2 May 2022 · 8 min
Brendon Burchard teaches how to shift from low energy to high performance by activating your mind and body. He walks through a simple exercise: sit tall, close your eyes, breathe, and focus on present sounds to move from a 4-6 energy level to a 9-10. Consistent activation through breath, posture, and mental focus builds the ability to meet your goals.
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So the question is, how do we live more high performing lives? Aristotle taught us excellence is not an act, not a one time thing, it's a habit. So we got to focus on your habits, but we also have to focus on how you are showing up and activating the skills of your life. This is more of a spot check evaluative tool that I really believe captures. Why do you have how much money you have in your bank account? Why is your marriage, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 dead and 10amazing. Why are you at a 6? Why in your career do you feel like I keep getting passed up at promotion? Why in your health you feel like vibrancy should be 9, but you're too often a 4. This is what we have to think about. Those are all outcomes, right?
Outcomes.
Well, what led to the outcomes in our life? Some people are activating their mind and others are not. It means some people are activating their physical energy and some people are not. And how many of you feel like that's a difference maker? See high performers, they say when you talk to them worldwide, one of the number one things they report feeling is full engagement. They're fully engaged in the moment. But sometimes, man, days long get tired. Watch what you can do with your mind just sitting. Would you do me a favor? Just close your eyes, sit up nice and tall. You don't have to put your stuff down. Just sit up nice and tall, close your eyes, take a nice deep breath in and use your mind to get here. I mean, get here, get in this room, get in this moment. Like, jump into this moment with your mind. Like, if your mind is somewhere else, you're worried about the kids, you're worried about the finances, you're worried about this. You're tired. You think about the long flight out or the chicken. No, no, no. Zoom in right now. Zoom in to the sound of me snapping. Right here. Zoom right in. Eyes closed. Zoom. Just hear that sound. Just get yourself here. Just be in the present. Be in the moment. Like literally get in here. Like maybe to help you take a nice deep breath in. When I say nice breath in, I should be able to hear you. Breathe in through your nose. That's a breath in, out through your mouth. Just zoom right in. Get into the moment. Like literally dance and mentally enter the moment. If you need help physically, like just put your feet on the ground and kind of grind your feet into the ground just to feel you're here, fully present.
Bam.
Alive alert. Right here, right now. Use your mind like you did before. Speed it Up.
Maybe.
Maybe you're Einstein or you see fireworks. Maybe you're ready to jump up and bolt out of the room and run and jump and scream and dance and play and laugh. Maybe feel that in your body, but just in your mind. Just get there. Mentally activate. This is what we are teaching. This is what we're talking about. Mentally activate. Get here on demand when you need to because you chose to. See what you can do with yourself. See what level you can take it to. If you're at a level one, tired and you want to be at 10, try with your mind right now. Try with your mind. I don't care if you've got to squeeze your buttocks on that chair to get your mind and your body alert and here, but feel fully like dance in this moment. Engage in this moment. Take this moment, feel it here. Mentally activate. Right now. Go from a four or five or six level up. Close your eyes. Try it. How much have you been really activating your mind? Because you know what everyone is being taught to do? Deactivate their mind. That's what social media does. It deactivates it. It takes it from first party participants to second or third party observer. Okay, you're having troubles in your marriage. Are you activating your mind or are you reacting all the time? Two different things. Activation means goals, intention, thoughtfulness, being the best me reaction. Here he goes again. Bastard. Same old, same old. I guess I'll go make dinner. How many know I'm talking about we gotta own if. See, when I did that with you, the three minutes, I know you're sitting there, but I want to let you know every day I'm sitting in my office too. I'm chilling, I'm working, I feel myself tune out. Maybe I did my 15 minute activity. I stretched, I breathed, I did the thing and I sit there, I'm like, ooh, you know what? I need to level up. That's the phrase that I use for mental activation. I need to level up. I gotta level up this mental energy, this mental focus, this physical vibrancy. I gotta level up. I'm at a. I'm at a six. I'm not going to change the world at level six. I'm not going to earn this grace of life at level six. I'm not going to be a good husband at level six. I'm not going to go to bed truly grateful tonight at level six, level up, Brendan. Close my eyes and by the end of a minute or two, I'm like, oh, let's go. Oh, let's go.
Why?
Because I do it so much. I can activate if you just keep going through the motions. You don't realize it, but the more you go through the motions, the more you are deactivating. You're not practicing that power. So you've got to first want that. You got to decide, oh, I want that mental edge. I want that activation. It's so important. Same with your breath, same with your body.
Right?
It's so easy not to engage. I know it's easier to sit, it's easier to chill. But it's like that's my first question. This is where I go. This little thing here, mental. Your mind body activation. Are you activating your mind body because listen, when you are, I don't know if you can see that in the back. But your mind and your body activation helps you achieve what we call in psychology, your being goals. We all want to be proud of who we are and energized about life. And I want to be in life. I want to be vibrant. I want to have energy. No one doesn't want those two things. We all want to feel a sense of integrity and congruence and goodness in our heart about ourselves. And we want energy. So you got to activate it more. You got to activate it more with more discipline than you've ever done before. My spouse doesn't love me. Have you been activated or deactivated? And you immediately know the answer to that.
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