Find What Feels Good for You

Hello my friends. I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week, sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day, you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance, an inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your friends because we all have to share more positive messages in the world today. So share this with three friends just like you who are committed to their personal growth. And also be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram. Rendon Burchard, Join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening. Now let's begin. You have to find what feels good for you. You have to figure it out. My friend Adrian, who teaches yoga with Adrian, someone I just love, one of the great original big online yoga teachers. Just an amazing, amazing person. I think her whole brand was find what feels good. I love that and it's very common saying in the health circles but I feel like a lot of people don't run in health circles. And so what feels good for you? What feels good for you? Like genuinely feels good mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. You need to journal about that. What feels good to me in my health practices. So I'll give you some of mine because I want to make these tactical as well. For me, what feels good for me personally and it's not the same for everyone. What feels good for me as an example, a calm Slow morning. I'm pretty dumb in the morning. I'm slow to rouse in the morning. I like to, you know, kind of shuffle around the house, you know, get a tea or coffee. Yeah, I know. You're like, do you drink coffee now? I'm like, I do usually half caf, maybe mostly decaf. But once in a while I went on a trip to France and they had that espresso and I just, oh my gosh, it ruined me. I think I went 36, 37 years of my life without any coffee. Anyway, now it's the flavor and it'll sit down with my book, a little piece of paper or my journal and just like a slow morning, a slow morning is great for my mental health. That's for me, right? My wife is the opposite. She's incredible. By like 10am she has done more than most humans in a decade. I don't know how she does it. Shout out to niece, like, like one of the most amazing. Like she wakes up and a list of things download into her brain and she just starts going at them. It's unbelievable. Talk about a morning person. Me, my mom, the opposite. My dad, boy, he was ready to get up and go to work because he was in the military all his life. Biologically, we all have different rhythms, don't we? Right? Some of those are conditioned and we create some of that's how we are. I think I conditioned my slow morning because I like it. What feels good to me is a slow morning. How simple is that? How controllable is that? Even if there's chaos and there's a lot going on, I can find my moments, which we'll talk about. I can find my moments to recalibrate and reset. Even if it's hectic and crazy because there's people around the house or something's going on still, I gotta make sure that that morning finds those moments of calm and peace and intention for myself. Otherwise it can really frazzle out a lot of the day. So that feels good to me. Also. What feels good for me is sleep. We can't have a conversation without this. If you have never done hard work to figure out exactly how you can have your best night of sleep on a recurring basis, there's almost nothing more we would need to talk about than you doing that alone. Sleeping seven to eight hours a night for all humans all around the world is vital. People always say, no, no, no, Brendon, you don't understand. I can do six hours a night. I'm like, yes, you can. And you have no idea how much more effective and happy you would be with more. But I can get away with this or you don't understand this or this thing's going on or I just had the kids, I'm like, no, trust me, I understand. I've been doing this and teaching 20 years. I've had all the conversations. There's no surprise you're going to throw at me about sleep. What happens though is people use the excuses versus mix the plans. I need you to make the plans. I need you to make the plans. Very key need to make the plans. So what is your plan for having great sleep? And sometimes it sucks. I get it. It's like you feel like you just can't even get a break. You know, there's life, there's intensity, there's things, there's people, there's family, there's all that. You know, I get it. And you gotta figure that piece out for you. I love sleep. It feels good to me. So I try to protect it. What else? Find what feels good. You know what feels good for me? Planning. Planning. If you looked at my growth day, my plan, it's full, it's filled out with plans and deadlines and reminders. If you look at next to my computer, there's all these checklists written down. Like I. And by the way, I don't naturally do that. I actually don't like planning. I love the mental and emotional effect of planning. Anyone follow that one? Yeah, you guys see, right? That's the difference maker for me. I don't like the act of sitting down and doing it. It's not like I find tons of joy in organizing my life. I just don't. I love the mental clarity, the peace, the progress that comes from making plans. Write down your goals, write down your deadlines, identify your projects. Know who you need to reach out to. Know who you're waiting on. Know what your priorities are of the day. If you need any advice on this in growth day, remember you can go to the learn section. You can smash the watch past events and you can watch an entire month of training on productivity. 