Your Friday Five – The 60% Creativity Boost You’re Not Using Yet

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Okay. Welcome. Welcome my friends. We are starting something new on the podcast and I'm so super pumped about this. We are keeping the normal Monday episode, as you have known for years. That's not going anywhere. But what I'm gonna trial out here, because I just really thought of this and wanted to do it, I want to add a little segment on Fridays. It's really gonna be random. Okay? It's gonna be either a recipe I'm loving or something that's making life easier, or a quote that I heard where I thought, gosh, is that amazing? There's just so many things during the week. Or maybe I set a goal for the weekend, or I'm thinking something might be helpful to you. There's stuff that I'm hearing all day long and sometimes it just doesn't fit well into the weekly episodes. And sometimes we record them so far ahead. I don't really in real time get to stay. Connected with all of you. So this little Friday segment that we're gonna do, it's not gonna be as long as the regular podcast. Well, I say that now, but who knows? Maybe, maybe if it's less structured, I can just do what I want. What you're gonna notice is there will not be blog posts on the website for this. So this is just gonna go on the, uh, podcast. So if you're ever, if I'm ever referencing something and I say, oh, we'll link it in the show notes, you know, most of the time it's like you can go on the website. Renta clinic.com/blog and you can see what the podcast posts are. This will not be going under that. So only the Monday episodes will be going there where we have the longer blog posts on everything that's talked about, and we have links to things, but I will still link to it underneath where you're listening right now. So, for example, every single. Podcast episode that you're listening to. When we say show notes, it's either underneath or if you swipe right or left. You'll see that there's like a little section, a little description. I'm not even gonna write anything in there for these episodes. It'll just be, if there's something that I talk about, I'll just, I'll hyperlink it there. So today what I wanted to talk about, I just attended. A virtual conference this past Monday, Tuesday. I'm recording this on a Friday, and a lot was talked about on that conference, but one statistic was brought up that just blew my mind, and I forget if it was Harvard or Stanford, but some hoity-toity University, they did a study and they saw that people's creativity increases by 60%, six, zero, 60%. When they are walking and it is maintained after they sit down and they're done with their walk. And this is so on brand with what I'm always telling you guys where I'm saying we need to exercise, whether it be walk, a swim, whatever it is, this is not just unique to walking right. And. The reality is, I say it manages your stress. It helps with keeping your cortisol levels down, all of that kind of stuff. And yes, maybe down the road it helps with your metabolic health, but at the end of the day, it is needed for so much more than that. And here's the link that I thought about when I was hearing this, I thought. Isn't it possible that if your creativity is up, you can actually problem solve? Is anybody with me on that? Have any of you had this time where you are sitting there and you're thinking, oh my gosh, the scale's not moving. Am I always, every day have to work this hard? And you're just really, you've just got yourself in knots, right? You're in a straight jacket and then you go on a long walk or you just kind of take, take some time off in some capacity, right? And suddenly as I'm walking, I notice suddenly I have, oh, I could try this. Oh, I could try that. Especially for me with business and the podcast and everything like that, I'm like, oh, I wanna share this with them. All these things come flooding to me that are not occurring when I'm sitting on the couch or when I'm trying to quote unquote, sit at my desk and do work. I want to bring this up that if you are struggling with. You find that the same things keep happening and you're like, you can never really find answers for it, things like that. I want you to go on what I'm gonna call the poet's walk. Okay? I just want you to meander around. This is not about efficiency. It's not about speed, it's not about all those things. But I want you to go and I want you to see, does it clear the cobwebs? Do you suddenly have access to that part of your brain where you can, you can reason critically, oh, let me try this. Let me try that. And when I heard that 60% increase, I thought, gosh, that's much better than I would've ever predicted. I always thought, oh, it kind of a little bit helps recenter you. It a little bit helps ground you it a little bit. Remember we've also talked about with walking that when your eyes are going back and forth, it really scrambles the emotion centers of the brain. It's sort of like a. Many, I mean, I don't wanna compare it to EMDR, but if you've heard of that type of therapy where, and again, the, A therapist is leading this, but it's very helpful for things like PTSD and, and some really complex traumas. And when you're walking, because your eyes are going back and forth, you are getting a reset. That's just not possible in any other way. Here, I'm talking about walking. I really think that the same things apply like this, the same eye tracking and things that are happening in your body, I would assume would correlate to swimming or other activities or, I find this with just a few minutes of strength training. Like I don't do, you know, big sessions, but if I, I've gotten really into this recently. I will just. Take like between patients, if I have a minute or two, I'll just take my 10 pound weights and do some weighted squats or overhead presses, things like that. And I just find that there's this not burst of energy that's just really the wrong term, but there's this clarity and centeredness where I can think about, oh, this person in front of me, here's exactly what they need. So for you to be able to solve your own problems and challenges. I want you to keep this number in mind that I'm gonna be 60% more creative. I'm gonna actually be able to see this from different angles. Get some new ideas. I'm gonna turn my prefrontal cortex on. That's that 10%, that part of the brain. That's the thing that makes you human, by the way. That's what differentiates us from animals. We're gonna turn that part of the brain on more and you're gonna be able to make some really great decisions. And it's kind of interesting. I've said this before on the podcast, when I am. Wake up in the morning, I'm just, I'm all negative. And then I do that hour walk in the morning. That's my pattern personally. Now, again, if you're new to the podcast, please go back and listen to other episodes. I started out with having flip flops on and doing a few seconds, right? I mean, this has been like a, a six year journey at this point, but when I do that hour walk suddenly by minute 45, it's just there's a new matea. Suddenly I'm able to think differently. I have different thoughts. I have different like, yes, I can do this, and I'm just completely reset. So I just wanted to bring you this little this little study And I just think it's in incredibly nice way sometimes when you're able to build a body of evidence that supports why it might be so important to do things. All right. I hope that you have a great weekend. You can do this, set a goal or two. Again, you can still have freedom and flexibility, but what's your baseline minimum do you wanna get some water in? Do you want to do a walk every day? Just pick one or two things that can keep you grounded, and then of course the rest is negotiable. All right. Have an amazing weekend.