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Towards the end of my last podcast, I had begun to speak about being on a role Anne being in a state flow. And, I just chanced to look at the timer and realized that actually I was up against it and I had, indeed, lost track of time. So picking up from where I left off, which was talking about of Gilbert Anne creative download. This state of flow is most likely to occur when we're doing something that we love. So there's another piece of advice Ideally, there should be 3 loves in your life.
First of all, you need to love yourself. You need to love what you're doing, and you need to love the people that you're doing it for. Again, that's something I, heard very recently on a Corbin, and love it. And I think it summarizes what, I guess most of us in coaching are on this planet to do. And of course, when we focus on things that really interest us and align with our highest values.
This is when the universe supports our actions, and then we hardly notice as we become this vessel through which productivity just streams. Anne for most people, disillusive and enviable state of flow, well it can't be pursued Anne accessed at will. But when it does, it's a wonderful situation to be in, and you will recognize it when it occurs. Because better things happen Anne momentum builds. Anne you know the old saying, momentum builds momentum.
The more success you meet with, the more likely you are to take a few risks. Anne, well, I suspect not very much happens unless we take risks. The fear of taking risks is common to a great deal of people. And why should this be? It's because safety is one of their highest value And this thing about momentum, well, that's simple. That's one of the laws of physics. Anne momentum is what quantifies the, the result of forces acting on moving objects.
Much smaller amounts of energy are required to keep something moving as opposed to shifting something from stationary into motion. Most of us these days drive automatic vehicles. But in the days when I learned to drive, the average car, had manual gears, and therefore, Anne had to learn how and when to change gears.
And the whole point of changing gears, which happens automatically in an automatic car, The whole point of that is that the car needs a great deal more energy to get going from stationary than when it's just cruising along down along straight road, such as a motorway, but even any of these sixty miles an hour minor roads, If the Corbin just going well, it takes minimal effort to keep it going, and actually is quite difficult to stop. And that brings me to another word, inertia.
If you consider a large body such as a truck, Well, when stationary, it's in a state of inertia as indeed a human body is when it's sitting in an armchair Anne relaxing and thinking about getting up and doing some work, but not feeling particularly inspired by the idea. So, this truck, it takes a great deal of energy to get it moving. And if the movement isn't maintained, then Well, the massive amount of energy required to get it moving in the first place has been wasted.
So let's just apply this again to daily life, find some examples of inertia. Suppose you've decided to go on a diet as many of us did at the beginning of the year. I dare say it's a favorite thing for a new year's resolution. Now, if you stuck with said diet, it's probably just about beginning to show now. And it will have had a better chance of success if you were exercising at the same time.
Because It takes quite a long time for the flap and the pounds to build up gradually, and you tend not to notice them, but then because you are noticing, when you're on a diet, and because it's, a bit of an effort to stick with a meal plan and maybe a gym Anne, You're establishing new habits and your resisting temptation, and it's tough. But then we get accustomed to a healthy, disciplined lifestyle. At least that's the idea. And eventually, those results are delivered. Anne we know.
We know darn well that if we stop and start, then No results at all are achieved from those sacrifices that we make. And it's super difficult. Every time we try and motivate ourselves to start over or maybe try a new regimen, or Get back in the habit of going to a gym, whatever, whatever. And speaking of gyms, if you want to turn your body, Then you've got to go to the gym multiple times per week, or maybe you want to try daily jogging. Or daily walking even.
It's a good exercise, so long as you do it with, with a bit of vigor and intention. Anne then you get into the habit. And you fit it into your life so that eventually it's no longer such an effort or an inconvenience, it becomes a routine. And then you notice slowly but surely that your shape is changing. But unless that exercise is regular, you just don't achieve the results. All your effort is wasted, essentially, and you lose momentum.
And then you stop, and then you've got to go through it all again psyching yourself up to start going to the gym, and that's why so many memberships are taken out in January where people have the best of intentions Anne they don't follow through, and that old, saying pops into their heads, ah, this stuff just doesn't work for me, or I'm big boned, or, I've got the wrong sort of genes, whatever, whatever. That's the old blame mentality kicking in. And here's another one.
You're sitting on the sofa. You're reading a book or you're watching a nice TV show, doesn't even have to be a great one, but it's easier to sit and watch that than get up and do something. And maybe even you're just chatting with your significant other, talking mindlessly, but you're comfortable. But it's time to get up and get started on dinner, and you can't summon up any enthusiasm. But once you get going, you start thinking about putting all the various, bits and pieces together.
