The CEO Superpower You’re Probably Ignoring
Let me guess.
You’ve read the strategy books and listened to the podcasts
You’ve hired the consultants.
You’ve scaled, grown, pivoted, maybe even exited.
But tell me this—when’s the last time you got out of your own way?
Most business owners/CEOs I meet don’t have a performance problem.
They have a mental grip problem.
They’re so busy trying to force outcomes, they forget that clarity—real clarity—never comes from tightening your jaw and doubling your hours.
It comes from loosening your grip.
The Real Edge Isn’t Hard Work
Don’t get me wrong—work ethic matters.
But the next level of leadership isn’t about grinding harder.
It’s about seeing clearer.
That’s why I tell Founders/CEOs: If your mind is noisy, your strategy will be too.
You can hire the best people in the world, but if your inner world is chaotic, you’ll infect every room you walk into.
Here’s what they don’t teach you in business school:
Your best ideas don’t come from staring at a spreadsheet.
They come when you’re walking, relaxed, and importantly…not trying to figure it all out.
This isn’t woo-woo. It’s neuroscience. It’s performance psychology. It’s what the best athletes and artists have known for years:
Pressure kills creativity. Stillness unlocks it.
Surrender Is Not Weakness
Most high performers flinch at the word “surrender.”
They think it means giving up.
But what it really means is this:
Stop trying to make life and business obey your preferences.
Instead, start listening to what life is actually asking of you.
That shift changes everything.
It turns the Monday you were dreading into the exact day a breakthrough lands.
It turns the team conflict into a moment of radical clarity.
It turns your fear of losing control into the freedom to finally create something real.
A Devastating Change Led To Transformational Impact
I remember how devastated a client was when there was a major change in the regulations around their industry. For them it meant 7 figures off the bottom line.
We had to really WORK to keep his state of mind in the right zone. He was forced to change a huge amount of his business.
Where it gets interesting is that because of those forced changes he saw a new opportunity. Something he would never have stepped into.
He took the opportunity and created a new element to his business, which ultimately over the next 5 years became the most profitable.
Several year later he exited the business, selling for a life changing sum.
Afterwards he said this to me:
“If that regulation change hadn’t happened, there is no way I would have created the new division and now way my business would have been valued at the level it was. What I thought was terrible turned out to be perfection.”
Try This (It’ll Mess With You—in a Good Way)
Next time something doesn’t go your way—an email ignored, a pitch declined, a result delayed—pause and ask:
“What if this is the path?”
Don’t fix it. Don’t fight it. Just feel it.
Let it unfold a little further before you interfere mentally.
Most people act too soon.
The few who wait… they often end up leading entirely new industries.
The Real Game Is Inner Mastery
Whatever way you cut it, business is tough.
Markets shift. Competitors copy. People disappoint.
But the inner game?
That’s the game nobody else can touch.
You win it by doing the opposite of what you’ve been taught:
Less forcing, more allowing.
Less noise, more noticing.
Less ego, more awareness.
The greatest CEOs I’ve worked with don’t always have the best pitch decks.
But they do have something else:
A quiet mind, a clear gut, and a deep trust in the flow of life.
That’s the edge. The inner edge.
And it’s yours—if you’re ready to surrender your grip and step into something far more powerful.
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