Day 6: Wellness During Crisis - Free Wellness Masterclass

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Hey, my friend, it's Brendon Burchard and welcome to the Brendon show. Hey, guys, I really hope that you are enjoying and sharing this free masterclass that I call my wellness masterclass. You all know I've got an online course on this by now. The wellness masterclass is an online course I previously sold for $100. I'm playing select sections of that audio for you here on the Brendon show, but it won't be up forever. So download this episode, download every episodes you see of this season right now where I kicked it off with, you know, two episodes about coronavirus and dealing with the fear and learning how to focus and learning how to forecast your business or your life. And then I've gone into the wellness masterclass here this 10 day, 10 days of the podcast of the Brandon show dedicated to the wellness masterclass for you guys for free. Please download it on your phone because it won't be up forever. I just decided to give it free during this pandemic. So please download on your phone so it's there. Make sure you're subscribed. Then download all these episodes. Also share it while it's here for people for free. Please share it with your family or anyone who's struggling with the unknowns, the fear, the anxiety, the worry, the concern, the but also just trying to get their health habits mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually together so they can face this long ride. So I hope that you will do that. Please share this episode with everyone you know. Also, if you would like the entire online course of the wellness masterclass for free for 14 days, go to hpxwellness.com that's HPX Wellness, hpx wellness.com and that will give you free access to the whole course with the downloads, the journal prompts, the audios and of course the videos to the entire wellness Masterclass. Free for 14 days. My way of doing something during this crazy time of chaos, to serve my audience, to be a leader, to help you set the tone for you and your family and those you love. You can go, you know, obviously get the course there for 14 days and, you know, binge watch the whole thing with your family instead of watching Netflix or Hulu or Disney, do something that helps you grow as a family and better your wellness and your health. I hope that you will do that again. That's HPX wellness.com and with that, let's jump into this next section of the wellness masterclass.

It's Brendan. And welcome to day six of my wellness. This masterclass in this one, it's a personal one for me. It's the most exciting one for me, and maybe the shortest one, but maybe the most important one. This is a conversation about how do you cultivate joy in your life? Because what is the most extreme and obvious outcome of you managing wellness? Well, well, A, you have physical energy. Sure, we could talk about health and wellness, but B, there's a joy, there's a vibrancy. There's a positive energy and emotion about you that other people are like, what's up with you? Why are you so happy? Why do you have so much fun? You must have some kind of secret because you're always good, right? And that, to me, is the essence of someone knowing how to cultivate real joy and positive emotion in their life. And this is, for me, like I said, personal. Because, you know, when I was a young kid, I fell into clinical depression and I fell into suicidal thoughts. And what had happened for me, as many of you know, is I was in love with my high school sweetheart. We went to college together. We thought we were going to get married. And then she cheated on me and went outside the relationship. And because my whole identity was in that relationship, I fell apart and became so miserable and felt so out of control and out of sorts and out of my life that I started considering taking my life. And then I started planning for it. And as many of you know, then I had a car accident. It was completely unrelated to that, but it did threaten my life.

And it mortified me.

It scared me so much. I said, no, I want to live life. I want to feel good. I felt like a reverence for life. I felt really blessed to still be alive. And so I wanted to learn how to enjoy life. And I know people who literally get in their 50s before they go. I realized that life is about enjoying it. I realized life is about having beautiful experiences. I realized life is about reverence and gratitude and appreciation. And sometimes it takes an accident or sometimes it takes another zero on your age. But I can share with you that if you aren't intentional, about doesn't happen when we talk about joy psychologically, right? In the study of psychology and performance is just kind of my area. What we often talk about is joy. There's kind of two kinds of joy. One, joy is the instantaneous joy that you get because something just happens, right? The kid came in the room, they farted. It was hilarious. You took joy from it, right?

Or maybe you didn't.

But something happens and it cues a positive emotion. It's Just instantaneous. You had nothing to do with it. You know, you were walking down the street, you noticed a flower or you noticed a kind gesture. It brought joy into your heart. It just happened. You didn't have to do anything for it. It just happened. It's a very reactive, instantaneous, very human joy. Oh, my gosh, I love that. And there is a way that you can control for that a little bit, which is first surround yourself with positive people, which I know you know is important, and we're going to take on in another session. But it's like, yeah. The more that you're around positive, outgoing, caring, thoughtful people, the more likely it is that joyous incidents will happen for you. Right? Because they'll set it up, they'll structure it, they're positive, they're funny, good things happen. Their good mojo makes you have good vibes.

Right?

