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In today’s episode I share what led me to becoming a monk and most importantly why I did it, so that it might help you become more clear on your decision making.I’d like to share with you the thought process I learned from my mentors that will help guide you through making the biggest decisions of your life.Are you planting seeds or weeds?
The Cliff Notes:
- I was a good kid but a bad teen
- We all have found ourselves looking for meaning in the wrong places
- Becoming fascinated by rags to riches stories
- How the Rock and David Beckham helped me realize the value of hard work, sacrifice, discipline, persistence
- Then I was invited to listen to a monk speak
- I was impressed by people who went from nothing to something but he went from something to nothing - and was happy
- The next 4 years I spent half my time in suits, the other half meditating, sleeping on the floor in India
- How we live in a perception of a perception of ourselves
- 12 year study on meditation and compassion
- Tip 1 - find a mentor and learn from them, observe and watch
- In the absence of a physical teacher you can still learn from their words
- Be careful who your role models are - make it about their values, not their valuables
- School, society, and culture wired me to believe what I thought success was. I needed to unlearn that, and being a monk helped me do it
- Tip 2 - make decisions based on more than money or ego
- My decision making process - seeds vs weeds
- Struggling with a big decision? Treat it like an experiment, you don’t have to go all in immediately
