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- 0:24Lisa Hopkins: Hey there.
- 0:24Lisa Hopkins: So we all have things that affect us and influence our ability or capacity to thrive in certain situations or to be as effective as we know that we can be.
- 0:38Lisa Hopkins: It isn't uncommon to feel off, to feel like you're not quite able to do what you normally can do, and this can come into play when we're operating at a very high level.
- 0:55Lisa Hopkins: The folks I work with rely on their capacity to thrive, and when things are off, what we do is we check in with what influencers are at play.
- 1:10Lisa Hopkins: So I'm going to talk today a little bit about what I mean by influencers and how you can draw awareness around what may or may not be affecting you and your ability to perform or show up in the way that you know you can.
- 1:25Lisa Hopkins: So there are six influencers that I talk about Social, mental, environmental, emotional, physical and spiritual.
- 1:41Lisa Hopkins: I'm going to break them down a little bit and then maybe give you a few examples of how your influencers might be at play.
- 1:51Lisa Hopkins: So your spiritual influencer is all about your purpose.
- 1:55Lisa Hopkins: It's all about why you do what you do and it affects how you do things.
- 2:03Lisa Hopkins: So when you're, when you are motivated by your spiritual influencer, you feel connected to your purpose.
- 2:11Lisa Hopkins: Now, interestingly, all of these influencers can also detract from your energy.
- 2:18Lisa Hopkins: When whatever you're doing is causing you to question your values or your purpose or comes in conflict with what it is you stand for, well then your spiritual influencer could be out of whack.
- 2:31Lisa Hopkins: A good example of this is doing things for the right reason, and the right reason lies in you, not an external factor.
- 2:45Lisa Hopkins: So when you connect to your why, you're connected to your purpose, to your spiritual connection, to your reasons for doing things, and if your reasons for doing things are connected to the outside to impress or to show up for somebody else, or to put on a mask and be what people want you to be, well then your spiritual influencer will be out of whack, because what you're doing is not connected.
- 3:18Lisa Hopkins: When I wrote the book, I was connected to my purpose of connection, of sharing, of creativity, of connection, of sharing of creativity, of personal discovery.
- 3:36Lisa Hopkins: It was really ripe with spiritual influencers, which made it very easy for me to do and to show up for, because I felt connected to my why.
- 3:43Lisa Hopkins: Alternatively, had I been trying to produce a book, I wouldn't have been able to tap into my values of creativity and purpose and connection and service had I been doing it for other reasons?
- 4:00Lisa Hopkins: Had my spiritual influencer been out of whack?
- 4:04Lisa Hopkins: Had I been doing it because I'm supposed to?
- 4:07Lisa Hopkins: Had I been doing it because I said I would?
- 4:10Lisa Hopkins: All of these things don't allow me to connect into that deeper reasoning for why I do or did what I did.
- 4:20Lisa Hopkins: I hope that makes sense.
- 4:24Lisa Hopkins: So let's talk about the mental influencer.
- 4:26Lisa Hopkins: So mental influencers, the mental influencer, so mental influencers.
- 4:37Lisa Hopkins: They're all about focus.
- 4:37Lisa Hopkins: They're all about something being interesting enough for you to stimulate you, but not so hard that it frustrates you.
- 4:44Lisa Hopkins: So if you're the type of person that loves a challenge and feels energized by that, well then your mental influencer is something that is important to you.
- 4:55Lisa Hopkins: If you're someone who feels frustrated when something is too hard and feels challenged and feels down on yourself, well then you are being influenced by your mental influencer in a negative way.
- 5:11Lisa Hopkins: And again, keep in mind, these are all contextualized as well, which is probably a whole other conversation.
- 5:20Lisa Hopkins: So let's talk about emotional influencers.
- 5:24Lisa Hopkins: When your emotional influencer is serving you, it's likely that you'd be feeling good about doing something, you'd be feeling capable, you'd be feeling positive and you'd notice when you feel this way, you're able to get a lot done or to really focus on whatever it is that you want to be effective at Now.
- 5:51Lisa Hopkins: This is not to say that only the positive or happy emotions are ones that serve you.
