You would get so tired you'd fall down. They put a rifle butt on your back, or they whipped you till you got up and got going. Or if you didn't go, they'd just shoot you.
It was like, "OK, this is what I have to do." So, actually, I won. I managed to kick Michael Symon's butt on olives and he's Greek. But I was very happy after it was finished.
But one of my mentors, a banker Goldman Sachs, he said look, the minute you're not CEO, what are you going to do? It's like you're going to get your butt on a plane, you're going to fly around the world. You're going to raise money, you're going to speak, you're going to raise money, and you're going to speak.
The after are the lingering consequences. Now, when we put our butt on the cushion or on a chair and meditate, it's not for this experience we have when we're meditating that we're doing this.
you were doing to stopping, to arriving, to being here. Again, simply noticing sensations of butt on chair, feet on floor, noticing your shoulders, noticing that you are breathing, holding up your chin,
And the dog starts looking and going, how do I get that piece of food out of your hand? And they wiggle, and they put their butt on the ground. You go, yes-- bang-- and you pay them.
So it would require me to have to want, as I like to refer to it, it would require me to want to go back to jail. Now, not saying I won't do it and I'll tell you something else honestly. Before I put my butt on the line, this country better show me it’s worth it. You better show me it’s worth it this time. I've already done four years as a mayor, four years as a governor and six years in the Navy. That's 14 years of my life I've given to the public. And to do that job, I need to know it’s worth it. And right now,
We don't even know we're encrusted in the shell until the proverbial crap hits the fan, or like I like to say from "The Mindful Athlete," I decided to go on this path when I had the AOF method of motivation-- and that means butt on fire or Ass On Fire. There has to be a sense of urgency or a willingness for us to say, well, you know, what I've been doing is not working,
And it went great for like a day. recipient of aid in sub-Saharan Africa, what if we could kick total butt on sustainable development and be the leader for that?
does success look like? And then, what's going to tell us that, hey, we're kicking butt on this, or we're getting our butts kicked? And picking that one metric that matters to know that you're successful.