Pat Croce Shares Lessons From 'Enjoy Your Self Now!'

We usually find Gino watching movies or TV shows, but he has something different for us today. Pat Croce just released a brand new book. And I read it. How about that? I'm impressed. I don't just watch movies, I read books too. Now Pat went from wrapping the ankles of the Philadelphia 76ers to becoming their president. And I've always admired him. I couldn't wait to talk to him about this book. And now he's working on his self and your self. I'm just so psyched. It's I'm glad you read it. I'm glad you at least opened it because not only did I create it so that. Gino, funny, serendipity works here. One of the chapters smiles serendipity. I wanted to make it feel and look like a Bible, a missalette. And it's just so beautiful. I didn't know until about a month ago, someone contacted me and said, do you know there's 66 books in the Bible? I said, no, I didn't know that. I love this. I love that there's save the pages that look at I've got I've got pages saved that I want to reread. I love it. See, I wanted a bookmark or a gold bookmark or just a ribbon. The pages are a little thicker and feel cream colored. I just wanted it so different that when you picked it up, one, you went, wow. And then when you open it up, you get those Oprah aha moments and go, wow, bang, ping. That's the goal. The goal is to To change your mind, to expand your mind. As I said in the book, I never gave any mind to my mind, You know, I was all about the body, but I thought the voice in the head was me. I didn't know there was no separate sparks out there that I had no control over, and that I didn't have to believe. Like, wow, it's such a freedom. It's as if Backpack of baggage was just lifted off your shoulders and such an expansive feeling and that I wanted to share that that and that Buddha quote that's attributed to Buddha 2600 years ago, pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. When you realize that you do not have to psychologically suffer if you choose not to. Now, I'm not talking about the suffering with grief and sadness due to the loss of a loved one, because that's Love-based, those tears are tears of love, I'm talking about, you know, the fear-based iterations of anger and angst and worry and frustration and irritation, expectation, impatience, blame, shame, all those ones that lower our vibrational frequency that they don't have to. We choose to do that. Just in that short clip, we saw that there are many lessons that we can take away from this book. And you also spoke with him about one that really stood out to you. Yes, I love this. It's the six-second rule. Well, there's something that you taught me that, you know, that six-second thing. When you are annoyed, when you are upset. Wait six seconds before you do anything or say anything. That's one of my favorites. See, all of these, obviously, I've used them. Otherwise, I would not share them. The six-second sacred pause. To insert the six-second sacred pause for your viewers is just before you hit the text button, before you hit the email button, before you respond, react, or reply. Cut. Just take a break. Right. Inject some space. There's an old Viktor Frankl quote that I start that chapter with, between stimulus and response is a space. And within that space is your choice. And within that choice is your freedom and happiness. So in that space, and the mantra I suggest is, space is grace. Allow grace, that moment of stillness to come in, and maybe provide you with a little intuition, a little inspiration, so that you don't have that karmic autopilot button to hit. Instead, you take a little breath, okay, and it might dissolve. And then what we call that... you know, is right action. Because you might take the same action, but here it's reinforced knowing, okay, this is coming from love and truth. It's not stimulated by a sense of lack or unease. Big difference. And when it's a right action as opposed to karmic reaction, there's no regret later on. You know, how many times have I got in trouble for saying some snarky comment to my wife on, I wish I had the sacred pause then. All right. I love it. Travis, come in here a second. Travis, our floor director, he listened to this. Do the six-second pause. Give me that breath. Good. Oh, that was good. Anything that can prevent it. In fact, there was an app that a young woman came up with for younger people about not sending that mean text right away. That after you think about it, say, okay, I'm not going to do it. I love Pat Croce. I love this book. A quick second. Stop. Reflect. And then maybe buy the book and read it. There you go. Don't pause on buying the book. Just buy it. You can do that one immediately. No six-second pause there. All right. Thanks, Gina. Thank you.