You Don’t Need to be Perfect

The Biggest Mistake Conscious Leaders Make

You notice you are not present in a situation. Do you try hard to regain presence? Focusing and putting in effort to be present in the moment.

When you try hard and put forth effort to stay present it results in not being present. This reflects a lack of ease. If you are pushing, straining, and making yourself be present the outcome isn’t true presence.

You are working hard to be present and control the outcome of the situation you are below the line — in the drama triangle. If you push yourself to not be in drama then ironically you are in drama.

Often after teaching my clients the concept of being above the line (the empowerment triangle) or below the line (the drama triangle), they hang onto the idea that the goal is being above the line all the time. They begin to see it as a bad thing to be below the line and in drama.

This is the most common misperception of conscious leadership. The idea of a right or wrong way to be. Actually, it’s okay to be above the line, and it’s equally okay to be below the line.

Neither location is good or bad, right or wrong. One is not better or worse. They are just different locations where you are going to have different experiences.

Beautiful work and immense learning can come from both locations.

This framework is all about acknowledgment. Living and leading consciously. Consciously doesn’t mean “right”…