440: Meditation, Journaling, and Gratitude: Tap Into the Three Habits for High Performance State of Flow with Enthusiastic Clay Green

Robert Plank 0:00 Music, marketer of the day number 440, meditation, journaling and gratitude. Tap into the three habits for high performance, state of flow with enthusiastic clay green. Hey everyone, and thanks for listening. We're talking right now with clay green. And his website is enthusiastic clay.com and he's going to tell us how to live that entrepreneurial lifestyle. He's going to tell us about his life lessons, what he learns. We're going to have a lot of fun. How are things? Mr. Clay,

Clay Green 0:31 they're pretty awesome. Robert, thank you for having me. Man, well, I'm having fun

Robert Plank 0:35 cool. I mean, having fun is what it's all about, having fun and making money and doing what you want, having that freedom. So I'm all about that. So what? What's on your mind lately? What's your kind of latest projects and things like that? What I'm

Clay Green 0:47 working on right now is kind of grow my business from from one on one, primarily focused helping individuals to getting a bigger reach. I guess I'm really I've always enjoyed connecting people, and I'm stepping more firmly into masterminds. I love masterminds, hooking up about, you know, six maybe 10 people, getting to those people together, and focusing in on one, either one business model or one type of discussion. Let's put it that way. You know, like, weight loss, bio hacking, or the big one lately is my get it done, mastermind, to be honest with you,

Robert Plank 1:26 awesome. And so, so is that? So as far as, like, your your specialty, and like, what you help people do, is it getting it done? Is that kind of what you're all about? There's,

Clay Green 1:36 I have a couple different levels of of working with people, because, well, you know what? Now, let me, let me just say yes, but the trick is getting what done right. Different people have different things they want to get done. For example, I love helping out newbies, and if we get to this part of the story, you'll find out how much I've helped people that were new at things my whole life. But I also really, really love experienced, um, established entrepreneurs or business owners that realize that they're trying to make that transition, but they think they're just not getting it done. They don't know why. They can't understand why. And I've oftentimes got the little secret insight as to what's going on and what's actually stopping them. Awesome. Well,

Robert Plank 2:21 we're looking forward to some secret insights. So, so you say that people are stuck in a certain way from getting it done. So what does that look like? Exactly? How are people stuck?

Clay Green 2:31 So let's start with, let's start with an example of an experienced business owner. I had a client a while back that was not happy in his his job. He owned a successful IT company where there were, like, I think he had 15 employees, 20 employees, something like that. You know, multi million dollar business and but he's working six days a week, and he's just constantly stressed out about payroll and keeping the customers happy and all that stuff. And he was just, he was he was in that rut. He was stuck, and he knew, and he had been investigating different online lifestyle type businesses, and he knew he wanted that type of business. Now, this guy also has, like, a couple daughters, and one was an infant at the time when I was working with him, and he was, he was, he was really, really struggling with actually doing what needed to be done in order to build that lifestyle business and in order to sell his it business and actually move forward in that process. So there's, there's different levels of things that he was trying to get done, and he just wasn't making progress on them, and he felt stuck, isolated, constrained. And so we worked together, and I explained that little secret insight that I hope I get to share, and we developed habits and practices, base level habits and practices that are not surprising and not shocking. That's the That's the bad news. I do have something that I think is very unique The way I explain it. But the bottom line is, when it comes down to the daily actions and habits, it doesn't matter if you're just starting out on this entrepreneurial journey or you're an experienced business owner like my buddy, I'm going to drop his name, Nigel. He it doesn't matter, the odds are you're not executing on those base level habits the way that you need to be. And those base level habit the fundamentals. Man, it's always about the fundamentals, right,

Robert Plank 4:38 right? I agree. So, so it sounds like, so your your friend Nigel. Here, it sounds like he had the money part of things figured out, but didn't quite have, like the time and the stress part figured out, and maybe had to reconfigure a few things, like he was kind of on the right track, or maybe made money in spite of himself, but then sort of had to rearrange some of the pieces on the chessboard so that he could have the money. Plus the lifestyle that he wanted is that on the right track,

Clay Green 5:03 he's gone on now he he basically was thinking that it was going to take him two to three years to sell his business, and we had it sold in six months at a better deal than he could have imagined. And his lifestyle business, his online membership and and he transitioned to helping people in that same market, but doing it in a different way, because he's a he loves that market. He loves those people. And so he transitioned very successfully, and has an online membership site and online on the online kind of offerings which is becoming so popular today. So reconfiguration is definitely what happened to life. There's no question about that. Yeah. Well,

Robert Plank 5:49 great. And you mentioned that a lot of the things that that you you had him do to get to that point had to do with the simple stuff, the fundamentals. So what kind of things are those?

