BECOME AF 🔐 #01: Weekly Inputs: Pattern Interrupts, WIRE/MIRE, My Skills Trainers Beef & Crazy Sh*t I dug up this week.
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Last week on LOCKER ROOM I gave out my weekly highlights.
They’re my saved notes from books, podcasts, and anything I absorbed that week.
I’m going to do the same thing here and call it “Weekly inputs”
But first, a little context.
BACKGROUND: ON INPUTS
“What you put in, you get out.”
Downloaded into every 5 year olds brain from their pee-wee soccer coach, sure.
But what’s it really mean?
Each week you put “in” to your life.
Inputs are:
What books you read
Shows you watched
Music you listened to
Any action you have taken
Any experience you have lived
Whether good/bad you have inputs that lead to the output of you life. (Cause/effect)
For the inputs you can control: they should align with your values. They feed those values giving you structure in your days.
My Inputs have 5 categories (due to my fulfillment 5 values)
Mind | Body | Spirit | Craft | Relationships
It’s important to have “quality” inputs, but it’s also important to learn how to organize them.
Why?
What good is all the reading, experiences, info injections if you don’t take the time to actually understand them so you can apply them?!
It really helps me organize my thoughts/learnings from the week.
It also leads to a TON of connections between the different materials I research.
Creativity (to me) is how well can someone organize what they consume.
I think of my mind as a library 📚 of thoughts.
And what I am about to share is my “Dewey Decimal System” of how I organize my thoughts.
This post is really a note to myself on what I personally should be doing.
But I try to break it down so anyone can pick it up.
Hopefully it helps you as much as it helps me.
#1 - You want good output? Have good inputs.
“Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information.
Your professional success and quality of life depend directly on your ability to manage information effectively….
We call someone who is not in control of their mind insane.
What do we call someone who is not in control of their attention, which is the gateway to the mind?”
― Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain
Everything revolves around your inputs of mind, body, spirit, craft.
It’s not just about what you feed your body, but also your mind…and soul.
Pay attention to your inputs and learn how to organize them.
This will lead to your output in life.
Note: Output doesn’t always mean success, it can just mean peace of mind (the most expensive gift of all)
#2 - PATTERN INTERRUPTS.
I had a small cold all of last week.
It wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle, but it was enough to slow me down.
It was annoying at first but there’s always a blessing hidden.
“The womb is where the light enters” - Rumi
This is what it did - it allowed me to observe what I’ve been doing and the cycle I have been living in, which led to some beautiful insights.
I always want momentum on my side, but it can always be manufactured.
Sometimes the best thing (especially for me) is to have a “pattern interrupt”
A pattern interrupt: is something that interrupts a pattern in your life.
Think of it as an unexpected act that jolts them into another state of mind.
It’s a way to alter a person's mental, emotional, or behavioral state to break their typical habits.
They challenges you.
They Open you up to a NEW, fresh perspective.
They use them in sales, but I used it in sports. EXAMPLE
It’s like laying fresh snow on the mountain, way more fun to snowboard with fresh powder.
Hindsight 20/20. Thanks for the cold God.
Highkey was a life-changing week.
Now I am in Florida (for a “change your environment” pattern interrupt)
#3 - WIRE + MIRE: How I Organize INPUTS.
People talk about DAILY habits but I rarely hear about the WEEKLY/MONTHLY/QUARTERLY habits.
Here is what I am doing:
Weekly Habit: W.I.R.E - “Week In Review Evaluated”
At the end of each week…
Organize into ONE doc called “WIRE *date range*”
Book + Otter notes + Phone notes
Reread daily journals
Write a brief weekly journal about experiences in the WIRE doc
What really went well? What am I grateful for?
Highs of the week?
What can I improve? Where can I improve?
5 major things I want to accomplish for upcoming week
Monthly Habit: M.I.R.E - “Month In Review Evaluated”
On the 1st of each month…
Check in on goals + ask questions
What really matters right now in my life and are my goals aligned with it?
Are my current systems aligned with my big goals?
What do I need to cut from my life to be more efficient towards my goals?
Review Your “WIRE” docs (there should be 4 to review)
Write down on a sheet of paper the notes that are really WORTH keeping/remembering
The only way to tell what is worth keep is by asking the question, “Would I still want to know this if I couldn’t tell anyone about it? ”
Quarterly - 80/20 Analysis Quarterly Habit: 80/20 Analysis
At the end of every quarter…
Perform 80/20 analysis across life, business, & content
What are 20% of the things that produce 80% of results
What are 20% of the things that cause 80% of headaches
What are 20% of customers that product 80% of revenue
#4 - On hurry:
“And hurry is a form of violence on the soul.” - John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
HURRY IS VIOLENCE ON THE SOUL… yooooo wow.
This book is insane and blowing my mind.
I am severely fascinated with his history on speed chapter.
Will be breaking that one down next week.
#5 - Attention is the new currency .
“Because what you give your attention to is the person you become.
Put another way: the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to.
That bodes well for those apprentices of Jesus OR [*Insert your God Here*]who give the bulk of their attention to him and to all that is good, beautiful, and true in his world.
But not for those who give their attention to the 24-7 news cycle of outrage and anxiety and emotion-charged drama or the nonstop feed of celebrity gossip, titillation, and cultural drivel.
As if we “give” it in the first place; much of it is stolen by a clever algorithm out to monetize our precious attention.” - John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
And for someone like me reading this.
That “boredom” that you feel is actually safety as you have withdrawal from an addiction to chaos and toxic dopamine.
Crazy Sh*t I made, found, or building:
Made this: (Just for Workouts - I have a much chiller “Live Crazy” in the works.)
Building this: Just a fun tinker around project
Not going to give any context yet but this clue…Wide-toe box.
Found this:
I’ve been thinking about this alot… video on this soon.
I got BEEF with skills trainers that ONLY educate themselves on the business of skills training and NEGLECT studying their craft. You are the product in a skills training business… you need to constantly improve your knowledge to better serve your players.
also, IM NOT A COACH! (at least anymore)
I really just want to teach myself mind body and sport skill acquisition because that is fun for me.
I want to PLAY as many sports as possible.
I want to learn how to surf, fight, sail, dance…list goes on.
Making videos about it is how I engrain the lessons into my head.
(Being able to explain what you learned back is a great way to actually remember it so you can apply it)
That’s it crazies
Till next week!
Daria