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In my last post I talked about adapting our minds to leadership and about re-wiring our brains\u2019 neuropathways to overcome old negative self talk. Ever since that post I\u2019m still doing my accomplishment journal while speaking out those next day accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something I\u2019ve written for today is to \u201cmind my breath\u201d. What this means is to pay attention to my breath and y body during the course of the day. Which, if I\u2019m being honest is something I write down each night, it\u2019s an ever-present goal of mine. Mainly because it seems like I feel the day slip away before I ever have a intent to be mindful about it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Take for example trying to get this blog online\u2026 man I was having trouble finding the right WP theme for it. I cycled through maybe like three today trying to figure out which one I liked the vibe most of all. And holy crap was it hard! I could not figure out for the life of me how to get my posts up on one of the blogging themes. It should be waaaay more intuitive than what is was. Then the theme was trying to get me to download more plugins to get it going?? I was like, nope. I just wanted to find a theme that works and looks pretty. But I could not get it to work and a after a couple quick google search I could not find an answer. I felt my body become more and more tight, my shoulders gradually crept closer and closer to my ears, and I felt stressed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But moreover I had some extremely negative self talk about the whole experience. So I took a break. But like damn. Why does something seemingly so simple have to be so difficult. I stepped outside on my balcony to catch a breath and tell myself that there was no rush. And now I\u2019m back at it, but like damn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back on the previous twenty-five minutes I can see how much of the work I\u2019ve been doing is starting to kick in. Previously I would have continued to spiral and eventually probably given up. But now I\u2019m able to feel the stress in my body and more importantly change the course of that stress. The interest is really in the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now onto another experience I had recently. I went to a networking event and there was an opportunity to give an elevator pitch. One woman stood up who was selling\u2026 I don\u2019t know quite what it was, but it felt like snake oil. She talked a lot about energitecs, about leveling up your energy and about manifesting your future. Honestly, I zoned out much of it, but an interesting thing about it was that she had all our attention in the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s because she was also beautiful. And I was like, yes this is how cult leaders are formed. She had this way of talking about her business but at the same time actually did not say anything of substance. Do you know what I\u2019m talking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thankfully I was there with my friend<\/a>, and we talked about her later and both agreed that it was a bunch of nonsense. But what was interesting was that she could tap into this desire so innate in us humans. The desire to transform your internal-working model, to be more present in our lives, to be mindful of the fleeting thoughts that constantly barrage our brains day in and day out. But she had no substance. She should have studied Neurobiology; I would have paid a lot more attention to her if she had a degree or two in the sciences. Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my last post I talked about adapting our minds to leadership and about re-wiring our brains\u2019 neuropathways to overcome old negative self talk. Ever since that post I\u2019m still doing my accomplishment journal while speaking out those next day accomplishments. Something I\u2019ve written for today is to \u201cmind my breath\u201d. What this means is… <\/p>\n

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