5 Ways to Find Flow and Get in the Zone

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Have you ever found yourself in the zone? Absolutely crushing it, time feeling like it’s barely passing but then you look at the time and hours have passed? This is also known as flow. The perfect balance between your genius area and enough of a challenge to keep it interesting.?

While this may seem to only happen occasionally for most, did you know you can become more productive by adding flow triggers to your week?

That’s why this week for our Fast 5 I am giving you 5 methods I use with my clients to create flow:

1. Create a morning routine. There is nothing worse than waking up and feeling on the back foot. Not sure what you should do first or trying to make sure everything gets remembered. You can avoid this by creating a morning routine that works for you. Mine consists of a 5am wake up, making the bed, then watching the sunrise. For some of my staff I know theirs consists of a 7am wake up and a morning playlist that gets them excited for the day. If you aren’t sure where to start you can watch THIS TEAM:ENGINEERED EPISODE that I recorded with John Lee Dumas on the morning routines of millionaires tuning remote teams.
2. Braindump. How often are you kept awake thinking about all the things you need to do the next day, or even across the whole week? Then it affects your sleep and the next day you wake up with brain fog, while things get forgotten or lost. That’s why each night before I wind down for the night I do a conga tube unload list of everything taking up my brain’s RAM. To get it out of my head and know that I can go back to it with fresh eyes the next day and create a plan. Give it a try and notice how it takes away the pressure.
3. Push your limits. Part of finding flow is challenging your comfort zone, and I like to make this a weekly practice. Whether it’s trying something new like the twerk classes I recently started taking or pushing your existing limits with a trainer who is going to make sure you don’t give up, training grit and persistence helps when you need to clear off tasks when you really don’t feel like doing them, as well as enjoying the process of doing the hard things.
4. Make time for recovery. Whether this is a sauna, massage, yoga, or simply a bubble bath, taking time to relax is also an important part of flow. You may even find that during these weekly relaxation periods is when you are the most creative. Giving your brain space to think without an agenda inspires creativity and may unblock some of the issues you’ve been having with your big projects.
5. 90 minute blocks of time to work on big projects. Without distraction. Whether it’s stepping out of the office so your team can’t come knocking on your door, or turning off all notifications and putting your devices away. Allowing yourself 90 minutes of uninterrupted flow time will help you make leaps and bounds in the progress of your ongoing projects.

Let me know which of these you want to incorporate into your weekly flow plans.?

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