The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

The primary learning is this: When asked to check in with current feeling states the accurate answer is “I feel…” followed by one or more of the five core emotions. If the words “I feel” are followed by “that” or “like,” you are expressing a thought, not describing a feeling.

When you feel the need to get serious or work much harder, consider doing the following: Take a couple of minutes to argue for why you can’t have what you really want. Make up a country song title that describes your current issue and sing a line. Have a fifteen-second temper tantrum. Be sure to include your whole body and make noise. For thirty se

CHAPTER SUMMARY Feeling All Feelings

what happens is not just a neutral experience, but rather a custom-ordered curriculum for our highest development as people and as members of teams and organizations.

As Me leaders realize this oneness. It is not simply a philosophy or belief for them. It is a direct experience. Once a leader discovers the truth of what is—oneness—and who they are, their consciousness shifts dramatically. Just as a thought experiment, imagine for a moment how you would lead and live in a world without separation; no separation b

Shift moves can be put into two categories. Shift moves that change our blood and body chemistry and shift moves that change our consciousness. When we are triggered or reactive our blood chemistry changes. The fight flight chemical cocktail courses through our veins and the body assumes reactive postures.

The To Me state of consciousness is synonymous with being below the line. From our perspective, 95% of all leaders (and people) spend 98% of their time in that state. If I am in the To Me consciousness, I see myself “at the effect of,” meaning that the cause of my condition is outside me. It is happening To Me. Whether I see the cause as another pe

life first whispers to us in a still, small voice. If we don’t listen, it speaks to us firmly, and if we avoid those words, it screams at us, often in the form of a crisis or suffering. Life tickles us first, pushes us second, and then hits us over the head with a brick.

Conscious leaders are open to the possibility that instead of controlling and changing the world, perhaps the world is just right the way it is. This creates huge growth opportunities on a personal and organizational level.