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Are You Being Productive?

by digilifeenabled | Jan 20, 2019 | ecommerce, family, health, online business, Resilience, Safety, Value, well-being

None of us want to be guilty of being unproductive, whether that’s in our work performance, sporting performance, financial performance, I mean, life’s too short to waste it, so any reasonable person wants to use their time in a productive manner.

In fact our western society is set up to increase productivity in every area of life, so no matter where you look we’re encouraged to do more and get more.

In my late teens and early twenties, like most guys, improving my physical athletic performance was high on my list of priorities. “No pain no gain” was the given mantra. So I trained hard 6 days a week, often twice a day. Even after formal coaching sessions had finished, I did extra training on top, because ‘more was better’.

The result?

I got injured, but still trained through and with those injuries to the extent I needed multiple corrective surgeries.

Why?

Because “No pain, no gain” was my mantra, and the idea of rest was a non-productive cop out in my mind.

A Half Truth Mantra

But the problem was, my mantra was a half-truth, in that it’s true pain is involved in any kind of development, so embrace rather than reject it, but it’s only half true because pain is also a design feature signal that warns us ‘something is wrong’. You know those dashboard warning lights on your car?

Please don’t ignore them, it doesn’t matter how urgent your journey is, please check out what the manufacturers manual says about those lights, otherwise you might not make it to your destination at all.

And, that’s what happened to me athletically, I didn’t make it to my destination.

And do you know who was to blame?

Me and my half truth mantra. I thought I knew better than the design feature signal.

The Productivity of Rest

You see the evidence from the world of sport science is that ‘quality rest’ is fundamental to ‘quality growth’ and that overtraining and minimising rest, will harm you and your development. Any coach worth their salt will tell you that.

Did you know Usain Bolt sleeps in the hours before he races?

That’s even after he’s had a quality 8hrs sleep the night before by the way.

The benefit of that natural, drug free but essential reset and boost prepares his body to do what no other body has done athletically in recorded history.

So, is rest a productive, or non-productive activity?

Having worked many years in the corporate world, I know what many Execs think of ‘rest’, and I’ve witnessed their abysmal decision making as a result. (Did you realise sleep deprived individuals perform worse at ANY given task than those who have just above the legal level of alcohol in their bloodstream?) But, taking the hard lesson I learned from my teens and twenties I want to share with you a couple of parallel lessons I’ve learned when it comes to being productive, particularly as it applies to learning and investing in new activities such as starting an online business from scratch, something I did while holding down a full time job and raising a young family with very little spare time and spare cash floating around:

No.1 Set a balanced schedule which includes ‘rest’ and stick to it.

Recognise you need some outgoing time and finance (pain) to make any business a success, but balance it according to where you are right now and where you want to get to.

You need to factor in a break/rest point, and realise that break/rest point is actually necessary for you to be productive and grow.

Many people don’t get started because they’re intimidated by what seems to be the immensity of the task at hand, they know where they’d like to be, but don’t know what first step to take. So they don’t start.

So work out a time limit you’re comfortable to committing to in your current situation, recognising your current situation is not permanent, but it’s your starting point, then start from your starting point.

So, if you can only afford 30 minutes a night to study new skills or set up new platforms, set a 30 minute timer, and work at it for 30 minutes, not 31 minutes, then stop and move on. But, don’t drop off at 29, 28, 27 minutes either! Being disciplined in this aspect will focus your mind to the task at hand.

Try it, set the time limit, then move on to what you have to move onto, and that could even be ‘sleep’.

Likewise with your budget, sit down and calculate what marketing budget you can afford to commit to now based on your circumstances. If you have a marketing budget of $1,000, for a few months don’t spend $1,000 in a few weeks. Set a limit and keep to it, it will focus your mind, otherwise, your mind will be tempted to be pulled in all sorts of directions. Likewise don’t just stop marketing after a few weeks either when you’ve underspent, because you won’t have enough data after only a few weeks to make an informed decision on what is or isn’t working, you need to commit to the process.

Set an alarm to finish the task.

Set a budget for the task.

No.2 Listen and put into action advice from proven coaches

Like my half truth fitness mantra, I came to the online world with some half truths. Thankfully, I found a community of online business practitioners and mentors who challenged and corrected those half truths, and now we can run an online business based on our values of INTEGRITY, COMPASSION, & FAMILY WELL-BEING.

The truth is, we wouldn’t be running an online business today without the support and direction from those mentors. That is why we’re sign posting others who are interested in starting an online business from scratch to those very same mentors.

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Here’s to your online success!

Stephen

The Mind Body Connection

by digilifeenabled | Oct 19, 2018 | health, Positive thinking, Purpose, Resilience, Value, well-being

This week I wanted to share a thought with you about the Mind-Body Connection.

