My 2021 Intentions

All the vitriol of politics. Don't lose your center amid all of the noise, as the world becomes uncertain or as more people, you know, are in this tribe or that tribe or this political spectrum or that political spectrum, or the news has headlines or there's so much happening in social media, I don't want to be pulled into that. I want to stay centered, calm, focused, peacefully moving with real force and intention towards the dream that I want to build, towards the life I want to have, towards a service I want to render to others, to me. That fundamental intention that you cannot shake me off of my center, that fundamental intention that the day the focus is mine, that fundamental intention that I'm going to grab life's agenda and I'm going to do my best to reclaim that agenda from all the distractions, the noise, the social media out there. And I'm just gonna be calm and cool. I'm gonna be centered. I'm gonna show up and I'm gonna keep doing my thing amid all of that chaos. I'm gonna keep moving it forward. I'm gonna keep living the life that I really desire to live, having the energy, the positive mindset, the joy that I want to experience and have each day, regardless of how loud it gets. I want to find my calm center and operate from that type of presence. My second intention, judge less, feel better. If you were with me in 2020, you heard me talk about this all last year, this idea that, you know what, you will feel so much better in life if you don't judge yourself harshly and judge others harshly or unfairly, right? So often we get so mad at ourselves, we judge ourselves, we're mean to ourselves, we speak awful words to our. And that judgment makes us feel terrible. Likewise, if you're scrolling all day, look at her. Oh, look at him. And you're judging everybody all day long. Every time you spend a judgment, you spend energy, every time you judge somebody as less than or more than, if you judge yourself more, superior them less, or vice versa. And it's always like, well, they're like this, they're like that. The more you point, the more you blame, the more you judge, the less you feel good about life. Have you ever noticed that when other people are judging you and it's unfair or it's harsh, you feel terrible. And yet how often do you do that? Even as you scroll through your phone or as. Even as you see somebody else who's different than you? And I'm just here to say judge less, feel better. And I'm here to say it for me, too. It's very easy to judge the other side. It's very easy to judge people in my own industry. It's very easy to judge a mistake by a team member and just make all these assumptions and get all upset about it. It's like, you know what? Instead of judging if I get curious, instead of judging if I explore or on my finest days, if I can rise that higher level of awareness and consciousness that doesn't need to judge, that can observe and allow and have that sense of grace to let other people live their lives. I don't need to demand they are like me or that they have to do the things I say. Let them run their own race, let them have their own dream, let them have their own approach. And if I don't like what they're doing, you know what? Let life be their educator, not me. I don't have to force them into doing or being the way I believe they must. And the more that I can approach that level of consciousness, awareness or grace I can share with you, the more I feel at peace. The third big intention for me this year is to form a more invincible resolve to win the day. You know, just to get those inches, to get that momentum to win each and every day. So if I do get knocked off course for an hour or two in distraction or drama or I don't feel good, boom, I'm back and I still win the day. To make sure each day I know what are my three pressing priorities today? What are the five major tasks I have to get done? Who are the people I need to reach out to first before I react and reply to everybody else? Just being on my A game means I have the intention at the beginning of the day. I'm going to win this day. Even if the day goes sideways, even if it's difficult, I'm going to surmount a comeback during the day. I'm still going to move one thing forward, even just one inch. There will be progress this day because you and I both know how easy it is to lose half a day to discouragement or days to being down or discouraged. And sometimes having the intention that no, no matter what, I will move this rock forward. Even if this rock is so much more than I am right now. I'm always going to win that day. And how do I win that day? I begin the day with very clear intentions. I begin with my morning routine where I get up, I read something positive for 20 minutes. I work out or move or stretch for 20 minutes. I plan my day for 20 minutes, I meditate, I recite my powerful affirmations, and I'm into the day with great energy. I haven't checked my phone. I haven't been pulled into other people's dramas. I set my morning so that I put myself in the best possible place to win energetically, to win with my focus and my tasks for the day. To win, knowing what a good day would be like for me, forge an invincible resolve to win the day. Get that inch, get that momentum. I know in 2020, y' all didn't see a lot of videos like this with me just talking at you in the. I didn't do a lot of sort of solo podcasts that were original. 