Understand
The Non-Physical Dimension of your work
Your office, your tools, your budget and your degrees make up the physical dimension of your work. The way you look at all of it makes up its non-physical dimension. The first is the same for many people. The second belongs entirely to you, and it is often what decides.
Six invisible dimensions
DNP is the set of inner dimensions that shape how you inhabit your work, and therefore the results you get. It becomes observable through six markers.
| Marker | Full glass | Empty glass |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | I first see what is working and what is possible. | I first see what is missing and what is threatening. |
| Intention | I know what I want to produce today. | I react to requests in the order they come in. |
| Energy | I enter the day with drive, and I find it again after a setback. | I enter the day holding back. |
| Presence | People leave lighter after talking with me. | People leave drained. |
| Story | I act, I build, I learn. | They force me, they stop me, it never works. |
| Intuition | I listen to what I know without explaining it, then I check. | I ignore it, or follow it without checking. |
The principle of the glass
Neither denial nor naive positive thinking.
Faced with a glass filled halfway, there are three attitudes. Denial refuses to see the empty part: you don’t look at the unpaid invoices, and the empty part grows in the dark. Naive positive thinking sees the empty part but covers it with encouraging phrases, without changing anything.
DNP looks at both parts, then chooses where to place its lasting attention. The empty part is noted once, turned into one specific action, and then attention returns to what builds.
The full doesn’t erase the empty. It turns it into action.
All is, and flows
All is. The present situation is real. You look at it squarely, without makeup and without drama.
And flows. It isn’t frozen. It moves, and you are part of that movement.
Four words to say to yourself just before you react. Three seconds to move from reaction to choice.
The method
GLASS, applied to payroll
A small-business owner takes a second look at a number that worries him.
- GGround in the facts
Payroll is 40% of my revenue.
- LLook for the full
My 14 employees produce $1.2M: every dollar of payroll brings in $2.50.
- AAmplify it
At $2.60, that’s $48,000 more in revenue, without hiring.
- SStep in
This week, I ask each team lead what is slowing their team down.
- SSave the proof
Friday: three obstacles identified, one removed right away.
The measure
The Level: your glass, every evening
Thirty seconds as you close the day. Four questions: how much energy did I work with? Where was my attention, on what was missing or on the full? Was my intention for the day clear? How many proofs did I write down?
The result, from 0 to 100, appears as a glass filling up. The seven-day trend matters more than today’s score.
Awakening
Four stages, one real criterion
Autopilot: the visible decides for you. Awakening: you perceive the invisible, but it still governs you. Mastery: you choose where your attention goes. Radiance: your state lifts the state of others.
The real criterion isn’t the absence of shocks, it is your recovery time back to the full after a shock. Months, days, hours, then minutes.