Transformation Week Day 7 - COMMITMENT

Hey, my friends, it's Brendon Burchard and welcome to special series of the Brendon show. In this series we're playing for you our entire program called Transformation Week. Transformation Week was a program that Denise, my wife and I did to help people really understand what are the key habits that we know from science will help dramatically, I mean, really dramatically improve your life. It was an incredible video based program and online challenge that Denise and I did and we wanted to just capture it here for you in audio here on the Brendon show. So for the next six, seven days, we'll release a brand new day of transformation week and you'll get the audio right here on the podcast. If you're somebody who loves video and you would love the resources or the tools that we recommend as an example, the downloads or some special discounts to some products we might mention, please make sure you just go to transformationweek.com that's transformationweek.com when you go there again, you'll just enter your name and email. You'll be added to our newsletter list but you'll be sent this entire series by email where we summarize each of the days. We give you the PDFs, the downloads, the research, the tools, everything you'll hear in the audio on the Brendon show. With that, I hope you enjoy the series. Happy 2020, my friends. I hope you enjoy this year and this really becomes a transformation week for you as you kick off the new.

Decade of your life. Hey, everybody, it's Brendan Burchard and Denise Burchard. And welcome to HPX Life's Transformation week. Episode number seven. Seven, the last one. This is all about commitment. You cannot transform your life without deep commitment about doing so. If you really want to change your life for yourself, for your family, for those you love, lead and serve, there has to be a soul, deep commitment and passion to, to continue on, to challenge yourself, to push, to make it happen. So Denise and I, we're married. By the way, if you haven't picked.

It up, we're in Puerto Rico. We're still married on day seven.

We're still married on day seven. We made it. We made it through transformation week. The first time we did transformation Week, it was so scary and challenging. We had moved down to Puerto Rico and do you remember that? We like nothing to say about it. We had like, we didn't have this studio. We didn't have lighting. We didn't have the cameras. We, we had like one little like camera that didn't work. So well, and it was talk about commitment. We were so committed to doing that first Transformation Week for you all. So I just want to share a fun, fulfilling process it's been with you and to see you grow through it. I can see from her eyes, she doesn't like when I talk about her. Gosh. But she really get to the training. Okay, stop talking about me. I'm just really proud of her. This has been a hard process. You know, we. We literally wake up every day and go to work for you guys, thinking about, how do we change lives? How do we bring this high performance experience to the world? How do we help people strive for more vibrancy and connection and excellence? How do we give you all these tools? How do we create all these. All these things you've seen us talk about in Transformation Week. If you're new to the community. I've been doing it for 15 years, but now I get the blessing of having my wife do it with me along the way. So we're learning a lot. And we have had to stay really committed through the challenges, through moving to a new place, selling your exercise studios, starting and launching new brand, rolling out all these products, too. It's so I hope that we role modeling a little bit. Like, go for it. Go for your dreams. Try it hard. Make it happen, Denise.

Hashtag make it happen.

And thank you for being here. We are glad that you are joining us. So thank you for your commitment to getting to day seven.

Yes. Okay, we've got three things each to share with you about how to stay committed on this path to transformation. Denise has her first one.

Number one is to know your why and visit it often. And it's kind of like keeping, you know, the light at the end of the tunnel, always present and never forget. No matter how, you know, sticky or complicated or challenging things get. If you can always kind of keep that light and momentum moving in the direction it will, it will keep your commitment.