Clay Green 6:01 Well, let's, can we? Can we? Can we talk about the newbies real quick? Yeah, whatever you want. So, so, and we'll connect it. It will it will connect it, because that's my story, kind of, I struggled for 25 years to get a business built, and the whole time I would, I would get down the path, and I would, and I tried different things. And I would try all, all that bust my ass, Robert, I felt like I was, like, killing myself, right and then, but I would never actually get it done, but never close the deal. There would always be something blocking my way. And the reason is, is because, like, you go out and you take a class, I don't care. You go, pick a Tai Lopez class. You go, pick the foundation. You go, Pick anything you know coaching. You go, pick any business model, and the first thing they're going to tell you is work on your mindset. And I thought that I had that down right. Like, you study the mindset stuff, and it tells you, you know, know what you want, be focused, do everything you can to stay give you these basic things. And it's like, yeah, I write this stuff down. I wrote down my purpose. I wrote down I should be killing it, right? So I'm done with the mindset stuff. But the reality is, you're never done with the mindset stuff. And so I learned a few lessons, and those lessons were not easily learned. And that goes back to why I love helping newbies. I tend to learn things really, really well, which gives me the ability to explain them really, really well to a wide variety of people, wide diverse audience, and that's what it took me 25 years, plus some significant incidents in my life, which we can talk about if we want to to learn these lessons and and that's and so the newbies out there, the people that are just starting to build their business, I assure you, you are not spending enough time focused on your mindset. The experienced entrepreneur that that knows that he spent the time on his minds, that I assure you there's a tweak or an adjustment that needs to be made on what you're doing in order to level yourself up, because it always comes back to that foundational habit around mindset. That's why I was looking forward to talking to you, because you have so much content on mindset. I'm excited about that

Robert Plank 8:27 awesome Well, I'm excited to unpack the thing, the specific things about mindset that you think are important to you and to everyone else. And I agree completely that. And it seems like there's like, a few years in there of maybe a false start where we all kind of jump into the mindset stuff, or, like, the Tony Robbins or the NLP, or whoever we end up kind of, kind of hitching our horse to. We end up going into that mindset stuff, and we, like, learn all the stuff, and we're like, great. I finished the book, I finished the course, and then it seems like it sticks for maybe, at least for me, it stuck for a couple of months, and then I fell right back into the old habits for a couple of years, until I realized that, just like you said, like I'm not done, even if I if I think I know everything, that's a sure fire sign that I don't need know everything. So I need to be doing some of those daily habits. And even if we we learn the same lessons again, or we hear it said differently. It still helps us to get out of whatever kind of day to day situation that we're in. So I agree completely. So as far as the mindset stuff, is there anything specific that that you like to focus on or that jumps out at you lately?

Clay Green 9:34 Yes, yes. Not lately. Not lately. This is I love, I love your words, Robert, you're you're saying the magic words. First off, yes, everybody that's listening. When you find something that works for you, someone to follow, do what Robert said, find that the way I say it, instead of hitch that. Hitch to that or, sorry, I can't remember exactly how you said it. What did you say? You hitch, you hit you up to that ride. I. I say, find, find that pony and that works for you, and ride it. Don't stop writing it. Hold that pony forever. Um, to answer your question directly. Robert, the biggest that my my giveaway, the thing that I give people is the three habits. There's three fundamental habits that you simply must do every day. These are like the ingrained like I wake up, I'll tell you about the gratitude habit later, if you if we get there, but it's like literally every day, all day long. You're thinking about these three habits, meditation, journaling and gratitude. Those are very vague words right there. There are very specific practices, and you have to adjust those habits for you. There's an infinite number of ways to use a journal, there's an infinite number of ways to meditate. There's an infinite number of ways to practice gratitude. The trick is making them work and growing them and making them work for you.

Robert Plank 11:05 Well, great. So So those, those three things, meditation, journaling and gratitude, like those are things that, like you said, they get kind of thrown out there, and maybe people have the already pre existing assumption on what using those kind of habits are like. So I'm curious about so I mean the first one, meditation, what? What's your specific take on meditation?