Did you know it’s only since the middle ages that the mind, body and spirit have been considered separate?

Before that, we were considered whole integrated people.

Writing as I am from the UK, it’s noticeable how our Western culture has been influenced by reductionism – splitting into parts and specialisation. Each aspect is now cared for separately: surgeons for the physical, psychiatrists for the mental and clergy for the spiritual.

Matters of health tend to be viewed by many as purely physical however, it’s not that simple. For example, the Reticular Activating System connects the cortex and the sub-brain; physical stimulation affects the mind and mental stressors affect the body, generating physical responses. In other words, our physical state of health affects our mental health and vice-versa.

Let us look for a moment at what we think, believe and meditate on and it’s relation to our physical state.

The belief of the mind has enormous influence over our physical abilities to the extent that sports psychology is the determining factor in many athletes physical performance.

Most people know the basic story of Roger Bannister, who, on May 6, 1954, broke the 4 minute mile with a time of 3 minutes 59 seconds. But what many people forget is that runners had been chasing the goal seriously since at least 1886 and that the challenge involved the most brilliant coaches and gifted athletes in North America, Europe, and Australia. For years runners had been striving against the clock, but the elusive four minutes had always beaten them to the extent that it had become as much a psychological barrier as a physical one.

When Bannister eventually broke the record, even his most ardent rivals breathed a sigh of relief. At last, somebody did it! And once they saw it could be done, they did it too. Only 46 days after Bannister’s feat, John Landy, an Australian runner, broke the barrier again, with an even faster time of 3 minutes 58 seconds! Then, just a year later, three runners broke the four-minute barrier in a single race. Over the last half century, more than a thousand runners have conquered a barrier that had once been considered hopelessly out of reach (the current record is 3 minutes 43 seconds).

Many studies have reviewed this phenomena of a sudden surge of success in the physical realm. They concluded that a positive mindset based on a belief of what could be possible is actually what helped those runners beat that record.

So does that mean we can all run a sub-4 minute mile if we simply believe it?

No. Because as whole integrated people there are other factors around health and fitness we also need to take into consideration. It does mean, however, that when it comes to success and wellbeing, in whatever sphere of life, what we think, believe and meditate on is key.

So, take control of those limiting thoughts that come your way; remember you have a purpose in this world that you can fulfil through a life of integrity.

If you have a dream in your heart, you don’t have to work out every detail of it before you take your first step. Instead, take one small step today and leave the other steps for tomorrow. Focus on what you can do now. Believe you will succeed and you will!

Here’s to fulfilling your dream!

Ruth

The Power of Positive Thinking

by digilifeenabled | Sep 27, 2018 | family, health, Positive thinking, Purpose, well-being

Hi it’s Ruth here!

This week I wanted to share a thought with you about the impact of both negative and positive thinking on our physical well-being.

Did you realise negative thoughts actually impact our physical health in a negative way, and positive thoughts impact our physical health in a positive way?

Both my parents were in Medicine and they used to (in fact still do) say; “A merry heart is good medicine”, and based on that statement, I wanted to share the following fun experiment with you, but you’ll need a partner to help, so why not print this off and go and get someone and follow the instructions below:

1) Close your eyes and think for a moment of a time where you felt really down. You doubted your ability to accomplish that next step in your career move; your boss had put you down. You didn’t think you were worth anything…

The next step requires a partner!

2) Now raise your arms to your sides as if imitating an aeroplane!

3) Ask your partner to try to push your arms down to your side again.

What happens?

4) Now shut your eyes again and imagine a time when you could conquer the world! Anything was possible! That next career move, no problem!

5) Raise your arms in the air again to the side.

6) Get your partner to push your arms down.

What happens…?

See the power of positive thinking in your mind!

This demonstrates the truth of the adage: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” (Henry Ford).

I tried this at a get together with my friends the other evening and the results were amazing!

When I had negative mental thoughts I was physically weaker and my arms were easily pushed down by my friend Jackie, but when I had positive mental thoughts I was physically stronger and Jackie had to struggle to get my arms down. Our other friends watching just laughed and thought we’d planned it or were making it up, but we weren’t. How I was thinking mentally, really affected my physical strength at the same time. So why don’t you try the experiment and let us know your results?

You see, whether it’s a new business, a new skill, a new direction, you have the power within you to make a success of whatever you do by thinking positively, or to let yourself down by thinking negatively, so think positively!

I’m not saying you can think something and it happens, but there’s a principle here. If you allow something to become big in your mind, if you let it consume you, you are giving it permission to happen, so be careful what thoughts you dwell on. Don’t listen to negative thoughts or comments made about you!

You have the power within you to succeed at whatever you turn your mind to, if you tell yourself you can, you will be able to do it!

Have a positive weekend!