Sit Still & Be Quiet – A most effective Deal Making Strategy
One of my daily strategies for successful deal making is to simply close my eyes in the morning, be quiet, & sit still. You probably know this as meditation.
For the past 15 years, I’ve had a nearly daily habit of meditating each morning for anywhere from 3-30 mins. The time isn’t important to me anymore. 3 mins is just as good as 22 mins. (I used to set a timer for 20 mins and try to make it to the end. That actually was a bit stressful)
On days where I remember the mediation I notice an increase in effectiveness, better decisions, and a more calm approach to life.
I credit this meditation habit for my ability to remember tiny, specific details of any one of the 190 deals we have working at any given time.
Science shows that people who meditate have more gray matter in their brains and more brain activity on brain scans. Perhaps a mental edge can be gained through mediation?
How do you Meditate?
I meditate by closing my eyes, sitting straight up in a chair with my legs uncrossed and feet on the floor. I am not flexible enough to sit on the floor like a monk.. Â Then I focus on my breath.
I’m not trying to “think” of anything, but if any thoughts come up, I try to refocus on my breath and not react to those thoughts.
I actually say a prayer before the practice each day, and as I sit calmly, I sometimes visualize certain events of the coming day. I intend to see the best way to approach those events during the meditation.
How would those events unfold if I got lucky? Is there anything I need to do or say to create that outcome? Any preparation I should do when my meditation is done?
Over the years I’ve seen countless good outcomes during that 3-30 min morning meditation. Many of those good outcomes then came to pass in real life-sometimes because of the ideas received during that meditation.
While it’s probably not what you expected from the subject line, this is the unfiltered truth one aspect of Deal Making I’d guess almost no one has ever talked about.
A few billionaires who share this habit include Ray Dalio & Brad Jacobs. Not to mention Einstein. If it was effective for those guys, surely I couild  improve my results a little by modeling them, right??