Running 7.5 km without music, the speaker ran faster (4:51 min/km vs his usual 5:05-5:12) with a lower heart rate. He argues goals are temporary milestones that fade once achieved, while purpose is a constant force that sustains performance. He's speaking at the All About You Women's Conference in Palm Beach County to express his purpose of inspiring others.
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Well, good morning everybody. Oh yeah, can you believe it? I'm gonna go in front of camera looking like this, dripping with sweat, just back from a run. And I just wanted to share something really important this morning because I learned an incredible lesson. I've been doing a bit of an experiment recently, and this is all about living on purpose, so please just, just hear me out. I've started running without music, and one of the things that I noticed really quickly about this experiment was the results that I got. Well, as you can tell, I'm really hot. You can see I'm dripping with sweat. I mean, it's not a pretty picture, and that's fine. I didn't intend to be a pretty picture for you all. But I'm not out of breath. And I learned a very important lesson today, I think, about the difference between goals and purpose. The difference between extrinsic motivation, the stuff we try and pull on outside ourselves to get something done, and intrinsic motivation, purpose, the stuff that drives us from inside. So what was interesting about today's run, and that this is very valid to living on purpose, was when I run with music on, listening to A Day to Remember or Bring Me the Horizon or Motörhead or something with energy and angst, something that I'm trying to draw into myself. Some kind of getting myself amped up to run and do my 7.5 kilometers at a really high pace. I try and get high BPM to try and push me along, and then I look on the horizon of my run and I look for key points that I want to reach, that if I can just get there, I can just make the next few steps. That's how I used to run. The last week or so, I've been running without music. No BPM, no external energy source that I'm trying to draw on. And something really, really remarkable has happened. The pace of my run has gone up. I used to try and aim for 5:05 minutes per kilometer, or 5:12 if it was a— if I was giving myself an excuse for being a bit tired. And I would look for a BPM that would help me get there, and then just before the last kilometer, I'd begin to slow down. And you'd look at my graph on Nike+, Which would show I was slowing down as I'm just trying to reach towards the end. And my heart rate was getting higher. Today, with no external focus, no external energy source, no motivation that I was trying to draw from something else, I ran an average 4:51 a kilometer. My heart rate's the lowest it's ever been. And I'm not out of breath, and I ran the same distance at a much faster pace. And that was telling me something around where do I find my motivation. I think this is a lesson in life, and it's something that I've been teaching and exploring and trying out for a long time in terms of understanding how purpose is a much more powerful energy force. For us achieving things in our life. When we look to a goal, you know, when we're trying to achieve something or get hold of something that's in the future, when we reach it, it's annihilated, it's gone, and there's a dip afterwards. But purpose is very, very different. Purpose is always there. Purpose doesn't disappear. So I didn't need to find a thing or a step to reach or a handle to grab hold of. I didn't need something external to give me motivation. I learned that what's inside of me already is far more powerful, far more effective in living my life. So that's the lesson for today. I was really excited to learn that. That's a great analogy, the difference between goals, which are great, there's nothing wrong with goals, and I could teach you a whole load, and I've had to learn a whole load about how to achieve goals, how to set myself up for success in achieving goals. But purpose and living on purpose is far more fulfilling, is far more energizing, is such a much more powerful route to being happy and being fulfilled. So, that's enough from me this morning, just a verbal stream of consciousness for you about just learning that exciting lesson for me. And just a few other points, coming up this Friday is the Women's Conference in Palm Beach County. All About You conference, which I have the privilege of speaking at. I'm very excited about that because that's me again living my purpose. I am getting to inspire, inspire and empower and equip people with some of the life lessons that I've learned. And now I've got a new one to share, so I might just share this story on Friday too with a few PowerPoint slides just to underline the points. So thanks for being with me this morning. Thanks for watching. I'll say goodbye for now. Thanks very much. Until I see you next, bye for now.
