03-01-15 Sponging It Up

Taking the Leap - Pema Chodron (book) (20mins)
-1: Feeding the Right Wolf
-"It was as if two wolves were fighting in his heart. One wolf was vengeful and angry, and the other wolf was understanding and kind."
-"The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed." - Native American Grandfather
-Choosing Which Wolf To Feed
-3 Qualities of Human Mind:
Natural Intelligence
Natural Warmth
Natural Openness
-Stop, give space, and empower the wolf of patience and courage instead of the wolf of aggression and violence.
-We can approach our lives as an experiment. In the next moment, in the next hour, we could choose to stop, to slow down, to be still for a few seconds. Interrupting the usual chain reaction, and not spin off in the usual way.
-Pausing: momentary contrast between being completely self absorbed and being awake and present. The Gap
-Very entrenched habit. The feeling is quite simply, not wanting to be fully present.
- "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary." - Chogyam Trungpa
- we can make the choice to nurture openness, intelligence, and warmth. This choice, and the attitudes and actions that follow from it, are like a medicine that has the potential to cure all suffering.

Meditation (30mins)

Walk (40mins)

Meditation (20mins)

Experiment (30mins)

Wizard of the Upper Amazon - F. Bruce Lamb (1hr 30mins)
- Finished Book
-A great recount of living in and amongst an amazonian tribe
-the infusion of plant extracts and consciousness to advance understanding of the jungle
- curandero = healer
-explores the deep connection we have and are of nature

The Everything Store - Brad Stone (book) (45mins)
-Bezos made an impression on those around him
-Diciplice, Notebook, Adaptability, Learn something from everyone
-Environment for Innovative Ideas, weekly brainstorms
-Following and Recognizing the potential of the internet
-Started with Essence of everything store with aspirations of expansion. Target one specific important area before moving on.
-Investigated Competitors, learned what no one was seeing.
-No one had yet figured out how to do a good job selling books over the internet. As Bezos saw it, this was a huge, untapped opportunity.
-The Big Idea
-Quit to Commit
-"Regret-minimizing Framework" do what you wont regret when your 80.
-Its Time