188 - Seeking Inner Wisdom with Automatic Writing
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One of the best ways to get your ego, anxiety, and worry out of the way so you can tap into and listen to your higher self is through Automatic Writing or Stream of Consciousness Writing or Journaling. This is different than typical journaling in that you're really trying to remove all conscious thought and just let words flow out through your pen without any judgment. When you do this, you're going to discover what aligns with your soul. If you're facing a challenge in business or you're wondering what type of business would really light you up and get you excited about it every...
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187: Discovering & Trusting The Wisdom Within
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We all have a secret within us that can help us make decisions that align with our values and our Souls. When we learn to tap into this internal guide, we also tend to produce much quicker decisions, which will help us execute and impliment our businesses more quickly. In the next 10 minutes, you're going to discover your intuition. What it is, how to become more aware of it, how to trust it, and how to tell the difference between your intuition and your fears, anxiety, or ego. Ready to Replace Your Day Job with Work You Love? If you're stuck in a job you hate, feeling burned out,...
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186: Perfect Perfect vs Business Perfect
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Strriving to do your very best can often lead to perfectionism, which almost always leads to procrastination. In this episode you're going to learn the difference between "Business Perfect" and "Perfect Perfect." In business, you don't have time to hit perfect, but you do want to do your very best. So how do you reconcile those two things? You'll completely shift your mindset on "perfect" after this short 10 minute episode. Ready to Replace Your Day Job with Work You Love? If you're stuck in a job you hate, feeling burned out, and lacking passion, I'd love to jump on a call to help...
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185: Helping You Believe The Impossible is Possible
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The only limitation to what's possible for us as humans is our imagination and our belief. Nobody could run a 1 mile race faster than 4 minutes until Roger Bannister did it in 1954. Since then over 1,500 people have officially run it in that time. In this episode I want to help you believe the impossible is possible. That your wildest imaginations can come true. Expand your belief and realize we've already done so much and we're going to do even more. These are exciting times and you are part of the incredible chage coming. Ready to Replace Your Day Job with Work You...
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184: What I Wish I Could Give My Kids
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183: Keeping Preparation from Becoming Procrastination
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Taking the time to prepare for something important is a good thing. But what happens when we shift from preparation to procrastination? When you constantly find something else that needs to be done before you take action? When you have a long list of details you need to do but most of them don't really impact the outcome. This is something that holds a lot of entrepreneurs back from taking action toward their biggest goals. Let's talk about it and why it happens. Ready to Replace Your Day Job with Work You Love? If you're stuck in a job you hate, feeling burned out, and...
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182: The Secret to Reaching Your Goal
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After decades of research and personal experience, I have discovered the absolutely critical element to achieving any goal. It's going to seem obvious to you, but the most obvious answer is usually the right answer and it also happens to be the one we most often over look. So, if you're looking to do something big, this is where to start. Right here with this episode. I promise you, if you do what I share in these 10 minutes, you will move closer to your goal. Ready to Replace Your Day Job with Work You Love? If you're stuck in a job you hate, feeling burned out, and lacking...
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181: Creating a New You
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If you could be anyone you wanted to be, who would you be? Not a real person, but how would you describe this person you would become? Courageous? Brave? Disciplined? Proud? Confident? If you could make a new version of yourself, what would you put into this new you? The great news is, you can! How would you feel as this new person? How would that new feeling impact your life? I talk about a practice you can put into use today that will create a brand-new version of you. It's simple, it doesn't take long, and it has an amazing impact on your life. If you love this show,...
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180: How Your Task List is Hurting Your Productivity
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If you find you end each day with way too many items still on your task list, this episode is for you. If you actually make a task or to-do least each day, most of the time it's more of a "wish list" than a to-do list. It's kind of like a "hope to do list." After this episode, you're going to go from feeling overwhelmed in the morning and defeated every evening to feeling completely in control at the start of each day and victorious at the end. The foundation of a fulfilling life is doing what you're uniquely gifted to do. If you're not sure what that is for you,...
