Writings, meditations, and practices on presence, performance, and becoming who you already are.
A living archive. New each week, and added to as the work grows.
The Fourth Type of Time: Presence
Performance, practice and recovery only work when you are actually in them. There is a fourth type of time that makes the other three count.
Read →The Takeaway
In the 1970s Japan overtook the U.S. in electronics not by adding, but by removing. What is your organization still running that stopped earning its place?
Read →The Stretch
My daughter told herself she couldn't before she even tried. It brought me back to a lesson I keep forgetting and relearning.
Read →The Twinkle
A pattern I first noticed in my twenties, a twinkle in the eye of the very best. It took years to understand what it actually was.
Read →The Water Tower
Momentum without direction is just motion. A story about losing sight of the objective right when you feel most certain you are on course.
Read →Outsourcing Agency to the Future
We delay ownership today because we believe circumstances will be better later. They rarely are, unless we change them.
Read →Abundance
For years I thought I needed one more thing to arrive. The asset I was looking for was the one I had been carrying the whole time.
Read →The return to the breath.
A short guided practice for dropping out of the noise and back into the only moment that is real.
Preview · full library soonThe five-minute Saturday.
One small practice to make an ordinary morning feel like the one you have been chasing.
Preview · full library soonGratiflow
Presence built one layer at a time, in the first thirty minutes of the day.
Preview · full library soonThe physiological sigh
A reset for the body, in one breath.
Preview · full library soonMoment of awe
Presence, found instead of made.
Preview · full library soonFrom the practice
During the session I feel at peace and grounded. Present and calm, which is not my default setting. Focusing is not automatic, it's a learned behavior, and it gets easier the more times you show up.
I usually come in pretty charged with the stresses of the day. Throughout the session my entire system resets and I find mental stillness. I walk away recharged, patient, and grounded.
The thoughtfulness and intention of the meditation lets me completely focus, and get out of the noise running through my head to be selfishly present, which I need and love. Clarity, empathy, joy, a melting pot of emotions I don't otherwise get to in a day.
Sean's superpower is reminding us what it means to be present, to be in the moment and experience life as it's happening right now.
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On presence, performance, and becoming who you already are. A few hundred words to start the week aligned.