Why Slowing Down is a New Access for Performance with Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon

MYOB Podcast

Summary: Join us while we discuss what it means to really slow down and how that simple act, can profoundly impact our lives and our businesses. Together we look at the paradox; you have to slow down to speed up. It’s no wonder that in the Buddhist tradition, it’s called the ‘sacred act of pausing’. We invite you to take the next week and slow down and see what happens for you.

Highlights:

• Our brains are not designed to slow down
• A new access for performance
• Beginning to start a practice for yourself
• Paradox: You have to slow down to speed up
• The power of Intent

Quotes:

“If I’m not slowing down, I’m missing out on life. In the Buddhist tradition it’s called the ‘sacred act of pausing’.”

“With alignment comes unpredictable results, flow, power, velocity”

“The moment you connect, that moment is no longer mundane.”

“Very rarely are we present to and articulating, ok, here, what is my intention?"

00:00 - Intro

01:11 - What is it that you’re always reminding us to slow down

02:40 - Our brains are not designed to slow down

03:31 - The way things occur for champions - gives us a new access for performance

04:40 - Everyone is “too busy to…”

04:50 - Slowing down beyond moments of challenge & difficulty

06:20 - making choices that align me with what’s most important to me, vs. just react, react, react….

07:00 - Beginning to start a practice for yourself …Just STOP

08:26 - 100 mile per hour serve

10:10 - The way the ball occurred

13:40 - Paradox: You have to slow down to speed up

15:23 - What happens when you slow down

17:30 - recognition and how things happen in conversations

29:25 - Why live an aligned life?

19:45 - Challenge: Take the next week and slow down. See what happens for you. Take several moments a day and STOP for a moment and connect with yourself.

21:19 - There’s nothing worse than the realization that “I missing my life. The thing about it you got to be there for it.”

22:00 - Slowing down in the business world; inquire into what is my intention for what I’m about to do.

Contact Info:

Guests:

Jeff Willmore (IG, LinkedIn, FB) & Richard Condon (IG, LinkedIn, FB)

@jeff_willmore & @rgcondon

www.autonomycourse.com

Reinventing Entrepreneurship, Reimagining Career, Discovering Connection

Host:

Elizabeth Upton (on IG, LinkedIn, FB)

@myobpodcast, @elizabethuptoncoaching

www.elizabethupton.com

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

Original music by Adrian Vaca (on IG, FB)

@adrianvaca

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