W5 2 Optimizing Stress
Optimizing Stress Jeremy:
All right, how would you like to be able to turn all of that negative stress and overwhelm into something that optimizes your ability to create a level of performance that allows you to break through in those tough times when that fear comes up, the anxiety starts hitting you, and you start feeling all of that real tension come in your body. It's just like, how would you like to finally feel free of all of that once and for all and optimize stress? Here's how you do it. First and foremost, we've got to understand that stress isn't always bad. There is no good or bad, it's just what is going to lead us down a specific result, and are we going to allow stress to control us so that it leads us down a path that we don't really want to go down and that does not serve our overall vision and mission on this planet. Or, are we going to take full ownership and control over everything that happens in our lives and in our day so that that includes the level of stress, tension, and overwhelm that we feel and that is going to come into our life and that we're inviting into our space. Because if we do that, then we distance ourself from most people. Most people run away from stress or are completely consumed by this idea of having stress and tension in their life. You hear them talk about, "Oh, I want to live a stress-free life, I don't want any pressure in my life, I don't need that. I don't want any overwhelm or anything like that. Well guess what, they're not moving. You could be on the right track in life, but if you are standing still, kind of hiding from the environment around you, guess what, you're going to get run over. Run over by life, run over by people around you, run over by the circumstances that are controlling your day because you didn't take a stand to say you know what, enough is enough, I'm deciding to control those circumstances, those things that happen in your day. You do that, you distance yourself from 99.9% of people. Seeing this allows you to really recognize the difference between what's called eustress, which is beneficial stress to the experiencer who's actually going through, and you know, people think about stress, they only think about in the negative. Well why is that? Because most people live 99.9% of their life in the negative paradigm that's holding them back. They think of stress and overwhelm in a severely negative light and therefore anytime they are approached with it, they want to retract. They think of fear in the same way, they think of failure in the same way. Well we get to reframe that. We get to truly break through this BS story that stress is not serving your overall growth. Because it's truly a necessary variable in your overall growth. We've got to recognize the difference eustress and the stress that no longer serves you. I can tell you right now, you know what the stress doesn't serve you anymore, you know what that is? It's the stress of thinking that there is nothing but negative stress. That is the stress that no longer serves you.
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Think about how for example, a body builder, a strength trainer builds their muscle. What happens? What do they do? Do they stand there and go into the gym and do they look around and do they think to themselves, "Oh, I'm so connected with my inner being that I don't want any stress in my life, I don't want any pressure, I'm going to walk into this environment and I'm going to go over, I'm going to pick up the 10-pound dumbbells so I don't have any stress in my life. I'm just going to lift that a few times, take a couple of deep breaths and then leave. Are they going to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger after 90 days or no? Obviously not. There is zero stress or tension on what is necessary as a variable to create growth. No, they walk towards the heaviest possible weight in the gym that they can possibly lift for a certain amount of reps or certain time under that tension, so that why? So that it breaks down, it tears the muscle tissue. It tears the one thing they're looking to build up. It breaks it down. Why? So that they can build up and grow into something they never thought possible. Well life is a very similar muscle that we get to build. This idea, this mentality, this approach, this breakthrough we get to have every day of our lives is like a muscle. We've got to put that eustress on it every single day that allows us to grow. Bottom line is stress and recovery is the equation to growth. Break down the muscle in the gym, we're talking about 45 minutes, 30 minutes where you're tearing down the muscle tissue. What happens? It rebuilds stronger than ever before within just a few days. It's the same thing as we put ourselves in "stressful" and overwhelming situations that allow us to literally stand on the edge of our comfort zones and dive off and live in the experience of actually the adventure of life, and now we can start stepping in to breaking down the real barriers that hold us back. Because you're not going to strengthen your muscle if you lift 10 pounds of weight every couple of times. You're not going to strengthen your mind if you read a book once a year. You're not going to create the levels of breakthroughs that you really want to have in your life if you're going through this program haphazardly, like you would stand in the gym and lift 10 pounds. You get to be intentional, go through the repetitive, the repetitions of lifting weights, the repetitions of going through this and building the muscle of mindset that allow you to break through. It's the same thing, and the heavier and the more tension and the more stress you put on that specific environment and exercise, man you're going to grow and you're going to expand and you're going to truly create massive breakthroughs in your life. But here's the thing. Remember, it's about creating a level of stress and optimizing it in a way that allows you to recover, that's the other side of the equation which is necessary. For example, let's go back to the body builder equation. If they spent 24 hours in the gym lifting weights, at some point, all they're doing is just continuously tearing down the muscle tissue and tearing it down and tearing it down. What ends up happening? More than likely, they're going to get injured if they do that, if they go down that route. In entrepreneurial or business or everyday life, what's that called? It's called burnout. You're going to burn out your central nervous system, you're going to be completely depleted of your energy stores, and you're not going to have the ability to move
