2 Wellness Habits That Will Improve Your Life

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. 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. Brendon Burchard, Join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening. Now let's begin. Health requires two things. Okay, Health requires two things. Number one, routines and number two recalibrations. Okay, let's talk about that. Health requires two things, routines and recalibrations. So routine, or we could call it a habit or what I like to call in our high performance research, we talk about the phrase of a deliberate practice or a deliberate habit. I personally deeply believe that people who want to be healthy, who think their habits are going to carry them over the line, don't know how life actually works, right? We've all fallen in love with these simple, gimmicky habits that we're supposed to do and the way of thinking about habits. That's not how it works when you grow. Growth requires deliberate habits, not automated habits that just happen. They're so easy and all of a sudden no deliberate habits. Okay? I'm going to do this today. I'm going to implement this thing. I'm going to choose to do that as a routine, as a practice, as a deliberate habit that I have to like conscientiously decide to go to. Even. It's hard routines. You know, those might be eating well, working out well, sleeping well, finding out what works for you, which we'll talk about in a moment. But here's the deal. If you don't know your routines, if you don't have patterns, practices, or plans for your health, how are you supposed to ever feel your best or even feel better? You got to have a plan in place. One of my favorite things to do is when I work with a client and some of you know, when I work with like one on one with a client, it's a big deal. I rarely do that anymore. You're talking about like seven figure levels of work, very rare that I'll do that with. But one of my favorite things to do with an actual paying client is ask them to take a picture for me of their list of health habits. And you know what they usually say? Oh, gosh, Brendan, I don't have one. I go nowhere. Written down in your house is a list of your health habits or your health goals. It's not written down? Well, no. Did you ever journal about it? Well, yeah, I guess one time, you know, on New Year's, four years ago. They don't even. It's not even written. There's no plan. They'll tell you, I'll ask what you're helping. Well, you know, I like this routine, or, you know, I like kale. They'll tell you something, you know, I had to drop a kale joke up in here. They'll be like, they'll have an idea, they'll have a list of things that they'll pontificate on that works for them once in a while. It's nowhere written down. You know, I love my friends when for the first time they go to run a marathon. And often they'll get a coach or they'll start reading books on it, or, you know, they'll look something up on the Internet and realize, oh, to run a marathon, there's a plan. And listen, if you just go in and try to run a marathon yourself, I guess a small percentage of the planet could figure it out and actually pull it off. The rest of us humans, we follow a plan. That plan is starting small, getting a little bit better, focusing on these things, running a little bit longer, and A little bit longer and a little bit better, and all of a sudden you ran a marathon. It's an incremental approach. But guess what? There's a plan. No plan, no gains, no plan, no change, no goals, no growth. And so if you want health to be something important in your life, where's the list? Where's the plan even? It's simple. We need the routine. We need the plan, we need the goals. Write it down. Do it today. Put it in your journal in growth day. Go make a plan in growth day. I'm going to start doing these things. Put it in there. Set reminders in growth day. Literally, you can pop up. You can write your reminders in growth day. Drink water, have it pop up a couple times a day as a notification. You know, eat healthy tonight. Have it pop up as a reminder. You can set up reminders in growth Day if you didn't know which are a hugely popular thing for people's health. We need a plan. We need a routine. We need those goals. Hey, it's Brandon jumping back in here again. Are you looking to go to the next level in your life right now? The next level of joy, abundance, success? Then you already know that you need to journal about your lessons learned in your life. You got to track your moods and your habits. You have to learn from the best personal development coaches and teachers in the world. And you got to stay inspired and accountable so that you can be more focused, disciplined, joyous, and keep growing. That's what the Growth Day app is going to help you to do, my friend. It's the world's first all in one personal development app. It has all of the tools you need, all the coaching and the community that you need to level up to progress every week, to track your breakthroughs and to keep growing in every area of your life consistently over