You wouldn’t miss a client meeting.
You wouldn’t skip payroll or blow off a quarterly review.
So why are you skipping time to grow?
If your personal development isn’t on your calendar, it’s not a priority.
That’s the quiet mistake too many business owners and leaders make. They move from fire to fire, quarter to quarter, year to year—wondering why they feel stagnant, reactive, or burned out.
Here’s the truth: Growth doesn’t happen by accident. It happens on purpose. And it starts with your calendar.
Growth Is a Leadership Responsibility
If you’re not growing, how can you expect your people to grow?
Leaders set the pace. Your clarity becomes their clarity. Your learning becomes their culture. Your vision (or lack of it) becomes their ceiling.
That’s why the best leaders block time & not just for running the business, but for personal/professional development. They schedule space to think, dream, reset, and upgrade their leadership.
Bill Gates is famous for his “Think Weeks”—time away from the noise to read, think, and imagine the future. And last I checked, his company did okay.
Growth Days: Your Competitive Advantage
Here’s a challenge:
Block 10 days per year for nothing but your own growth.
Not a vacation. Not a sales push. Not admin catch-up.
Ten intentional days designed to help you reflect, learn, connect, or simply slow down enough to hear your own thoughts again.
Go to a retreat. Attend a workshop. Take a personal strategy day off-site. Book a solo Airbnb and bring three books and a journal.
Whatever it looks like just put it in your calendar and protect it. Because if you don’t, years will go by. And with them, opportunities you were too busy to notice.
Start with These 4 Days
If you don’t yet have your 10 growth days booked, I’ve got 4 of them ready for you.
The Leader Club’s Mastermind + Training Workshops are held quarterly, in beautiful destinations, with world-class speakers and high-level leaders who are committed to real growth, real clarity, and real impact.
Our next event is:
📍 August 15
🏖️ Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach, CA
If you’re ready to lock in the next step of your leadership development—and do it in a room of inspiring peers—this is your next move.
Final Thought:
Don’t wait for growth to force itself on you. Lead yourself first. Put it in your calendar. Block the time.
And never stop growing.
