Personal leadership begins...with a mirror.
     Welcome.  This is the teaching website for John Kuypers' work on developing personal leadership.  We coach and teach clients to focus on their present moment actions and reactions as a way to see themselves as if in a mirror.  This heightened self-awareness leads to positive, self-led growth in maturity, love and wisdom.
           

 

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The Twelve Principles of Present Living

The Twelve Principles of Present Living are our method help you connect with yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  Then take the Be More Present self-assessment test to find out which of these you need to practice in order to build a happier future.

  1. Health: You seek to be aware of and tuned in to your body, eagerly listening to its ever-present ability to offer you signals about what's going on inside you.

  2. Beliefs: You seek to let go of the "buttons" that trigger your frustrations, anger and fear, in order to accept the present moment as it actually is.

  3. Authentic You seek to be real by openly, playfully and respectfully revealing your true thoughts and feelings where not doing so is failing to be true to yourself.

  4. RiskYou risk the disapproval of others in order to be true to yourself, respecting their right to disapprove of you, and overcoming your natural desire to strike back if they do criticize or abandon you.

  5. Let GoYou seek to let go of your attachment to money, possessions and people  so that these outside pressures will not block you from being true to your quiet voice inside.

  6. FeelingsYou seek to overcome the illusory power of your feelings, neither suppressing them nor letting them drive your choices by blaming others in times of difficulty.

  7. WantsYou seek to pursue with passion that which you want from your presently available choices, neither seeking to relive the past nor fantasizing a future that may never come.

  8. Non-judgment: You seek to be non-judgmental, forgiving the flaws and mistakes made by you or by others without condemning them and without being a doormat.

  9. Boundaries: You seek to have clear boundaries, respecting the rights of others to be who they are while trusting yourself to defend that which is core to who you are on the inside.

  10. HumilityYou seek to put the needs of others ahead of yourself, secure in the knowledge that you lack nothing that is important and therefore are not needy.

  11. SurrenderYou seek to be aligned with God, anchored in the quiet promptings of his Holy Spirit that guides and prompts you intuitively in the moments you are still enough to hear Him.

  12. VulnerableYou seek to be open to hurts and rejection, in order to be true to yourself and respectful towards others.

You accept that you will regularly fail at any and all of these principles.
You accept that you can never walk this path in pursuit of perfection.
You accept that you benefit when you seek spiritual direction from God.
 
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