You want to create a great team or organization.

But you are facing the challenge of a whole bunch of new people in your organization and on your team and so people are feeling disconnected – they don’t know each other. You are also needing to navigate a return to a hybid office of some sort where people can connect but people are resisting .

What to do?

In a word, culture. But culture is often misunderstood.

Today, we discuss the biggest misconceptions people have about culture so you can use culture as the antidote it is to help your team and organization thrive.

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“Culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration.

- Edgar Schein

“If you are lucky enough to be someone’s employer, then you have a moral obligation to make sure people do look forward to coming to work in the morning.”

- John Mackey, Whole Foods

Ready to start setting more detailed goals? Not sure how to do it or where to start?

In this episode, the 4th of our The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we go deeper into crafting our plan. We move from the work we did on our 3-Year Best Life Story to building our 1-year Plan to our 3-Month Focus to finally what we call our '1-Goals'.

So we move from a wider, longer perspective to a narrow, shorter perspective so that we have a clear understanding of what will guide out activities for our next 3 months.

Let’s walk!

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We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk

Ever wondered what it takes to be successful? Or, happy? Or, build a great team and organization?

I do, every day!

And while the answer is multi-factorial – there are many answers - today, I give you an anchoring question to help you get pointed in the right direction. One that you can use to lead yourself, your team or your organization. You will also learn what an anchoring question is!

This is the start of Season 5 and I couldn’t be happier to be back with you.
Welcome to the Last 8% morning podcast!

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"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

Holidays can be some of the more challenging times we face in the year.
We are with people who can sometimes trigger us. Or, we are feeling lonely and alone. Or tired and reactive.

This holiday season might be a particularly challenging one because of the pandemic.
In this episode, we describe 3 strategies to deal with the challenges you might face this year so this time of year is a little more bearable and enjoyable.

Let’s walk!

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
Stephen Hawking

“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.”
Thomas Merton

"One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.”
Dalai Lama

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It has been a challenging year. We have done our best to manage the uncertainty, ups and down, turmoil and loneliness. Today, we look back and review 2020 and decide on a word of the year.

Curious to know what it is? Let’s walk!

If you want to guess what the word of the year is before you hear the podcast, go to Facebook group, Last 8% Project, and take a guess!

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"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

Marcus Aurelius

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Are you finding that you are spending too much time on your phone? Surfing news sites and social media to your detriment? Looking for a powerful approach to changing this habit? Enter our 5 Minute Book Club series!

Instead of filling every vacant moment, whether going to  the bathroom first in the morning, or waiting for the kettle to bowl, with useless, mind numbing scrolling,  grab the book we are studying  and engage in our 5 Minute Book Club. 

Today, in the second episode of our series, we explore how to work with fear, examining the work of Pema Chodron and her great book, When Things Fall Apart.

It is a fantastic book that I am getting a lot out of. I hope you are to!

Let’s walk!

“No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. "
Pema Chodron

“Once there was a young warrior. Her teacher told her that she had to do battle with fear. She didn’t want to do that. It seemed too aggressive; it was scary; it seemed unfriendly. But the teacher said she had to do it and gave her the instructions for the battle. The day arrived. The student warrior stood on one side, and fear stood on the other. The warrior was feeling very small, and fear was looking big and wrathful. They both had their weapons. The young warrior roused herself and went toward fear, prostrated three times, and asked, "May I have permission to go into battle with you?" Fear said, "Thank you for showing me so much respect that you ask permission." Then the young warrior said, "How can I defeat you?" Fear replied, "My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do whatever I say. If you don’t do what I tell you, I have no power. You can listen to me, and you can have respect for me. You can even be convinced by me. But if you don’t do what I say, I have no power." In that way, the student warrior learned how to defeat fear. ”
Pema Chodron

 “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” 
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Are you seeing others struggle with the amount of uncertainty and change going on? Do you want to help but are not sure where to start?

In this episode, we describe the three things you can do to start helping others manage uncertainty. Three things to you lead more effectively.

Let's walk!

