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A few days prior to having eye surgery, I read Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In. You may recall the buzz about the book last year. Sandberg is the COO at Facebook and formerly worked at Google.
Though a good friend recommended the book to me, frankly I wasn't expecting to be moved by it. I was wrong. Sandberg makes the case, "that the world would be a better place if half our countries were run by women and half our companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men."
I also hadn't expected to be so laid up by the retinal surgery. Even now, three weeks later, my eyesight in my left eye is not what I had hoped it would be. The surgeon tells me that it may take a few months for my eyesight to improve.
Patience is required. As I lounged around the house lots of words floated through my mind: insight, vision, clarity and focus. What does it mean to have clarity? What insights will I take from this experience?
I am thinking about how I want to "lean in" to all aspects of my life, the successes and frustrations. If I live to be as old as my father, I have another third of my life ahead of me. What will give my life meaning in this next chapter? What are my strengths and how do I want to use them? With whom? Where? What help/resources do I need or want?
These are questions we can all stop and ask ourselves at many points in our lives. Another question that I am going to explore this year is one that Sandberg posed, "What would I do if wasn't afraid?
How about you?
You will find me leaning in,
Sue
Lagniappe (a little something extra)
Sandberg has started a nonprofit organization, Lean In with lots of great resources.
Recently Sandberg joined with Getty Images to collect a library of "images devoted to the powerful depiction of women, girls and the people who support them."
Listen to Sandberg's original TED talk that inspired her book and a follow-up conversation since the book has come out.
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