Stop Running So Fast How Your Pace Determines Your Team's Health and Your Leadership Impact

You're not behind. You're just running too fast.

Most leaders think the answer to overwhelm is speed—more efficiency, tighter schedules, faster execution. But what if the real problem isn't that you're doing too little? What if it's that you're running at an unsustainable pace that's hurting you, your family, your work, and your team?

In this final episode of our Five Spheres of an H2 Leader series, we're tackling pace, how fast you're running, why you're running that fast, and what it's costing you.

Most leaders execute from anxiety and shame, not focus and clarity. They're running FROM something instead of running TO something. And when you run too fast for too long, everything suffers—your health, your relationships, your creativity, and your team's culture.

Alan breaks down the difference between personal activation (how fast you're running) and communal activation (how fast you're driving your team to run). And he introduces the concept that changes everything: effectiveness over efficiency.

What You'll Learn:

• Why most leaders execute from anxiety and shame instead of focus and clarity—and how to shift from running FROM something to running TO something
• Personal activation vs. communal activation: how your pace directly impacts everyone around you (whether you realize it or not)
• The efficiency trap: why focusing on "doing all the things as fast as possible" kills creativity, presence, and quality
• Peter Drucker's definition of effectiveness: doing the right things well—not all the things quickly
• How to identify if you're running at a sustainable pace: the 1-10 self-assessment and why most leaders overestimate their capacity
• Four things that suffer when you run too fast: your health (cardiac issues, stress, sleep), those you love (presence, connection), your work (creativity, quality, enjoyment), and your team (culture, morale, burnout)
• The seasonal awareness principle: why some sprint seasons are okay—but only if you know they're seasons with a beginning and an end
• Why hurry is literally killing you: the science on how chronic rushing impacts everything from heart health to weight to sleep quality
• The communal cost of your pace: how your speed becomes your team's speed—and why your anxiety cascades down the org chart
• Sabbath as the killer app: one day a week where you get to just be human, not a leader—and why this weekly rhythm recalibrates your entire pace
• The scarcity mentality test: if you find yourself saying "there's never enough time to ___," you're running from scarcity, not toward clarity
• How to move from efficiency (doing all things fast) to effectiveness (doing the right things well)
• Why you're probably not behind: the lie that you need to run faster, and the truth that you need to run smarter
• The Right Side Up Journal: a 10-minute daily practice to focus your day, prioritize what matters, and remember that your son's basketball game tonight is more important than your task list

Key Insight:

You have way more influence than you think. The people around you are watching how you run, feeling your anxiety, and absorbing your pa