Go with the Flow
The human body is 60% water so why is it so hard to flow?
You need water to build cells and lubricate joints. You need water to insulate your internals and maintain your body temperature. You need water to use food for fuel. You need water to get rid of toxins. You need water to carry oxygen, too.
You need water — you are water — so why is it so hard to flow?
Flow, as in getting immersed. Flow, as in getting so lost in your work, you forget the time, you forget to eat, and you just…well, flow.
Modern distractions are a problem. The myriad devices and screens shining, beeping, and blinking keep us from finding flow.
Those same distractions contribute to the modern lack of time. We’re perpetually running out of time. When we wake up in the morning, we have time. At the end of the day, we’re not sure where the time went. Time is slipping through our fingers because we’re busy. We’re busy because we’re always attending to or reacting to a new notification or distraction. But being busy isn’t flow. We desperately need to make time to flow. We need to set up our environments, our worlds, so that we can flow. We’re living in an increasingly virtual world, and ironically, we have to force ourselves to flow.
But lack of flow is not just environmental, sometimes it’s just mental. A lack of flow can be the result of performance anxiety. Have you ever wanted something so badly you hyperfocused on your desired outcome?
Great results don’t come from trying to control all possible events between Point A and Point B. Great results are an interaction between people, places, things, and ideas. Results come from staying persistent over time and using feedback to improve. Results come from trusting the process, and trusting yourself. Results come from flow.
