Poker With Presence

Before you can play with creativity and flow, you need to generate a feeling a true acceptance of reality inside yourself.

When you learn how to savor, you can walk away from things free of regret

When we experience fear, our brain chemistry changes—and we become vulnerable to believing things to be true that we otherwise never would.

It's not about the words—it's about the feeling being experienced when the words come through.

Talking about your issues rarely is enough to solve them—and quite often just enables you to continue repeating your mistakes.

Sometimes the most profitable spot is the one you haven't even studied before.

You don't become a consistent high performer through a single moment of enlightenment. It only happens once you become the person who chooses presence—moment after moment, day after day.

The worst advice you can implement into your game in big moments is to "act like you've been there before," because you haven't—and trying to pretend you have will create tension in your system and take you out of presence.

Relaxing into your highest performance happens far more often when you are completely comfortable in your own skin—which means you've got to learn how to get out of the blame and criticism game, and deeper into the appreciation game.

When you don't know what to do, the best way to get to the answer is to focus on getting completely present and curious—and from there, you build your emotional resilience and let the answer find you.