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forward. You're going to be completely burned out, you're not going to have any enthusiasm for what you do during the day, and you're going to be completely lost. We've got to build in the other side of this equation that is necessary for growth, which is the recovery, the ability to actually allow that muscle tissue to grow, to rebuild, and to actually get the level of sleep necessary for that to happen. It's the same thing with your ... the muscle of your mind, if you will. You're building that muscle of intention, you're building that muscle of purpose, purposeful acts of excellence in your day, and setting yourself up to win. Truly creating a life of mastery, that is building a muscle, and the more optimization you can have of the stress and overwhelm that comes with that, so that you can recover in the most efficient and effective way, man, you're going to create a lot of growth and a lot of opportunity to invite more overwhelm. How would you like to be overwhelmed with the joy, happiness, passion, purpose, and drive that creates massive quantum leaps in people's lives? How would you like to be overwhelmed with that every single day, where it just overcomes you with so much joy that you start bawling your eyes out because you are so deeply connected with your vision? I don't know about you, but I would love to be overwhelmed with that every single day. I would welcome that level of overwhelm. There's a difference between the negative overwhelm, the negative stress, and the empowered overwhelm that we want to invite into our lives on a daily basis. The eustress that we want to invite every single day into our lives so that we can continuously grow. This is so important to get in terms of a concept, in terms of a true nature and way of being. You get to optimize stress. Bottom line, you get to optimize stress. This is something I want you to commit to every day. Finding ways to optimize your ability to put yourself in scenarios that are a little bit farther outside your comfort zone than you're used to. You do that every single day, even if it's just a 4%–5% increase or 4%–5% adventure outside of your comfort zone right now, just imagine what that's going to look like over the course of a week, over the course of a month, over the course of a year. Imagine that becomes your lifestyle. Imagine the legacy you leave over the lifetime of optimizing the stress and overwhelm in your life. That right there is what's called a legacy. That right there is what's called mastery. To grow as a person and as an entrepreneur, you get to optimize your stress in every are of your life. Invite those opportunities to grow, those opportunities to optimize your time in the gym of life.
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All right, how would you like to be able to turn all of that negative stress and overwhelm into something that optimizes your ability to create a level of performance that allows you to break through in those tough times when that fear comes up, the anxiety starts hitting you, and you start feeling all of that real tension come in your body. It's just like, how would you like to finally feel free of all of that once and for all and optimize stress? Here's how you do it. First and foremost, we've got to understand that stress isn't always bad. There is no good or bad, it's just what is going to lead us down a specific result, and are we going to allow stress to control us so that it leads us down a path that we don't really want to go down and that does not serve our overall vision and mission on this planet. Or, are we going to take full ownership and control over everything that happens in our lives and in our day so that that includes the level of stress, tension, and overwhelm that we feel and that is going to come into our life and that we're inviting into our space. Because if we do that, then we distance ourself from most people. Most people run away from stress or are completely consumed by this idea of having stress and tension in their life. You hear them talk about, "Oh, I want to live a stress-free life, I don't want any pressure in my life, I don't need that. I don't want any overwhelm or anything like that. Well guess what, they're not moving. You could be on the right track in life, but if you are standing still, kind of hiding from the environment around you, guess what, you're going to get run over. Run over by life, run over by people around you, run over by the circumstances that are controlling your day because you didn't take a stand to say you know what, enough is enough, I'm deciding to control those circumstances, those things that happen in your day. You do that, you distance yourself from 99.9% of people. Seeing this allows you to really recognize the difference between what's called eustress, which is beneficial stress to the experiencer who's actually going through, and you know, people think about stress, they only think about in the negative. Well why is that? Because most people live 99.9% of their life in the negative paradigm that's holding them back. They think of stress and overwhelm in a severely negative light and therefore anytime they are approached with it, they want to retract. They think of fear in the same way, they think of failure in the same way. Well we get to reframe that. We get to truly break through this BS story that stress is not serving your overall growth. Because it's truly a necessary variable in your overall growth. We've got to recognize the difference eustress and the stress that no longer serves you. I can tell you right now, you know what the stress doesn't serve you anymore, you know what that is? It's the stress of thinking that there is nothing but negative stress. That is the stress that no longer serves you.
