Best Of: Increase Your Wellbeing with More Sleep

Hey, my friend.

It's Brendon Burchard. And welcome to another episode of the Brendon show. I'm excited to start this best of episode with you, but before I do that, I wanted to let you know that my new high performance planner is finally out into the world. I'm so excited about this, guys. If you haven't heard about it, I spent the last three years putting this planner together for you. I wanted to help you, give you a tool that would make you more productive, that would make you more focused on the things that mattered, that helped you prioritize like a pro, that helped you really get ahead faster by asking the right questions of yourselves each day, each week and each month. And this planner is kind of like a two in one tool in that it's basically a day planner meets a productivity journal. So every single day, there's your day schedule available to you. But it also begins with a morning mindset section where you ask yourself 10 questions. It ends the day where you ask six strategic questions. So you can capture your learnings and your ahas and your breakthroughs of the day. But you can also score yourself because there's a scorecard for each and every day of your life where it helps you measure whether or not you're staying on your high performance habits. There's also full assessments every week and every month, like your whole life assessment. So you're looking at different areas of your life to see where you're on track or where you're lagging behind or where you need to focus more. There's things that really help you get in the right mindset, habits and behaviors that we know will help you succeed over the long term. So you can go on Amazon right now and you can just type in high performance planner. And I'm so pumped for you to get this because we really did a lot of work on it. People are like, how do you spend three years to make a planner? I'm like, well, it's not one of those, you know, pseudo gratitude journals where it's like a couple nice quotes and a bunch of empty pages. This is a workhorse of a planner. It is a strategic thinking person's sort of tool that will allow them to get ahead faster. Here's the description on Amazon and I'll tell you all the different ways you can get it in all the different colors and all the specs because I'm super pumped about it. And I've never really done much talking about this type of product here on the podcast, but this is really the culmination of 20 years of my research. I'm pumped about it. So here's what the Amazon description reads. It's really well done. I thought I'd read it to you. It says, this combination planner and journal helps readers strategize their lives and increase their performance via writing prompts, self assessments and calendars, all backed by science and the author's 20 years coaching the highest performers in business, athletics, entertainment and beyond. That's me. The High Performance Planner is a two in one day planner and journal based on the world's largest study of how high performers increase productivity, set goals, prioritize projects, outperform their peers, and create the positive mindset and habits needed to win the day. Through morning mindset, journal prompts, daily goal boxes, evening scorecards, weekly habit assessments, monthly project planning, and proprietary whole life balance sheets. The planner helps you think more strategically, prioritize, achieve your goals faster, and become more focused, happy and productive. And we've measured it, so I'm pumped about this because if you'll just go to Amazon and get this, you're gonna be blown away by the price because These planners, they're 60 days each, so they last 60 days. And we also have a full Year Planner pack where you can get all, all the colors. There's six different colors. There's like, you know, black, red, yellow, green, orange and blue. And amazingly classic black is the most popular. But I hope you'll go get one because I really want to hear you crush it this next year and I know that's gonna take a lot of discipline and focus on your side. So I apologize for the long rant here, but I'm really excited about it. And if you didn't hear when we launched it, I don't know when you're listening to this, but we launched it four days ago through Instagram and it immediately became a top best selling book across all books on Amazon. Which is amazing because it's not technically a book, it's a planner. But I'm pumped that it did that well. In fact, both the single classic Black Planner and the full Year Planner pack both charted in the top 20 of Amazon just upon announcement. It was crazy. And that's good news and bad news. Good news is I'm pumped. Everybody wants it. Bad news is I do know their inventory. And listen, you need to order this the second you are listening to this right now, my friend, because they'll be all gone by the time you know the end of this week. So I think you better go get it. Especially if you want to get this by Christmas, it is necessary to go place your order. I know Amazon just placed a big order of the classic black one so those should be available all the other colors and the full Year Planner pack might be sold out by the time you're listening to this. So make sure you go to Amazon. Just type in High Performance Planner or just go to highperformanceplanner.com so that's on Amazon High Performance Planner or highperformanceplanner.com if you're listening. In the UK, Australia or Canada we have the Amazon links available for those specific countries to all of the colors and the options available to you. Again posted at high performance planner.com y', all, I'm excited about this. This is what I've used for the last three years in beta with groups but also with myself to pull together basically everything I've ever taught in high performance and put it into one tool that can really keep you on track. So if you've ever gone through my programs or you've watched my YouTube or you like these episodes, these best of episodes, this is gonna help you operationalize that learning. And why does all this matter? Because you shouldn't feel so overwhelmed, you shouldn't feel so distracted, you shouldn't feel so stressed, you shouldn't lose focus so often and you shouldn't lose momentum. That comes with great personal growth tracking. And when you're assessing your habits and your whole life every week and every month in the strategic ways that we do that are science backed to help you get higher performance, I promise you it'll be a game changer for you. Go to highperformanceplanner.com or go to Amazon. Just type in High Performance Planner. Get yours now. Get a bunch for your team, for your family, your friends. It's the holiday gifts of gifts, my friends. Highperformanceplanner.com thank you for all your support. Now enjoy this episode of the Brendon show where we're going to jump in to some of the best of training. Here we go.

