Last 8% Morning

What do you believe?

Not as in religion, but as in the beliefs you carry around with you? Your mindset.
And how does this belief or mindset affect your life, your behaviours and how you respond to Last 8% situations?

In today's show, we will explore mindset and belief from the perspective of the best research we have on the topic and how it matters to how we face our Last 8% situations.
Let’s walk!

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“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw

"The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed."
Michelangelo

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!

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

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

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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

When you have so much to do and you feel the pressure to deliver on so many things and you are having challenges in important relationships, or you are going through change, it is easy to lose sight of what matters. Easy to start to lose touch with how you want to live.

What do you when you face these challenges?

How do you respond when you are under pressure?

With the beginning of a new year, I am excited to offer a great tool to help you be your best in these moments.

Let’s walk!

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

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do you do when you prepare, prepare, prepare some more and try to have an effective Last 8% conversation but it doesn’t go well?

The other person doesn’t respond very well.

It can be disheartening.

And, worse, it can cause us to back down in the moment, or at a later date. And, we feel awful.

Today, we cover what to do when a Last 8% situations that doesn’t go well – and what we can learn from... women... in this respect.

We also have a really big announcement about when the Last 8% Academy, our digital course, launches. So exciting! Are you ready?

Let’s walk!

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

"As Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
Albert Einstein

"Ideas without action aren’t ideas. They’re regrets."
Steve Jobs

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
Buddha

We often struggle with small, everyday frustrations and even feel, at times, feel embattled. It could be in our relationships, or at work, or at home.

Today, we are going to look at why mindfulness and meditation is such a foundation for creating a life of both unnecessary suffering and more freedom and more joy.
Let’s walk!

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

"Step out of the tangle of fear thinking, and flow down and down into ever widening rings of being."
Rumi, 13th century, Persian Poet

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything — anger, anxiety, or possessions — we cannot be free.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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?

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

“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

How do we bring the practice of gratitude into work?

Many of us think of gratitude as something too soft and squishy for work, yet as we are finding in this Science of Gratitude series, it is anything but soft and squishy and is, in fact, something very powerful tool that can help us manage ourselves more effectively and stay resilient and positive.

In today’s episode, we present a specific tool you can use with your team at work so that you can get some of the powerful benefits of gratitude.

Let’s walk!

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

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

“Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky

“I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In today’s episode: are you finding that you are becoming more negative than you would like to be? Are you looking for a powerful, science-based, way to shake it up?
In today’s episode, the second in our gratitude series, we talk about best practice for building gratitude and why it matters for our brain and our career success and happiness.

Let’s walk!

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

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."
William James

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."
As A.A. Milne wrote in Winnie The Pooh:

"This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before."
Maya Angelou

You work hard and want to do well but are feeling stuck.

And finding that you are becoming more negative than you would like to be.
What to do?

In today’s episode we talk about two different pathways in our brain that have an impact on both our career success and our happiness and how a specific practice can help us shape our brain and our lives.

Let’s walk!

When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
—Vietnamese Proverb

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

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

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?

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quiz

You can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/

"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