Clay Green 11:27 Step number one, if you are not meditating every day, I'm sorry. Clear the throat there. Step number one, if you're not meditating every day, start. I don't care what tactic, I don't care what technique use. Use that magical, wonderful device we have called the internet, Google and YouTube, and find something to dedicate two to five minutes a day, two to five minutes in the morning, two to five minutes in the evening. But start and do not stop. Period. That's my that's my first take on it. That's number one, because that's the hurdle most people face. They look at me and they say, Well, I tried meditation and there's no benefit. I didn't, I didn't realize any benefit. I know. Don't look for a benefit. Don't, don't even, don't worry about any benefit. Start. Once you start, then the trick is to grow it. And you're going to start. You're going to find out after maybe it takes three months, maybe it takes six months. And I, again, Robert, I can talk about how I have ADD ADHD, and I how I had to start meditation. But once you start, then you can grow it. Once you start growing it, then you can start adjusting it for your lifestyle, for your desired output. I don't know if your audience or if you've recommended this, or if you've read this book yet, but have you read the book stealing fire?

Robert Plank 12:57 No, never heard of it. Even. What? Oh,

Clay Green 13:02 Robert, I'm sorry. I say it probably like 100 times a day. That's why I'm surprised. I'm sorry. Okay, get, get that book, period, find that book, get that book, read that book, that book describes. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna ramble here for a second. One of the things that happened to me when I was in my journey, and it happened about five years ago now, is I was riding my motorcycle, and I was going about 85 miles an hour, and a deer came out of the woods and hit me really hard, and I did not crash. I should have crashed. I at the point, long story short, I can analyze, I have pictures, I can analyze the crash scene, but I didn't crash. There's no way I didn't crash. So I was kind of dumbfounded. I freaked out. I was like, How did I not crash? This does not make sense. A couple days later, I found a book called The Rise of Superman. That book is by a man named Stephen Cotler, K O, T, L, E R. He explained in the rise of the book, and he explained how I did not crash. The reason I did not crash is because I was operating in a state of flow. I could go into all kinds of gory detail about the state of flow, but let's kind of fast forward a little bit here. All right, the state of the state of flow is physical. Is a physical way your brain is operating. They can hook you up to biofeedback monitors now and say, yes, you're in a state of flow. And they can even calibrate how deep in a state of flow you are. This is all new stuff in the last five to 10 years with FMRIs and all that, about 10 years, I should say so. Then five years later, that book gave Stephen Cotler unprecedented access. Two not just Navy SEALs, and not just Silicon executives, Silicon Valley executives. That book gave Stephen Cotler access to the founders of Google. He's hanging out with the boys, okay, not just seals, but SEAL Team Six, the top 100 operators on the planet. He's hanging out with those guys, learning what they do and understanding what they're doing. And this is the US government dumping money into their brains. These are people that have been in operators, killers, the best in the world, for 15 to 20 years their lives, and they finally make it to this top echelon, and they they're now like the elite of the elite. And what do they do? They have this thing called the brain gem. And he talks about it, and he describes the different practices that they do, some not even, not even in detail, but some of the things they do in order to make it possible for them to learn to master a language in six weeks not not become fluent in it, Master a language in six weeks to appear as a local. These guys are incredible, and it all comes down to how your mind is wired. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why must start meditating. Because eventually, once you start meditating in stealing fire, which is the next book by Stephen Cotler, he describes the different ways to put yourself into a state of flow, the obvious one, hop on a motorcycle, jump off a building, in a in a wing suit, go go skydiving, put yourself in a life and death situation, and guess what? You're going to get put into the state of flow. Go, go, start a gun fight. You're gonna, you're gonna get put into a state of flow. Another one that's happening right now that you may have heard about. Robert is micro dosing, micro dosing, LSD and MDMA and other psychotropic drugs. They are doing that in Silicon Valley. A lot, a lot of executives and higher ups and Silicon Valley owners, CEOs, that kind of thing, are doing that because it puts them into this state of flow instantly. And it's a pill. It's literally like the movies, like, there's a couple movies that have been released like that. Well, I think one of them was called limitless. But there's another way, and that way is you spend about 12 weeks developing and building a meditation practice so that you can control your thoughts, so that you can control what you're doing, what's going on in your brain, and you can literally put yourself into and take yourself out of a state of flow safely, without doing unknown damage to your brain at your will, doing any task, anytime. I loved when I read that. I read that book about two months ago, maybe, maybe three now, and and the summary in the book, it lays out what I just described. Oh, I'm sorry, there's one other way go to a rave, or join a cult, join a cult and go to a or go to a rave where the music's thumping and everybody's dancing and and all that stuff. You can put yourself in a state of flow that way as well. But I've literally been doing that last thing that, or the next to last thing that I just described. I've been helping people, and it takes about three months to get them to the point from where they start meditating with a focused intent, to the point where they can literally throw the switch and put themselves into a state of flow at any point. And that is the height of productivity. That is the height of getting stuff done right there. And that's why I've been doing it. That

