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This morning, our CEO Ije Nwokorie is giving the Presidents Jury address at Dubai Lynx. Here’s a preview of what he’ll be saying. Follow him on Twitter for his latest updates and more of what’s going on at this leading festival.
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"Do small things." — Seth Godin
Watch the video at http://creativemornings.com/talks/seth-godin/4
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This is awesome . . .
Motivation and my rules to success
Thank you Bevan James Eyles!
I had a little bit of a breakthrough the other day, when listening to some podcasts and reading some articles about motivation: I found the stuff really inspiring and empowering, so let me take you on a bit of a journey with what I discovered.
Motivation . . .
Imagine being able to crack motivation, own it, turn it on and off like a lightswitch. No mater what the job big or small, wether you love it or loathe it, imagine being able to throw yourself into it with limitless energy and vigor.
How much could we achieve, if our life had that intensity and drive behind whatever we did.?
But this is not the case, sadly we are not The Incredible Hulk, or any other super hero. We don't have limitless motivation and drive - because it does not exist! There is no such thing as limitless motivation!!
But some people have all the motivation in the world!! Like an energizer bunny on steriods, that just keeps going and going and going.
How can this be? Why is it that I am not one of those people?
Well here is the secret - motivation is a skill. It is a mental skill and like any other skill it needs to be practiced and developed. Also like any other mental skill it takes a lot of energy and focus to maintain - sort of like trying to read a science textbook without falling asleep.
(This concept is pretty groundbreaking stuff, if you have never considered it before. And if you want to look at it further please check out Bevan James Eyles podcast "Black and White Rules". This guys is highly emotionally intelligent and really worth listening to if you are into, fitness, self improvement, self awareness, etc. Right now he is the top of my ipod playlist.)
So, motivation is a mental skill, it can be trained and developed it needs time to rest and recovery.
Knowing this how can we improve our motivation?
So I have adopted 3 strategies to help improve my motivation.
1) Give it a rest, let it recharge.
2) Stimulate it with triggers.
3) Build rituals and routines to let it know when it is needed.
Step 1 - Let it rest and recharge.
Your brain needs a rest - it is that simple. The easiest way for your brain to rest is not have to use it. I know what you are thinking, sit down watch TV have a beer eat some pizza - Awesome. NO!!! That is not quite what I meant, you need to highlight some common areas that usually require motivation and will power and set hard and fast rules around them. When the rule is set in stone, there is no work for your brain to do. These are my rules:
1) I will go to the gym straight afterwork Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. I will go to my martial arts class on Wednesday from 6pm to 9pm. On Saturday morning I will choose any form of exercise to do as long as it is done first thing in the morning.
2) I will always bring lunch to school.
3) I won't buy food between the gym and school.
4) One month a year, I won't drink alcohol
(These rules are areas that I know I have weakness in, I know that if I rely on motivation to help make the right choice I am not always going to make it.)
Step 2 - Stimulate it with triggers.
For me that is music - I have a gym playlist full of hip hop and pop music that gets me amped - it fuels me with a funk that makes me dance a little bit between my sets (I realise now, typing this I must look like a complete nutter at the gym). The music distracts my thoughts and takes me to a special place while my body does the hard yards. I am even getting a little excited thinking about it now.
3) Creating rituals
These are my rituals, I walk the exact same path to the gym - it is the fastest route possible. When I arrive at the gym, I stretch, say hello to the other members have a bit of a chat. I complete all of my warm up and stretching - then I put on my armour: my shoes, my gloves and my ipod. From then my motivation knows it need to get involved, because it's business time.
Now I say rules to success - because these things have helped create habits and behaviours that are just part of my personality. I have gone from someone that would hit the gym occassionally to someone that now has a 90% compliance rate to a training programe that is 6 days a week. I am setting myself up to succeed.
Anyway speaking of inspiration / motivation, here are some links that are really worth looking into:
Bevan James Eyles - Awesome dude, really inspiring stuff.
Forever Fitness - Another great NZ fitness podcast, with some great practical tips
Livestrong - Doesn't really need introductions does it!
Precision Nutrition - The training program I am currently doing.
You get by with a little help from your friends
Today, was a day I really needed a boost.
I was down - I felt further away from what I wanted to achieve than before I had started. And in the moment I needed support, but didn't know how to ask - my wife was there and so were my friends.
Again, I realise how lucky I am to have the love and support around me of such awesome people and how lucky I am to have such an amazing wife and best friend.
Thank you!
Really need to keep this in mind! It is so easy to give up when life puts simple obstacles in your way. I suppose you really know that you are winning when you are crawling - because you have beaten the only real hurdle "your own mindset".
Okay and here is some of the strength changes I am noticing, as well as the fact that I can now run 5kms again. Seriously, wins that seem minor to others feel massive to myself. However those wins help me realise how far away I am from where I want to be.
