Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment, the
Speaker 1: difference between a reactive and a proactive mindset. We've been
Speaker 1: a bit deeper last couple of Mondays, haven't we. They've
Speaker 1: been good starts of the week. I think that being said,
Speaker 1: I thought we should change gears a little bit today,
Speaker 1: and it's still a really really important message about two
Speaker 1: different types of mindset, the difference between a reactive and
Speaker 1: a proactive mindset, which I think is something that we
Speaker 1: probably all conceptually understand because it's sort of self explanatory.
Speaker 1: But when I talk about reactive, I'm talking about this
Speaker 1: part of our primitive brain where we don't take the initiative.
Speaker 1: We let the events and the outside world determine our
Speaker 1: actions and then guess what. We end up doing things
Speaker 1: with urgency or immediacy, and you know, typically increasing the
Speaker 1: level of stress and decreasing the level of performance in
Speaker 1: which we do these task set. The one that jumps
Speaker 1: into my mind with reactive has got to be food.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure many of you can relate to this,
Speaker 1: But if I'm hungry, it's game over. It's too late.
Speaker 1: I do not make good food choices when I'm hungry.
Speaker 1: When I'm proactive. On the other hand, I'm actually really
Speaker 1: good with my food. If I'm organized and I'm prepping
Speaker 1: my food and I've got my ingredients, I'm really really good.
Speaker 1: If I'm not, it's just I'm hungry, I'm grumpy. There's
Speaker 1: a gap that needs to be filled, and I'm just
Speaker 1: going to feel it. And the nutritional even though I
Speaker 1: understand what is nutrition on what isn't, it doesn't even
Speaker 1: almost enter the equation when I'm making those poor choices.
Speaker 1: Whereas if we're proactive, it means that you forward plan.
Speaker 1: It means that it gets done before it needs to
Speaker 1: be done. But if I'm giving an example on the
Speaker 1: proactive side, it probably is my training. I'm really bad
Speaker 1: with my training if I don't know what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do the next day. If I am, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go by feel. I don't do much. The day
Speaker 1: gets away from me. For me, I need to plan
Speaker 1: that workout in my calendar. It literally goes in the
Speaker 1: calendar and then it says this is what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do. I might write lower body weight, so I
Speaker 1: might write run, I might write swim, I might write
Speaker 1: bike ride. I know what I'm going to do, and
Speaker 1: there are times where I'll swap it out depending on
Speaker 1: how I feel, But there's a default there, there's something
Speaker 1: there that is actually planned that I'm already accountable to.
Speaker 1: And this is a big thing. When it comes to
Speaker 1: working out, half the battle is thinking about what to do.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, life is chaotic enough without us contributing
Speaker 1: to that cause. And I don't meet a single person
Speaker 1: that doesn't want to be more productive. It's you know,
Speaker 1: we all feel like we don't have enough time, and
Speaker 1: we all feel like life's too chaotic, and then we
Speaker 1: do all these things that throw fuel on that fire,
Speaker 1: and we're actually part of the problem when we're really
Speaker 1: just blaming other things where we could actually control our
Speaker 1: own destiny a lot more So, I think the thing
Speaker 1: here that's in important is being proactive. And being reactive
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you do a different thing. It means you
Speaker 1: do the same thing ahead of time. You're not living
Speaker 1: a different existence, You're not having a different life. You're
Speaker 1: just having a more organized, less stressful life because you
Speaker 1: did these things when you had the opportunity to, rather
Speaker 1: than at the last minute. So I've got homework for you.
Speaker 1: It's a nice, simple one this week. You need to
Speaker 1: identify just one thing, one thing that you do reactively
Speaker 1: all the time. I don't mean a one off occurrents that.
Speaker 1: Oh I wish I'd been a bit more organized with that.
Speaker 1: I wish I've got ahead of time and done that
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. I could have saved himself a whole
Speaker 1: lot of grief and heartache. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: thing that you either subconsciously or even out loud, say
Speaker 1: to yourself, why do I keep doing this? And it
Speaker 1: might be something as simple as you pack your gym
Speaker 1: bag the night before and you put it by your bed.
Speaker 1: There could be a million different things like that, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna can tell you what they are. You need
Speaker 1: to identify the one thing in your life that you
Speaker 1: are doing reactively and it is causing you stress and
Speaker 1: or not being done as well or as consistently as
Speaker 1: it could be. And I can't wait to hear your feedback.