30 Mar 2022 · 6 min
In this episode of the Brendon Show, Brendon Burchard frames personal growth as a daily, intentional practice anchored in a sense of spirit—a connection to something beyond the self, which for him is rooted in faith in God but can also be understood as a deeper connection to the world, community, or inner intuition. He argues that most people lack spirit because they are physically and mentally exhausted, and he emphasizes rest, recovery, and healthy habits (sleep, nutrition, exercise, meditation or prayer) as essential for revitalizing the spirit. Throughout the episode, Brendon promotes his Growth Day platform, encouraging listeners to join the community, use the app for journaling, habit tracking, and coaching, and to share the episode with three friends. The episode concludes with a call to spread positivity, leave reviews, and remember that each day offers a fresh chance to grow.
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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. Spirit. Now, when I say spirit, it means something specific to me and when research says it means something different and it might mean something different to you. To me, because I'm a person of faith, I believe in God. Spirit for me is spirituality and is a connection with something beyond me in the highest realms. So for me, that's my belief. That might not be your belief, which is okay because research would say spirit is also that sense of a deeper connection to the world and the things around us. Some people it's like an intuitive connection. Other people it's like a real, physical, vibrant feel. To the energy of the earth as an example, like to the spirit of a team. Right? Esprit de corps. It's a spirit, an energy. It's something that we can't exactly put our thumbs on. But you Know if your spirit is lacking or thriving. And the number one answer here, believe it or not, it's going to sound so basic and like, what? Really, Brendan, most people lack a sense of spirit, where that is connection with God, a connection with the moment, a positive buoyancy with the people they're around. If that's like esprit de cord or joie de vivre in either of those places, what's usually lacking is people are effing tired. They're tired. Sorry to be so obvious, but so many people don't feel a sense of spirit about life and thus a higher connection because they allowed themselves to get wiped out or something happened in life that has wiped them out. They're tired. Their focus doesn't need to be I need a higher connection with God. Sometimes it's like, babe, you need eight hours of sleep for about, you know, a month just being honest. Sometimes it means stop poisoning your body. You're exhausted.
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.
Rest and recovery is so much of what we talk about here in Growth Day. And if you watch any of the courses in Growth Day or you've listened to any of the coaches in Growth Day, this topic comes up over and over and over again. This is if you read high performance habits or you go through that course in your app, you will see that there's a whole chapter on that, that high performers generate energy. How do they generate energy? They protect their energy. They take pit stops. They rest well, they recover intentionally. They don't overwhelm themselves by setting boundaries. They care for meditation, exercise, diet and sleep. See, we know that spirit is beyond body. You all know, like, you know what I'm saying. There, like there's a mind, body connection, but there's also a spirit, something else connection. But the truth is if you have a vibrant spirit and it's housed in a 55 gallon drum of toxins, we got a problem, right? You take the most beautiful imaginable butterfly and you put it over here and drop it in oil, we got a problem. We have such positive, unlimited, expansive, gorgeous, godly souls and spirits, but we drop it in a container that we keep poisoning and then we wonder what's happening. Why don't I feel the spirit? Why don't I feel God? Why don't I feel better? Because you need a nap, babe. Because you've been eating popcorn and wine for 14 nights. Because you haven't walked around. And I know I'm preaching the choir. Growth day. You guys are more healthy than the average cats by leaps and bounds. You all understand exactly what I am talking about. You are striving for wellness. You are striving for energy. But I am just going to require and remind you if you don't feel your spirit alive, could you get some rest? And sometimes this is also related to, to mental fatigue. Time to take a break. A few more breaks throughout the day. A few more mental breaks throughout the day. Like after I get done with this, I'm going to go for a walk. I have to reset, reset, reset mental breaks so that your spirit can be creative and thoughtful and expressive through the containers in which you got, through the form in which we experience and listen. I know when you're unhealthy, that's a hard ask. And so that's why also very much am emphasizing meditation or prayer to get our mind and our thoughts beyond our immediate feelings or impulses, needs or bodily sensations and projecting, experiencing or connecting beyond the body. And sometimes meditation or prayer are the most expansive and consistent ways to be able to do that. And so I'll encourage those of you meditation and prayer or meditation or prayer, just choose one or the other. I think it can completely change your life, reinvigorate your spirit and make you feel more connected.
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 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.
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