That's the stuff of life that just kind of happens to you sometimes. The people around you, the situations, they bring you joy. If you let that be the only way you get joy in life, life is going to be a very joyless journey. Joy should be something that you also strategically set up in your life, that you have intention and you structure for it so that it happens more, that you're like priming the pump, you're like laying the fields of possibility so that you experience it more. And I think it's so unfortunate people don't do that. They literally go through the day hoping that something happens to make them feel good when they have within them every mechanism known to be able to have it themselves, to generate it themselves. The biggest lesson that I teach in all of my trainings that I ever had in my own life was this distinction of this metaphor that a power plant, that the power plant doesn't have energy, it generates energy. That what happens with the power plant is it takes energy from one form or one level, it transforms it into a higher level of service, stores it, and transmits it out into the world. And I think we're like that human beings that we can choose to take whatever energy is around us and transform it into positive energy if we choose to, and we set up the disciplined habits to make it so well, then how do we create the conditions in our life where our wellness is really punctuated by lots of moments of joy? Here's three big ideas for you that have really, really helped me in a.

Lot of my big clients.

Okay? Number one is you have to, at the beginning of each day, ask, what can I do today that will bring me joy? I Know, that's so basic, but it's got to be there. What can I do today that will bring me joy? I mean, what is it? Is it okay at 2pm I'm going to stop working. I'm going to walk six blocks. I'm going to go to Starbucks and get the caramel macchiato latte, pumpkin spice latte thing, right? Is that moment gonna be a moment of pleasure that you bring into the day? Like, you literally plan for it. Because you know what? Then all morning you're anticipating and you're excited about that chocolate carmiato mati pumpkin thingy, thing, right? It's like when you schedule it and you think about it, that generates anticipation. And when it becomes something that happens, a different kind of pleasure and joy and gratitude comes into your life. It can be that simple. Or maybe you say, you know what? Today what's gonna bring me joy in my life is I'm gonna go to this person and I'm gonna say thank you, or I'm gonna reach out to an old friend, or I'm gonna call that person who I haven't talked to. Or I'm gonna do this task that really has nothing to do with my job. But this particular task, I love doing it. So I'm gonna give my hobby 10 minutes. Today, I want you to know, I mean, literally, I want you to know by 9am every day of your life from now on. What are you gonna do today that's gonna bring some joy? Like, what is it? I want you to know that if you don't know that by 9am every day, it better be, because you're sleeping in till 10, and that's okay. But I want you to know within that first hour of your day, what will I do today to bring joy into my life? I promise it will change your life forever. The second big thing you can do is ask this type of question, who could I surprise today? And I think this is such a powerful question. It's in my high performance planner because it takes you outside of yourself. A lot of joy is actually socially created and cultivated. So I want you to set the conditions for that. I want you, every day of your life, to think of surprising somebody. And it can be a small thing. It can be a small gesture. You leave a box of chocolates on their table. You send them a note that praises them for a project they've been working on. They didn't expect to get that recognition from you. It could be, you know, simple phone call. It can be a prank on somebody. I do a lot of pranks myself personally. Brings me tons of joy. Not the joy from doing the prank, the joy from watching their dumb reaction to the dumb prank. I love that you gotta have something that creates a little bit of playfulness and silliness in your life. And surprise is a great way to access that. In fact, in a lot of psychological studies, joy is a result of the surprise. They get a surprise they didn't anticipate, they like it. That's joy. So you gotta create those conditions, set up some surprises for some people in your life.

Hey all, let me jump into this episode real quick with something I usually don't do, which is kind of like a, I guess they call it a mid roll ad or something. But I decided to do this right now because I'm literally at home working during this coronavirus pandemic. And it's really ignited a lot of questions from my community about how do I do that? You know, how am I thinking through my career, how am I thinking through building my personal brand and my online sales during a time in which, yeah, we're home? Like, how does my industry or my career or my approach to it function? And so what I want to let you know is if you did not know, I do have a program for that. It's called the Influencer Business program. And it's where I'm like teaching you.

This is how I do everything.

