In this episode, Rick and Keith discuss aging and how their thoughts have evolved on the subject as they’ve grown older.
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Many people think life is here to make us happy. Life is here to challenge us and make us conscious. Accepting this changes everything and creates the space for you to see that whatever goes wrong in life becomes the practice for being present, conscious, grateful, kind and a service to yourself and others.
The details matter. Whether it be in the paint strokes of a work of art or the way in which you practice your craft, the details matter if you care about quality. The same applies to your life. Listen to Keith and Rick share how you can stay present to the details so you live your best life.
In this episode, the guys share how to move forward when you feel like you have reached a plateau. Sometimes it seems impossible, but there is a way. Listen as Rick and Keith share how.
In the Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living, Dr. Amit Sood discusses three things the brain attends to. Fear, pleasure and novelty. In this episode, Rick and Keith talk about pleasure and how the undisciplined pursuit of it can lead to incredible suffering.
Amit Sood, M.D., M. Sc. at Mayo Clinic and author of The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living. Dr. Sood is serves as Chair of Mayo Mind Body Initiative. His amazing website is www.stressfree.org. Check out his Ted Talk on visualization and You Tube video on managing stress.
Most people want to be around positive kind people. And we can easily spot someone who isn’t. It’s a lot more challenging to identify that person if it’s you. Let’s call it a blindspot. In this show, Rick and Keith share how they’ve been troublemakers, the cost of being one and how to go from troublemaker to being positive, kind and loving all the time.
What We Are Reading:
– Naht Hanh, Thich, “The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation” (1998).
– Harris, “Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics” (2017) News anchor and author of “10% Happier,” Harris outlines meditation methods that focus on inner peace and gratitude, crowding out the need to gossip, blame and argue.
– Cain, “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” (2013) Silence as a tool for understanding self and others.
– Reynolds, “Easing Brain Fatigue with a Walk in the Park,” New York Times, March, 2013, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com