Last 8% Morning

You aspire to be courageous in your career and in your life. You are at your happiest when you are fully challenged, living an adventure, not driven by fear. But you struggle - and sometimes avoid - the difficult situations you face in your life. At the Last 8% Morning, we understand this challenge and have spent years developing skills to help you use your most difficult situations as opportunities to transform so you can live more courageously, with less regret, and have the impact you want to have in the world.The Last 8% Morning podcast gives you the insights and skills to manage your emotions so you can face and and not avoid your most difficult situations. In the Last 8% Morning, Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry, co-founder of the Institute for Health and Human Potential and NY Times best-selling author of Performing Under Pressure, personally guides you through a morning routine which integrates Movement (walking) + Mindfulness + Mental training exercises. Designed over the last 24 years working with Olympic athletes, NFL and NBA teams, Navy Seals and individuals in organizations around the world, we are now making this resource available to you in this form. Let’s walk! #mindfulness #emotionalintelligence #meditation #movement #fitness #health #eq #peopleskills #work from home #covidstress

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Last 8% Morning

Dealing With Overwhelm

February 16, 2021 • Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry, Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Expert • Season 3 • Episode 4

Are you finding that demands for your time is outstripping capacity? That you are struggling with not only too much to do and too little time but the level of uncertainty and complexity in your workload is simply overwhelming?

Today, we look at how we can better handle the feeling of overwhelm that can our ability think and perform effectively as well enjoy life and work a little bit more.

Let’s walk!

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming, that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”

Albert Camus

“Change begins with a decision: to be overwhelmed or to overcome.”

Perry Noble

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter.”

Dr Seuss

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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:
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Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
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