Eric Zimmer

you know i try and move my body in a way every day same thing with meditation for a long time it's like once i got very consistent i didn't have to worry about it being exactly every day because again the momentum was moving in the right direction but again that can change whereas all of a sudden it's like well the momentum was moving in the right direction

now the momentum is petered off now i need to go back to being a little bit more firm and clear and you know drive the ambiguity out of this and then as the momentum picks back up i can sort of take my hands off the reins a little bit more i think one of the most powerful ways to talk to yourself in those moments is

Yeah, absolutely.

I often would say to clients, like you can choose not to exercise next week while you're on vacation.

That is a perfectly fine choice to say, I just want to be with my family.

I don't want to mess with it.

Like you can make that choice, but choose it.

Be conscious about what you're going to do when, and when you're not doing something, think about

why you're making that choice.

I'm choosing to do something else because it's more important to me right now versus letting the default be, I just slid back into an old pattern.

Totally.

So you have a line in the book that says, show me your role models and I'll show you your future.

And you talk a lot about, you know, having exemplars in life.

And I

why that's important, how you go about choosing people, what sort of person you do and don't choose, you know, how you filter your decisions through those lens.

Talk to me a little bit about that idea.

It's funny, as you were saying that, I was thinking about what a spiritual teacher told me once.

I've done a lot of training in Zen Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism is somewhat arcane, right?

It's strange, right?

You read it, and you're like, that does not make the slightest bit of sense.