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What order should our conversations follow?

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There are three or four conversations we need to have every week. In my case, the first is with God. Another should be with our loved ones, another with work, and an essential one with ourselves. The easiest and most frequent turns out to be work: the flood of emails, messages and calls that orbit, thank God, around what puts food on the table. Next, in no particular order, may come our inner circle, the people around us, friends included. The forgotten conversation is the inner one, the one that should tell us where to head. Yet one of our most important conversations keeps getting drowned out by all the noise around us.

Stephen Covey’s seventh habit, sharpening the saw, means "taking time to renew ourselves physically, spiritually, socially and mentally." The part of that habit that draws me most is meditation. Meditation teaches us to quiet the mind, and it’s the key to learning to speak to ourselves with compassion. Through meditation we can give priority to one of the greatest conversations of all, the one within.

The frantic pace we live at pays little or no attention to stopping, even for a few minutes a day, to learn to be still. If only we could do two things in our daily routine: 1) notice the conversations we’re having, and 2) align them with our life purpose. How can linking what we tell ourselves to our purpose move us toward the results we want? Much of the willpower it takes to act in a specific direction needs inspiration. We can find it in our life purpose, and if we want to run the software we’re born with, reason, we need to point it in the right direction.

Truly restorative rest, the kind that makes us feel almost reborn, needs moments of stillness. One of life’s basic priorities should be knowing our life purpose. The next big step is organizing our ideas and actions around it, and for that we should build a steady meditation habit that quiets the mind so that, with a fresh mind, we can put the right questions to our reason. The forgotten conversation is, without a doubt, the one within. How do we train the mind to hear it? What do we need to align that conversation with our purpose?

Warm regards and all the best,

Rodrigo Baccaro

• P.S. This week’s VELA:
• What I was watching: Chef vs Parrillero (Chef vs Grill Master). I really enjoy the Locos por el Asado channel, and I’ve learned a lot from it
  – What I was listening to: Podcasting. A recommendation from my dear friend Andrés. Thanks, Andrew, let’s go all in
  – What I was reading: Liberalismo para padres (Liberalism for Parents). Fortunately, after a couple of weeks of wandering in my reading, I picked this wonderful book back up
  – What I was learning: The Science of Making & Breaking Habits. I’m very glad I found this channel. The podcasts can run long, but they’re incredibly enriching

Author: Rodrigo Baccaro

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