- 5:57Lisa Hopkins: In fact, I can think of a lot of artists who find that when they're feeling blue or sad or even tired, that they're more effective, which is interesting, right.
- 6:08Lisa Hopkins: Tired that they're more effective, which is interesting, right, that it evokes a place where they can go to and really go to that well of feeling Interesting, isn't it?
- 6:18Lisa Hopkins: On the other hand, an emotion might really affect you.
- 6:23Lisa Hopkins: I might not be able to communicate as well if I'm super excited, for instance.
- 6:27Lisa Hopkins: Sometimes I get excited about stuff and I feel that I lambaste people with my energy.
- 6:33Lisa Hopkins: So if the goal there is to communicate openly and calmly and I'm excited, well then my emotional influencer is a little bit off.
- 6:42Lisa Hopkins: Do you see how that works?
- 6:44Lisa Hopkins: So there's no good or bad in either of these or any of these.
- 6:49Lisa Hopkins: It's only, it's all about awareness and it definitely is about context as well.
- 6:56Lisa Hopkins: So we've talked about spiritual and mental and emotional.
- 7:02Lisa Hopkins: Let's talk about physical.
- 7:03Lisa Hopkins: So physical influencers involve your awareness around what your body's telling you, right?
- 7:10Lisa Hopkins: So if you feel better when you exercise, then exercise is part of your routine that serves you and helps you and you don't get to exercise, well, then your physical influencer will be out of whack.
- 7:26Lisa Hopkins: If you exercise too much, for instance, right, if you overexert yourself, then you might be too tired to perform that night or to take that meeting or to have that hard conversation.
- 7:40Lisa Hopkins: So, again, balancing and understanding how your physical influencers serve you and in what context, is massive.
- 7:49Lisa Hopkins: Some days I feel so much better if I get up early and stretch and then start my day, and others not so much.
- 8:00Lisa Hopkins: Others I feel better if I sleep a little bit more because my body's telling me I need to rest.
- 8:06Lisa Hopkins: Again, awareness is the key.
- 8:13Lisa Hopkins: Let's talk about social influencers Now.
- 8:16Lisa Hopkins: I think it's fair to say that social influencers are pretty massive, right, this involves, you know, being surrounded by like-minded people, people that are excited about doing the same things that you do.
- 8:33Lisa Hopkins: This is about being lit up when you're with certain folks or drained when you're with others.
- 8:40Lisa Hopkins: So there's an example of the social helping, the social not helping.
- 8:44Lisa Hopkins: If you are, you know, an introvert, this may affect you differently and you may need to adjust accordingly.
- 8:55Lisa Hopkins: I know that, for me, social really includes family, and so it would be fair to say in my case that social is one of my biggest influencers, that social is one of my biggest influencers.
- 9:14Lisa Hopkins: I can be lit up by a group of strangers that I'm just meeting and I'm enjoying, or that I'm sharing with or teaching.
- 9:18Lisa Hopkins: I can equally be drained by a loving my family so much that I try too hard.
- 9:27Lisa Hopkins: Does that make sense?
- 9:29Lisa Hopkins: So my family, again as an example of a social influencer, also brings me so much joy, but it influences me.
- 9:40Lisa Hopkins: If I get a phone call, it can take me off my game.
- 9:44Lisa Hopkins: If I am really focused at doing something and I get a phone call call and it's either good or bad, it doesn't really matter what the context of the phone call is or the communication with my family is.
- 9:56Lisa Hopkins: It can draw me away from being as effective as I want to be.
- 10:01Lisa Hopkins: So drawing that awareness for myself allows me to adjust my influencers accordingly.
- 10:10Lisa Hopkins: Today's a good example for me.
- 10:11Lisa Hopkins: I am in a very heightened social situation with my family.
- 10:19Lisa Hopkins: All positive, but I'm feeling my physical influencers off.
- 10:24Lisa Hopkins: I'm not sleeping.
- 10:25Lisa Hopkins: The same way, I'm feeling my spiritual is off, because I'm sort of pulled away from doing what I do, which is a huge part of who I am.
- 10:37Lisa Hopkins: So I'm adjusting accordingly.
