I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment, the difference between a reactive and a proactive mindset. We've been a bit deeper the last couple of Mondays, haven't we.
They've been good starts to the week. I think that being said, I thought we should change gears a little bit today, and it's still a really really important message about two different types of mindset, the difference between a reactive and a proactive mindset, which I think is something that we probably all conceptually understand because it's sort of self explanatory. But when I talk about reactive, I'm talking about this part of our primitive brain where we don't
take the initiative. We let the events and the outside world determine our actions and then guess what. We end up doing things with urgency or immediacy, and you know, typically increasing the level of stress and decreasing the level of performance in which we do these tasks. Set. The one that jumps into my mind with reactive has got to be food. And I'm sure many of you can relate to this, But if I'm hungry, it's game over. It's too late. I do not make good food choices
when I'm hungry when I'm proactive. On the other hand, I'm actually really good with my food. If I'm organized and I'm prepping my food and I've got my ingredients, I'm really really good. If I'm not, it's just I'm hungry, I'm grumpy. There's a gap that needs to be filled, and I'm just going to feel it. And the nutritional even though I understand what is nutritional on what isn't, it doesn't even almost enter the equation when I'm making
those poor choices. Whereas if we're proactive, it means that you forward plan. It means that it gets done before it needs to be done. But if I'm giving an example on the proactive side, it probably is my training. I'm really bad with my training if I don't know what I'm going to do the next day. If I am, I'm just gonna go by feel. I don't do much. The day gets away from me. For me, I need to plan that workout in my calendar. It literally goes in the calendar and then it says this is what
I'm going to do. I might write lower body weight, so I might write run, I might write swim, I might run, bike ride. I know what I'm going to do, and there are times where I'll swap it out depending on how I feel. But there's a default there, there's something there that is actually planned that I'm already accountable to. And this is a big thing when it comes to working out, half the battle is thinking about what to do. Let's face it, life is chaotic enough without us contributing
to that cause. And I don't meet a single person that doesn't want to be more productive. It's you know, we all feel like we don't have enough time, and we all feel our life's too chaotic, and then we do all these things that throw fuel on that fire, and we're actually part of the problem when we're really just blaming other things where we could actually control our own destiny a lot more So, I think the thing here that's in important is being proactive. And being reactive
doesn't mean you do a different thing. It means you do the same thing ahead of time. You're not living a different existence. You're not having a different life. You're just having a more organized, less stressful life because you did these things when you had the opportunity to, rather than at the last minute. So I've got homework for you. It's a nice, simple one this week. You need to identify just one thing, one thing that you do reactively
all the time. I don't mean a one off occurrence that, Oh I wish I'd been a bit more organized for that. I wish I've got ahead of time and done that three weeks ago. I could have saved himself a whole out of grief and heartache. I mean, this is the thing that you, either subconsciously or even out loud, say to yourself, why do I keep doing this? And it might be something as simple as you pack your gym bag the night before and you put it by your bed.
There could be a million different things like that, and I'm gonna tell you what they are. You need to identify the one thing in your life that you are doing reactively and it is causing you stress and or not being done as well or as consistently as it could be. And I can't wait to hear your feedback.