In this episode, I talk with mindfulness expert, Stuart Carter. In 2005, Stuart began his journey of “waking up” by re-examining every aspect of what it means to be alive, what it means to be happy, what it means to be fulfilled. He publishes a regular video series on YouTube offering tips on mindfulness, meditation, letting go, and living a happy and balanced life.
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Transcript:
Jason: All right. So why don’t we start with you introducing yourself and then we’ll move forward.
Stuart: Sure. Okay. So I’m Stuart Carter, I currently run simplymindfulness.com. I’ve been through a series of sort of business, what should we say, ideas over the years. It’s been a constant evolution really. I went self employed in 2009 when I was made redundant from my full time job, computer programming. Went into photography. Discovered… Because I liked business more than photography started helping other business owners [inaudible 00:00:45] in place. But I’ve always been sneaking mindfulness in through the back door and I’ve got a 15 years mindfulness practice of my own. And I went to Japan in the summer of 2018 and kind of, it was a bit rocky out there. It was very, very wet.
Stuart: I think some, was it 2 million or 8 million people were evacuated from their homes from where we were in the camper van getting lost in the mountains. So yeah, it’s not one of those life changing situations when you go… Actually, life’s a bit too short and not do the important stuff. And I’m sure your emails have had an influence in where I am now. And because I’ve done a lot of the inner work on myself, your daily general posts done regularly and your webinars and things like that. And I truly see the value in that stuff. And at the moment I’m kind of helping people to be more mindful. I’m helping people to get to know themselves better. We actually spoke a while ago and I tested the business or best part of your life. I don’t know if you remember that conversation.
Stuart: Well, that never quite sat right with me. I don’t know if it was the audience. I think it was the audience only, if it wasn’t the audience it was probably the men serving. So yeah, I’ve got this business, it’s doing okay. I’ve got two media platforms, with are my YouTube channel, which has a video twice a week, and my daily journal of kind of just wholesale copied your idea. So its a value add every day with lovely messages at the top, which I think you’ve taken those off actually, but also, the occasional, do you want some help? That kind of message. But I think the problem I have at the moment, which is I think why I’m on the call today is really, I heard it put beautifully the other day where there’s, a donkey and there’s some hay to side of it and some water to the other side of it. And it can’t decide which ones to go for so it ends up dying.
Jason: What a terrible play.
Stuart: Because if you just go for one, apparently you can do that. And then move to the next one. So I think it’s about clarity. I would really love now to master something. I’ve got the discipline in place to do that but I don’t know what I’m mastering and I think maybe I can use some help on the clarity of that.
Jason: Do you know what’s in your two buckets? The water and the food or, would you just know there two?