Podcasts about practicing mind

Today's encore episode is about the importance of find joy in the present moment by developing more thought awareness, especially in midlife. Our guest today is Thomas M. Sterner, author of the amazing book, The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life -- Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process. He's also the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute and is an expert in Present Moment Functioning. Prior to founding The Practicing Mind Institute, Tom served as Chief Concert Piano technician for a major performing arts center preparing instruments for the most demanding performances. Learn more: https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-381-encore-finding-joy-in-the-present-moment-with-tom-sterner-of-the-practicing-mind/

Brad and Lesley reflect on the fascinating insights shared by Dr. Louise Swartswalter—a transformational coach and naturopathic doctor—who introduced her mind gem techniques for clearing energetic fields, boosting brain function, and improving focus. Join them as they break down how to integrate these transformational tools into your life, and why balancing your personal energy is essential for growth and long-term success.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The role of energy and why it's important to clear influences to maintain balance.The connection between your personal health and business success.The impact of unresolved generation trauma on your energy fields.How Lesley cleared her grandfather's trauma for emotional relief.How to practice mind gems daily to enhance focus, balance, and improve sleep.Episode References/Links:Ep. 421 Dr. Louise A. SwartswalterDr. Louise A. SwartswalterAffiliate LinkCambodia February 2025 RetreatFlashcard WaitlistPilates Studio Growth AcceleratorOPC Winter Tour  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! 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And then that was before I even knew anything about her, because she's very compelling and she knows what she's talking about. Lesley Logan 0:19  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.  Lesley Logan 1:00  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co-host in life, Brad, and I are going to dig it and laugh through this entire intro. We are recapping the episode with Dr. Louise Swarstwalter on our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that one, you should go back and listen to it. It's amazing. It's rehabilitating, some would say, and then come back and listen to this one. Brad Crowell 1:23  Do it. Take it. Lesley Logan 1:24  Today is.Brad Crowell 1:24  I think it's necessary, y'all. Lesley Logan 1:26  Oh, Brad was doing the whole thing in the car. He was listening to it as we were driving back from L.A. today. And he was like, tapping his belly and doing all those things, saying his numbers. Was really great. So if you have no idea we're saying, it's because you didn't listen to that episode. And you should go do that. Brad Crowell 1:38  It's true. Lesley Logan 1:39  So today is September 19th 2024 and it's National Pawpaw Day. About this day. National Pawpaw Day, held every third Thursday in September, celebrates a tropical-looking fruit native to North America, which tastes like a cross between a mango, a banana, and sometimes other fruits. I just really love that, and sometimes other fruits. It's a crossing of mango and banana, but sometimes it tastes like something else. Brad Crowell 2:01  And sometimes it could taste like coffee. Lesley Logan 2:03  Yeah, with over 60 varieties and a unique creamy texture, it's a wonder that more people don't know about the pawpaw, also known as the Kentucky Banana and a Hillbilly mango. The pawpaw grows all across the South as the largest fruit native to the United States, although we don't see it on our store shelves much today. The papaw was an important part of traditional Native American diets and is used for various purposes today. I didn't get into why it's not in the grocery stores. I just want to know like now I have so many questions. I've never seen this fruit before. Brad Crowell 2:31  The only reason I even know about this fruit is because of the Jungle Book. Lesley Logan 2:35  It's in the Jungle Book? Brad Crowell 2:37  The bare necessities of life will come to you. And in there, he says something about that and the pawpaw thing. And I was like, what's a pawpaw? (inaudible) I was like, you know, eight.Lesley Logan 2:54  Wow, you're curious. Okay, well, there it is. Lesley Logan 2:58  So coming up, we're actually 10 days away from getting on a plane to go to Cambodia, and you can't come unless you've already signed up for this one. So we're not inviting you to that, but we are inviting that you come to the February one.Brad Crowell 3:12  Yes, February 23rd to 28th, come join us at our home in Siem Reap we're gonna do some working out, a couple workshops, some meditating, some, all the things that you need to hit the reset button, to step away from our craziness that we are all building in our lives and go experience an amazing, amazing place with incredible people and explore the Temples of Angkor, which is our version of the pawpaw Jungle Book song.Lesley Logan 3:39  And their own fruits that taste like similar to different things. But also, if you, like, if when I said you can't come, you got, you felt a ping of disappointment, that means you want to. Brad Crowell 3:52  That's true. Lesley Logan 3:52  So what a fun game I just played. So you need to go to crowsnestretreats.com to snag your spot. The time's running out for that February one. Brad Crowell 4:02  Yeah. PS, a pawpaw looks like a mango but it's not a mango. Lesley Logan 4:07  Like a mango, yeah. But it also, but also, it has weird seeds in it that look like something else, like a like, not a kiwi, but something, I feel like in Cambodia, we've had a fruit that has similar-looking seeds like that. Lesley Logan 4:20  Okay, also, when I get back from Cambodia, I'm going to be going to L.A. for a week and Brad's gonna meet me at some point to film the photo, to do the photos for the upcoming and final deck of the flash cards, the sixth deck. Can you freaking believe it? Holy moly, we are wrapping this project up, my friends, we'll still be talking about for a year, because it takes a year to make these things, a little over a year for every deck. But if you are not on the wait list for the accessories deck, you want to go to opc.me/flashcardwaitlist—that is all singular—opc.me/flashcardwaitlist. I can't say it two more times fast, so we're going to end it there. But only the people on the waitlist get the presale price. The presale price is the best price. Brad Crowell 5:04  The presale price is the best price. Lesley Logan 5:05  And by the way, just so you know, Brad can't wait for this deck to be finished, because he's gonna do a deck together. And if you think, oh, that's when I can get the discount, I've been waiting for years, you're not. He's just gonna charge more to put it in a really nice box, and it'll be really cool. So we have to plan that box out, babe. And then when we come back from that, we're going on, oh, before we do that, okay, Brad's inserting something else. So hold, Brad, why don't you take it from here? Brad Crowell 5:30  Take it away. All right, Brad, we have been working with fitness business owners just like you, whether that means you have a small studio at your home, or maybe you're renting from someone, or you have a team and a larger space. We've been working with Profitable Pilates since 2018 so we're looking at six plus years now, and we've boiled down all the coaching hours and all the coaching calls and all things, we found three big secrets to growing your income. And I've been doing free webinars to help people understand the concepts in this. So I would love for you to join me. If this is something that you know you're feeling stuck in your business, this is a great way to kind of just step back from it, look at it from a third party perspective, and then see how you can apply some of these principles. So come join me. It's called the Pilates Studio Growth Accelerator. You can sign up for free and find all the information on when I'm hosting it next at prfit.biz—that's profit without the O—prfit.biz/accelerator. So come join me for free.Lesley Logan 6:31  All right, and then we are going to go on tour. Brad Crowell 6:34  That's right, December's coming. December into January. We are going to be on the road for 35 days. I'm pretty sure it includes, like, some time off with the family over, over Christmas. But we are gonna be hitting 24 cities. That's at least two events per city. We're talking almost 50 events in a month's period here. We would love to see you in person. Come join us. Go to opc.me/tour and that will either put you on a waitlist for when we actually release all the information, or maybe it's already up and you can start checking out when we're coming near you.Lesley Logan 7:10  By the way, I've already approved the tour shirt.Brad Crowell 7:14  Oh snap. I haven't even seen this yet. Lesley Logan 7:16  I know. You have to wait. You have to wait. Okay, it's fucking fabulous. It's just brilliant. It's so brilliant. So anyways, you're gonna want it, but it's gonna be weird if you wear it and you didn't come on tour. I'm just saying. I mean, you can get it if you didn't come on tour. Brad Crowell 7:33  Yeah, get it anyway. They're turning into collectors editions, people. Lesley Logan 7:36  I know. Especially because we're getting cooler and cooler at it. Okay, before we get into Dr. Louise. Do we have an audience question? Brad Crowell 7:42  We do, @swimdog75 on YouTube asked, "Hey Lesley, I'm a huge fan of yours. I keep seeing the box lately placed in different positions," I'm assuming this means the short box for the reformer, "When I work with certain instructors or teach for one of the certification programs, I see the box in front of the shoulder rest. Other times I see it right in front of the peg of the shoulder rest. Where do you prefer the box?" Lesley Logan 8:05  So great question. Depends on the person. Depends on the box. So here's a deal. I can't tell you why people put tall people on boxes with the box in front of the shoulder rest. If they think it's that the box doesn't move around. If you're getting on the box and it's moving around, you are getting on the box wrong. So, if you didn't ever have a reformer, this is a weird question.Brad Crowell 8:24  Or it depends on the reformer, maybe there's no way to kind of stop it from potentially sliding off. I know yours has like a little slot but. Lesley Logan 8:31  Yeah, I have little pegs and some people don't like to use that because sometimes people like tear the box by putting it over there because the peg is there. Brad Crowell 8:39  Just be careful. Lesley Logan 8:41  Also, just be careful. I've never torn a box, so like, just be thoughtful. So here's the deal. Ideally, you place the box over the shoulder rest before the pegs, if you have them, so that your legs can be straight when under the strap doing the short box series. Brad Crowell 8:57  Okay, say that one more time. Lesley Logan 8:59  The shorter version is you place the box on the reformer where you can have straight legs with your feet underneath the strap for the short box series. That's where you place the box. So.Brad Crowell 9:07  And how far should the box be down your leg? Lesley Logan 9:10  That's going to depend on the size of your butt.Brad Crowell 9:14  So you're just talking about sitting on the box. You have to be able to sit on the box with your legs straight.Lesley Logan 9:19  You sit on the box with a little bit of space behind you. Brad Crowell 9:21  Your feet Lesley Logan 9:22  Under a strap, flexed ankles with tension, and your legs are straight-ish. Brad Crowell 9:27  And a piña colada. Lesley Logan 9:28  Yes. Brad Crowell 9:29  Perfect. Lesley Logan 9:29  And so what I don't like is when I see people because the boxes in front of the shoulder rest have very, very bent knees, like they're in a chair. And then we wonder why they're hanging off their hip flexors, or they're using their back. You put the box in the wrong spot. Now, if the studios you're at have a rule, obviously you got to follow some rules. But if you are here because you like to nerd out and actually understand the why behind the what, your legs are supposed to be straight, you're supposed to use the back of your legs. There's a lot of hamstring, glute, inner thigh working. It's a full body exercise always, if your exercises are only doing sit ups, then you are not using your full body. It's a full body exercise. So you place the box where people can have the straight legs, so they can use their full body and the exercise. And then it comes to but then the box tips because it's over here. Look, you can gear reformers out to create more space. You can put it in front of the shoulder blocks if people are short. You can lengthen the straps. There's a lot of different things you can do. Brad's not on DND, and I already told him that. So at any rate. Brad Crowell 10:26  I am on DND. Lesley Logan 10:27  We are calling you out. Brad Crowell 10:28  It was DND. Lesley Logan 10:30  So at any rate, I prefer the box to be where people can have straight legs and do the short box series with their full body. That's what I prefer. I will show this, I will show this answer on a live on YouTube as well, because I think a visual is a really great idea. Brad Crowell 10:46  That's a great question, swimdog75.Lesley Logan 10:49  And if you are a teacher going, oh my God, I never thought about like that, then it's because you need to do my eLevate program. Brad Crowell 10:55  That's right. Lesley Logan 10:56  And I can't tell you if there's any spots left, because at the time we're recording this, we have more people approved than we can take.Brad Crowell 11:01  But 2026 is coming up and I'm literally already having conversations with people about. Lesley Logan 11:06  We're already filling that. So you want to go. Brad Crowell 11:08  Yeah, go to lesleylogan.co/elevate that's lesleylogan.co/elevate.Lesley Logan 11:15  Send your questions in. We want to answer them. We love answering your questions. It's so much fun. Brad Crowell 11:19  Yeah, by the way, you can text them in so if you haven't just texted, you can text to say hi, hit us up at 310-905-5534, 310-905-5534. Send us a text or a DM or post a comment on the tubes of you. Awesome. All right, well stick around, because in a few minutes, we're going to dig into, or in a minute here, we're gonna dig into Dr. Louise Swarstwalter.Lesley Logan 11:43  And do you know if we made them wait for a few minutes? Stick around for a few minutes.Brad Crowell 11:48  Just stick around, 10 minutes from now, we'll be right back. No, I'm lying. All right. Brad Crowell 11:53  Okay. Now let's talk about Dr. Louise A Swarstwalter. Transformational coach and naturopathic doctor specializing in brain health and emotional healing,. Dr. Swarstwalter is the creator of the Brain Soul Success Academy and the B.R.A.I.N. system. B-R-A-I-N system. She combines multisensory techniques and energy work to help individuals, including children with ADHD, overcome learning challenges and achieve mental clarity. This all happened because of her long journey where, I think she got an accident. I can't remember exactly what triggered it when she was in her 20s and 30s, but she said her brain was really not working properly. Lesley Logan 12:33  She had, like, autoimmune stuff. Brad Crowell 12:34  Yeah, oh, maybe she was sick. Lesley Logan 12:36  Yeah. She was really, really sick, and they couldn't figure it out. Brad Crowell 12:39  Yeah, she said she saw all the doctors, and basically they, you know, she ended up on her own just trying to piece things together, which centered on this journey of beginning to study all sorts of different things. And then she, I don't know when, but, you know, 30s, 40s, she became a doctor. How crazy. Lesley Logan 12:53  It's kind of crazy. I've been, I've been listening to a lot of