I teach you how to grow your personal brand, monetize content, launch campaigns, books, courses, webcast, live webcasts, subscriptions. I mean, it's about basically how do you grow your audience in online sales faster no matter where you are, no matter if you're starting or not. Because clearly you've seen me do it not just with the podcast, but with 300 million video views, 25 multimillion dollar online course launches, three New York Times bestsellers, 5 million fans on Facebook. I mean, you've seen the covers of the magazines and the chart topping stuff and the, you know, if you're on the email list of millions of email subscribers or you've seen the social media posts from other influencers, you know, joining my masterminds and asking me how I do it all, it's like I've been blessed with all of that. And I just feel like maybe this is the time that you learn to build your personal brand, that you finally get yourself up online and making real online sales. Because, you know, I've been doing it for 14 years, every day, full time, and I've spent, you know, literally tens and Tens of millions of dollars on figuring it out, on running ads, on learning which campaigns work, which ones don't, on starting from nothing, pushing every button myself to finally growing it bigger and bigger and bigger. And people always want to know, what's your marketing strategy? What is the modern thought leader business model that can be built and monetized quickly? How do you tell your story or build credibility? And how do you get people to buy from you? Or what should you sell, what should you not sell? Or how do you create great content or online curriculum that sells? Or what are funnels and launches and how do they work and what should I do first, second and third. And if you had to start over, Brendon, what are the four things you should do or what tools and systems use? How do you get promotional partners? How do you do online challenges? How do you create lifelong fans? I mean, I'm just like literally sitting here thinking this is what I do every day. And if you would like to get a seven day crash course on that and then even live monthly marketing training from me, that's what we now call my influencer business program. And you can literally just go to influencer businessprogram.com and it'll take you to the page to learn about that. Now, it's for serious people only. Obviously you hear me during this, you know, this global sort of shutdown and pandemic with coronavirus. Giving away one of my courses with the wellness masterclass, but this one's for serious players. There is a charge to it obviously where I go live every single month. And I also give you some of my best online training so that you can get, you know, your personal brand growing, grow that audience, make more online sales. So if you're into that type of thing, go to influencer businessprogram.com again, that's influencer businessprogram.com altogether. Influencer businessprogram.com and you can learn about the multiple membership levels. I kind of made it affordable. If you want to do a monthly or if you want to take the whole year or you want the advanced pro program, you can learn all about that. Influencer businessprogram.com My main message to this audience and everyone I'm talking to right now is if you have not done the work to get yourself online, if you feel like you're falling behind in the digital era, if you don't have recurring revenue every single day with some type of online sales, if you don't get the hint now, you're never going to get the hint. I mean, you need to do that now. In this growing pandemic, I genuinely believe we are going to see such a disruption in the economy in the coming months. And those who, you know, have figured out pretty things to grow their, you know, Instagram, but never built the business model, never learned recurring revenue, never learned how to do real launches that bring in the real money that allows them to have the living, they're really going to struggle this year.

We're going to see people who have.

You know, no fans, no audience, no email list really struggle. But we're also going to see people who have no online sales really struggle. And we're really going to see people who have even millions of fans but who never figured out the monetization completely fall apart. So please go to influencerbusinessprogram.com if you are in this industry or, you know, it's time to build your personal brand and get those online sales going. Because, listen, the economy is going to be really difficult. But also, more importantly than that, listen, it's time to share your voice, to lead, to be a role model, to share your expertise, your life wisdom, your perspective about things with more people. Because we need more leaders out there sharing positive messages of hope, of strength, of optimism for the future. Because we will make it through this. And it will be the influencers and the voices out there sharing our thoughts, our wisdom and our advice that will help carry and set the tone towards a better Future. Influencer Business Program.com. we'd love to see you in that program. Influencer Business program. Com. With that, let's jump back into the Wellness masterclass number three.

I want you to write two notes of appreciation every day. And when I say a note of appreciation, that note of appreciation can be to other people or it can be to yourself. I don't care. But appreciation is the soil in which joy sprouts faster. When I notice things, when I notice how she did a good job, what I noticed I did what I said I was gonna do. When I notice I crossed that one finish line and I share appreciation and I specifically make it a note, I write it, that's like setting the foundation for greater joy, right? Like I said, appreciation is the soil for joy. And if I can deepen that bedrock of appreciation by every day writing down something that I appreciate about myself or about the world, it's huge. Now, I know in this day and time, everyone loves a gratitude journal. So I hope you have one. I hope you're doing it. That's really great. I think the issue with a lot of Things for gratitude is people take gratitude for granted and maybe they get to it once in a while. I'm asking you to do this every day, every single day. And you write the note of appreciation to yourself. Meaning, like, if I was writing, I'd say, brendan, good job finishing that project, man. I appreciate how hard you worked, how you said no to other things, how you stuck to your word and you committed it. Good job, dude. And I literally write that down like I have a box of cards at home. Of notes of appreciation throughout my life, literally to myself, which if that sounds really egoic and strange, I am rather strange. But it also kind of marks the moments of my life that were big, you know. And I love sending notes of appreciation to my family, my friend, my team, the people around me, randomly. I think it is just a component that changes people's lives. You know, One of the best things I do in my marriage and happens in my marriage is, you know, my.

