Today's Topic: Pause for a Bit
Hi I'm Doug Holt with Author of Your Own Story and this is your Daily Growth Hack
where each day we give you a tip, trick or insight to help you up level, what we
call the Five to Thrive that is your mind, your body, your soul, your
relationships and yes your business. I was talking to a business owner not a
coaching client of mine but I was actually getting an ART session done so
this is an Act of Release Technique to actually help relieve strain in your
joints I was having some shoulder issues from my workouts and past injuries that
I've had and I was talking to this gentleman and what he was telling me it
was in the area of his relationship he was actually telling me about his
marriage and you you know this is our first session so he was just talking to
me about it and he was very open and transparent which I really enjoyed but
one of the things he told me about was he was actually focused on what he
should do he's like I just think about this all the time like what are my next
steps what are the things that I should be doing and I just can't stop thinking
about it in fact I think about it so much that actually I'm not making sales
calls I'm not calling customers back I'm not marketing myself it's really going
down from a spiral now you got to understand he knew coming in that I
coach business owners because the person that referred me was a client of mine
but when he was sharing this with me he had no idea that I talk about the
five-two thrive right he was just sharing his relationship and happened to
relate it to the fact that his business wasn't working well but what he said was
really important what he said was I'm focused so much on this and trying to
solve this problem happened to be in the area of his relationship that it was
just consuming him and so what I told him I said hey look are you looking for
advice here and he said yeah I'd like to know what you think I said look I think
what you need to do is pause for a bit and what I mean by that is actually go
mountain biking go go do something you like and don't think about the problem
right how many times have you or I I know at least me you know you have a
problem and you just sleep on it and the next day somehow subconsciously it's
solved or an idea pops out to you in the shower and you're like oh that's that's
the answer I got a great idea now it happens to me
all the time and I'm sure it happens to you so I'm telling him or I told him the
same thing I said just pause for a bit now I didn't tell him to go meditate
which is what I would recommend and many of my clients do is take a 20
minute meditation - regardless to the type of meditation you want there's
guided meditations and I have guided meditations I've recorded that I give
the clients but you can do a lot I like David G I like a lot of them they're out
there or you can do more of a posthumous style meditation which I've done as well
totally up to you but you could also just as easily go for a walk go for a
mountain bike ride work out whatever it is that takes your mind off the problem
pause for a bit now I've seen this so many times in the area business in my
own life right where I'm just stressed about finances making payroll in the
past all these things cuz I didn't forecast right all these little things
that would be focused they would consume me and I would I'd miss out spending
time with my family I'd miss out spending time with my friends
I'd physically be there sure but I wasn't mentally there does that sound
familiar to you if it does I'm gonna encourage you to use this technique and
just pause for a bit even if that pausing is counting to ten backwards and
taking ten diaphragm ik breaths but really if you can take a little longer
time off time off of the problem it seems to work itself out so I haven't
heard back from him I don't know if it works for him but I can tell you if
you've been in the situation I get in the situation a lot where things can
consume me or at least in the past I did I recommend you pause for a bit so grab
your journal grab your write down your v to thrive your mind your body your soul
your relationships and your business and then where is something consuming you
are you consumed as many people are about your body what diet should I do
right or I'm not doing the right things or is it your business or relationships
I hear this all the time just like this gentleman if you're a business owner in
your relationships aren't working nothing's working right your business
isn't working and vice versa if your businesses and working your
relationships aren't working that's why we have the five to thrive you want to
have a balance in those five key areas now so if that's happening for you I
want you to take a pause I want you to think about the problem and then not
right sounds simple I know you're saying Doug how can I not think about the
problem it's consuming me well what I want you to do is do something else
maybe painting is for you maybe bike riding maybe walking whatever it is do
something totally different volunteer somewhere right where you were diving in
helping somebody else he'll coach somebody take a couple of
these daily growth hacks and work with an employee with a friend and use some
of these tactics and tell them hey I'm working on my stuff myself and will you
do it with me and when you're teaching someone you can't think about your own
problems because you're worried about them right you're helping them help so
that's another thing to do whatever you do take time to pause and get away from
your problem and subconsciously it just tends to work itself out answers seem to
flow through you that's it for me today make sure you share this with at least
three people that you know so you can build your accountability build your
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