other doctor modalities lately, and like, the amount of them that have been like, there are so many things in the food and the world today that affecting women's health that it is complicated when something happens and they can't figure it out, because your symptoms are from all over your body, and the doctors here are so siloed.Brad Crowell 13:16  Yeah, they're specialized, sure. Lesley Logan 13:17  So you end up just getting worse and worse, and it's kind of crazy. So she ended up taking, manage it in her own hands and then becoming someone who could heal people, and it's been really crazy to see what she's done. Brad Crowell 13:25  Yeah, it's also, it's also, it's also. Lesley Logan 13:28  You wanted to say it's a little bit weird.You wanted to say it's a little bit weird.Brad Crowell 13:31  It's a little bit weird. Lesley Logan 13:31  It's a little weird. Brad Crowell 13:32  It's a little weird. I'm not gonna lie, but I'll tell you, what's so funny is because she's clearly highly educated, and in the first like, two minutes of the interview, I was like, I want to call this doctor, and I'm ready. And then that was before I even knew anything about her because she's very compelling and she knows what she's talking about.Lesley Logan 13:50  And she also, like, because I've been able to teach for her, her groups of people, they're from all over. They're super cool, also all compassion, also so supportive, and she's really helped them. And I've, I've also seen, like, the before and after picture, the people she's done this stuff with, and by the way, these are before and after, like, we're not talking weight loss, we're talking like her just clearing the thing. Like, I got my, my great grandfather stuff got cleared. I did (inaudible).Brad Crowell 14:16  She introduced herself as a trauma coach. Right?Lesley Logan 14:19  Yeah. My great grandfather's stuff got cleared for me, and I felt so much better for days after. I really felt good. Brad Crowell 14:27  Definitely, on the woo scale, I think we're talking to three. Lesley Logan 14:32  Oh, Brad's going woo, woo, woo? Brad Crowell 14:33  Yeah, we're gonna woo, woo, woo on this one.Lesley Logan 14:36  Does that mean that you came back around though?Brad Crowell 14:38  Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I'm intrigued. I'm genuinely intrigued. Because.Lesley Logan 14:44  It doesn't. Here's the thing, you don't have to join a commune for this to work. You don't have to go anywhere to get this help. Brad Crowell 14:50  It's not a cult. That I could tell, not that I'm an expert on cult, but it didn't seem like it. Lesley Logan 14:54  Well, I am, but also, but like, it's not like you're doing on a subscription membership. She, I don't think it's a great business model. She cleared my great grandfather's trauma for generations. So it's like, we're done there. Brad Crowell 15:06  Well, it was, you know, and I participated in the exercise too. Even though she was doing it for you, I actually felt more calm. Lesley Logan 15:14  Yeah. So she did the gyms for OPC members. And the members only stuff there is actually this gym thing, and she teaches this thing that she has her kids do, and she does it, like, each day to like, start the day, and it's really a great few minutes you get to spend with yourself and just kind of, like, set yourself up. So I'm not gonna lie, it's different. But also, like, some of the stuff that's out there that we think is safe is not so, like, I'm just saying, it's not, you're not take, here, you're not doing Colloidal Silver, you know what I mean, like you're not drinking anything, not shooting yourself with anything. She's not selling supplements like, you know, well, so I think that takes the woo off. I'm just saying. Brad Crowell 15:51  All right, all right. We'll, we'll settle on a double woo. So when she was talking about energy.Lesley Logan 15:56  Yeah, so she said, we're all energy, 99% space and 1% matter, and she can compare the brain's energy field to an atom with rings around it, which can become unbalanced. And that makes sense to me, like if you think about Saturn's rings and how the solar system works, if something goes out of orbit a little bit, it pulls things in a whole different way, and so it would make you feel out of balance or sick or need something, and she stressed the importance of learning to clear these energetic influences to maintain balance and wellbeing. So I really like that, because sometimes yesterday's shit comes into today, so you can clear that.Brad Crowell 16:32  And not even just yesterday. I mean, yes, that can be internal, but like, especially for teachers you all have, you've all experienced this. Your client comes in, they're in a shit mood and what happens? You walk out of that session going argh because they've affected you, right? We are all susceptible to the energy that's around us. And I definitely have been around people who are angry and I'm like, I don't want to be around that person. I've been the one that are angry, and people said, hey, man, you're stressing me out, even though you're not angry at me. So, you know, we affect, I think we also, like often call this charisma, without realizing that it is energy that we're giving out. Lesley Logan 17:12  You have some rizz, babe, some rizz, that's what they call it now. Brad Crowell 17:14  Yeah, rizz, rizzy riz, so yeah, this doesn't strike me as odd or weird or even woo. I'm totally on board with the energy that we all emit. We are living beings. So sure. Lesley Logan 17:26  So what else did you love now that you're in? Brad Crowell 17:28  Yeah, yeah, okay. She said, pain starts in the field and unresolved issues can hinder progress. So I think when we're talking about the field, we're talking about just being out and doing life and doing the things, right? She said, for instance, personal wellbeing affects business success. So we carry, we carry these things with us throughout the day. They can transit, transfer from, I mean, it's like the work, work energy, home energy. You go home and you're like, I need to chill for a second before I can engage without bringing this with me into my family life, with my kids, or whatever. I'm sure many of you want to understand what I mean there. They're not that I have kids, but she said, oftentimes business owners don't realize that unless you're healthy, your brain is working and your field is clear, they'll keep pumping up against problems such as deeper layers of worry and sabotage. So maybe that, maybe I said that wrong, because I think our field is our energy field that we have. But when things get stuck in that energy field, we're bringing it with us into the other events of our lives. And it can affect our business, it can affect your sleep. It clearly can affect your relationships. It can affect the way that you see yourself. And I thought it was interesting, because what she asked you about was are you brought up the worrying?Lesley Logan 18:43  Yes, I was in a very big state of worry. I had this thing that I couldn't stop worrying about. And I was like, you know when you worry about something and then you spin it out, like they're like, then it's gonna go out to this. Oh my god, if I don't admit it, then it's, then it could actually, if we don't take care, it's gonna affect that, then that's gonna affect this. And I went on this domino, you guys. I told myself a story. It was a series. I told myself an entire series.Brad Crowell 19:06  Well, yeah, and again. I think this makes total sense to me, and this doesn't strike me as odd, that when we are affected by something, we carry that with us, that baggage with us, especially with trauma. I think the concept of trauma seems very tangible to me, and I understand that. So this idea of a field, pain starts in the field. It will stay with you. So yeah, that's then where we get into clearing that field. And I need to understand a little bit more about that with her. But stick around for that. We're gonna, we're gonna talk a little bit more about that in just a second. Brad Crowell 19:40  All right, so welcome back. Thanks. Finally, let's talk about those, Be It Action Items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your convo with Dr Swarstwalter? She said we obviously need to keep working on ourselves and be mindful of brain hiccups, right, or moments of worry or anxiety where we shift back into what was in our field, right, the things that were stuck there. And she said a good way to be conscious of those things is to pull out a journal and just jot down a note—I worried about this today—and it allows you to come back to it later and be like, wow, six times today I worried about this thing, or just have some moments of reflection or awareness. But what I didn't talk about, I wanted to make sure y'all got the follow-up there. So the thing that I found that I don't really understand at all, and what was like double woo on the spectrum for me during your interview, was when she was clearing your ancestral trauma, and she mentioned this. I don't even know what she called it, actually, but it was like the somehow, the study of universal numbers, and she brought those numbers into play when she was working with you to clear what was stemming from your great grandfather. And I don't understand that in any way. So that's intriguing to me.Lesley Logan 20:56  Oh my God, I forgot to tell you. After this, so if you all listen to the interview, so it's important, you know that, like, my dad did not leave me, my parents did a mini separation. I'm pretty sure my grandfather told my dad to, like, he had to take my mom, or my mom had, like, somehow, my grandfather. Brad Crowell 21:15  I'll get them back home, basically. Lesley Logan 21:16  Yeah, so, and it wasn't like my dad wanted to leave. So I think it's really, really important, like, there was nothing. It wasn't like my dad was like, I don't want to be a dad anymore. But I asked my dad out of curiosity, hey Dad, how old was I? He said, the exact age that, that we said that, Dr. Louise said on, she's like, you were like 11, so and I was like, he said, he's like, yeah, I think you were like 11 or 12. And I was like, wow. I did not tell him. I did not, I said, hey, I'm just like, curious, like, remember that time like.Brad Crowell 21:41  Did you tell her? Lesley Logan 21:42  No. Brad Crowell 21:42  I'm just also intrigued. That was like, I literally rewound that and watch that two or three times. Because I was like, what did I just see? And I, because it was when she started to just do her work, and not explain what she was doing, that I was like, where are we going here, and what's happening right now? Lesley Logan 21:57  And she asked, and she said you were 11 years old. And I was like, okay, so I just, like, that night my it was just my dad and I going to the gym, and I said, hey, Dad, like, kind of curious, remember that time, like, you got your mom, like, separated for, like, I don't know, 36 fucking hours, like, and he's like, I think you're like, 11. And I was like, shut up. Shut up.Brad Crowell 22:17  Well, that's kind of amazing. All right. Well, anyway, what about you? What's your Be It Action Item? Lesley Logan 22:22  If you've ever been like, I only need to listen to recaps. I don't have to listen to an interview. It's like, (inaudible) it all. Now, you do.Brad Crowell 22:29  You have to listen to the interview. In fact, watch the interview, watch it on YouTube, because, like, she's, she's incredibly endearing, too. Lesley Logan 22:37  She's so sweet. Brad Crowell 22:38  Yeah, she's lovely.Lesley Logan 22:39  She looks like she should be teaching at church on Sundays. She said practice your mind gems. And it's her free gift, everyone. So if you don't, if you're an OPC member, you'll ask, you can still access this mind gems gift, but if you're an OPC member, you can, like, watch her teach it to me and all that stuff. Brad Crowell 22:54  And this is what a mind gem, a mind gem is a set of handheld positions, that you can do in like five minutes or less, and what it'll do for you is change your focus and balance so it can increase your focus and memory, improve your balance and align your energy, and then get grounded and better sleep.Lesley Logan 23:12  Yeah. So you do some stuff with your hands on your head, and you switch which hand goes there, so you can stay present. Then you clear shock and anxiety by counting your fingers and pressing them on either side of your thymus gland. Then you breathe deeply during these exercises to enhance their common effects. So there's all these different things you can do, and I can't. I obviously haven't practiced them. So clearly called out right now, but it's her gift to you, so don't let me take that away from you. It's really cool. When we did it with the OPC members, like, people really loved it, and they're like, I want my mom to do this. So, like, super, super cool stuff. So your Be It takeaway is to go get your mind gems tutorial and try it. Because here's the thing, if meditating for four minutes or five minutes is not working for you, if breath work isn't working for you, you tried face yoga, it didn't work for you, and you tell me all the time, I'm so busy, I'm so busy, you may as well give the mind gems a try, because it takes four minutes and you get to move around, you get to count, you get to think. So it's all those things, plus it's calming and it clears your field. It's kind of cool. Brad Crowell 24:08  I love it, yeah, oh, links in the show notes. Or you can go to her website, brainsoulsuccess.com and from there, click on the download mind gems.Lesley Logan 24:17  She is on this mission to heal so many brains. So like, she's kind of amazing. She's been on so many TV shows. She's quite cool. Brad Crowell 24:25  She has been on all sorts of TV shows. It's true. Yep.Lesley Logan 24:30  I'm Lesley Logan. Brad Crowell 24:31  And I'm Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 24:32  How are you going to use these tips in your life? We want to know. Tag, the Be It Pod. Tag Dr. Louise. Share this with a friend. You know, you know, share it with a friend who also might think things are (inaudible) but you can previs like she, like, I was, you listen to recap. She did not know about, I think Brad knew that my parents had, like, a momentary separation. So at any rate, like, it's pretty cool. It's pretty interesting. So you can share it with a friend who needs it, and until next time, Be It Till You See It. Brad Crowell 25:00  Bye for now. Lesley Logan 25:02  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod. Brad Crowell 25:45  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 25:50  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 25:54  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 26:01  Special, thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals. Brad Crowell 26:05  Also to Angelina Herrico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally, to Meredith Root for keeping us all on point and on time. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life"

In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Thomas M. Sterner about his book, It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. Thomas M. Sterner is the CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute and is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network! Check out the ⁠HCI Academy⁠: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn ⁠Alchemizing Human Capital⁠ Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Future Leader⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership⁠. Check out the latest issue of the ⁠Human Capital Leadership magazine⁠. Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 655967) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Each HCI Podcast episode (Program ID: 24-DP529) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCPHR recertification through SHRM, as part of the knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™). Human Capital Innovations has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each HCI Podcast episode qualifies for a maximum of 0.50 points.

