Motivation is Methodical

Foreign. Everyone, this is Sean Butner with start your day with a coach. Welcome to this morning show where we start your day with motivation. So you could go out there and crush it with whatever you're doing. So if you're joining me, say hi below here. That would be awesome. So I know where you're from. If you have any questions, post those down there. I'll follow up and answer them. And we'll get into the topic of today and this morning, which is motivation is methodical. So, so many times we, you know, leave our productivity or the way that we do things either unquestioned or kind of just up to chance. And, you know, as someone that grew up and studied a lot of systems work in school, you know, something that I found and I think a lot of analytical people tend to use are set processes, methodologies, habits. You know, these are all words for the same thing where you're very clear on what you need to do, because when you're clear on what you need to do next, it's very easy to take that step. So it's the athlete that is getting ready for sprint that's done it 50 bajillion times before that. Official scientific term, bajillion. And, you know, knows how to, you know, they have a way that they tie their shoelaces every time, how they talk to themselves, how they breathe. And so when they're focused and that gun goes off, they know exactly what they need to do and how to perform at their highest. Or it's, you know, someone on in an office that is writing code, say, and you have a way of diagnosing the problem, coming up with a solution, testing it, testing it, testing it, you know, banging it through edge cases and then releasing it so that you don't have problems. When people who are not technical use it for, you know, saying so, you know, there's these methodologies, you know, project management methodologies and how you run a large group of tasks to completion. You know, we see this all the time out in the world, and so many times we don't think to apply it to ourselves. So if you're struggling with feeling motivated, part of it could just be you don't have your process figured out yet. And I know sometimes process can be a dirty word or habits or methodology, because sometimes people don't really want to feel like they're locked into certain set of things. And I know I'm, I certainly fall into that category a lot, but I've realized that when I have my methodology and when I have the Set of steps that I am way more productive. You think less about what you need to do, so you get to doing it a lot quicker. And I think a lot of times output is getting the work done and then reflecting on it. So there's this cycle of do a bunch of stuff, see what happens, see how it measured up to the plan, how it measured up to your expectations, how you can tweak it into the future and then implement, you know, those changes. And I think that process is really fun. So I always up for tweaking my morning routines, tweaking how I do my work. I recently, you know, went through a course to, you know, gave me some marketing processes that was awesome for my, you know, business that I run out of this illustrious office slash bedroom. So, yeah, you know, it's such an important thing to have these things. So you keep motivated because like I said, like, if you don't have a process set, you spend a lot of time churning on making decisions, on trying to figure out what you need to do. A lot of times if you feel overwhelmed, that's another indication. So that said, that's get into the methodology that I really loved for improving your habits. So this is kind of like a weird meta thing. But, you know, I learned this in, you know, studying, like, information flows and systems, you know, systems thinking and all that. So the first thing you need to realize, if it's like your health habit, like, what do you do when you wake up for your morning habit? What do you do when you go work out? What do you do when you're at work and you hit a problem or task? You know, sometimes those are the same thing, but first thing to realize is, how is it done now? Right now, I'm not going to show this on the Instagram feed because it's backwards and it's garbage. So how is it done now? And all that is is like, if you take a look at what people are actually doing, what you are actually doing, how are you, you know, how, how. How is that gonna measure up? And that's opposed to the second part, which is how's it supposed to be done? So this is a really good way to see if the process isn't really could use some improvement. Like right here. Like, so if I have a morning routine and I know that I wake up and make coffee, take a shower, I, you know, eat breakfast, and then I'm ready for my day, if that's how it's supposed to be done, what I actually do is wake up, you know, drink coffee and Then, you know, goof off on the Internet for a while or, you know, don't do the stretches I supposed to do in that list that I made up off the top of my head. Like if what I'm actually doing is different from what I want to be doing or what I'm supposed to be doing or what I had planned, that means that there's a breakdown in the process. Either you need to start doing what, what you had planned, or the things that you have planned are just not working. You have to shuffle things around. So there's that kind of comparison and that like systems thinking. So what are you doing now? What is the team doing now? What is it supposed to be doing? Right? So you can figure out problems there. When you know how it's, when you have that figured out, then you can start to think like, how could we change this? You know, what will be done? How can we in the future change how things are supposed to be done so that it flows more efficiently, it flows easier, it brings more joy into your life. You know, those are the kind of things you want to be thinking of when you're thinking about your habits, on how you do, like I said, health, career, how you operate in relationships. Like when you see someone, are you explosive, saying hi or are you like standoffish? Are you always checking what you're saying so you don't like say something stupid, you know, whatever that is, you know, but you know, I digress. So how are things supposed to be done? And then I might have done these out of order. Then there's also how will it be implemented? Oh yeah, yeah, no, no, this is good. So, so you start with what you're doing. You start thinking about, you know, how the process was supposed to be. You change how the process is supposed to be to maybe fit your better and to fit your style better, to fit your joy better or whatever. And then you figure out how you turn that into tangible actions. Right? So how you're going to do that in the real world. So if you can think about it, it's physical world, you know, in your head. In your head, physical world, right. That's another way to kind of explain the, these four things. Usually it's drawn in a quadrant and I was not prepared for that. So any case, oh, maybe I can. I'll do something on the fly. Ad lib. So yeah, essentially how it's, it's backwards now, done now, supposed to be, will be done. Supposed to be done, right? So you got like physical world and in your head, the idea world. So that's super helpful in trying to diagnose how to make incremental improvements in a system, in your habits and your methodologies. Because again, when you have something that is working for you, it's those little tweaks that build mastery and make it fun. Like, for me, at least, it makes it so much more fun. When you're tweaking things, you're figuring out how to do it more efficiently. Sometimes taking that step back from how you're actually doing it and being like, you know, how's this supposed to get done? You start to see things that you're like, oh, like, why am I walking around the house three times when I could just cut through this room? Or whatever. It's terrible. Example. But any case, guys, that is why I think motivation is methodology and how important it is to really think critically about the things that you do, the habits that you have, the processes that you follow, and, you know, tweak it so that you can keep moving forward. So hope you enjoyed this video, and I will see you again next tomorrow morning. Next tomorrow morning. Need more coffee. All right, guys, have a great Wednesday, and I'll talk to you later.