the dopamine detox in a shiny new wrapper with the same goal of helping entrepreneurs actually
do the [ __ ] work but the problem with these one-size-fits-all Solutions if they don't actually
work in the way they should for the majority of people that try them and that's because the real
problem is a lot deeper than that imagine if you went to the doctors and you had a cough and you
said sir I need something to sort this cough out so don't worry I had a cough myself last
week take this red pill it sort of me out it'll sort you out so you take the red pill two weeks
later you've still got this cop it's getting worse and worse it's manifesting inside of you
now the problem here is the doctor had the flu but you've got a chest infection but you blindly took
the cure to an issue that you didn't actually diagnose first of all I'm sure you're thinking
well I wouldn't find myself in that position in real life but that's the exact position that the
majority of people find themselves in in the self-help space right now they will tell they
will take cures for issues that they haven't yet diagnosed within themselves they will
blindly follow in the footsteps of others because they're in the position that they want to be in
dismissing who they actually are as a person and dismissing all of the other reasons there could
be for not actually being able to do the [ __ ] work fear of failure anxiety lack of motivation
lack of focus procrastination overwhelm and just unrealistic expectations of what results
they can get in what time frame there are so many reasons as to why people haven't got their feet
off the ground yet so many issues that they haven't diagnosed within themselves because
most people don't yet realize that the only person that can truly help them is themselves
and the way that we can do that is through practicing self-awareness self-awareness
is the act of consciously analyzing ourselves our thoughts our feelings how our body is how our mind
is how we react to things it's introspection on all levels and it's something that I've practiced
for many many years now and it's enabled me to truly dial in on real self-development
I think so many people are at danger of depending on other people to create their character to
develop themselves for them and that begs the question are you actually developing yourself
or are you morphing yourself into someone else entirely last year I had a low period when I just
lost motivation for the gym I really struggled to get myself back into it I took a week off then it
turned into a month then it turned into two months and I really struggled to bring myself to pulling
myself back into the gym and get get in there and so what I did was I thought you know what what can
I do I need to do a self-audit I need to analyze myself right now and really establish what it is
about going to the gym I'm not enjoying right now what's stopping me from actually doing the work
and so over a two-week period I started journaling answering questions about the gym writing down
the things that I wasn't enjoying the things that were stopping me the internal dialogue the [ __ ]
I was telling myself on a daily basis as to why I couldn't actually go so after these two weeks
been back in the gym doing this self-audit I had this mass of notes this brain dump from
these mornings of going to the gym and I look for common denominators across those notes and I found
three main points number one most mornings I was really tired I actually struggled with a
physical motivation to drag myself to drive to the gym number two I wasn't tracking progress
so I couldn't actually see my results on a session by session basis and number three I didn't really
feel any pressure to be lifting heavy weights Life's good business doing well made a few
mil I've looked quite good I'm quite happy I feel healthy and I just didn't really feel any pressure
to be over exerting myself I wanted to take a bit of time off but that time has to come to an
end and so I took those three things and I wrote them down and I came up with bespoke solutions
to those individual issues that I was taking facing feeling it tied in the morning simple
one I actually started going to bed at 11 PM and I was usually going to bed at nine ten o'clock so
I just moved my sleep forward again so I did that and obviously I felt more refreshed in the morning
second thing tracking results simple I download an app on iPhone called trainerwise I could then
track how much I was lifting every week and I could see the progress on a day-by-day basis
which was cool and then the third thing was that lack of kind of pressure and I thought you know
what like in the moment I feel really cushy at the moment let me see if I can seek that
externally so I hired an external trainer who then managed my nutrition habits and all of my
workouts and if I wasn't making progress if I wasn't pushing myself every week you could see
that on the app and he could send me a message give me an earful so I could gain that motivation
and piggyback that motivation off somebody else so I created solution to the problems
that I was facing myself I developed myself and got myself through that rut of lack of motivation
in going to the gym without having to search on YouTube how do I find motivation to go to the gym
I diagnosed myself and I use self-awareness to overcome that solution which is exactly what
all of you guys need to do right now if you are struggling to put in the work in whatever area
of your life and I want to help you do that and so what I've done is I've got my laptop next to
me I spent a bit of time earlier writing and creating a self-audit for you so you
can raise your self-awareness and start being more introspective so this is a Google form
and this the use case here is really for somebody who's trying to start a business right now maybe
you've already got one and you're struggling to do the daily micro monotonous work that's
going to take you to actually achieving those macro goals okay and I want you to do this for
