Starting the story of my life again, by Keith Yamashita
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Fluent in cheating time to squeeze productivity out of every minute, entrepreneur Keith Yamashita recounts the frightening details of a devastating stroke as it is actually happening, and discovers the second part of his life. It isn't a medical recovery. It’s an awakening.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career |
| 0:05.8 | or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another. |
| 0:11.6 | And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck. |
| 0:16.4 | So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change, |
| 0:22.4 | we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take |
| 0:28.0 | to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear, |
| 0:33.7 | takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story |
| 0:39.3 | and the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck, |
| 0:45.0 | Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as |
| 0:49.9 | rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback |
| 0:56.3 | loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better Up |
| 1:02.6 | to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life. Over the decades of my career, I become |
| 1:29.6 | fluent in this way of living, cheating time, compressing two tasks into one motion, squeezing |
| 1:38.6 | the most out of every single moment by not really ever being present in any of them. |
| 1:45.4 | Life does have a tendency to hit us when released suspecting it. Often it's our bodies, |
| 2:00.4 | perfect in their frailty. They give way and fail, reminding us that we're perhaps not quite as |
| 2:07.2 | invincible as we think we are. That happened to Keith Yamashita, today's storyteller. Keith started |
| 2:14.4 | his career as a writer for Steve Jobs and spent the last two decades working alongside visionary |
| 2:20.0 | leaders and their organisations from Oprah Winfrey to Howard Shortz to his holiness, the Dalai Lama. |
| 2:27.0 | In his work, Keith is a builder of brilliant things, but the story he shares today is about |
| 2:32.4 | something starting to crumble and what was revealed as a result. |
| 2:38.8 | In this series, we blend immersive first person stories with mindfulness prompts to help you |
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