The Mechanistic and Algorithmic Natures of the Mind for Performance Breakthroughs.

Top of the morning to you. Now, today, guys, I want to speak to you about programs, specifically 28-day programs, 90-day programs, 365-day programs. The reason why these work is because you set out a long-term vision by the end of the program. Let's say it's your goal. And now you insight what are the components of that goal? What makes up that goal? Who do you need to be? in order to deliver that? What are the demands? What are the components? So that you can then focus on the day-to-day process. Because when you're focusing on the day-to-day process, you start to do something which is called habit tracking. You start to track the habits of your long-term vision. And most people don't do this. You know, I'm not talking about habits like stretching, foam rolling, sleep, routine. I mean, these are easy. I mean, for most people, what I'm talking about is the mental habits. You see, when you're on a program, you feel accountable every day to successfully continue each day what I call continuous practice. And why is that important? Because you have new neural pathways that are trying to connect with each other. And every time that you stop, for example, if you stop believing You know, if you're getting frustrated and you're lingering in frustration, you're now operating from a new neural pathway. So the momentum you had from before is canceled temporarily, like a building construction. You've stopped building and now you're building in a different direction. And what this causes is lots of delays. Okay. And this is why a day-to-day process and habit tracking is vitally important, because if we actually come down to it, I'd be surprised with how many of you are actually continuously operating from a congruent place mentally 28 days in a row, 7 days in a row without fail. In reality, if we do get a moment of like a little wobble and then we end up lingering there, it actually takes us about 1 to 3 days to start back the momentum again for, you know, our neural synapses to start connecting with each other and building that path and start the construction again. And Yes. So it's the same, you know, when you're on a tennis court, when you feel a certain level of frustration, but you don't linger there. You see, that's the key. When you feel— you allow yourself to feel something, but you don't react and respond and start to become the person who is in frustration. You have tools or you have mindsets or you have strategies or you have your vision as your North Star to— or even if you have a program that you're following, you're like, right, you know, for the next 28 days, I'm not supposed to respond from that place. So I'm just supposed to feel it and move on and come back to my goal. So this is all really interesting because our minds are mechanistic and algorithmic, meaning there is an order to things. There is a way that nature operates. It takes 9 months to have a baby, takes 70 days to grow a carrot out the ground. These are the algorithmic and mechanistic laws of nature, and there's laws to your mind. When you get on track with those laws, life becomes a lot more easier. It's already challenging to go from where you are now to become the thing that you want to experience in your mind, in reality. That's already a challenge. There's no need to make it harder. So when we get on board with these mechanisms, there is a mechanism in your mind which pursues what you believe to be true. And so if you believe you're not going to make it, or if you believe, you know, you're not going to win, or if you believe anything that's incongruent to your goal, if you believe something that's not helpful to you that hasn't even happened yet, your mind has a mechanism to pursue that truth as a reality and bring you more of that truth. In other words, it's, it's designed to follow whatever you believe is true, to get your nervous system to follow that lead. And so for you to behave congruently, for you to perceive everything in life, your competitions, your— the rate— the way people talk to you. It's to distort and perceive everything to give you more of what you believe is true. So if you knew that about your mind, that it has that mechanism, you would take yourself on a program and make sure that you are being congruent with your beliefs and your thoughts, what you're identifying with. There's lots of thoughts, they fly over your head, you know, they're like clouds. But the ones that you identify with, that's your choice, and that's also your conditioning. If you have a pattern of associating with certain thoughts. It's called conditioning. You've just been conditioned to go there every time and keep going to that avenue. But when you do a program and you know that you're tracking your habits every day, you're more accountable to regain authorship, to regain ownership over that whole process, and you start to recondition your mind for your own benefit. So if people had this type of education, I feel like they wouldn't get as frustrated because If you knew that you'll keep going in and out of your habits and that it takes a little bit of momentum to start your habit back up. Essentially, every time you stop, if you, you know, go down a mental path that's not congruent with your long-term vision, you basically need to go back 3 days. I mean, that's like a benchmark of how much you keep putting yourself back. So the reason why things haven't happened yet Or the reason why, you know, there's a bit of delay with what you expected