What's going on guys this week for the book of the week?

I'm going to do The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, a guide to spiritual enlightenment

and a perfect book for this fast-paced world we live in where, you know, it's, you know,

always a battle to combat negative thoughts, negative self-talk, all the noise and the

minutia, you know, it's a great tool to peel that back. He says, you know, the mind is a powerful

weapon. It's a powerful tool, but you give it too much power. It takes over the show. And that's

what this is about, that awareness, understanding that what we

think is not who we are. We can separate the two, and as he puts it, live consciously. So he

starts off with a parable that kind of frames the book. He's talking about a beggar on the side of the

road, and the beggar's asking for money, he's been doing it for years. And eventually

this guy comes along and he's talking to the beggar and he says, what's in your bucket that

you're sitting on? The beggar says, nothing. It's empty. And the guy says, are you sure? Take a look.

And the beggar says, no, it's empty. And eventually he gets him to look. The guy flips it over and the beggar sees that the bucket he's been sitting on has gold in there.

And that is obviously a metaphor for this book and the idea that everything we need is within.

We have the tools, the power, the resources inside ourselves right now to combat all the externalities that we think

control our life but they don't control our life we're letting them control our lives and we don't

have to right so that's the idea here and I'm going to break it into kind of the three big pieces

that I thought hey this is useful for me I'm going to use this in my own life.

And hopefully there's something here

that you can take and use as well.

So the first idea that I found incredibly valuable

is the idea that the things we think about are not us.

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