Yeah. I think the most important thing in that knowing your why is revisiting it every day. I mean, come on, personal development, guys. 101. Look at your goals. Every day. People lose our commitment because they set the commitment in January 1st, and by February 1st, they don't even know where they wrote down the goals they lost. The journal already. Like, no, write down your ambitions in life and the major areas of your life and look at it every day. I use the high performance planner for that. I know you guys have your own tools, your own journals, but every day you should be revisiting what are my Major projects, working on. What are my major goals, what do I want to happen? If you're not looking at that every day, no wonder you're losing the zest and the zeal. It's important to look at those things and dream of them and feel about them. My first thing I would share about staying committed is get training. It's so important, right? Take someone who says at the beginning of the new year, hey, I'm going to work out. Okay, great. They go to the gym a bunch. The one who gets the trainer, game change, right? It's like having the know how of what to do. Because to really change your life, you need new competencies, you need to learn new things. So, for example, I'm always building my own curriculum in life. I really believe underperformers, they just wait to learn, hope to learn. I think high performers, they build their own curriculum in life. I always say it, if you leave your growth to randomness, you. You'll always be locked in the land of mediocrity. Greatness requires you to build your own curriculum to achieve great things in life. And so many people tell me, well, Brendan, I don't know how to do that. I'm like, they listen, it's been done for you. There's Google, there's YouTube. They're like, anything you want to learn. So build your curriculum. If you want my help with that. We have the HPX courses where it's kind of like our customers call it, like the Netflix of personal development. So every month we unlock new personal development programs from you. One, like a personal development course for me, but then a personal development course from another legend or leader in the personal development space. It's just called HPX courses. It's like 67 bucks a month. And you literally, like, I've architected your entire personal professional development curriculum. Like, from confidence to achievement, from influence to relationships to wellness, all of that. Like, I've already crafted that for you because I've spent now 22 years of my entire life deep in personal professional development. I kind of know what people need to learn to get their breakthroughs. So we've created that with our courses. But whether mine, somebody else's, I don't know. I'm just hoping you go get the books, you go get the courses, you go get the training. Listen, the podcast, whatever you have to do, keep training yourself for excellence because it's with that training and consuming that training, it keeps your mind on the path of growth and excellence in high performance. And so stick with your training, develop your Curriculum. That's my idea.

My second one is to be consistent with your actions. And so when you are consistent with those actions, they turn into habit, and you don't have to think about them so deliberately anymore. I mean, it takes practice, but the more you do it, the easier it gets, the more streamlined it gets. I kind of equate it to. I grew up in a town where we rode our bikes everywhere. So I kind of imagine, you know, when you're riding through the park and you, you don't want to take the bike path, you want to take a shortcut, but you go over the grass. And if you go over an area that's really thick with the grass, it's kind of hard to go through it the first time. But the next time you go through it, kind of the grass is matted down. And then the next time you go.

Over it, your little trail, it's got.

A little trail, and pretty soon it's like almost as fast as the bike path.

You were that kid cutting through the park who left the trail for everybody?

No, everyone did. Everyone knew the right cuts to make anyway, we're all helping each other out, so make those consistent habits into actions. And it's kind of like that grass. It just gets easier and easier and more streamlined and faster to do.

I love that. I see. Who's that kid on the little bike riding bike? Oh, my gosh. Let's see. My second big idea is to develop the community. You need to stay committed. You got to get yourself around people who are striving for higher, bigger things in their lives, people who are committed to personal development, professional development, great health, being good humans. Whether that means you just need to go, you know, volunteer for some nonprofits so you can meet the coolest, nicest, heart driven people in your town. Or that means you gotta join a mastermind or you join an online community, whatever you have to do. It's like the people that we are around, like Denise and I, have really remarkable people around us. It wasn't always that way, but we've just been gathering them up throughout our lives to have friends who inspire us and who lifts us and who just, like, are remarkable people. And I really invite you to do that. Obviously, if you join our coaching program, as you've seen, you get to come out to our next high performance event. And you'll see right there at that event, 2,000 people who are so driven, so excited to change their lives, so excited to be of service to other humans and that they lift you up. The people around you either lift you up, they bore you, or they put you down. And you got to architect the community you need. Don't wait for it, don't hope for it. Go build it. One person by one person by one person. Because if you're around strivers, you'll stay more committed. Their ambition pulls you up. Their discipline inspires you. Their willingness to go through challenge and struggle and do it with grace and respect and honor, that will make you honor the struggle and stay committed, my friend.