2020 was a lot of pivoting, a lot of adapting, and a lot of secretly building this new brand called Growth Day. And yet, because of all of here in the United States, the political vitriol, because of how much was going on in social change, because of my deep desire to care for my team, my family, my friends, I was moving. There was just so much going on all at the same time. For me, it was really important to focus on those aspects, but also because of all that's going on, I was constantly checking, how is this person, what's going on with the media, what's going on with social change, what's going on with my friends? And I was checking in way too much for my liking. One of the greatest things I ever learned was that social media and your inbox, it's nothing but other people's agendas. When you're checking in social media or you're looking at your inbox, it's just organizing systems for other people's agendas. This is their life. They want you to see this. This is their email. They want you to do that. And if I don't protect my time, where I only check in on those things at certain times throughout the day, meaning I block what I call my reactive time. I block the reactive time. It's like this hour. That's when I do email or right before dinner, that's when I'll check my texts or my social media from my friends. If I don't block that, if I. I just get up. Like 80% of smartphone users get up, and the first thing they do is they grab their phone, they check in the news, they check in everything else. And now they've lost their agenda of energy and they've been pulled in through this warp device into other people's energies and agendas. And so for me, Less consumption means less on the phone and more creation. Creating more videos for you. I'm starting a morning show for our Growth Day community that will be on my Instagram. So if you want to check out my Instagram, Brendon Burchard. I'll be doing a morning show throughout this year called Growth Day Morning Show. I will be doing way more in my Facebook groups, way more in my podcast, way more here direct to camera with you guys. Just talking with you like this on YouTube or on the Brendon show podcast. Just more conversational this year now that I feel like we've kind of figured our rhythm. And a lot of that is just that artistic desire to create more. But it's also a recognition of too often it's easy to consume. I mean, today the average American might be watching four or five hours of television and then another hour or two on social media. That means they're losing between four and six or seven hours a day to consumption. And not that that can't be entertaining, not that that can't be sometimes informative, but you and I both know people watch junk and consume junk and that enters their mind as junk. And suddenly life feels like it, you know, so we have to be careful about what we're consuming. I want to be conscious about this year. That's my intention. Another intention of mine is just to bring joy to others with my full presence and love to, you know, be even more attuned to my presence and awareness and be attentive to the energy and be responsible for the energy that I'm putting out into the world. Because, you know, I've been the bring the joy guy for, I don't know, 15 years. At the same time, it was different. I used to get, you know, I used to see you all out on the road in the airports. We did eight live events per year. Then I would do speaking tours, speaking to 20, 30,000 people in arenas and conference centers all over the country. And that was my life, you know, R8 events with thousands of thousands of people throughout the year or, you know, going to these mega arena events and being the big keynote. I got used to being out there and it was really, really fun. And it made me attentive to my energy because I had to be with people all the time, being, you know, in a smaller group with really just my wife and once in a while hang out with some friends. I don't see as many people anymore. So it's easy to just be internal and forget my energetic effect. And I have a purpose of bringing joy to people. And you can't bring joy if you can't get present. And so I've learned I got to work at that. It's a big intention for me this year and then my last big intention this year is to make health and rest equal in weight of priority to my mission. I've never worked harder in 2020 in pivoting our companies and our teams and our brands, helping them, supporting them, taking team teams virtual, relaunching a bunch of things we weren't doing live events or books anymore. Building up what you will see as Growth Day. Throughout this year it was so much, it was a lot of activity and many times I would say, ah, you know, I'll compromise on how much I sleep this week or I'll compromise my workout. I'll skip that today. And I wouldn't say I was too bad at that. But. But here's what I do realize to go to another level of leadership and service and contribution, another level of productivity, another level of high performance. As we talk about in my world, then I have to be even more disciplined with health, rest, with those ideas of sleeping well, eating well, meditating, exercise, diet, supplementation, all those things we talk about in high performance. If you read my book, High Performance Habits, those are essentials and I want to even get better at each and every single one of those. So those are my intentions for 2021. What are yours? Would you please do me simple thing, simple favor. Just comment down below. What are your intentions or your goals for 2021? Please smash that subscribe button. 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And if you really want more happiness, more focus, more abundance, more progress, more confidence, more joy in life, then you got to have more days that are growth days, right? Growth days. Those days where you feel like I crushed it. Today, a growth day is a day where you feel like you were in flow, you were having fun, you were living intentionally. A growth day is where you were activating your passions and you were learning. A growth day is where you lay your head on your pillow at the end of the day and you go, that was a great day. I came so far. I got it done. I achieved the thing. Or at least I learned a lot. Or I felt good or I was congruent with who I was or I treated people with respect and kindness. I was good today. I was my best self today. Those are growth days. If we want to have a better 2021, we need more growth days. So do yourself a favor. Go to growthday.com, join our community for less than a dollar. I'm bringing the world's best personal growth coaches to you every single week, live throughout 2021. Go to growthday.com and remember to post down below. What are your new year intentions for 2021? I'd love to learn and see what's on your mind and I appreciate you as always. I'm entering 2021 more grateful than I've ever been in my life for your energy, your support, and this community. Again, go to growthday.com and I'll see you next week.