Renee Metty: Why Mindfulness Makes You A Better Leader

One of the benefits of mindfulness is that it brings a level of awareness to the world around you. Without that awareness, you can’t take action and you can’t do anything about it. You cannot choose to shift your attention if you don’t know your attention is being pulled away.

We can get so rigid with how to do mindfulness correctly, but you know what the best way to do it is for you. If you don’t know, try some things out and see what practicing presence means for you.

We, as people, are always feeding off of each other - it’s the mirror neurons, an unconscious process. Mindfulness and being present gives us choice and agency to choose to respond rather than having an automatic reaction.