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
Thomas Paine

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston S. Churchill

“People make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
Harry S. Truman

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In today’s episode, the fifth in our Managing Uncertainty series, we look at a tool to help us be strong and powerful amidst change and uncertainty. It is called the ETA tool and it brings together mindfulness and lovingkindness as a powerful way to build an internal refuge to manage uncertainty more effectively.

 Let’s Walk!

“Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don’t prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.”
Kristin Neff
 

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

“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.” 
Christopher K. Germer

With everything going on politically, economically, with the pandemic, within your organization, maybe with your family, are you feeling a bit overwhelmed? Do you wish you had more insight and tools to better deal with these uncertain times?

In today’s episode, the fourth in of our Managing Uncertainty series, we look at one of the critical tools we need to develop to manage uncertainty more effectively. 

Let’s Walk!

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

Erich From, German social psychologist

“It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.”

Psychologist Harriet Lerner

“We might feel that somehow we should try to eradicate these [8] feelings of pleasure and pain, loss and gain, praise and blame, fear and disgrace. A more practical approach would be to get to know them, see how they hook us, see how they color our perception of realty, see how they are aren’t all that solid. Then these eight challenges become the means for growing wiser as well as kinder and more content.”

Pema Chodron

Are you feeling disrupted by the amount of uncertainty and change in your life? Is it affecting your work performance or your happiness?

In today’s episode, the third in our Managing Uncertainty series, we take a deeper look at anger and blame, another habitual way we react to uncertainty, one that doesn’t serve us very well.

Let’s Walk!

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell

Are the you feeling the effects of uncertainty?

In today’s episode, the second in our Managing Uncertainty series, we take a deeper look at worry. Why do we worry? Does it serve us? If you are prone to worry, you won’t want to miss this episode.

Let’s Walk!

Gabrielle Bernstein

"Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There’s nothing wrong with experiencing fear. The key is not to get stuck in it."

Eckhart Tolle 

“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.” 

Do you get overwhelmed by the amount of uncertainty in the world today? Whether politically, or with the economy, the pandemic, within your organization, or with your family? Do you wish you had more insight and tools to better deal with these uncertain times we are living in? 

In today’s episode, the beginning of our Managing Uncertainty series, Part 1 we take a deeper look at uncertainty, which is the first step to managing it effectively.  

Let’s Walk!

“Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty—and thinking that it’s perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human.”

Pema Chödrön

"Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.”  

Pema Chödrön

In today’s episode, do you sometimes find yourself restless, feeling a lack of ease, maybe even a little fearful and Not sure how to deal with it? The fact is that we are not very skilled at being uncomfortable. And it leaves us with more, not less suffering.

If this episode, we describe How to be more effective at being uncomfortable. This is part 1 of our 5 MINUTE BOOK CLUB series that will appear every now and then in our podcast. We are reading: Pema Chödrön's, What To Do When Things Fall Apart

Today we will describe a different way to being with our discomfort so that we can live with more ease and grace upon the life.

Let’s walk!

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca

“nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know, she wrote.
…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now, and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find is that nothing ever goes away, until it has taught us what we need to know. if we run a hundred miles an hour, to the other end of the continent, in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. it just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn, whatever it has to teach us, about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down, instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.”

Pema Chödrön

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised, to find, it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on, to scare away the timid adventurers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of the heart.”

Pema Chödrön

Did you know there are 3 Zones that we commonly live our life in?

Are you aware of where you spend most of your time?

Are you aware of the consequences of where you spend your time?

In today’s episode, we talk about the 3 Zones we spend our time in and how that can act to differentiate our careers and our org’s success.

Excited to be here?

I certainly am.

Let’s walk!

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“One 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

Do you sometimes find yourself on your phone, in a trance-like state, on auto-pilot, scrolling, ruminating and lost in thought? Are you finding that you often run out of time during the day? That there is simply not enough hours in the day to do everything you want? Are you a bit feeling burned out? Not at your best?

 If this episode, we describe how you can gain an extra hour a day by not doing very much; a plan that will help improve your mental health and your learning all at the same time.

Let’s walk!

 
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot because it just felt like too much work. Well, it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.”

