I spent years attempting to balance adventure & business.
I thought that more business skills would create the freedom I sought.
I was wrong.
Business skills need to be combined with personal skills in order to be effective.
Today, I’m going to teach you the 4 most important concepts which help me personally strike that balance and help my adventurepreneur clients do exactly the same.
We’re going to cover:
The feature on your smartwatch you need to know how to use to perform better
Why you can be so busy yet do so little
What the world record holder for the fastest row across The Atlantic taught me about my need for adventure
Which exact fear I teach all my clients to harness.
The Little Known Affect Heart Rate Has On Your Business Success
If you find yourself constantly overwhelmed to the point of inaction…
…or frantically busy but getting nowhere…
…The cause is not a lack of discipline.
I was working with an adventurepreneur who found herself numbed to challenge.
Her business was at a vital point - a real sink or swim moment. She reached out to me after trying “everything”.
But she was shocked with where I started when we sat down on her first call.
“Every morning, look at your Garmin watch and note down your HRV,” I told her.
“What the hell is HRV?” she rightfully asked.
“HRV stands for Heart Rate Variability. HRV tells us how much variation there is between the timing of each heart beat,” I said.
If your body is ruined and constantly stressed, there’ll be very little variation. Your nervous system is too stressed out to be able to adapt quickly, so it just chooses a pace and sticks to it.
If there’s a lot of variation, this tells me your body is ready for a challenge.
High HRV = a prepared body and mind.
Low HRV = stressed to the point you are either in constant hustle, or feel like you’ve just shut down.
It took me a lot of studying to find out how to use HRV successfully with my adventurepreneurs, but here’s the short of it:
Begin tracking your HRV & do everything you can to increase it.
Busy Getting Nothing Done? Do This
Every single day I’d open my laptop with no plan.
I was busy, but busy getting nothing done.
As such, my business was hugely inconsistent, and I went on very few adventures.
I felt like I didn’t deserve them, and I felt overwhelmed.
This is how I got past that.
I began tracking the most important outputs: how much time I spent working & how much money I earned.
And most importantly, I tracked my inputs: what exactly I did.
I found some shocking revelations:
1 - I was way less consistent than I thought I was
2 - The actions that created me the most freedom were not the actions I thought they were
Now, I have weekly, daily, and monthly essentials that I never miss. Life is predictable.
And predictable is much better.
Use Constraints To Set You Free Today
Is your soul feeling crushed because you don’t go on enough adventures?
Here’s the obvious advice you already know but need to listen to….
Book the trip.
That’s it.
I was speaking to Kevin Gaskell on The Freedom Project Podcast. He broke the world record for the fastest row across the Atlantic Ocean.
And went to both poles… twice.
All whilst being the Managing Director of Porsche, then BMW.
“How do you make the time to do all of these things?” I asked him.
“I just book the trip, and then I go,” Kevin replied.
It sounds simplistic, but there’s actually something super valuable happening here. Kevin is using the power of positive constraints.
By setting ourselves tight parameters in which we must achieve our goals, we are forced into action.
Without positive constraints, our goals get kicked down the road.
Book the trip. Limit your hours. Schedule the time at the crag with your mate.
Realise you’re going to die, don’t let your weakness win
I have one fear that’s bigger than any other.
The fear that I’ll be lying on my deathbed and realise I did none of the things I actually longed to do & that I fell short of my potential.
And that fear inspires me to action more than any goal setting process ever could.
One day, I’m going to die.
I have no idea when that could be. It could be in 60 years. It could be in 60 days.
So I may as well be the person I want to be now.
That’s the fear too that gets me up in the morning to execute my day's work, then check out.
It’s what allows me to truly disconnect at the weekend.
It’s what means I give everything to my clients and spend enough time in the mountains too.
You can intellectually understand this, or you can deeply acknowledge it.
When I’m working with my adventurepreneur clients, I can tell when they’ve deeply acknowledged it because they live their life as if it’s the only one they’re going to get.
The most dangerous regret is that we didn’t make the most of our lives.
Don’t risk that regret.
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