The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

Unwrap the Generous Present Moment of Now. The greatest present is Presence.

It may feel like learning to spend more time in the present moment of now is like a delicate balance of trying to thread the needle.  

What I mean by this is that we feel compelled to spend a good deal of time thinking about the future because we are led to believe, and it is implied that we have a great deal of control over what happens in the future.  More planning is equated is with more control (and of course, more anxiety from a pure neuroscience standpoint).

A 401(k) is super dope when you plan your whole life around escaping the occupation that is killing you by retiring.

You want to escape from the consumer prison treadmill that you put yourself on decades ago with debt and mortgages college educations memberships, travel, lifestyle, conspicuous consumption all of this paid for through a job or an occupation that for the majority of people in our society at least they aren’t very happy with or they’re not deriving a sense of satisfaction from.

This can be stressful for Folks because of the volatility of the stock market combined with the eagerness for individuals to stop working at jobs that they don’t enjoy.  

There is risk here and the whole model of working intensely for a period of time to enjoy the last years of your life when you have less health, physical mobility and energy levels is completely crazy and really doesn’t benefit the folks doing the work.

If it’s such a good idea to work your ass off from the ages of 20 to 65, why is it that rich people basically stop working after college and going to family connected businesses and live off of interest as the one percent does.

They’re not doing shit, and I know this factually as I live in Sarasota, Florida. 

Yup, we got those 1% Peeps here for a few months every year.

The number of young healthy men that have never lived paycheck to paycheck and ALL have PHDs…this PHD stands for “Poppa Had Dough” will blow you away when you come visit Sarasota.  Real Talk. #longboatkey

But we’re supposed to work our asses off and whatever job we can get to make the most money we can and then enjoy it a little bit at the end where we could barely walk?

Maybe I took that bait when I was drinking every day and being a sucker but there’s no way I’m following that program today.  

It’s insane.

Much of the craziness could be avoided if we were all taught at a much younger age some of the particulars and nuances of our personality and communication types.  

Our inherent tendencies and communication wiring styles should ideally help direct us towards what our day-to-day activities are because we can choose occupations that provide more ease and flow in regard to being compatible to our personality types, communication styles, and emotional needs.

TypeCoach LLC is incredible stuff if you’re not familiar with it or not participating in our Sherpa series, you want to check it out for your organization and even really for your family.

And there are many ways to skin the cat as we learned last week from the golf industry, legend and now Super coach and Super Sherpa Michael Alexander during our self-summit event.

Micheal uses the Positive Intelligence system and predictive indexing to help executives and business leaders better understand their own true nature, as well as understanding how to best maneuver within their organization and the other personality types within that constellation.

The common thread, and where we keep coming back, is that understanding communicating connecting all of these things are improved and really can only happen when you were present in the moment of now.

This is called Presence.