How can entrepreneurs improve creativity?
High Flow Lifestyle is all about promoting flow and creativity for entrepreneurs and business owners. Entrepreneurs need new ways of competing with new problems that pop up. Improving your creativity is the key. I've got 3 simple ways you can boost your creativity.  

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On this episode of High Flow Lifestyle, we are talking about the balance of consistency and creativity that entrepreneurs have.  

I was thinking the other day about the balance of consistency and creativity that entrepreneurs and self-employed business owners must have. I’m not saying it needs to be an even balance or that there is even a correct ratio, just that as business owners we probably tend to lean to one side or another. But flow can be found on either side you lean toward. 

Take my wife Satomi for example, she is the executive chef at our 3 restaurants and she probably has a 80 percent consistency to 20% creativity balance. She often says she’s not creative, but I see her as extremely creative when she is in her flow.  

Our restaurants revolve around Japanese cuisine and in Japanese culture the idea of craftsmanship is very important. Attention to detail in something like making ramen for example, is extremely important. Maintaining consistency is in itself an artform. That is, after you have created, tweaked, and improved your product and brought it to market. And truth be told there really is no finish line for a recipe, it is a living, breathing thing.   

On this episode of High Flow Lifestyle, I am going to go over a few of the ways that, although work-life balance is somewhat of a myth,  work-life synergy is achievable for business owners.  
The term work-life balance has been used for a long time, but in reality, it is an elusive concept.  Business leaders everywhere always for work-life balance. However, entrepreneurs and small-business owners have a unique relationship with trying to create a work-life balance.    

The problem with the word balance is that implies there’s an equal sign to both work and life. The issue here is that as self-employed business owners our lives are not defined by a clear line between our personal and private lives. For us business is personal and is a part of our everyday life and by default is a part of our family's lives. So in essence, what we should be striving for is a work-life synergy. 

To be clear, the definition of synergy is: 

“The interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.” ...

Today on High Flow Lifestyle we are going to talk about a few of what are I see as some of the unfair flow advantages of self-employed business owners. We actually have a leg up on accessing flow so I want to make sure you are aware of it and taking full advantage of it. 

As self-employed people, in most cases, we have chosen our profession or business for one reason or another. We naturally had an interest in something that pushed us to turn this into our business. Intrinsic motivation, personalities, and developed confidence have all contributed to what I consider an unfair flow advantage of self-employed business owners.  

We naturally have some kind of interest and focus that gets rid of the negative thoughts, this creates a positive and happier environment.  

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says that, “If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble to pay attention to them”....

If you would like to surround yourself with other self-employed business owners who are structuring their day around creating a flow-prone environment and would like to join us for some fun group flow activities then I invite you to check out the High Flow Lifestyle Membership. You’ll have unlimited access to online video training, monthly live group coaching, a community of like-minded peers and a place to ask questions, get feedback and guidance on accessing flow regularly, and developing personal growth and business success.   

Hey there, Josh here from High Flow Lifestyle and today I’ve got “5 Ways Flow is the Ultimate Personal Growth Solution”  

I have seen so many self-help books and gurus promise the moon, and deliver nothing but a small piece of the puzzle.  

• Sometimes they work, but they don’t last. You need something that is consistent and sustainable. 
• Or perhaps they don’t even work for you, no matter how hard you follow the detailed routine or practices. 
• Or maybe you realized that there are many programs that focus on a specific area, like productivity for example, but you know you need a little improvement in several areas.  

What I’ve realized is that other programs focus on building a particular skill or technique, like time-management or productivity, but what you really need is an ultimate personal growth solution.  

Normally there is no one-size-fits-all solution, but in this case, there is because we go deeper than surface techniques and focus on developing the underlying state of being. But how we get there and keep it year after year is unique to you, and this is what I help you discover in the High Flow Lifestyle Membership. 

