David Binns

You feel stuck because you’ve been leading from a version of you that isn’t real.

Here is my story...

I am one of the most intense people that I know. When I put my mind to something, nothing gets in my way. At the same time, I’m all over the place.

I’m where deep focus, structure, and intensity collide with fluidity.

For most of my adult life, I carried shame about this.

Over the last 6 years, I’ve learned to accept it as a gift.

It wasn’t until I stopped leading programs for one of the largest personal development companies on the planet that I fully owned who I am. Ironically, I led a program called “The Self-Expression and Leadership Program,” and by no means was I self-expressed.

I’m not here to throw darts. I’m beyond grateful for that chapter and the training.

I was trained at the highest level in this industry (think Navy SEALs of coaching), and at the same time, I was boxed into dogma and righteousness that crushed parts of who I am.

Here’s the truth…

Transformation happens when logic and frequency work in tandem. It’s a dance within you. It’s not just intellectual.

If I relied on intellect alone, I’d be telling you what everyone else says:

…Do more.
…Do this.
…Do that.
…Follow this strategy.
…Scale this.

I don’t play that game.

The masculine will only take you so far. Strategy will only take you so far.

You know this if you keep hitting the same wall.

The frequency domain—the feminine—is where I’m gifted.

My ability to see the unseen, hear the unsaid, and connect patterns isn’t coming from thinking. I don’t fully understand how I do it—I just do. It’s who I am.

Back to you…

Where are you living inside a version of yourself that isn’t you?

What rules are you following that don’t belong to you?

What have you suppressed just to be accepted?

Let go.

Lean in.

You already know your path.

…just so we are on the same page 🤓

These are the standards around here. This is for the few and not the masses…

This is not for everyone.

It’s for the few.

The few who are have had enough with being The Performer and are ready to walk across the bridge into Presence and be The Catalyst.

These are the standards around here.

Many are called and few answer the call.

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The hardest time of my life was from the summer of 2022 until December 2023. In January 2024, I was diagnosed with near adrenal failure by my functional medicine practitioner. I was “the walking dead” and just months away from being hospitalized.

What led to this was a wild situation my wife and I had to navigate for the better part of five years.

Perform, and you will survive.

I have been in the coaching and advisory space, formally, for 18 years. I’m not one of the “I did AYA once and now I’m here to save the world” coaches. You’d think I would have had the tools to deal with what was coming at me with more ease, grace, and power.

Apparently not.

It is abundantly clear to me now that God put this in my path so I would listen. Some of us need everything stripped away to finally hear His call.

As part of getting well, I had to take time off. There was no other option. The unknown was terrifying. I remember looking out my office window thinking:

“Who am I if I am not working or performing?”

I was having a full-blown identity crisis…

“Who am I without producing?”
“Who am I without filling programs?”
“Who am I without working?”

What it ultimately led me to was:

“Who am I without performing?”

I had been carrying a 2,000lb backpack for decades.

My life had been built on a foundation of performance.

Perform and you will be accepted.
Perform and you will be approved of.
Perform and you will be admired.
Perform and you will be respected.
Perform and you will be seen.
Perform and you will survive.

So who are you without performing?

I sat in that question for months. And as time passed, I became more and more terrified.

Then one morning, God spoke to me:

“Do what I tell you. Trust me. Have faith.”

Months later, it clicked.

Who I am without performance is Presence.

In the presence of God…
In the presence of my spiritual self…
In the presence of my body…
In the presence of my mind…
In the presence of my inner child…

When I am in the presence of the wholeness of who I am, anything is possible.

This can’t be undone.

It’s here to stay.

Let’s stop dressing this up.

Most of you are not leading your business.

You’re performing inside of it.

Trying to prove something.

Trying to maintain something.

Trying to not lose something.

And it works…

until it doesn’t.

Because Performance is unstable.

It requires constant input:

more effort
more energy
more control

And the second you slow down…

you feel it.

The anxiety.
The pressure.
The lack of safety.

Presence is a completely different way of operating.

No proving.
No chasing.
No forcing.

Just alignment.

And from that place:

• your standards rise
• your clients change
• your entire business reorganizes

Not because you tried harder.

Because you stopped performing.

Most high performers are trapped in a false reality.

what most people call high-performance is merely a reaction and compensation to the pain. They are in.

There is a path.

There is a process.

There is a formula.

The transformation from Performance to Presence is one that can never be undone. It’s sown into the fabric of your being. Forever.

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Being a Performer has an expiry date…

As I look across the entire industry, I can see the great spiritual reckoning that is well underway.

This is music to my soul.

Mark my words.

The future is presence. Presence cannot be understood. It can only be lived.

I will leave it at that for now.

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It’s time…

The longer we hide the worse it gets.

Performance keeps us trapped in a prison of repeating patterns.

That prison is a dark room down the hallway in your mind. It’s time to bring that to light.

With everything that’s happening in the world right now it’s very easy to get pulled in.

I am not immune to this. I’m a men with a very big heart. I care, a lot.

However.

Just because we care, it doesn’t mean we need to get pulled in.

I got pulled in.

I got pulled in to what’s happening in the industry and in the world.

It can happen to all of us.

What’s important is that we acknowledge that we get pulled in and we do what we need to bring ourselves back to center.

I’ve always looked at it this way…

Am I going to be the one to make the change?

In this case, the answer is no.

If the answer is no, drop it and move on with your business and your life.

If it’s not this thing, then it’s gonna be the next thing.

Remember, we all get to choose what we focus on. What we focus on expands.