3 Frameworks To Help You Become A Conscious Leader

A company’s culture is created and enforced by its leadership.

If, as a leader, you are not leading others from your best self and interacting with their best selves, you are doing a disservice to yourself and everyone in your company.

Want to lead your team from your best self?

What follows are 3 things to avoid, 3 things to know, and 3 things to do to bring out your best self. Apply the same logic to everyone in your organization and you'll be creating an environment that brings out the best in every person there. This can only result in improving the company, culture, and client experience.

Three Things to Avoid

1. Don’t follow the trends. Flow, peak performance, hacks, biohacks, productivity…these are important but misleading. They are all secondary to the quality of your attention, which is what determines the You you bring to the world in any given moment. Pay attention to what matters most: the quality of your attention. More on this below.
2. Don't half-ass it. Most people are willing to put a ton of time and energy into not sucking at something. But the quality of your attention determines the Experiential Quality of Your Life. It’s certainly worth more than not sucking, it’s worth mastering.?
3. Stop separating aspects of life as though they're unrelated. Your “work life” and “family life” are both part of your life. The quality of your attention in one domain shapes and informs the quality of your attention in every domain. The same is true for every person in your team. If you are succeeding in one domain of your life at the expense of the quality of your actual attention (health, wellbeing, happiness, performance, etc) either stop it, or do it on purpose and only for limited periods of time, lest it unconsciously becomes your new way of operating forever.

Three Things to Know

Think about personal development less as "spiritual" and more as physiological. Spirituality has its place, but we’ll hold off in that for another time. For now, just remember, as early hunter gatherers, we didn’t start walking because we were trying to find our "selves," we started walking because we were trying to find food!

The same logic applies to every other aspect of our development. The various kinds of Human Intelligence were developed because they were necessary. That's how evolution works. Proper care and maintenance of the physical self at each developmental level is a reliable and straightforward way to activate and optimize all domains of your awareness, wellbeing, and performance (up to and including spiritual experiences of oneness). Screw the fads, pay attention to the biology. Here's what to know:

1. You don't know what you don’t know. In fact, you can't even see it! During the first 25 or so years of your development you go through several major developmental stages. During each, you develop new hardware and/or software. Each of these emergent networks of intelligence gives you the ability to interact with new dimensions of reality. In other words, you may not have developed parts of your brain necessary to interact with critical parts of reality! Here's a few examples of how this development works:

• Stage 1 develops the actual hardware of you! Your body is the most fundamental brain-world interface. Without it, you can’t experience matter at all!

• Stage 1 & 2: the state of your hardware. This is about the form and functioning of your hardware. If it's suboptimal, you'll act like a badly wired robot and you won't even realize it. For example, good input for this stage of development results in proper toward / away-from responses. Bad input can result in anxiety or or lethargy. This in turn forms your instinctive response to what's "out there". Too much anxiety input and the world will always seem stressful and tense. Too little motivational input and you're natural response to life will be ...well, lacking. Ho hum. Both result in the inability to accurately perceive and response to what's really going on.
• Stage 3: This is where memory, imagination and the ability to perceive and express emotions come online. Improper development of this stage can lead to all sorts of issues! Phobias, poor memory, racism, poor self image to name a few. Once "inside" an issue like this, it seems like the way the world "really is" as opposed to bugs in the software.

1. If you don’t develop Networks of Intelligence properly, you miss out on what’s happening right in front of you!! Worse yet, lack of development in one, inhibits proper development in the others. Learn what each network brings to your life and how to give it the input it needs .
2. Each of these networks can be rebooted through wellformed input despite what input you did or did not get during development. Go neuroplasticity! In other words, you can always become your best self, the trick is to know how that "self" actually functions and start giving it good and healthy input to replace or update the shitty input it got in the past or is getting currently. This means knowing what each network needs and how to give and get it.

Three Things to Do

As a conscious leader (or just someone interested in a happy, healthy, awesome life) you need to:

1. a. Put your attention in the right place. Stabilize "you at your best" as your primary way of being. Make it the state to which you default if nothing else requires your attention. Everyone is able to access this state at will, it just takes knowing how. Don't know how? Here are three tips: - Notice when you've felt "at your best" historically. Learn to Method Act that way of being. - read my other newsletters (there are a ton of tips on this) - DM me to book a session. This is what I do for a living. b. Make it a priority. Don't be lazy about this. You need to wage this war to take back and own your in-the-moment attention. It doesn't matter if the rest of culture or life dealt you a bad hand, the only person who can change it is you. But you can do it! Once you've identified times you've felt "at your best" - whatever that means to you - put as much time as you need on cultivating reliable and full bodied experience of the state.
2. Systematically Deepen and Expand this state and its presence in your life. The more you practice the more neural pathways you'll have dedicated to this way of being. In turn, you'll get better at being this way, which will make it easier to port into other aspects of your life. The more you're "like this" in more contexts, the more likely it is that you will deepen your experience of being this way. And on and on in a magnificent and virtuous circle of Being. Here. Now. Bring your ever deepening and improving quality of awareness to every aspect of your work, relationships and life.
3. Learn to bring out the best in others. This is one of the most effective and rewarding ways to bring out the best in yourself. There are thousands of techniques to become masterful, but the two that matter most are 1. intend to do it, and be this way yourself. People are first and foremost responding to your state of being.

Let me know how it goes! And hit me up if you have questions.

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