welcome to dreams around the world and a brand new video format i'm trying here called
seven minutes or less it's when i have seven minutes from the start of filming
to the end to share something interesting or of value with you it is totally not
related to the fact that i have a meeting with my entrepreneur mastermind group in
seven minutes totally not just a well thought out idea i've been planning to do for months
so here's the thing i wanted to share with you something i've been working on a lot with myself
is how do you balance out the need for variety and fun if you are an enfp
well dealing with things like having a healthy routine and getting a lot of things done
and all that since the beginning of the year i've been working really hard on creating a routine
on sleeping really well i've got myself one of those aura rings that track sleep and it's been
good last night i had eight and a half hours of uninterrupted sleep which is i think a new record
so all that has been going really really well i've been improving day to day i've been eating
healthier all this sort of good stuff but i caught myself a week ago feeling just almost numb like
bored hey this is going too well this is too good and sometimes that feeling that desire for some
kind of newness variety just to shake things up and wake up in a dumpster in las vegas at some
point can self-sabotage us and by self-sabotage i just mean sabotage us it can really mess things up
so i started thinking about this how can i proactively deal with this need because if i just
wait until i start to feel really let's say bored like things are too consistent it's not that my
work is boring or my life is boring it's all great but it's just going too well and i have a little
bit of that demon in me let's say that enjoys shaking things up from time to time i don't know
if you're the same just talking about myself in this video how much time do we have five minutes
well when i'm on a timeline i talk a lot faster and one of the things i've heard occasionally
from you over on youtube is dan talk too slow so maybe this will be our new type of video format
so what i'm trying out is to proactively insert all sorts of fun into my life it's just something
i've spoken about in a very previous video on human needs psychology called why you date crazies
and procrastinate i highly recommend checking that video out when you have more like 20 30 minutes to
go through it it takes you through a really deep dive of human psychology and why we do the things
we do essentially and i think you're going to find it to be a really powerful video and in that video
i talk about times in my life where i was needing to create more fun and adventure proactively
things like riding a motorbike going skydiving traveling to south america so that my business
would actually calm down because otherwise i would artificially create this sort of chaos
i would leave things to the last minute i would do all these sorts of things that would end up making
things kind of fun i was a mortgage planner at the time and i would leave things to the last minute
procrastinate them but then i got to come in as the hero even though i it's like the firefighter
who starts the fire it's i'm not really the hero i'm the one who caused all the chaos but i'd get
to swoop in and it would be all exciting and all that and that was cool except clients hated me
and no one really liked that drama at the end and all that so it wasn't really a good move
and so i don't do that now but what i'm really thinking of how to inject that so i'm not going
to get into my own list i mean you got to dive deep if you want to find out how i create my own
fun chaos and adventure but thinking of things ranging from you know just evenings out to trips
to trying out new adventures or adventure sports and even something actually i haven't even really
confirmed this with my team yet but i'm gonna throw a ton of events this summer uh ranging
from well i shouldn't say exact details but i'm thinking even some more like adventure trips where
a group of us awesome dreamers around the world go to some exciting place and mastermind and
change our lives and all sorts of good stuff now what's interesting here is just yesterday
on a free freelancer call someone asked me about creativity and essentially their day-to-day work
did not have enough creativity involved and the question was whether or not you should meet that
outside of your work then so find a way like start creatively writing at night or something like that
and i actually said no because ultimately your work what you spend four six ten hours a day on
should be meeting your needs within reason right it shouldn't be something where you hate those
ten hours a day and then you come home and you're like okay i do some painting and now i feel good i
i think i mean maybe i'm a bit of an extremist definitely members within the
free freelancer were there to do something awesome and create a new type of life so
i'd be a little harder on them than i might be here on youtube in terms of what is possible but
for myself i think that even though what i do is really satisfying it meets most of my needs it's
something that i can really obsess over and love doing i have this need for a little more of the
adventure adventure something that i don't want mixed into my business i don't want to be doing it
day to day i don't want to be jumping into crisis zones and having that kind of thing all the time
but every month or two i definitely like to have myself a good old adventure so there we
go that's something i'm thinking on that is seven minutes or less of filming there was a
minute in there where i went totally brain dead and had to pause the recording if you are new
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