Mindful means becoming more aware of what’s going on right here, right now. We can appreciate our lives, instead of rushing through them, always trying to get somewhere else. Mindful itself is a way of being a capacity for moment-by-moment awareness which doesn’t belong to any one culture or tradition. When you are mindful of this moment, you are present for your life and your experience just as it is not as you hoped it would be, not as you expected it to be, not seeing more or less than what is here, not with judgments that can lead you to a conditioned reaction, but for exactly what is here, as it unfolds, meeting each moment with calmness. From a psychological perspective, this is a lot like ego. Mindful practice includes learning from and appreciating Small Mind while cultivating Big Mind the more open, curious, and accepting perspective or way of being. You might say that mindful leadership is about applying the experience of Big Mind, which is cultivated through meditation, to the concerns of Small Mind. While it’s true that increasing self-awareness is a crucial aspect of mindful practice, the intent is more than awareness of oneself. Connecting to self is how we stay connected to our values and our ethics.
We can experience great joy and love right during pressure, exhaustion, and overwhelm when practicing mindfulness. It is possible for mindful practice, work, and leadership to be contextualized as one activity, right during many activities. This requires self-awareness, awareness of others, awareness of time, and awareness of the quality of one’s efforts. Mindful work and mindful leadership both require and cultivate the essential skills we need to thrive. Mindful helps us solve everyday problems in effective and efficient ways. It also develops our way of being, adding depth and richness to the experience of life itself. With mindful, every task is approached with humility and confidence, with hope and letting go of hope. Ultimately, mindful is enigmatic, plunging into questions of consciousness, birth, death, and impermanence while providing us with direct experience that, when we let go of our fears and habits, what arises is calmness, a deep sense of love, and an insightful sense of meaning and connectedness to life. Mindful Leadership presence is powerful. In your own life, you can probably recall times when you experienced leadership presence, either in yourself or someone else. Leading with excellence, being fully present for what we do, and connecting with others are natural abilities we all own.
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