 All right, so hello everyone I Am going to share with you what I am committing myself to with regards to my life monastery rhythms So as a reminder what a life monastery is It's to see my own Life as as if I was living in a monastery, except it's one of my own design and It's one of my own I'm the spiritual director of my own life monastery essentially and of course, I believe that I have plenty of invisible support and invisible mentorship from my spirit team my my source my God and my Spiritual guidance basically so But what does it practically mean to be living in a life monastery? Well, it means well the way I'm approaching it is you know when you when you Enroll in a monastery program You are committed to a certain set of disciplines throughout the day and throughout the week Right now, I'm I'm very simply I've got I've got one weekly rhythm, which is to Reflect on how it's going and I try to share on video like this But I've got a bunch of daily rhythms Then I'm going to share with you right now and what I've done is I've created a To keep myself You know remembering what they are and to do them throughout the day I've created a Google keep checklist for myself so that I can kind of check them off as I do them throughout the day and I'm going to do another video next week about how it's going how I'm keeping myself Accountable to it That's that's the most challenging part Like coming up with the rhythm itself was you know, I'm relatively fun actually Well, I'll share with you what that rhythm is now and then I'll talk in future videos about how I'm doing with keeping up with it So in the morning, so I essentially thought about my my waking hours and how I will Come back to this life monastery throughout the day In the morning when I wake up you know as The default is just to get up, you know, sleepy mode and go to the restroom do the thing morning hygiene and all that stuff and well, life monastery is different because It's like waking up begins the program So when I wake up now, what I try to do is I sit up on my bed So I sit up, you know on the edge of my bed with my feet on the floor and Then I do my energy reboot If you don't know what that is you can Google it for my full video about that and energy Reboot you might need to put my name George cow at the end, but it's essentially where I do some conscious breathing of gratitude of trust and of Reminding myself of the presence of my spiritual team That's the energy reboot So I do that sitting on the edge of my bed and then After my energy reboot, I am still in sleepy mode at this moment I'm a little bit more awake now with the energy reboot, but but it's it's only a You know, I try to do it longer in the morning if I can so this is only a minute about a minute or two minutes Maximum, so I'm still kind of sleepy mode. So all I can do at this point is to visualize the next thing I'm doing in my life monastery and So now I go to the next thing Next thing I'm doing is I go to the bathroom in the morning normal many people do and when I'm in the bathroom Again, I do my energy reboot. Okay, just to remind myself of being in the life monastery program. I also journal on my phone and I these days I use AI chatbot to journal currently I'm just using chat GBT, but whatever and what I'm journaling about is How do I infuse? my spirituality into Today's tough moments So I just call that today's spiritual infusion into the tough stuff so As I think about my day and what's coming up what when is it? Going to be least easy for me to be spiritual for example, if I'm on a video talking about spiritual things and You know, it's easy to be spiritual when I'm like talking about it, of course What's less easy is if I'm if I have to solve a difficult problem that day a Tech challenge in my business or I have to write a difficult email or I am Nervous about some presentation coming up or I am doing something boring But those are all difficult moments to bring spirituality in because it's defaulting to fear or boredom or you know or Perfectionism or fear failure all that stuff so so I journal Now I might not have a lot of time in the bathroom So I just journal on at least one of those tough moments and just kind of like reflect on how I can bring my Spiritual practice spiritual values into that that tough moment if I have more time. I'll talk about another moment In my journaling so and Then the next thing I do in my in the bathroom is to remind myself of today's Life monastery rhythm. So I kind of look at my checklist my life monastery checklist and go, okay, that's right I'm gonna I'm gonna do at the start of my work. I'm doing do manage reboot, right? I'm gonna take breaks. I'm doing it a certain way, etc. So I am Anyway, I'm gonna keep sharing with you what what those things are throughout the day Okay, and then if I have any more time in the bathroom if I'm done with all that then I go and look at my appointments for the day Which again as I as I look at my appointments my calendar for the day and what I'm doing for the day I I take a moment and I say, okay, how how can I visualize myself? infusing spirituality into this task that moment this appointment, etc, etc and Okay, so after the bathroom stuff I am as I'm putting I'm not doing the my morning hygiene where I basically put on my contact lens I clear my clean my contact lens and put it on First I'm at the sink like I I I give gratitude for the day I don't know why but I guess looking in the mirror and like being at the sink like I'm just grateful for the ability to live another day and to Seek out opportunities to grow my soul Because that's why we're here. I think and so and then as I put on the spirit my contact lenses I imagine myself putting on Spiritual lenses meaning I'm gonna put on my contact lenses as if I am going to as if I'm putting on, you know Lenses that allow me to view Reality and my life and the moments of my life through a more spiritual lens Okay, so that's morning hygiene and then I go to work right so now I'm at the computer usually and Before I start every work segment. I do my energy reboot again again This is just a 30 second practice usually is how long my energy reboot takes and when I say work segment. I mean Throughout my day when I'm working by myself when I'm not in the meeting I work with timers This is something to talk about in my joyful productivity Program, but anyway, I work with ten minute timers throughout the day So I set my time for ten minutes. I do my 30 second energy reboot Which puts me in a bit more of a spiritual mood and then I do my work. I try to bring some spirituality to the work Often I quickly forget of course, so I have to like I do what I call tiny reboots, which is when I look at the sky and look at the window look at the sky It's kind of just a few seconds of bringing myself back to my spiritual practice again because I See work as just a stage for spiritual practice And it's really just about how do I bring? more of The spirit with a capital S into the world Through my every moment if I'm typing an email if I am preparing for a meeting if I am solving a problem if I am Doing some administrative work None of that is really that important. It's just about how can I infuse Spirit into that moment and therefore and live in the world more and in spirit inspire in spirit the this life more and I see that as my my highest work my real work and Anyway, this video is going kind of long, so I think I might end this video now I will talk about the rest of my my daily rhythms in the next video, but essentially That's the most Really the most important parts my day is how I start the day and then how I Work throughout the day, which is in these ten minute timers with energy with by the way I'm not saying you should work in ten minute timers. That's Quite advanced in terms of joyful productivity Most people if they use a timer at all at work they do it 25 minute timers, right? That's called the Pomodoro method 25 minutes of work timer timer goes off And then you do five minute break and then another 25 minutes. It's called the Pomodoro method You don't look it up, but essentially What I try to do is to build in my energy reboots Along with my timers that you know connected to my timer so that I'll remember to do my energy reboot Which is how I bring which is how I consciously take a pause and bring Spirituality into my day, so I think that's all I want to say for now I I appreciate you watching these videos and the One or a few of you who do you know, thank you Laurie for commenting on my videos Thank you. Um, so that's all for now. I will in my next video my next week I will share with you the rest of the the life's rhythms and then going forward. Of course, I'll talk about how I am keeping myself accountable or doing them because Just doing it myself without the benefit of being in a community of you know people who you know ring bells and have Various accountability, you know those being in the actual monastery. There's so much accountability with Bells and other things they do, you know as a community, but here I am doing it myself and That's the big challenge, but that's that's the that's the price of privacy, right? Not having to go live in a monastery, but just do it here as a householder doing it wherever I am So anyway, I look forward to sharing this journey with you. I hope that this kind of describing of my morning and my morning routine and how I Work is inspiring for you to consider how you might Whether or not you do a life monastery or yourself or not, how do you might infuse more spirit into your day? So thank you so much for watching and I wish you a wonderful day and evening