Health and Productivity Habits

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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. Listen to this. You must now turn your attention over these next 30 days to setting yourself up to win the rest of this year. Sometimes you're like which one? Or I can't find this passion or I don't know which thing to do or someone doesn't understand me or I'm wiped out already. How can I 10x my business? Brendon so today we're going to talk about your health and your productivity habits. And I know that some of this is going to be common sense but it's not common practice and that's why you're struggling. And some of this you might have heard before but you're like at a different stage of your life right now that it's time to really implement. If we thought about your productivity right now, let's say in the realm of the last three weeks, let's be honest, the last three weeks, have you been on your A game in moving your life, your business forward? Or have you been kind of like distracted sometimes going at it, sometimes not inconsistent, unsure? And has your uncertainty paralyzed you? Has your uncertainty about what to do stopped progress? Because it's okay if you don't know every step that you're supposed to do. It's not okay if you stop every time you feel that. There's a ton of things in my life, I don't know what to do and I'm still bumbling into them. Kind of dumb, but optimistic, you know, I'm at least a dumb, enthusiastic person. You know, I'm like bumbling into what's next. Always, never stopping bumbling into what's next. And that's what keeps me so productive. People are like, how are you so productive? It's not that I'm super smart. It's that I just bumble in and I just keep it moving forward. I just keep cranking. I just keep going. Even though sometimes it's a hot mess or I don't know how it's going to turn out. That's just life, guys. So be honest with yourself, though. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1, you were completely distracted, unaware, getting nothing done. Loss of effectiveness, totality, right? Or were you at 10, you were on your A game, you feel like, wow, I was setting up the blocks, Brendan, knocking those things down. And here we go. Where do you feel like you were in these last three weeks? And then please do the assessment for yourself. Why was that the level of productivity you had? And what could you do to improve? Okay, this is my hope for us in this community, guys. I'm always gonna be asking you to do stuff like this. It's like, hey, whatever topic we ever take on, let's measure ourselves. Let's be honest. Scoring yourself on a regular basis is incredibly powerful to personal development. You gotta take a topic and score yourself on 1 to 10. How's my sleep been lately? 1 to 10, have I been kind enough to my spouse? 1 to 10, have I Been a Good Mom? 1 to 10, have I Been Good in Business? 1 to 10. It's a regular assessment of self that generates self awareness. The numerics 1 to 10 kind of helps us give a better gauge versus just how do I feel about it? It's like, well, no, this is where I'm at. And then you can go, why am I there? And what could I do better? I know that's so basic in personal development. You know, if I could give the gift of anything, it is that gift of both self awareness but then motivation and skill to becoming your best self and serving at your highest potential. Because what's the point of talking about health and productivity if you also don't talk about your service to the world Again, it's not just about feeling good, it's about doing good. And that's why you're in this community. I want to hear what you're frustrated with, what you're challenged with, but I also want to be that professional source for you that you know will keep you growing each month with some simple cues sometimes, but then also a little bit of advanced reminders. So realign now. Realign now for your three year plan. What do you mean by that? What I would love for you to do is, you know, sometimes when you talk about people's health, they're so focused on right now they're dealing with that health issue. When you talk about productivity, they're focused on, geez, I've got all these things I'm juggling. Brendon, which one? And what I'd love for you to do is remember high performance also comes from the element of strategic thinking and future casting yourself, like thinking out into the future. So what I'd love you to do is go, okay, in three years from today, like three years. So three summers from now, I would love for you to think about how do you want to look and feel physically, what do you want to feel like in terms of your physiology but your overall health, where would you love to be with your overall health in three years but also productivity? What would you love to have done? Like in your notes right now? What would you love to have accomplished, Achieved, built, scaled, served in the next three years? Meaning realigning right now is I bet. And you can test me on this one. But if I know you guys and I know how high performers and achievers and people dedicated personal development are, is it true that throughout this year so far you've picked up a few obligations that really shouldn't be on your plate? If you're thinking about where you want to be in three years, what happens is when we're short term focused, we fail to set boundaries when we're short term focused. Oh, sure, I'll help you with that. Oh yeah, people pleasers. Any, any, any people pleasers out there. You're like, oh yeah, I'll help you. I'll do it, I'll do it. And all of a sudden you are Loaded up with everybody else's obligations. You are loaded up with everybody else's needs and desires and their dreams. And all of a sudden you realize you are carrying the weight of the world and not doing your world. You're carrying the weight of everybody else's obligations and needs and you're not even living your life. What I think is valuable at this time of the year is to completely realign to a future vision of what you want your life to be right now. And when I say realign, I mean literally know what you need to stop, release, get rid of, and know what you need to start. But we can't talk about high performance without talking about the future. And so we must put you future cast you three years from now, minimum. Some of you, if you've already done that activity, go five years, go a decade. Where do you want to be and what must you release right now? Because when you release it now, two beautiful things happen. One, releasing that which you should not be carrying is profoundly powerful for your mental health. That's one of our topics today, isn't it? When you release that which you should no longer be carrying, when you let it go, when you give it back, when you say no, and all of a sudden you get back lighter on your feet because you let go of those emotions or you let go of those obligations, or you let go of those activities that you shouldn't be doing because they add no real value or bring you no real joy. All of a sudden you're lighter on your feet. And when you're lighter on your feet, man, your brain loves you. Your brain is like, oh, thank you for saying no, finally, dummy. Because I've been stressed out of my mind over here. Because health isn't just physiology. Health is psychology. Isn't it true? I mean, think about how much stuff you carry along for other people. So let me ask that question again. Isn't it true that you have kind of carried on, took on, gobbled up some things that you don't need to have in your life right now because they are not relevant to your alignment to your three year, five year, decade self? I'll give you guys an example. Like, you know, when we, Denise and I moved down to Puerto Rico, but he was like, why did he move to Puerto Rico? And I was kind of like, it's kind of a great realignment for us, me and Denise. And I'll give you an example. There's lots of talk out on the Internet, by the way, of why did Brendan move to Puerto Rico? Did he you know, fall in love down there, build a shack or something. Like, what's going on with this kid? The reason I moved it is if you knew me in college, if you ever knew me in college, if you walked in my dorm room in college, there's a big old wall and on that wall was all these pictures and photos of the Caribbean. All these pictures and photos at the time that I got blessed to go down there and have a job. It's also many of you guys know my origin story. It's where I had my car accident. My car accident was in the Dominican Republic. But on that very trip, I fell in love with the Caribbean. And so literally through the most formative years of my life, which for me were after the car accident was throughout college. My vision boards and everything around me and all the little magazines I had were all Caribbean. You know, they were like pictures of boats and pictures of the sea and pictures of the palm trees and the beaches. And I was like, someday I'll have a home there. And now I'm going to tell you the truth. And the thing that kind of surprised me when I got down there, I don't know why I didn't get down there earlier. I think what happened was, was at the end of college, I was like, well, gotta get a job, you know, Gotta go do what people do when they're professionals. I went and got a good corporate job, worked for Accenture in San Francisco for many years. Great job, amazing job. Taught me management, taught me leadership, taught me how to teach. Then I wanted to write my book. And I didn't think of where would I love to write my book and where am I heading. I just wanted to write a book. So I was myopic project. Listen to this, my friends. Project focused versus future lifestyle focused. Project focused versus future lifestyle focused. So it's like, oh, I better write a book. Don't matter where I'm going to write a book. I'll write a book in San Francisco, no problem. I'll write a book on the road, in a hotel or whatever else like that. Then move to Portland. Because Denise and I really love the Pacific Northwest. She opened a Bar Method exercise studio. I started scaling everything, shot 20 plus online courses. Been doing these things for how many years now? I don't even know. I mean, just a massive growth phase. But we were here and Denise had the Bar method and I had our studio and things were really great. But somehow I took my mind off that big dream. One day I'll be in the Caribbean. Isn't that funny. Even me, the personal development guy. And why do I tell you this? Because I know how your projects can make you myopic. I know how the day can gobble up obligations. I know how you can build something because that's where you are. And you just handled problems and you built where you are, but you didn't think, where do you want to be? So this is the time to realign. Who do you want in your life? Where do you want to be? What do you really want to do? How do you really want to serve? What's truly the next level for you? What's it really look like in a decade if you could architect the dream?

