Sheridan Ruth

Increase Productivity, Decrease Anxiety and Increase Income through Structure AND Flow (Achieve Financial Freedom through the Nervous System)

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How can you seamlessly blend flow and structure to boost your productivity and creativity?

 

In this episode, we explore how implementing a balanced approach of structure and flow can help you make fewer decisions, free up mental energy, and stay committed to your goals. Discover practical strategies for creating effective systems in your daily life and business.

I’m answering a question from a client who then messaged me to say : ‘Yes, yesterday I made the decision to work on one of my products right after chanting and eating breakfast. I got into a flow and worked on it for 2 hours without difficulty!’

 

By the end of the episode you will: 

  1. Learn how to establish consistent routines and systems that support your goals.
  2. Understand the importance of committing to decisions to free up mental energy.
  3. Discover techniques for listening to your body’s energy and using it to guide your tasks.

 

Recommended next listen: 

 

138: Why Hyper Independence Leads to More Anxiety, Overworking and a Scarcity Based Mindset – The Downfall of ‘Bossbabe Culture’  


Want to Sustainably Make Money As An Entrepreneur? Try this free embodiment practice. 


TRANSCRIPT:


[00:00:00] So how do you seamlessly blend flow and structure so that you can bruce your productivity, your creativity and ultimately gain income? In this episode, you are going to learn how to establish consistent routines and supports that support your goals. You’re going to learn the one key shift that had my client received this information and then messaged me to say, yesterday I made a decision to work on one of my products right after chanting and eating breakfast and I got into a flow and worked on it for two hours without difficulty.


[00:00:42] Um, you’re going to understand the importance of committing to decisions so that you can free up mental energy, and you’re going to discover a technique for listening to your body’s energy and utilizing it to guide your tasks. This episode is an excerpt from how to sustainably make [00:01:00] money as an entrepreneur.


[00:01:01] That is a training and embodiment practice that you can find below. I will, I will link it down there and yeah, it’s, It’s coming from how I utilize embodiment to understand where I’m going to be most productive for the day and what is the most effective use of my time.


[00:01:20] How I discern between avoidance versus just not helpful right now. And, uh, How I do that so that I can run this business and also just like feel really freaking lit up at night at life and do all of these things, uh, without getting burnt out, even though it’s so easy to do. So go ahead and hit play and down below in the links, I’ll make sure that you have access to how to sustainably make money as an entrepreneur.


[00:01:47] That’s that free training. And if you’re really feeling this and you’re enjoying this information and you would like to listen to another Episode. I would really recommend that you listen to number [00:02:00]138. Why hyper independence leads to more anxiety, overworking, and a scarcity based mindset. Um, I’m going to pop the recording in here now.


[00:02:09] Remember link below, including your recommended next listen and a free embodiment training and practice. . what would it look like to marry flow with structure? So think of structure as the thing that allows the flow to happen. I’m going to try and say this without being angry. The


[00:02:48] way that I would invite you to do it is to make the minimum amount of decisions as possible. So pick a structure for this thing that you’re thinking about. Maybe it’s [00:03:00] your day or your marketing plan or your business pick systems. And a structure pick the things that are going to remain consistent. They don’t have to be the best things.


[00:03:14] They’re just, I’m not making a decision around this anymore. I eat breakfast at 9 AM. It could be like that, or my launch plan is this long,


[00:03:28] or I invest this amount of money that is a structure like


[00:03:35] points where I’m thinking of some that I have, yeah, this is what my day looks like. These are the hours within which, which I work. I don’t work around them. I invest every week because. I invest on a Friday every, every week. And I don’t look at the stock market. I don’t try to time it. I invest every week,


[00:03:57] things that you make the decision, that’s it. And then within [00:04:00]that, when you’ve made those decisions, it’s, it’s commit to the decision. So understand the why behind the decision. Why? Because I feel like I’m going to X, Y, Z, why? Because then I’m free up this amount of energy for other things. Because what we’re looking to do is to free up.


[00:04:14] Energy so that you can find flow so that you can return back. That’s why we have coaching containers. That have a container so that you can be in that container and we free up energy for you to do the deeper work or for you to do the greater creation. So make a decision about the structures that you want, things that are already decided.


[00:04:39] And then within that, don’t argue with yourself. There’s a part of me that’s like, you just have to do it. And it’s really difficult when you just really don’t want to do it. But the honest energy point is like, you just have, you just do it. So return back to what helps you just do it. Why is this important to me?


[00:04:59] [00:05:00] How will this support me? And sometimes it’s just because I said I would, and I care about my commitment to myself. And sometimes it’s more like, well, because I’m going to try this for three weeks and then see what I learn. So I don’t have to do it forever. I’m just going to try it out.


[00:05:18] And then when that flow, like, look at what makes you feel flow left. And that’s where I kind of think that what I was talking to about, like knowing what your body wants in that moment. Like you might have a to do list, but it’s like, okay, what is the energy inside of my body telling me to do? An example of this is on Friday afternoon, I knew that I was going to work until a certain amount of time.


[00:05:39] I had a certain amount of lists of things to do. And I was like, okay, so I have to do these and I have to do these. And two of them, I tend to not want to do. I tend to push them off and like, it’s, it’s Friday done them. And. So when I sat down with the work, I could feel part of [00:06:00]my energy was like, I’m really excited to edit this podcast.


[00:06:05] And I know that I need to do this administration things and I can feel inside of me when I’m avoiding something, it feels like heavy and it feels like I’m avoiding feeling something because I’ve checked in a thousand times and done this. So. What I was able to do was I was said, okay, what are the sensations in my body?


[00:06:29] What is the energy telling me to do? Oh, the energy is telling me to edit the podcast, but I know that I tend to avoid this. Is this an avoidance thing?


[00:06:39] Is this an avoidance thing? Kind of like feel yourself going through it. What would it feel like if I was to do that? What do I get to avoid? And inside of that question, you can ask yourself, am I avoiding feeling something? And you can make a decision based on what you learn. So I actually did choose to do the podcast


[00:07:00] because that was what my energy really wanted.


[00:07:02] Yeah. And it needed to be expressed in that way. That was the most efficient use of the energy in that moment. Other times I’m like, uh, no, you’re just avoiding doing that thing. Cause you know, that it’s going to actually have the results that you want. Like I do that. I’m like, I know this is going to work.


[00:07:20] So I avoid it, put on some music, make it fun, do the thing anyway. So it’s like following that because you’ve already, I’d already decided that’s a task that gets done every week. I don’t know if that speaks to the specifics of what you’re talking about, or if that is helpful. There’s like a thousand, we could do a whole, a whole thing on this.


[00:07:44] So tell me if that’s helpful.