Back into my Routine

My goal has pretty much been the same over the last few years. I want to make an impact on the people around me. I want to do that by reading, listening to podcasts, watching YouTube videos, and then sharing that information in a way that I think people can use and understand. The unique thing about all three of those things is that if that is not how you usually consume information, it can be hard to either pay attention for that period of time, or you may just have a hard time understanding it if it’s not right in front of you happening. So, I want to take that information and share it in a way that people can use. My issue lately has been that I just haven’t had time to sit down and do those things.  Now, over the last week or so, I have finally been able to get back into my groove and I am having the issue of consuming so much information that I can’t keep up. I’ve had a few ideas in my head lately about things I can write about, but they just didn’t seem like enough. Then late last week, something happened. I came across a podcast that I don’t listen to very often, but the guest intrigued me. I listened to it on the way to work and the whole time I was listening I kept thinking about how I couldn’t wait to relisten to it and take notes.

The Podcast: The Reinvention Podcast with Jim Rome

The Guest: It was episode 82, the guest was a man named Brian Cain

Here are some of the things that I took away from the episode.

The first thing he said that got my attention was to be intentional. I’ve heard this hundreds of times and probably repeated it myself five to ten times. He said to be intentional you need to do four things.

1.    Know what you want.

2.    Schedule it

3.    Measure your progress.

4.    Reflect and Refocus.

I feel like I am only good at two of these things. I know what I want, and I reflect and refocus, but I still haven’t found a way to use my calendar like I want and I’m not sure how to measure everything.

The next thing he said was the first thing that really caught my attention. He said that one of the questions he gets asked the most is about trying to get one percent better every day. How do you actually do that?  He said that someone told him that one percent of your day is fourteen minutes and twenty-four seconds. That means if you take one of your weaknesses and you spend fifteen minutes a day on it, you will get one percent better every day.  How can that number be so low? If that’s all it takes, why aren’t we doing that every single day of our lives?

He also said that motivation comes from movement. If we keep waiting for motivation to hit us, it’s not going to happen. We need to start moving in the right direction, then motivation will show up. I feel like I have a few things in my life that I have been waiting twenty years for the motivation to hit. Maybe it’s time I start to move.

I have lots of other notes, but I encourage everyone to go out and listen to the episode. I don’t know how you like to listen to podcasts, that’s why I just listed the episode. But one last thing that I wanted to mention, He said to be obsessed. I think the only thing I’ve ever been obsessed with in my life is baseball. I need to be more obsessed about things. As he was talking about this, he had a great line that is going to stick with me for a very long time. He said in order to be obsessed; we have to live in sin.  We have to spend our time in our

Strengths

Interests

Needs

If we spend time outside of those things, we can’t be obsessed. We won’t be able to stay focused on something long enough to get obsessed with it.

Sorry for the absence and I feel like the format of this was a little bit different, but hopefully I am back on track and ready to continue to share everything I am consuming!