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Think about how for example, a body builder, a strength trainer builds their muscle. What happens? What do they do? Do they stand there and go into the gym and do they look around and do they think to themselves, "Oh, I'm so connected with my inner being that I don't want any stress in my life, I don't want any pressure, I'm going to walk into this environment and I'm going to go over, I'm going to pick up the 10-pound dumbbells so I don't have any stress in my life. I'm just going to lift that a few times, take a couple of deep breaths and then leave. Are they going to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger after 90 days or no? Obviously not. There is zero stress or tension on what is necessary as a variable to create growth. No, they walk towards the heaviest possible weight in the gym that they can possibly lift for a certain amount of reps or certain time under that tension, so that why? So that it breaks down, it tears the muscle tissue. It tears the one thing they're looking to build up. It breaks it down. Why? So that they can build up and grow into something they never thought possible. Well life is a very similar muscle that we get to build. This idea, this mentality, this approach, this breakthrough we get to have every day of our lives is like a muscle. We've got to put that eustress on it every single day that allows us to grow. Bottom line is stress and recovery is the equation to growth. Break down the muscle in the gym, we're talking about 45 minutes, 30 minutes where you're tearing down the muscle tissue. What happens? It rebuilds stronger than ever before within just a few days. It's the same thing as we put ourselves in "stressful" and overwhelming situations that allow us to literally stand on the edge of our comfort zones and dive off and live in the experience of actually the adventure of life, and now we can start stepping in to breaking down the real barriers that hold us back. Because you're not going to strengthen your muscle if you lift 10 pounds of weight every couple of times. You're not going to strengthen your mind if you read a book once a year. You're not going to create the levels of breakthroughs that you really want to have in your life if you're going through this program haphazardly, like you would stand in the gym and lift 10 pounds. You get to be intentional, go through the repetitive, the repetitions of lifting weights, the repetitions of going through this and building the muscle of mindset that allow you to break through. It's the same thing, and the heavier and the more tension and the more stress you put on that specific environment and exercise, man you're going to grow and you're going to expand and you're going to truly create massive breakthroughs in your life. But here's the thing. Remember, it's about creating a level of stress and optimizing it in a way that allows you to recover, that's the other side of the equation which is necessary. For example, let's go back to the body builder equation. If they spent 24 hours in the gym lifting weights, at some point, all they're doing is just continuously tearing down the muscle tissue and tearing it down and tearing it down. What ends up happening? More than likely, they're going to get injured if they do that, if they go down that route. In entrepreneurial or business or everyday life, what's that called? It's called burnout. You're going to burn out your central nervous system, you're going to be completely depleted of your energy stores, and you're not going to have the ability to move
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forward. You're going to be completely burned out, you're not going to have any enthusiasm for what you do during the day, and you're going to be completely lost. We've got to build in the other side of this equation that is necessary for growth, which is the recovery, the ability to actually allow that muscle tissue to grow, to rebuild, and to actually get the level of sleep necessary for that to happen. It's the same thing with your ... the muscle of your mind, if you will. You're building that muscle of intention, you're building that muscle of purpose, purposeful acts of excellence in your day, and setting yourself up to win. Truly creating a life of mastery, that is building a muscle, and the more optimization you can have of the stress and overwhelm that comes with that, so that you can recover in the most efficient and effective way, man, you're going to create a lot of growth and a lot of opportunity to invite more overwhelm. How would you like to be overwhelmed with the joy, happiness, passion, purpose, and drive that creates massive quantum leaps in people's lives? How would you like to be overwhelmed with that every single day, where it just overcomes you with so much joy that you start bawling your eyes out because you are so deeply connected with your vision? I don't know about you, but I would love to be overwhelmed with that every single day. I would welcome that level of overwhelm. There's a difference between the negative overwhelm, the negative stress, and the empowered overwhelm that we want to invite into our lives on a daily basis. The eustress that we want to invite every single day into our lives so that we can continuously grow. This is so important to get in terms of a concept, in terms of a true nature and way of being. You get to optimize stress. Bottom line, you get to optimize stress. This is something I want you to commit to every day. Finding ways to optimize your ability to put yourself in scenarios that are a little bit farther outside your comfort zone than you're used to. You do that every single day, even if it's just a 4%–5% increase or 4%–5% adventure outside of your comfort zone right now, just imagine what that's going to look like over the course of a week, over the course of a month, over the course of a year. Imagine that becomes your lifestyle. Imagine the legacy you leave over the lifetime of optimizing the stress and overwhelm in your life. That right there is what's called a legacy. That right there is what's called mastery. To grow as a person and as an entrepreneur, you get to optimize your stress in every are of your life. Invite those opportunities to grow, those opportunities to optimize your time in the gym of life.
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