Last 8% Morning

Ever wondered what it takes to be successful? Or, happy? Or, build a great team and organization?

I do, every day!

And while the answer is multi-factorial – there are many answers - today, I give you an anchoring question to help you get pointed in the right direction. One that you can use to lead yourself, your team or your organization. You will also learn what an anchoring question is!

This is the start of Season 5 and I couldn’t be happier to be back with you.
Welcome to the Last 8% morning podcast!

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"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”—Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne

Did you know there are 3 Zones that we commonly live our life in?

Are you aware of where you spend most of your time?

Are you aware of the consequences of where you spend your time?

In today’s episode, we talk about the 3 Zones we spend our time in and how that can act to differentiate our careers and our org’s success.

Excited to be here?

I certainly am.

Let’s walk!

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“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”- Abraham Maslow

What do you when it feels like you are facing an impossible situation?

One where it feels like you have no control over?

That leaves you feeling helpless? Stuck.

First, know you are not alone.

Second, know there is something you can do about it, that you can form an effective response even if it doesn’t feel that way right now.

Dealing with truly difficult Last 8% situations, that is the topic of today’s episode.

Let’s walk!

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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act!”

 Amelia Earhart

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”

Seneca the Younger

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

You want to build a great team. But you face lots of pressure and stress to deliver on deadlines and to manage change. And it is hard.

And people are burning out. What to do?

It is in these moments, when we are under pressure, when we need to be especially aware of how we show up.

Because it matters. It sets the tone for the teams we are on, it creates the culture, it affects important things like burnout, and whether people stay or leave.

In today’s podcast, I discuss the importance knowing how we show up.

So glad you are here.

Let’s walk!

"The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?"
Arab proverb

"A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread."
Seth Godin

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You strive to do well in life. But you hit bad days, bad moments.

Challenging conversations that don’t go well. Tough decisions that you struggle with.

Or, maybe you are trying to eat more healthy, or exercise regularly and it’s just not happening.
What do you do when this happens?

This is the topic of this episode.

Let’s walk!

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This App can help you lock away distracting apps for complete focus.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C. S. Lewis

You want to have a positive impact on the young people in your life, whether it is your own children or the young people you influence.

So, you worry; you worry about whether they are eating well, exercising enough, growing the right skills, getting into the right schools, being influenced by the right friends, in a relationship with right girlfriend or boyfriend. And on and on...

But you are looking in the wrong place.

In today’s episode, I look at what has the single greatest effect on our children.

Let's walk!

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“The thing that has the single greatest effect on children is the unlived lives of their parents”.
Carl Jung

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
Seneca

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”-
Soren Kierkegaard

The best way out is always through.”-
Robert Frost

In today's podcast episode - the latest in our Science of Learning series - we address the best conditions for effective learning to take place.

You might be looking to develop a new skill, may it be a "hard skill" like technical writing, a skill related to people management or coaching skills. You may be a teacher, a professional in the Learning & Development industry or simply someone who wants to expand their knowledge and expertise. What can you do to create the best conditions for learning? And how does the concept of 85% - the title of today's episode - come into play?

We talk about all of this in today's show.

Let’s walk!

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“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
Peter Drucker

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

We often get caught in our thinking – hooked by the steady stream of emotions we experience and story’s that follow those emotions.

Does it matter that we hooked?

Beyond the fact that it is does not feel good to experience some of these emotions and thoughts in the moment, and if we are able to not let these emotions and stories seep out to impact others, does it matter that we experience these emotions and thoughts?

In today’s episode, we explore the neuroplasticity of thought and why it is one of the more powerful reasons why we practice.

Let’s walk!

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“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight.”
Traci Lea Larussa

You have hit a setback in a relationship.

Maybe it is with a partner. Or a good friend.

Maybe it is with a son or daughter.

And it hurts. And it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. And it feels like you have no control over the situation.  And you are feeling helpless and hopeless?

What to do?

That is the subject of today’s episode

Excited to be here? I certainly am.

Let’s walk!

Interested in finding out what your personality type is when you face a Last 8% situation?

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"If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don't ever die." - Leo Buscaglia

We are facing the holiday season and we will be spending time with family and friends and others who we don't ordinarily spend time with.

And there is a chance, a high probability in fact, that we could become more negative, more triggered, more emotional than we would like to be.

What to do?

In today’s episode we talk about why our brain is programmed to amplify the negative and what we can do about it.

Let’s walk!

Interested in finding out what your personality type is when you face a Last 8% situation?

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“The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face. When we feel resentment because the room is too hot, we could meet the heat and feel its fieriness and its heaviness. When we feel resentment because the room is too cold, we could meet the cold and feel its iciness and its bite. When we want to complain about the rain, we could feel its wetness instead. When we worry because the wind is shaking our windows, we could meet the wind and hear its sound. Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves. There is no cure for hot and cold. They will go on forever. After we have died, the ebb and flow will still continue. Like the tides of the sea, like day and night—this is the nature of things. Being able to appreciate, being able to look closely, being able to open our minds—this is the core of our practice.”

Pema Chodron