What Is Awareness? And How Do I Get Some?
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This week we go DEEP and ask:  If you were really present in your life, as opposed to being stuck in your head most of the time, what might you experience?  Michael is joined by executive coach Duncan Drechsel, who walks us through the subtleties of this thing called awareness:  what is it, why it is important, and how we can develop it.  We learn how cultivating awareness fits into leadership – and how our busy, task-oriented work lives seemed almost designed to prevent any actual awareness.  Duncan shares three specific techniques for beginning to cultivating this mysterious but essential quality and – spoiler alert – none of these have to do with thinking harder. 
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