IN YOUR DECISION!

 Letters to the Leader I’m Becoming 

Happy 2026!

Delete the number of your ‘Toxic’ boyfriend /girlfriend now. Go Cold turkey!

As simple as this statement is,

it carries great leadership lessons in it.

Some decisions in life cannot be negotiated.

They cannot be phased in.
They cannot be softened.

Some decisions require cold turkey leadership.

You don’t slowly stop entertaining what drains you.
You stop.
You don’t gradually exit environments that keep you small.
You leave.
You don’t keep rehearsing the same complaints and call it honesty.
You change the script.

And the uncomfortable truth I keep learning:
Complaining may feel like release, but it rarely builds respect.
It doesn’t make you magnetic.
It doesn’t move you forward.
It simply keeps you familiar with what you already hate.

Leadership ,in life, in career, in relationships ,is the courage to accept this:
The power to change is usually already in your hands.

Not in a committee.
Not in the next season.
Not in someone else’s behavior.

In your decision.

Sometimes the most powerful move a leader makes 

is not adding something new, 

but deleting what no longer deserves access to them.

Old numbers.
Old patterns.
Old narratives.

Growth doesn’t begin when life becomes easier.
It begins when we stop tolerating what keeps us stuck.

Agatha M
Still becoming.