Engaging in activities to elevate along your Being Side

• Journal about all of the factors that are limiting or have limited your growth and success
• Write down your achievement hit list. What obstacles have you overcome? When did you not give up and ultimately succeeded? Write about your feelings that came up for you along your journey.
• Write about your most heart-wrenching failures and conduct your own After Action Report (AAR). This includes writing about and evaluating your process and your mindsets along the way. Identify where you fell short, what you learned, and what you can fix. Be brutally honest. Then close out your journaling by writing about how you have benefited from your failure and what you are going to do moving forward to help ensure that you tackle your next challenges with greater determination and success.

We all have areas in our lives where we hold limiting, self-protective beliefs. Push against those, even in little ways. This will help you come to see that you are stronger than you think, and your limiting beliefs are as accurate as you think. The reality is that you can’t become better until you face up to, push against, and rise above your fears.

At its core, meditation is a scientifically validated exercise for your brain that involves focusing on and connecting to your breathing and your body. And, because you are human, as you meditate, your mind will inevitably wander away from your breath and body. That is ok, it is a part of meditating. The key to meditation is being able to recognize that your mind has wandered and bring your attention and focus back to your breath and body. Dan Harris, the author of 10% Happier, states that every time our mind races off and we reign it in and connect back to our breath and body, that is like a bicep curl for our brain. Of course, over time, the idea is to expand our ability to stay present and aware of our breath and body for longer and longer.

• I use the Insight Timer app

Similar effect as meditation

For the science behind this, see this TED Talk: TEDxBloomington – Shawn Achor – “The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance”

• I use The Five-Minute Journal.

This shocks our fight or flight response. The idea of purposely doing this is to, over time, enhance our body’s ability to tolerate stress and build resistance. When we shock our body’s nervous system via cold water immersion, it helps us develop the capacity to regulate when in stressful situations in our day-to-day lives.