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On this episode of High Flow Lifestyle, I continue my discussion with peak performance coach and entrepreneur Eric Partaker and we discuss what it takes to develop a WorldClass version of yourself, which involves stress, discipline, and flow.  

The pain of discipline vs. The pain of regret.  

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” 
― Jim Rohn 

Eric believes too many of the speakers and literature is too slanted toward positivity. Life isn’t always so positive. Suffering is part of the process. Pleasure and pain go hand in hand...  

On this episode of the High flow Lifestyle podcast, we’re going to discuss a new study done on how flow affects loneliness and how we can use flow to boost our overall well-being.  

This may not be a topic that crosses everyone’s mind but, all people experience and need flow in their lives.  

A recent study done in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing really caught my eye and made me think of my own situation where my grandmother is living in an assisted living facility. The study is called the Importance of Flow for Lonely Nursing Home Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

 An underlying theme of the paper, which is something that applies to all of us, is that the detrimental effects of loneliness can be regulated by positive emotions (Newall et al., 2013). Positive emotions, which flow produces, can destroy loneliness.  

Flow in this study refers to a state of optimal experience arising from intense involvement in an activity when older adults have sufficiently high skills to meet challenges from the activity, enables them to become fully immersed in feelings of enjoyment and interest during the activity (Chang, 2020). Because enjoyment and interest are positive emotions, flow may be negatively related to loneliness. This study set out to examine the relationship between flow and loneliness in nursing home residents. .. 

On this episode of High Flow Lifestyle, I talk with Eric Partaker about finding flow through intentionality and using what he calls his “Dream Team Practice,” exploring the 3 most important domains of life are: our health, our wealth, and our relationships. 

 As a Peak Performance Expert, Eric Partaker helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders reach their full potential, become better leaders, and build better businesses. Within his approach he draws from his time advising Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey, his experience helping build up Skype’s multi-billion dollar success story, and his own entrepreneurial journeys – together with behavioral science from Stanford University, as well as techniques from the worlds of elite sports and the military, areas where peak performance is key. On top of numerous awards such as being named “CEO of the Year” at the 2019 UK Business Excellence Awards, he is also the author of the new bestselling book The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever.  

 Eric’s superpower is his determination to succeed, while at the same time accepting that the path is nonlinear. It’s similar to the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule. When you understand that it’s not linear, that helps you prioritize.  

We are social beings and we need social support. Our partner can really help balance our days.  

Sleep and exercise are essential elements to staying in flow and having balance in your life...

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On this episode of the High Flow Lifestyle Podcast we are going to talk about how to develop a high flow lifestyle mindset of taking action first and letting action and exploration be your guiding light.  

We need to reprogram our brain for action. A key aspect of flow is movement and action. It’s an essential part of accessing flow. 

We are horrible at predicting whether we are going to be good at something. Similarly, we often enjoy the things we are good at, but if we don’t try new things then we will never get to find out all of the different things in life that excite us or inspire us.  

The science behind mindset training actually says that we usually have things backwards. You need to do something first, in order to find out your feelings around that thing.  

Action produces feelings, feelings don’t produce action. ..
If you’d like to continue this discussion around action and feelings and learn more about developing a high flow lifestyle then join me over in the membership at High Flow Lifestyle. The community would love to hear your thoughts and support you in taking that action first step. 

On this episode of High Flow Lifestyle, I continue my chat with Christian Straka about mindfulness and flow, and we learn about his idea of Micro-Hits in Motion and changing people’s image of meditation.   

Christian Straka has developed a unique approach to mindset training through methodologies for applying evidence-based mindfulness techniques in sports. Christian has been practicing mindfulness for many years, and is also now teaching and coaching mindfulness.  

For the past decade his focus turned to mindset training for peak performance through evidence-based mindfulness skill development, which he incorporates in his function as the Global Mindset Coach for adidas Runners as well as with his personal and corporate clients. 

The concept of meditation is so broad and vague that it means different things to different people. Similar to the idea of playing sports, we know in general what that is, but there is a wide variety of ports...