Robert Plank 18:48 sounds amazing. And out of those three ways of getting there, your way sounds the safest. And I can definitely relate to to being in a flow state, like sometimes I'll get out and go for a walk for a couple of hours in the middle of a day, just to kind of unwind and let the brain do its thing, and then gap out for an hour or two and then realize, Oh yeah, I walked all that super long distance, or I'll be working on a project, and he would super into it, and then look at the clock and say, Whoa, where'd the time go? Hours just passed and I got all this sort of stuff done, so getting in that flow state and being able to jump in and out of it sounds amazing. So is there, is there a way you can lay out, like just the the overall plan, or is there a way you can explain it to us quickly on how to get there? Because it sounds freaking awesome

Clay Green 19:33 well, so you just described several things before we go. Here a keyword. So, so I used to ride. I still do ride my motorcycle, and I used to teach new motorcycle riders how to ride, and I tried to teach them how to ride safely, but they didn't like that. They just wanted to know how to go faster. So I started teaching them how to go faster by teaching them how to ride safely. And what I discovered was there's this thing. Man, there's this thing in our brain that stops us, and it's called the survivor I call it the OH SHIT switch. It's also called the survival mechanism. It's also called the medulla, and that's what's going to try and stop us. So I can give away, well, first off, to answer your question specifically. There is no one specific way to do it. Everybody's different. So I've never seen anyone take someone else's and I'm going to call, I call it a flow launch sequence. I've never seen someone take someone else's flow launch sequence and have it work for them. It's a very customized thing. Now I lead groups of people now through this process, and they develop their own flow launch sequence. And it comes down to you have to build into your daily routine. And for most people, this is a morning launch sequence. You build this morning launch sequence that includes things like meditation, journaling and guess what, gratitude. And it also includes some other pieces that put you into the cycle, or the stages of flow, and then you enter the state of flow. Well, Robert, you just described a couple things. So there's, I just said two things here. One, there's the OH SHIT switch that's going to stop you. So, so I can tell you everything you need to know right now, but there's going to be this beast inside you that tries to stop you from actually implementing it, and I'm going to tell you how it's going to do it right now. You pointed out safely. You mentioned the word safely. I mentioned the word safely. For example, with micro dosing, they do not know what the long term effects are. They have not done enough research to what that is actually doing to the brain. The other thing is, you talked about how one of the symptoms, or one of the symptoms of being in the state of flow is you lose track of time. Well, if you lose gamers and programmers and people like us that work on the internet, we have a problem. If we sit there and we work on our computer, or we hold that game controller for hours and hours and hours and hours, we are literally hurting our bodies. Ergonomically not good. Guarantee your ergonomics are not good. I know mine aren't. And then, and then you get into the fact that you're just sitting there sedentary for hours and hours and hours. So the key operating thing is safely. There's also coming out of the state of flow, because people get into the state of flow and they stay there. They stay there until 234, in the morning, and then they go to sleep. Family life, family life, health, diet, exercise, all those things are vital in staying healthy and keeping a healthy lifestyle. So you can't just learn how to turn on the state of flow, turn it on and then crash where you can, but it's just not healthy. So, but, but, but the loop here, here's the infinite loop. Part is the fact that this switch inside your head, this switch is going to either cause you to avoid learning the tactics that I'm going to share because it's not safe, or it's going to encourage you to learn them, and it's going to get you into the state of flow, and it's going to keep you there until you crash, and then you're not going to like it, and It's not going to be productive overall. So so this switch is going to never stop working to stop you it's never going to stop working to keep you safe. And that is the superpower mastering that switch. That's the superpower that I'm trying to unlock when I help people learn how to meditate. So is what I'm hearing. It's more important than the state of

Robert Plank 24:06 flow. And is what I'm hearing from you here, is that that that's that switch, or being in control of when we're in the flow state or not is, is important to do it in those short bursts. So that way, it's not like a fire hose going off. That way it doesn't, it doesn't get to become too big of a beast and control us. So is that? Is that about right? Like we want to just use it when we need it, and we don't want it to be this thing that just gets out of control?

