Poker With Presence

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

When you think you're bored, it's likely that there's much more going on behind the scenes.

When you choose from presence, you'll often choose the exact same thing as if you're not—but the process is still priceless.

Going after what you want most means also being willing to face and get present with all possible outcomes—a vulnerable, but powerful position.

When you learn how to feel presence and connection in one aspect of life, it very easily translates to everything in your world.

If you're overly attached to winning, it also means that you haven't trained yourself to be present with the feelings that come with losing—and it will eventually bring you down.

To get to levels you've never reached before, you need to keep increasing your capacity to have more of what you want—otherwise you'll always bring yourself down when you reach your limit.

If you have big goals, what you do matters so much less than how you do it.

Presence is universal, and gives you the stability and confidence to grow and learn new things at a much faster rate than you otherwise would.

Michael Jordan's emotions no the court were often unprovoked, but it was very much real to him—and so was his ability to channel it into incredibly high performance.