How to UNLOCK ENERGY: Master the Art of Feeling Alive on Demand!

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. Let's jump into something I think that people miss a lot here and that's aliveness and notice. You got to have aliveness in the things you're pursuing. You got to have aliveness in the relationships. You have aliveness in your sense of growth. So again, these things all talk to each other, but I think this is an important one. Our sense of aliveness in our, in our being. Often when we think of aliveness, we think of health for one, right?

Energy.

Energy like you want to feel more, you want to feel life better. Get your health better. Take care of yourself, do your meditation, your exercise, get a good diet, start sleeping better, start learning to sleep better. Start taking care of yourself better physically. And I promise mentally and spiritually you'll flower that when you feel good physically. I'm telling you Way more likely. Way more likely to feel grateful for life. Way more likely to sense meaning and flow and fulfillment of the day. So get your energy up, because you know what? When you're wiped out, it's really easy to be pulled into discouragement. When you're wiped out and someone says something negative to you, it's so easy to believe them because you don't even have the mental power for critical thinking to talk yourself out of that negative stuff they just threw at you. And you accept what they say. The emotions hit you just don't even have the energy to mentally fight back anymore. You got to take care of your health first and foremost. When I talk about aliveness, it always comes from a place of physical vibrancy and health. You've got to take care of yourself. And that usually is for mental and physical meditation, exercise, good diet, great sleep. You start with those things, everything starts to shift. Everything starts to shift. And I say this all the time, because if you are fatigued all the time, you will be less likely to feel fulfilled because you're empty. When you're physically empty all the time, how are you going to feel fulfilled? Got it. You got to fill your gas tank once in a while, take a break, do more resets throughout the day, breathe again. You know you want to feel fulfilled, sit and breathe and feel grateful for 10 minutes. Simple. You know, we just got to breathe again. All this is our physical part of aliveness. Our physical part of aliveness. All right, so what else? Well, I think a big part of our aliveness comes down to a sense of adventure and exploration. People use different words here, but adventure and exploration. You know, a lot of people are doing meaningful pursuits, but there's never anything new. There's no novelty. There's no exploring the bounds of possibility. There's no learning by pushing beyond comfort zones. And so even though they're doing something meaningful, they don't feel it, because the human desire for exploration, learning new things, trying new things, seeing new things. This can be a sense of variety in our life, adventure in our life. Psychologists tend to use the word exploration instead, because it's like, oh, we're a curious cat over here. We're curious. We'd love to learn new things, try new things, see new things. This is why mental health just had its worst year and a half in probably 50 years of human recorded psychology studies. Like, it just tanked because people were locked down. And when they were locked down physically, mentally, they tended to follow it. And if you didn't find some way to Engage yourself in a mental way, then you really struggled. It's so important that we learn that, too. And also, if you're locked down, guess what? Connection goes away. So aliveness and connection went down for.

A lot of people.

Their sense of growth went down because they didn't have social connection to lift them into another level. We're going to be dealing with that and the challenges of that in mental health for decades. Decades. I'm not here to say one. I don't take a political stance on this. I don't take a scientific stance on this. I'm here to tell you as a personal development person, I really believe the last two years will have caused so much harm for people that if they don't take control right now of what they're saying to themselves about the last two years, then it's going to be a long next 10 years for them mentally. We have to define the meaning. We have to find the positivity. We have to keep going. We have to find our own sense of aliveness and connection and meaning when the world doesn't go the way that we want it to.

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When we think about connection, you know how many relationships that are good, good relationships die because no one's trying to cultivate a sense of aliveness in that relationship. No adventure, no new things, no curiosities, no Novelties, no variety. And so a life that is good. Two good people coming together even, who do good things in the world. That relationship falls apart because no one's cultivating aliveness. A lot of fulfillment can feel, quote unquote, boring. You're doing meaningful things, but it can feel boring if you don't once in a while, have a pop, a celebration, something new. That's why you got to shift it up, shake it up, change it up once in a while. Otherwise it gets stale, even good things. And again, I tell you this from a person who spent two decades working with a lot of nonprofit people. So often they're doing such good work in the world, but if they don't give themselves a campaign or a fundraiser or a new initiative once in a while, they'll quit, they'll leave, they'll get bored. They won't make their difference anymore. You personally have to shake things up in your life. You. I always tell people, if every new thing coming into your life or every new challenge you're dealing with is coming from the external, you haven't yet started your personal growth journey. People on a personal growth journey, they know they have to conscientiously shift and shape and learn and build new things, try new things, push beyond comfort zones, just like keep. Not because they're on this ever increasing demand to succeed, no, because they recognize in the middle of all of it is growth. They've got to put themselves in positions to explore the world, to learn more, to grow. And that exploration and adventure and variety and novelty comes from learning new things, trying new things, doing new things, being with new people. All of that is what's necessary. All of that is what's necessary. I think if you think about aliveness from a perspective of health, what I call taking your meds, meditation, exercise, diet and sleep your meds, then you think about, okay, aliveness also comes from adventure and exploration. It's like those two also go together really well. Go to a new place, take a new adventure, go to that town, try mountain biking, try swimming, try scuba diving, try go up in a hot air balloon, try running on a new trail. Try. Try something new in new places that physically engage you. And all of a sudden, life becomes a little bit more adventurous. And when it becomes a little more adventurous, we can feel the sense of meaning a little bit more because it shakes us out of the normal stuff. And we can look back to it and go, oh, right, yeah. The power of exploration has been written about for over 10,000 years, and it's that old story of the person who has to go on a big adventure outside of his or her lands only to come back and dig in the backyard and find an acre of diamonds. You ever heard that they go seeking for wealth all around the world and it's not until they come back home that they recognize it from a new viewpoint. I always noticed that most people don't recognize what they have until they've left it or it's been taken away. Then they come back or they want it back and they go, oh, my gosh, I love this thing. This thing is so valuable. This is so important. This is so meaningful in my life. And I always tell people, don't be that guy. Be the person who sees it now. And one of the ways to see it now is to make sure you're doing new enough things and then practicing self awareness so that you can have that little compare and contrast and you recognize the value of what you have around you. Most people have so much more to be grateful for than they actually are because they don't even see it. It's right in front of them. But until they leave that context and they come back, then they go, oh, right. You know, it's kind of like when you were growing up, you thought your parents or your family, everything was just crazy and not awful. And then you went to another person's house that was more crazy and awful and you came back home, you thought, whew, I'm so happy I'm home. It happens metaphorically in a lot of parts of our lives. You thought your job was terrible and then you took a new job and it was way worse. And you thought, oh, my God, what have I done? The grass is always greener. But the good news is when we go through that open gate and we walk back and forth because we're trying new things throughout our lives, we can see that the grass is green over here, too, and over there, and we can start sensing more meaning and fulfillment in every area of our lives.

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