Clay Green 24:30 So this, the state of flow, has four stages, and you, you actually described three of them a few minutes ago when you talked about the walk one one stage is called struggle. So you're working on something, you're studying for a test, you're playing a game, and you're not completing that level, you're you're trying to solve a programming problem or a marketing problem, and you're not getting action, and you're not getting done, but you're focused on that. Problem, then you release. You described it as going for a walk. There's a lot of different things. There's a whole bunch of things that you can do to, quote, unquote, release. But there's this point where you have you stop focusing on the problem, and you take your brain and you focus on something else that does require a little bit of your attention, enough of your attention that you can't focus on the problem consciously. And then you enter the state of flow. All of a sudden, a brilliant spark hits you, and you are inspired. And you go to work. Some people do that in the shower. A very common thing to do is a certain medicine. And again, people develop their own certain meditation type techniques. But in the shower is a place that that happens. Often, people jump out of the shower, they dry themselves off, and they go to work, and they're in a state of flow. So there's three of the stages, struggle, release, the state of flow. Or in his latest book, he calls it, Stephen Cotler calls it ecstasis. And I like that word because it's, it's, it's more general than just performance. It's a it ties in the feelings as well. Ecstasis, then the fourth stage, the important stage is recovery. So recovery means you're coming out of the state of flow. You know, you can't. You cannot stay in a state of flow. 24/7, you can't, because your body is burning energy. You have to fuel. You have to rest, and your brain has to recover. It's running differently. It's running at a a lot of people think it's running at a higher frequency. It's actually running at a lower frequency, but it still has to have this recovery time. The problem is crap. You're gonna get depressed, you're gonna be sad, you're gonna feel crappy compared to when you were in a state of flow, and it's such a dramatic shift. What we're talking about right here is, is the after party, after a concert that the rock stars, they try to keep that good feeling alive to the point where they're doing cocaine and they're doing all these bad things to their body. They're risking their their health, sexual they're doing all the bad stuff to keep that feeling alive. And then they crash. And then you get suicides. You get people, I mean, I lightly covered it a few minutes ago, about people jumping off buildings with a wing suit on. But there are stories people die almost every day, chasing the state of flow, these extreme athletes that are out there doing BASE jumping and doing all these crazy sports and stuff that are and they're risking their lives to keep feeling that state of flow. When they don't have to, they can just learn how to meditate and tap into it. So there's, there's a lot here, and the micro, the short burst sessions that you described. Yes, you have to take breaks. You have to do exercises to keep your ergonomic straight, your neck, your eyes. There's all kinds of specific things that you can do to keep yourself from hurting yourself while you're in a state of flow. And

Robert Plank 28:25 I could definitely, yeah, I can relate to a lot of that, maybe not to the point of suicide or drug use, but definitely, if I have to be super focused and super into it, and have my head in the game, and I do like a webinar or something, when I hop off that webinar after it's, it's like, I was going 200 miles an hour. Now I have to slow down to 10 miles an hour. And it's kind of a weird feeling. I can definitely relate to that feeling of, like, be being a little depressed, but then also thinking, like, all right, well maybe I'll keep the party going, or maybe I'll, like, drink a bunch of a bunch of caffeine and, like, do some more stuff. And like, yeah, there was definitely one time a couple of years ago when I did all these, like, back to back webinars to people. It was like 13 hours of webinars. Then afterwards, I went out for dinner and came back and, like, spoke out a book. Spent like, 90 more minutes speaking out a book. And it was just like, I was, like, riding in the wave, and I didn't want to, I mean, in a way, I didn't want it to end and it was just coming out of it definitely was a super weird feeling. But like you said, just need to, need to get more into the meditation and so, so I'm starting to get what you were saying here, where you said that a lot of the things that people need to know and people need to do aren't really secrets. They're things that we've heard about. You know, like take breaks, take care of your body, slow down, change a channel, every once in a while, in your brain, all those kinds of things. I'm starting to get it that there are these things that maybe we've heard over and over again, but people haven't been putting them into use the right way, or maybe just playing, or just paying lip service to those things, or maybe dabbling a little bit, but not making. In the part of their daily habits. So this is good stuff. This

