After many long, intense weeks on the move, August finally offers what has been missing:
- Space.
- No flights.
- No meetings.
- Just home.
More time on the bike.
More time on the cushion.
More time with what truly restores.
We speak often of HighPerformance, clartiy, presence.
But here’s the paradox:
What we most long for doesn’t come from striving harder - it comes from letting go.
Presence isn’t a skill.
It’s a state of being that arises when we stop grasping.
And from that state, different decisions emerge.
Wiser. Cleaner. More attuned.
In my own rhythm, I return to two essential practices:
𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 - to metabolize stress, reinhabit the body, and feel the pulse of vitality again.
𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - to unhook from the habitual mind and rest in something deeper than thought.
Not as tools for optimization.
But as portals back to what is essential - and easily forgotten in the blur of achievement.
Neurosience confirms what contemplative traditions have long known:
- Without space, there is no integration.
- Without silence, there is no wisdom.
- Without rest, the system fragments.
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
So this August, I pause.
Not to escape, but to come home - to the deeper ground from which action arises.
Because real leadership begins before the doing - in the quality of attention, intention, and being we bring to each moment.
Where in your life are you merely performing presence - and where are you truly inhabiting it?
And what becomes possible, when you stop trying to manage life - and begin to meet it?