12 days ago I started a diet. This is not a weight loss thing for me. I am all about the efficiency of my mind and body. The goal was to reset my hormones.
Yesterday I had another detox…fuck…I had SO many in these last 12 days. It makes me think all the other detoxes and hacks I did in the past were not systemized enough to make a real effect or difference.
The body has too many defenses it compensates too well.
If you do not keep the brain staying safe and calm anything you try will not work. The brain will not let go of the toxins within the fat.
Toxins are everywhere and we are so used to them now that we don’t even notice them. It’s considered normal and that does not help.
I am starting to get used to drinking an average of 90 ounces of water without any other acidic thing going in.
Today I hit my floor on a few of my stats I have been wrestling with for the past year.
Muscle levels are at the highest I have been. I have used so many other things; diets, fad ideas, detoxes, and hacks. You name it and I have enhanced it.
I always wanted to be at 15% body fat, but I’ve never gotten under 17%-maybe in my late 20s or early 30s.
Now I am in my 40s and I am about to check off another new goal. A goal I did not know I wanted. I now want to get under 190 pounds.
This is an impressive thought.
I was happy with what my body was doing before.
It is true we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t know what good feels like so we don’t chase it.
I am glad chasing down becoming efficient. It is my curse in life. To consistently chase more efficiency out of my mind and body has been a journey I now have fallen in love with.
Now I know how good I can feel. Feeling this good is what others need to know.
I am now considering building these huge results into my program in addition to The Belief Breakthrough Sessions that make massive changes in my clients life.
This will enhance so many functions within you. How you operate will be outrageous! The awesome part is it’s a 3-month process and I got these results in 12 days.
Patrick Lerouge here, your Productivity Specialist. I help you get more things done in less time. I do that by breaking through your glass ceilings, enhancing your mind, and getting you to perform 10% better. Now you’re probably a high performer. You probably do a lot. I’m going to tell you a place that’s a hidden curse for you. It’s this world of maintaining this is The High Achievers Kryptonite.
As high achievers, we can produce a lot because we move fast. We think we can maintain our current position, our current place. That is a big fat no-no.
Think about starting to work out. Did you do it five days a week forever? No, it doesn’t work like that.
You may have started working out five days a week and that was hard. It took you to your wall. Once you reached your goal, you actually have to bring it down a little bit. So instead of going five days a week, you might go three days a week, because the long-term game is to make this a lifestyle.
Whatever you’re doing is a lifestyle in my world, enhancing your mind and body is you. It’s your lifestyle. So we have to take you to your wall and then bring it back down. So in the workout analogy, you would actually bring yourself down to three days a week. So you now can maintain that pace. Do that for a certain amount of time until you hit another wall, which then you change it up again.
But now, you’re no longer even thinking about actually working out. It’s how you’re changing up the workout that you’re already doing in a certain amount of time-the parameters change. Those parameters are always building on a foundation that you already built after the first time. What I see continuously is everyone going balls to the wall, until they break, until they burn out. Set your goal so you can thrive.
Do what you do well. After that goal is done, stay with it, but do it to a lower degree. That’s what’s going to help you maintain at a ridiculous level. Like the turtle and the hare, you have to keep on doing something slow and steady. Slow and steady. As you learn, that’s where things start to change for you.
Start to learn and grow exponentially. It will start compounding on itself. Learn how to maintain properly, don’t just go, go, go.
If you could learn a skill 2x as faster what would you do?
How would that help you in your life now?
Take what you want to learn and have it be able to come into your life and impact you immediately.
The way I have done this with my clients is simple. First, I must break a bad habit we all have. The habit of needing to take a skill and tinker with it; work with it in your own privacy and attempt to get it perfect before you use it.
This is a curse. We must make it perfect before we allow ourselves to use it.
It is not about that.
I also see the flip side, which I am guilty of.
When clients just run off and haphazardly do it. Put whatever they learn into high stack application.
I do not want you to do that either.
To get this right you will have to go through a small sequence of steps.
