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.

This is a conversation about something sneaky and difficult to pin down. I occasionally catch glimpses of it from the corner of my eye and want to see if I can capture it here. I will have to say it several times because as hard as it is to capture, it's harder to hear. It's very much outside the current frame of reference in which we live. This is for everyone and is essential for anyone who is entertained by the thought that they aren't participating enough. Maybe you haven't been to every call or don't practice reliably enough (based on something you made up). You need to deal with this fact: you signed up for Living a Grateful Life in a Fcked Up World because of something you thought was important. That would make a difference for you. You wanted to practice, show up, be more present, grateful, and awake. And maybe—like so many of us in so many areas and so many ways—you haven’t participated as fully as you wanted. Maybe you’ve missed a session, meant to do the practices but didn’t, told yourself I should sit and practice, and then... didn’t. And now? Maybe there’s a little voice saying you’ve fallen behind or that you’ve somehow failed at gratitude or you've been doing it wrong (again), or, or, or... We all have our own personal hater chorus ready to let us know we are not getting it done—nobody escapes this life without these inner critics making themselves known. But let me tell you something: you’re doing it right. And I don't mean this in some rah-rah- you-can-do-it-keep-going-you-go-girl-bullshit way. The fact that you even noticed that you wanted to practice is a win. It's THE win. The fact that you signed up at all is THE win. The fact that you’re reading this right now, thinking about gratitude, about waking up to your life, is the whole damn point. Literally, that's the point. Rather than beating yourself up over the "failure" to do it "right," why aren't you celebrating the moment of awareness, the actual fucking goddamn moment of enlightenment that came upon you when you had the thought, "I should practice today"?

The link to the first call has been loaded into Classroom One. I also added the slides as you cannot see the shared screen on the recording. Let me know if you have any questions or replay issues.