I started 2010 the same way I spent most of 2009 – in a state of constant mental and physical motion. Right now I’m sitting in an airplane heading to San Francisco wondering why am I traveling again. I’m not ready for moving into action or leading, or results. I’m ready to hang out with my kids and my wife. I’m ready to get some extra sleep and not worry about the world.

Do we (those overextended, passionate, committed leaders – I think this is most of us!) who seem to carry the weight of responsibility and accountability ever stop and say no to more work? Do we ever say, “I need renewal, I need to think about me, I need to pay attention to what is going on inside me?” I know I have a hard time with all of that.

Time to try something different, something that I think about but don’t often do. So, I propose that creating results and moving into action starts with stillness and with breathing, gradually flows into relationships, and then creation.

I’ll let you know how my experiment with stillness and breathing goes.