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Strip away someone's clarity, their intention, their connection with what they need to do today, and misery sets in over time. We just know it. With no connection to our intention and our future, we feel less motivated and good today. That's why the plan is so important for me. What else feels good to me? Less carbs. You know, I love to eat them. I don't like the feeling afterwards. I love to eat them. The feeling afterwards does not align with my energetic vision. Right? So I would be a person who my natural tendency would like, give me all the potato chips, give me all the pizza, give me all the bad food 24 7. But the effect of it doesn't align with my energetic vision. And I know when I do those things and I feel terrible the next day, it's so out of alignment for what I want energetically in my life. My self respect goes down, I get down and I'm less productive, happy. Does that make sense? Very key to understand. Very key to understand. That's for me. Again, I'm sharing you my things. Another thing I know feels good for me because people always ask. I'm like massive amounts of water and electrolytes every day. Like, I really believe most people are so dehydrated. They have no idea that most headaches, as an example, are tied to dehydration. Most people have no idea that their physical stiffness and inflammation happens because they're not having enough water go through their body. A lot of people are so dehydrated and they're shocked when you just like drink some more water and like really? And they start doing that. Like, this changed my life. Oh my God. And now they have that fancy little bottles all around the house and they carry them along with them. You know, I think it's important that most people realize how critical hydration is to their lives. So I have to learn that. I also know that what feels good to me is a body that's not inflamed by terrible diet or things that I drink or consume. That increases inflammation. As inflammation goes up, fatigue goes up. As inflammation goes up, weight goes up. As inflammation goes up, life expectancy goes down. Like you want to find one or two main culprits of dis ease in our health physically. Inflammation. A high inflammation diet kills you sooner. So we have to figure out like, okay, we have to study, like, what are the things that inflame my body? That's partially knowing what you might be allergic to, right? Your food allergies as an example. But also just the basics of understanding certain things you eat or consume tends to elevate your level of inflammation. And if you don't know what those are, see a dietitian, a nutritionist, go read some books, watch some videos on YouTube about anti inflammation diets and you'll see it completely changes your life. Did for me. Another thing that works for me is supplementation. I take supplements every day that help me with focus and energy. And I do that. As many of you know, for my condition, I had a brain injury and with a traumatic brain injury took a long time to heal from it. And I use supplementation to increase oxygenation, blood flow and help me maintain the focus, maintain my energy mentally. And so that was important to me. You have to find out what's important to you. I had medical expertise supporting me in finding that. I didn't want to take a bunch of, you know, prescriptions. I just wanted to find out natural supplementations that could help me. And I did that. So I have a lot of adaptogenic herbs as an example to help me stay a little more focused and deal with stress that supports me. You have to find out what supports you. I always tell people, like, if you haven't optimized your supplementation yet, you haven't even started the health journey. Say that again. If you haven't figured out how to optimize your supplementation, you haven't even started your health journey because you wouldn't know what to supplement with unless you explored your own diet, your nutrition, and your energetic goals. Okay, my friend, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Brendon Show. Tell some people about this episode. It's on each of us to spread positivity and empowerment and during these times of chaos and negativity. Right? So I'm asking you to be the dealer of hope and personal growth and education in your tribe. So take a screenshot right now and share the screenshot and this link to this episode with three of your friends today. Post it on social media. Use the hashtag growthday. That's growthday, because that's the name of my company and we're always giving away prizes to our community. If you'd like to help me personally, then please rate and review the podcasts on Apple Podcasts. Give us some stars. Cheer us on. Leave a review. Because believe it or not, that stuff actually really does help. And I read all of them. So my last thought for today, Please remember you are stronger than you think and the future holds good things for you. Tomorrow can be an inspired day. Every new morning is a second chance. Every day is a great day to grow. We're thankful to have you here in the Growth Day community, so be sure to go deeper with us@growthday.com Sam.