Wife and I both, we text each.

Other all the time, hey, why don't you know, I appreciate you, I love you. I know you're working out there hard. Hey, I know that it's been challenging lately. I really appreciate this. Or, hey, honey, I love you. Just like those little notes, those happen every day. And I feel like so many people go so many days without feeling appreciated and that's why joy isn't in their life. Even when something good happens, so many days lacked appreciation that the joy couldn't sprout. I think that's really important. Another huge, huge thing of joy you have to do is you have to have a special event planned twice a year. This is strategic, this is something you can do. This is tactical. I want a special event planned twice a year that might mean for you say, okay, we're gonna do a girls trip, you know, down to Mexico in March. And that's planned because the brain loves long term anticipation too. And then when you go there and they've done studies and happiness studies, that anticipating it brings just as much joy and happiness is actually doing it. I love that. So I'd love for you to think about what's something I could do. And twice a year it might be guys trip, girls trip, it might be date night, it might be something as simple as staycation. You and your spouse are going to that one Friday. You're going to, you know, get the house like in order, but then you're going to like hand off the kids to the babysitter. And it's your house, that's your night. You're together. It's so important to have that. Then my other little favorite secret, because joy grows in appreciation every day. Every day I go back through weeks or months, sometimes years on my phone and I swipe through all my memories so all the photos that I've taken. One of the reasons people lack happiness or gratitude or joy in their life is they're always doing and not reflecting. It's always about the next thing. And they forgot where they came from. They're like they're unwell inside because they feel unfulfilled because they're always chasing the next mountain. And they forgot all these beautiful moments that they've captured in the last six months. Six years. Decade. And so I want you to make it a practice every single day to do what I call a memory check. And a memory check is maybe that's your photo album. You flip back through that wedding album or the kids albums or those times when you were growing up. I want you to, every single day, as a practice, scroll back through life for a moment and give a moment of appreciation. Because how many pictures do you have that make you laugh? I bet you have in your phone hundreds of them. You go back, oh, my God, look at my kid. He's kissing the camel. Why is he kissing the camel? And you'll start laughing, right? Or you go back and you see that picture of that time you spilled something on yourself and they took the picture. You go back and you see that funny face you made with your friend in the picture. There's joy in your phone, but you haven't seen it in weeks or months or years. But it's there, it's available, and it gives you appreciation and joy. It's literally there in that device. Like I said earlier, that device can be a weapon of mass distraction, or you can use it to shape the person you want to be by those alarm reminders. And you can shape it, use it to shape the emotions you want to feel. I have in my phone. I have two folders in my phone. I've got a funnies folder, like Funny Pictures, right? Funny Pictures and then a Beautiful Moments album. And so depending on how I'm vibing or feeling that day, I go through those folders. And this is every day I go through one of those folders. It's like if I'm like feeling in my heart and I'm just grateful for life, often go to beautiful moments and I'll scroll through and it triggers those positive, joyful moments. You need to trigger those positive, joyful moments more often. Often when people are fighting in a marriage, what a marriage counselor will do is say, you know what? Tell me about the time that you fell in love with her. Why did you guys fall in love? And the marriage counselor will make them relive positive, beautiful moments in their relationship. And that literally in the moment can rekindle magic in the moment that can, like, break off some of that conflict in that moment. It can break off that calcification of fighting all the time. And they can remember, oh, yeah, there is beauty between us. You need that. You need that every day. You can't count on the randomness of life to give you joy. You can't count on the randomness of.

The world to deliver it up as.

Much as you deserve to feel it. So try some of these practices every day. Within the first hour, you determine what will bring me joy today. What can I do that will bring me joy every day? Send notes of appreciation every day. Think of, like, what you can do long term. And be planning a special event, a little something every day about a special event you can make happen. And every day, take a little tour through memory lane to remember and rekindle those beautiful moments that will set the the soil for greater joy in your life. And I promise, my friend, it'd be one of the most powerful things you can ever do, because that's so many more tactical things than just saying, what am I grateful for? What am I grateful for? Because if you ever had a gratitude journal, you got tired of it. Isn't it true you need more advanced things? These might sound like common sense, but they're not common practice. And if you'll just put them in your life, I'm telling you, there's so much greater emotion for you to feel, but you won't feel it by accident. So, my friend, as I said throughout this entire course, get intentional, do these things as is discipline, and it will change your life. So I hope you enjoyed this session. Can you do me a huge favor for this community? In this section here, would you please go into our community and actually write down what you're going to do to experience more joy. Because you heard it from my standpoint, but I know you've probably got practices in your own life, your emotional life, your spiritual life that you do maybe with your spouse or your partner or with the kids. Like, if you got kids, how do you create positive emotion with those kids? Like, what do you do to keep everyone happy and joyful? If you've got a spouse, an amazing marriage, share your secrets to happiness and joy.

