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Balancing Personal Growth Practices While Raising Children
Balancing Personal Growth Practices While Raising Children
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12 minutes
Released:
Jun 3, 2020
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I have my containers going strong until lockdown came about, and now I'm with the kids 24/7 I've fallen off and struggling to get back to my containers. As I'm typing this, I'm realizing my containers weren't as strong as I thought. Greg, I'm going to challenge you right now. I bet your containers were stronger than you thought and you're looking for a backdoor out of them because a container isn't. I'm going to do my practice at 8:00 AM, and if I can't do it at 8:00 AM I don't do it at containers. I'm going to do my practice every day and I'm going to reinvent myself as many times as required until that can be done.So, for example, my normal morning practice before isolation was I would get up and spent two hours in silence before the kids even woke up. And then the kids went to school. So I had an hour of people time, and then I went right into another two hours of solitude. Well, guess what? The kids aren't going to school and that's not happening and so from 6:00 AM on, I'm with the kids.And so now my solitude isn't as much, but now what happens is I wake up a half an hour before my son and take my solitude. Then I get my son awake when he wakes up. I go downstairs and I have now involved him in my process, and so I fill his tank. I get him settled in. I said, Hey, Bubbies, it's daddy's time to do breath work so you can breathe with me and he's three. You can breathe in the air or you can just watch daddy. If you talk to me, bubbies it's going to take me a couple minutes to respond. And then I put the practice in and Tyler will tell you as you walk around, all I have to do is look at my son and take a deep breath, and he'll start breathing with me. Three years old.He'll be whiny. He'll be needy. He'll be codependent for a minute. He'll, bump his knee and want to start crying. And I look at him and I just say breath, and I'll go.So I took my practice. That was very structured, and I realized that the wind is taking that practice and putting it into my whole life and putting it into practice.So if it's a rigid practice, that's not a practice. It's control. It's a practice the moment you take it, and you'll utilize it in life where it happens. Because practices are easy under ideal conditions. Like going to the gym is great when you can go to the gym. Like eating clean is great when you have a chef that makes your meals five times a day and you live in a controlled environment.Like work is amazing when everything is always growing and there's money coming in. That's not practice. That's ideal circumstances. We don't practice for the easy times. We practice for the challenging times, and so the practices now on the times of resistance or challenge or fear, how do I embody this practice and make it a part of my day and let go of the rigidity of what it looked like? So what am I nonnegotiables that day? My non-negotiables are breathwork. My non-negotiables are writing in my journal. While I can't do them at six, same. Great. I can do them plenty of other times. Like my non-negotiable three weeks ago is I had to go to the gym before I worked. I had to. And so that will be my 90 minutes of me time and solitude and silence.Well, now I'm doing bodyweight stuff and I have it at home, and I've fallen in love with the fact that instead of working out for an hour and a half, I work out 15 times a day for five minutes each. And so this is where the magic happens. Like what's happening right now is we're being called to grow.We're being called to deepen our practice and remember that our practice isn't what it looks like on paper. Mike Tyson says this all the time. Smartest guy ever, but he has a plan to get punched in the face. Well, guess what? Everybody just got punched in the face. So what? He didn't get knocked out. He just got punched in the face. You're like, that hurt. Well, how do you prep for next time? You practice, you practice more. And listen, a practice that's easy isn't a practice. It's complacent. Practice is, should be u
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Jun 3, 2020
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