My Single Most Powerful Tool

We are three weeks into the new job, and I THINK I’ve crossed the threshold in terms of organizing my physical program to stay in a high-energy state: which is one of the “High Performance Six” aspects. Rest, exercise, food, and focus. Each is a lifetime study.

Belly brain, dialed in. Now heart. How do I FEEL about this? Am I being empathetic to the other hearts in the room? Am I taking care of people. I used a phrase yesterday that was insensitive. I will correct that today, openly apologize and commit to doing better. Everyone in that room is being asked to access their deep creativity: in one sense, their CHILD selves. That child needs to feel safe, respected, loved. A certain amount of rough-housing is cool, as long as it is mutually agreeable: many of us thrive under bang-head competition. Others thrive in a peaceful garden. I have to learn to detect both extremes, and match that energy.

This can be hard for me, but as I said: one break-through came from realizing this wasn’t a streetfight. It was either sparring or push-hands. FLOW AND FOCUS. With an open heart, and the courage to grasp nascent ideas that look ugly and remember that sometimes, it is your craziest ideas that work best.

That’s heart center

Then head center. Intellect, and mapping reality. Learning and speaking. TIMING is critical here. My job is NOT to argue with the show runner. He sold a vision to the studio, and if HE decides to change it a bit…that’s his business. MINE is to listen to the pitches of the people…