Presence
Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
BBB Library: Personal Success
ISBN: 978-0-316-30562-4
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Presence is the state of being attuned to and able to comfortably express our true thoughts, feelings, values, and potential. That's it. It is not a permanent, transcendent mode of being. It comes and goes. It is a moment-to-moment phenomenon. Presence emerges when we feel personally powerful, which allows us to be acutely attuned to our most sincere selves. In this psychological state, we are able to maintain presence even in the very stressful situations that typically make us feel distracted and powerless. When we feel present, our speech, facial expressions, postures, and movements align. They synchronize and focus. And that internal convergence, that harmony, is palpable and resonant — because it's real. It's what makes us compelling. We are no longer fighting ourselves; we are being ourselves. We create honest, powerful connection internally, with ourselves.
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