Develop Your Intention

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. Most people are just going through the motions in their careers, in their industries and their professions. They show up, they do the work. It doesn't mean they're not hard working. But they don't have a deliberate practice of getting better and better and better. Meaning they're not getting step changes of improvement over a period of time. And that's why they get stuck. As an example this time of year so many people are going to go to the gym and they're going to go to the gym. They're going to have listen, they're going to have the intention get healthy. They're going to have the behavior go to gym. They're going to go to the gym every Monday and Thursday. So they've got a habit. But they don't develop a practice of actually getting better in the gym first intention. I want to change. I want to live a good life. I'm going to figure out how. I didn't know how. I was a sad, very desperate, and very hurt young man. And that's what turned me to personal development, to self improvement, to self help. Later to psychology, later to philosophy, later to neuroscience, later to high performance studies. That was my arc. I just said, I got to figure this out for myself. I got to figure this out for myself. And then later I was able to transform in every area of my life because of the simple model, beginning with the conscious choice, the decision, the intention. I'll give you an example. I know this. I don't want to be too philosophical about it. Philosophical, philosophical. Philosophical. Sounds good. Okay. I wanted to make sure. Okay, I got to figure this out. I'll give you a great example. I get asked this every time I do this about communication. This not natural for me at the beginning. The first time I turned on a video camera was a painful day. I still remember because anyone ever done video where the first time you turn it on, you're so awkward and awful. It's just terrible. It's like you think, how could I be any worse? Cause I bought a flip video camera. Some of you might remember how old this look, a little flip video camera. I duct taped it to a box. I pressed record. I went there and I sat and was like, hi, I'm Brendan Burchard. It doesn't sound right. Hi, I'm Brendan Burchard. Hi, I'm Brendan Burchard. I couldn't. I was like, like, you're doing video and you can't even introduce yourself. You do like 30 takes to introduce yourself and you're like, this is awful. I was awkward in front of people. I wanted to speak at that stage in my life, but I was very, very, very embarrassed and shy to talk to people. Even though outwardly people thought I was a happy go, lucky kid, internally I was super insecure. And I wanted to be a leader, though. And I wanted to communicate. And especially after my car accident, I got very clear. If I'm going to matter, if I'm going to make a difference in what I feel is the impulse or the direction or the calling of my life, I need to learn how to talk. I know that sounds so simple, but I know we have some introverts out there who understand what I'm saying. It's like we have to learn how to talk and express ourselves because we have the internal stuff going on. But I didn't know how to take it out of here and put it out there. You know, we're 37 minutes in. I haven't looked at a note yet because I've been able over the years to have that intention. And I took that intention, and then I made a behavior. I said to myself, okay, every opportunity I have to speak, I will take. I remember I was in school back then, so I just, hey, oh, we get to share our report. Okay, My behavior is going to be. I'm going to try to give the best speech I can in class. And I made a complete, you know, fool of myself in front of my classmates trying to talk. But I was trusting in the process, and I just thought, that's part of it. And that behavior became a habit. I always raised my hand to speak up. I just started making a habit. I'll raise my hand to speak up, and if there's a chance to speak, I'll take it. Then became a practice. Okay, I started shooting videos, and I forced myself to shoot a video almost every day. And then I'd watch it, and I'd be like, oh, it's still hard. Don't worry. It's still hard watching a video of myself. It's just like, especially me. Have you ever tried to get a thumbnail of me? It's impossible. Like, you know, my 14. But it became a practice. Every day, just teaching, talking, sharing. And now today, I can do nine hours on stage straight through. I can share 15 to 20 different models for human behavior change, for motivation, for confidence, for great relationships, for productivity. I can go hours and hours, 3, 4, 5 days with almost no notes because it's a second nature now. 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. That intention to become a good communicator, the raising of a hand, the trying every time, the repetition but not just doing it a lot. Looking at it and asking how can I perfect that? Getting feedback from others, how could I have done better? What else could I have tried there? That's what a practice is. A practice requires feedback, doesn't it? You could do yoga in your house, but if you go to a class with an expert teacher and they adjust you, that's more perfecting practice, what we call a deliberate practice. You're getting the feedback that's making you better. So trust me, millions of people have given me feedback and I'm sorry, after millions of people giving me feedback, this is as good as it gets. Sorry, I'm still working on it, but now just who I am. I'm this annoying all the time. It's just you learn to be yourself and to do your thing. This is my thing. But notice it began with intention. I want to be a better communicator. So what's your intention this year for what skill sets you need to develop that is really related to that mission and that career part of Most people are just going through the motions in their careers, in their industries and their professions. They show up, they do the work. It doesn't mean they're not hardworking, but they don't have a deliberate practice of getting better and better and better. Meaning they're not getting step changes of improvement over a period of time and that's why they get stuck. As an example this time of year, so many people are going to go to the gym and they're going to go to the gym. They're going to have listen, they're going to have the intention get healthy. They're going to have the behavior go to gym. They're going to go to the gym every Monday and Thursday. So they've got a habit, but they don't develop a practice of actually getting better in the gym, better with their form, better with measuring what they're doing, understanding their sets, tracking their weights and actually improving. That's where you see a person at the beginning of the year for three months they go to the gym. And you know what? That's a Great intention, great behavior and great habit. But because there's no deliberate practice in improvement, what happens? Well, one person who goes to the gym for three months versus another person with a deliberate practice, the person at the end of the three months, everyone goes, must be her genetics. And you start telling yourself this story about why people are getting ahead better and faster and differently than you, that they're blessed in some crazy way when usually 9 out of 10 times they had a more deliberate practice. They were getting feedback and they were adjusting ever so slightly along the way, they were perfecting that practice. And so every day it was a compounding effect of perfecting that practice where a period of time, it's like, whoa, in three months they've got some abs showing. And in three months you are still forcing yourself to get to the gym. That is the difference of this model. And it doesn't mean notice. There is no judgment in it. Notice. I am not talking about personalities. What we are talking about is intentions, behaviors, habits and practices. 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 and 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.