Hey everyone, Lindsey Victoria here from A Life Well-Balanced where we are sharing
tips and resources on how to live a more balanced and positive life.
Thank you guys so much for joining me. Now my guest today is somebody who I know personally and I
admire very deeply. She is a Hay House author, a transformational coach here in Miami and the leader of
the CIJ course which is an 8-week course that is designed for individuals who are seeking
clarity and direction in their life and it's based off of the Stanford master's degree program.
So if you ever wonder how on earth to get clarity, courage and confidence in your dreams,
then this episode is for you. So I want to welcome today my guest, Jennifer Grace.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for letting me interview you.
My pleasure.
If it wasn't for taking your course, I wouldn't be here
having the courage to sit down and actually have an interview with you and be trying to share it with the world
so thank you.
The very first thing that I want to touch on because I'm talking about clarity and courage
and confidence - this word clarity.
So many people want to know how do you get clarity.
I have a side hassle going, or maybe I want to try to do something, where do we start?
What do we do?
A lot of people are out there seeking
and they're asking different like what do you think I should do? What do you think I should do?
And then just trying to go on that outward journey.
And meanwhile, I always tell my students 'YAK' (You always Know),
see of all the wisdom inside of you but there's a catch. You have to get quiet
and really access that wisdom. And what we do is we distract. We go from the internet
and working in Netflix and all the socializing that we do and we're always doing this outward dance
and meanwhile all the answers are within, so getting quiet and cultivating a practice of mindfulness,
meditation and journaling. They did a experiment, a scientific study actually
studying on intuition and they found that we're all born with intuition
but in order to access your intuition which is never wrong, mistake-free - can tell you your life's purpose,
where you need to go next, who you should be dating, it's got all the answers. Your intuition
requires cultivation, so if you don't cultivate the intuitive muscle you can't access it.
So they found that the three best ways of cultivating intuition we're mindfulness, journaling and meditation
which are really the core foundational tools of everything I teach.
And I always make the analogy of you want to become, Olympic gold medalist in life and have it all
and what's having it all, purpose, freedom, peace, prosperity and love. You just want to have it all.
An Olympian doesn't dive in the pool and swim two laps and practice once, and they get to have it all.
They've got to go to the gym. They've got to go the pool everyday, and every Olympian needs a coach
and they need a team, and they need to practice.
That's right.
So mindfulness, meditation, journaling are great but only if you are consistent and you do a daily practice.
And then you start to get clarity. Who am I? What is my purpose? And all the answers are there.
You just got to create space for them to arise.
And actually in her book, so you have this book which is amazing by the way. It's called 'Directing Your Destiny'.
We were told together in our class and I followed this thing. Talk about consistency.
Yes.
You have some really good tips in here about journaling and if you could give my viewers just
maybe one or two prompts because I think journaling is a big thing and everybody always tells me
"Lindsey I can't do it, I don't have time" but it's really about consistency.
You have a lot in here but if we could just give them maybe one or two prompts
Yeah, also like the time thing. Doing a daily practice is like 5 or 10 minutes a day and
everybody has that amount of time. I mean we're all playing with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Why are some people super successful and some others? Well nobody can find the time you get to create
the time. So I think first thing in the morning, do your meditation, your journaling practice
and then it's done for the day.
For journaling, I love using prompts because some people like, "I don't know what to write about",
so I give lots of prompt sentences that you write at the top of your page
and then for 5 times minutes, you just answer it. Just stream-of-consciousness, first thoughts, no direction,
no expectations, just write from your heart.
I love the prompt if I could stop time for one year and no one would know I was gone, I would be what?
This gives your limited mind
a vacation, anybody's shitty committees, "It's time to do what I love and my family and this and my education
and that just cuts everything off. If you could pause time for one year, what would you be doing in that year?
And nobody knew you were gone and that's just like the dream. It gives you permission to dream.
I love that.
And I also love 'What I am clear about is?' (journal), 'What I'm unclear about is?'(journal),
so you get to see
what needs attention, where you are clear, where you're not clear, and there's a million more.
Yeah there's so many more but I'll make sure I've put those two below this video.
So we give some journaling tips, how about some meditation tools because that's the other thing I hear.
it's sitting down, cross-legged - it's just uncomfortable and my mind doesn't stop.
What do I do? How do I do this? but there are many different ways to go about meditation
and I think that you have quite few good ones.
I think that you've given, so may we get like a tip for meditation?
Sure. The first thing is your mind is not going to stop. The thoughts are not going to stop.
Meditation is more like that practice - going to the gym, going to the pool,
taking your mind to the brain gym every morning.
and you're working out the mind. In the beginning, you're not going to be peaceful,
you're not going to become one with the universe, you're not going to become enlightened.
It's like you're not going to get that gold medal, the first shot out.
You get to practice. Practicing is you're practicing with an inexperienced monkey mind.
It's all over the place. Any time you've ever tried something in the beginning, you sucked at it.
So be with that. Be okay to go through to getting more advanced and really it's just about letting go of
the thought and coming back to the mantra. Maybe here on the inhale, now on the exhale, or deep on the inhale,
slow on the exhale. And every time the thought comes in, your work is to not let it go more than one sentence.
