DJ Cronin: Mindful Leadership ™ ® ©

 The Mindful (Or Mindless) Leader

We hear a lot about mindfulness in the world place today. But what does it truly mean?

After 25 years in leadership, I have discovered what it means. Bear in mind, this is only in the last 12 months or so.

In November 2022 my best friend died. John had introduced me to a new way of thinking. He introduces me to "The power of Now" and Eckhart Tolle. He introduced me to " A Course in Miracles"  and much more knowledge. I thought he was crazy.

But I still refer to these books today.

Later I had a medical procedure which saved me from having cancer in 2 to five months.

I took my family to Ireland although I always thought it would be too expensive.

But it manifested.

Then one day soon after I came back, it happened. Every opinion and feeling dropped way and I was frozen to the road as I walked my dogs. Stress and fear fell away. How can I label this experience with words. 

Because they all point to something that cannot be properly labeled with words. In words they label it mindfulness, being, God, consciousness, Buddha consciousness, Jesus' consciousness and a so-called awakened state. 

But words mean nothing. 

We react to labels. As the philosopher Alan Watts stated “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own"

The true leader must be devoid of labels. Label them a thought leader or expert and you have labeled then what you truly are in essence. 

When you are truly living in presence you know that the now always is and always has been and will never end.

Then the conscious or the mindful leader emerges.

You become more compassionate, more loving and more present in peace. You are still present in being, but your illusions of leadership slowly dissolve. You meet people where they are at now. You don't judge. You allow. Everything is as it is. You drop identification of mind. You actually become mindless. Not mindful.  Yet by this recognition alone you begin to radiate love, compassion and forgiveness for all that appears on your screen.

You become the mindful leader. You lead with love which becomes your primary focus and in that focus you never truly fail.

Wherever you go, there you are. You accept this and you accept everything that comes into your consciousness as thought and opinion as just that. You become that. That I am. And from there everything you wish for that is positive to you becomes reality in the unreal.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

You can be a leader who does nothing, or you can be a leader that changes the world. It's your choice and neither choice means anything. But which would you choose? Now.