Spiritual Stuff

So Josh and I have a place out in Sag Harbor, New York and if you're not familiar with that

area, it's out East. Yeah, some call it the "Hamptons." I don't really dig all that sh*t,

it's just a great place by the beach. Anyway, there's a yoga studio called Yoga Shanti and

I'm super blessed to be able to study with the top yoga teacher, I think in the world,

Rodney Yee and also his beautiful wife, Colleen Saidman who is equally as incredible and brilliant.

So anyway last weekend I was taking yoga class with Rodney and there's always a spiritual

teaching that happens during class. Rodney said this one statement that really impacted

me and has had this ripple effect throughout my week and I can honestly tell you it's going

to go on throughout my life. Here's what he said, is in relation to us doing this yoga

pose; I think we were in Down Dog and he was saying, "Your heart has infinite endurance."

Your mind and your ego is very weak.

You know so when you're in a yoga pose, if you're trying to like prove yourself or compete

with other people and you're coming from your mind, and trying to get it right and look

good and all that stuff. That you're going to get tired and you're going to complain,

and you're just going to feel like sh*t but when you're really coming from your heart

and from a place of love, that being tired really doesn't happen in the same way. It's

this experience of joy and really infinite endurance.

I sat back and it really struck me, I thought to myself, "You know, that applies to all

of my life and especially to business." The way I think about it, I think that whenever

your actions are born from love; whenever you're doing something purely because you're

passionate about it and you want to serve other people, and you're so freakin' excited

about it that it just consumes you. That you can work and work and work, and not get exhausted

and not feel burnt out.

Your mind on the other hand or your ego, this is my language, Rodney did not say this. But

I think your mind and your ego, like your mind's a pussy! Your mind can't take sh*t!

If you're doing something because you want to get ahead or just doing it for the money,

or you want to look great and prove how awesome you are. It's like you're going to get burned

out and you're going to start complaining, and things are going to suck; and, "Oh my

God, why's it not going faster?" Mrmrmrmr....

It's just a total sh*t job! So I really wanted to share that with you today because I feel

like all of us have the power in any given moment to check in and say you know, are we

operating from our heart or are we stuck in ego and our mind? And if we're an ego and

mind, there's a pretty good chance that we'll be complaining, that we're going to get tired,

we're going to feel exhausted, and we're going to feel like we're getting nowhere; and this

sucks, and I just want to quit.

When you're doing things based from your heart and it's filled with love, with pure love.

You really will have infinite endurance. So that's the big ole spiritual lesson today!

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