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Mindfulness Mode

127 Become A Champion By Mindfully Focusing On The Process With Business Coach Greg Faxon

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

4.8541 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Greg Faxon is a coach who works with high-achieving entrepreneurs and converts them into champions. He believes these individuals are the multipliers of society. Greg has a background as an athlete, first a wrestler and then Obstacle Course Racing where mud and trail runs present mental and physical challenges. Greg is intent on changing how the world tackles poverty, so he’s making his own difference through a non-profit organization called Acumen. Greg’s goal is bold; he says: “By the end of my life, I want to have helped more people unleash their full potential than any other person in the world.Contact InfoWebsite: www. GregFaxon.com Most Influential PersonTara BrachEffect on EmotionsI think it's helped me with that roller coaster that we mentioned. It's helped me create less high highs and less low lows, and have them be not so dependent on outside circumstances. Have me be the agent of how those emotions play out. For example, in the past, I would get really excited if I got a new great client and really bummed out if someone said no, but now there's no attachment, emotionally, to that process. I'm good ether way emotionally. There's maybe things strategically that I can change or improve, but I think that's been one of the biggest ways, helping me have not such big fluctuations in them.Thoughts on BreathingI really do mindful meditation, so it's all focused on the breathing. I don't do mantra based stuff so I think it's all through breath. To me, breathing is huge, breathing is the center of everything.Suggested ResourcesBook: Radical Acceptance by Tara BrachBook: Don't Let the Fear Win by Greg FaxonApp: Insight TimerAdvice for Newbie I would say, to do the 60 second thing for a week. Set a really low bar for yourself. 60 seconds, focus on your breathing, count your breath. It's like with habit formation, people talk about it, if you want to form a new flossing habit, just floss your front teeth for a week. That's so easy, you have to do it.  Then eventually you feel, that's kind of silly, I need to floss more than that and so you've do it on your own when you have those quick wins. I would say commit to a week of 60 second breathing.

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Mindfulness mode 127. Instead of focusing on the outcome, which usually causes attachment, I just focus on the process.

0:09.2

Reach new heights of calm, focus, and happiness on mindfulness mode with me, your host, Bruce Langford.

0:15.9

On mindfulness mode, we talk about how people from all walks of life have discovered mindfulness

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and how it's impacted

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their lives to help them become more calm, focused, and happy.

0:26.4

Okay, Mindful Tribe, let's get started. I'm totally thrilled to have Greg Faxson on the line today.

0:32.3

Hey, Greg, are you in mindfulness mode?

0:34.6

I'm ready to go, Bruce.

0:36.3

Great.

0:43.6

Greg Faxson is a coach who works with high-achieving entrepreneurs and converts them into champions.

0:47.5

He believes these individuals are the multipliers of society.

0:54.0

Greg has a background as an athlete, first a wrestler, and then he was into obstacle course racing where mud and trail runs present

0:57.3

mental and physical challenges. Greg is intent on changing how the world tackles poverty,

1:03.8

so he's making his own difference through a non-profit organization called Acumen. Greg's goal is bold. He says, by the end of my life, I want to have

1:15.5

helped more people unleash their full potential than any other person in the world. So Greg,

1:23.4

tell us, what does mindfulness mean to you? Mindfulness, when I think about it, the main connotation for me is intentionality.

1:32.4

You know, I love the word deliberate, and that's what I think a lot about is mindfulness for me

1:37.5

is a way for, so it gives me kind of an opportunity to zoom out of whatever's triggering me

1:43.9

in that moment or whatever my, you know, my attention is focused on and get kind of a bigger picture view.

1:50.4

Took me years of forcing myself to do things like meditation in order to actually want to do it.

1:58.0

In other words, I had to kind of develop that habit without seeing the

2:01.1

short-term gains. And it's only in the last year or two that when I feel myself get triggered or

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