Commitment number two is about making the choice to value curiosity over being right.
What we explore in conscious leadership is that the ego is deeply attached to being right,
And that one of the centerpieces of all the dramas of our life is the need to prove that we're right,
To be seen as being right.
In this practice,
We'll notice that attachment to being right.
Let's begin by just taking a couple of deep breaths down into your belly.
Every time we return to the breath,
It's like coming home.
It brings us back into the moment and to our center.
So just allow yourself to rest in this moment.
Just simply following the breath in and out.
Allowing yourself to simply be.
We spend so much of our lives doing,
Achieving,
Accomplishing.
So much of our lives are filled with busyness.
So see if you'd be willing in this moment to just give yourself the gift of being,
And being.
Now allow it to come into your consciousness and issue from your life something in your life that you're wanting to be different than it is.
You're wanting it to change.
It could be a person that you want to be different than they are,
Including yourself.
It could be a circumstance that you wish weren't the way it is.
And begin by just letting the movie of this issue play in your mind.
See the pictures,
Hear the sounds.
Actually,
Let your body begin to feel what it feels when this movie of this issue plays.
And then allow yourself to notice what it is about this issue that you want to be right about.
Maybe you want to be right that your boss should treat you with more appreciation.
Or that your client should buy your product.
Or that your teenager should treat you with more respect.
Or that you shouldn't be the weight that you are.
Let yourself find the thing about which you want to be right.
All of us have that thing.
And begin by just welcoming wanting to be right.
Just let yourself want to be as right as you do.
In fact,
Let yourself welcome believing that you are right.
And then see if just for this moment,
As best you can,
You'd be willing to set aside being that you're right.
See if you'd be willing to let go,
Again just for this moment,
Of proving to yourself or to others that you're right.
And see if you'd be willing to rest as that which is beyond being right.
And if you'd be willing just for this moment to let that person or yourself or the circumstance or condition be just as it is.
Then you probably notice that when you get a little less attached to proving you're right,
A little less invested in changing yourself,
The other,
The circumstance or condition,
You experience some peace.
The struggle that we have in life,
The suffering that we endure,
Doesn't come from things being just the way they are.
It comes from us wanting to change them.
And wanting to be right about the way they should be.
So in this moment,
Again as best you can,
Would you be willing to simply let go?
Let go of your need to be right,
To prove that you're right.
And simply relax into the moment and let it be just as it is.
Good.
