Episode 54 Presence in life & leadership series: Designing your presence

About this episode

Tom discusses the importance of designing your presence and being fully present in life and leadership.

Many of us live in a state of constant hyper-responsiveness, always reachable, always reacting, rarely fully present. In this episode of the presence in life and leadership Life Lab series, Tom reflects on how constant availability fragments attention, dulls experience, and impacts clarity. He introduces the idea of designing your presence; intentionally choosing when to be available, and when to be fully present where you are. Rather than living on constant alert, this episode invites you to take ownership of your attention and return to yourself more often. Life Lab Experiment:Choose a few intentional 30-minute windows each day to check notifications and respond to messages. Outside those windows, stay where you are and be fully present. When we stop being constantly reachable, we become meaningfully present.

People in this episode

Host: Tom

Topics covered

• presence
• leadership
• attention
• mindfulness

Keywords

• hyper-responsiveness
• availability
• clarity
• intentionality

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