Kali ini, kita akan menggali Rahasia Kebahagiaan melalui pembahasan mendalam mengenai konsep mindfulness atau hidup di saat ini. Berdasarkan pengajaran dari buku inspiratif The Practicing Mind karya Thomas M. Sterner, kita akan mengeksplorasi cara melatih kesadaran untuk mencapai keseimbangan hidup dan menikmati setiap momen di masa kini. Temukan betapa pentingnya memahami bahwa kebahagiaan sejati terletak pada kemampuan kita untuk mengendalikan pikiran, tindakan, dan fokus saat ini. Jadi, yuk bergabung bersama kami dalam perjalanan menuju kehidupan yang lebih bahagia dan bermakna! Jangan lupa subscribe, like, dan bagikan jika kamu menemukan nilai tambah dari konten ini. Terima kasih telah bergabung dalam pencarian kebahagiaan bersama kita! Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/clhb6d0v60kms01w226gw80p4/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

LSAT Instructor Jimmy D Speaks with his former student, MK, who scored a 180 from a 146 initial diagnostic, while pregnant, working full time and caring for her baby son. This episode will focus specifically on habits and it will be first in a series with MK about her journey to a 180 (Replay). Atomic Habits Book: http://www.jdlsat.com/blog/atomic-habits-required-reading-for-the-lsat The Practicing Mind: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335864.The_Practicing_Mind?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=X7xvfBDAgm&rank=1 Make It Stick: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267-make-it-stick Habit Tracker: https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker Daily Stoic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29093292-the-daily-stoic https://dailystoic.com/ Want to work with Jimmy? Book a free consultation: ⁠http://www.jdlsat.com/free-consultation.html --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jdlsat/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jdlsat/support

Elle Russ chats with Thomas M. Sterner - the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Visit him online at http://www.tomsterner.com.    SELECTED LINKS:  https://www.elleruss.com/ http://www.tomsterner.com It's Just a Thought on Amazon: https://a.co/d/bQ66ncq  Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmind  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsterner/    

Chris Meek welcomes Tom Sterner to Next Steps Forward. Tom is best known as the founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute. In addition to those roles, he is a successful entrepreneur, an expert in Present Moment Functioning, and an in-demand speaker who works with industry groups and high-performance individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations so that they can achieve new levels of mastery. He has brought clarity to thousands so they can accomplish more with less effort, in less time and with less stress. He's the author of the bestseller “The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life, “Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life,” and “It's Just A Thought: Emotional Freedom Through Deliberate Thinking.” Before founding The Practicing Mind Institute, he served as the chief concert piano technician for a major performing arts center, preparing instruments for the most-demanding performances. During his 25-year tenure, he personally worked with such legendary performers as Van Cliburn, Pavarotti, Andre Watts, Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt and Wynton Marasalis. Those who tune in to this hour of Next Steps Forward will come away from the program with a better sense of how to navigate high stress situations and how to accomplish more with less effort.

Chris Meek welcomes Tom Sterner to Next Steps Forward. Tom is best known as the founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute. In addition to those roles, he is a successful entrepreneur, an expert in Present Moment Functioning, and an in-demand speaker who works with industry groups and high-performance individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations so that they can achieve new levels of mastery. He has brought clarity to thousands so they can accomplish more with less effort, in less time and with less stress. He's the author of the bestseller “The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life, “Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life,” and “It's Just A Thought: Emotional Freedom Through Deliberate Thinking.” Before founding The Practicing Mind Institute, he served as the chief concert piano technician for a major performing arts center, preparing instruments for the most-demanding performances. During his 25-year tenure, he personally worked with such legendary performers as Van Cliburn, Pavarotti, Andre Watts, Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt and Wynton Marasalis. Those who tune in to this hour of Next Steps Forward will come away from the program with a better sense of how to navigate high stress situations and how to accomplish more with less effort.

Episode Description So here we are, the first week in August, summer is winding down and your young ones out there will be heading back to school soon.  This is a great time to reflect on what you had hoped you would have accomplished this summer from a hockey training perspective thus far.  Have you been crushing it or have you lacked focus and maybe even been really lazy the last couple of months?  If this sounds like you, don't worry, as today is a great day to begin to get things back on track where you're winning most days again. If you've been a long-time listener of the Hockey Journey Podcast, you know that I love reading books.  Here are a few that crossed my path at some point when I was struggling with laziness and lack of focus, that got me operating at a more dialed-in and productive level and I'd like to share some of them with you here today.  Know that I'm only scratching the surface of all the learning goodness in each of the titles.  If something really connects with you by the end of this episode, I highly encourage you to pick up a copy of your own.  I'll put the links to each of the titles below.   As always, thanks for stopping by, enjoy this episode, and have a wonderfully productive day!! Book Number One Your Brain at Work Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long By David Rock https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Work-Revised-Updated/dp/B0862H6Q91/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MIMA4BOPWM8U&keywords=your+brain+at+work%2C+david+rock&qid=1691051398&sprefix=your+brain+at+%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1 Book Number Two Focus The Hidden Driver of Excellence By Daniel Goleman https://www.amazon.com/Focus-Daniel-Goleman-audiobook/dp/B00EOX1L2A/ref=sr_1_1?crid=33TX7C1XEZ6G7&keywords=focus+by+daniel+goleman&qid=1691051482&s=audible&sprefix=Focus+by+da%2Caudible%2C101&sr=1-1 Book Number Three The Practicing Mind Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life By Thomas M. Sterner https://www.amazon.com/The-Practicing-Mind-audiobook/dp/B004C5K266/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PGPF81ZG3R2P&keywords=The+Practicing+Mind&qid=1691051559&s=audible&sprefix=the+practicing+mind+%2Caudible%2C109&sr=1-1 For more information regarding Coach Lance Pitlick Online Hockey Training Largest Online Data-Base Off-Ice Stickhandling, Passing and Shooting Drills https://www.onlinehockeytraining.com/ In-person lessons with Coach Lance https://www.sweethockeycoach.com/

Ever wonder why you continually think about this, that, or the other when you'd rather be enjoying a moment, pursuing a dream, or completing a project? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Thomas M. Sterner on his new #book It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. #MomentsWithMarianne with host Marianne Pestana airs every Friday at 10AM PST/ 1PM EST in the Southern California area on KMET 1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio Affiliate!Thomas M. Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. http://www.tomsterner.comFor more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com#bookclub #readinglist #books #bookish #author #authorinterview #lifeskills #KMET1490AM #radioshow #consciousness #mindfulness #mustread #mindful #change #bethechange #lifeisgood #bookstagram #booklover #heartmath #reading #thinking #love #mind #heartmind #intuition #stress

Why do we react to some situations in ways that cause us pain, anxiety, and fear? Why is it so hard to quiet our minds so we can fully enjoy the present moment? And is there anything we can do to change any of this?These are the kinds of questions that author Thomas M. Sterner answers in this inspiring interview as he offers a practical approach for or mastering our thoughts by rewriting our internal programming.Thomas Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking.The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery.Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware.During the interview we discuss…why we are often victims of “automated thinking” rather than the master creator of our thoughtsdiscipline as the skill of shifting our attention into the present momentdeliberate thinkinghow interpretation creates experiencewhen we find ourselves in a situation that creates a sense of struggleConnect after the interview…Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmindFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsternerWebsite: http://www.tomsterner.comClaim your free gift!We're giving away a one-year membership to the world's #1 business book summary service for leaders! Our gift will help you stay on top of the latest ideas, decide which books to read next, and engage your teams.To get your gift:Leave a rating or review on your favorite listening channel.Take a screenshot of your review.Share the screenshot on LinkedIn, and mention either “Allison Dunn” or “Deliberate Directions” and the “Deliberate Leaders Podcast”.=============Allison DunnExecutive Business CoachDeliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702(208) 350-6551Website https://www.deliberatedirections.comLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunnPodcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, coaches, industry groups and individuals of all ages freeing them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. As an expert Present Moment Functioning Coach, he has brought clarity to thousands regarding how they can achieve their goals with less effort, in the least amount of time while enjoying the process. Check out The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and It's Just A Thought all written by today's guest! Check out 1Huddle as mentioned in today's episode! Unstoppables! Please consider taking this survey about our listener demographics so that we can better determine how to best serve our listeners. Less than 10 simple questions. Here is the link: CLICK HERE Show notes… Calls to ACTION!!! Join Restaurant Unstoppable Network and get your first 30 days on me!  Connect with my past guest and a community of superfans. Subscribe to the Restaurant Unstoppable YouTube Channel Join the private Unstoppable Facebook Group Join the email list! (Scroll Down to get the Vendor List!) Favorite success quote/mantra: "I am not my thoughts. Some thoughts I create, but most of my thoughts happen to me unless I'm in charge of the process." In this episode with Thomas M. Sterner we will discuss: How to better your life, improve your discipline, and control your thoughts with Present Moment Functioning (PMF). Today's sponsor: Ovation - Do you want real-time feedback from your guests instead of 1-star reviews? Ovation uses a 2-question, SMS-based survey, and frictionless integrations with online ordering platforms and other tools to enable restaurants to easily resolve guest concerns in real-time, get more 5-star reviews, discover insights to improve, and drive revenue. Unstoppable listeners who sign up will get$100 off their set-up fee! Visit ovationup.com/unstoppable to learn more. 1Huddle - 1Huddle is a coaching and development platform using quick-burst mobile games to more quickly and effectively level up and fire up your workforce. With a mobile-first approach to preparing the modern worker, a library of 3,000+ quick-burst skill games, and the option to instantly create personalized content – 1Huddle is changing the way restaurants develop their workers by transforming traditional manuals and videos into deceptively simple, highly effective mobile games proven to level up workers quickly. Key clients include Loews Hotels, Novartis, Madison Square Garden, Yum, FB Society, Hakkasan, TAO Group, and the Dog Haus. Restaurant Systems Pro - Join the 60-day Restaurant Systems Pro FREE TRAINING. This is something that has never been done before. This 60-day event is at no cost to you, but it is not for everyone. Fred Langley, CEO of Restaurant Systems Pro, will lead a group of restaurateurs through the Restaurant Systems Pro software and set up the systems for your restaurant. During the 60 days, Fred will walk you through the Restaurant Systems Pro Process and help you crush the following goals: Recipe Costing Cards; Guidance in your books for accounting; Cash controls; Sales Forecasting(With Accuracy); Checklists; Budgeting for the entire year; Scheduling for profit; More butts in seats and more… Click Here to learn more. Contact: Check out The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and It's Just A Thought all written by today's guest! Website: https://tomsterner.com/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for the Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. Huge thanks to Thomas M. Sterner for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time! Restaurant Unstoppable is a free podcast. One of the ways I'm able to make it free is by earning a commission when sharing certain products with you. I've made it a core value to only share tools, resources, and services my guest mentors have recommend, first. If you're finding value in my podcast, please use my links!

"Under the Tree" is an initiative to re - live the child hood and our lives by relating to stories by great writers of yesteryears. The objective is to rekindle the interest of reading and showcase the Indian authors work which give rebirth to the tradition, culture. Spiritual series that is rich in Indian ethos along with Management aspects increase positivity which is much needed always..

Between remote work, quiet hiring, quiet firing, forced back into office, gig work, A.I., automation, and so much more, the workforce is in a challenging position today. Workers are sandwiched between anxiety towards an unsure future and strict performance reviews saying ‘do better!' of the past. Sadly, what workers lack support in, is focusing on the present. Luckily, Tom Sterner is here to change that. Tom Sterner is the Founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, and author of books “The Practicing Mind: The Practicing Mind,” “It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom Through Deliberate Thinking,” and “Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life.” Tom is a leading expert in the field of Present Moment Functioning and coaches some of the world's top business leaders, organizations, athletes, and performers in this technique he's dedicated the past few decades of his life studying. Rooted in millennia old philosophy and backed by decades of neuroscientific research, Tom's work in the field of Present Moment Functioning is critical for leaders to understand. At a time when the workforce is particularly vulnerable, leaders need to understand how to support their workers, in order to get them performing at their best. This is another podcast you're definitely not going to want to miss, so with that…let's bring it in!

