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Ep 93: 3 keys for execuive leaders to feel more sustained · The Pausecast

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  Pause, just closing your eyes if you'd like to put your feet on
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  the ground, if they're not already there.
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  Uncross, your arms, sitting up straight in your chair.
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  Or if you're walking walking somewhere, feeling your presence
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  and your feet on the floor and the ground.
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  Just taking a deep breath if that feels good for you,
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  inhaling through the nose. Exhaling through the mouth.
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  We'll take two more like this. And each time, I imagine you're
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  drying air up through your feet, all the way up to the top of
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  your head. And then you exhale to goes back
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  down into the ground. Holding that breath here and
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  then exhaling that breath out. Down through your spine, down to
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  your legs, into the ground again, and our third and final
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  breath one more time. Before you open your eyes as you
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  press that bit air into the ground, giving yourself this
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  permission. The space to show up fully
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  present for yourself. No matter what's on your plate
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  today. No matter what's on your agenda.
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  There is always a choice to tune in a line, just to see how
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  you're doing. Saying, I choose to be here.
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  And open your eyes when you feel good.
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  Welcome back, gosh, this brings me to my topic today and the
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  topic is why is it so important to reconnect, renew, and
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  recommit this time of year or really any time of year, it
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  doesn't need to be spring. And I asked you even in those
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  three breaths that we took Together.
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  Do you feel different? Do you feel any different than
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  when you first tuned in? Raise your hands to say?
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  I me, I heck. Yeah.
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  Part of why this is such an important practice is that it
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  allows you to reconnect with yourself and it brings us out of
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  autopilot. It brings us off of that.
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  Just go go, go that really serves us because we get a lot
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  done, but we lose ourselves in that if we aren't able to
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  reconnect frequently intraday Lee and check in.
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  And when we don't do that, think about if you were to just go
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  through your Old a kind of like what you were doing, maybe
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  before our call or maybe you've heard, you've had those days
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  where you just didn't get to do what you needed to do.
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  Maybe that was going to the gym, or maybe it was having a time to
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  reflect Journal, meditate walk outside, whatever that is.
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  Oh yeah, so you get what I'm saying, right?
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  You're picking up what? I'm laying down.
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  So because it's spring and this is the season of birth.
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  This is the season of renewal. Right.
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  The thawing has begun and we are moving into life in a new way
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  with newness and Novelty and leaves and the trees and
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  sunsetting at least higher in the sky Rising higher in the sky
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  for us in the northern hemisphere.
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  So There's a little, there's this life force, that's growing
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  and so I think this is such a perfect time to reconnect.
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  We knew and recommit. And so we just did reconnecting,
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  but if we aren't reconnecting to who we are, which means presence
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  in which means Vision. So, who am I becoming, right?
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  We can just be present and not have a vision, however, wouldn't
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  you? Be a little more motivated,
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  inspired excited. If you had a roadmap for where
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  you wanted to go, which might just be, I'm living my best.
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  Life right now or I'm leading, what I want to be doing right
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  now or I'm looking for the job. I want right now, right?
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  Or I'm spending the quality time and I want with my kids and my
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  family. Those are the things that a
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  vision can support in the vision I work with this, with all of my
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  clients and in my group program because it's so so important.
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  If the first thing I do as a coach because I recognize the
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  value, it brings is to know where I'm going, because I don't
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  know that. Then how can I get there?
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  We all kind of identify with that, right?
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  If we don't have the map, whether it's Google Maps or when
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  you drew on in hand paper, whatever, then you don't know
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  where you're going and how could, you know, where you are.
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  If you're not present to whom how you're feeling to what you
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  need and how to get it. So that's kind of the
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  reconnecting aspect. And if we don't have that
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  Baseline, we cannot renew. We cannot do anything different.
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  Okay, so that's reconnecting and I think that's so important now.
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  So why not reconnects with today, take Time to reconnect
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  with yourself and it's Friday. And when I'm recording this, so
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  do whatever you want Friday or the weekend.
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  Maybe there's a pause in there. I also was reminded of this
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  really, really awesome statistic.
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  So a lot of my corporate talks, I talk about high performance
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  and pauses and a pause plan. So, if you see me talk or
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  anything, you might, have come across that where you kind of
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  figure out what. Where am I?
