Be 100% responsible for your aliveness every moment of the day. The more you can build your skill at taking 100% responsibility for your aliveness — being 100% responsible for your aliveness every minute of the day — the more awesome your day is going to be, the more awesome your life is going to be, the more happiness you’re going to have, the more success you’re going to have in every area of your life.

It’s a skill. You can build your skill at being 100% responsible for your aliveness.

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You are 100% responsible for your attention. No one else is responsible for your attention. That’s the truth. That’s the way it is.

Some of us didn’t learn how to be responsible for our attention, and I could catalog many of the different ways our culture doesn’t teach us how to be responsible for our attention. And yet, it’s kind of a cosmic joke, because even though we’re not really taught well how to be responsible for our attention, we still are responsible for our attention

Attentional Health = Mental Health = Brain Health

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Some highlights from this class:

• If you’re not in charge of the energy in your body, who is? If you’re not in charge of the energy in your body, are you passive? Is someone else in control of the energy in your body? Not a good strategy. No one else can be in charge of the energy in your body.

• Now, outside forces affect the energy in your body. The quality of the air affects the energy in your body. The time of day affects the energy in your body. The food you eat affects the energy in your body. Other people affect the energy in your body. It’s your job to stay in charge of your energy. It’s your job to balance your energy. Now. Now, every now, every now, balance your energy now.It’s your job to notice when your energy is unbalanced and what is needed for you to re-balance your energy.

• To function optimally, you need to be balanced. Your energy needs to be balanced. To function optimally, you need to be in charge of your energy.  To function optimally, you need to be able to direct your energy, direct the energy in your body to do what you want yourself to do.  The energy is you in any moment in time. Balance your energy now. If your energy is all unbalanced, all fragmented, all spacey, no one’s in charge of it, and you can’t function optimally in those moments. You won’t even know what’s most needed for you if you’re not aware of your energy. Balance your energy now.

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Some highlights from this class:

• There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s only the reality of you. There’s never been anything wrong with you. There’s only been the reality of you — each moment of your life up into this moment, and in this moment that’s true too!

• Our Western culture gives us a mixed message that, “Well, you’re not perfect – no one’s perfect,” but on the other hand the culture sends the opposite message that if you’re not doing it perfectly, well, there’s something wrong with you, right? If you’re not number one, top of your class, the hero of the football team, yeah, there’s something wrong with you, you’re not quite good enough.  Our culture sends that mixed message. Well, neither side is true. There’s only the reality of you. Period, end of story. You’re not good, you’re not bad, there’s only the reality of you.

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Some highlights from this class:

• When is it not in your best interest to be aware of yourself, of what yourself is doing, what yourself is feeling, what yourself is thinking, what yourself is wanting, what yourself is being?

• Fantasy-awareness is being all in your head and thinking about the future or thinking about the past and not being aware of the reality of your body, the reality of yourself in the moment. Self-awareness is something that happens in a moment, a present moment.

• Fantasy-awareness is any awareness of yourself that’s an idea, that’s not this moving alive energy in you. Anything other than that is fantasy-awareness.

• To the degree that you make your choices based on fantasy-awareness, you’re leading yourself astray. Just for example, one very, very, very, very, very, all too common fantasy-awareness, for a lot of us human beings, is fantasy fear. Fear is optimally functional when there’s danger, when there’s clear and present danger to your aliveness or to the aliveness of your loved ones or your teammates or close at hand people.  In any other moment it is not a functional response to reality.

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Some highlights from this class:

• When you’re not being responsible for your life, loving being responsible for your life, and paying attention to what’s needed for your life, in essence, you’re either giving up on your life or you’re taking a vacation from your life in those moments.

• If you’re taking a vacation from taking care of your life, who’s taking care of you during your vacation? Who’s loving your life during your vacation? Who’s leading your life during your vacation?  Who’s being responsible for your life during your vacation?

• Your life is precious. Your life needs a lover. You’ve got to be the lover for your life.

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LIFE IS LEARNING at TOM’S UNIVERSITY

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“Your life is flowing every moment, and it’s been flowing every moment since the moment of your birth and it will keep flowing every moment ’til you no longer have life inside of you, and yes, it’s a miracle, it’s a miracle. It’s fantastic! It’s amazing that you’ve got life flowing inside of you right this moment, right this moment, right this moment and that it keeps flowing and then it keeps flowing.”

“This class is about you having the consciousness of the flow of your life. Yeah, and loving. Loving is a consciousness piece. Loving is about consciousness. You can’t love something if you’re not conscious of it. You can’t love your life if you’re not conscious of your life.”

“Say no! to getting disconnected from loving your life. Say no! to not being conscious of the flow of your life. Say yes! to loving the flow of your life. Say no! to getting disconnected from loving the flow of your life.”

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The principle of this class is that the reality of where you’re at, at any moment in time, is the reality of where you’re at. Period, end of story.  That’s the truth.  In any given moment in time, you are where you’re at –  physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, spatially, temporally — just for starters — not to mention you are where you’re at chemically, hormonally, historically, ethnically, culturally, etc. etc.

The more you can coach yourself to say yes! to accepting, being aware of, being in reality with, the truth of “where you’re at”, and say no! to resisting, criticizing, denying, the reality of “where you’re at”, the more optimally functional and dynamic your life will be.  The reality of “where you’re at” is always the starting place for growth and learning, and you’ll be much, much happier the more you can coach yourself to live in the reality of “where you’re at” as opposed to fighting with “where you’re at.”

The goal of this Podclass is to encourage, motivate, inspire you to coach yourself to “Say Yes! to where you’re at physically.”

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When is it not in your best interest to want the best for your life – for your aliveness, for your energy, for your vitality? When is it not in your best interest to be connected to that enthusiasm, that passion for your life — like, “I care about my life right now. I feel my life right now. I want the best for my life right now.” That’s what I’m talking about — having that level of passion for yourself, for your life, for your effectiveness, for your energy, all the time.

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Loving the details of this moment is a skill. It’s a skill of happiness. It’s a skill of success. It’s a skill of life.   And it’s an attentional skill.  The better you are at keeping your attention anchored in you in the reality of your aliveness and in the reality of this moment, the better you are going to be at doing whatever you are doing in that moment.

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