 Chris Hardwick

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this episode, have you made the decision to make kindness a superpower, but have also come to realize that it will take some work on your part? Today, we engage in the ‘the work’, the internal practice of building kindness so that it becomes a foundation for transforming our lives with more kindness.

 Let’s walk!

“Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.”
Jack Kornfield

“With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.”
Sharon Salzberg

“The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don’t flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;   

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.”

Galway Kinnell

Are you finding that you are falling back to not being as kind as you would like? Especially under pressure? Today, we build the internal practice of kindness so that we can make the kindness neuropathway in our brain more robust, more powerful so that kindness becomes easier for us to access even in our more challenging moments.

 Let walk!

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

Henry James

 "I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’

Albert Einstein

“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”

Saint Basil 

Do you want to be more kind in your life but are not sure how to do it?

As you know if you have been listening to this series, kindness is a muscle, that you can grow, that become a default behavior of yours , can become a new neuropathway.

In this episode, the third in our series on Building Kindness as a Superpower, we look at the key to unlocking kindness so that we can have the kind of life, relationship and impact on the world we want to have.

Let’s walk!

 
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough, to disarm all hostility.”

U.S. poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Dalai Lama

“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”

Nobel Laureate and the father of Neuroscience

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

 “Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

Eric Hoffer

Do you sometimes wish you could be more patient? Less reactive? More kind to others or yourself?

Well, kindness is not something immutable to change. You can build it, like a muscle, you can grow it so that it becomes one of your superpowers.

In this episode, the second in our series on Building Kindness as a Superpower, we look at the science of kindness and how it can help you as you grow your career and relationships and improve your life
Let’s walk!

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
The 14th Dalai Lama

“Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.”
Wes Angelozzi

Are you feeling anxious or stressed about the approaching US election? Worried about what the outcome will mean or how people will react afterward? If so, you are not alone.
Many of us are feeling a mix of worry and rumination and maybe even helplessness as Nov. 3rd approaches.

With the election upon us, now seems an appropriate time to have a 3-part episode on kindness. We will cover both the science of kindness and the practice of kindness; for ourselves and for others. In this episode, we look at the barriers to kindness. Let’s walk!

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"An empty stomach is not a good adviser.”
Albert Einstein

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
Mark Twain

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Are you struggling with the amount of change going on in the world? Or in your company or family? Are you starting to see that in order to adapt to this disruptive world, you need to be an aggressive learner? Interested in learning ways how to learn more effectively and efficiently? 

In this first episode of the The Science of Learning Series, which will be a periodic series at the podcast, we look at how we can learn as fast as the world is changing. This episode we focus on reading.

Let's walk!

"A person who does not read good books, has no advantage over a person who cannot read.”
Mark Twain

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon

“Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he or she means and why he or she says it.”
Mortimer Adler

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
Louis L’Amour

Ready to start setting more detailed goals? Not sure how to do it or where to start?
In this episode, the 4th of our The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we go deeper into crafting our plan. We move from the work we did on our 3-Year Best Life Story to building our 1-year Plan to our 3-Month Focus to finally what we call our '1-Goals'.

So we move from a wider, longer perspective to a narrow, shorter perspective so that we have a clear understanding of what will guide out activities for our next 3 months.

Let’s walk!

“To get The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life Worksheet where you can have full access to all of the questions and exercises found in this series, please go to Last 8% Project Facebook group.

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk

Feeling like there is something missing from your life? Feeling like you could benefit from getting clear on what you most want out of life? Not sure where to start?

In this episode, the 3rd in our The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we think 3 years out and craft a plan about what we want our life to look like so that we know what our North Star is and we can build goals that help us take action.

Let’s walk!

“To get The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life Worksheet where you can have full access to all of the questions and exercises found in this series, please go to Last 8% Project Facebook group.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves. Yehuda Berg

 Too many times, the majority of people choose to limit their own power and potential because they have not allowed themselves the opportunity to see the big picture of what can truly be theirs in life.  Mark Eriksson

Have you lost momentum? Not as focused as you want to be? Falling into old habits that are not serving you? Feeling unmotivated and becoming frustrated? Well, you are not alone. It is so common to have moments like this when you feel like you are not living like you want to, not achieve all that you can.

In this episode, the second episode of the The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we continue our journey of creating a plan to start anew, build momentum and create the kind of relationships, life and career we want. In this episode we dig into our story, bringing awareness to key parts of our life to better understand ourselves and set us up for success going forward.

Let’s walk!


“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” - Henry David Thoreau

 
“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.” - Amelia Earhart

“To get The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life Worksheet where you can have full access to all of the questions and exercises found in this series, please go to Last 8% Project Facebook group.

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!

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“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

Are you wanting to be effective, get stuff done, maybe get in shape – take control of your life, but are finding that, instead, it seems you are losing focus, procrastinating, maybe feeling aimless or unmotivated and becoming frustrated? Well, you are not alone. It is so common that we have good intentions to do well, to be productive but fall off the horse, lose focus and have trouble getting going again.

In this opening episode of The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life, we provide you with an approach to start anew, a plan to help you build momentum and create the kind of relationships, life and career you want. We have used this approach with Olympic athletes for over 20 years. But you don’t need to be an athlete to benefit. You just need to be someone who wants to use the challenges they face as an opportunity to create a better version of themselves.
Let’s walk!

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Are you feeling exhausted? Not able to feel much joy or pleasure? A bit cynical? If so, these are the telltale signs of burn out and it's no wonder, given the political and economic uncertainty upon us, all in the middle of a pandemic. It can be a lot. But know you can do something about it. In this episode we explore what the four drivers of burn out are and how you can use this insight to manage how you are feeling more effectively. Let's walk!

Are you struggling to have the relationships you want? Or live the life you want? Or have the career you want? First, know you are not alone – many struggle to build these things. But have you ever wondered why that is? Why do we struggle?

In this episode we introduce you to Season 2 of the podcast and we continue our journey of uncovering the insights and skills that we need to get more out of life. To live more courageously, with less regret, and build the best version of ourselves.

Let’s walk!

Quotes:
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Make each day your masterpiece.
John Wooden

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.

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Listen in to learn when Season 2 will launch! So excited to start this season and continue the journey with you of using our Last 8% situations as opportunities to transform ourselves into our best version. Can't wait to get started!

Before season two starts up again at the end of this month, we're reissuing our final favourite episodes. Today: How to stop people from treating you poorly.
Do you often find yourself at a loss when someone puts you down, shuts you down or lets you down? Are you often not sure what to say in that moment? If that is the case, then this session is for you. JP outlines a 3-point plan for to help you stop people from treating you poorly.

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 

Have you lost your job and are feeling overwhelmed? Are you finding that the first stages of grief are descending on you? Are you not sure where to start? On this next part of your journey, know you are not alone. Today in the first of two episodes, we focus on helping you sort out a plan to manage all the different parts of job loss to help you begin to craft a plan to deal with it. Let's walk! 

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:
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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
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The fall brings with it new challenges, and with those, new anxieties. You might be feeling overwhelmed with what is going on politically, or with your work or family or racial injustice. You are not alone. This is hard. And you need a plan. In today’s session, we re-release the first episode of Anxiety Week, where we examine what anxiety is, how it differs from fear, and specifically, how one crucial insight about anxiety can help free you from its clutches. This is all part of a plan to help you use your Last 8% situations as opportunities to transform. We are glad you are here.

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 

With season one over, we're looking back at our favourite episodes. The past few months have radically changed the we talk about race and policing across the world. It is no longer enough to be non-racist, we must be actively anti-racist in the fight to vanquish the systemic injustice and oppression experienced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour). This is an issue that calls all of us in - in particular those of us who are White - to reflect and change our behaviour, as well as divest ourselves from the immeasurable benefits - financial or otherwise - we have because of the histories of and ongoing exploitation based on race. This week, we are re-releasing Finding Our Voice Week, where we use these three podcasts to reflect and pause on our response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police, and the long history of systemic racial oppression. In today’s session, our third in the series, we discuss how to take action in two ways: by having difficult conversations and by engaging in the difficult actions.This is Finding Our Voice Week, where we are reflecting and pausing on the international story that is the response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police, and the long history of systemic racial oppression. 

This is a great article that details the "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice."

What Concrete Steps Can We Take to Find Our Voice and Help Change Occur? 

1. Engage in a difficult conversation, or a Last 8% Conversation. Why? We need to understand that many people might not understand or believe there is a difference between individual acts and systemic racism. Which there most obviously is.  
2. Engage in Difficult Actions: there are things we can do to use our platform and influence to help change happen. This includes listening to those most impacted by police violence. 

Helen Keller said, "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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. 

With season one over, we're looking back at our favourite episodes. The past few months have radically changed the we talk about race and policing across the world. It is no longer enough to be non-racist, we must be actively anti-racist in the fight to vanquish the systemic injustice and oppression experienced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour). This is an issue that calls all of us in - in particular those of us who are White - to reflect and change our behaviour, as well as divest ourselves from the immeasurable benefits - financial or otherwise - we have because of the histories of and ongoing exploitation based on race. This week, we are re-releasing Finding Our Voice Week, where we use these three podcasts to reflect and pause on our response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police, and the long history of systemic racial oppression. In today's session, we talk about why some of us become reactive and defensive in the face of tough conversations around race, shutting down our emotional intelligence and mindfulness skills, and what it means to have tough conversations with ourselves - especially the conversations where we become defensive, reactive or avoidant.

We recommend Robin DiAngelo's book, White Fragility, which informs much of this podcast, and Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist.

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0

If you are 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 get in our way.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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. 

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

With season one over, we're looking back at our favourite episodes. The past few months have radically changed the we talk about race and policing across the world. It is no longer enough to be non-racist, we must be actively anti-racist in the fight to vanquish the systemic injustice and oppression experienced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour). This is an issue that calls all of us in - in particular those of us who are White - to reflect and change our behaviour, as well as divest ourselves from the immeasurable benefits - financial or otherwise - we have because of the histories of and ongoing exploitation based on race. This week, we are re-releasing Finding Our Voice Week, where we use these three podcasts to reflect and pause on our response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police, and the long history of systemic racial oppression.

It may seem strange for a morning routine to venture into what follows but know: our mission is founded on the belief that we are all capable of personal transformation. Indeed it is only by facing the difficult that we can transform, and it is only personal transformation that can help us see clearly and make change happen in society. We start today by facing the world as it is and seeing if we can use that to break us open to move from being non-racist to anti-racist.

If you are 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 get in our way.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Each Tuesday at 3:00 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. 

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

You want to build a great team. But you face lots of pressure and stress to deliver on deadlines and to manage change. And it is hard.

And people are burning out. What to do?

It is in these moments, when we are under pressure, when we need to be especially aware of how we show up.

Because it matters. It sets the tone for the teams we are on, it creates the culture, it affects important things like burnout, and whether people stay or leave.

In today’s podcast, I discuss the importance knowing how we show up.

So glad you are here.

Let’s walk!

"The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?"
Arab proverb

"A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread."
Seth Godin

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

https://www.flipdapp.co/
This App can help you lock away distracting apps for complete focus.

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? When it feels like your very foundations are moving beneath you? In today’s session, JP describes ETA, a powerful strategy for when we feel hooked by strong emotions -- such as those many are experiencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ETA is a tool that you'll want to practice until it becomes second nature and is ready to be deployed when you feel most challenged.

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

With season one concluded, we take a look back at listeners' favourite episodes. Today, our episode is What We Get Wrong About Empathy: Part One. Are we born with a certain amount of empathy? Does empathy make us soft? Unable to make tough calls? Do women have more empathy than men? This is Empathy Week, where we will explore the quality of empathy and see if we can make it one of our superpowers, both at work and at home.

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” Maya Angelou 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

With season one concluded, we take a look back at listeners' favourite episodes. Today, our episode is Maybe Good, Maybe Bad, Who Knows. In today's episode, are you struggling to make sense of a difficult situation? Are you finding yourself stuck or becoming reactive? In today's session, JP recalls an old teaching he learned in a monastery thirty years ago - a teaching that brings clarity to the challenging moments we face.

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Each Tuesday at 3:00 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/.

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

With season one concluded, we take a look back at listeners' favourite episodes. Today, our episode is Building an Identity Statement. To be our best when we face Last 8% situations requires a transformation, requires us to change if we are going to meet these challenges. But change is never easy. We cannot just will ourselves to change our behavior. We need to anchor it in a deeper core belief about who we are. Why? Because it very difficult to do things that are out of alignment with how we see ourselves and who we believe we are. We can be easily thrown off when we are trying to do or try something new, when we are attempting to transform ourselves.

The key to transforming ourselves is creating a new identity first. To change our behavior for good, we need to see ourselves differently, we need to start believing new things about ourselves, 

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” Maya Angelou 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield. 

With season one concluded, we take a look back at listeners' favourite episodes. Today, our episode is Why Movement Matters. In this podcast, JP uses the B.I.G. structure and explore the idea of the day: Movement. He describes new research on what scientists call 'hope molecules' or myokines, and how they impact our brains in three fascinating ways, which we can leverage to take on Last 8% situations. 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Each Tuesday at 3:00 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/.

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 this final episode of Season One, we look back at some of the key learnings and insights that came out of the season. We want to thank you for being on the journey with us!
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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

If you liked today’s session, review us on Apple podcasts!
Each Tuesday at 3:00 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/.

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 session, the culmination of Emotional Management Week, we deliver our most extensive tool to manage emotions: Advanced ETA. This brings many of the foundational ideas found throughout the podcast together and can help you manage your most challenging situations or relationships you face.

Note: while our SOSS tool, which we described last episode, is something that can help us in the moment when we feel a strong impulse, ETA is something that can help us when we feel strong emotions that last over a longer period.

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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, we look at how we increase the quality of our sleep. Given the clear benefits of sleep on our cognitive function, we investigate the small tips and tricks we can make use of to increase the quantity and quality of our sleep, and our overall enjoyment of life. 
Here are a few of our techniques: 
1. Control the conditions: we sleep better in the cold and in the dark, so do you what you can to provide the space to enable these conditions. 
2. Exercise: exercising during the day is also a crucial technique to help you sleep better.
3. Mindfulness: the more we can do mindfulness the better we can bring non-judgemental awareness to our intrusive thoughts that can keep us awake. 
4. The other practice is to get data - use an app which tracks your movements in the night and enables you to figure out how you can sleep better. 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

Do you get enough sleep? Do you get high quality sleep? How is it affecting your performance and happiness each day? In this episode, the first of a two part series on sleep, we look at how sleep should be viewed as exercise for our brain with many benefits that help us be our best in our most challenging moments. Let’s walk! 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

Are you wondering how best to use this podcast? Are you curious about some of its benefits? Today, JP takes you through what he has learned from listeners about how they use it and what they get out it!

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

You strive to do well in life. But you hit bad days, bad moments.

Challenging conversations that don’t go well. Tough decisions that you struggle with.

Or, maybe you are trying to eat more healthy, or exercise regularly and it’s just not happening.
What do you do when this happens?

This is the topic of this episode.

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

https://www.flipdapp.co/
This App can help you lock away distracting apps for complete focus.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C. S. Lewis

Have you lost your job or hit a setback? Are you having trouble taking some action? Today, in our second of two episodes, we focus on helping you craft a plan that includes: creating a structure, finding meaning and identity, and being resilient. 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

Have you lost your job and are feeling overwhelmed? Are you finding that the first stages of grief are descending on you? Are you not sure where to start? On this next part of your journey, know you are not alone. Today in the first of two episodes, we focus on helping you sort out a plan to manage all the different parts of job loss to help you begin to craft a plan to deal with it. Let's walk! 

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.

Feeling stressed by current events? It is not surprising given everything that is going on. Know you are not alone. This is not an easy time. But also know you have a choice in how you respond. In this episode, JP takes you through a walking mindfulness session to help focus you and bring energy and awareness to your day. Enjoy!

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! 

We'd love to hear from you: here's a link to our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDVG53J.

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/.

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
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0
Music by @nop on CC Mixter, http://beta.ccmixter.org/people/Lancefield.