Finally getting going with the right attitude. I am open to learning and just doing what I am told within the program without all my “knowledge and experience” getting in the way. So, with that said, I will just share about one aspect of this experience that has really been eye opening and that is the idea of just sitting for 15 minutes and not doing anything but not moving.

The first experience of trying to do this… in my whole life… was hard! I am not sure that I have ever sat in a chair and just kind of focused quietly on nothing ever before and I found myself struggling mightily!

First, I felt stupid, like what am I doing? Then I moved on to all the things on my “todo” list of life that I am behind on. Then I felt sleepy, then I prayed a bit and thanked god for all my many blessings, then I thought my alarm on my phone must be broken and I should look over and tap the screen and see what happened. I resisted… Then I thought about how pilots are supposed to trust their instruments when they can’t see anything outside of the cockpit and that surely my phone had not had a malfunction in the last less than 15 minutes, that would be crazy… by the way… where did that thought come from?

Then I randomly thought of one business project that I had not thought about at all in the last 30 days, and then a random business idea… they just kind of popped into my mind and I sort of brainstormed them a bit. Then I sort of settled down and thought how interesting it was that those 2 projects came into my head, and then I thought for sure I must have made a mistake and not hit the start button on my alarm on my phone because it had to have been like 2 hours since I started, so I wrestled with that for a while and finally gave in and checked the screen… 13 minutes and 22 seconds had gone by… lol, I could not even make it 15 minutes without cracking… then I waited the final 1.5 or so minutes and ended my 15 minute session.

At that, I counted it for what it was… a success for me!