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Some people are in strategic realignment in their life. They're constantly asking those questions, what do I really want now? Who do I want to be around now. What do I want my life to look like now? What's the mission, the cause, the service, the joy, the fulfillment that I want now in next three years and five years? And other people, it's forced upon them, it was forced upon me when I got sick or hurt some people. It's forced upon them when their partner doesn't love them and they get a divorce, when the kids leave the house, when they get fired or laid off. You got a choice. You either realign in life because an emergency or you realign in life because of strategic thinking. Got it? You either realign in life because an emergency and that's you're reacting, you're at the cause of the world or you realign in life because of strategic thinking, visioning, forecasting, thinking. So I know you know this, but listen, whatever you need to realign, here's what I'm going to tell you. You're a high performer, so please listen. My job is to challenge a little bit here. Listen, Team hpx, whatever you need to realign, when you know you need to realign something, fear comes up. Because if you face the fact that you have to realign something, you also have to face the fact you're going to have to break something. Sometimes it's time to say no and break that relationship. Sometimes it's time to say no and break that obligation. Sometimes it's time to realign and you got to break that service contract, break that client. Some of you got to fire a team member, some of you got to fire a client, some of you got to fire a spouse. I don't make any of this easy, but sometimes the reason people don't realign is they are mortified. They are scared of the action they know they must take in their heart. And all I can tell you here is if there is an action you know you must take in your heart, you better take it. Because for your long term health mentally, the longer you like know you must do something and you do not do it. What happens in our psychology is that we know internally that we're lacking integrity and congruence. And when you know you're supposed to do something and you don't do it because of fear, your brain says I know I should, but I'm not. So I'm lacking integrity and congruence. I know I should, but I'm not because I'm scared. So I'm lacking confidence and courage. And you start telling yourself this story, I'm less than, I'm not capable. I'M not good. And how does that feel? How does that feel to your mental health? How does that feel to your ability.