Clay Green 30:03 is, yeah, about four or five years ago, I got associated with someone, and I want to warn you, if you, if you, if you google this name, hide your wallet. This man is a master at selling things. And the reason he's a master at selling things is because, is because you're gonna get at least 10 times the value out of any dollar you spend with him. So if you think and you want to purchase something from him, go for it. You're gonna get your values worth. But he is really good at getting you to buy stuff and then, and then just you're a customer for life, and I'm one of them. His name is Brendan Bouchard and s, b, u R, C, H, A, R, D, and it's Brendan with an O, B, R, E N, A, D, O N, and he recently released a book called High Performance habits. I've worked with him now for about four or five years, and I'm one of his high performance coaches, and I that's basically one of the things I can say I do is I help people. I help people master high performance. Well, he has his habits and his the way that he his content, the way that he puts it out, as far as specifically, his high performance habits are directly supportive of building yourself a flow, launch, a flow, landing and work, and having a day where you work in this state of flow. But like you said, the trick is intentionally deciding to manage your mind so that you can manage your day. So my three habits of meditation, journaling and gratitude, those are the foundation. I typically spend about three months working with people making sure and dialing those habits in, just to make sure that they can control their minds, so that they can control their days. Then you get to pick and choose the habits you implement. And it's magic.

Robert Plank 32:06 I love it. That's pretty powerful. Control your mind so that you can control your day. And I we're starting to go a little bit over time here. I want to make sure, in a couple of minutes, that we make sure that everyone knows where your stuff is and what kind of things we can check out. But but as we're winding down here, are there any final secrets that you want to cram him before we run out of time?

Clay Green 32:27 Final secrets, in case anybody missed it, start meditating today.

Robert Plank 32:33 And so about that, is there a favorite kind you like? Like, do you like the guided meditation or search, or do a quick search on YouTube or something like that.

Clay Green 32:41 There I could, I could, there's apps. I just found a couple apps. Test, test, am I still here?

Robert Plank 32:49 Still here? Okay,

Clay Green 32:50 I just want to make sure I went, I went to my I'm on my phone, and I went to my My Apps page. Here one app that I've recently found, and I know the guy that built this app, it's pretty nice app. It's called relaxation. One another app that I really like, that I'm really personally enjoying, is Insight Timer. And there's all kinds of ways that you can use that there's there's headspace, there's umvana, um there's YouTube guided meditations now real quick to let you, got to let everyone know when I started meditating, when I when I it was proven to me when I tested something and I saw the difference, and I said, Okay, I'm going to turn this is going to be a lifelong habit, and I'm going to build it once I decided to do that, I struggled to meditate. I struggled and and the way that I was able to finally figure out how to actually meditate, I'm literally and I still do this to this day. This morning, I did it. I use a guided meditation, and it can be anything if you if you search for abundance guided meditation or mindfulness, guided meditation on YouTube, you will find planning. I would use a guided meditation, be it an app or YouTube. I would have my mat down on the floor, and I would be doing a stretching routine, nothing technical, nothing specific, just stretching my body out and I would have to be focused on my breathing. So at the time, my ADHD brain and my sugar induced brain, you know, sugar sugar soaked brain, was so scattered that I would maybe, maybe be able to focus on my breath for two breaths before my mind would try to jump. And when it would jump, and I would start worrying about my girlfriend, I'd start worrying about the mortgage or whatever, or my business or whatever, then I would say, No, stop. I want to focus on the guided meditation. And so I would listen to the guided meditation. It would be an affirmation. And come over, and I would listen to that, and I would breathe in, and I would think about those words, and then my brain would jump to something else, and I would say, Okay, wait, no, no, I want to focus on this stretch. And I would focus on that muscle that was stretching a little bit. And then I would do that for a breath, maybe two, and then my brain would interrupt me again. So the point is, don't be discouraged. Start and build a meditation habit. If I could, if I could have another half hour, I could spend, I could tell the story about the deer. I could tell this. I could tell so many stories about how vital and how important it is that you start meditating. That is my biggest number one thing. And as far as resources go, real quick to plug my stuff, if you go look at enthusiastic clay.com, all the sign ups there. Everything that's there is about the three habits. Download the three habits, get the PDF, get the videos and start meditating. There's a list of resources people can get there.

