The Most Underrated Leadership Skill: Full Presence

You know, when they teach meditation, they always focus on breath. The reason that you focus on breath is because that's the only thing that's really present. You don't realize how much of our day is spent thinking about things that are not in our life. We're thinking about tomorrow, we're thinking about possibilities, we're thinking about dreams, we're thinking about things that we're scared of. We're also reliving certain memories that we have, and It takes a disciplined individual to be able to stay focused in the moment. And there have been plenty of times where my response be, I was just lost in thought, I didn't hear what you just said. And I, I've learned just to just be honest about that, because to try to BS, it doesn't sound so good, and there's no point. It's, it's a skill to be able to be in the moment, make people that you're talking to feel like they are the only person in the world that exists at that moment. When you can do that, that is powerful, that builds trust, makes people feel like they're being understood.