3-6-9 Leadership: A Daily Rhythm for Presence and Clarity

Final Part 7 in The Frequency of Leadership Series

Leadership is often framed as output: what you build, what you drive, what you achieve. But beneath all of that is something more fundamental: how you move through the day. How you relate to yourself when no one’s watching. How you hold your frequency when things don’t go as planned. How you return, again and again, to the thread of what matters.

This is the deeper invitation. Not a method, but a way. Not a practice you do, but a posture you live from.

Living from rhythm is not about getting it “right.” It’s about honoring the full spectrum of the leadership experience.

Some days, your triad will guide you with clarity. Other days, it will feel like a distant signal. Some afternoons, you’ll return to your breath with grace. Others, you’ll forget entirely, and only remember when your body reminds you. Some evenings, you’ll close the day with peace. Others, you’ll close it mid-sentence, still tangled in the noise of the undone.

This, too, is the path.

What matters is not perfection. What matters is fidelity. The willingness to stay in relationship with yourself. The courage to keep returning.

Leadership as Frequency

When you lead from rhythm, you stop outsourcing your center. You no longer rely on external validation to feel steady. You don’t need constant clarity to keep moving. You become someone who can hold ambiguity without collapsing. Someone who can meet conflict without abandoning presence. Someone who can lead others without losing yourself.

This kind of leadership is less about control and more about coherence.

It doesn’t demand that you always have the answer. It asks that you stay available to the moment. That you move from alignment, not from image. That you allow your full humanity to be present in the room, and by doing so, create space for others to do the same.

As one executive reflected after a season of rhythm practice:
“I used to think leadership meant being the one who holds it all together. Now I understand, it means being the one who returns first. Who comes back to center, not just for myself, but for the room.”

The Full Spectrum

To live the full spectrum is to stop segmenting your life into boxes: work, rest, purpose, play. It’s to realize that leadership is not a role you step into, it’s a frequency you inhabit.

That frequency includes:

Focus and fatigue
Inspiration and inertia
Clarity and confusion
Strength and softness

All of it belongs.

The rhythm invites you to stop measuring your worth by how “on” you are. To begin measuring leadership by how present you are. How available. How attuned. And how willing you are to keep coming back to yourself, especially in the moments when it would be easier not to.

A Way of Being

The 3-6-9 rhythm isn’t a productivity system. It’s a pattern of return. A scaffolding for presence. A gentle reminder that alignment is not a fixed state, it’s a living relationship.

And when that relationship becomes central to your leadership, everything else shifts.

You begin to listen more deeply. To speak more truthfully. To move more intentionally. Not because you’re trying to be a better leader. But because you’re becoming a fuller human.

And that fullness, coherent, grounded, embodied, is what people trust most.

So let this be your way:
Not rigid, but rhythmic.
Not perfect, but present.
Not polished, but whole.

Return as often as you need to.
Pause when the signal gets muddy.
And let your presence become your offering.

A Closing Invocation

Let this be your rhythm:
Three words in the morning to name your way.
Six points at midday to come back to breath.
Nine minutes at night to remember who you are.

Let this be your prayer:
Not to be unshaken,
but to notice when you shake
and return with kindness.

Let this be your leadership:
To hold a room without holding your breath.
To move with power that doesn’t overpower.
To lead not from noise,
but from signal.

Let this be your way:
To belong to yourself first.
To let presence be your pulse.
To meet the day not as a battlefield,
but as a field of frequency, and invitation.

You do not have to be flawless.
You only need to be faithful.

Faithful to your rhythm.
Faithful to your return.
Faithful to the quiet knowing that presence,
honest and embodied,
is more than enough.

Let’s Keep Talking!

Peter Comrie
Co-Founder and Human Capital Specialist at Full Spectrum Leadership Inc.
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