In this podcast, Rick and Keith share about the events that have been the biggest teachers in their lives. When life is challenging, it’s often difficult to see the lessons and gifts the situations offer. Listen as the guys show you how you can be grateful during tough times so you learn from them and celebrate the present moment no matter how it shows up.
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In this episode, Keith welcomes Linda Dias. Linda is an inspiring human being to the nth power. Watch and Listen as she shares how family, community and self-care were the difference makers in her survivorship with cancer and beyond.
Linda’s References:
The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group based in Rochester, Minnesota with hospitals in Arizona and Florida. The mission of Mayo Clinic is to inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education and research. The organization’s primary value is “The Needs of the Patient Come First.”
Donald Northfelt, M.D., is a medical oncologist and hematologist at the Mayo Clinic.
Michele Halyard, M.D., is a professor of radiation oncology at Mayo Clinic and dean of the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine at the Arizona Campus.
Life is not about being better than other people. If you stake your self worth and happiness on that, eventually you will suffer some devastating defeats. And with those come suffering. A more peaceful and joyful approach is to simply work to be better than you use to be. Listen as Rick and Keith talk about how this shift in mindset can produce an even richer life experience for you.
1. Choose Growth, Compassion, Gratitude
2. Train Yourself to be Compassionate and Grateful
3. Make Positive Emotions a Habit
Fighting back is a normal reaction for human beings when they think they are being threatened. Sometimes the threat is real. But mostly, the threat isn’t. So how do you quiet the impulse to fight when the more noble and peaceful response is not to fight back? Learn how in this podcast.Fighting back is a normal reaction for human beings when they think they are being threatened. Sometimes the threat is real. But mostly, the threat isn’t. So how do you quiet the impulse to fight when the more noble and peaceful response is not to fight back? Learn how in this podcast.
Keith’s Reference:
Eckart Tolle, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose. His writing draws from a variety of spiritual traditions, which can be described generally as Buddhism mixed with mysticism. Some regard his philosophy to be a New Age re-working of Zen. His philosophy is based on living in the present moment. His core message is that emotional problems are rooted in the mind’s fantasies. Tolle teaches that an individual should live in “present moments” instead of wasting present moments burdened with anxiety about the past or worry about the future. Only the present moment is important, since and both the past and future exists only in thought. Control of life is an illusion “that only brings pain,” which can be managed through meditation, avoiding multi-tasking, eliminating 24/7 electronic dependency and spending time in nature. Tolle writes extensively about the human ego and its negative effects on personal happiness, particularly in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
The human experience means experiencing the highs and lows of life. Everyone loves the highs. But what about the lows? How do you cope with life’s disappointments? Rick and Keith share how you can deal with them.The human experience means experiencing the highs and lows of life. Everyone loves the highs. But what about the lows? How do you cope with life’s disappointments? Rick and Keith share how you can deal with them. Three things to do when it comes to disappointments:
1. Do Not Take it Personally.
2. Get Back on that Horse that Threw You.
3. Reject Entitlement—The World Owes You Nothing!
Reaching your goals is one thing. And maintaining them is another. Both take commitment and discipline. So when life shows up as an increase in workload, unforeseen injury or another challenge, how do you not give up? In this podcast, Rick and Keith share what it takes to stay committed when it seems impossible to do so.
Self Leverage: Leverage is the force experienced from the pain of being where we are in life (for example, being obese, addicted, chronically worried, etc.) that is no longer tolerable, so we become willing to endure the unknown and the difficult in order to bring about the life changes that will alleviate our suffering.
Re-affirmation of our goals: Why do/did we want to change? Remembering/experiencing the payoff, confirming our goals in writing; adjusting our goals; relying on our network of like- minded and positive people; journaling our progress.
Visualization: Using mental imagery to see ourselves as already having achieved our desired outcome through detailed forecasting and repetition. For example, a tennis player wishing to improve a backhand would imagine doing it perfectly in painstaking detail, over and over in the mind’s eye.
