Notes 7-30-2020
- Continuing theme of healing & restoration (particularly relevant since I started taking an SSRI)
- Remember the emotional triad
- Physiology easiest to change – disciplines and habits
- Recruiting your body in the regulation and cultivation of your mind
- Hold onto intention that restoration is the goal
- Mustang analogy – when the car is delivered, it needs to look same as when it left Detroit
- Go back to original intention
- Re-read Imago family mission statement
- Cut away and defund everything that is not the vision by creating infrastructure to ensure that your resources are unavailable
- There are opportunities available, even during the pandemic
- Find something that feeds the mission, not just the appetite
- Ie. difference between having sex vs. making love
- At some point you go from spiritual vision to emotional engineering
- My emotional, spiritual, and financial priorities are this man/woman sitting next to me
- Have to have a radical shift in physiology
- Restoration should be a radical practice vs. a tool you use sometimes
- People need you for their own emotional regulation, so they’d rather outsource it to you than do the work themselves
- You want to get rid of people who bring unnecessary drama and strife into your life
- Proximity gives you access, access gives you impact
- Who are the kind of people I’m giving access to? Who gives access to me?
- Who is your mastermind team – “board of directors” – childhood friends, college friends, luminaries
- Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, so you realize their intention (those who would rather see you die than rise)
- 50 Cent’s pain activated his creativity
- The reason he is so successful is that he tells himself he needs to change and commits to the process of transformation
- Keep your affirmative vision in front of you, so the rear view doesn’t take over
- Act in alignment with your vision board
- If it’s not on there, why are you giving it time or energy
- Be willing to demote people
- I’m going to replace you with someone who can do better for a lower cost
- Opportunities have expiration dates – you want to capitalize on the opportunity of a lifetime within the lifetime of the opportunity
- When you think you’re at you’re limit, you’re only at 40%
- Marshall those habits so they become disciplines
- Differentiate between opiates and ways of life
- Repetition is the mother of skill before it’s conditioned
- Ensure that your vision is pursued and your momentum is maintained
- Your momentum can be shifted by shifting your focus
- Opportunity costs – anywhere you’re spending money, there’s somewhere else it could have gone
- Don’t do what’s emotionally satisfying, do what is strategically significant
- When people provoke you, pivot with the practice of principles
- Where attention goes, energy flows
- To outgrow your history, you’ve got to feed your seeds and not your weeds
- You’ve gotta be so committed to your outcome that you can’t be coopted by someone else’s drama
- Vampires cannot prey upon us without our invitation (Buffy the Vampire Slayer analogy)
- How do I participate in my own restoration/how do I practice that I may be restored?
- What would it be like if your life was the practice of the discipline of the Sabbath?
- What are the mentalities we need to have to rise above our circumstance?
- You need to stop submitting to the tyranny of yesterday
- Storm/Black Panther analogy – it took a voice she loves and trusts to break out of claustrophobia
- What it looks like when love overcomes fear
