What if you could act, listen and meditate better?
By Bill5. Act deliberately.
To act deliberately is to act carefully, without haste and in full awareness of the consequences of your actions. As stated earlier, this is the next step after being mindful. You may ask yourself, ‘what action am I willing to take in this situation?’ Or, ‘what am I willing to stop doing?’ Bringing mindfulness into conscious action is the key to balance. When you communicate to others what you are and are not willing to do, you become responsible for your experience, rather than being enslaved to it.
6. Listen and observe while withholding judgment.
If you can be fully present and act deliberately in all that you do, this step is accomplished automatically. All too often, judgment is an imposition upon experience that is designed (sometimes subconsciously) to shield, protect, and promote us. When we begin to look at every situation as a learning experience rather than as a need to protect or promote, we can change our perception and therefore, change our experiences significantly. Try it for one day.
7. Meditate.
To meditate is to settle into peaceful quiet balance. There are many ways to meditate: sitting and focusing on the breath; focusing on a word or mantra, and movement or walking are just three examples. The point is that regular disciplined meditation affords mind and body a “safe place” from the tugs and pulls of daily life. Meditation is the deep stillness that is revealed when all distractions are swept away.
8. Become aligned.
To become aligned is to discover your place and course, not intellectually, but in the form of a quiet confidence that calms and assures. It is to identify your values and how you make sense of the world and then live according to them.
9. Live with Integrity.
Shakespeare said it so well: “To thine own self be true, and thou cans’t not be false to any man (or woman).” To live in integrity is to have no regrets for your actions, to not need to apologize to others, to be real to yourself, to be consistent, and to live what you believe.
Bill McGrane is President of the McGrane Global Centers creators of the Making it Happen and Move Into Your Greatness. The Centers offers, keynotes, seminars, consulting and products that improve individual and organizational performance. You can create highly responsible teams and produce a culture of responsibility.
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