Turn Your Rut Into Unshakable Focus And Power | Jonathan Fields

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0:42Lewis Howes:How do we not sabotage when we are finally aligned and we set up like we have the alignment with our mission or our career or our business. We have the alignment with like, wow, we're actually integrating the things we want into our relationship. We're aligned by not abandoning ourselves or how do we not sabotage ourselves when everything is going really, really good? Yeah, I have no idea. How do we not fall back in all the patterns?

1:09Jonathan Fields:Yeah, you know, I think it's interesting, you know, a lot of it has to do with, I think it's a blend of wisdom, so like personal learning, a commitment to growth, right? Inner practices, you know, And those are the practices that keep you physically, emotionally, psychically, spiritually healthy and focused and present and able to be resilient and respond rather than react. And also external scaffolding. What does that mean? The circumstances in your life. And that might include relationships. That might include your physical environment. That might include creating all sorts of default states It's that help you do the thing that you know you, quote, want to be doing to support the life that you're living without you having to every day consciously make the choice to do it.

1:58Jonathan Fields:Katie Milkman talks a lot about this in her work and her research on behavior change. And that it's not just about self-control. It's not just about willpower. You know, there's a whole bunch of inner and outer scaffolding that you can create that make it so you don't have to wake up every day and use all this cognitive bandwidth to make the decisions to make everything stay okay. Some of that you do want to be intentional. But there's also a lot of things that we kind of put on autopilot that will help us basically take the decision or take the actions that we want to take by default without even having to think about them.

2:30Jonathan Fields:Right, right.

2:32Lewis Howes:What about if we feel like we're in a rut? How can someone, do you think, get out of it through, is it through a set of questions? Is it through a set of changes in their life? Yeah. Is it through analyzing it?

2:43Jonathan Fields:Is it through action? Do you know, I'm going to give you like an answer you probably didn't expect. because I looked at almost every system that you could look at to try and figure things like this out. And there's a simple set of prompts that I've come back to over the years that I find really powerful, and that is Katie Byron's The Work. She's great. Right? I mean, it's like, what is it, four or five questions, right? Really simple questions. You're in a moment where something's spinning in your head that's stopping you from taking action, and you make all sorts of assumptions about it that paralyze you.

3:14Jonathan Fields:And you ask these really simple questions like, is it true where's the evidence for where's the evidence against um so i think a really simple set of prompts can be incredibly powerful with that if you're really in a rut where it's causing you mental illness or genuine emotional um struggle seek help obviously you know go and find professional help but i think really basic processes and prompts like the work are really powerful for me one of the anchors in my life is is a meditation practice a daily meditation practice you know i wake up at every morning um for over a decade now and i have both a breathing and a meditation practice that changes my physiology um but it also changes my state of mind you know so so that as i move into my day things may go south you know there there may be things that drop into like my day that I don't want to happen that I didn't see coming that really just knock me back but what I found is that over the years that practice creates a baseline level of equanimity that allows you to sort of like be more intentional about the way that you move through it and also relating back to being in a rut zoom the lens out a little bit take a little bit more of a meta view into the thing that is causing you this feeling of stuckness and be able to kind of say, huh, what's really happening here?

4:40Jonathan Fields:Because usually it's not the thing that you think it is. There's something bigger going on. And if you can address the bigger thing, then everything starts to free itself on its own. Yeah.

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