Have you ever wondered if it's possible to live life without limitations and to
be in constant peace? Well the answer actually is yes and I'm going to share
with you an audio book that I just finished listening to called The
Untethered Soul at Work by Michael A. Singer. Today I'm gonna give you my best
takeaways that I have gotten from The Untethered Soul at Work that I would
like to share with you, powerful stuff so that you can live the best life that you
are meant to live and if you stay tuned to this end of this video I am gonna
give you a guide on some additional mindfulness techniques that are gonna
help you at work so take those tips along with these in this video from
Michael A Singer and I promise you you'll be connected to who you are and what you
need to do in life. Hi, I'm Adriana Girdler, a
productivity specialist with over 20-plus years in the business.
Most people know of Michael Singer as a spiritual teacher but perhaps you didn't
know he actually was a founder and a CEO of a billion-dollar company so he is an
amazing expert when it comes to mindfulness, spirituality and business
and in this video I'm gonna share with you some of the techniques he highly
recommends for you to do at work so you can be more mindful and ideally more
spiritual ensuring that you are connected to who you are and really
doing a great job at work. The Untethered Soul at Work summarized.
This audio book, The Untethered Soul at Work is based on the premise that we
view work from a vantage point of, it's all about me. So what I mean by that? It's,
I work in order to travel, I work in order to get this thing, I work in order
to prove myself, I work in order to get that promotion, when in reality it's not
about me or you at all. It is about serving and contributing to a greater
good, really the unfolding of the universe and as a result it's not about
us so we have to do a reset on how we view work and as a result of that reset
that's gonna help us to always use work as a practice ground to get closer to
mindfulness, really to get closer to spirituality.
If we have problems with work it's not about work it's really our attitude,
it's how we view things. We have this mental dialogue going in our head
basically saying, we are not okay, and as a result of that it's because of the
fear that we have, it's the stories we bring into work that is actually
creating an environment at work which is counterproductive to who we are as
individuals, we're really spiritual beings who are meant to connect and
serve not to be focused on our ego trying to get what we want out of it. Why?
Because it's about the universe, it's unfolding, it is greater than who we are
and if we are looking to control it by focusing on what it can do for me, we're
missing out on the bigger purpose which is for us to be practicing to be closer
to spirituality, to be closer to our souls and this is what this book teaches
you, some techniques that you can do every day to help you practice so you
can live in purpose you can live in peace and that you are not having those
dialogues with yourself that is creating really some very destructive behavior
that you may have or you may see people around you have so let's get to some of
the amazing tips and techniques that Michael Singer gives in his audiobook.
The Untethered Email. Michael Singer actually looks at emails in a way that
can come from a very mindful practice and a spiritual practice and here is
what he recommends in order to do with emails. Whenever you want to send an
email, really think of where it's coming from. Is it coming from your lower
personal self that is your ego where you're maybe upset about something you
just want to kind of dump on somebody? What he's recommending here, bringing
mindfulness and spirituality at work is to really have an understanding is where
is my content that I want to write in this email coming from? Is it truly legit?
Because there are some times that things are legit so he's asking number one,
ground yourself, really understand, come from center, connect back to the
universe, this is the spiritual side of things, and really understand what is it you're
trying to say when you've analyzed it. Number two is take out the garbage. Check
out the personal stuff because it's not about that, work is about serving and
contributing but doing it in a loving respectful way and so really take a look
because you may have to send an email that has some bad news in
it, that's okay, but you want to do it in a way that is done from a higher self.
Number three is, really re-read it, you want to be mindful with what you're
doing, just don't send it out, make sure you have the right attachments, make sure
you have the right verbiage, take a moment, a breath, to reread what you're
saying, does it make sense? The biggest thing is, if what you just put down on
paper got printed on the front page of The
Wall Street Journal would you be happy with what it said? Because emails are
forever, it's not a conversation that you're having that is going to go away
as soon as you finish your words, it is there forever so you really want to be
mindful with what you're writing. Untethered Interactions. So in this audio
book there's some very specific interactions that happen at work that
Michael Singer recommends that you take a look at it from a mindful spiritual
perspective and the first one is when you arrive at work. So when you arrive at
work just take a moment before you go inside and really ground and connect
with yourself remember it's not about them getting something done it is about
serving and ensuring that you're doing the best job that you can do so get
grounded, get in a state of mindfulness before you even go into the building.
