you've been drifting this whole time.. regain focus

So most people drift for months, years, sometimes their whole life. This concept and idea comes from the book Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill. And the idea of drifting is you're effectively just going through life on autopilot. So no intent, no personal decisions, no accountability. So if you imagine you're just in a shop, a gift shop, walking through the aisles, whatever takes your attention, you look at it, you pick it up. You buy it. You're not going there with any intention of purchasing something. You've just kind of spawned there. You're looking through the aisles and whatever grabs your attention, whatever you doom scroll onto is what you're going to pick for the day. So throughout the conversation with the devil in the book, Napoleon Hill effectively comes to the conclusion that unconscious thought and drifting is the evil. Now the inverse to this and the challenge is you really shouldn't be thinking every second of the day. And so to be in a state of constant thought, second-guessing yourself, trying to be 100% conscious all the time, no one does that. If you read the book Relentless, which talks about, you know, coaching some of the elite athletes, one of the first things in that book it says is don't think. So you shouldn't be thinking every second realistically. You know, intuition should be running most of your day. You only need short conscious moments to set the direction and also choose the environment. So here's an example of how the inverse to this can be true as well. Imagine you're, uh, able to live on two streets, right? Two, two high streets that you're living on. One has got McDonald's, KFC, all of, all of this bullshit food. No gym, and all the people around you are overweight, miserable, whatever, right? And then the other high street you can live on is full of people that are working out, fit, healthy, parks, nature, right? This option on the right here is an environment you can put yourself in and then you're safe to drift. So drifting over here requires, you know, an hour of planning. To find the property, you know, pick the right place to live, setting the intention of where you're going to be, choosing your environment. And then you could switch your brain off because you've put yourself in a place where you can let your intuition do the rest, right? So environment first, uh, the conscious thought, pick the right place, set your workspace up, create your environment, your house, your life, everything in order. And then once your environment is right, you're actually safe to drift, become more creative, follow your natural intuition and your own path because everything is aligned around you. So let's get into the meat of it. What is the anti-drift system? So this is what I use here. We're going to walk through each of these here. So the first thing you need to be doing is wake up at the same time every single day. So if you don't have a consistent wake-up time, you're done. You're done. You can't plan your day the night before. You can't choose to wake up and get to the gym first thing because Maybe some days you sleep through it, maybe you don't, right? So if you're in a situation at the moment where you've got a phone and that's the thing that wakes you up, you've got some sort of alarm or noise trigger, you're creating a negative association with waking up every day. Something that is unpleasurable, sound is horrendous as a method of waking up. You need to replace this with a sunrise alarm lamp. So if you go onto Google, Amazon, I have the Lumie one. You can purchase Lumie. Philips has a decent one as well. You need to get this on the other side of the room. Okay, so this, this seems like basic stuff. It is. Get a sunrise alarm, put it on the other side of the room, and now you've established your baseline. I will be up at 6 AM every day. Um, your, your brain isn't designed to wake up at 6 one day and then 7 the next. So, 6, 7. So, if you're, if you're on the weekend, and you think you're allowed to have a sleep-in or lie-in, that's not how your circadian rhythm works. That's not how your body works. Okay. You're designed to be waking up with the sunrise consistently, consistently, same time every day. So get the, get the alarm and wake up at the same time every day. That's what you need to be doing. No lines. I wake up at 6 AM, for instance. Now that you've got an established time, you can plan the night before for your day. Okay. Now I use a notepad to plan my day out. I hate planning things in detail. I really do not like having a strict schedule. It makes me feel like I may as well be back in an office or employed. I want to have freedom and go where the energy is because sometimes I feel hyped up to do my jump rope or my boxing footwork and go lift. So I should be doing that when my energy is leaning towards that. But the, the one thing, um, is the most important part of the day. And what this block is, is, is a set aside area where I have to work on the most important thing. Now this, this concept comes from the book, The One Thing by Gary Keller. Highly recommend you, you check this out. And the idea is that you are only planning the one thing that matters the most. So the one thing that you have to do tomorrow that's most important, that makes everything else easy, it should usually be a 2 to 4 hour block. So for instance, it might be create a YouTube video. That might be your one thing that you do each day. As long as you get that video done, you're on the right track. If you're trying to lose weight, maybe going for a 90-minute walk every morning is your one thing, right? But now you've got your consistent wake-up time. You've got your block for doing the most important thing, your one thing. The only part from there that is remaining is to create a way to interrupt your day so you can remind yourself to do the things that you need to. And so this has been one of my most positive life hacks with, if you will, I don't really believe in using technology to intervene in this kind of stuff, but you need to purchase an Apple Watch. Get one of these. Um, put it in black and white mode, right? Put it on airplane mode, turn off all notifications, uh, yep, like no Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi. You don't need the 5G or anything like that. And then this is going to be the thing that interrupts you from drifting. Because again, we talked about you want to be in a positive environment where you can drift, right? But sometimes you need to interrupt that to do other things. So the idea being you've got an Apple Watch as the interrupter. Which then allows you to use your intuition for periods of time, 2 hours, 3 hours to focus on your one thing, right? But then what if you get engrossed in that like I do and you forget about the gym altogether? Having a harsh alarm, something you set on your phone, is going to create that negative association with the next task. It just, I'm very sensitive to sound. And if I hear like one of those horrendous Apple iPhone alarms, like that enough is to, you know, a deal breaker for me. I just, I won't do the task and I also will just turn the alarm off because I won't, won't put up with that. Having an Apple Watch, you can do vibration alarms throughout the day. Now the key thing is here, you don't want too many of them because you need to stick to these. And so if you have an alarm going off every 2 minutes, your adherence is going to drop through the floor and you won't do any of it. So I like to have it for when I wake up and when I wake up, I immediately go for my walk. While I'm out on my walk, I usually have a set time that I get back, but sometimes I end up messing around making a coffee or having a banana or something and I spend too long. I have another tap on the wrist vibration to get into my one thing. Now I get tunnel visioned the minute I start focusing on something, like I get fully engrossed into that world and, you know, nothing else is going to pull me out of it. So then I have another tap for going to the gym, sauna, exercise. After that point, I usually have meetings, calls, coaching, all sorts of stuff that I am just, you know, jumping between different meetings. So I take the pressure off myself to complete the tasks. I do have a wind down because again, my brain will just stay racing and whatever meetings I've had from the end of the day. So the, this usually comes in around 8 PM. Although I do have to play around with it just depending on what time my calls are and certain things. So, and what time zone I'm in, in different locations and countries. So this one does move a little bit, but usually around 8 and then always sleeping by 10. So I have these two here, wind down. I'll usually like play some games or watch TV or YouTube or something like that, then sleep around 10. So that's the playbook. You need to wake up at the same time every day, specifically with the Dawn Wake Alarm. Cool. You need to then start planning your day the night before and only planning one, one important thing. Have reminders and cues to interrupt your day so you can, you can regain that focus.