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hey what's up this is Leo here for actualize org and right now since I'm standing in this deep chasm I want to talk about the chasm of your subconscious mind and how you can structure the things that you're trying to master the skill sets that you're trying to master your life and all the areas of your life that you're trying to master how to take that and delegate it from your conscious mind into your subconscious mind so you get much better results but you're much less stressed about it all right so what am I really talking about here I've been thinking a lot lately about this topic of the subconscious mind and I've been contemplating and meditating on this idea that in fact I do have a subconscious mind and also conscious mind and that the two workings handle but as I thought more and more about this I started to realize that there's really an illusion at play here and the illusion is that everything that we do is very conscious and is self-directed and is willed right when in fact most of the stuff that happens in your life most of stuff that you were the cause of is really stunning from your subconscious which has been programmed and conditioned through years and years of repetition and experience right and it's that repetition that is the mechanism by which you get stuff from the conscious to the subconscious and this is a very brute force type of process there's not much thinking that you can going into it really anything that you repeat over and over and over again will bubble down from your conscious into your subconscious and then will become habitual become instinctual become easy for you the reason I also started thinking about this is because I was thinking about my public speaking skills right now I'm trying to work on that trying to get honed down trying to work on my vocal tonality try to make sure that when I'm talking I'm talking without any filler material like words like arms and hands and you knows and kind of and so I've been working a lot on that and I would knew that by going through to Toastmasters and as I'm doing that every week I'm slowly saying that my skills are improving and improving and improving and what I'm also noticing is that there's there's like a baseline level of stuff that I do when I speak that's just there and this is the stuff that's stemming from this from the subconscious so for example the hand gestures that I tend to use the types of language that I try to use certain expressions my vocal tonality the emotion that I put into things just the way I even stand and carry myself the way I move around stage the types of things that I like to talk about a lot of these are subconscious so this is like the base of my public speaking skills so if someone just calls me up at random to go and speak I don't have a lot of time to prepare there's going to be that baseline level on top of that though there's that extra conscious level this is the intent that you have so when you're going up to speak this is the stuff that you want to be working on or the stuff that you want to get across so maybe when you're speaking you want to make sure that this time as you're giving your speech you're using a lot of different vocal tonality right you're you have pauses you have quiet quiet expressions you have loud expressions you have emotions maybe that's something you're working on and so you bring that conscious intention into the delivery of your speech but the thing that I've noticed is I've been putting a lot of emphasis on this idea that everything I do is really conscious and then I'm putting a lot of effort into it so it's like if I don't get it done it won't get done that kind of thinking right so I'll prepare a lot for the speech when I go up there I have all these different points in my mind that I want to hit things that I want to work on so I want to work on the vocal tonality and then I want to also work on my body language and then I also want to work on moving across stage and then I also work on work on the content that I'm delivering so all these different things and then what it tends to do is it tends to make your mind go crazy because your conscious mind can only handle so much and what I found with public speaking is that what you got to do and getting good at something like public speaking is really a process of bringing conscious ideas down into the subconscious that's how you get good at it and you do that by repetition so maybe you go out you give 10 speeches in a row and all those tense features focus on vocal tonality as you do that what's going to happen is you're going to put a lot of intention into your vocal tonality you can actually be monitoring as you're speaking you're going to be thinking yourself oh I use such a tone there I use such a tone here after the speech are going to be analyzed you're going to do it all this consciousness analysis and as you do that as you think about it and you keep doing it over and over and over again what's going to happen is you're gonna start to ingrain and internalize that stuff so that ten weeks later after you give ten speeches if you're giving one per week what's going to happen is you're just going to come up on stage and all of a sudden naturally you're going to start to get the tonality correct because what's happened is you don't need to consciously think about anymore it's bubbled down you just repeated it so much now this is an example with public speaking but I think this applies almost any skill or any part of your life that you want to master whether it's the gym or your career or a business that you're starting or anything else so what is the trick here the trick is I think and the point that I'm trying to make is they it's okay to delegate stuff to your subconscious you don't need to think that you hold everything up in here you have ideas of where you want to go these are your conscious intentions these may be your goals your visions for yourself that's great but then also have trust that ultimately stuff is going to bubble down and of course it's not just going to bubble down automatically it's only going to bubble down if you repeat it it's repetition that's the mechanism of how to get stuff from your conscious into your subconscious now this can be it's such a simple point right there's not much to it but a lot of people I think overlook this I have a tendency to overlook this as well anything that you want to get good at what I've discovered from thinking about this is repetition repetition repetition anything you want to get good at ask yourself are you am i doing it repeatedly am i doing it every single day am i doing it every single week am i doing every single month right depending on what it is there might be a different amount of repetition that you need to do but it's just like memory if you want to memorize something you got it drill it into your head again and again and again and again and eventually it will become unconsciously easy to recall and at that point you have no problem right it's like your phone number you just know it your phone number is in your subconscious it's not in your conscious mind anymore or like the multiplication table if I ask you what's two times ten you know what it is you're not doing some