Episode 041- Eight Questions I Answer Every Morning on the Road

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Welcome to the ERW Podcast. I’m your host, BpB, fellow road warrior, husband of one and father of father, and have learned over the years the value of professional and personal development. It’s become so important to me it’s one of the six energy habits.

What they want or need from you 

What they want to tell you

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The two largest of my morning energy habits are:

1. MOVE - Increase M4X - stand more / walk more / run more / lift more
2. DEVELOP - Sharpen the Mind / Process the Thoughts / Monitor the Heart

And my motto, my theme is two phrases which you may have heard me say over and over:

• Consistency Over Length
• Something, Anything, is Better Than Nothing

Hydrate - (Fuel - Continually Hydrate) with 16 oz water, lemon, sea salt, and greens powder

1. Read -  (Sharpen the Mind and Process the Thoughts) - Bible / something inspirational (if it’s the day of a flight, I save this reading for the 1st 20-30 minutes of the flight which you’ll learn in the podcast episode Seven Things I Do on Every Single Flight)

Once those two habits are done of hydrate and read, I move on to my ERW Journal. It has two portions:

1. Think Space (Process the Thoughts) dotted page Notebook
2. Eight Questions Journal (Monitory the Heart) blank page Notebook

Here are some initial questions asked of my personal process:

How long do you take to journal your questions?

Where do you journal?

What do you write with?

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What do you write in?

What does your layout look like?

But WHY do I journal these questions and what comes as a result?

1. Clarity - What do I want out of my life
2. Themes - What’s happening on a consistent basis in my life - what are the patterns I wouldn’t normally see without reflecting 
3. Focus - where should I spend my time 

MONITOR the HEART, the 3rd part of the Invest in You Formula of the Develop Energy Habit has three Checks of the Heart Engine: (think of check lights coming on your dash about your engine)

1. PULSE CHECK 
2. Learning to ask: “How am I REALLY doing?” 
3. GRATITUDE CHECK 

Learning to ask: “Who or what am I grateful for right now?”