My third thing is making it about something bigger than yourself.

Yes.

And we as humans love to or have this need to feel like a sense of belonging, but also a sense of contribution and that we are part of something much, much bigger than ourselves. So if that's a movement, if that's a cause, whatever it is, find and hone in on something that is not just within your own realm, but what is the bigger picture? What is the bigger movement? What is the bigger result?

Yeah. Stay really connected to that. Because I feel like when you get disconnected from it, you're like, oh, what was I focused on here? I'm doing my thing. I'm doing my only thing.

Well, I guess I don't have to do it today.

Yeah, because you're living in your own little world. If you don't connect your actions to greater service in the world, you won't be pulled by the mission and you'll be bored by your selfishness. And I think it's so important to realize, like, that next level of high achievement. Every major high performer I have ever interviewed, whether it's a celebrity influencer, a billionaire, a corporate titan, somebody who's just like a remarkable human. They don't talk about just like their personal dream. I'd sure. Like a yacht. They're like, hey, we're trying to make a significant change in our culture, in our society, in the world. And that keeps them up, that keeps them driven, that keeps them going. Love that one, honey. My third one is what? Oh, get a coach. Oh, my gosh. Now this seems like super duplicitous because I'm a high performance coach. I spend my days as a coach. I've become the best in the world at what I do as a certified high performance coach and been celebrated for my career at this, however, lifts your.

Game so much faster.

I need a coach. However, I need a coach because her point, it lifts your game higher. Like, if I didn't have coaches and people who mentored or cheered me on, then I'm left to my own devices and left to your own devices, you'll do as good as you can, but you don't know what your real limits are until somebody like shakes you and lifts you up there sometimes and a coach gets you to look at your life, evaluate the major parts and problems and gives you new strategies, new tools or new insights. Sometimes just through dialogue that helps your mind go, oh yeah, I should focus on that right now. And so we've both had coaches and mentors and people in our life in both formal and informal ways that coach.

Us to higher levels of success.

You know, that's hugely important. She's coaching me and my organization, my business right now to understand the metrics and the business a little better of the things because I'm just the passionate artist always building the business. But she's like, have you looked at it this way or thought that way? I'm like, no, I can't understand your spreadsheet. So she's coaching me through some of that right now. And I'm hopefully always trying to coach her in other something. Oh my God, help.

Like video and.

Oh yeah, this stuff.

Other stuff, yeah. But a coach is great because you, you know, sometimes when you're so wrapped up in your own thing, you don't get the perspective that somebody else has. And when somebody else can look at it, you have somebody like a third party person. There are things that are going to be there that they're going to say and you're going to be like, I just couldn't see it. Like I couldn't see it because I'm so, you know, like seeing the forest through the trees type of a thing. So coaches are amazing at having, you know, perspective but also giving tools that maybe you don't know about or you don't have access to or maybe you just aren't implementing in the most effective manner. And I think they're amazing for that and just lifting you. Like if you could take, it's like leapfrogging across a bunch of learnings. Like if you could leapfrog across a, you know, two years worth of learnings because somebody else can help coach and, and get you there and provide perspective and tools I there. It's just invaluable.

You gotta take that chance. You gotta take that chance. You deserve to have an extraordinary quality of life. That's what HPX stands for, the High Performance Experience. There is another experience level for you in your life, in your career, in your relationship, in your health that's more vibrant and connected and excellence driven until we see you next time. Denise has this thing she loves to say.

Remember, every day you have a choice. You can choose to be average or you can choose to become extraordinary.

So, my friend, thank you for joining us in this. Now go be extraordinary today. Thanks, everybody.

Thanks.

All right.

I hope you enjoyed this episode of Transformation Week. Again, if you really love this and you want the video based resources, tools and downloads for Transformation Week, make sure you go to transformationweek.com again, that's transformationweek.com and your email there will send you the entire Transformation Week series. All the videos, all the resources, all the tools you'll be able to access for free@transformationweek.com.

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