sort of mental arithmetic you're not calculating anything you're not doing any kind of proof it doesn't even have to be true you were just drilled in grade school that two times ten is twenty and you just know it right and you know that seven times seven is forty-nine it's just been drilled into you but what is 13 times 13 you don't know probably because we've only been drilled 10 up to 12 times 12 right so this is an example of the power of your unconscious mind and the Epiphany that I've really had is that everything that I want to be good at like I want to be good at public speaking I want to be more confident I want to be better just better socializer in social situations that aren't necessarily business-related I want to be better at coaching I want to be better shooting these videos all this stuff I realized that if I want to get really good at if I want to master it I just have to make sure that I'm repeating it over and over again on a consistent basis and if I'm doing that then I can take the pressure off of myself and say okay great I'm doing it I just trust that it'll get bubbled down into unconscious because it will if you do something long enough it will happen on the other hand if you're not doing these repetitious types of practices with whatever you're trying to get good at then you're going to struggle because what's going to happen is you you're going to try to keep that stuff in your conscious mind and that's not going to give you the performance that you want right think about an athlete think about like an Olympic an Olympic athlete it's sometimes all inspiring to look at them right maybe you look at a a world-class football player or baseball player or a world-class gymnast or like a tennis player or an Olympic lifter you know any one of these are like a snowboarder if you look at them and you see the kind of ability that they have what's interesting is that ability is so amazing to us as laymen because we don't we don't do it we don't have that ability to do some sort of quadruple backflip off some halfpipe on us with it with a with a wooden board screw to our feet right if we're snowboarders we can't do that but on the other hand these people that have practiced this consistently over and over and over again are able to do it and not only that but they're able to do it effortlessly and in fact their best at executing that stuff when they're in the flow and they're completely in the moment and they're not thinking about it and if they start thinking about it that their performance actually decreases that's why a lot of times athletes stress this importance of getting in the flow getting in the zone well how does this work it works again because it's it's drilled into their subconscious and the way that they do that is through massive massive repetition and if you know anything about how athletes become world-class or how you know how Olympic gymnasts train or how snowboarders train or how world-class tennis champions train it's like it's it's insane the drills that they go through they just drill again and again and again and again they drill thousands upon thousands of times until their mind just relents and it's no longer conscious it's all subconscious it all bubbles down and it's so automatic so instinctual so effortless for them that they're able to go out there they're executing they're having fun doing it because they're not struggling with it consciously and they're also getting this amazing performance that top-class so I think that this principle of just drilling and repetition can be applied to to ordinary life most of us are not a little big athletes and we don't care to be but we want to be better in our business we want to be better in a career we want to be better in our fitness whatever it is right you probably have some skills that you're working on maybe a public speaking or whatever and the trick there is to start thinking about delegating to your unconscious mind and be grateful for the fact that most of the stuff that's happening right now in your body is being handled for you I mean how how freaking cool is that right like right now I'm standing here my heart is beating my lungs are pumping in oxygen while I'm talking to you delivering this content I'm delivering the content on the fly I haven't prepared any of this stuff so it's just coming out my hands are moving my body is balanced and my body knows how to balance itself so I don't fall down at one point all of this stuff was really tricky right when I was when I was a couple of years old I couldn't do that I couldn't walk I couldn't stand I couldn't balance I couldn't talk the link the language that I'm that I'm spouting out you right now I didn't understand and now all of that is just completely effortless and where is it all coming from it's all coming from the subconscious and it's it's pretty interesting when you think about this stuff they can get a little bit spooky because you start to realize just how little of yourself and your behaviors in your life you actually control a lot of it is so much of it is delegated you're like the CEO of this massive organization of trillions of cells that are in your body doing all this stuff and it's on one hand it's kind of spooky that all this stuff is happening without your attention being put on it on the other hand it's kind of cool because it gives you the freedom to now take that conscious awareness and focus it on the stuff that you really want to focus it on and I think that's the trick to being successful in life also and be really good at personal development is figuring out where are you going to put that conscious focus that you've got those resources that you have where you going to put those are you going to spend that on on worrying about potential problems are you going to spend that on fear are you gonna spend that on anxiety are you gonna spend that on gossip that's going on around in the office are you gonna spend it on that kind of frivolous shallow pointless negative kind of thoughts or are you going to focus that on creativity and basically creating the kind of life that you want on improving your fitness or your business or your career or whatever it is that you want to improve and focusing on that and feeding your mind with valuable information that it can use to then produce the kind of results that you want and ultimately when you do it enough it all bubbles down to the subconscious and you become awesome and that's something that like nobody can come take away from you because the conscious stuff you know if you're nervous if you're scared that stuff will just like that that's something that when you're performing if if you're trying to keep a couple of points in your mind there's only a couple you can keep in there you can't give a good performance when you're trying to keep it all in there consciously but if you train and train and train and train you can go out there and effortlessly give an amazing performance unconsciously be in the flow enjoy it and people are going to be really satisfied with the kind of results that you deliver anyways that's it this is the topic of how to delegate from your conscious and subconscious so trust that that delegation process will happen if you use repetition to drill it into your mind you