Exercise
When Nature Makes You Forget Yourself Exercise
For You: The Small Practice
- Seek Your Awe Spot: Find one place within fifteen minutes of your home or office where you can feel genuinely small— under a big sky, next to an old tree, near moving water, or overlooking a wide view. Visit it this week when you’re stuck in self-focused thinking. Notice how this creates small shifts in your perspective on current challenges.
- Wonder Hunting: For five days, spend three minutes each day actively seeking something in nature that sparks curiosity. How does that spider web stay so perfectly geometric? Why do those clouds form that particular shape? What makes that bird choose that specific branch? After the exercise, think about moments when you stopped thinking about yourself and started wondering about what you’re observing.
Your Team: Perspective Shifting
- The Humbling Meeting: Hold one team meeting outside with the most expansive natural view accessible from your workplace, even if it’s just a parking lot with open sky. Spend three minutes in silence looking up or out before discussing business. Notice how the shift in scale affects the conversation about workplace challenges.
- Shared Wonder Check-ins: Start one meeting per month by having everyone share something from nature that recently caught their attention and made them curious (not just “It was pretty” but “I wondered how/why . . .”). Notice how the conversation shifts when people talk about wonder rather than work problems.
I’m Danielle B. Baldwin—coach, facilitator, keynote speaker, and proud firestarter.
I work with curious, courageous leaders who are ready to grow beyond what’s safe and into what’s next. Whether it’s in the boardroom, the backwoods, or the pages of my new book Sparking Greatness, I help people find clarity, ditch burnout, and lead with heart. My job? To make you feel seen, challenged, and just uncomfortable enough to change.