This might be a great time to talk about this question that I get all the time, Brendon, in my life or in my career or my family, my relationships. Right now I just feel stuck. You know, I feel like I hit a wall or I plateaued or I just feel like I'm down in the dumps. But what I don't feel is momentum and joy towards my art or my craft or my goals, my dreams. And so if you're Feeling stuck in any part of your life, I always want to feel and just be really overly empathetic and sympathetic and compassionate to the realities that we all face, which is, you know, life gets hard. Sometimes someone in the family gets sick or you lose a job or, you know, some, you know, life throws a weird curve ball to you, and everything seems to get derailed and delayed. And so I honor that if that's where you're at. But at the same time, my job here isn't to be, you know, your buddy at the lunch or your girlfriend at lunch or I'm not here to placate. My job is if we're going to accelerate success, then, you know, I got to push you. And so let's get at them. And once you sort of identify a place in your life where you feel stuck, all those things are going to be helped with this strategy. Often when people say, brendan, I'm stuck, what they're really saying is, brendon, I'm just tired. So their first strategy is to rest. Believe it or not, my first strategy.

Is not to wake up and let's go.

That's not where we need to begin with. Most people. Most people feel stuck in their life because they're really just fatigued. And when you're wiped out, when you're tired, when you're lacking sleep and vitality, you and I both know how that tends to go, right? You know, you just, you get up in the morning, you can barely survive. You got to get a bunch of caffeine in you. You kind of just bumble through the day and you do the things that, you know, maybe you're supposed to do but not things you want to do because those things that you really want to do take extra oomph, extra energy. So if you're someone who's just like, I'm stuck, let's just pause for a moment and think, am I tired? Is that what I'm really feeling? Because we do know that most people don't get enough sleep. You know, you need to be getting 8 hours consistent sleep to be able to just function at every level that we know demands high performance. You know, if you don't sleep well or you don't rest well, then we know your cognitive performance goes way down. We know your task ability goes way down. Your ability to multitask goes way down. Your ability to feel good, to deal with stress, to be resilient and have willpower all go significantly down. Now imagine all those things compromised. When all those things are compromised, willpower, resilience drive. When those things are compromised and now over on top of it, you're not as smart too. No wonder you're not getting ahead. You're not stuck because you don't have the knowledge, the skill, the ability, the talent, the humanity.

You're stuck because you're tired.

So pull over and go to bed.

For a couple hours.

That's what you got to do. You just got to go, okay, I'm stuck. Let me get like first and foremost, fix my health. Let me get better sleep, let me get some hydration, let me get some nutrition in my body. Let me activate my body so that I can help it recover. Do the things that we talk about so much. If you see my high performance academy or high performance work or you read the Charge, just get back in the game of taking care of your physical vitality. Everything comes from your physiology. Your psychology will always be warped if you're physically compromised, especially when it comes to rest. Your well being demands. It just demands that you take care of yourself and you sleep better. And when your well being is compromised.

So is your willpower.

And I know you know that. So if you're stuck, please just get on a routine. I don't even want you to set goals yet. You know, people often go too fast when they're really fatigued and then they just get more frustrated, they get angry with people and I'm just like, oh man, you need to lay down, take a nap, get some rest. And when I say this, I mean it very in a disciplined way. For the next two weeks, just start focusing on trying to get up to that longer eight hour period of sleep. You'll feel like a completely different human being.

All right, my friend, I hope that you enjoyed that best of episode. Was that inspiring?

Were you fired up? Did you love it?

If you did, make sure you do me a favor, go out on social media somewhere and share that episode. Just go out, post it somewhere, post yourself listening to it, make sure you hashtag the Brendon show because when you do that, I can look you up and we can find you on Instagram and post that on the social media. And sometimes we do all expense paid.

Trips to people we find.

We just randomly select people, we send them gifts, autograph books, swag T shirts, all expense paid trips to some of my seminars. So make sure you let us know, share what you thought about this episode out there on the social media worlds and then we can find you and celebrate you. And also I would love to invite you to join us in our high performance monthly program. So just go to brendan.com monthly. That's brendon.com monthly. That's where we do deeper dive trainings.

Like you just heard.

But we do that every single month. And there's some live Q and a. There's. And I do some giveaways and we give students in that monthly program tickets to my seminars and some extra special training on leadership. So make sure you check it out@brendon.com monthly.

I appreciate you being part of this.

Community of so many people dedicated to finding that deeper drive of motivation and practicing high performance habits so that they.

Can become extraordinary in their careers.

In your personal life, in your health.

You can live an extraordinary quality of life.

And sometimes you just need a little bit more training and a little bit more nudge, a little bit more energy, a little bit more drive and consistency. And I'm hoping that being part of this community with the brendon show, I'm providing that to you in some way. So thank you, my friend, for listening. I look forward to seeing you or listening with you on the next episode of the b r e n d o n show. Um.