Micro Class: Training Elephants

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class.

This one is on training elephants. It's going to feature Gandhi pulled from the great work of your life.

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So, training elephants. Here's Gandhi, young boy. Here's Ramba, one of his caretakers as a little boy. Now, this little Gandhi was petrified of almost everything. His mind went a little nuts. And Ramba taught him something. She taught him about what wise elephant trainers do. So here's a little elephant.

It's a big elephant. He has a very large trunk. Just a happy elephant. And big ears, of course. Nice ears, buddy. Yeah.

So. So here's our elephant. Now, before that elephant is trained, if he goes into a marketplace, right, he walks in, his little trunk, is checking out everything.

It's finding bananas and it's putting them into its mouth. It's finding a coconut and it's putting that into its mouth.

It's out of control, just like our minds are out of control. Now, Ramba taught Gandhi that a wise elephant trainer gives the elephant a stick of bamboo. They give him a stick of bamboo. The little elephant wraps its trunk around that bamboo, and then when it cruises through the marketplace, it's not distracted by.

The coconuts and the bananas.

It's just calm and centered and grounded like a prince.

Stephen tells us in the great work of your life.

Now, she was using the story where the stick represented a mantra. Mantra, man. TRA literally means tools of the mind. Mantra, really cool word, right? The important thing to think about here, though, is that the mantra helps us focus. We focus our energy when we repeat a word. Gandhi's word throughout his life was Rama, Rama, Rama Rama focused his energy. It's the name of a Hindu God. But the idea here that I want us to capture is you can use a mantra to focus your mind so you can go through the marketplace of life without being distracted by the Internet or Twitter or Facebook or whatever other little things you do as an untrained elephant in your life, right? Get focused. You can focus on a mantra. You can focus on just having clear goals and knowing what your masterpiece day looks like with your AM and your PM bookends and what you do here and what you do there. If you do that, you have a level of focus. It's the stick you can hold in your mind, in your trunk, such that you can navigate life with grace, like.

A prince or princess, as the case may be.

So remember the young Gandhi, his mentor Ramba, and the elephant with a stick of bamboo in its trunk. As you gain more focus in your life.

That's training elephants. Hope you enjoyed. Look forward to sharing more soon. Have another awesome day.

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