- 10:41Lisa Hopkins: Today, against all kind of common sense, I've decided to step away and focus on my work, on my practice, on recording this for you today, because that is my spiritual influencer and that's what I need right now to help me balance out that physical and that social, which are kind of so amped up.
- 11:06Lisa Hopkins: I hope that makes sense to you.
- 11:09Lisa Hopkins: Other physical influencers can include, you know, having an injury or you know not just not feeling.
- 11:17Lisa Hopkins: Well, there's some obvious ones there.
- 11:19Lisa Hopkins: So we're going to talk about the final one, which is environmental.
- 11:28Lisa Hopkins: So an environmental influencer involves, well, your surroundings.
- 11:35Lisa Hopkins: It involves what helps you be the best that you can be.
- 11:40Lisa Hopkins: So, in a theater analogy and I'm a theater person, so I'll talk about this when your dressing room has air conditioning, that helps.
- 11:49Lisa Hopkins: When it doesn't, and the perception is, oh my gosh, I'm not going to perform as well Because there's no air conditioning in my dressing room, that starts to affect me.
- 12:00Lisa Hopkins: So that can be information that helps me recognize that.
- 12:05Lisa Hopkins: That helps me recognize that A I ensure that I either have accommodations for that, or that I maybe drink a little bit more water or that I bring a fan, you know, if I know I'm going to a venue that won't be providing that If we do not make adjustments and recognize that these influencers are not black and white, meaning if you don't have the air conditioning it doesn't mean that you're going to perform less well.
- 12:34Lisa Hopkins: It means you don't have the air conditioning at that venue.
- 12:37Lisa Hopkins: So you will amp up other aspects that will help you and make accommodations for yourself so that you can perform your best.
- 12:47Lisa Hopkins: I hope that makes sense.
- 12:48Lisa Hopkins: You know environment.
- 12:50Lisa Hopkins: You know influencers are super important, right.
- 12:53Lisa Hopkins: Sometimes rain, sometimes weather, sometimes sunshine.
- 12:57Lisa Hopkins: It affects our mood and if we know that we feel better when we breathe in the fresh air in the morning, then it's a good reminder to self that when we're feeling a little off, that maybe we schedule a little more time to do that.
- 13:13Lisa Hopkins: If we can't do it in the morning due to other circumstances, well then maybe we find another way to do it, and maybe it isn't the walk, maybe it is just opening a window.
- 13:26Lisa Hopkins: Right, there's a spectrum of ways that we can adjust our influencers.
- 13:32Lisa Hopkins: I think my instinct tells me we're going to stop there and that I will continue this lesson so that you can create your own success formula for being as effective as you can in whatever it is you're trying to do.
- 13:50Lisa Hopkins: And again, this can be the big meeting, it could be the big move, it could be the big show, it could be the next conversation with a stranger, it could be your relationship with yourself, it could be, you know, anything big, small or in between.
- 14:11Lisa Hopkins: It's about all the moments, not just the big ones and not just the bad ones.
- 14:18Lisa Hopkins: I'm going to leave it at that for today.
- 14:22Lisa Hopkins: I'm going to honor my physical influencer, which is telling me go drink some water, go eat some food, so that you can feel replenished for all the social stuff that I'm going to be amped up in over the next little period of time.
- 14:44Lisa Hopkins: You guys, I appreciate you so, so, very much.
- 14:46Lisa Hopkins: Thanks for being here, for learning.
- 14:49Lisa Hopkins: It says a lot about you that you're here to grow and to expand your knowledge about self and about how you can show up in the world, so this world can be a better place.
- 15:00Lisa Hopkins: I'm so, so grateful for you.
- 15:03Lisa Hopkins: Please check out my book.
- 15:05Lisa Hopkins: I continue to get incredible messages from folks saying how much it's helped them, and I will be sharing some of those at some point, but for now, just please do yourself a favor and go out and get the book.
- 15:18Lisa Hopkins: The link is in the show notes, the places where there are spaces cultivating a life of creative possibilities.
- 15:25Lisa Hopkins: Give yourself the gift of growth, a life of creative possibilities.
- 15:30Lisa Hopkins: Give yourself the gift of growth.
- 15:31Lisa Hopkins: So much love and light.
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