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🎯 What’s Included

Skill Spotlight: Intention → Commitment → Action

Try This: The Intention → Commitment → Action Exercise

From the Community: Updates from our latest meetup + a shift in how we’re describing A² (basically the graphic below!)

Resource Corner: Tools for Intention → Commitment → Action

Join us IRL: A²’s next Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people is on October 16 at 6:30pm. We'll practice centering, reflecting, and catalyzing conscious connections from the heart together. It's a great laboratory to test living more authentically and to make authentic connections in an intimate setting.

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💡 Skill Spotlight

Intention → Commitment → Action is a practice that helps us drive our actions (tangible steps) from our commitments (goals), which are derived in turn from our intentions (values).

Intention → Commitment → Action can helps us:

1. Ensure that our resources (energy, focus, presence) are aligned with our vision.

2. Build towards a future that we are excited about

3. Live more authentically by “clearing the deck” of things that aren’t aligned for us

Practicing Intention → Commitment → Action helps us to avoid the feeling of “doing things” while getting nowhere.

🏃🏾‍♂️Try This

Are you interested in putting this into action?

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From The Community

This week’s Conscious Connection meetup

We had such a breadth of people come in, including:

• A tech founder who wants to run his company from a conscious place

• A breathwork facilitator whose superpower is self-love

• An ex-founder on career sabbatical just figuring shit out

We got deep. We bragged. We cried. It was beautiful, vulnerable, connecting, and soul-filling.

A shift in how we’re describing A²

(Copying from LinkedIn)

I had a chat with an A² member earlier this week that blew. my. mind. (shoutout Dave Gorum).

We were chatting about the essence of the community. After stumbling around trying to describe a "feeling" for a while, we landed on something awesome.

We both struggled to find spaces where we could meet other leaders that were like us.

→Traditional "networking" events are too "business-ey". Sometimes they’re great and other times they feel transactional, like building shallow connections over how to generate a higher return.

→ "Conscious" events (note: not religious) are amazing and soul-filling, but feel divorced from the day-to-day reality of being a business owner unless you literally run a monastery.

It sucks having to pick between these two spaces, and we don’t really feel at "home" in either space.

And then Dave said, "What I really love about Authentic Austin is that it's both of those. It's “spiritual networking".

🫨 JAW DROP. That's it!

We both want to connect with leaders whose creative path is business-building and also know that this game is bigger than just returns. That's what A² is all about. We're building Conscious Connection by inviting both the market-focused leader AND the spiritual seeker within you to the table.

Know anyone that’s looking for more of that in their life? I’d appreciate if you invite them to our next event!

📚 Resource Corner

• Book: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman - A philosophical exploration of time management that challenges traditional productivity advice

• Article: Your Life in Weeks by Tim Urban - A thought-provoking visualization of a human lifespan broken down into weeks

📆 Join Us IRL

A²’s next Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people is on October 16 at 6:30pm. We'll practice centering, reflecting, and catalyzing conscious connections from the heart together. It's a great laboratory to test living more authentically and to make authentic connections in an intimate setting.

📫 Our calendar is the hub for A² IRL gatherings. Subscribing is the easiest way to get notified of these!