What happens when we're holding ourselves back?
It’s a maddening feeling, right?
Perhaps you’re doing all the “right things” and yet you still find yourself making barely any forward progress. What’s worse is that the progress you do make feels like a draining slog.
The good news is…
We can discover a lot about what's going on behind the scenes when we take the body’s point of view into account.
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Deep work does not need to feel like hard work.
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Too often we implicitly accustom ourselves to the feeling of toil. We swallow the cultural standards of effort without chewing them up and seeing if they sit well with us.
I think each of us is pretty familiar with the experience of meaning to do something and — for whatever reason — not doing it.
I find it can be particularly challenging when running a business.
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In The Heroic Mind program we talk about posture as the canary in the coal mine. It’s a fairly reliable compass for when we’re making choices that work for us vs those that don’t.
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For example: take any big goal you set for yourself (lose X pounds, hit such-and-such in revenue, etc).
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What happens when you say it out loud?
The difference between burnout and breakthrough hinges on a key, defining moment.
Up until that moment they actually look quite similar.
How do I know?
This year alone I’ve had coaching sessions with over 250 people who consider themselves high-performers: entrepreneurs, tech developers, executive coaches, CEOs, and non-profit leaders. I typically spend between an hour or an hour and a half talking with each of them the first time we meet, which breaks down to 2 full weeks’ worth of discussion on the challenges of peak performance (let alone our subsequent sessions together).
Inevitably when they reach out to me, they’re in the midst of a wild transition in their personal or professional lives.
They’ve come to a point where they realize things can’t continue as they have been.
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