Notes From the Underground - A Kaizen Journey

Chop Wood Carry Water should be mandatory reading for everyone! This book helped early on my reading journey. It is one that I still refer quite frequently.

5 Biggest Take Aways!

1. No matter how it feels, you are always building your house
2. You must surrender the outcome in order to be at your best. If you have an eye on the goal, it leaves only one eye for the process. Your strength lies in the small things
3. Your value does not come from what you do but but who you are. God paid the ultimate price for you. Your invaluable
4. Comparison is the thief of all joy.
5. There is a difference between comparison and competitive. Comparison means judge your value when compared to others.

Competitive means getting better Listen and follow on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube!

Master Teach Cliff Baker joins Notes From the Underground

Cliff grew up in La Verne, Played overseas and trains some of the best hoopers in the world. Cliff has been coaching and training for 11+ years, with various high schools (top 15 in the country) and colleges, such as La Sierra University, UCLA, and UC Riverside, and professional players. He has also worked with the WNBA, the Clippers, Nike basketball, & various camps (such as CP3, Nike Academy, Ball is Life, & Steph Curry). Cliff is an AAU coach and head of skills training for Nike West Coast Premier, the top Nike girls program in the nation

Listen Notes

Cliff's Background - :48

• Remembering Kobe - 1:42
• The game we are really in - 10:30
• The levels of hoop mastery - 30:16
• Habits and mastery - 48:02

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Basketball is considered an intermittent high-intensity sport that requires mainly anaerobic metabolism.

Done continuously over 30-40 minutes it has some components of aerobatic metabolism. Shaun T trains you to get ready to excel.

• Reason 1: Insanity utilizes maximal interval training. This is where you are moving for at least 3 minutes at a time. Because of this, you are hitting the aerobic portion of the workout hard
• Reason 2: Basketball is a game of rhythm and rhythm requires hand and foot coordination. Insanity does a great job of working on these motor skills.
• Reason 3: Stretch and cool down. Stretching keeps the muscles flexible, strong, and healthy, and we need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints. Without it, the muscles shorten and become tight.

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"We believe imagination — the capacity to create, evolve, and exploit mental models of things or situations that don’t yet exist — is the crucial factor in seizing and creating new opportunities, and finding new paths to growth." ~ Jack M. Fuller

Dr. Jack Fuller is a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, currently on BCG’s think tank to write a book, ‘Competing on Imagination’, looking at imagination in our lives and in business, and strategies to keep imagination alive under pressure.

Jack has a degree in Neuroscience from Melbourne University, and an M.Phil and D.Phil (Ph.D) in Theology and Ethics from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. His doctorate was on ‘Desire and te Ethics of Advertising’.

Works by Dr. Fuller

• The Myths and Realities of Business Ecosystems
• How imagination shapes our lives
• What is the essence of a company?
• Getting Uncomfortable on Purpose

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The Path of Mastery -

The milestones on the journey of mastery.

Learning to Train

• Self Awareness
• Know your strengths
• Know your opportunities
• Make a game plan
• Design your environment
• Practice purposely
• Practice 90% of shots you shoot in games.

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The Digital Divide is the gulf between those who have ready access to computers and the Internet, and those who do not. "a worrying “digital divide” based on educational attainment and income".

COVID-19 has bought this issue to the forefront with school closing.

According to https://www.pewtrusts.org "The Pew Research Center reported in May 2019 that 44 percent of adults in households with incomes below $30,000 don’t have broadband. This disparity in access is also seen in what researchers call the “homework gap”—the differences between school-age children who have access to high-speed internet at home and those who don’t. A 2015 center report found that 35 percent of lower-income households with children in school didn’t have a broadband connection at home."

Eli Cortez former CIO of California and CTO of LAUSD (second largest school district in the country offers unique insights and proposals on how to close the digital divide during the Coronavirus and the future.

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• I have told many of you that you have superstar DNA!
• You are in fact, nature's greatest miracle.
• Dont let the miracle end with your birth! You were destined to do great things..it is in your DNA!
• YOU ARE NATURE'S GREATEST MIRACLE.
• Tom Chi on how it is all connected can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPh3c...
• THE SCROLL MARKED IV – I AM NATURE’S GREATEST MIRACLE https://jairekrobbins.com/the-scroll-...
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Harold Edison started a small ministry in the heart of downtown Los Angeles after hearing God's call to be of service. Small things lead to BIG transformations in people's lives! One of the most inspiring testimonies I have ever heard. Harold is a true inspiration on following God's guidance and living a life of service to others.

Show notes:

• Harold's background - 1:50
• Starting his ministry - 6:45
• Building a relationship first! - 12:40
• Distractions when hearing God's voice - 18:40
• Maurice's story - A small bible verse changes his life! - 24:18
• Yvette Grant and Vinisha Ross story - From a tent on MLK and Broadway to a fully furnished apartment. - 30:05

Harold and Maurice

COVID-19 : Unprecedented times but a time for peace, reflection and opportunities for family and I.

Show Notes:

I was once asked to describe my perfect day. It involved spending time with my family and working on our goals. Working on our personal journey. Although not ideal, COVID-19 has given the time and space to preview that perfect day!

• The education of my kids - experiment 
• Professor Nipsey Hussle and Ice Cube, What Boyz n da Hood can teach us!
  • Using popular culture as a means to making educational material relatable for my kids
• Trello Boards, Slack and Project Management
  • Technology - the great equalizer. Using it to prepare my kids for the world the are entering. 
• and much more!

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Introduction to the podcast, the reason behind it and the inspiration to live out loud.

Show Notes:

• Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.
• Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical enquiry which takes as its starting point the experience of the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity.
• Tupac - Wanted to spark the brain that changed the world
• 30 Day Challenge
• Hoop Diaries
• Henry Barrera - Masterminds         
• Henry explains his Master Minds project (8:14)
• Train 2 Be Clutch                         
• Chop Wood Carry Water