the long term. So go start your transformation right now@growthday.com or just download the Growth day app on your phone right now. Every day. You can keep improving every day. We are here for you. And every day is truly a great day to grow together. So let's make self improvement a way of life. Let's make that self improvement stick. Go to growthday.com right now. Also, I said it requires routines and it requires recalibration because guess what? You're going to fall off the wagon. You're going to have a suck day. You're going to be unmotivated. You're going to eat that pizza. You're going to do something that you know you shouldn't do because your current mood or the choice of passion or joy or spontaneity or the thing that you like is there. And the most important thing in health isn't just knowing what to do or having that plan. It's recalibrating when you fall off. You know, in the mental health space and the personal coaching space, we both use the same term for this. It's called resilience. It's okay, challenge, problem. Something didn't go the way I'd planned. Can I find my strength again, find my focus again and keep progressing? Today we're just going to call that health. Recalibrations. Recalibrations. Okay, so what, you didn't work out yesterday and you planned to do it today. Okay, you ate the terrible food. Make the better choice for the next four meals. It's what people do is instead they made a bad choice, they did something bad. Self hatred increased. And so they stop. They stopped trying. You know you're down on yourself when you stop trying. You know you're down on yourself when you don't recalibrate after a fail. You know you're down on yourself when something doesn't go right. You fail, you feel bad about yourself and you stop. The idea that we talk about here in growth day all the time, it's just making self improvement a way of life. Tomorrow. Improve, get better, try again. Okay, you had a huge outburst. Guess what? I have a huge outburst. Do I keep outbursting for hours and hours and hours? No huge outbursts. Whoa, that was off. Let me go recalibrate over here. Let me go on a walk, let me bounce in place, take 10 deep breaths, let me lay on the floor, do a release meditation, Let me stand back up, write out my intentions and go. I don't get down on myself or angry about myself. What I do is go, well, that's not what I wanted. That wasn't my intention. That wasn't good. Okay, recalibrate. So I reset my body, I reset my mind, I reset my intentions, and I go, you got it? That's recalibrating. You don't stop and beat yourself up. You go, okay, let me recalibrate. Reset, right? That is so important. The reset, or what I'm calling a recalibration, is everything. And here's what happens. The longer between incident and recalibration, the worse your health, right? People say, well, I missed three weeks of working out. Screw it, guess it doesn't matter. No recalibration. So now those three weeks, turn it into six. Turn into Nine turn into years. But if instead of getting down to yourself or stopping, you said, okay, I missed it for three weeks in a row. Let me reset. What do I really want here? How can I do better? Let me try again. It's just keep going. I know that's so simplistic but we have to keep progressing. If we stop, not only do we stop the forward momentum, we decrease our self esteem, our self respect goes down because we know we should be doing something for ourselves but we don't. And so this is really important to understand and hear. Recalibrate, recalibrate and make it fast. Like resiliency doesn't take five years. You know what, Recalibrations can happen in moments. You maybe had a bad morning, but you're here, you're working on yourself. You're here on growth day saying, you know what, I just. Sometimes the instruction, the positivity, the perspective even or just the reminders, it's helpful. Every time I listen to a growth day teacher, I feel better. Not because everything changed in an instant because it just, it resets me to right. Okay. Good mindset, good habits. I can do that. Here I go. So it's just a recalibration. It's a recalibration. I can't tell you how many bad days I have or bad hours. I should say emotionally that I have that I choose by the end of the day to recalibrate. Okay, I had a terrible morning. Let me go for a walk. Let me get a bunch of water. Let me get some food in my stomach so I'm not hangry. Let me come back, do a 10 minute release meditation. Some seven or eight vinyasa flows on the floor. Get back up, look at my goals on the wall, write out my intentions, make my action plan and get two things done. End of day I feel better. You follow? I'm not perfect and neither are you. But we are perfecting ourselves. We are in motion of progress when we recalibrate more quickly. So have it in mind. Okay. Bad morning, recalibrate. Bad hour, recalibrate. Bad conflict, recalibrate. Miss the workout. Recalibrate. Ate the bad thing. Recalibrate. I hope that serves you 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 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.