For the dinner, it's quite enjoyable. You're doing actual work, but you're either on autopilot or you're enjoying a bit of creativity. So actually thinking about getting up and getting started was much less appealing than doing the actual work. And along the same lines, Consider getting out of bed in the morning. Once you've made the first move, it rarely occurs to us to go back to bed.
This is why some people have recognized that it's a good idea to keep the alarm clock sufficiently far away that it's necessary to leap out of bed in order to turn it off. Those of us who have our phones next to us using our phones as alarm clocks are really not doing ourselves any favors.
You must surely be aware of the amount of radiation that comes out of a mobile phone, even when it's not being charged, but having a phone in your hands or close to your head, which is where it's likely to be if you're using your phone as an alarm clock. And if you've got it plugged in overnight, which a lot of people do habitually, all those waves of radiation are going straight into your brain, and they do have a long term effect it's been measured.
So again, I'm slightly off the subject, but speaking about your, portable devices, iphones, iPads, and so forth, don't use them. Don't have them close to you while they're charging. You need to have them a good few feet away so that you don't get the full impact of the charge. And going back to habits, which is where I started from when I kind of added it on to the idea of getting in flow and taking advantage of it.
In the sixties, Doctor Maxwell Moults pointed out how momentum will actually help you establish routines. He says that it takes 21 days to form a habit. And once we've created a procedure that works on autopilot, remember as I mentioned, when I was talking about cooking the dinner, can't tell you how many of those I've done on autopilot, momentum will take over. And then This is the great thing little or no further effort is required.
And this is the kicker Estimates vary, but it can take as many as 60 days or even more. To break a habit, even a bad one. So if you have managed to kick a habit that you don't like, for example, smoking or vaping or biting your nails or whatever. If you've managed not to do it for I don't know, 40 days, 50 days, 60 days. Don't fall back into the habit, or you'll have to build up the momentum. All over again. And this is why alcoholics never refer to themselves as being cured.
If you speak to a former alcoholic, they won't call themselves former alcoholics, even though they're sober now, they will say that they're recovering alcoholics.
Something else, which is a killer when it comes to productivity, is dabbling, because when we dabble in subjects that we don't invest time and energy and interest in, maybe we don't or we simply can't because we haven't got enough time or whatever, whatever, perhaps we can't afford to do the thing full on, and we're just having a go or doing as much as we can.
This, is something that a lot of people setting up a business are confronted with because very often there are financial constraints and they're very reluctant to spend money on what they need to spend it on because they're not sure that the business will work. Maybe they need coaching, training of some form, and they don't want to invest in themselves, not realizing that investing in yourself is one of the best investments you can make.
Anne the trouble with dabbling is that no visible results will appear. And this is why we're encouraged to set goals or targets because in so doing, Then we have something to measure. And, another of my mentors is famous for saying, what you can't measure, you can't improve. Actually, I think his saying has got a bit more of a ring to it. It could be you can't measure, you can't multiply, and he was probably talking about money because that's one of his favorite topics.
But so long as we can measure our gains, then at least we can register where our attention still needs to be focused. That is assuming that the gains haven't measured up to the targets or the goals. It's important to recognize always the intention behind the focus or the target, whatever, because, for example, The goal might be to pass an exam. But why? This is something Tony Robbins does. He asks, why? Why? Why? Up to 7 times. Why is it necessary to pass that exam?
Is it because it would make somebody else happy. That's a really bad reason. Or is it to qualify in a profession? Or to obtain a certification so that more money might be earned. Okay. But why? Why do you need more money? Who told you to chase it? We are told consistently that money should never be the goal in itself because money is in fact a means to an end.
And I've thought, I'll do another podcast on that at some stage because we have all sorts of different goals There are the sort of goals that we wish to move towards. There are the sort that we want to move away from. Just let me give you some examples. Moving towards goals would be love, comfort, adventure, security, freedom, success Anne whatever your favorite, target might be.
And the sort of goals we might want to take steps to move away from would be loneliness, humiliation, failure, pain, uncertainty, and here's an interesting point, we will put far more effort into moving away from pain Anne we will into moving towards pleasure Anne that is a very severe imbalance, which doesn't lead to a happy life because psychologists have found that when we're too afraid to take action because of something that might happen we're
depriving ourselves of all the good things that would, come to fruition if we would put a bit more effort into chasing what we really want rather than avoiding what we're frightened of. So I'm up against it time wise Anne again. So I'll see you next time, and thank you for listening. So friends If you enjoyed this content and would rather not wait until next week for more of the same, you are warmly invited to check out my new membership program.
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