Re-aligning with what matters
How well do your daily behaviours reflect what matters most to you?
This question is a toughy. It cuts to the heart of a challenge so many of us encounter: Knowing what’s important is so much easier than living in a way that actually prioritizes what’s important.
It’s hard to live in alignment with what matters in a world filled with demands and distractions. In the chaos of it all, our purest intentions of becoming more healthy, more present, more loving can so easily fall to the wayside.
We get lost in our back-to-back meetings and to-do lists. The seemingly urgent trumps the important. Our commitments to others override our commitments to ourselves.
It can feel like that’s simply the way it needs to be… Just until the end of this week… Or this month… Or this year… Or this chapter of life…
Yet a part of us knows that if we allow the pattern to persist, we’ll arrive at the end of our lives and realize we haven’t fully lived.
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Years ago, the sudden passing of a friend invited me to reflect on my own eventual death. I imagined my eulogy reading something like,
“She worked hard and really had her sh*t together. That woman never missed a deadline!”
I so deeply yearned for a life of connection, vitality and purpose. Yet my daily behaviours consistently prioritized productivity and perfection above those things. And that disconnect between my values and the way I was living had suddenly smacked me in the face.
I knew I wanted to change my trajectory, and quickly learned my control-oriented, go-to approach of “try harder” wasn’t the answer.
Instead, transformation came from an unexpected place: the practice of slowing down and tuning in. A practice that ran counter to my default programming and felt wildly uncomfortable (and unproductive).
It was through this simple practice that I learned to touch into the feelings of connection, vitality and purpose I had been longing for.
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More than ever, it’s essential to find ways to quiet the noise of the world and tune inward.
Practices that enable us to regularly slow down and reconnect with the deepest parts of ourselves are vital. They enable us to consciously align our behaviours and decisions with our values and truest aspirations. Through these practices, we can shift out of autopilot and live and lead in a way that honours what’s most important.
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Calm in the Storm is designed to support leaders in slowing down, going inward and reconnecting with what matters most. So they can live and lead from a place of deep alignment and trust.
Through a proven 6-week curriculum, a like-hearted peer group, and 1-on-1 mentorship, you'll receive support and a clear pathway for building a sustainable mindfulness meditation practice that will stay with you for a lifetime.