How to Be Effective // Spartan STAND 008 with Brian "Tosh" Chontosh

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When I find myself getting frustrated, struggling with events or life, being disappointed by others or my expectations it’s usually because I’m investing too much emotional energy in the area of interest. Or, not enough energy in the area of control.

When we find ourselves going down the emotional or irrational mind path we need to create a trigger to get us back into rational and process oriented mode. This is where the area of control can come into play. Control what you can control and identify what it is you might be overlooking that is in your control. Once you’ve gotten practiced at that, start looking at this area of influence where you can really get ahead of the curve on control and interest.

LESSONS:
If you can’t control it, why are you trying to?
Spending time controlling and influencing the things you can shouldn’t leave much time/energy left on trying to do the same for what is interesting.
When you find yourself going emotional it’s time to reset by focusing on what you can control and accepting what you can not.

LINKS:
7 Habits of Highly Effective People ~Steven Covey
https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html

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CREDITS:

Producer: Marion Abrams, Madmotion,llc.
Host: Brian “tosh” Chontosh
Show notes: Brian “tosh” Chontosh

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, Brian Shantosh, back with you on Spartan Stand,
0:03.3	wanting to talk to you today about areas of control,
0:06.3	areas of influence, and areas of interest.
0:09.2	You might have heard something before called the Serenity Prayer.
0:17.0	If not, I'd like to just recite it real fast because these things are very similar to that.
0:21.0	And what it says is asking for the serenity to know the things
0:26.1	that you cannot control, the courage to change the things that you can control, and then the
0:32.4	wisdom to know the difference.
0:34.4	When I was in the Marine Corps we did mission analysis, mission planning and we use
0:38.6	these things called areas of control, areas of influence and areas of interest.
0:43.2	And I find that they run very, very similar to each other
0:46.3	to get to the same means.
0:48.3	I've also picked up in a book,
0:49.9	The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
0:51.8	by Stephen Covey. you should check it out
0:53.2	and he talks about these things control interest and influence as well from a little bit
0:58.6	different perspective he might have a little bit different take but they're all the same and he calls
1:04.5	them spheres. So first there's an area of control. This is all of the things that
1:10.0	are going on that I can directly change or make different or adjust to reset conditions or to
1:18.4	reset my environment. I cannot control the weather. I cannot control whether it's hot or whether it's cold. I cannot control your
1:28.0	emotions or your response. It's the area of control.
1:33.2	Area of influence, those are things that I could potentially affect, either affect with my behavior,
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