My 2021 Intentions

Foreign hey, my friends, it's Brendon Burchard and welcome to the Brendon Show. Hey, my friends, it's Brendan Burchard, founder of Growth Day. Now I know a lot of people set New Year's goals, but I also like to set New Year's intentions and I think about those very differently. If, by the way, you are coming here and you are excited about New Year's, what are you most excited about in 2021? What are some of your New Year's goals or intentions? I'd love to see some of that from you guys as I start this new journey in 2021 building this new brand called Growth Day, which is for me going to be, you know, the biggest effort of the year. So I'll tell you more about that later. Let's talk about the difference between intentions and goals. To me, goals are tangible, finite things you're trying to achieve. You set a goal to do something by this date and it's something you can. It's measurable, it's observable, you can achieve it. There it is, it's finite, it's a thing, it's an object, it's something you're going to make happen or you're going to do, right? It's very observable. And to me that's very powerful. And you have to have a whole list of goals for the year. And I already have goals in lots of different parts of your life. Your health, your mindset, the way that you treat other people, the things you're going to create, give, launch, grow into awesome. For me, intentions, though are a little different. Intentions to me are almost your self directives. Intentions are the things that say, I want to live life like this, I want to be like this. I have the higher level aims to treat people this way, to achieve these things, to give this type of energy into the world or this type of energy to others. And it's not that they're completely or always separate than goals, but that's how I think of them. So I'll give you six of my 2021 New Year intentions and I hope that walking you through these, you can kind of see the difference. So my first intention this year, be more calm amid the chaos. You know, don't get so dragged into other people's dramas this year. Don't get so pulled into false emergencies and fake deadlines. Don't get wrapped into gossip or all the vitriol of politics. Don't lose your center amid all of the noise as the world becomes uncertain. 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. 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 the 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 gonna 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, and I'm going to 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 ourselves, and that judgment makes us feel terrible. Likewise, if you're scrolling all day, oh, 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 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, you know, 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 task 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. Hey, it's brendon and I want to jump in the middle of this episode here real quick and tell you about something I'm really excited about and something that answers a question that many of you have for me all the time, which is, brendon, where do you get this crazy focus and energy in your life? And the truth is I've developed a supplement line that really helps me do that. And frankly, I needed to. I don't know about you, but sometimes when you're trying to achieve big things, a lot of stress comes along. And as you're trying to achieve bigger things, you need to be on your a game more often. You need to be mentally sharp. You need to be mentally prepared. You need to be mentally energized and productive. And not once in a while, but like every day, you have to be on and sometimes guzzling more coffee isn't going to do it. 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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 the pandemic, 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 look 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 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, I 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 podcasts, way more here, 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. And 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 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 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. I. 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, our eight 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 just at home most of the pandemic, in quarantine, or being 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 gotta work at that. It's a big intention for me this year. My last big intention this year is to make health and rest equal in weight of priority to my mission. And I've never worked harder in 2020 in pivoting our companies and our teams and our brands, helping them, supporting them, taking 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 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? And also, if you would love to join us in growth day, just go to growthday.com right now our big offer is up, which is you can get coaching from me and the world's best personal growth teachers, mentors and coaches all year long for less than a buck. For less than $1, go to growthday.com and then what you're going to experience is starting in February, all year, every single week, you get either me at the beginning of the month or our other coaches each week of the month coaching you live. Now, I've been telling my friends it's kind of like if masterclass only focused on personal development and wellness and productivity. But importantly, the coaches, the teachers went live and they wanted to build community and tools to really support that education and that growth. Well, that's growth day. My thesis is that, listen, every single day is a great day to grow. 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, 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 I. 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 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.