Last 8% Morning

With the pandemic receding and things returning to some kind of normal, have you put on your pre-pandemic clothes yet and found that they...ahh ...no longer fit anymore?

Well, I have and it wasn’t much fun.

 But really, are you frustrated at how difficult it can be to maintain a certain weight?

Today, we give you an insight that can make all of the difference in helping you get to and maintain your desired weight and be healthy.

Let’s walk!

Interested in finding out what your biggest mistake is when you face a Last 8% conversation? To take our assessment go to: last8percent.com/quiz.

You can learn more about the Last 8% Academy at https://last8percent.com/

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”

— Kristen Neff
 

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

— Louise L. Hay

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

— Jack Kornfield

Are you letting fear rule your life?
Are you allowing it to hold you back and keep you stuck?
Are you wanting to challenge yourself to create a different life?

In today’s episode, I want to challenge you around a central question: are you willing to sacrifice who you are for who you could be?

It is an exciting episode today – we have a big announcement at the end!

Are you excited to be here?

I certainly am!

Let’s walk!

 
Announcing the Launch of the Last 8% Academy!

To learn more about how you can transform your life and career and live with more courage and less regret with The Last 8% Academy, our 6 week digital/live course go to: last8percent.com/quiz where you will get an opportunity to take an assessment to find out what the biggest mistake is that you make when it comes to Last 8% conversations.

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.'
-Marie Curie

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
-Louisa May Alcott

“You 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

You want to do a good job. You want to feel productive and purposeful at work. You want to create a good life for you and your family. But you face challenges – and stress and you want to be better at handling challenges and stress.
In Today’s episode, we spend more time that usual in the practice of mindfulness and use it to watch our thoughts with more accuracy.
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"With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification."
Jack Kornfield

"When we are identified with our thinking mind, our experience of life is constricted and limited to an opaque screen of words, images, concepts and labels – second-hand representations of life that might as well be a movie on a screen."
Eckhart Tolle

"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now."
Eckhart Tolle

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!

"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,

What do you do when you are staring at a task that is important, but for whatever reason, you continue to put it off? It brings up strong emotions in you and is part of what is keeping you stuck in your career or in your life?

This is known as a Last 8% task.

In today’s episode, we explore why we procrastinate on our important, Last 8% tasks.

Let's walk!

"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford

“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.”
Andrew Weil

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” —Stephen King

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
― John Ruskin

In today’s episode, we work hard to be our best in our Last 8% moments not just because it serves us or because it helps us be our best self and grow our career and relationships, though that is certainly one of the great benefits.

We work hard, we practice, because we want to have a bigger impact on the world around us, we want to have a more intentional impact on our world.
In today’s episode, we explore our motivation for why we practice and why we are engaged in this Last 8% project.
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“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
Pema Chodron

“If your actions inspire people to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Mahatma Gandhi

Have you ever walked out of a Last 8% situation and thought: yikes, I don't think that went too well.... 
It can happen. In these moments it is very possible to lose all perspective and think everything is going to crap. What to do in these moments? 

That’s what we talk about in today’s episode: what can we do to be more resilient when a last 8% situation goes poorly. How do we maintain perspective? Plus I will give you the correct starting date for our Last 8% Academy digital course - as opposed to the incorrect one I told you last week!

Let's walk!

"Coaching is not teaching at all, but is about creating the conditions for learning and growing."
John Whitmore

“Experience is not what happens to you; experience is how you interpret what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley

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!


"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

Have you ever walked into a situation that you knew was going to be difficult, where you had to give feedback to someone or you needed to deliver a tough decision that you knew was not going to make people happy, and then, as opposed to stepping in and doing what was required and delivering the information, you backed off? You avoided it?

In this episode, we want to understand why we avoid, and what we can do to deal with it better.

Let’s walk!

"You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both."
Brene Brown

"If your dream only includes you, it is too small."
Ava DuVernay

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In order to not be left behind, we must learn as fast as the world is changing.

However, that is not easy to do today as 96% of people who start a digital course never finish it.

Why is that? In today’s episode, we explore the role of social learning in changing that percentage.

Let’s walk!

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them ...”

Aristotle

“The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.”

Paul Halmos

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” 

Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor