For more 2 years I have been traveling to Singapore to the same client office. I walk the same path, go to the same coffee place, work long days, eat at the same restaurants…. all because it is my habit and what they do. Yesterday for first time, I interrupted my routine to stop, slow down and open my eyes versus my habitual pattern rushing from one thing to the next… I discovered there was a garden path filled with flowers, which led to new places to eat, new shops to explore —-apparently all I had to do was turn left instead of right!!! Being kind to myself including not judging myself for forgetting to practice last week, lead me to a whole world of beauty just waiting to be discovered 💗❤️🧚‍♂️🦋🐞🌺🌺🌼

An email will go out tomorrow creating a game for filling the next two cohorts of this program—and where there is a game, you know there are prizes!!! 🙌🎁💥 Look for that tomorrow. In the meantime, to help you help me, I am going to start posting about this on The Facebook (which is where you came from). Let me know if you are okay with me tagging you in the posts (no more than every other day or so). You can forward it to people, and you can add comments that support whatever I am asserting in the post if it feels true to you. I can certainly tag you at whatever frequency feels right to you (including not at all, obviously), and I will not tag you without express approval here. Here is a sample of the type of thing. Each post will include a meme (duh) and tie it into the work we've been doing. This is tomorrow's post with the meme: In today's hyper-distracting world managing our attention feels like a superpower - sometimes it feels like it would be easier to learn to fly. That's one of the bigger, unsung outcomes of my mindfulness course, How to Live a Grateful Life in a Fcked Up World. Our ability to experience gratitude is directly proportional to our ability to direct our attention where we want it. By default, we are pulled to focus on the problems (of which there are more than a few these days), and besides being exhausting, it takes us out of the opportunity to sit with what's beautiful, what's working, and what we love about our lives. Imagine taking back the reins of your attention so that when you're with your family, you are fully with them. Imagine the increase in performance at your job if you were able to fully be present with what you were doing (and who you were doing it with) when you were doing it. I am offering new cohorts of this free mindfulness training: one for real estate and sales professionals on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:00 starting March 11 and one for Normies (everyone else) on Wednesdays from 6:00-7:00 p.m. starting March 5th.

I am using this platform to hold the course as an effort to move away from Facebook and to have a cohesive space that holds everything you and I need for a successful program. I think this will do the trick (but I am counting on your feedback to determine that). All the course info you will need is here: dates, links, videos of weekly calls, etc. Hopefully, it's intuitive enough to be useful and we will review it all in the first session. If you are open to it, take a moment to introduce yourself here to get things started. Maybe share where you live, your occupation, and what you want to accomplish in this course. Have fun with it and share a picture of something you are grateful for.