Opening the door. Whenever you open the door, take this as a moment to really
think inwardly and be very clear with what your attention is for the next step.
Perhaps you're walking through a threshold for a meeting. Get really clear,
have the intention whenever you're walking through any doorway. Answering
the phone. Answering the phone, particularly when you know that someone
asked, hey I need to really speak to you I'm going to call you in an hour, can get
stressful so the point here is, is to let it go.
Understand why you're even getting stressed in these situations. You can't
control it, you're just a person who's about to answer the phone, embrace that moment
so you can learn from it. Let go of any fear that's stopping you
or creating a story that is going to have potentially a negative impact on a
conversation that you have no clue what it's even about as of yet so let it go,
answer the phone and really just be at peace knowing I'm
just here answering the phone, no big deal.
Talking to someone. Now this is a very interesting one because a lot of times
when we're speaking to people we actually are not connecting with them
and particularly if we're on the receiving end and we're listening, we're
truly not listening. You know what we're doing? We're formulating our answer back
or we're trying to interpret what they're saying to us from our
interpretation. First is just letting it be, letting it go. Really focus on
listening to what the person is saying. Everybody comes up with different ideas
and thought processes. Why? Because we're all unique and different and that's what
you want at work, you want to embrace the differences because there's gonna be
amazing ideas but in order to do that you have to listen so when you're
talking to someone really take a moment and clear your head, let go of what's
going on, don't try to come up with an amazing answer because you're not
listening to what is being said, you may find that what they just said is either
a the answer to a problem that you are having, an amazing strategic solution or
is going to add tons of value to something that already exists. That is
our job, to serve and contribute at work and that's part of the spiritual
practice that we're supposed to bring in to work to help us every day, practice
listening to each other. The Untethered Project. So how do we make
projects more mindful? How do we make it more spiritual? Well, it's not about the
project per se, it's how we look at the project and how we actually go about
defining it. Now there are times with projects you don't have very clear
statements of what you're supposed to do, in fact they're very loosey goosey and a
lot of times what people do is they just go ahead and start doing things but when
we're connected, we're mindful we're connected spiritually to things greater
than us, we want to start going inward, that whole grounding piece, that whole
letting go peace, realizing that first we don't have the answers and that's okay
but to really come across with, well what is it that we want to do? Bring a group
together, your team, be creative. Creativity is a natural process that we
all have, we just really tuck it away and we think we're not creative but
being more spiritual at work allows us to really impact and use that creativity
and the best way to do this for projects that you're trying to define an answer
and know what to do is think of it from a min and a max max perspective so if we
could do anything we want with this project, what would it be? Allow for the
creative juices to flow, don't judge it, and come up with everything that you can
potentially do. Now, from a min perspective what is it that we want with
this project, think of everything from a min, again, don't judge and now what you
do is you start to bring those pieces of information to the middle and what
you're going to find is you're gonna create the statement for the project as
to how and what you need to do to move forward and guess what? Everyone did it
in a way that was respectful, creative, fun, again bringing that mindfulness to
work but connecting everyone spiritually too, because why are we at work? To serve
and contribute. Now that you know some of the big takeaways from Michael Singers
audiobook The Untethered Soul at Work I'm gonna give you a takeaway here and
this is an amazing guide on some additional mindfulness techniques that
you can get by clicking on the link below. That being said I really do highly
recommend that you listen to his audiobook, it is short but powerful,
impactful. On that note I want to thank you, can you give this video a thumbs up,
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ways that you bring spirituality and liveliness to work I would love to hear
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