My meditation buddy the last 2 nights …🐾😻💕

First - a remarkable amount of gratitude (duh). But seriously. It is a privilege for me to work with y'all this way. Second, the new cohorts are starting, and they will all be using the same community message boards, so you may see some new faces. They're friendly. Third—results. Unsurprisingly, I am interested in hearing the tangible, real-world results that are showing up—but results are a funny thing to talk about in the context of the non-striving world that mindfulness occupies. I wrote this post today on FB and LinkedIn, and it starts to cover the results my team has been getting. However, I wanted to open this up because I'd love to hear from you what's been happening. Looking for results from the world we walked into this conversation from will sort of kill it. Noticing what's present that may or may not have been there before from nonjudgmental awareness, however, will likely create a space for more. We will talk more about this phenomenon tomorrow. In the meantime, this what I posted on the socials: Here’s something counterintuitive and sorta hard to talk about - like when you see something out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn, it's gone. The agents in my mindfulness-based training increased their production by 225% year over year—without working harder, adding new lead sources, or grinding their way to success. And yet, here’s what I don’t want you to take away from this: “Ah, okay! If I just chill out, I’ll 2X my production too!” Because that’s exactly the mindset that keeps people stuck in the grind. We are so conditioned to approach success like a math equation: Do X, get Y. Hustle more, make more. Push harder, get results. The Lamborghini Leaning Hustle Crowd has us convinced it's up at 3 AM, ice baths, 75 Hard, multitasking, peak performance bullshit that will have us excel. And yet, we know intuitively that we are more effective when we are calm, present, and available than when we are frantic, exhausted, and pressed. The thing that's kind of hidden here is that striving is often what gets in the way.

I just made a new revision of the manual/guide/journal thing for the next cohort and the question I have for you is this: does anyone use the fillable aspect of the journal? Is that a worthwhile thing for me to do? Or does it not matter? I also would love any feedback on the new manual/guide/workbook thing.

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.