John R. Miles

I remember interviewing Robin Sharma and we talked about that middle phase a lot in the interview.

And it's something that I know for myself throughout many arcs of my life, I have stumbled because I think that's exactly where our intrinsic motivation tends to fail when we start hitting setbacks and things like that.

What have you found?

enables you when you hit moments like that to be able to persevere and push forward?

For me, meditation has always been difficult when I'm in a stationary position.

I find that I need to do something that's fluid.

So the thing that works the best for me that I do every day is I go out first thing in the morning, very early in the morning.

I love it pitch dark.

And for the first 20, 25 minutes, I use that period of my walk to meditate and just...

allow myself to feel the presence because it kind of sets up the way I want to live out that day.

And for me, that works because when I start getting off track from my meditation, I start zoning in again on my five senses and start using that to get myself back into the zone.

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