between one and two weeks and make sure you do this at the end of every single day don't
do this the day after for the day before it needs to be with your raw emotion how you feel on that
specific day and be as specific as possible let me run you through this so first of all
how motivated was I throughout the day okay so on a scale of one to ten how motivated do you feel
what motivated me the most today and why now over the course of this period okay we're going to
start to understand what are our triggers that actually motivate us and if we can do more of
those things or we can focus our time more around the things that motivate us that's a massive win
did I experience any fear or anxiety today what was it and how did I respond to it are there any
specific task that you're working on on a daily basis right now that trigger those fears okay
and if there are we can analyze that and create solutions for it how long was I able to focus on
a single task without distractions okay now this really is so you can establish what your working
blocks are I think that most human beings work their most productive when they are in working
blocks some people this is 20 minutes some people this is 90 minutes and at the end of that block we
set a timer and you can then take like a five ten minute break go for a walk or something
along those lines and just refresh yourselves so this is going to allow you to analyze that did I
procrastinate any tasks and if so why what did I do so are there any trigger tasks that are making
us procrastinate and then more importantly what did I actually do to procrastinate did I pick up
my phone look through social media if that is an issue for you and it's not an issue for everyone
but if it's an issue for you and you see that on this data then you're going to need to turn off
your phone you need to put in another room put in the save or just delete your social media wraps
okay did I feel any knowledge gaps today and if so what were they this is relevant for those of you
that are starting a business right now there will be some areas or some things that you're trying to
achieve on a daily basis and you're like hit that brick wall I don't know how to do this so if there
are any of those things write them down and over the course of a couple of weeks you're going to
have a learning list okay and then you can filter out all the [ __ ] information that you're looking
for online those videos you're watching and only focus on the information that you actually feel
knowledge gaps on based on the Practical work that you need to do did I experience any feeling of
being overwhelmed and what caused it maybe you're trying to tackle some really big tasks right now
and they're completely overwhelm you every time you try and Tackle them so you might need to break
them down into micro instead to make it a bit more manageable until you're used to that task how did
my actual performance compared to my expectations for today this is a really important question that
you need to ask yourself on a regular basis I think so many of us I'm going to go over to this
camera again for a moment I think so many people have unrealistic expectations as to the results
they can get within a certain time frame I know in my industry the agency industry many think people
think that they can call up 20 businesses get one meeting close that client straight away and that's
because so many people make them believe it's going to be that easy the truth is it's going
to take a lot longer than that but if you are led to believe and you have the false expectation when
you're coming to start off when you actually start doing the work and you've plucked up the courage
to do the grit and you don't get the results you expect you lose motivation massively so make sure
you actually track that if there's anything that doesn't meet your expectations write that down
because we can then manage our expectations and change the narrative that we tell ourselves later
down the line was there anything unexpected that happened during the day that impacted my
performance sometimes [ __ ] just happened right maybe your partners come home and started talking
to you for ages you get distracted maybe you've had to go drop someone off maybe anything can
happen right the dog's [ __ ] on the rug and you need to clean it up and it takes you out of flow
[ __ ] happens right and if you log that and at the end of the week you haven't made the progress
that you wanted to make you're not going to hold yourself so accountable to it because you know
that things have just got in the way life got in the way so lock those things as well so you can
actually give yourself a break and finally what from today am I most proud about this doesn't have
to be big things this can also be very small and this will build a positive relationship with the
work that you're doing and the achievements the micro wins that you're facing on a daily basis so
guys if you do this for one to two weeks you're gonna have a pool of data once you've got that
you can analyze and find common denominators across the answers on here and this will allow
you to establish the real problems that you're facing the real things that are standing in your
way of getting the results that you want of being successful starting your business of scaling your
company whatever that is right and maybe you'll find that is procrastination and at which point
you might want to do a dopamine detox but at least you can then do that knowing factually
that is the thing that is standing in your way because you have diagnosed it yourself using
self-awareness and true self-development guys I want to leave you with this final note I truly
believe that once you yourself by yourself are a success Everything You Touch will be
successful so if there's one thing that you can practice for at 2023 it is true self awareness
so try to self-aud it out and let me know how you get on in the comments see you soon cheers