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Authoring Your Leadership: Your Spheres of Influence
A Leadership Reflection Tool · Part III

Authoring Your LeadershipYour Spheres of Influence

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Before You Begin

As a leader, your energy is one of your most valuable resources. Yet much of it can quietly drain toward things that were never yours to own — what others think, what leadership above you decides, how the organization runs. This tool helps you map your actual spheres of influence: the inner and outer landscape of what you can be aware of, and what you can choose and act on. When you know what's yours, you can stop spending energy on what isn't — and start authoring with intention.

Phase One
Explore Your Spheres

Click each sphere to discover what lives inside it. Take your time exploring before you begin mapping.

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The Inner Narrative
Awareness · Within
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The Story Setting
Awareness · Around You
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Authoring from Within
Choice & Action · Within
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Publishing the Manuscript
Choice & Action · In the World
The Inner Narrative — Awareness Within
What you can notice and work with inside yourself
Thoughts
The recurring mental patterns running quietly in the background of your leadership — the ones that shape what you expect, what you fear, and what you believe is possible.
Beliefs
The invisible scripts about yourself, others, and the world — formed over time through experience and the voices of those around you.
Self-talk
The inner voice that narrates your performance as a leader — encouraging, critical, or somewhere in between.
Emotions
The feelings that arise in response to leadership moments — not always chosen, but always informative when noticed.
Identity
The story you carry about who you are as a leader — inherited, constructed, or consciously authored.
The Story Setting — Awareness Around You
What you can read and understand in your environment
Organizational Culture
The unwritten rules of how things work here — what's rewarded, what's avoided, and what's expected without being said.
Relationships
The people you lead, work alongside, and report to — the web of human dynamics that shapes your leadership context.
Power Dynamics
Who holds influence in your environment, how it moves, and where it creates possibility or constraint for you.
Opportunities
The open doors, resources, and possibilities available to you within your current context — sometimes hidden in plain sight.
Constraints
The real limitations of your current environment — worth acknowledging honestly, and worth distinguishing from the limitations you've assumed.
Authoring from Within — Choice & Action Within
What you can intentionally cultivate inside yourself
Attention
What you consciously choose to focus on — one of the most powerful acts of authorship available to you as a leader.
Interpretation
The meaning you assign to what happens around you — not always chosen automatically, but always available to be examined and reframed.
Response
How you choose to act after a thought or feeling arises — the space between stimulus and response is where your authorship lives.
Values
What you consciously orient your leadership toward — the principles you choose to lead from, regardless of the environment around you.
Practice
The habits and disciplines you cultivate over time — the daily choices that shape who you're becoming as a leader.
Publishing the Manuscript — Choice & Action in the World
What you can decide, do, and contribute visibly
Decisions
The choices you make that shape outcomes for yourself and others — including the decision to act when waiting feels easier.
Conversations
The interactions you initiate or engage in deliberately — the ones that move things forward, build trust, or name what needs to be said.
Boundaries
What you say yes and no to as a leader — the edges of your authorship that protect your energy and signal what you stand for.
Contributions
The value you bring visibly to your team and organization — what you offer that only you can offer in the way that you offer it.
Presence
How you show up consistently in the spaces you occupy — the energy, attention, and intention you bring into every leadership moment.
Phase Two
Map Your Spheres

Now that you've explored each sphere, it's time to look honestly at where your attention and energy actually go. Work through each sphere and respond to the prompts as truthfully as you can.

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The Inner Narrative
Awareness · Within
When someone questions your leadership, where does your mind spend the most time?
Your Reflection
When you receive feedback — wanted or not — what story do you find yourself telling about it?
Your Reflection
When you think about your role as a leader, what feeling comes up most consistently?
Your Reflection
What does your inner voice say most often when things don't go the way you expected?
Your Reflection
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The Story Setting
Awareness · Around You
When you think about your leadership environment, what do you notice first — what's working or what isn't?
Your Reflection
When a decision comes down from above that you don't agree with, where does your energy go?
Your Reflection
When you think about the leaders above you, what occupies your thinking most — what they do well or what they don't?
Your Reflection
When you look at how your organization operates, what takes up the most mental real estate?
Your Reflection
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Authoring from Within
Choice & Action · Within
When something happens that you don't like or agree with, how much time do you spend on what you can't change versus what you can?
Your Reflection
When you notice a pattern in yourself that isn't serving you, what do you typically do with that awareness?
Your Reflection
In a typical week, how much of your energy goes toward things within your influence versus things outside of it?
Your Reflection
When double standards exist in your environment, where does your focus tend to land?
Your Reflection
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Publishing the Manuscript
Choice & Action · In the World
In the last month, what decisions did you make that were fully yours to make — and did you make them?
Your Reflection
What conversations have you been avoiding that are actually yours to initiate?
Your Reflection
Where have you been waiting for conditions to be different before you act?
Your Reflection
What contribution have you been holding back — and what's been holding it back?
Your Reflection
Phase Three
The Conscious Choice
A Word From Your Coach

Here's what I want you to notice. You just mapped four spheres of your leadership — and somewhere in that mapping, you likely felt the pull toward what others are doing, what the organization isn't doing, what leaders above you should or shouldn't be doing. That pull is real. And it makes sense. Those things affect you.

But here's what I know from working with leaders like you. The ones who move forward — who actually author the leadership they want — are not the ones who have perfect conditions. They're the ones who stopped giving their best energy to what was never theirs to own.

You have a sphere. Actually, you have four. And everything in them is yours — to be aware of, to work with, to choose from, to act on.

That's not a small thing. That's your authorship.

Now the question is — what will you do with it?

The Redirect
Looking at everything you've mapped, where have you been spending energy on things that don't belong to you — and what has that been costing you?
Your Reflection
The Commitment
What will you choose to focus on instead — and what becomes possible in your leadership when you do?
Your Reflection
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