A comment I hear all the time from leaders is that they’re spending too much time down in the trenches and not enough focused on the vision. The bigger picture. They know it’s a problem but find it hard to change. It’s not surprising. That Type-A hustle got you to where you are. Being busy […]
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ? Michel de Montaigne This is a really important message for leaders. A sense of belonging is essential. But we’re looking for it in the wrong places. We’re looking for it outside of ourselves. Part of belonging to any group is […]
How are intuition and ‘in the zone’ similar? Both involve experiential knowing rather than textbook or analytic knowing. Seeing things in their wholeness and connection, rather than more sequential and separated ways of seeing. A gestalt way of seeing – that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Being able to recognize […]
Removing toxic people is one of the biggest things you can do to transform your life. Except I don’t generally use the term toxic people. I use toxic relationships or interactions. Or dynamics. You’d think it would be easy to identify toxic relationships in your life. But it’s not always. Using the term, toxic people, […]
Our inner worlds are our next frontier. It’s in our inner world where leaders can gain an edge. But it’s a small percentage of leaders who develop that edge. Can you be successful without it? Depends on your definition of success. Look at someone like Steve Jobs. He was incredibly innovative. He redesigned his industry. […]
It’s helpful to consider stress from the point of view of our brain states. Beta is the dominant state of the alert, waking mind. Both schools and workplaces encourage operating in beta. It’s good for getting things done. But, today, for bunches of reasons, we’re spending too much time in beta brain. It’s causing difficulties […]
Rock balancing – who’d a thunk?!? Just shows there are many paths to getting to ‘in the zone’ or the benefits of meditation states. Of stretching the possible. I love the part where she talks about how to do it. She says that the movements are so miniscule that you have to ‘feel’ into it. […]
Live life by your own definition of success…rather than someone else’s. There are so many ideas of success in the world. It’s like a bunch of noise coming at you all the time. Noise that can keep you unbalanced and unsatisfied. Comparing yourself to others and feeling less than. To tune down that noise, you […]
It’s so important as a leader (or anyone really) to make time to decompress, to recover. Your day is busy. There’s a lot going on. Most of the time when emotions come up or you get triggered you don’t have the time and space to deal with it in the moment. You have to get […]
Had an interesting conversation with a CEO today. One of the things he’s desiring is more creativity. He’s also talked about getting back to his meditation practice. I asked him what kind of meditation he’s been doing. He told me it was a focused meditation. Focused meditation is a convergent meditation – like meditation on […]