This is me now, still a long way from where I want to be. But am making progress.
Okay, a little update (not cancer related) this was me then.
Chemotherapy "How to take it like a man"
Sleep, like nothing is happening.
Yes, remember how the ostrich buries it head in the sand when it is scared. The whole theory of "if I can't see the bad thing coming it is not actually coming". Well in the case of chemo - I whole heartedly support this theory.
There was no need to be awake for treatment, cause let's face it spending 4-6 hours having drugs pumped into your body (and not happy time drugs) while you contemplate your own mortality, does you no good and doesn't change the outcome of the drugs effectiveness or the speed at which you will recover.
So this is what I would recommend, the night before treatment - go to a movie, stay up late and distract yourself. Try if possible to schedule your treatment for first thing in the morning, go there tired put on your headphones, take the little nighty night pill they give you after you get all set up - I always found the lazy boys more comfortable than the beds, then go to sleep.
It doesn't sound very manly!
But believe me it is supremely manly to; in the face of danger and adversity take a little nap, cause you are so relaxed in the fact that you have got everything under control that you don't even need to be awake. Sort of like this guy.
Image from wiki commons.
Well maybe not like that guy, think Clint Eastwood and you will get the picture.
It's been awhile
Like anything I do, I start with a bang . . .
I am excited and passionate, and get stuck into it with the vigor of a kitten playing with a ball of yarn - I attack it from all sides, no rhyme or reason until I eventually lose interest.
However I still have more I need to say . . .
So I apologise for how long it has been since I wrote (wow, I just made two massive assumptions: 1) Someone has been reading this, 2) Someone actually wants me to write more).
Anyway I am back and now going to try and continue my story.
Hey :)I was reading your blog and I am very sorry about what you're going through. I had Hogkins Lymphoma last year and I know what you are going through and how your are feeling.I just wanted to say that even though I don't know you, if you ever wanna talk I'll be here :D I know what its like to fell alone and just wanting to talk to someone who knows what you are going through and if you have any questions or need support or even just someone to rant to that I'm all ears :) And I probably sound like a stalker so sorry about that haha I assure that I'm not.Take care :D
Thanks heaps for the support, sorry I should have made it a bit more clear all of my posts are now retrospective - I have been clear for about two years now. I am only now trying to capture it all down now, so that others who are going to go through it have a different perspective and also - cause I never really talked about how I felt at the time and never got to explain to my friends and family how much their support meant to me.
Thank you again, for reading out - I hope I never really need to take you up on the offer. But likewise please feel free if you ever need someone to talk to, about the whole thing and the feelings afterwards (like constant paranoia that you have the symptoms again) I am here too.
Brodie
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YOU CAN NOT CONTROL THIS, PLAN A PARTY!
The start of my chemotherapy,
This is the hard part, trying to describe the treatment that I went through. It is hard on so many levels to accuratley describe. So please forgive me for how disjointed this all will seem and let me caveat it all, to start.
The caveat: "this was my experience and what I remember from my treatments which I had in New Zealand"
I said that for the very important fact, that if you are about to undergo this treatment or have been recently diagnosed you need to understand that everything you read on the internet needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Treatment regimes vary as do the people who recieve them, please don't read this or any other single post about chemo and hodgkins and assume that this is what you will experience.
Also if you are about to go through this, I know how supremely scary it can be, how in my case I spent hours trying to find out everything I could about it online and how much more scared I became with questions like; Will I need a port? Will my hair fall out? Will I be able to have children after? (that was probably my worst thought) With all these questions, I implore you to take the next part in very carefully because it maybe the only practical advice I can offer . . .
It is really important to understand and take in:
YOU CAN NOT CONTROL THIS, PLAN A PARTY!
All of the questions I had and worried over, searching the internet for answers to. All of that is out of my control, the only thing I could do (which I had actually read on someone's blog) was organize a party.
So before treatment started, I had my closest mates** come down for the weekend and they did my dishes and we sat around watching TV and talking shit.
Why party? What am I celebrating?
Well, you are celebrating the start of getting better, you are enjoying one last beer before putting in the hard yards, etc. It doesn't really matter, what you are actually doing, is controlling what you can control, distracting yourself from the shit you can't change - and enjoying the simple things in life, which for me is having amazing people around me.
So, take what you can control in your hands and plan a party.
Brodie
**(On a side note, I am lucky to have the most amazing friends, I will never really be able to thank them(but later I will try) for their support - but everyday they make me want to be a better friend and person if only to be half the men and women they are.)
Chemotherapy
"Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. The drugs are called cytotoxic medications. Chemotherapy is referred to as body-wide, or systemic, therapy because the drugs travel throughout the entire body."
As described by the New York times
As described by myself Chemo drugs are like napalm, they destroy everything in their path indiscriminately.
