You want to create a great team or organization.

But you are facing the challenge of a whole bunch of new people in your organization and on your team and so people are feeling disconnected – they don’t know each other. You are also needing to navigate a return to a hybid office of some sort where people can connect but people are resisting .

What to do?

In a word, culture. But culture is often misunderstood.

Today, we discuss the biggest misconceptions people have about culture so you can use culture as the antidote it is to help your team and organization thrive.To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quizYou can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

“Culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration.

- Edgar Schein

“If you are lucky enough to be someone’s employer, then you have a moral obligation to make sure people do look forward to coming to work in the morning.”

- John Mackey, Whole Foods

Ready to start setting more detailed goals? Not sure how to do it or where to start?In this episode, the 4th of our The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we go deeper into crafting our plan. We move from the work we did on our 3-Year Best Life Story to building our 1-year Plan to our 3-Month Focus to finally what we call our '1-Goals'.So we move from a wider, longer perspective to a narrow, shorter perspective so that we have a clear understanding of what will guide out activities for our next 3 months.Let’s walk!“To get The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life Worksheet where you can have full access to all of the questions and exercises found in this series, please go to Last 8% Project Facebook group.We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.Chuck Palahniuk

Feeling like there is something missing from your life? Feeling like you could benefit from getting clear on what you most want out of life? Not sure where to start?In this episode, the 3rd in our The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we think 3 years out and craft a plan about what we want our life to look like so that we know what our North Star is and we can build goals that help us take action.Let’s walk!“To get The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life Worksheet where you can have full access to all of the questions and exercises found in this series, please go to Last 8% Project Facebook group.The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves. - Yehuda Berg

 Too many times, the majority of people choose to limit their own power and potential because they have not allowed themselves the opportunity to see the big picture of what can truly be theirs in life.  - Mark Eriksson

Have you lost momentum? Not as focused as you want to be? Falling into old habits that are not serving you? Feeling unmotivated and becoming frustrated? Well, you are not alone. It is so common to have moments like this when you feel like you are not living like you want to, not achieve all that you can.In this episode, the second episode of the The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life series, we continue our journey of creating a plan to start anew, build momentum and create the kind of relationships, life and career we want. In this episode we dig into our story, bringing awareness to key parts of our life to better understand ourselves and set us up for success going forward.Let’s walk!“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” - Henry David Thoreau

 “Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.” - Amelia Earhart“To get The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life Worksheet where you can have full access to all of the questions and exercises found in this series, please go to Last 8% Project Facebook group.

Are you wanting to be effective, get stuff done, maybe get in shape – take control of your life, but are finding that, instead, it seems you are losing focus, procrastinating, maybe feeling aimless or unmotivated and becoming frustrated? Well, you are not alone. It is so common that we have good intentions to do well, to be productive but fall off the horse, lose focus and have trouble getting going again.In this opening episode of The Science of Goal Setting to Build a Better Life, we provide you with an approach to start anew, a plan to help you build momentum and create the kind of relationships, life and career you want. We have used this approach with Olympic athletes for over 20 years. But you don’t need to be an athlete to benefit. You just need to be someone who wants to use the challenges they face as an opportunity to create a better version of themselves.Let’s walk!

Are you feeling stuck?Is part of the problem that you are feeling overwhelmed with all that you are doing and feeling too busy to look up, take your breath and consider how things are going?A good practice at the end of the year is to look back and reflect on how the year went. This is part of what helps us course correct. But it is important to make sure we focus not just on the negative but also on the positive.Given we are at the end of 2022, in this episode we give you a little exercise that you can do with your team, partner, family, to help you catch lessons from 2022 and build on the good stuff.Let’s walk!The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.- Ronald LaingWe often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what’s really important to us.- Peter SengeThe real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but seeing with new eyes.- Marcel ProustIf you want to build a ship, then don’t drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every day, you face many difficult situations: it could be in challenging relationships or when you face change in your personal life or career.How you deal with these difficult situations, how you handle them, will mark your life and become a differentiator on so many levels.In today’s episode, we talk about what’s at stake when you face the difficult situations that are known as Last 8% situations, those that can affect your reputation, career and relationships, and what to do about it.Excited to be here? I certainly am!Let’s walk."Courage doesn't happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life."― Shannon L. AlderCourage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. "― C.S. Lewis"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."― Jean-Luc Godard

Are you finding you are burning out?Feeling the strain from all the change going on in your organization?Feeling stressed by relationships where there is struggle?Are you worried about how it is affecting your health?Did you know that there is one simple thing you can do that a recent study found will decrease your mortality by 50%?This is the topic of today’s episode.Let’s walk!All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.Friedrich NietzscheIt is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.SocratesAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.Henry David Thoreau

Have you found that you are working hard but not finding the time to do enough of the things you enjoy? Like taking that vacation, or going out to see friends, or going for a walk on a beautiful day?Do you feel guilty when you engage in these non-work activities and think: I should be working right now, or at least I should be more productive than this? If this true for you, know you might be getting caught in More Time Later Trap, a trap that insidiously depletes us of our enjoyment of life’s pleasures.The good news? We can do something about it – the topic of today’s episode.Let’s walk!To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quizYou can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.”Eleanor Roosevelt“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”Harold Whitman

Are you struggling in a relationship?

Whether it is someone you work with or someone at home, are you finding it challenging right now?

It goes without saying that being in relationship is hard, but a big reason people struggle is because of the Big Misconception.

The Big what?

It is one of the fundamental reasons you struggle in your relationship at work and at home and is what we will be focusing on in today’s podcast.

Let’s walk!

To take our assessment go to: http://last8percent.com/quizYou can register for our next Last 8% Academy at: https://last8percent.com/Join our Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelast8project

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”― Shannon L. Alder

Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.

Steve Arterburn

 As leo Tolstoy 'Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.'