Last 8% Morning

In today’s session, JP describes what it means to choose acceptance, a critical part of the ETA strategy.  Acceptance - rather than being a passive approach to the challenging situations we face - is, instead, an active and wise path to meeting our Last 8% situations. 

In today's episode, JP shared this Rumi poem: 

The Guest House 

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival. 

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor. 

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out 

for some new delight. 

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. 

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. 

— Jalaluddin Rumi

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Each Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. on the Last 8% Project Facebook group, JP and his business partner Bill Benjamin go live to discuss resources and answer questions from the community. If you want to download the Last 8% Morning worksheet where you can build your Last 8% plan, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/. 

 Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

In today’s session, JP describes what it means to choose acceptance, a critical part of the ETA strategy.  Acceptance - rather than being a passive approach to the challenging situations we face - is, instead, an active and wise path to meeting our Last 8% situations. 

In today's episode, JP shared this Rumi poem: 

The Guest House 

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival. 

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor. 

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out 

for some new delight. 

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. 

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. 

— Jalaluddin Rumi

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Each Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. on the Last 8% Project Facebook group, JP and his business partner Bill Benjamin go live to discuss resources and answer questions from the community. If you want to download the Last 8% Morning worksheet where you can build your Last 8% plan, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/. 

 Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

Are you struggling spending so much time on your own during COVID-19? Are you feeling strong emotions or irritable or lethargic? In this session JP offers a three-point-plan to help you cope more effectively with social isolation.

We'd love to hear from you! Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

In 20 years, how do you want people to remember how you showed up during COVID-19? In this session, JP walks you through a step by step approach to strengthening identity in order to help you be your best in your more difficult, Last 8% moments.

We'd love to hear from you! Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.
Follow along on Twitter and Instagram.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

In 20 years, how do you want people to remember how you showed up during COVID-19? In this session, JP walks you through a step by step approach to strengthening identity in order to help you be your best in your more difficult, Last 8% moments.

We'd love to hear from you! Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.
Follow along on Twitter and Instagram.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

Do you sometimes find that you let the little things get in the way of how you want to live? Do you sometimes feel stretched and unable to get anything done or do anything particularly well? In today’s session, a reminder of what matters and a challenge for each of us, to really look at the choices we are making.

Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

Are you tired of feeling anxious? Tired of getting worn out by your thoughts?Ready to get a good night’s sleep? Whether you have a lot of anxiety or a little, in today’s session, JP brings the week of podcasts together to give you one overall strategy to help you conquer anxiety.

We'd love to hear from you! Join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/?ref=bookmarks.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

In this session, JP walks you through a step-by-step approach to interrupting the loop of anxiety that we can all get stuck in. Through this, you will develop a wiser relationship with your physical sensations, emotions and thoughts.

If you want to get more resources and hear JP live, please sign up for our Facebook Group, Last 8% Project, at https://www.facebook.com/last8morning. 

Are you finding yourself more irritable than you want to be? Do you sometimes get tired of not being able to relax and enjoy more of your moments?

This is Anxiety Week, and today we are going to build tools to manage anxiety so that you can enjoy more of your moments, and so you manage your anxiety every day and in your more difficult Last 8% Moments.

In order to conquer anxiety, we need to learn how our mind works. We need to become students of human behavior, starting with ourselves!

We need to bring a curiosity to our experience, about how our brain works so that we can see more intimately what goes on in us in order to take steps the necessary to change them. Here is one the most important things I have learned over the years:

We push things away we do not like we attracted to things we do like

Big insight, right? But it is true. We are taught from an early age to change our situation if we are not comfortable. 

The problem comes when it becomes our habit: that we have to change whenever we are uncomfortable.

Why? Because we end up in a constant to-ing and fro-ing trying to get things, just right. But the problem is that things are infrequently, just right.

Sometimes they are not very comfortable at all — and sometimes they are just neutral.

And, what do we do? We try to make it more comfortable or we try to change it so it is more interesting. I get a kick out of seeing people who are stopped at traffic light who can’t just sit there, no, they need to look down at their phone because having things be neutral is insufferable. If you are one of these people, just know you have lots of company, including me.

Why do I make this point?

Because when it comes the strong physical sensations, emotions or thoughts we experience with anxiety, we can habitually react to them. We don’t want to feel them, and we try to push them away.

When this happens internally — we can end up in the loop I talked about in the first podcast of Anxiety Week.

We need to find a way to interrupt the loop. We need to learn to be in wiser relationship with things that don’t feel good. How do we do that? Where do we start?

We need to understand our triggers, and these can come from both inside and outside:

• External — a person, or a situation or being in a certain environment
• Internal — thoughts about a future event or thoughts about something we haven’t finished, or body sensations, or emotions

Think about it for yourself — what are your triggers? Now that you know your triggers — take a moment and see where you feel anxiety in your body most strongly.

Where do you feel it most in your body?

How do these sensations feel like? Just bring a curiosity to them. Without trying to change them.Think about in terms of two barometers of pleasant, unpleasant or calm, not calm.

Even right now, you might be feeling some of the strong sensations just from thinking about them — now take a breath right into this part of that body, right where you feel these sensations most acutely.

Be curious about how it feels to breathe into this area.

Remember we are not trying to change anything. Just try watching it, bringing non-reactive, non-judgment to these sensations.

 Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In today’s session, JP begins Anxiety Week by examining what anxiety is, how it differs from fear, and specifically, how one crucial insight about anxiety can help free you from its clutches.

If you want to get more resources and hear JP live, please sign up for our Facebook Group, Last 8% Project, at https://www.facebook.com/last8morning.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help 

Do you feel overwhelmed when you walk into a difficult situation - into what we call a Last 8% situation? Do you sometimes feel less than your confident self? In today’s session, we strengthen our identity so we have an anchor for these situations, so we can be closer to our best during our Last 8% moments. If you haven’t listened to podcast number six, where we build our identity statement, you may want to go there first, but even if you don’t, you will enjoy this motivating session.

Join us on Facebook in the Last 8% Project, a community offering resources and support in this challenging time, linked here https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project.

Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

In a very short time, we are working from home, or we have lost our job, or are home schooling our kids, feeling the effects of isolating alone or possibly being with others in cramped quarters.

If this isn’t bad enough on its own, we are also facing the virus of fear that comes with uncertainty. Are things going to get worse? Are our loved ones going to be OK? Is it OK to end social distancing now? How long can we keep this up? These strong emotions make it difficult to form an effective response when we face the difficult decisions and conversations in front of us.

# Emotional Intelligence 
# Strategies 
# Get Disciplined 
# Get Motivated 
# Mindfulness 
# Self-Help