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179: Finding Motivation When You're Stuck
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This episode is about getting motivated and increasing your motivation over time. When you feel stuck it can be incredibly difficult to find the motivation to move forward. But it's not as difficult as you may think. You're going to love this quick fix to being stuck. If you're stuck in a job you hate, feeling burned out, and lacking passion, I'd love to jump on a call to help you discover a way to replace your 9-5 job with an online business that aligns with your purpose and allows you to finally live the fulfilling life you desire and deserve. I'd love to connect with you...
info_outlineOur brains can only handle a certain number of decisions before they just slow down.
There’s a fascinating study put out about prisoners facing parole boards. Here's an article about in the New York Times. They looked at 1,100 decisions over the course of one year.
Prisoners facing the parole board in the morning were paroled about 70 percent of the time.
Prisoners facing the parole board in the afternoons were paroled less than 10 percent of the time.
The study indicated, the judges ability to make sound decisions wore down as time went by in the day.
A closer look at this study shows decisions in favor of parole would spike up right after a lunch or afternoon break.
A lot of decisions - or big difficult ones.
Last Wednesday in episode 127 we talked about how we could increase our self-discipline if we focused on having it in one area alone. So instead of trying to cut smoking, learn a new skill, eat healthier and start exercising, just focus on doing one of them at a time until it becomes a mindless habit and then move to the next one.
But, this idea goes beyond just our projects. It applies to all of the decisions we make each day.
The less we have to make, the more disciplined we’ll be in making good ones.
Eliminate the unnecessary decisions
I saw a very successful Facebook friend of mine the other day posted a photo of what he eats every day. No, not a bunch of photos showing each item, but one photo with the food he eats every day… as in the same thing.
This friend said, “By eliminating the need to decide on what I’m going to eat, I free my mind up to focus on important decisions that matter more than what I’m going to eat.
Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama
This same friend said he owns 20 or more identical polo shirts other than the color. He wants to eliminate that as a fatigue factor. The same pants, the same shirt… every day. No need to agonize over what goes well with what and if you have a pair of shoes to match.
Mark Zuckerberg was once asked “Why do you wear the same exact T-Shirt every day? His response was, and I quote:
"I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community,” He went on to point out that every decisions is using our “decision energy tank.”
President Obama said “I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing because I have too many other decisions to make.”
Steve Jobs wore his iconic black shirt everywhere he went. Whether it was to introduce the brand new iPhone or going in for a normal day at work, he had that same black shirt on. It was for the same reason the president and Zuckerberg cited. Decisions fatigue.
If you’ve ever spent a day at the mall, you know this decisions fatigue is real. in fact, I’m suspecting this is how Cinnabon has made a fortune. By preying on mentally fatigued shoppers who would normally say no to something like a sticky gooey cinnamon bun. Brilliant!
Just for Decision Days
This doesn’t mean you throw out all of your fun clothes, but it means, when you wake up Monday morning, you’re going to go into the closet, grab a shirt (they’re all the same) pants and shoes and go into work. No decisions no fatigue.
You can have another section of your closet where you keep your fun going out clothes. That’s fine on the weekends or for an evening event. But, for daily work… keep it to the same thing and save that decision energy for the important stuff.
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I have to admit, I’m entrigued. I’m working on so many things at once, I’m always feeling this decision fatigue and I know I would benefit from something like this. I’ve already started this with my weekday breakfasts and I may even do the same for lunch.
This isn’t easy for me… i love food. My wife could do this without any problems, but I thrive on variety in my food.
The clothing I think would be much easier for me. It just means I’ll have to buy a week of identical clothes so I don’t have to think about it.
Will you try this with me and report back on how it worked for you? I really want to see if this will help with self-discipline.
Let me know if you will… you can reach me on Twitter at PDesmondAdams or send an email to [email protected]
Now.. to decide what that one piece of clothing is going to look like. Haha…