Last 8% Morning

You hear the voice in your head again: If only you had the courage to say what you felt inside. If only you had given a hard “no” to that unnecessary request. If only you had confronted the employee who was letting the team down.

These “if only” moments can show up as a clench in your gut or a lump in your throat and are at the heart of why 85% of people die with a significant regret in their life.

This is not the life you want to live. In this episode we describe what it means to be a Last 8%er and how it can help you move beyond 'If Only' 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/

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

"If you make choices from your heart, for the right reasons, how can you go wrong?"
Nettie Pawliw

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!

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/

“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

It is almost like clockwork: I finish a keynote and one of the first questions I get asked is: but what if the other person is not open to having a difficult conversation, or as we call it, a Last 8% conversation? What can we do in this case?

In other words, what do we do when it feels like we are facing a challenging situation with someone, we want to give them important feedback, for example, but this person has no interest in dealing with the issue and talking about it? It can feel like we have no control over the situation and it can leave us feeling helpless.

This is the topic of today’s episode.
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 we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
- Byron Katie

Creating a great team or organization (or family) requires doing difficult things, entering into the Last 8%. It's a place where we can face conflict and challenge, where conversations, decisions or relationships may get difficult.

When most people think of Last 8%, they immediately see a threat, crisis, or something negative. And they reflexively avoid.

Today, we talk about how we can see our Last 8% differently. As an opportunity and as something that is happening for us as opposed to something that happening to us.

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/

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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!

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/

“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 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!

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/

“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

You are on a team and in the middle of an important project but are struggling; the team is not collaborating as well as it could be, people are not feeling emotionally connected and the project is suffering.

Failing even. You are not sure what to do.

If this sounds familiar – on a team at work, or in your organization, or even at home, know you are not alone. Know, however, though that there is something you can do about it.

In today’s episode, we explore how we can collaborate more effectively and work better, together.

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/

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
― C.S. Lewis

You want to build great relationships. Be connected to the people you work with and live with. Given how much time we spend with people at work, building great relationships matters. But how come we sometimes start to feel disconnected from people we work and live with?
In todays episode we explore something called making bids to better understand how we can emotionally connect with people.

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/

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
Robin Williams

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

Feeling a bit overwhelmed?

Wanting more out of life?

Well, you have come to the right place.

Welcome to Season 4 of the Last 8% Morning podcast!

Today, I outline our focus for this season and invite you to walk with me every day so that you can create the habits and insights and tools to live with more courageous and less regret so you can have the exceptional life and career you desire!

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/

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Each mindful breath, each mindful step, reminds us that we are alive on this beautiful planet,” “We don’t need anything else. It is wonderful enough just to be alive, to breathe in, and to make one step.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler

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

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Are you finding that it is easy to become negative? Down on yourself about your circumstances, or the people in your life, or your job, or even, yourself?

Is it getting you down that you are becoming negative? Kind of a double whammy...
Today, we are going to look at the negative thoughts we can all have `and try to understand them for what they are, so they can have less of hold on us and so we can live more at ease and create the life we desire.

Let's walk!

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
Marcus Aurelius

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
Pema Chödrön

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
Buddha

Interested in finding out what your personality type is when you face a Last 8% situation?
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If you're new to the Last 8% Morning, over the course of 15 minutes we integrate movement, mindfulness, and mental training exercises. Why? So we can build the skills necessary to be our best in our more difficult moments, what we call the Last 8%. What are these skills? These are skills of emotional intelligence. Why? We do this because it is emotion that gets in our way.

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As always, the work continues:
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Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
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