After you learn something, you begin to talk about it. The more you talk about it the more ingrained the habit of doing it becomes. The more detailed and with ease you’re able to talk about it, the easier your body will be able to perform the action.
You will know for a fact that you can do it when you are able to talk someone through the skill.
So, I tell all my clients to stop trying to memorize the skill and action. You must make it your own.
Everything I teach you is based on what is happening inside of me. I cannot tell you the exact way you will act doing every skill. I am going to give you the playbook, but you must make it your own.
So, you must teach it. That means it must come off in your own way. That is why I can keep on going and going and going. It is because when I learn something, I teach it. As I teach it, I know I can do it.
That is what I want for you. Start teaching what you are learning; as you take something in, try to have a conversation about it consistently.
Let us be clear, it does not mean that you’re getting paid to do it. It does not mean that you are a rocket scientist or a know-it-all. This is a mechanism of how you learn.
By you having open conversations with the people around you about what you have learned, you will excel your ability to learn it. Something like, ‘this is what I learned today, and this is what it means to me, and this is how I’m going to apply it’.
As you do that countless times, you are going to realize that you’re already doing the thing that you’re teaching.
So, to make this tip simple, it comes down to three words:
Learn
Teach
Do
That is the key. That is how you are going to get more things done faster. It is a matter of how you do it now.
Here is why you could be much better than where you are.
Stop using crutches to get through tough, uncomfortable times.
I’m going to tell you why I stopped drinking. Yeah, this is one of those stories.
So listen up…
Not saying it’s bad if you do have a couple of drinks.
I learned that I was using drinking as a crutch. I was drinking to calm myself down in tough situations. I had a networking event to go to and I was so amped up. I believed I was able to be comfortable without a drink, as well as I wanted to focus.
Having an awareness of the way I was handling networking events was work to get to but I wanted to do this event on my own accord.
It was an epic fail as expected. I failed because every time before I used a crutch to succeed. All the practice I had, I used some type of substance with me. A drink, some type of food, anything that would calm the nerves. I couldn’t depend on myself.
The point to this is…
Start learning to depend on yourself!
Completely focused, completely being the true you. That’s what you must do. Focus on being comfortable being you. So you are good whenever you want.
That’s why I stopped drinking.
With that being said, I do have drinks every now and then that’s not what this post is all about. The post is about not using crutches to make yourself better.
You are awesome the way you are. start practicing being you; focus on that trust in yourself, but you also need practice without it.
An easy way to practice this is if you already have a drink or two at night to calm yourself, attempt to do something without a substance or crutch to bring you into a calm state.
Be able to stay calm in those vulnerable times, it takes you dropping those crutches those vices that come easy to us. So when the big time does come, you’re already ready.
Week three in January is going to be all about hard, fun, truths.
Truths that are all about enhancing who you are inside. Getting a handle on the internal struggles that cause the external battles
To start a Productive habit believe it or not defense is your best offense habit
We are now closing upon this short video series on solidifying positive habits. In order for you to do that you have to realize productivity is not always being on the offensive and taking action. You need a strong defense as well.
You must guard the environment around you. Look at the environment that you’re working in.
Is it a mess?
That mess is a symbol and will dictate what happens in your head. If you look around and there’s paperwork everywhere; if there’s clutter in all the places then your mind will be cluttered.
Brain fog and indecision will be close behind.
The thing that you need to focus on is your environment. Get honed in on what’s happening around you and make it safe to be productive.
Here is an example:
Say you’re working out doing walking lounges in the free weight section and people are have thrown all the weights everywhere.
How safe does your organism feel? It will be more aware of not hitting a weight than proper form.
It’s the same thing with productivity and getting to your goals. You have to create an environment around you that streamline and clean. One that you can easily see so your organism feels safe to move at a faster pace.
That is when your body’s going to go; it’s going to move with ease and grace.
For you to be productive, it’s not always about taking action. It’s about clearing up your space so you can be productive.
