EP125 Morning Pages, Free Writing & the Art of the Brain Dump

BOL 125

Transcript

Episode 125

[INTRODUCTION]

KC: Welcome to the Business of Life podcast. My name is Keith Callahan. I said that kind of weird this morning. My name is Keith Callahan. Keith here and yeah, excited to be sharing. Excited. Man, this podcast has just been awesome. I’m excited. I guess that’s it.

Yes. So today, I wanted to talk to you about something that I’ve started implementing in the mornings that has been awesome. So I am a huge, huge advocate of having a morning practice. And what I mean by a morning practice is I’ve done different things from little bit of yoga. I really do not enjoy doing that in the morning. Also, I haven’t been doing that meditation, prayer, writing, reading, journaling.

A morning practice if you talk to anyone who has been successful in a creative realm for a long period of time, they have a morning practice. Anyone who that has been successful in their really in their calling for a long, long period of time, they have a morning practice. They have a good way to start the morning.

And the morning practice that I’ve always focused on and I didn’t realize it’s what I focused on, but it is something that I focused on. Ultimately, the goal for my morning practice has always been to slow down my busy mind. Like I wake up and that mind is already going a thousand miles an hour and it’s here, it’s there, it’s boom, boom, boom, popping all around. And I’ve always had this morning practice to get myself focused and slow down that mind.

The thing that I want to share with you is something that has been working extremely well for me. I have a crazy busy mind, and it’s something called the Morning Pages. I learn this in a book called The Artist’s Way. I forgot the author’s name. But the book is called The Artist’s Way. Usually, I’m good at remembering these titles or the names. But for some reason, I’m just starting this book so maybe that’s why I don’t have the name on the top of my mind.

But Morning Pages, it’s real simple. You write three pages just whatever comes to mind and it’s not about writing – it’s not about punctuation. It’s not about what’s in your mind. All right. It is about what’s in your mind. It’s not about anything but just taking what’s in your mind and putting it on paper. Taking the ugly, taking the nasty, taking the anger, taking the fear, taking the excitement, taking the joy, like whatever it is.

And it may look something like this. I’ll just go through like what pops into my mind. So it will be like I’m writing my Morning Pages.

“I feel good. I’m kind of relaxed this morning. I don’t really feel that anxious. I wonder why that is. How come some morning I feel anxious and some mornings I don’t? Am I really recording this on a podcast right now? This is weird. I’m recording my thoughts.”

So it goes like that. And you just write. Like you write whatever comes out.

There are so many different things that you can do with this. Here is the piece that I love about it. I like to meditate and I really enjoy meditating. But when my mind is really busy, when my mind is really active, sometimes I can sit down to meditate and I’m in a less peaceful place than I was when I started especially during those times when I just free write. Somehow, it allows the mind to slow down. It’s just that free writing slows down the mind and it gets me in touch with that other side of myself, that God side, that creative side, that love side, that compassion side. So yeah, so it sort of gets you out of your own stuff.

Anyways, give it a shot, morning Pages, and like don’t think too much about it. There really isn’t a ton of thought that goes into it. It’s literally – it’s almost like a brain dump or a brain drain. You just write. Just write. There’s nothing more to it. There’s nothing you do with the writing. There’s nothing at all. It’s just writing to get that all out and then yeah, things are quieter.

All right. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. See you on the next episode. Peace!

[FINAL MESSAGE]

KC: Hey, Keith here, and today I have a free gift for you. Listen this free gift is a list of the 12 most influential books that I’ve ever read. These are the books that have helped me to create the mindset, learn the philosophies, learn the skills to really create this big, beautiful, life that we’re living now.

I read a crazy amount of books, I really do. I’ve probably read thousands of books and these are the top 12 books that – they’re the ones that I go to, they’re the ones that I work with over, and over, and over again. They are highlighted, outlined, dog-eared. And I put this list together for you because I want it to be a shortcut.

I don’t want you to have to – you don’t have to go out and read the thousands and thousands of books. These are the 12 that I highly recommend. I have a detailed review for each book, explaining why I recommend them, why I like them, when I worked with them in my life, what part of my life they helped me to improve.

So I put this together for you, and made it super each for you to get this list. All you have to do is send a text to the number 33444 and then in the body of that text, type in “12books” with no space. So that’s the number “12books”. Again, send the text message to the number, address it to 33444 and then type in “12books” as the message and just send that. And that’ll get you setup to receive those top 12 most influential books that have had the biggest impact on my life.

[SPONSOR MESSAGE]

KC: Today’s episode is brought to you by our sister podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. So All About Beachbody Coaching really allows us to do this podcast without having all those annoying commercials in the beginning for you. So All About Beachbody Coaching, the Beachbody business that Amy and I run, actually funds this podcast.

So yes, it does cost money to run this podcast, we do not charge you anything, we don’t throw in commercials or anything like that, it really is, it’s funded by our business and by our other podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. And for me, I’m just eternally grateful for this opportunity because it’s allowed me to really create the life that I love to live.

It’s given me the opportunity to do what I want, when I want, with who I want, and even deeper than that, it’s allowed me to help others to create the same for themselves. It’s allowed me to help hundreds of other people become part time or full time Beachbody coaches, to leave that corporate 9 to 5 job and create passive income in their lives.

And really there’s nothing like that. It’s cool when you have success, it’s so much more rewarding when you help others. So I mention this or a few reasons, the first reason is, that’s actually the way that I work with people and mentor people. I don’t do anything outside of Beachbody coaching because I know that it’s such a powerful life changing tool.

So if you’re curious about working with me, interested in working one-on-one, interested in creating the type of life that you wanna live, I suggest swinging over there. The other reason is, even if somebody’s just curious, like you’ve heard about Beachbody, you know there’s a lot of Beachbody coaches out there. Maybe some of them you get a little annoyed with.

It really dives into what this business is really about, which is life transformation. So if you’re just curious, swing over there. And then the other piece is, if you’re really considering becoming a Beachbody coach, I highly, highly recommend you listen to that first.

Alright, much love guys. Again, that is the All About Beachbody Coaching Podcast, our sister podcast.

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