Change can be difficult because it often requires us to shift our habits, thoughts and interpretations. Even if we want to make positive change, we do things that sabotage our success and react in ways that cause pain, anxiety, and fear. But, why does this happen, and is there any way to change this? According to my guest, Thomas M. Sterner, the best way to break patterns is to understand why we behave as we do and to develop the skill to craft the behavioral changes we desire. Thomas M. Sterner is the CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute and is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. He is the author of the bestselling “The Practicing Mind,” Fully Engaged, and most recently, “It's Just a Thought.” Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. During our conversation, Thomas offers his advice on becoming the master of our mind's capabilities instead of its servant. We discuss ways to improve our internal dialogue by replacing negative thoughts with empowering ones. He also shares tips to change old habits and introduce new and better ones.

Thomas M. Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Visit him online at http://www.tomsterner.com. Here's a link to It's Just a Thought on Amazon: https://a.co/d/bQ66ncq You'll find him on social media here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmind Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsterner/ Is there anything else you need from me? If not please confirm that we are confirmed and we'll be all set!

Thomas M. Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Visit him online at http://www.tomsterner.com. Here's a link to It's Just a Thought on Amazon: https://a.co/d/bQ66ncq You'll find him on social media here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmind Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsterner/ Is there anything else you need from me? If not please confirm that we are confirmed and we'll be all set!

In this cognition boosting interview bestselling author of The Practicing Mind, CEO of the Practising Mind Institute, and present moment functioning coach, Thomas M Sterner joins Theresa to discuss the supreme power of thoughts in our lives and his latest title, It's Just a Thought. To find out more about Thomas, connect to him and order, It's Just a Thought visit:https://tomsterner.com/To find out more about Theresa's bestselling dream, intuition, afterlife, astrology and mystical titles and mission, visit:Www.theresacheung.comhttp://linktr.ee/theresacheungTo order Theresa's latest title: Empower Your Inner Psychic visit:amzn.to/3GqtmleYou can contact Theresa via @thetheresacheung on Instagram and her author pages on Facebook and Twitter and you can email her directly at: angeltalk710@aol.comThank you to Cluain Ri for the blissful episode music.

Tom Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently, "It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking." The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of joy. Prior to writing the bestselling books, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and is a trained jazz piano player. www.tomsterner.com @newworldlibrary @liberatedhealerpodcast www.theliberatedhealer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reflect back on the last hour of your thinking and consider how many of those thoughts you created on purpose. If you're like most of us, you'll likely see that much of your thinking gets produced without your direction, and often outside of your awareness. This week, Thomas Sterner shares insights from his book, It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. Throughout his career, Thomas has been exploring methods for thinking, rather than being thought. What he's learned is that directing our thoughts, instead of being directed by them, is not only possible, it's transformative.    Guest Bio Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, a successful entrepreneur, and an expert in present moment functioning, or PMF™. As a popular and in-demand speaker and coach, he works with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, coaches, and CEOs, freeing them to operate effectively in high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. The author of the international bestseller The Practicing Mind and Fully Engaged, he lives in Delaware. https://tomsterner.com/    For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode232    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest's book: It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking https://www.amazon.com/Its-Just-Thought-Emotional-Deliberate/dp/1608688291    Guest's website: https://tomsterner.com/    Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   

Join Happy Ali and author, Thomas M. Sterner as they talk about emotional freedom through the power of your thoughts. This episode is packed full of gems from start to finish. Thomas and Happy's dymanic creates an incredible must watch episode. They discuss topics such as being the observer of your world with the least emotional distress, creating new habits, learning to meditate, and much more. You can catch the audio verson of this episode on your favorite podcast platform (click the link below). https://linktr.ee/happyinsights Thomas M. Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Visit him online at http://www.tomsterner.com. You'll find him on social media here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmind Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsterner/ #powerofthoughts #loa #manifestation #emotionalfreedom #newhabits

Welcome to Episode 162! In this episode, MTT Coach Gareth James and Peak Performance Mindset Coach Dr. Tricia Cardner are back discussing all things poker strategy & mindset. In this episode, the hosts answer a question from a listener who wants some advice on how to control emotions and improve focus and discipline .Topics discussed include: ● An update on Tricia's upcoming poker excursion to the Lodge● How to use ideas from Thomas Sterner's book The Practicing Mind to improve your mental game● Why it's useful to develop the observer side of the brain and how it is distinct from the ego● How to use the D.O.C. technique to recalibrate your mindset Want us to answer your poker question? Post it in Dr. Tricia's private Facebook group! Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PokerMindsetMasteryLab Or in Gareth's private Facebook group! Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pokerprofits Or Tweet us: @drtriciacardner @MTTpokerschool @PokerOnTheMind Resources Check out Gareth's program Train and Play Like the Pros that will prepare you for large MTT series (both online and live): https://www.mttpokerschool.com/ Check out Tricia's digital offerings at: https://www.peakpokermindset.com/ Check out the replay of Tricia's webinar with Alex Fitzgerald on How to Stop Making Bad Calls: https://vimeo.com/767500329

Thanks for listening to VisAbleBlackwoman The Podcast. My guest this week is Peloton yoga teacher Ross Rayburn. Ross has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and I first took his class back in the 2000s when he was leading yoga workshops in NYC.  The style of yoga he taught back then was based on Hatha yoga and focused on alignment breathwork and mental focus.  Ross Moved on to leading yoga on the Peloton app and in the past two and a half years has reached a global audience through his virtual classes. Yoga with Ross for the past two years has given me the NYC yoga experience I've been missing since quarantine. The music the poses and Ross's vast knowledge of the body from a structural perspective,  have allowed me to have access to consistent healing yoga practice at home. I literally roll out of bed onto my yoga mat and start my day grounded in a yoga practice grounded in love.  Ross generously said yes when I DM'd him on IG and asked if we could chat about his creativity.  The conversation was …well please listen for yourself to my conversation with the incredible, Ross Rayburn. Click Here to Follow Ross on IG. As always if you love what you're hearing  please subscribe rate and share VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast. And if you'd like to hear the full unedited version of this podcast, become a sustaining member of VisAbleBlackwoman on Patreon. Patreon.com/visableblackwoman. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeanine-t-abraham/message

https://tomsterner.com/ https://www.amazon.com.au/Practicing-Mind-Thomas-M-Sterner/dp/1608680908 In those times when we want to acquire a new skill or face a formidable challenge we hope to overcome, what we need most are patience, focus, and discipline, traits that seem elusive or difficult to maintain. In this enticing and practical book, Thomas Sterner demonstrates how to learn skills for any aspect of life, from golfing to business to parenting, by learning to love the process. Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. If we had given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, we would never have learned to walk or tie our shoes. So why, as adults, do we often give up on a goal when at first we don't succeed? In his study of how we learn (prompted by his pursuit of disciplines such as music and golf), Sterner has found that we have forgotten the principles of practice -- the process of picking a goal and applying steady effort to reach it. The methods Sterner teaches show that practice done properly isn't drudgery on the way to mastery but a fulfilling process in and of itself, one that builds discipline and clarity.

LSAT Instructor Jimmy D Speaks with his former student, MK, who scored a 180 from a 146 initial diagnostic, while pregnant, working full time and caring for her baby son. This episode will focus specifically on habits and it will be first in a series with MK about her journey to a 180. Atomic Habits Book: http://www.jdlsat.com/blog/atomic-habits-required-reading-for-the-lsat The Practicing Mind: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335864.The_Practicing_Mind?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=X7xvfBDAgm&rank=1 Make It Stick: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267-make-it-stick Habit Tracker: https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker Daily Stoic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29093292-the-daily-stoic https://dailystoic.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lsathabits/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lsathabits/support

Imagine you are the driver of a chariot pulled by 4 horses. If you do not train those horses, and if you don't pick up the reins and guide them, you would be pulled in different directions and experience a chaotic nightmare. Now imagine those horses are your mind. Are you driving the chariot or is your mind driving you? This analogy is meant to show you how learning to train and manage the "horses" in your head take some effort, but it can be done. The goal is to manage your mind and regulate your emotions. If you can learn mind management and emotional regulation, there is nothing you can't accomplish. Excerpt from The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner is mentioned https://www.amberhaider.com

If you don't like practice, you won't want to do it; it's that simple. This episode offers three ways we make practice undesirable and how to approach it instead. 1. Judgment --If you punish yourself, judge your dancing and focus on what's not going well, you will not like practicing. 2. Impatience--Thinking you are supposed to be further along than you are, waiting until the finish line to be happy, and preconceived expectations lead to frustration, anxiety, disappointment and depression. 3. Making practice work--If you like an activity, you call it play. If you don't, you call it work. Thinking of practice as drudgery or a nuisance on the way to an end goal will make it undesirable and you won't want to do it. Listen in for solutions. Book reference The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner

In this Episode, I will be reviewing the audible book, The Practicing Mind; Master Any Skill Or Challenge By Learning To Love The Process By Thomas M. Sterner. This audible book will teach you, how to build discipline and character by learning how to love the process of practicing, in order to achieve your goals. Of all the riches available to us in life, self-discipline is surely one of, if not the, most valuable. All things worth achieving can be accomplished with the power of self-discipline. With it we are Masters of the energy we expend in life. Without it we are victims of our own unfocused and constantly changing efforts, desires and directions. How To Master The Practicing Mind: Chapter 1: The Learning Begins Chapter 2: Process Not Product Chapter 3: It's How You Look At It Chapter 4: Creating The Habits We Desire Chapter 5: Perception Change Creates Patience Chapter 6: The Four “S” Words Chapter 7: Equanimity and “DOC” Chapter 8: Teach And Learn From Children *To find out more about this audible book, Go To: www.audible.com and download this audible book, or go to www.tomsterner.com to find out more information about the Author. *Remember To Subscribe to this Podcast on Your favorite Podcast Platform, so You do not miss an Episode, and also remember to share this Episode via text or email with Friends and Family and other People that You care about. *For More Episodes of The Patrick Kelly Podcast for Self-Development and a free, did I say free, yes free 30-day trial of audible plus; Go To: www.thepatrickkellypodcast.com to sign up today. *If You would like to donate a dollar or more to the support of this Podcast, click the donate button at www.thepatrickkellypodcast.com or go to $patrickkellypodcast on cash app and I will be sure to thank You on the next Episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/patrickkellypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrickkellypodcast/support

This episode feels almost nostalgic, as it is a return to the theme of the roles and interactions of the conscious and subconscious mind, something which I focused on early in the podcast and came out strongly in my main series on expertise (around episode 20). It also shares some relation to books on the topic of cognitive biases on the one hand, and the complexity of the world on the other. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has two main points to make: firstly, that ignorance and cognitive biases often outperform knowledge and "clear thinking"; and secondly, he proposes a way in which gut feelings work. On the first point, Gigerenzer points us to some experiments which are convincing of their point but difficult to know how to make use of. It turns out that, in tasks like guessing which of two cities has the larger population, if you've heard of one but not the other, the one you've heard of is probably more populous. This requires that you are "somewhat ignorant" - you know one city but not the other - as if you are completely ignorant (not heard of either) or somewhat knowledgeable (heard of both) then you can't use this trick. It seems very impractical to try to reach a perfect state of mild ignorance in everything in order to use this trick, and you would have to give up the benefits of knowledge in order to do so... Nevertheless, the theoretical point is well made. On the second point, Gigerenzer proposes that gut feelings are simple rules that cut out most of the information, and they often make use of an algorithm called "take the best". The algorithm works like this: you compare whether the available options in the most important feature, then the next important feature, and so on, until in one of the comparisons one of the options is clearly better, at which point you choose that one. So, for example, if you're choosing a restaurant, maybe you first think about the food, but two places both have good food; then you compare atmosphere, but both atmospheres are good; then you compare price, and find one is considerably cheaper, so you go there. Overall Gigerenzer's work makes a welcome contribution to thinking about the nature of intuition. Probably the most insightful idea is that gut feelings use simple rules, because that way they can cut out the noise and make decisions easier. Richard Dawkins apparently once claimed that when we catch a ball we must be implicitly solving partial differential equations; Gigerenzer shows that this is probably not what happens. Enjoy the episode. *** RELATED EPISODES Phenomenology of learning / relation between conscious and subconscious mind: 7. The Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner; 9. The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey; 10. Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi; 17. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell; 49. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin; 64. What Bruce Lee taught me about learning Mental architecture: 79. What learning is; 80. The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters Expertise: 18. Bounce by Matthew Syed; 20. Genius Explained by Michael Howe; 22. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle; 24. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Expertise in "wicked" domains: 98. Range by David Epstein; 108. Expert Political Judgement by Phillip Tetlock The world is complicated: 113. The Hidden Half by Michael Blastland Cognitive biases: 11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman; 12. "Picture yourself as a stereotypical male" by Michelle Goffreda

https://michellespivawisdomsmack.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/ep-408-doing-simple-things-with-a-complex-mind/ Do you spin your wheels trying to start a simple project or task? Do you get bogged down with ideas that grow grander by the minute? Is it hard for you to get to the point or figure out the easiest way to do something? Do you 'do the most' with simple projects? If so, today's episode if for you! Today's Michelle Spiva Wisdom Smack Podcast is LIVE! Ep. 408-Doing Simple Things With Complex Minds Listen: http://bit.ly/acomplexmind Books mentioned: The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner, https://amzn.to/3lw0hvX Peak: Secrets From the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson https://amzn.to/2Vtw1aa __________________________________ Don't forget to use our Amazon link to support the podcast by using our Amazon Shopping link! https://www.amazon.com/?tag=micstwocen-20 To send a message to the show: https://anchor.fm/michelle-spiva/message For Interviews, sponsorship, or coaching/consulting, please send inquires to: Michelle at WiseMindMedia dot com (no solicitation-spam; *You do not have permission to add this email to any email list or autoresponder without knowledge or consent) _____________________________ Further support this podcast, please do so by using any of these methods: Venmo: @MichelleSpiva1 CashApp: $MichelleSpiva PayPal: http://bit.ly/Donate2Michelle Patreon: https://Patreon.com/MichelleSpiva Amazon Affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=micstwocen-20 Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, rate, and review. Follow Michelle here: Facebook: facebook.com/FollowMichelleSpiva Twitter: @mspiva IG: @MichelleSpiva Find out more about Michelle's alter-ego fiction writer side: Amazon Author Page: http://amzn.to/2lIP6Om Facebook: facebook.com/MychalDanielsAuthor Twitter: @mychaldaniels IG: @MychalDaniels --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michelle-spiva/message

