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Growth Spurt: What Are You Practicing? · The Growth Project

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  Hello everyone. Welcome back to another growth spurt. Again, these are bite sized versions of the Growth Project brought to you by AMP flows powered by Leap Day. This really at the end of the day we recorded these and we filmed these to help you both pursue better and be better. I'm Anthony Leber and today we're going to be discussing what are you practicing every day.
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  We tend to usually reserve the word practice for things. We're trying to get better at a skill, a sport, an instrument, but really if we simplify this practice is just repetition. And oftentimes repetition doesn't stop to check whether the behavior is helping you or hindering you.
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  what this is really getting at is you're always in training.
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  The only real question is what are you training for? What are you actually developing?
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  So when we talk about
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  and we talk about maybe more mindless practice, think about worry. Think about it. When every day when you rehearse the worst version of tomorrow until it feels like preparation, maybe it's complete. Maybe you're training your attention to scan for what is wrong.
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  First, where are you not being met? What things aren't going your way? Maybe it's avoidance. Teaching yourself that discomfort ends the moment that you back away, that you retract. It can even be procrastination. Reinforcing the relief that follows every single delay of putting off that next big thing.
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  when we talk about this idea of
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  this becomes automatic.
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  The more behavior is repeated in a consistent context. The brain sees this as making the frequent thing easier. It isn't grading it. It isn't saying, hey, this is helping me or this is harming me. It's just hitting an automatic button. It's just hitting a go button, if you will.
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  So what I want you all to do is audit your day, take some time to reflect on not what you intended to do or what you actually had repeated.
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  And then when you order your day, pick the single repetition that costs you the most. Take some time to name the trigger that sets it off. Maybe it's worry, maybe it's complaining. Maybe it's procrastination. Whatever it may be. Name it to tame it.
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  Then decide the replacement rapid advance so the trigger has somewhere else to go, right? Build the contingency plan in your head.
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  Okay. If I find myself thinking in this way, if I find myself worrying or complaining, then I'm going to shift to focusing on what I can control. Those if then statements give you a blueprint on what and where to focus on in order to be a little bit more effective.
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  So really, if someone watched the film of your week, would they say you'd been practicing?