Stop Your Next Presentation to Honor the Now

I am always thinking about what’s next at work. (Even on vacation sometimes, like now.) But at our recent, all-team meeting I made a conscious decision to stop. And I did something I have never done before — I interrupted my presentation and asked everyone to stop too. I wanted us all to take a moment to be in the “now.”

It was a purposeful break with a message — the new is not always better than right now. Sometimes now is all there should be.

There is always a new feature, new project, new...