Prioritize Thinking! - Coaching Success - #568

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to prioritize thinking. Take time to improve your approach to those most important pursuits and aspects of your life.

Prioritize Thinking: The Importance of Thinking

Taking time out to think matters. Why?

As Matt has discussed in recent podcasts, and his his upcoming book Undoing Urgency, we need to set up habits and systems in our life that help us actually spend time with the most important things in our life.

How do we spend time with these most important things?

Thinking helps ideas arise, whether they be things we need to stop, do better or different, or start.

How does one do this, though? How does one actually take time to think?

Prioritize Thinking: When Do You Think Best?

Matt has identified a few conditions that need to occur for him to think well, and then a few different environments where he tends to think well.

Matt things best after:

he has slept
he has cleared urgent work

The first may seem obvious, but it is truly critical. You cannot think well if you are tired. For Matt, this occurs after a good night of sleep or nap.

Of course, Matt does not immediately wake up and start thinking, but rather after taking care of some quick tasks, making coffee, and clearing his head, he can think.

Critically, he eliminates urgent work. It is difficult to think about the important when urgent tasks are pressing on your mind.

Some of the best environments for him to think include the following:

walking (alone or with wife)
long drives
manual labor
vacation
sauna or similar quiet times

Matt tends to have an initial brain dump when an idea arises, and he makes sure to take quick bulleted notes down (don't worry about spelling, format, etc. just get the ideas down).

Later, when he has more time, he fleshes the ideas out.

On a long drive, following this method, he developed the idea for Barbell Logic Online Coaching.

Prioritize thinking!

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0:00.0	You're listening to Barbell Logic.
0:04.7	The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength.
0:08.3	And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:15.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions.
0:20.0	Welcome to the show. You're listening to the Barbelogit podcast. I'm your host Matt Reynolds.
0:36.1	It's another episode of the Coaching Success series. Happy Friday, everybody
0:39.7	hope you have a great weekend this weekend and we'll dive right in as we usually do.
0:45.0	I've been thinking a lot about thinking, about the importance of thinking.
0:50.2	And I really kind of wish occasionally post writing the book I think about things that I wish I had included at least a paragraph or two and this is one of those things is really not addressed in the book but I have thought about, we've talked about as Mission Control,
1:05.1	Andrew and Nicky, especially Nicky's big on this.
1:08.3	It's just taking time out to think, to just clear your mind and think about the things that matter and I want to talk about
1:17.7	how I do that and give you some in the trenches kind of tactical ways that I do that and how I do that and prepare myself to be able to do that.
1:26.7	And so, you know, we live in a life in a world and a culture that is so just drenched in urgency that we often can't do the important things
1:36.3	that's the point of the book. One of those really important things I've found is
1:40.0	that I need to be able to take time every week
1:44.0	to just clear my head and think.
1:47.2	And that's often about the business,
1:49.0	but sometimes it's about family.
1:51.0	You know, there's always things that are important that require in order to get to the important work that requires some thought without kind of the pressure of urgency coming down on your shoulders and so I think thinking is one of those things.
2:09.8	One of the things that I'll do when I want to think about a thing.
2:13.6	So there's a project coming up or there's an important thing in the future or
2:17.8	I'm thinking about relationships in my family or how to lead my kids.
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