 So this is a bit of a different kind of video than I usually do I'm going to be sharing with you my top three spiritual practices or personal growth practices. I find it important because if we are building an authentic business It is really helpful to keep coming back to our higher purpose You might say or our deeper values So here's what I do on a daily basis And your practices may look different But either way, I hope that this video inspires you to either return to your practices with gusto Or you might find an idea or two that could help improve your practices as well So the three practices are Reboot is the first one Second one is read and the third one is reframe So I'll start from the top here Reboot is Something I do multiple times a day Usually at least three times every working day Monday through Friday And I have done it so for so many years that It's become Integrated into just how I I Do some things like even during a client call I might be quickly and quietly doing a reboot or if I'm in a difficult project You know typing that something you're typing away at something that's challenging I might quickly do a reboot right then and there without having to step away and do it, but I actually Consciously step away and do it, you know at least three times Every working day and I'm going to share this my actual practice with you It may totally Not connect with you, but or it may totally resonate with you I'm not sure maybe you can let me know, but I encourage you to create your own reboot practice Something that is fast again can't be half an hour of yoga, which is yoga. It's great, you know It can't be an hour of meditation. Meditation is great. It can't be, you know 50 minutes of prayer prayer is great, but it needs to be something you can do In the midst of your working day something that takes one minute Ideally or or even less something, you know with the reboot practice its frequency is As important as the meaning of it. Okay, so I'm going to share with you practice That takes me usually less than a minute and what I do is I I Usually when I do the reboot Consciously I step up from the computer and I walk away from the can be I won't do that right now But I will literally so what I'll do is I'll put my hands over my heart and I'll literally take a step and as I take a step I Breathe in and that my reboot is essentially intentional breathing. Okay breathing with meaning Attached to it. So as I take a step, I literally breathe in love. I Have this weird personal belief that the universe is literally made of love and wisdom Perhaps one day our scientific instruments will be able to discover that but Our scientific instruments aren't subtle enough yet to we only get to get to like the corks level or something like that, right? Be love below electrons or whatever, but I literally breathe in love. I that's what I imagine and Then I breathe out total security While holding my hands to my heart I believe that if the universe is made of love and wisdom Then all of us are totally secure We are surrounded by love like the highest love and the greatest wisdom, you know And and the destiny of our soul the destiny of our consciousness What where we're actually going to get to and be and what I believe what's actually happening now Beyond these appearances is total security. My laptop is moving around because my cat just joined us so That's the first breath, okay, that was just the first breath and that took a few seconds when I actually do it and then the second breath I breathe in love once again and as I breathe out these days what I say is May your loving will be done and that's just influenced by my Christian background of you know, that will be done as part of the Lord's Prayer and You know, sometimes people think God's will be done. It's like some, you know Acts of God are usually considered Hurricanes and earthquakes. It's terrible. You know, those are not the only acts of God God does everything and again my personal belief you might not believe in God But my personal belief is at God does everything and there's always a more loving and wiser Purpose beyond everything even hurricanes. I know terrible, right tsunamis, etc There's a wiser purpose beyond that that we cannot yet see with our very limited human consciousness where we can only see the equivalent of one grain of Sands perspective compared to the grains of sands of all the all the beaches in the world That's how much we can see, right? We have no idea what's really going on But I believe that love and wisdom is is is the greater purpose. Anyway, so that's That's why I say may may your loving will be done And then the third breath I take as I put my arms down in an open position and I breathe in wisdom And as I breathe out, I also think the wisdom is almost coming out of my pores But that symbolizes for me kind of acting and speaking in wisdom today And then finally the fourth breath is where I hold my hands together my palms together And I breathe in the virtue of the day I have a rotating list of virtues that focus on one each day just during my energy reboot And I'll I have a link in the notes of the video where I can you can find out more about that But so that's my that's my reboot again. It might seem totally weird to you or might seem totally resonant I encourage you to create your own reboot practice so that it's doable for you and meaningful deeply meaningful to you The second practice that I do every day is read and by read I mean, you know, spiritual Spiritual literature and and by read I don't mean necessarily just reading books and art and spiritual articles, which are wonderful but I mean consuming spiritual or personal world content that reminds me again of what life is really about and and Puts a higher perspective on everything that I encounter and everything that I do in the link of in the notes of this video, I put a link to my my spiritual personal growth YouTube playlists, so Anytime I encounter a really spiritual or personal growth video. That's meaningful to me I put it into one of my YouTube playlists and I give you my the links to all my playlists right there in the notes of the video I It's important to put any of these habits by by the way The any of these need to be habits to be cultivated. It can't be something that it's it's not something that just naturally happens Okay, spiritual reading doesn't just naturally happen because there's way too much entertaining content on the internet You know all kinds of mobile apps that are entertaining We are awash in entertainment and much of it is garbage much of it doesn't help our Personal or spiritual or professional growth and so it needs to become an intentional habit if we're going to keep up with our spiritual Or personal growth reading and for me the way it works is that I I take two dog walks a day And so that's the perfect time for me to consume spiritual or personal growth content So I use the mobile app YouTube and I subscribe to YouTube red Which allows me to listen to YouTube videos with with the phone even with a screen off I can listen to YouTube videos. So that's very helpful So that's how I consume that's how I do the read practice and the third and final practice is reframe and reframe is Incredibly important and it doesn't come naturally reframing negative experiences as beneficial Okay Like I said, it doesn't come naturally because everybody around us considers Negative experiences well to be negative, right? Oh, there's a setback. Oh, this this pain. This this inconvenience happened This failure happened Something that someone was supposed to do for me. They didn't do My computer didn't work properly. Okay, it doesn't matter or major things like a death of a loved one You know or or a tragedy in the world, right? All those you can wallow in there's plenty of wallowing that that can be done that can be spiraling into greater despair Anger sadness Grief, that's very easy and it's natural. It's actually natural to spiral into negativity It's very natural because that's our body system is has been built like that Our brains are actually built to has been involved to notice negativity way more than positivity. Okay fear We're easily afraid, right? So reframing is an intentional Practice that will change it has changed my life and may change yours if you habituate it and the Reboot practice and the reading practice is what really supports the reframe So quick quick example this morning I was trying to write the blog post associated with this video and the computer spontaneously started to do a 30-minute system update which totally cut down on my writing time and I could of course anxiously have waited for 30 minutes or I reframed this is ah, this is a practice in flexibility and resourcefulness so I Haven't written a blog post on my phone in more than a year But I decided you know what it's time that obviously I have to do that now And so I started writing the blog post on the phone which was you know less convenient obviously than the computer now for me so That's a small example But we need to start with small examples with reframe before we can then have the muscle and the perspective and the Courage to reframe bigger setbacks and failures. So reboot read Reframing I hope this is helpful to you and I always am open to your comments. Let me know if it's helpful If you have a spiritual practice that you do on a regular basis That really helps you to keep a higher perspective To in life and in business and a connection to your deeper values. I wish you well