MentorBox Podcast

Eating healthy and exercising are difficult habits to maintain. If your office orders pizza for lunch, your body gets stuck metabolizing the rest of the day. Your workout that night is cancelled and the whole week is thrown off-course. But what if you had the mental fortitude to resist that office pizza party? What if you thought about health in a different light?

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Most of us do the same thing every day. And with this monotonous routine, it can become difficult to stay motivated. However, we can hack this complacency by figuring out what our greater goals are and what metrics lie beneath those goals. From there, we can track those analytics to monitor our progress along the way to success.

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Dreaming is tricky territory. That’s because visualizing our dreams can sometimes feel like we’re living them in the physical reality. If we’re not careful, this illusion can lead us astray and we will spend our days dreaming instead of doing. However, once we become mindful of this, we can start to visualize our dreams with an emphasis on making them happen in actuality.

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A business has many different moving parts. But they can all be categorized under one of four umbrellas: product, advertising, sales, and customer loyalty. When each of these pillars is maximized to its potential, the business runs by itself and produces a profit to sustain its operation.

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Machine-learning has never been smarter. With our smartphones predicting where we’re going and our social media applications feeding us a curated news feed of our friends’ updates, we are becoming less and less responsible for our choices. It is no secret that we are becoming part-human and part-robot; however, instead of being frightened by this shift, we must understand and cease the opportunity it presents.

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You can’t win if you don’t have the right resources. But sometimes we lose sight of this fact. We try with our current setup, and often fall short because of the lacking infrastructure around us. Giving yourself the best shot at winning requires more than just working hard.

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We all have that one goal we’re too scared to attempt. But why are we scared to go after it? Is it actually because we think the goal is too challenging? Or is it because we’re scared of what we’ll learn about ourselves if we accomplish the goal? If you achieve the impossible, your other excuses for not accomplishing x,y, and z are exposed as hollow, and you can no longer listen to them.

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Watching TV used to mean watching commercials. But today, we’re either bingeing on commercial-free platforms like Netflix and Amazon or turning to our smartphones when the commercials play. Research shows that 89% of TV ads are ignored today. So what does this mean for the brands who can no longer interrupt us with their messaging?

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Intellectual humility opens the gateways to productive conversation. But those who are certain in their beliefs don’t see it this way. When we find ourselves in discussions with these individuals, we are unable to push the needle, trapped in their bounds of thinking. Progress in any political conversation, business decision, or personal conflict requires an intellectual humility, that openness to accept that you and your opinion may in fact be wrong.

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We are evolutionarily hardwired to focus on the negative. But that doesn’t serve us well in today’s society. We no longer need these sensitive receptors to stress or violence because our world has removed lions and tigers from our lives. However, we can’t remove the hardwiring, so we displace it onto things that don’t deserve it (i.e., work, relationships, etc.) The antidote to this is learning how to focus in a way that allows you to be present with what really matters.

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