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  Where do I want to focus my energy on shifting something?
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  That's the pause. Cause and Brendon burchard,
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  who's someone, I, I've studied a little bit.
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  I don't, I don't know much, I don't know a lot of in-depth of
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  his work, but I really do admire what he's given in the workplace
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  and helps with high performers, and, and Leadership, he says
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  that in his studies. So he's tested, thousands of
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  individuals in this, the optimal time for doing tasks is 52
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  minutes and then you need a break, that's what high
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  performers do. And so renewal Is that break?
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  So this is the second part. Renewal renewal is what can I do
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  right now? That will serve me and this can
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  be different for each and every one of us.
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  So what serves me may not serve you, right?
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  So maybe I need to go outside with some sunshine on my face.
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  That may not serve you, that's just maybe not what you need
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  today. And so that's why you need to
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  reconnect to know what do I need?
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  That's that first part and then renew is what, like, how do I do
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  that, right? So even, you know, everyone's an
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  hour even for a minute or two like we did those three breasts
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  can be fantastic. Eric to reconnect, right?
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  They kind of go together. And then the third part recommit
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  recommitting is remembering. Why am I doing the things I'm
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  doing in the first place, right? So we committing really matters
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  because if we don't recommit then we kind of maybe aren't as
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  intentional as we could and that means we spend more time or we
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  waste more time doing stuff or not as focused as we could be
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  and then we just don't impact the way we want.
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  We don't influence. Show up the way we want to do.
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  So man, all three of these are super key, right?
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  So renew reconnect and sorry, written reconnect his first
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  because you got to do that, we knew and recommit and I'm and
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  maybe what you take away from this information.
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  As, you know, one might, what can I do differently to do those
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  three things every day or even, you know, start with renew and
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  reconnect. I'm having a whole day of a
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  retreat that's focused in these three areas.
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  It's called the powerful. Pause retreat thing thing.
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  I love that name. I'd last time I offered this was
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  before the pandemic. 2019. It was a three-day event this
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  year. It's one day.
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  I'm taking the best of for that one day and it's going to be in
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  San Francisco. On May 13th this year sad.
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  It's a Saturday 10:00 to 6:00 p.m. we're going to have a
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  gathering afterwards, which, where we can reconnect and
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  network with. Each other and and celebrate
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  ourselves. Because we worked on this all
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  day. And I truly believe if you were
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  to do, if you were to give yourself this day as a gift to
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  your presence, to who you could become and what's your pop
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  capable of? Pretty sure you won't go wrong
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  because I will be there guiding you the whole day and we're
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  going to learn about things. Like how to, you know you'll
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  walk away with your vision in the first hour of what we're
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  doing. We're good dude.
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  We're doing things that get in the way, the pitfalls of the EQ.
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  L I work with. So We're going to get into that.
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  We're going to do some breath work together, live as a
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  workshop, we're going to get our our plan together and we're
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  right in the heart of San Francisco downtown to get their
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  is actually more like a fifteen hundred dollar day so you get a
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  lot off and I would love to support you.
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  How do you go and do this? So if you go to my website,
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  Rachel O'Meara.com, Retreat 2023.
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  I'll also have this in the show notes and it's here but we treat
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  2023 and there's a link on my website, Rachel O'Meara.com, you
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  can read all about it. You can sign up there and
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  everyone is welcome. You know, if you don't live in
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  the city, whether you are, you know, any gender, whatever you
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  do for work, it's all good. I just want to support as many
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  people as possible and I know this works because people are
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  still talking about it. Who returned to did it three
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  years ago. So thank you.
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  Thank you for tuning in. Remember to reconnect, renew and
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  recommit for whatever you're doing because that's what will
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  bring you to the next space of what your leaderships, what your
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  leadership potential is and your own emotional intelligence
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  Mastery. That's what we're all working on
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  and that's the most important critical skill you can have
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  really as a leader of your life. All right signing off.
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  Thank you so much, take care and have a wonderful wonderful.
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  Rest of your day. Thank you very much.
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  Bye bye. Rest of your day.
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  Thank you very much. Bye bye.