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A Practice for Presence, a Path to Mindfulness
Discover mindfulness through everyday life, learning to slow down, embrace awareness, and cultivate resilience, compassion, and purpose, one moment at a time, with intention daily.
My Skills
Practical mindfulness helps people cultivate resilience, compassion, purpose, and everyday awareness.
Greater awareness and resilience
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Greater clarity and compassion
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Purpose in everyday life
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What's Inside
Magic in the Moment
Magic in the Moment is an invitation to discover mindfulness through the ordinary moments of everyday life. Drawing from personal stories, timeless teachings, and practical reflection, Clayton Platt shows that awareness is not reserved for meditation alone but can be found while listening, working, connecting with others, or simply taking a breath. The book encourages readers to cultivate greater resilience, compassion, gratitude, and purpose by meeting each moment with curiosity instead of judgment, discovering that lasting change begins with paying attention to the life already unfolding before us.
Beginning Again
Every moment offers a fresh start, and you can take it from exactly where you are. Not where you meant to be. Where you are.
Listening
Real attention is rarer than we think, and more powerful. Curiosity and unhurried listening change a relationship faster than anything clever we might say.
Connection
We are built for belonging. Compassion isn't a soft add-on to a life — it's the structure of one.
Beginner's Mind
Assumptions close a door before we know it's there. Meeting things openly leaves room for the thing we didn't expect to learn.
Services Offered
Speaking & Teaching
Keynote speaking, panels, workshops, and faith-centered teaching.
Dasia speaks on identity, purpose, prayer, leadership, discipline, healing, prison reform, and faith-driven transformation. Her messages combine strategic insight with authenticity, equipping audiences to grow spiritually, emotionally, and professionally.
Strategic Consulting & Leadership Advising
Through strategic guidance and clarity-focused coaching, Dasia helps individuals and organizations strengthen vision, develop leadership frameworks, build systems, and align work with long-term impact. Her approach integrates identity, structure, and purpose.
Dasia partners with organizations, institutions, and leaders to advance justice reform, identity restoration, and access to opportunity. She brings a unique blend of advocacy, storytelling, and systems-level strategy to help build solutions that create measurable impact.
With a background in content creation, narrative strategy, and faith-centered storytelling, Dasia helps individuals and brands craft messages that inspire, influence, and connect. This includes book development, brand messaging, and high-impact storytelling projects.
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Built by Heart
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My Portfolio
Inspired by Detail
Built by Heart
With careful attention to detail and a deep connection to purpose. Here, creativity meets intention.With careful attention to detail and a deep connection to careful attention to detail and a deep connection to
Latest Articles
Mindfulness Reflections and Everyday Wisdom
Explore thoughtful articles on mindfulness, awareness, gratitude, compassion, resilience, and everyday purpose inspired by Magic in the Moment.
How to Start Where You Are: A Mindfulness Practice for Everyday Life
There is a common belief that we need the perfect time to begin something meaningful. We wait for life to become less busy, for our schedule to clear, or for ourselves to feel more prepared.
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Why Mindful Listening Strengthens Every Relationship
Every meaningful relationship begins with communication. We speak to share ideas, express emotions, solve problems, and connect with one another.
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The Importance of Connectedness in Building a Meaningful Life
Human beings are naturally drawn to one another. Throughout life, our relationships shape how we experience joy, face challenges, and discover purpose.
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Answers to Common Questions
Find answers about Magic in the Moment, its mindfulness themes, practical insights, and everyday applications.
Who is this book for?
Anyone who suspects there’s more available in an ordinary day than they’ve been getting out of it. You don’t need a practice, a tradition, or a quiet house.
I've tried meditation and it didn't stick. Will this help?
Probably, because the book isn’t mostly about sitting. It’s about the moments between the sitting — which is where nearly all of life happens, and where the practice actually pays.
How much time does this take?
The chapters are short by design. So is the practice. A single breath taken on purpose is a real beginning, and there is nothing precious about it.
What makes this book different?
It came out of five years of weekly writing rather than a single sustained argument, so it reads in small pieces. And it’s built on stories from an ordinary life — a dog, a tennis match, a flat tire on the Cross County Parkway — rather than on abstractions.
Do I need to believe anything in particular?
No. This is a practice of attention, not a set of beliefs. People arrive from every tradition and from none.
Do you work with organizations?
Yes — through InnerEdge Consulting and as a senior facilitator with Meditation4Leadership.
Answers to Common Questions
Find answers about Magic in the Moment, its mindfulness themes, practical insights, and everyday applications.
Why should I read Magic in the Moment?
If you’re looking for more peace, clarity, and purpose in everyday life, this book offers practical mindfulness lessons you can apply from the very first chapter.
Will this book help if I'm new to mindfulness?
Absolutely. Whether you’re just beginning or already practicing mindfulness, the book presents simple, relatable insights that fit naturally into everyday life.
What makes Magic in the Moment different?
Rather than focusing only on meditation, Magic in the Moment shows how ordinary moments, such as listening, gratitude, relationships, uncertainty, and daily choices, can become opportunities for lasting personal growth.