Your Friday Self-Leadership Reflection - Week 22, 2026 - SACRED

Many of us spend  more waking hours at work than we do with the people we love  at home.

Let that sit for a second.

And yet... Gallup just released its 2026 global engagement report.

Only 1 in 5 employees is actually engaged at work .

Which means roughly 8 in 10 are just... there. Not truly showing up.

Chances are, if you're reading this... you're one of the five. Otherwise, you wouldn't care all that much.

Or maybe you're feeling the sting of not being connected to your work... and you're looking for a little relief from that.

Either way... you're in the right place, right now, reading this.

Because here's what I've noticed, even in the engaged team members I coach (And in myself as well),  it's still easy to let work become mundane.

We show up. We do our craft. We go home. We collect a paycheck.

Repeat.

So this Friday,  I want to put a flashlight on something.

The act of  turning our work into something sacred .

Sacred just means "set apart." The opposite of mundane.

And what if more of the way you lead... for yourself and for others... came from treating the work as set apart, rather than just something to get through?

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Here are your Week 22, 2026

Friday Self-Leadership Reflections:

1. High Point of the Week

Where this past week did you take something that could have easily been mundane... just standard operating procedure... and bring reverence, a sacred tone, or a sense of belonging for yourself and others to the moment instead?

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2. Wisdom from a Challenge

Where are you currently finding your work to be mundane... and what is that teaching you about how you might bring something sacred to it? How do you make sure you're meeting the needs of others... slowing down, being present in a deep way... and letting the moment become the natural expression of what's actually happening in the room?

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3. Opportunity to Celebrate The Week Ahead
What's one task or meeting in the week ahead that normally falls into the mundane for you? And what could you do to set it apart... to bring reverence to it?

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And to be clear...  sacred does not mean religious. 

Sacred is just special. 

It's the act of giving your full attention, bringing your whole self to the moment... 

and allowing the potentiality in you, and in those around you, to be revealed.

Because  the more moments we set apart... the more moments become sacred.

And the more sacred moments we live...  the more connected to our own human potentiality we actually become.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves as a social species. The ability to choose what we set apart.