You know the moment.
Vacation.
The world slows down.
You sit on a rock. Or a beach. Or a silent trail at sunrise.
And suddenly -
There’s space.
There’s beauty.
And something in you says: This. This is real.
We call it a peak experience.
A fleeting glimpse beyond the noise.
But here’s the mistake most people make:
They think the moment came from the mountain, the ocean, the sky.
It didn’t.
The moment came from you.
Or rather: from the part of you that’s always here,
but rarely noticed beneath the static of thought and ambition.
That sense of depth, of peace, of wholeness -
is not an effect of your environment.
It’s the absence of your usual mental machinery.
And unless you know how to return there deliberately,
you’ll stay dependent on sunsets, sabbaticals, or spiritual surprises.
Want to live from that place?
It’s possible.
But not through books or conferences.
- It takes two things:
- Vertical Development - the capacity to hold deeper truths without collapsing into old stories.
- Meditation - not to chill out, but to wake up. To pierce the illusion of separation. Again and again.
As an executive coach, I watch leaders chase clarity, purpose, connection.
But here’s the hard truth:
You won’t find it in strategy. Or speed. Or success.
You’ll find it in stillness.
And from there, you’ll lead -not from role or reaction -
but from presence. From insight. From essence.
So next time life cracks open -
don’t just call it a beautiful memory.
Call it home.
And then ask yourself:
What am I doing to return?
Most people wait for the beach, the mountain, or the retreat to feel alive.
What if the real work is to live from that place—in the middle of Monday morning chaos?