Since August 2013, Jessica Soroky has chronicled her transformational journey on this blog with courage, transparency, and vulnerability. Now she invites us to her new outlet. I'll let you know when Jessica's new blog is available. Until then, Thank you Jessica.   “To deny your own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” – Mouse, Matrix...

  Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. All the Hollywood romantic comedies would leave one to believe that love on that grand of scale is a thing left up to only fate or destiny. Tonight I learned that love is both a matter of choice and a matter of a heart meant to find and love that...

Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. My blood begins to boil raising my body temperature. My palms get clammy as I twist the headphone cord nervously around my finger. I continue to tell the man on the other end of the phone the latest frustrating predicament I found myself in.   I find my final few words...

   Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice.   It feels like I live at my keyboard and yet I never write anymore. Luckily on this quiet November Sunday I find myself locked on an airplane. There is an amazing peace inside this huge flying metal can. The lights are dim. The windows seem less than useful as...

   Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice.   There's a buzzing in the air mixing comfortably with the unique smell of the ocean just feet away. The choice I'm about to make is a permanent one. Two years’ prior I made a similar and equally permanent decision to get a single word that changed my life inked...

Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice.   The alarm is still sleeping when the dogs wake me up eager to stretch their legs outside for just a minute. There's no reason to climb back into bed since my brain is already in full go mode but I do because he's there and it’s the safest place I've...

Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice.   Letting go has been a concept I have long struggled with. When entering The Leadership Gift Program it continued to challenge me, and frustrated me more than anything. I never understood anyone who told me to “just let it go.” My answer was almost always (more…)

Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice.   Christopher pointed out to me that my blogs have begun to transition from a document about my journey to instructional. I hadn't seen it at all but the moment he raised it I  (more…)

Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. If you want to stop crappy things from happening “to you,” stop allowing crap. Demand more. If you don’t want below-the-line thoughts and behaviors, stop allowing them. Demand personal responsibility. Demanding more from yourself starts with belief. You must believe that what you are about to demand is something you deserve...

Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice.   Part two – earning tomorrow today (you did not wake up today to be mediocre) In Part 1 I wrote about gratitude. I challenged you to love who you are today in order to create wins instead of waiting for them to come to you. I want to take this further...