Robert Plank 36:07 Fantastic. And if they want to get the details on the story with the deer and things like that, is there an easy way for people to find those things on your website? You

Clay Green 36:17 know what? There's not right now, not on my website. I do have, um, how about this? If somebody wants that, go sign up on my stuff, hit reply to one of those emails. Say, tell me the dear story. And near one of my people will get, um, a link to you where I do have podcast interviews where I tell the dear story, and I have several, um, several videos of myself doing that. There is, um, once, once you're involved with my stuff, if you're interested, and you like what you're hearing, and you're resonating to what I'm saying with the 25 years struggle to get it done, and you're ready to get it done, and you're tired of playing and you're ready to go, um, then get involved. Get involved with the Get It Done one on one class or the Get It Done mastermind. And my first lesson, my first most important lesson that I teach people is Think, Do not react. And in that lesson, we is the dear story, and it explains all the different ways that I did not react. If I would have reacted at any point during the incident with the deer, I would be dead. I would not be here, or I would have definitely more injuries than I do and all that. Yeah, it would have been bad.

Robert Plank 37:37 Jeez. Well, scary stuff. And I think that, I think that all of us listening can agree that there, it's easy to get stuck in the problems that are surrounding you in the present. And a lot of times, if we think back to so like, even like a particular crisis, you know, 510, 15 years ago, we might back, and we might think back to a problem that back then seemed huge, but then, you know, hindsight is 2020. Now looking back at it, you can say, Oh yeah, the solution to that was simple, or not acting was simple. But then when we're stuck in the moment, it's really easy to do what you're saying there, to just suddenly react and and whatever and whatever situation that is right, act emotionally, or act out of spite, or shoot yourself in the foot, or whatever. And in the same way, I mean, I think that a lot of us have been in some kind of an accident of some kind or another. And, you know, maybe, hopefully for most of us, nothing too major, but definitely we, I think we can relate to, like, that whole thing of like, you know, such and such was in an accident and they seized up and it was way worse, or they were an accident and it happened so fast that they ended up okay? So so that, as you're kind of explaining the deer story or past struggles and mistakes and things like that, like reacting is usually the wrong thing to do, right?

Clay Green 38:51 I've got a really good example that everybody can relate to that happened just last week.

Robert Plank 38:56 Perfect. What is it?

Clay Green 39:01 I was at an event, and a friend came up to me and he said, clay, I need you right now. And he took me outside, and there was a couple standing there, and they were the lady was in tears, and the guy was ready to just, I mean, this was a very big man. It kind of intimidated me. I'm not a big guy. This guy was big, and it kind of intimidated me. It startled me when I saw him, I was like, Whoa, this is a big dude. And he was like, shaking. He was so upset. And they were upset, and they were fighting, and they were arguing about stuff. And if you have ever been in a discussion with a loved one about the dishes, about the underwear on the floor, about the checkbook, and there's a discussion happening, and then all of a sudden you're calling each other names or you're yelling. This reaction that I'm talking about is so subtle, Robert, I wish we were on video. Black. Show you how subtle it is, but literally, it is so subtle, yet it stops us all that reaction, and it keeps us in that fight. In 30 to 45 minutes, I was able to talk to these two people, and I was able to explain what was happening inside their brains so that they would stop reacting. Now I didn't solve I don't even know what they were fighting about. It didn't solve the problem. The problem still there. But they're not upset, they're not angry at each other, they're not afraid to pick up the phone and call a client. They're not afraid to take the action that's going to make the difference in their business anymore. They're aware that they're reacting to that fear, and they take the appropriate actions and overcome it in that moment and move forward. Please, please, please, if you're hearing my voice and you are not meditating, start meditating.

Robert Plank 41:00 Fantastic. Well, great advice for anyone out there who wants to break that pattern, get that awareness and move forward. Make sure that you adopt those three habits, meditate, journal and express gratitude, and make sure you go to enthusiastic clay.com and sign up and check out that get it done one on one class and mastermind. Because, I mean, you listening to this episode, you've gotten this far. You know that things need to change. You know that you always need to do whatever it takes to up your game or avoid future problems before what happens, or just make the best life decisions possible. So go right now to enthusiastic clay.com check out what's there to get your head right, to get your actions right, get your future right, and you'll be glad you did. So we'll see you there. And thanks clay for stopping by.

Clay Green 41:42 Robert, thank you. Man, it's been fun. Um, holla, anytime I would love to come on and talk about the deer story. Man, it's an exciting story.

Robert Plank 41:50 Awesome. We got to have you back for the sequel. Awesome. Thanks for listening to today's program start from the beginning or view past episodes at marketer of the day.com/episodes, you.