Part of what it means to be a person of presence is to pay attention to what is happening around you—both in the place where you live and among the people who live there too. If you want to be a person of presence, it’s important to pay attention to what is happening within you as well. But you can’t be present to everything all the time. One way to cultivate presence might sound counterintuitive: it’s actually by your absence. Not your absence from people or responsibility, but absence from the things that are keeping you from your people and your responsibilities.
