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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

Serving Something Bigger Than Ourselves: The Why of Practice

May 25, 2021 • Season 3 • Episode 18

In today’s episode, we work hard to be our best in our Last 8% moments not just because it serves us or because it helps us be our best self and grow our career and relationships, though that is certainly one of the great benefits.

We work hard, we practice, because we want to have a bigger impact on the world around us, we want to have a more intentional impact on our world.
In today’s episode, we explore our motivation for why we practice and why we are engaged in this Last 8% project.
Let's walk!

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
Pema Chodron

“If your actions inspire people to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Mahatma Gandhi