Mindful Performance Consulting

Don’t miss your chance to reset, refocus, and reconnect.

Join us for Mindfulness, a trademark class designed to help you slow down, regain control of your attention, and build awareness you can carry into everyday life.

June 10th | 6:45 PM
BodyDesign Strength and Wellness Center
Available via Zoom
$25

Seats are limited, so reserve your spot now.

Day and time change for next week's Mindful Reset! Look forward to seeing everyone there.

Under pressure, what you look at shapes what you do next.

This Tactical Mindfulness Breakdown explores gaze control, gaze anchors, CORE, ORE, and compressed resets as trainable skills for staying accurate when the moment gets loud.

Read the full post at https://www.mindfulperformanceconsulting.com/post/gaze-control-under-pressure-what-you-look-at-shapes-what-you-do

Under pressure, the eyes often reveal where the mind is going before behavior follows. That is why gaze control belongs inside Tactical Mindfulness.

A performer can breathe, stay calm, and still look at the wrong cue. They can appear composed and still miss the information that changes the decision. That is the gap this post breaks down.

In this new Tactical Mindfulness Breakdown, I discuss how gaze anchors, AOI hierarchy, CORE, ORE, and compressed resets help performers stay accurate when pressure starts pulling their attention off mission.

This is not about looking calm.
It is about seeing clearly enough to execute the next right action.

Read full blog post here:
https://www.mindfulperformanceconsulting.com/post/gaze-control-under-pressure-what-you-look-at-shapes-what-you-do

I shared something personal in this week's post that I don't talk about often.

My mother died of cancer. And I wasn't fully present in the months before she passed because I was still carrying frustration I had never resolved. I kept telling myself there would be time to deal with it.

There wasn't.

I wrote about it because I think a lot of us are holding something right now that is quietly costing us the presence the people around us deserve.

If you haven't read it yet, the link is below. It's the most personal thing I've posted in a while.
https://www.mindfulperformanceconsulting.com/post/how-frustration-and-regret-steal-your-gold-a-leadership-lesson-from-the-outsiders

Here's something I've noticed about frustration and regret in leaders.

Frustration makes you look like a realist.
Regret makes you look like someone who holds themselves accountable.

Both can be true but underneath, they can also be quietly stealing the best parts of how you lead.

I wrote about this in this week's post, and I got personal about what happened when I let one of them stay too long.

If you missed it, https://www.mindfulperformanceconsulting.com/post/how-frustration-and-regret-steal-your-gold-a-leadership-lesson-from-the-outsiders

New post is live and this one is personal.

It started with three words on a classroom wall while I was subbing at a local middle school. "Stay Gold, Ponyboy." And it ended up being about my mother, about frustration I carried too long, and about the regret that moved in when the door closed for good.

If you've ever let frustration build a wall when you should have put it down, this one is for you.

🔗 https://www.mindfulperformanceconsulting.com/post/how-frustration-and-regret-steal-your-gold-a-leadership-lesson-from-the-outsiders