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 the last couple of Mondays, haven't we.
Speaker 1: They've been good starts to the week. I think that
Speaker 1: being said, I thought we should change gears a little
Speaker 1: bit today, and it's still a really really important message
Speaker 1: about two different types of mindset, the difference between a
Speaker 1: reactive and a proactive mindset, which I think is something
Speaker 1: that we probably all conceptually understand because it's sort of
Speaker 1: self explanatory. But when I talk about reactive, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about this part of our primitive brain where we don't
Speaker 1: take the initiative. We let the events and the outside
Speaker 1: world determine our actions and then guess what. We end
Speaker 1: up doing things with urgency or immediacy, and you know,
Speaker 1: typically increasing the level of stress and decreasing the level
Speaker 1: of performance in which we do these tasks. Set. The
Speaker 1: one that jumps into my mind with reactive has got
Speaker 1: to be food. And I'm sure many of you can
Speaker 1: relate to this, But if I'm hungry, it's game over.
Speaker 1: It's too late. I do not make good food choices
Speaker 1: when I'm hungry when I'm proactive. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: I'm actually really good with my food. If I'm organized
Speaker 1: and I'm prepping my food and I've got my ingredients,
Speaker 1: I'm really really good. If I'm not, it's just I'm hungry,
Speaker 1: I'm grumpy. There's a gap that needs to be filled,
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to feel it. And the nutritional
Speaker 1: even though I understand what is nutritional on what isn't,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even almost enter the equation when I'm making
Speaker 1: those poor choices. Whereas if we're proactive, it means that
Speaker 1: you forward plan. It means that it gets done before
Speaker 1: it needs to be done. But if I'm giving an
Speaker 1: example on the proactive side, it probably is my training.
Speaker 1: I'm really bad with my training if I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm going to do the next day. If I am,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go by feel. I don't do much.
Speaker 1: The day gets away from me. For me, I need
Speaker 1: to plan that workout in my calendar. It literally goes
Speaker 1: in the calendar and then it says this is what
Speaker 1: I'm going to do. I might write lower body weight,
Speaker 1: so I might write run, I might write swim, I
Speaker 1: might run, bike ride. I know what I'm going to do,
Speaker 1: and there are times where I'll swap it out depending
Speaker 1: on how I feel. But there's a default there, there's
Speaker 1: something 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 our 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 occurrence that,
Speaker 1: Oh I wish I'd been a bit more organized for 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: out 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 tell you what they are. You need to
Speaker 1: identify the one thing in your life that you are
Speaker 1: doing reactively and it is causing you stress and or
Speaker 1: not being done as well or as consistently as it
Speaker 1: could be. And I can't wait to hear your feedback.