How much of your day do you spend thinking about the future? When you have your virtual employee meetings, do you often reference "this is how we've always done it"...

There is no power in the future. There is no power in the past. Your only true power is right here right now in this moment. That's where energy resides.  Shifting your attention to the present moment allows you harness your energy in the most effective and efficient way. 

My promise to you is this - that if you're mindfully living in this moment, turning on and tuning into your five senses... clarity shall be yours. And it can come as fast or as slow as you're willing and open to believing it can. In The Mindful Leader Program for example, we work step by step on ways to stay present and focused on the here and now. It's all-important if you desire to take your Leadership, your impact, your legacy, to new heights. ​​

In the 'being present' of it all, focusing your energy and attention right here and now, you are your most resourceful. The future only ever exists, in each present moment, moment by moment. So why not begin where you can actually have a shot at altering the future path? Here and now.

Here's a powerful and easy 4-minute exercise you can embrace here and now:

1. Sit somewhere quiet and peaceful. Close the door. Silence the cell phone.
2. Breathe. In.  Out.  Slowly. Do that three or four times, simply feeling the breath puff out your chest and belly over and over.

Now, 

Do a check in with how you're feeling right here and now?
Do you feel inspired? Do you feel beaten?
Invigorated and optimistic? Or depleted and skeptical?
Do you feel nothing?
Feeling nothing is ok too. You'll get there. > We're going for inspired, invigorated, and optimistic :)

• NO:  IF you're NOT feeling resourceful, inspired, energized, stay very GENERAL in your thoughts: pick a thought that makes you smile. Something about your family, your best golf shot, your dog. There. You're more resourceful than you were 3 seconds ago. It works like that. One, empowering thought at a time.

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• YES:  IF or ONCE you ARE in a more empowered state - take some time to focus more specifically on the challenge and opportunity that exists in a particular department, product line, or service offering. Take stock of all the gifts you've been granted up til now in that department, with that team - and appreciate all you and your team have learned to get you to right here and now.

FEEL into what feels like is missing.

Now, in what ways can YOU contribute best to building a bridge from here .. to there. Beginning right here and now. Look to yourself FIRST before you start piecing together the puzzle with your employees.

​One step, one inspired action. That's it. Don't think chess game, ten moves ahead. Only focus on ​what's right before you. The very next step or thought will take you to the next, and the next, and the next... moment by moment. It works! I promise.

JUST THE RIGHT TEAM

Look around you. Perhaps you have JUST the right team of talent you've diligently assembled to support your vision of where you want to take your company. If so, CONGRATULATIONS! If you've achieved that, then you also know that team will continuously evolve in order to adapt to changing conditions from here ... to there.

FALLING SHORT ON POTENTIAL?

If you DON'T have JUST the right team of talent, or you believe there's much potential untapped -- here's an insight you might consider. It truly is a powerful re-frame of your current scenario:

Your team, and what you see in them, acts as a powerful mirror for ...

YOU. Yes You, their Leader, their visionary, their finest cheerleader.

So,

if there's something you see that's lacking in a particular department, leadership staff, or frontline employee... small business, large business, it makes no matter. Rather than trying to dig in and figure out what's missing 'over there,' first look inward at yourself. Ask yourself questions like:

• What's the gift here that's trying to emerge in what I'm noticing?
• What might be amiss in MYSELF that's causing me to notice this in that person or situation in the first place?
• What might I be, do, or have, that could help shift the situation positively?
• Do I at times exhibit similar behaviors or prone to similar beliefs as this person I'm finding fault with?

If you first pause, imagining that person or situation as a mirror back to you for your OWN lesson, your OWN gift...
often in that simple re-frame, light is shed. A new perspective is gained, Higher empathy engages within you. You're then coming from a place of offering, inspiration, insight for that employee. You first did if for yourSELF.

Happy BLOOMing!

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