Welcome to The Practicing Mind Podcast! In this first episode of The Practicing Mind Podcast, the theme is "If you could sit down and have a drink with anyone that's ever lived throughout history, who would that be and why?" Be sure to listen to the end to hear my answer - it may surprise you! I'll also be discussing the show's format, a bit more about my background, the core realization that everything in life is a skill, and If you want to be good at something that makes you uncomfortable and who doesn't when those times come? Tell yourself "This is where the fun starts". This way you can learn to see these moments as an opportunity to learn a new skill that you haven't yet mastered. Coming up on the show interpretation creates experience. What does that mean? Many things we experience during the day, we don't realize that we create the experience through our interpretation and how does that work? I'll be giving you some examples on that and how you can change it so that your interpretation serves your happiness. Also, what is deliberate thinking VS compulsive thinking, which one is better? Are you the "thinker" or are you being "thought" by your subconscious mind?   In the next episode we're going to talk about DISCIPLINE. Discipline is power & freedom, it's real currency you might say. Without it, you have no control, but what is discipline? Is it doing what you don't feel like doing when you don't feel like doing it? Be sure to listen in to find out! Please send in your questions on something we haven't yet covered, or an aspect of something that was covered in a previous episode that you want to learn more about. Feel free to email your questions & comments to me at asktom@tomsterner.com. Now sit back, and enjoy episode 1 of The Practicing Mind Podcast! 

Hey, everyone. This is Tom Sterner, author of The Practicing Mind: Developing Discipline and Focus In Your Life, here to talk to you about my upcoming podcast. My first book, The Practicing Mind was published in 2005, and it reflected over three and a half decades of research into just how to maximize our mental performance while at the same time feeling patient, focused and content. Being right here, right now in the present moment. In other words, being "in the process" of achieving any goal. The research took me through everything from Eastern thought systems that were thousands of years old to modern sports psychology and neuroscience. The success of the book launched a second career for me. Over the past 16 years of lecturing, being interviewed and coaching so many individuals from all over the world, I have been asked a lot of questions and asked to solve a lot of personal struggles. Somewhere in there is information that you need to hear. And so The Practicing Mind, what I learned from coaching podcast is here. There is even a way for you to contact me with your own questions, so check it out and see what it's all about! Talk to you soon. - Tom M. Sterner

A good deal of our misery comes from not feeling like our lives are turning out the way we'd planned. But Jesus--and mystics like Thomas Merton--strongly encourage us that we're on the wrong track when we look at our lives through that lens. Instead, they suggest an entirely different perspective on what we're up to that offers a new opportunity for enjoying our days, experiencing God, and finding the kind of meaning we'd been wanting. Mentioned on this podcast:John 15:5; Matthew 6:33Thomas Merton"Seasons of Love," from the musical RentA book which addresses similar questions: The Practicing Mind, by Thomas M. Sterner

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“The practicing mind is about learning to be in the process and enjoy the process.” Today's Bring It In guest is an expert on how we can align our minds and bodies to stay in the moment so that we're getting the most out of what we do. Tom Sterner is the founder and CEO of “The Practicing Mind Institute: Teaching the Power of the Present Moment,” and he authored the popular book The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life on the same topic. Before founding The Practicing Mind Institute, Tom served as the Chief Concert Piano Technician for a major performing arts center where he prepared instruments for the world's most demanding performances. During his 25 year tenure as a technician, Tom personally worked for industry giants like Pavarotti and Fleetwood Mac. When 1Huddle's CEO and Founder Sam Caucci sat down with Tom on this episode of Bring It In, they talked about everything from what it really means to operate at our highest levels to how we can make better, more effective goals that enable us to practice to our fullest potential. This is one of the most compelling, thought-provoking episodes yet, so let's get ready to… Bring it in!

Tune in this week to discover the value of being focused on the process versus the product. I’m sharing tools and concepts from a book I love called The Practicing Mind to help you focus on the process of getting to your goal, and I know implementing these nuggets will make the process feel so much more like magic than the agitation and frustration we often get trapped in. Get full show notes and more information here: https://itbeginswithathought.com/56

Joined today by Tom Sterner, founder of the Practicing Mind Institute and best-selling author of The Practicing Mind. Tom is a leading expert in Thought Awareness Training and helping people become more fully engaged in the pursuit of their goals to achieve greater joy, peace, and success. Max Out Insights: • Have a target to aim for. No matter what you call it, this target, goal or resolution expresses the place to which you want to get. It could be anything from reaching an ideal weight, a clothing size, or a particular measure of physical fitness. • Your unconscious mind influences you. In fact, it controls you. It's always listening. What you feed your mind can and will be bringing you either positive or negative thoughts, emotions and beliefs. • Don't look for the accomplishment to happen prematurely, have accurate data on what you're undertaking and understand how long it will take to master that instrument, goal, or ambition. • Mistakes are fine. Mistakes are information, not failures. Anyone who stretches their limits and takes major goals will make mistakes along the way. Look at the mistake with a cool head, open mind and sense of curiosity: “I made a mistake. What happened?” Max Out Quotes: • “Your Interpretation determines and creates your experience.” • “We are not our thoughts; we experience our thoughts.” • “If you're in your thoughts, you're not in control.” • “Repeat the behaviour you want, analyze and relax.” Connect with Tom: You can reach out to him through his Website www.tomsterner.com. You'll also find his 1-1 coaching and email information there.

(HORROR) - Mother Midnight comes to you in the night. She searches your mind for what you want. You'll certainly get it, what you desired, but the price you'll pay will leave you begging for her to stop, to leave you alone, to help you no more. There's nothing to be afraid of, though. It's just a kid's cautionary tale. A message to be careful of what you wish for, and to take responsibility for what goes wrong in your life. It's just a cautionary tale... If you enjoyed the story, please consider leaving a review and subscribing. Thanks! Today’s episode is sponsored by Audible. You can go to audibletrial.com/morethanastory and sign up for a FREE one-month subscription to Audible, which includes one free download. I’ve been an Audible subscriber for years, and I love listening to audiobooks when I work out, run, go food shopping, or cook dinner. It’s also an essential road trip companion! And Audible isn’t just audiobooks either. They have podcasts, exclusive Audible Originals, and more. You will be entertained, and you can learn new things along the way. I recommend The Practicing Mind in this episode, but go where your heart leads you. Other favorites of mine are The Compound Effect and The 4-Hour Work Week. Again, go to audibletrial.com/morethanastory to claim your free one month trial of Audible, and your free download. Check out Prince Ea’s Mind Detox Program: https://princeea.com/mind-detox/  Website: https://theroamingscholar.com/more-than-a-story-podcast/ Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/morethanastorypod Instagram:  http://instagram.com/morethanastorypodcast Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4yOQjGC0Zt8ZgvbnIuWbA/

Today we’re talking about the importance of developing more thought awareness, especially in midlife. Our guest today is Thomas M. Sterner, author of the amazing book, The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life -- Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process. He’s also the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute and is an expert in Present Moment Functioning. Learn more here: https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-156-finding-joy-in-the-present-moment-with-tom-sterner-author-of-the-practicing-mind/

While it is hard NOT to get angry sometimes, anger can take a toll on your health and lifespan. I’ll discuss some research that explains what is and isn’t worth getting angry about.What does it take to have a happy relationship? You are going to hear some of the simplest, smartest and easiest advice to follow that can instantly start to transform your relationship. And it comes from Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret (https://amzn.to/36dpn97). Her website is www.soulmatesecret.com.Why are unhappy people so unhappy? It turns out that unhappy people often get stuck being unhappy because of certain behaviors that keep them stuck. Listen to discover what those behaviors are and what to do to break out of them.Also, are you using your mind correctly? The demands of the world require your mind to adapt but it doesn’t always adapt very well. For example, we think we multi-tasking is a good way to get more done – when in fact, it is not. It’s just not what the brain is wired for. Thomas Sterner, author of the book, The Practicing Mind (https://amzn.to/3g7STSD) explores better way to use your mind that will allow you to be more productive and happier.

So many students hate school, are bored by their classes and suffer from paralyzing test anxiety. This is why I am so passionate about empowering students and proving that school doesn't have to be a struggle and that any student (including you) can get A's and more importantly enjoy school and learning. In this video, I discuss the opening sentence of the book "The Practicing Mind" by Thomas M. Sterner. The opening line packs quite a punch, so in this video I was only able to get to the first half, check back for Part 2 where we continue our discussion of healthy student mindset and the joy of studying. #MakeStudyingGreatAgain #Studylessgetgettergrades #StudyMotivationTo help you develop a healthy and productive mindset, I created “The Successful Student 21-Day Mindset Makeover”. This course will break down the false beliefs you have about school and teach you the 3 principles that enabled me to dominate college and medical school. They will allow you to become your best-self. Click HERE to get 50% OFF!! I'm Dr. Andre Pinesett and I'm on a mission to prove that school doesn't have to be hard and that ANY student (including you) can be great! *** SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube Channel and Turn on Live notifications so you never miss a LIVE. INSTAGRAM @TheStudyDoc New Episode EVERY Wednesday! *** I went from 1st generation college student to Stanford-trained physician and for over 15 years I've been helping students, particularly disadvantaged and minority students get confident, study better and maximize their potential. Through a mix of interviews with experts and solo episodes, you will learn strategies for developing a healthy mindset, time-management, productivity, study efficiency, college success, getting into medical school and career development. This podcast is for students who want to be great, parents who want the best for their children and educators who want to empower their students. Dr. Pinesett is an award-winning educator, highly sought-after speaker and noted authority on student productivity. His online courses available at StudentTransformation.com feature innovative, effective and most importantly, easy-to-follow systems that cultivate happy, healthy and high-achieving students. Hit subscribe and get ready to transform your life. #NoExcusesJustDominate If you like what you see here, then you will LOVE MY ON-DEMAND COURSES. They feature innovative, effective and most importantly, easy-to-follow systems that cultivate happy, healthy and high-achieving students. Visit my WEBSITE for more! ***LIFE-CHANGING COURSES*** LEARN HOW TO DOUBLE YOUR STUDY EFFICIENCY (Save $50) SAVE $200 on The 5 Pillars of Studying Less & Getting Better Grades by clicking HERE. I'm here to help you, all you have to do is let me! I respond to all messages personally, so contact me: CONTACT DR. PINESETT

Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF tm. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. As an expert Present Moment Functioning Coach, Thomas has brought clarity to thousands regarding how they can accomplish more with less effort, in the least amount of time and with greatly reduced stress. Top media outlets such as NPR, Fox News, and Forbes have sought his advice. He is the author of the best seller The Practicing Mind (New World Library 2012). Prior to founding The Practicing Mind Institute he served as the Chief Concert Piano Technician for a major performing arts center preparing instruments for the most demanding performances. During his 25 year tenure as a high-level technician, he personally worked for industry giants such as Van Cliburn, Pavarotti, Andre Watts, Ray Charles, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis and many more. An accomplished musician and composer he has also worked in the visual arts and as a recording studio engineer. To be fully engaged in life means that we have clear goals as well as the focus and skills to accomplish those goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness. In his first book, The Practicing Mind, which remains a bestseller in its category, Thomas Sterner set out clear guidelines for developing focus and discipline to achieve any life goal. As Tom traveled and spoke about the book, he kept track of the questions readers and participants at his seminars asked. The answers to those questions — or more accurately, the exploration of those questions — became the basis of Fully Engaged. Connect with Thomas Sterner: https://tomsterner.com/bio/ https://thepracticingmindinstitute.com/personal-coaching/ Get the books: https://www.amazon.com/Fully-Engaged-Using-Practicing-Daily-ebook/dp/B01LWUM9C5 Connect with Nick Holderbaum: Health Coaching: https://www.primalosophy.com/ Nick Holderbaum's Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods (T): @primalosophy (IG): @primalosophy iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-primalosophy-podcast/id1462578947 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

When making changes and wanting to live a healthier life, a lot of emphasis is placed on nutrition and exercise, but what if living healthier isn’t really about what we put in our mouths? Join Lana as she explains how her 100 Day Live Your Best Life Challenge kicked up a lot of negative thoughts. In doing some reflection, her 100 Day LYBL Challenge isn’t just about her wellness plan. Mindset plays the biggest role in her choices. Tune in as she talks about the different types of mindsets and how it can affect each of our wellness journeys. Let’s connect! www.lanasimmons.com Mentioned in the podcast: Dr. Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Free Woodworking plans from Ana White: http://www.ana-white.com/ Free Woodworking plans from Shanty 2 Chick: https://www.shanty-2-chic.com/ Thomas Sterner, Practicing Mind available on Amazon

Are you generally a goal-oriented person or a process-oriented person? And what does that have to do with wellness? Join Lana as she talks about how her nutrition plan became overwhelming and she was trying to figure out why. She realized she was maybe focusing more on a goal and not the process of getting to that goal. Are goals important? Or should we forget goals altogether and focus only on the process? Let’s connect! www.lanasimmons.com Mentioned in the podcast: Thomas Sterner, Practicing Mind: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007C8NRSA?tag=lanasimm-20  

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Permission to be who we are, where we are at in our life, is the topic of this episode, continuing our conversation regarding Ego.  Instead of wishing our day away for tomorrow, feeling that we are not enough at the moment, not thin enough, not rich enough, not famous enough or whatever we think we are not doing, being, and having enough of right now, we can be joyful in the experience we are having RIGHT NOW.  It's perfect just as it is. No matter what.   Being content and happy at this very moment is something we all strive to be.  Why not begin now. Ref:  The Practicing Mind, Developing focusing and discipline, by; Thomas M. Sterner      

SUPERAR OBSTÁCULOS Y ALCANZAR METAS SIGNIFICATIVAS REQUIERE QUE EMPLEES DISCIPLINA, PACIENCIA Y ATENCIÓN PLENA; SÓLO LA PRÁCTICA DIARIA TE DARÁ ESAS HABILIDADES Esta idea sobre Efectividad Extraordinaria fue extraída de "The Practicing Mind" por Thomas M Sterner. Este título ayuda a desarrollar la disciplina y conciencia que necesitamos para alcanzar metas significativas y tener mayor satisfacción con nuestra vida. Recomendamos todas las ideas de este libro a cualquier persona con problemas de postergación o exceso de trabajo improductivo y a líderes con el deseo de crear en su equipo una mentalidad de practicante. Algo útil para dialogar ¿Qué áreas de tu vida podrías mejorar y cuáles metas podrías alcanzar empleando disciplina, perseverancia y constancia? ¿Te sirvió esta idea? Propágala para que más personas descubran de dónde vienen las buenas ideas. Suscríbete en ideasinfalibles.com o visita ideasinfalibles.com/premium para conseguir resúmenes completos.

This is the last part of "The Practicing Mind" by Thomas M Sterner. It's basically a book about mindset and what a good mindset looks like but I found it wasn't boring at all and there are a lot of great reminders and also ideas in it! Therefore this episode of the Self Development With Tactics Podcast is all about: Not living in the past nor somekinda in the future, habits, judgement, why your path should be your goal and not the actual goal itself and why patience is such an incredible factor as well as the four "S" words (small, short, slow, simply) - I as always hope that you get a lot out of that! - Love you ➠Thank you for being with me! If you liked this episode of your daily self development kick please subscribe and like. Stay tuned for upcoming self development videos aaaaand comment down below or hit me up on the social media platform you like the most. Wish you the best, health wealth and happiness ❤️ Who I am? I am Christopher Walch a 18 year old graphic design student from austria, really interested in marketing self Development and having success in every aspect of life❤️However I am not only interested in having the best for me! I want you to be at your peak as well. Giving value to the people out here is what I want and what I am able to do here! Thank you. Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walchchristopher Self Development with Tactics'/Christopher Walch's Podcast: https://www.anchor.fm/selfdevelopment_wt/ Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SelfTactics Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Selfdevelopment-With-Tactics Self Development with Tactics on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/we-selfdevelopment Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ms9lq2XRrgdy0rOrMYVUQ Self Development With Tactics/Christopher Walch on Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Christopher-Walch-SDWT-Podcast LOVE YOU ALL!! ❤️

This Self Development With Tactics / SDWT Podcast episode is all about The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterne and typical but also relevant new insights of a great mindset and or "inner game" like why the way to the goal should actually be the goal - one he particularly likes :) - I as always hope that you get a lot out of that! - Love you ➠Thank you for being with me! If you liked this episode of your daily self development kick please subscribe and like. Stay tuned for upcoming self development videos aaaaand comment down below or hit me up on the social media platform you like the most. Wish you the best, health wealth and happiness ❤️ Who I am? I am Christopher Walch a 18 year old graphic design student from austria, really interested in marketing self Development and having success in every aspect of life❤️However I am not only interested in having the best for me! I want you to be at your peak as well. Giving value to the people out here is what I want and what I am able to do here! Thank you. Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walchchristopher Self Development with Tactics'/Christopher Walch's Podcast: https://www.anchor.fm/selfdevelopment_wt/ Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SelfTactics Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Selfdevelopment-With-Tactics Self Development with Tactics on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/we-selfdevelopment Self Development with Tactics/Christopher Walch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ms9lq2XRrgdy0rOrMYVUQ Self Development With Tactics/Christopher Walch on Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Christopher-Walch-SDWT-Podcast LOVE YOU ALL!! ❤️

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Show Highlights In this wide ranging interview, we talk with Thomas Sterner, author of the Practicing Mind.  We talk about  How to develop focus and discipline How to love the process Thought Awareness Training and meditation

I just finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and The Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner. Both books contain wisdom and insight that can help us with music production. In this episode, I discuss some of the important lessons I learned from the books, such as hard work surpasses talent and genius, we need to reframe the way we look at goals, and no one makes it alone. Listen on iTunes or Stitcher or Google Play Show Notes: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner Revisionist’s History - Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Thomas Sterner’s website Synth Brass Ableton Live Pack - 32 Ableton Live Instruments made from synthesized brass sounds programmed and sampled from the Prophet 6 analog synthesizer. Thank you for listening. Please consider giving the Music Production Podcast a review on your favorite podcast provider. And don’t forget to visit my site AfroDJMac.com for music production tutorials, videos, and Ableton Live devices. Brian

Guest Introduction: Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute, and an expert in Present Moment Functioning. He is also a coach and speaker who works with high-performance individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. Top media organization such as NPR, Fox News, and Forbes have sought his advice. Tom is the author of two books, including the best-seller “The Practicing Mind,” and his more recent book, “Fully Engaged.” Interview Summary: In this interview, Tom first explains what Present Moment Functioning is, and how being present improves performance levels. We ask him how people can develop this skill and implement it in their lives. Tom explains how to remove ourselves from a stressful situation and become an observer. He describes thought awareness training, and talks about what people might notice when they first start practicing. Tom and Chris also discuss the overstimulation in today's society, and how modern technology is negatively affecting our minds. Next, we ask Tom what positive changes people will experience as they practice thought awareness consistently over time. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on the process and not the product. Then he talks about how mindset and perception affect us. Tom offers advice on how people can optimize their mindsets in order to effectively handle stress and achieve more. He also provides an example of a young athlete he worked with, and how changing her mindset drastically improved her performance. Tom goes on to talk about giving yourself permission to succeed. He explains how habits work, and how self-awareness can help us break bad habits and develop new ones. We ask Tom how thought awareness prepares people for adversity and tough times. He explains how to reframe discomfort to use it to our advantage, and why it's important to embrace our emotions. Finally, Tom reveals some of the common issues that he comes across in his clients. He also describes the process that he goes through with new clients to help them function at their highest level. Find out more about Tom: https://tomsterner.com https://thepracticingmind.com The Craft of Charisma Podcast is also available at: bit.ly/Soundcloud-CofC-Podcast bit.ly/Stitcher-CofC-Podcast bit.ly/iTunes-CofC-Podcast bit.ly/Spotify-CofC-Podcast bit.ly/GooglePlayMusic-CofC-Podcast bit.ly/iHeartRadio-CofC-Podcast

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Show Highlights In this wide ranging interview, we talk with Thomas Sterner, author of the Practicing Mind.  We talk about  How to develop focus and discipline How to love the process Thought Awareness Training and meditation  

Fully Engaged with Thomas M. Sterner Thomas M. Sterner is the author of Fully Engaged and The Practicing Mind. He is accomplished as a musician, composer, and technician in various fields of music; as a recording and audio engineer; and in athletic pursuits from archery to golf. He speaks around the world on developing focus and discipline. http://tomsterner.comThe Power of Mercury Retrograde with Leslie McGuirk Leslie McGuirk is a professional astrologer with over 30 years of experience. Leslie has taught at The Golden Door Spa (CA), Rancho La Puerta Spa (Mexico), Red Mountain Spa (Utah) and The Ritz Carlton Resort (FL). Her children’s books have sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide. http://lesliemcguirk.com

Welcome to another addition of the Cameron-Brooks Podcast. On this episode, I interview Mark Fannin. Mark is leading the marketing efforts for the Crave brand as a Brand Manager at Mars Petcare. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and spent 5 years in the USMC serving as a Logistician. In this episode, we discuss his transition from the military to a marketing role at a leading consumer company and how he’s seen success along the way. We dig into some of the specifics of Brand Management and he shares some great insights into the similarities between the military and Corporate America. He is currently reading The Practicing Mind and also gives some insights into staying focused at work. To learn more about Cameron-Brooks, visit our website here. Best of success, Pete

  Please Support The Show With a Donation   This week we talk to Thomas Sterner Thomas Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. He is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. He has been featured in top media outlets such as NPR and Fox News. He is the author of the best seller The Practicing Mind. His latest book is called Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life In This Interview, Thomas Sterner and I Discuss... His newest book, Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life How you can't change anything that you're not aware of That most of us spend our day as someone in their thoughts as opposed to someone who is having thoughts Meditation being the vehicle for growing in self-awareness Learning to recognize the truth that "I am not my thoughts, I am the one who has thoughts" The strengths of being observer oriented rather than in a state of reactivity That people who think they've had a "bad meditation" have actually had a very good meditation That meditation is never a done task The value of thinking of meditation like you do exercising The innate sense in us that is misinterpreted That the desire to expand is built into our DNA The power of the question, 'And then what?" That real perfection is the ability to expand infinitely It's the interpretation of the experience that makes it feel the way it does Making decisions about how to handle a "road block" beforehand How we can control our emotions and doing so is a skill The difference between a feeling and the truth The importance of setting goals with accurate information How you have to be in a situation to learn how to function in that situation That struggle is a sign that we are expanding and learning and up against our threshold     Please Support The Show with a Donation    

Tom Sterner Are you fully engaged, present in this moment, completely content? Our culture encourages our minds to be overactive, anxious, longing for the future or regretting the past.Thomas Sterner, bestselling author of The Practicing Mind, shows us how simple shifts in perspective — such as learning to center our attention on the process of what we are doing instead of what we are trying to achieve; using goals as guides instead of reminders of what is left to be done; and learning to work without judgment about the process — can completely transform the experience of going through each day. He says, “Everything in life comes from practice. No matter how small or inconsequential we think it is, everything we do, from brushing our teeth to getting through a scary job interview, comes from practice, the deliberate repetition of an action with an awareness of what we want to achieve.” And it works! Learn more about Thomas Sterner: tomsterner.com

The Practicing Mind will teach you to unlearn the mindset that tells you that you are incomplete and that happiness is some place outside of yourself, some place other than in the process of what you are doing right here and right now. It will give you the tools you need to accomplish any task you choose and to conquer the challenges you face in life while at the same time feeling patient with yourself, your life and incredibly self-empowered.