Drop the thought and come back here now.
Here comes another thought drop that and come back. It's like your bicep curl.
And what happens is in between those thoughts, the space gets longer and longer and longer.
And meditation really happens off the mat.
When life comes at you and you get broken up with, you get fired, something catastrophic happens,
usually we start going off into the future worrying, regretting the past. We start freaking out,
monkey mind is going crazy.
But because you're in the brain gym that morning, you know how to drop those obsessive thoughts
and drop that anxiety and worry and come back to the moment where peace lives so that you can think
creatively on how to get yourself a new job,
or a new revenue stream or how to move past the partner, or whatever is happening for you, you can think
creatively in here now because that's where peace lives.
Yes, and this is what I love about you. You're so real too.
Your brain is just not going to be able to stop. You're not not expected to be this "zen master".
If we all went on a mountain for 40 years, we'd be really good at it but the rest of us are like regular people.
We're down here. We're just practicing every day and it's a mental workout.
You're taking your mind to the gym every morning.
I like that. I think about that taking your mind to the gym, that's so good.
I was listening to another interview that you did and you were telling me or what you were talking about was that
82% of people stopped their New Year's resolutions or anyway resolutions they say,
We're like "I want to write that book", " I want to do this" but we stopped.
Things get in the way.
Yeah so we're like in April now. I don't know if you're airing this now but here we are. 80% of you
probably declared what you were committed to having happen in 2018
and 80% of you didn't do it.
That is a huge number. That's a big percentage.
There's many reasons for that. I think one big one is people don't really realize the creative process
of what it really takes to make goal, a dream, an idea, take it from concept to launch
and a lot of people think it's a great idea, - success.
You see other people, "Oh my god, Jennifer Grace wrote a book". I can write a book.
Or this one started business, I can start the business and they think that it's great idea - success.
But in reality the creative process of taking a goal and making it a reality
is six different stages.
Stage one is the great idea. You think it's doable." Yes I'm going to become a published author"".
I'm going to start this business, I've got this.
What people don't know is that 99.999% of the time, after you have your great idea, you will go to stage 2
which is frustration. You will hit the brick wall of frustration. Things don't go as planned.
You sit down in front of the computer, you don't know what to write or you start procrastinating and stalling or
whatever. Or you go to start the business and the partner that is going to bring the money,
that falls through and just sh*t happens.
And so you take that as a sign of failure because you don't realize the creative process.
Now when my students do my Stanford course with me, they get that this is part of the process.
Stage 2 is frustration and in that frustration, you just do two things.:
1.You let go of the expectation of how you thought it was all going to work out
2. You keep your idea. You keep your faith in your creativity but know that you need help to get over
the brick wall of frustration.
Stage 3 is incubation. Instead of throwing your great idea in the garbage,
you put it on the back burner or let it percolate and incubate and then you bring in stage 4 which is
to strategize with allies. Get friends. Get co-workers, people that have done what you've done.
Talk to other authors, other business owners. Brainstorm on where you can get the money,
then you're going to have your breakthrough. "I know how to get over the brick wall of frustration!"
You've got that Stage 5 illumination. Stage 6, the book is on the Shelf.
The business is open. It's in the can.
But you have to be willing to trust the process and know that there are many stages and not to really do it alone
like to get allies. Allies and accountability is the missing ingredients of success.
Having people hold you accountable is a missing ingredients is success.
It's so true and that actually is a perfect point about why this class was so important. I took this class.
It was October and November last year 2017
and I think I had always had it in my mind that I wanted to do videos or just try like exercise my creative muscle
and here I am. I've hit many balls of frustration but the the class is so important because that's what it does it
holds you accountable. I think this might be a perfect point to just give a brief overview about like what the CIJ
course is because I know you have in many areas around the U.S. as well.
Well I teach it online. I also train and develop other people to teach the course
and then I teach it live here at the standard hotel.
The online experiences that were there with cameras and people can see each other
and it's experiential exercises, groups sharing, creative visualizations, all to really help people get
clear, find direction, their life purpose, get unstuck and we have a peer coaching call every week.
I pair you up with somebody different from the course and that has them have connection
and get into your tribe, meet some amazing people
and then here at the standard, when you take the course, you get the free spa day which is always amazing.
And I have classes coming up at the end of April both online and live.
Do you normally launch it in April and then also in December?
I do them again in October
so I take the summer off.
That was so good. That was many good bits of information packed in a little bit of time
but if you guys are interested, I highly encourage that you pick up her book, 'Directing Your Destiny,
How to become the writer, producer, and director of your dreams. It is a great book I will put a link below.
You're basically coach right in here. You tell people to do the exercises, meditation, journaling,
tips how to quiet those thoughts in your mind and of course if you're interested
in the CIJ course, you can check it out @jennifergrace.com.
And also her Instagram @thejennifergrace.
So thank you so much for letting me interview you.
Now Jennifer and I want to hear from you. If you took any insight away from this video,
what's the one thing that you could do right now? It could be journaling, meditation, anything
that would start to help you get a little bit more clear so you can become the writer, producer, and director
of your own dreams.
Alright guys, thank you so much for tuning in. See you next time.
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