Last 8% Morning

There's this crucial moment when you must confront a very uncomfortable situation, it could be in a work meeting, a difficult conversation you need to have with someone or maybe a tough decision. But instead of facing it, you back off, you avoid it. This is a last 8% situation, and it’s what’s might be keeping you stuck in your life and in your career.

In today’s episode, we explore a path to being more effective in these difficult last 8% situations so you don't let critical moments pass you by and feel regret that you didn't take your shots.
We also make a big announcement we are so excited about!
Let's walk!

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
— Mark Twain

"Man's ind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

With all you have going on, do you find that you are feeling less joy in your day? Less happiness? Less enjoyment? It is not surprising given the challenges we all face today.

Is it possible to find a way to live less in the future or less in the past? Today, we explore a path to be a bit more present in the moment so we can live with more joy in our life.

Let's walk!

“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.”
Eckhart Tolle,

"Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your life very deeply."
Thich Nhat Hahn

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.”
Dalai Lama

"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."
Thich Nhat Hanh

We are In the middle of yet another wave of Covid affecting North America, Europe and the world, and it is clear that we are in for a challenging spring and it feels frustrating because, haven’t we been here before?

In today’s episode, what do we when we feel disheartened? What tools can use to manage the hardship and pain we are experiencing?
Let's walk!

"I am a more sensitive person, a more effective pastor, a more sympathetic counselor because of Aaron’s life and death than I would ever have been without it. And I would give up all of those gains in a second if I could have my son back. If I could choose, I would forgo all of the spiritual growth and depth which has come my way because of our experiences. . . . But I cannot choose."
Rabbi Harold Kushner

"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."
Viktor Frankl

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
Vaclav Havel

Do You experience pain? Do you experience suffering?

While it is not something people want to talk about or admit, pain and suffering are part of life for everyone. It can be from something going in our relationships or at work or in our personal life and while we experience pain, suffering is optional.

Today we will explore the difference between pain and suffering and see if understanding this difference helps us live with more wisdom.

Let’s walk!

In the next few weeks, we will be making an announcement about something we are working on that we are very excited about it. We think you will be too! Look for it.

“When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid.” – Pema Chödrön

After working different during the pandemic, will this experience change how we work in the future?

Today, we are going to look at what we need in our work environment so that we can be more effective, productive and create the career, life, relationships and impact we desire.

Let's walk!

"Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention."
Sharon Salzberg

"Intentions shape light. They set light into motion. Each intention--anger, greed, jealousy, compassion, understanding--sets energy into motion, sets patterns of light into motion."
Gary Zukav

You want to be productive, you want to get things done. You want to progress in your career. You also want to find more ease and happiness in your life. Is it possible to have both?

In this episode, we look at a path to try to do just that.

Let’s walk!

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.”
Pema Chödrön

“Live your life as an experiment.”

Pema Chödrön

Are you working on an important project or creative piece and struggling? Finding that you are getting caught in your thoughts? Worried that it won’t work out successfully? Worried it won’t have the impact you think it can have? 

Is it getting you down? Affecting your confidence and your courage?

Today, we are going to look at that way to think about that VOH so it has less of hold on us and so we can live more at ease and create the life we desire.

Let’s Walk!

“In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is.”
Pema Chodron

“When we become more insightful and compassionate about how we ourselves get hooked, we spontaneously feel more tenderness for the human race. Knowing our own confusion, we’re more willing and able to get our hands dirty and try to alleviate the confusion of others."
Pema Chodron

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.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.

As always, the work continues:
This is a great article that details the "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice."
Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

Are you working on an important project or creative piece and struggling? Finding that you are getting caught in your thoughts? Worried that it won’t work out successfully? Worried it won’t have the impact you think it can have? 

Is it getting you down? Affecting your confidence and your courage?

Today, we are going to look at that way to think about that VOH so it has less of hold on us and so we can live more at ease and create the life we desire.

Let’s Walk!

“In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is.”
Pema Chodron

“When we become more insightful and compassionate about how we ourselves get hooked, we spontaneously feel more tenderness for the human race. Knowing our own confusion, we’re more willing and able to get our hands dirty and try to alleviate the confusion of others."
Pema Chodron

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.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.

As always, the work continues:
This is a great article that details the "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice."
Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

Do you struggle when things go wrong with a project, or a relationship, or a job? Do you get frustrated when you don’t hit your numbers and your team is falling behind? Today, we are going to look at how we can better handle those difficult situations that are keeping us stuck. It starts by understanding whether we are still holding onto the banana.

Let’s walk!

“The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.”

Pema Chodron

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.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.

As always, the work continues:
This is a great article that details the "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice."
Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

In today’s episode are you finding it difficult to get things done?  Finding it tough to find thinking time to get at the  thoughtful work on your plate or properly manage your people?

Are you feeling awful about it? Then, you are not alone.

 Today, we are going to look at how we can manage our day more effectively so that we can be more productive, more in control of our lives, and stay more joyful.

Let’s walk

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

Benjamin Disraeli


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.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project/.

As always, the work continues:
This is a great article that details the "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice."
Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.