Opening To “The Deepest Places Of Your Heart”
“This is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”- Scottie Scheffler, world’s #1 golfer
In this issue:
- Success Beyond Success
- Zen of Coaching: An Online Training For Coaches
- A Favorite Quote, by Joanna Macy
Scottie Scheffler has 17 career professional wins. He is often compared to Tiger Woods as one of the greatest golfers of all time. He made these statements after a recent victory:
“It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling…And then it’s like, what are we going to eat for dinner?”
“This is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from the sense of the deepest places of your heart…There’s a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life and then you get there and all of a sudden you get to number 1 in the world and you’re like what’s the point?”
Why practice meditation and mindfulness? To go deeper, to be curious about birth and life and death, to aspire to know your heart, to aspire to live a life of wonder, to find success beyond success.
Here is a short statement by Shunryu Suzuki from a recent book Becoming Yourself:
“Usually our mind is filled with something like ice cream or bananas or how much the soap costs in one store compared to another or by looking at the newspaper and seeing an ad for a sale. So it is almost impossible to share the actual feeling we have where we are right now.”
In some way, great success is not so different than eating ice cream or bananas. To go deeper, to find success beyond success, requires being aware of and exploring what we are feeling, what’s beneath the surface, in this moment. This is easy to say, not as easy to do. How? Practice!
Practice:
In meditation or anytime – Open your mind. What are you feeling? What’s in your heart?
Zen of Coaching: For Executive Coaches: Transforming Others, Becoming Your Best Self, Changing The World
An online course, beginning October 24th
Coaching is a way of helping others find the deepest places of their hearts.
Program Overview
Zen of Coaching is a transformational program for executive coaches and leaders who want to deepen their presence, expand their impact, and build a coaching practice rooted in wisdom, not just performance. Blending Zen principles, mindfulness, and real-world leadership experience, this course—created by Marc Lesser, the Zen teacher and CEO who helped bring mindful leadership to Google—supports you in cultivating stillness, navigating complexity, and coaching with greater authenticity, clarity, and purpose.
To register and for more information.
A Favorite Quote, by Joanna Macy
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.”
Joanna Macy died on July 19th at age 96. She was a wonderful writer, activist, and human.
Warmest regards,
Marc