Show Guest: Tom Sterner To be fully engaged in life means that we have clear goals as well as the focus and skills to accomplish those goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness. In his first book, The Practicing Mind, which remains a bestseller in its category, Thomas Sterner set out clear guidelines for developing focus and discipline to achieve any life goal. In his latest book, Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life. he explores specific techniques, such as thought awareness training and setting goals with accurate data, and demonstrates how using these techniques will not only help you reach your objectives, but will keep you engaged in each moment of your life, throughout the process of accomplishing those goals. Engage with us as we explore how being Fully Engaged in life will result in less stress and more satisfaction in every aspect of your daily living.

Show Guest: Tom Sterner To be fully engaged in life means that we have clear goals as well as the focus and skills to accomplish those goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness. In his first book, The Practicing Mind, which remains a bestseller in its category, Thomas Sterner set out clear guidelines for developing focus and discipline to achieve any life goal. In his latest book, Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life. he explores specific techniques, such as thought awareness training and setting goals with accurate data, and demonstrates how using these techniques will not only help you reach your objectives, but will keep you engaged in each moment of your life, throughout the process of accomplishing those goals. Engage with us as we explore how being Fully Engaged in life will result in less stress and more satisfaction in every aspect of your daily living.

Sometimes going slow actually allows us to get where we want to go faster. We dive into what this looks like in today's episode. Thomas Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind - http://amzn.to/2fA4Jru To leave a comment, ask a question, or share your insights, visit http://jennyshih.com/podcast   

We really have a problem with something that is We have so much on our plate and so many things going that we want closure. We want the report done. We want the kids picked up. We want the house cleaned.Whatever it is we want it done because that way we can take it off our plate and we'll have one last thing we have to contend with. That's why something like meditation is difficult for people because they feel like “when will I get done with this, when am I good at it?” When you say “it's just something you do forever, that's a very difficult concept and it's an uncomfortable concept until you begin to see the benefits of it. When you begin to see the benefits of it and how it impacts your life and your self power, then that starts to dissolve and you start say “I get this. I want to participate in this forever because I want this ability to continue to expand – Tom SternerTom Sterner is the founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning. He's also the author of Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As creative warriors, our challenges in staying focused are well documented. We chase a lot of squirrels as we like to say. So what's the difference then, between being focused, and being fully engaged? And how can we, with practice, train our minds to be our most productive? Let's find out! Thomas M. Sterner is the author of “Fully Engaged” and “The Practicing Mind”. He is accomplished as a musician, composer, and technician in various fields of music; as a recording and audio engineer; and in athletic pursuits from archery to golf. He speaks around the world on developing focus and discipline and lives in beautiful Wilmington, Delaware. WARRIOR of The Present Moment “Focus is a result of being fully engaged” -Thomas Sterner Highlights - Being fully engaged is being completely absorbed in the moment When you are fully engaged, your thinking thins out. The number of thoughts your mind produces are reduced Reactive mode is one of disempowerment Being fully engaged takes a lot of practice, with the conscious attention to learning this skill When you understand it's a period of repeating and refining, that's what mastery is When we master things, the execution becomes more effortless The problem with a habit is there really is no conscious thought behind it Ensure your past tasks or future tasks don't interfere with your present, daily, tasks Put your learnings into what's happening in the present moment Guest Contact - Thomas's Website, Thomas on Twitter and Facebook Thomas's books:  Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life — Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process Gifts - Check out the Creative Warriors Gifts Page where you can grab gifts and offerings from many Creative Warriors past guests. Propel your business forward and register for Week of The Warrior for free. A 7-day mini-course to learn how to leverage your creative powers.

Bill welcomes Author and teacher Thomas M. Sterner to the show. Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF tm. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. He is the author of the best seller The Practicing Mind, and most recently, Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mindin Daily Life. Should be a good one.

For Life on Purpose Episode #62, my guest is Thomas Sterner, the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. As an expert Present Moment Functioning Coach, Tom has brought clarity to thousands regarding how they can accomplish more with less effort, in the least amount of time and with greatly reduced stress. Top media outlets such as NPR, Fox News, and Forbes have sought his advice. Tom joined me for an inspirational chat about his new book Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life (New World Library) in which he expands on the concepts from his previous book The Practicing Mind by helping readers apply them to daily life. He shows readers how simple shifts in perspective — such as learning to center their attention on the process of what they are doing instead of what they are trying to achieve; using goals as rudders instead of reminders of what is left to be done; and learning to work without judgment about the process — can completely transform the experience of going through each day. “To be fully engaged in an activity means to be present in this moment with whatever you are doing. It also means to be completely content in that experience. There is no anxiousness about or sense of longing for the future, and there is no regret about the past.” About: Thomas M. Sterner is the author of Fully Engaged and The Practicing Mind. He is accomplished as a musician, composer, and technician in various fields of music; as a recording and audio engineer; and in athletic pursuits from archery to golf. He speaks around the world on developing focus and discipline and lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Visit him online at http://www.practicingmind.com. Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF tm. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. As an expert Present Moment Functioning Coach, Thomas has brought clarity to thousands regarding how they can accomplish more with less effort, in the least amount of time and with greatly reduced stress. Top media outlets such as NPR, Fox News, and Forbes have sought his advice. He is the author of the best seller The Practicing Mind (New World Library 2012). Prior to founding The Practicing Mind Institute he served as the Chief Concert Piano Technician for a major performing arts center preparing instruments for the most demanding performances. During his 25 year tenure as a high-level technician, he personally worked for industry giants such as Van Cliburn, Pavarotti, Andre Watts, Ray Charles, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis and many more. An accomplished musician and composer he has also worked in the visual arts and as a recording studio engineer. In his down time, Tom is an accomplished musician, private pilot, an avid sailor and proficient golfer. He lives in Wilmington Delaware and enjoys spending time with his two daughters and in his recording studio. To learn more about Tom and his work, visit: http://tomsterner.com/.

If you've ever wanted more peace, happiness, or sanity in your life, then do we have the peaceful show for you. Today we'll be talking about getting grounded, finding peace, and when necessary, how to be the eye of the storm. That plus we'll talk about white deer, lawn lunches, delorean time machines, and what to do, when your kitties are in charge. Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: How to bring peace to difficult situations Why sometimes less is more What's the power of being 1 percent better (or less) each day What's the power of focusing on one thing at a time Why pushing and creativity may not go hand in hand What's the importance of stepping away – or the creative pause for getting things done What it means to really go with the flow What's the shred zone, and why you need to stay away from it. What to do when the doors keep on closing Why you want to take ‘lawn lunches' and what in the world is that? Why being a martyr may not be the answer What we can learn from Tom Sterner and ‘The Practicing Mind' Why we cannot pick on ourselves for our past Why it's important to listen to your heart when making big decisions What does a mythical white deer have to do with anything? What it means to go back to the future to move forwards? FireItUpWithCJ.com CJ Liu on Finding Peace, Happiness & Sanity Even When Things Are Out of Control! Health | Career | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Who:   Thomas M. Sterner - Author of Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life What We Talked About:  Thought Awareness Training.  Tom is a meditation expert and he reveals why “present moment functioning” isn't' woo woo anymore.  In fact, it's actually beneficial to your business.  In this interview he talks about how most entrepreneurs are setting goals that aren't accurate and how that inaccurate goal-setting leads to many entrepreneurs throwing in the towel.  Find out how to get it right. Why I Like Tom:  He's just likeable.  You'll see.  He's chilled and easy-going.  You feel like you're listening to someone who is actually practicing this stuff.  Tom has found new and clever ways to talk about meditation so that you feel like you're hearing about it for the first time.   Great Line:  If you notice your mind running away, then you're doing it right. Where to Learn More:  http://www.tomsterner.com http://www.themindawareshow.com

If you've ever wanted to achieve great things, and enjoy the process along the way, then do we have the Fully Engaged Show for You! Today I'll be talking with best-selling author Thomas M. Sterner, accomplished musician and composer, and the best-selling author of The Practicing Mind, and his latest, Fully Engaged. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, how to use the Practicing Mind to accomplish our goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness. That plus we'll talk about butterfly brains, Laura Decker and sailing, a GPS gone awry, music theory class madness, the power of practicing golf, the little book that could, and an overnight success in only ten years flat, and why in the world you don't want the stagehand to let the pianist in early! Be Here Now (Mindfulness) Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include: What does attachment and practice have to do with our lives Why we need to stop clinging to the goal What the real purpose of a goal is How to find joy in the process How he took a leap of faith from professional musician to piano technician extraordinaire How he got into golf and what it had to do with sports psychology and eastern thought What's the importance of being in the present moment What being in the present moment can do for us Why golf is such a zen sport What was the goal of writing The Practicing Mind What the spirit of music did for him What's wrong with the way people practice? What is Thought Awareness Training? What is a butterfly brain? What is present mind functioning? What's it mean to be more biased to the observer? What's the importance of procedures for flying a plane What's the concept of ‘sterile concept' for a pilot What's the importance of meditation (what he calls thought awareness training) How to understand you are not your thoughts and that you are the ‘observer' How to use meditation to observe your mind Why are people better at meditation than we think Why he's not a big fan of guided meditations What are perfect opportunities to practice Why ‘mistakes' get a bad wrap Why we want to risk making mistakes What was a music class gone bad? What's the importance of the question ‘and then what'? What did he learn from Laura Decker in her sailing around the world in her teens (made a movie on her – Maiden Voyage) What was learned from the process of his mother passing away What did he learn from his mom about love? What's the importance of non-judgment to yourself How can we help parents to help their kids become fully engaged tomsterner.com to find Fully Engaged, also www.thepracticingmind.com, and email tom@tomsterner.com Tom Sterner on How to Achieve Goals, Find Happiness & Be in the Here & Now, Plus Mindfulness & Meditation! Health | Career | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Presence, mindfulness, these are words we hear a lot, but what does it really mean to be present and mindful? Are there ways to cultivate a more active engaged presence in life? Join us with Thomas. M. Sterner, author, musician and athlete, as we explore what it means to be fully engaged in every aspect of your life. Thomas M. Sterner is the author of multiple books, including The Practicing Mind and Fully Engaged., and speaks around the world on developing focus and discipline. Special Guest: Thomas M. Sterner www.tomsterner.com Host: Ashton Szabo www.anatomyofliving.com Sound Engineer: Zach Cooper Producer: Benn Mendelson www.sivanaspirit.com  

Podcast 598: Fully Engaged-Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life with Thomas Sterner by Greg Voisen

For the extended interview, visit youtube at https://youtu.be/zVEcleIC3Ok or sign up for weekly updates at www.MarieBenard.comhttp://tomsterner.com/fully-engaged/To be fully engaged in life means that we have clear goals as well as the focus and skills to accomplish those goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness. In his first book, The Practicing Mind, which remains a bestseller in its category, Thomas Sterner set out clear guidelines for developing focus and discipline to achieve any life goal. As Tom traveled and spoke about the book, he kept track of the questions readers and participants at his seminars asked. The answers to those questions — or more accurately, the exploration of those questions — became the basis of Fully Engaged.This new book explores specific techniques, such as thought awareness training and setting goals with accurate data, and demonstrates how using these techniques will not only help you reach your objectives, but will keep you engaged in each moment of your life, throughout the process of accomplishing those goals. Being thus engaged will result in less stress and more satisfaction in every aspect of life.To hear Tom's previous Synchronicity interview visit https://youtu.be/MMYSQAFNeVE www.TomSterner.com2:25 - Tom shares the importance of learning how to focus and being absorbed in the present moment4:22 - Tom shares a story from the book about how he faced a very challenging client, and managed to turn it around almost magically (using the skill of choosing his thoughts and responses)10:38 - do you have any advice for people who are aware of their thoughts but perhaps judging themselves for their negative thought patterns? Tom talks about planning our responses in advance.13:28 - Tom shares how he turns these challenges into a game and "yield to the force" - and how everyone can win when we put our ego aside18:06 - Tom talks about struggle and allowing and overcoming it, in order to reach a new level of experience and mastery21:28 - how can we make a meaningful impact without measuring ourselves against society's expectations of fame and success? Tom addresses how to approach the feeling of incompleteness. 25:35 - a magic question to help with the feeling of not enough / incomplete28:51 - contentment vs striving for more - happiness and achievement - Tom shares an enlightening story about his early days as a musician and the practice of repetition 33:12 - repetition and practicing mindfulness, happiness, success and being fully engaged or in the zone - the difference between practice and learning42:07 - practicing life circumstances and non-judgement of where we are in life - Thomas addresses having unrealistic expectations and the mistake of judgment 46:44 - achieving your goals without judgment and worrying about how far you have left to accomplish them - Tom provides a sailing analogy and we talk about being in "the zone."51:31 - we discuss paradigm shifts and how our brains are changing

Mary King IRS Problem Solving Attorney and co- author of the book Protect and Defend. Mary's career as an attorney began in 1993 after graduating from Stetson University College of Law.   Her career in law has primarily focused in IRS problem solving as well as mortgage foreclosure defense Al Caicedo President and Owner of CKS Summit Group, founded in 1996.Al's focus and objective is to help ensure his clients are able to enjoy their lifestyle beyond the workplace and into their retirement years. He educates and enables them to come to understand, for themselves, the financial path they should follow. He has spent twenty years helping clients protect and preserve their assets. His safe money strategies helped clients save millions of dollars during the latest market collapse. Al is an asset preservation consultant and transitional planning specialist Thomas M. Sterner author of Fully Engaged and The Practicing Mind. He is accomplished as a musician, composer, and technician in various fields of music; as a recording and audio engineer; and in athletic pursuits from archery to golf. He speaks around the world on developing focus and discipline For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!

