You have been performing your life for so long, you have forgotten what it feels like to actually live it.

You have mastered The Art of War to conquer your enemies. You have studied The Art of Happiness to manage your emotions. You have practiced The 7 Habits to optimize your effectiveness. Yet, despite the strategies, the accolades, and the milestones, you still feel like you are reading from a script written by someone else. This is not a life. This is a rehearsal that never ends.

In this groundbreaking prequel to the The Being Condition series, Sterling Kael offers a compassionate but uncompromising wake-up call to a generation exhausted by "doing." Before you can learn to be, you must first realize that you are asleep. We have built a civilization of controllers living in performance mode, mastering external strategy while ignoring internal presence.

The Art of Being: Wake Up to Your Own Life is not another book about what to do. It is a mirror held up to the mask you wear. It is the essential prerequisite to authentic existence?the book that must be read before all others. Being precedes doing. Presence precedes strategy. Existence precedes achievement.
Wake up. Not tomorrow. Not after you achieve one more thing. Now.