There.

If you've got a job that just brings you to life, how do you keep that going? I think you're going to learn a lot from this community about how to cultivate joy, well beyond what we did in this session. It's why I said it's one of our shorter sessions. I want to give you those tactics, but I also want you to spend the time right here today, now to really engage the community and go and add, how do you cultivate joy? Like, what brings you the greatest joy? What are your practices and habits for that? And I think if you all do that, like literally right now, when I finish this video, just hop in the community and go, this brings me joy. This is how I create joy. It will be such a burst of joy in the world for we'll have this big energetic shift, just us. We can create that as a community right now. That shifts in the energy of the universe by everybody right now tapping into joy and sharing some in the community. I know you'll love it. So pause me right now and go do that. Okay?

My friends, I hope you enjoyed this special section of the Wellness Masterclass. I'm hoping that you'll just share this with your friends, your family, your loved ones, people you really care about right now in this time of crisis. Again, if you'd like to actually access the entire course, my entire Wellness Masterclass course, I'm giving it away free to our global community right now. To anyone who goes to HPX wellness.com that's HPX wellness.com and you can access the entire Wellness Masterclass.

All the videos, all the tools, all.

The resources, the entire course that we charged 100 or 200 for in the past for free as part of our seven day free trial into our courses program. You know, it's a program where every single month I release two new personal and professional development courses for that community every single month. It's the most comprehensive courses program in personal development. A lot of people call it the Netflix of personal development and I would love for you to check it out. And we're doing that by giving you away the Wellness Masterclass right now for our global community for free@hpxwellness.com Hope you enjoyed this episode. We'll give another section tomorrow. In the meantime, share this with everybody you love. Take care of yourself. Choose to protect your health. Care deeply about your mind, body, your spirit right now. During these times, maintain your emotional center. Remember, you get to choose your focus and your thoughts right now. You get to set the emotional tone for your Family for your friends, for your team, for your community. Right now, how you show up really matters. So care for your health. Be a person who is positive out there.

Take care of others.

You can choose high performance today. You can choose to go beyond ordinary and you can still be extraordinary even in times of crisis. So do that. My friends. Thanks for listening to the Brandon Show. Please share this episode around the world for me. I'll talk to you. Hey, my friend, I'm jumping in here with one last message to you that we've bolted on here to this wellness masterclass because it just, it's just timing. You know, everybody is asking me how I run my career, how do I generate online sales? How do I build a real business? I mean, how am I getting my personal brand out there? How am I thinking through this industry during this time right now? And so if you're somebody who's wanted to share your voice and you've known you needed to monetize your content online, you've known you need to grow your following, you know that for security through this modern economy and what we're going to face this year, you need to generate recurring revenue. You need to get some online digital content out there. And you don't want to get left behind in what is obviously becoming a greater and greater digital economy. You need to be out there. And if I can serve you with that, here's how I do it. Go to influencer businessprogram.com influencer businessprogram.com and that will take you to my membership levels in the Influencer Business program where I help you understand, how do you grow your personal brand? How do you create and monetize content? What should you do doing with livecasts or launches or subscriptions right now? How do you grow your audience and online sales faster? We have three different member levels and I'm here to tell you, as you are certainly listening to my voice right at this moment, why can't that be your voice? Why can't you be the person sharing positivity, hope, guidance, strength, optimism out in the world right now so that we can help people face the chaos with a little bit more confidence, with a little bit more authenticity and vulnerability, but also personal power? Why can't you take anything you've learned in your whole life about career or business or wellness or health or just.

Living a good life, being a good.

Parent, you know, chasing your dreams? Why can't you take that advice? Structure it, build a personal brand around it, build some online digital content around it, sell it, get recurring revenue and build something that not only carries you through with digital sales through this scary economy, but more importantly, sets you up to share your voice and make a difference at a time when it matters more than ever. You clearly hear I'm passionate about this, so go to influencer business program.com right now. That's influencer business program.com. Sa.