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WHAT’S THE BEST GIFT YOU CAN MAKE TODAY?<\/span><\/div>\n

Still April\u2026 and a word starting with \u201cP\u201d\u2026 I admit that I had a long look in the dictionary to find the perfect inspiration. And it doesn\u2019t turn out I will be writing about perfection because I would be under too much pressure ;-)!<\/p>\n

PRESENCE is the word that I chose. What comes to your mind when you read that word? Maybe different things, like the radiance of a leader or of an actor on stage, or the fact of being physically in a room, or the fact of having one’s total attention to what’s going on in the moment. In her book \u201cPresence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges”, Amy Cuddy, Harvard social psychologist, gives the following definition: \u201cthe state of being attuned to and able to comfortably express our true thoughts, feelings, values and potentials<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

With this definition, it is needless to say that PRESENCE is an important success factor as it can also be associated with confidence, comfort level and even enthusiasm. Maybe some of you are currently thinking \u201coh, no, this PRESENCE thing is nothing for me because I\u2019m an introvert and only extrovert people can have it\u201d. Note that PRESENCE has nothing to do with introversion or extroversion: it is a state of being<\/em> that everyone can achieve.<\/p>\n

In our daily lives, PRESENCE can be summarized as ”the state of being when your complete attention is focused on the situation you are currently in”, whether during a meeting at work or a conversation with a family member or a dinner with friends, etc., regardless of how busy your mind can be or how difficult this situation is. You don\u2019t try to flee, you fully assume who you are\/how you feel\/what you think in that situation.<\/p>\n

How often do you attend meetings where people look at their phones or tablets all the time, being busy with something else than what the meeting is about? Maybe it\u2019s cool\u2026 to do busyness instead of business ;-)\u2026 Tell me, what\u2019s the point of having such a meeting? What\u2019s the point for these busy participants to attend at all if they have other things to take care of?<\/p>\n

We would like to believe that multitasking (being busy with many different tasks but not really PRESENT to one) is efficient but there are studies out there that mention it\u2019s just the opposite: it takes more time to execute each and every task and it\u2019s very likely that you\u2019ll make more errors. Who wants that?<\/p>\n

I agree that there are occasions when showing PRESENCE is no easy, as examples<\/p>\n