Learning How to Get Your Life into Flow could be one of the most rewarding experiences you can have. It means your life is on target to fulfill your purpose and demonstrate why you are here. These are fundamental quests anyone that wants to thrive must achieve.
Getting into flow means you are engaging in an activity in which you know the mechanics or have competence and letting your brain and body take over the action. Your prefrontal cortex, the seat of self-criticism and judgment shuts down and the dopamine and serotonin are firing. You enter a state of bliss that is addicting. It is the fuel of adrenaline junkies like athletes and gamers.
Anyone can drop into flow like speakers, writers, entertainers, surgeons, quarterbacks, and teachers. Extreme solo rock climber Dean Cotter says he climbs for the feelings he experiences with the risk, not to get on top of rocks. Flow is an experiential state that certainly arises from engaging in passions that would define most participants.
You can have a life that flows if you are prioritizing your time to engage in the most important activities to fulfill your purpose. Your purpose can be work, recreation, fitness, family life, spiritual pursuits, caring, protecting, and contributing to name a few.
The secret is to have several of these activities you work on each day. Your time is dominated by working on purposeful activities that give your life meaning and define why you are here. At the end of the day, you have made meaningful progress and most importantly you fill fulfilled and grateful that you had the opportunity to engage in your favorite activities.
Reasons why work is not satisfactory are because tasks are not challenging, no risk, no freedom, not enough responsibility, no contribution, overwhelm, and no rewards. At the end of the day, the worker is emotionally drained, maybe angry, not fulfilled, and looking for the best escape possible which might be self-destructive on a health perspective.
One should evaluate what is important in their life and identify all the activities that are time wasters. Every efficiency expert says keep track of your time for a few days and see how it is spent. List the most important activities like health, creativity, family, recreation, motivating, and contributing and ensure they get priority time.
A life with worthwhile activities that are meaningful will flow. Each day will be an opportunity to express oneself. Each day will be experiencing why you are here. Each day will get you closer to reaching important goals. But the most important thing to remember is that happiness is in the process way more than the actual achievement. The actual achievement is good for a short time and then we are wondering what’s next.
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