To get things done?

You've got to realign to your 3 year, 5 year, 10 year vision. And soon as I say that, I know when I was talking through what I was going through, I know something came up for you. You're like, realignment, that's scary because something in your heart might have said, I gotta quit my job, I gotta break off this friendship that's toxic. I gotta do whatever that came up for you. All I can tell, I can't tell you if it's right, but I can beg you to listen to it, be aware of it, know what your heart and mind is telling you now and be okay with the fact that when you realign, it immediately puts you in to transition moments. And when you realign something and you go into transition moments when what's there in transition? Uncertainty, risk, fear, the great unknown. And when you realign something and you go into transition, it's very important that you give yourself permission and make it okay that you don't know every next step. Right. A lot of people move from certainty into uncertainty and then when they move on to uncertainty where a lot of exploration and growth can happen, instead they shut down. Because when they were certain they knew what to do and they felt like, well, I know what I'm supposed to do here. I feel good about myself. And then when they don't know what to do, even if there's more opportunity, they freeze because they get mad at themselves because they don't know every single thing. What I tell high performers all the time and forgive this phrase because it's not. I always get judged a little bit for using the phrase but I'm like, if you are in transition, it's okay. If you're kind of a hot mess, babe, it just is. It's okay if you're starting something new, you're going to break something, you're going to realign. Guess what? As you go in that transition, you're going to be a little bit of a hot mess. Allow that I am only here at this level of success and joy and fulfillment and contribution in my life because Brendon is really good about being a hot mess. I don't mind when I'm a hot mess because I'm trying something new. I don't mind when me, my companies, my teams, my clients, the people around me are hot messes because we're trying something new. New. That's part of trying Something new. In other words, give yourself allowance not to be perfect. Give yourself allowance not to have it all dialed in and figured out. Because guess what? This renewal thing is either going to be something you love and enjoy because you give yourself credit, time, patience, grace to go through it, or it's going to be stressful, traumatic, awful. You're gonna hate the journey. The reason people don't get more done is because at night, you lay in bed and you're hard on yourself. You lay there and you think, oh, I didn't get stuff done. What a jerk. Other people are getting more done. Look at them on social media being so fancy. And you start beating yourself up. And think about this. If you lay awake at night beating yourself up, does that make you a high performer in the morning? No. You wake up and you're like, ugh.

And you got.

Nothing's gonna save you except maybe caffeine. I have no idea. But I think it's really important for you guys to recognize that that happens. So as you go to realign, I'm telling you this from personal experience. This last six months, as we completely realigned our life in Puerto Rico, I am here to tell you this. Have grace. Be cool with yourself. Not knowing. There were so many times in this last six months, it's just been like, wow, what am I doing? How's this going? Everything else like that, and I'd get hard on myself, and I feel that ruining my motivation. So maybe you're going to enter this transition phase of your life joyously and release the judgment of yourself. I think if you can teach yourself to have fun in moments of renewal, if you can teach yourself to have grace in moments of renewal, you go faster, you feel better. And so when you finish the day, I want you to do a simple thing. I want you to start now. Start really tonight when you go to bed. Release that tension, that judgment, that upset, and step into faith and trust to know it's all going the best it can. Right now, I'm doing the best I can. If I'm not in the morning, I'll even do better. But I'm good with where I'm at. I'm happy, I'm grateful. Thank you, God. And go to bed. Stop ending your day judging yourself. Can we do that? And stop ending your day comparing yourself. Instead, end your day envisioning yourself. Where do you need to go? What can you start? What can you stop? Release some of those things. It's renewal time. You have to set yourself up for. For the win.

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