{"id":2162,"date":"2020-03-09T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giuliavillirilli.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2020-04-05T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:56:44","slug":"roots-wings-1-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giuliavillirilli.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/09\/roots-wings-1-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots & Wings – Lunch break #1 – Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said: “There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings.<\/em>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026and what about leaders? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lunch breaks have always been a good moment of my day. In my corporate\nyears, I sometimes had lunch on my own, reflecting about life or reading in a\ncosy cafe. When I shared the meal with some colleagues and friends, the topic\nwas often a conceptual one. These conversations provided oxygen and brought us\nback to the roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This series will include some of the concepts that were shared over a\nmeal, hoping for more conversations to occur. If the roots are solid, the wings\nlead to the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy the breaks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch break #1\u2013 Consciousness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.\u201d- Lucius Annaeus Seneca<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One day in October I was having lunch on my own, when I saw the essay\n\u201cDe Brevitate Vitae\u201d lying on the table. I had read the book twice already in\nmy native language, but it \u201ccalled me\u201d again. The words of Seneca always hit me\nwith the same power, no matter how often I read them: \u201cYou act like mortals in\nall that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”. I remember\nme looking outside the window and telling to myself: \u201cWhy if I know this, I am\nnot really applying it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seneca went on: \u201cThe part of life we really live is small. For all the\nrest of existence is not life, but merely time.\u201d His call to consciousness was\nstrong. He invited me to be \u201ctime-conscious\u201d and be mindful on the way I was\ngiving away the most precious resource I possessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word \u201cconsciousness\u201d stems from the Latin conscientia, conscire,\nthat is cum (with) and scire (knowledge). To me it means be awake and be aware\nof what we are doing with our days and ultimately, our existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time-consciousness is one of my favourite criteria when looking for role\nmodels. The way leaders deal with their and other people\u2019s time signals the way\nthey think and execute. I like to consider leaders as examples of excellent\ntime-consciousness, that is, examples of lives lived fully and honouring the\nprecious gift of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My commitment that day was to be increasingly more conscious of the way\nI spend my time and the time I demand from others. The actions I took were\nlinked to freeing up space and time. Material decluttering, questioning every\nitem on my to-do list, freeing up as much space as possible in my calendar.\nEssentially, I planned to have and do less and this allowed me to focus my\nenergy on what matters the most to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which are your ways of being more time-conscious and fully living your days?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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