or what you agreed to accomplish is because often you're not tracking how consistent you are with your mental habits. And if you did, you'd actually not get frustrated because you realize, oh yeah, well, I keep going in and out. There was a moment today when I went out of it. There was a moment in the match where I, you know, went out of it and then I hung out there. You know, there was a moment, you know, in the gym where I stopped and then I just hung out in that energy. You know, these are all delaying, you know, your momentum and your habits and your identity from being built. So yeah, that's why a 28-day program, 90-day program, 365-day program is where you— is really good for you because you can just start to invest in the day-to-day process and You know, one off, one big way of actually doing that is obviously defining what your long-term vision is and then asking a few empowering questions like, who do I need to become in order for that to be reality? Who do I need to be? But also a really important question to ask is, what do others gain by me being this version of myself? You know, because if you've got family members, team members, or people that you feel like, uh, like not getting on board with you, or they're showing frustration themselves, or whatever the case may be, this is a really good opportunity to answer that question about what do they gain by you being this version of yourself. And they're going to gain a lot. You are pursuing your dream, you're living in joy, you're healthy, you're on national television, international television, you are you know, living in congruence with your desires. You know, you're happy, you're joyful, and your parents get to see that. So they get to have a child who's happy and joyful and pursuing their dreams. They're getting a lot out of it. They get to travel the world, they get to talk about you. You know, they're getting a lot out of it. So if they're giving you any stick, tell them, hey, me living this life is helping you. You know, what do you want me to do, not pursue my dreams and sit down and, you know, just work a normal job and then be like, okay, there you go? You know, it's— we're not living our life for other people, but at the same time, by virtue of us being this version of us, by accomplishing this goal, we give back to so many people, including our families. So that question is really important, I think, for people to answer. What do others gain in your life from you being this version of yourself? At some point, you're going to have to be the leader of your environment, the leader of your life. the leader of the people around you, because no one knows your vision as clear as you do. They can't see it the same way. They don't receive it the same way. It's specifically engineered. Your imagination, your values, everything that you envision that you want to experience in your life is specifically for you. And it's your job to communicate that, to stand up for it, and also to live by it, to live by it congruently. and track those habits. And what you'll find is the frustration will dissipate because when you start tracking your habits, you start to see, oh yes, see, I went out of it there. I went out of the mindset there. I actually started living from a different mental place there. So of course, you know, I'm not seeing the result yet there. You start to have a little bit more compassion, understanding for the journey, start to be a little bit more accountable. Also, you just gain more awareness of what's actually going on rather than what's going on from a blind spot. So I hope this helps you guys and ask those empowering questions. Maybe if this invites you to get on a program where you're tracking your mental habits. And again, there's nothing wrong with feeling. Feeling is a good thing. What we want to understand is the difference, distinguishment between feeling and then reacting from the feeling or hanging out in the feeling or Identifying with the feeling of someone is who we are. They just need to pass, that's all. We have to be able to get back on track after we felt those emotions, get back to what we're actually here to do, because all the feelings are, they're just an effect. If you think about cause and effect, feelings are an effect. They're not a cause. They're coming from something else. It's an effect of something else. You know, normally these feelings come from an old misidentified Memory about you thinking you're not good enough, that you're not going to make it, that you're not important, that people don't love you, whatever the case may be. So these are memories that we still haven't reconciled. So they cause us to show up in frustration. They cause us to show up in anger and we feel unworthy. So those are, those are simmering underneath you anyway. So when you go onto the court or when you have your day-to-day, you know, things happen and you think that's making you angry and you think that's making you frustrated. But no, it's not. You are turning up in frustration, you're turning up in anger because there's things that not be reconciled. So allow yourself to feel them until you're ready to reconcile those memories and direct your attention into the truth that you are loved and you know everything is possible for you and you're on the right track and all of this is helping you to get to where you need to be. So remind yourself of the truth. And just gently nudge yourself back and tracking those habits so that you can be actually aware of what's going on in the process and not lie to yourself.