habits are a redundant set of thoughts, behaviors, and<br />
patterns that get repeated over and over again. They<br />
CHRISTINA BENTY<br />
Christina Benty, MA is the former mayor of Golden and<br />
the owner of the consulting firm, Strategic Leadership<br />
Solutions. She uses her superpower to assist individuals and<br />
teams in building cultures of excellence in leadership and<br />
governance. She can turn any conversation into one about<br />
living with intention and leading from the soul. Christina can<br />
be reached for speaking, coaching and facilitating at www.<br />
christinabenty.com. Check out her TED Talk on leadership<br />
here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmDN0PLHZHk<br />
32 . FALL <strong>2017</strong>
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