This week on Relationships 2.0 my guest is Thomas M. Sterner author of Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life. About the book: To be fully engaged in life means that we have clear goals as well as the focus and skills to accomplish those goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness. In his first book, The Practicing Mind, which remains a bestseller in its category, Thomas Sterner set out clear guidelines for developing focus and discipline to achieve any life goal. As Tom traveled and spoke about the book, he kept track of the questions readers and participants at his seminars asked. The answers to those questions — or more accurately, the exploration of those questions — became the basis of Fully Engaged. This new book explores specific techniques, such as thought awareness training and setting goals with accurate data, and demonstrates how using these techniques will not only help you reach your objectives, but will keep you engaged in each moment of your life, throughout the process of accomplishing those goals. Being thus engaged will result in less stress and more satisfaction in every aspect of life. About the author: Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning, or PMF™. He is a popular and in-demand speaker and coach who works with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, helping them to operate effectively in high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestseller The Practicing Mind, he served as chief concert piano technician for a major performing arts center, preparing instruments for the most demanding performances. An accomplished musician and composer, he has also worked in the visual arts and as a recording studio engineer. In his downtime Tom is a private pilot, avid sailor, and proficient golfer. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware, and enjoys spending time with his two daughters and in his recording studio.

Today's topic is How to Live a Fully Engaged Life. To help me talk about this, I spoke with Tom Sterner, author of Fully Engaged and The Practicing Mind, which help you to develop focus and discipline in your life.

Thomas M. Sterner is the author of Fully Engaged and The Practicing Mind. He is accomplished as a musician, composer, and technician in various fields of music; as a recording and audio engineer; and in athletic pursuits from archery to golf. He speaks around the world on developing focus and discipline and lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

The ideas in the podcast are drawn from the book, "The Practicing Mind" by Thomas Steiner. The content from this podcast answers the following question. Have you ever wondered how golfers who have been hitting the driving range and course for literally decades, never really improve their game? How is that possible? In this podcast, we will answer this question and outline specific strategies that will help you marshal your powers of concentration and practice to be more effective professionally and personally. To apply these principles, be sure to download the eBook The Resilient Professional. CLICK the following link to get more information eBook

In this week's talk, Dr. Patrick focuses on Zen Buddhist practices from the books The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza. The four "S" words are: Simplify, Small, Short, and Slow. Dr. Joe outlines the ideas that make up our personal realities: Thoughts, choices, behaviours, experiences, emotions, and then the same thoughts. This is a cycle that creates our personality and ultimately our personal reality. These are the things that fire and wire up in our brain. It's all based on choice---our chosen behaviours and what we choose to dwell upon. Dr. Joe's recipe for a new personal reality is meditation, intention, sponsoring thoughts, creating a plan, recording our successes, and queuing our life.

Orienting your mind and habits towards practice rather than outcome is a lifelong endeavor well worth pursuing. Listen to the podcast for ideas, quotes, and core concepts from the book. Enjoy! http://www.creativehabitspodcast.com/the-practicing-mind/

Author of best-selling book The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner, joins me this week for an illuminating conversation about shifting our mindset around practice and unlocking the power of process. Tune in to hear his useful strategies for how you can operate effectively within high stress situations so you can accomplish more of your goals with less effort, in the least amount of time and with greater ease!

So far, we have seen a several books with messages relating to the psychology of motivation, particularly to the conditions under which people have greater motivations to do difficult tasks (Drive, Punished by Rewards), as well as what kinds of attitudes lead to greater learning and improvement (Mindset). In The Practicing Mind, we get a look at the phenomenology of these conditions, i.e. what does it feel like to be intrinsically motivated and have a growth mindset?   Thomas Sterner is a jazz pianist and piano restorer. As a child he found practice to be boring and frustrating, but with time he came to both enjoy it and see greater progress, which he puts down to an originally mostly subconscious understanding of how practice should be carried out. He was particularly struck by the need for a greater public understanding of practice when he took up golf in his mid-thirties.   On the golf course, he would see people who had been playing golf for ten or twenty years who still didn't look much better than beginners. They would be terrible at the game, and yet not know why, or how to change their game. He compares them to musicians who have been playing the piano for twenty years and yet still didn't know that they were supposed to play with their fingers, not their elbows.   Sterner shows us his philosophy of the power and meaning of discipline, focus, and the quieting of the mind. Laced with insights from eastern philosophies, the author shows us the futility of expecting perfection, and the contentment we can gain from an honest relationship with what we are doing. His ideas are applicable in almost any domain of life, if we are to believe, as he does, that "all of life is practice".   The Practicing Mind is something of an unusual book for this podcast in that it proposes ways of practicing better without any evidence other than the author's own experiences to back up its claims. In a bookshop, it would quite possibly be filed under "self-help" rather than "education". And yet, I find this first-person account to be refreshing after speaking about these issues at length from a detached, scientific standpoint. I hope that taking the personal perspective of this individual expert will be something that benefits you as much as it has me.   Enjoy the episode.  

My guest today is Thomas Sterner, the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF tm. He is a popular and in demand speaker who works with high performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. He self published the first edition of “The Practicing Mind,” and as it snowballed into a phenomenon, publishers started knocking at his door for wider distribution. The topic is his book The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Attention combined with intention Non-judgment Perils of multitasking Controlling your mind Constant media chatter Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Today on Trend Following Radio Michael Covel interviews Thomas Sterner, author of “The Practicing Mind.” Tom was in the same career for over 30 years when he decided to make a switch. He self published the first edition of “The Practicing Mind,” and as it snowballed into a phenomenon, publishers started knocking at his door for wider distribution.This is about practicing focus and learning to calm your mind. Not an easy task in today’s world with media constantly telling us we are incomplete in what we are doing. People incessantly crave closure, but closure is not always the answer. Tom says that immersing yourself in something that is ongoing puts you in a place of “being.” People are always trying to complete the next level, but being in a state of constant expansion is the best state to be in. He says that even the process of writing books does not have a beginning and an end. He looks at it as an ongoing process. When one book ends, then you can move on from saying what you needed to say and move onto the next phase of what you want to be said. Tom shares a personal story about becoming a musician. For years he had felt inadequate as a musician. It took some time but eventually he figured out that he had accomplished many milestones throughout his career but because he had a limitless ability to expand and grow as a musician, he would never reach the state of perfection he envisioned. Almost in an instant, his frustration and negative thoughts about his accomplishments washed away.The importance of repetition is Michael and Tom’s next topic. Your brain responds to repeated action best. This can vary from swinging a golf club over and over again, to how you meet people and interact with them. Tom says, “Attention combined with intention is the goal.” Your process and repeated practice is what makes achieving a goal feel so good. Anything you can snap your fingers and have doesn’t feel nearly as rewarding. He says that “Your perception of what good is and how good you can get is ever changing.”Lastly, Michael and Tom discuss multitasking and living in the moment of now. Tom says that the way we envision multitasking doesn’t exist. When you think you are doing a bunch of different things simultaneously, you are not. The brain is operating at higher speeds but we are not letting our brains concentrate in one area for a long amount of time so in consequence, our brain is atrophying. We are losing that part of our mental game. Slowing your mind down brings clarity and thought. Secondly it connects your mind to what you are doing. If you are just reacting to whatever your mind is creating than you have no control over what you are doing. Mindfulness is not something that can be mastered. You have to constantly work at it just like you would never say “I have mastered fitness so I don’t need to work out anymore.” It is a constant practice. The moment you catch your mind running off is when you start training your brain. If you can recognize yourself chasing your mind then that is being aware of where it is going. Mike says, “It is like an organized treadmill that everyone is on. There is this lack of awareness among people that they are not in control.” In this episode of Trend Following Radio: Attention combined with intention Non-judgment Perils of multitasking Controlling your mind Constant media chatter

The Practicing Mind. It’s the key to true inner peace and contentment. In a world that conditions us to obsess about goals and outcomes, it’s easy to miss the importance of the process. The PRACTICE. Thomas Sterner brilliantly (!) helps us bring discipline and focus into our lives to experience the presence and joy that comes as a result. (Bonus: We also create a frictionless path to our goals as well!)

The Practicing Mind. It’s the key to true inner peace and contentment. In a world that conditions us to obsess about goals and outcomes, it’s easy to miss the importance of the process. The PRACTICE. Thomas Sterner brilliantly (!) helps us bring discipline and focus into our lives to experience the presence and joy that comes as a result. (Bonus: We also create a frictionless path to our goals as well!)

What is a Practicing Mind? It's learning and achieving through intention and repetition. And musicians have it in spades...sometimes. By the time Tom Sterner was twenty three he had worked with some of the largest orchestras in the world. He knows what he is talking about when it comes to practice and patience. But it wasn't always like that... The post MMP009: Creative Control and The Practicing Mind appeared first on Musician Monster.

The Practicing Mind. It’s the key to true inner peace and contentment. In a world that conditions us to obsess about goals and outcomes, it’s easy to miss the importance of the process. The PRACTICE. Thomas Sterner brilliantly (!) helps us bring discipline and focus into our lives to experience the presence and joy that comes as a result. (Bonus: We also create a frictionless path to our goals as well!)

The Practicing Mind. It’s the key to true inner peace and contentment. In a world that conditions us to obsess about goals and outcomes, it’s easy to miss the importance of the process. The PRACTICE. Thomas Sterner brilliantly (!) helps us bring discipline and focus into our lives to experience the presence and joy that comes as a result. (Bonus: We also create a frictionless path to our goals as well!)

Ever notice how music,watching the news, a TV show or movie changes your mood?  How does modern media impact our emotions and what about our spirituality? Is there a link to the media we watch, read and listen to and our Spiritual growth?  Find out on Carolyn's Corner as Tom Sterner, author of The Practicing Mind delves into the impact modern media plays in our lives and spirituality. Listen live at 12:00 pm EDT. Call in 718-664-9124

Carolyn interviews Tom Sterner, award winning and New World publishing author of "The Practicing Mind" on Carolyn's Corner. Through his own practice Tom's mastered focus, discipline and non-attachment to create life on his terms. Learn how to create your optimum life as Tom reveals his secrets from "The Practicing Mind".

Joseph Burgo, PhD is a clinical psychologist and graduate psychoanalyst with 30+ years in the mental health profession. He’s served as a board member, officer and instructor at a component society of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  Dr. Burgo writes two blogs where he discusses issues that arise in treatment from a psychodynamic perspective:  After Psychotherapy (his personal website) and Therapy Case Notes, which uses film as means to learn more about the human psyche.   His forthcoming book on psychological defense mechanisms will be released in Spring 2013 .  He'll discuss recognizing your limits and making choices that respect those limits to lead a more realistic and fulfilling life. Thomas M. Sterner is the author of Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life. The book offers practical advice for making the most out of the practicing process to acquire new skills to achieve success and mastery. He’s an accomplished musician, a private pilot, student of archery, and avid golfer. Sterner has also worked in the sound and video arts fields as a recording engineer, audio and video editor and processor, and musical score composer. He's studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a concert pianist. For more than twenty-five years, he served as the chief concert piano technician for a major performing arts center. Sterner has parlayed what he learned from his profession into a love of practice. He's produced a radio show about The Practicing Mind and continues to teach his techniques to business people, at sports clinics, and to learners of all kinds.  

Early life is all about trial-and-error. If we had given up in the face of failure, repetition and difficulty, we would never have learned to walk, tie our shoes or ride a bike. Why is it then, as adults, we so often throw in the towel when at first we don't succeed? It's quite simple. We've lost the principles of practice. Learning to love the process of mastering any skill or challenge through mindfulnes helps us understand exactly what present moment awareness is, how the culture we live in constantly instructs us to the contrary and how we can change our mindset to make this a part of our daily living. Practice done properly isn't drudgery on the way to mastery but rather a fulfilling process of building focus, mind-calming clarity and joy-filled effort in and of itself.  

Developing focus and discipline in your life, with author Thomas M. Sterner. How to master any skill or challenge by learning to love the process.