0:02 visualization without skill doesn't work
0:06 but closing the intention intervention
0:08 Gap does and by the end of this video
0:10 you will know what that is and you will
0:11 have the exact tools you need to
0:14 completely reinvent yourself with it so
0:16 the intention intervention Gap refers to
0:18 the disconnect between knowing what you
0:20 need to do intention and then actually
0:22 taking action to do it intervention the
0:24 strategies I'm going to talk about in a
0:25 little bit is they're going to help you
0:28 align your desires with your skills to
0:30 get your goals the first time I realized
0:32 that this was a thing it was early in my
0:34 business and I took over my sales team
0:35 from a manager who was underperforming
0:37 deadlines were being missed morale was
0:41 low nothing I tried seemed to work and
0:44 my instinct was that I needed to control
0:45 every detail of everything that was
0:46 happening but what happened was that I
0:48 actually made things worse suddenly
0:50 Revenue was stagnating and it was even
0:52 starting to drop and so I felt like the
0:54 weight of the world was on my shoulders
0:57 my ability to pay my entire employee
1:00 base relies on the company making sales
1:02 and continuing to get customers and so
1:04 that's the first time that I applied the
1:07 intention intervention equation what I
1:10 realized is that I had actually not
1:12 clearly communicated what success looked
1:15 like or why it mattered so my intention
1:17 was that the team performed better but I
1:19 hadn't set clear expectations or aligned
1:21 them with the bigger Mission and so the
1:23 first thing I did is I started by
1:26 clarifying my intention I wanted better
1:28 performance stronger collaboration a
1:31 culture of ownership then I identified
1:34 what specific actions I needed to make
1:36 that happen weekly check-ins to align on
1:38 goals and priorities role Clarity
1:39 session so everybody knew their
1:41 responsibilities regular recognition so
1:43 that they're actually engaged within
1:45 weeks the entire energy of the team
1:47 shifted the team knew what was actually
1:49 expected from them and they felt
1:51 connected to the mission and to my
1:54 intention we started hitting and then we
1:56 exceeded our sales targets so we went
1:59 from a 30% close rate to a 55% close
2:01 rate and it was that experience that
2:04 taught me the power of aligning clear
2:07 intentions with focused interventions
2:09 because it is not about working harder
2:12 it's about working smarter on the right
2:14 stuff the more skills you have to bridge
2:16 the gap the more likely you are to hit
2:18 the goal here's an example it's the new
2:20 year you want to improve your health and
2:21 so you decide that you're going to work
2:23 out every morning for 30 minutes before
2:25 work now where's the intervention Gap
2:28 despite having a very clear intention
2:30 when your alarm goes off the morning you
2:32 hit snooze you tell yourself you'll work
2:34 out later and then you start skipping
2:36 the workout entirely so how do we bridge
2:39 the gap one clarify the intention
2:41 instead of a vague plan like I'm going
2:43 to work out in the morning specify the
2:47 time specify the type of workout specify
2:50 the exercise you have to get specific
2:51 intention is not good enough vague
2:53 directions don't work we've got to get
2:56 specific with Our intention then we want
2:58 to create environmental triggers how do
3:01 we create a trigger that makes it easy
3:03 for us to remember Our intention going
3:06 with that example we would lay out our
3:08 workout clothes and our shoes next to
3:10 the bed the night before something I've
3:12 done for the last 12 years is I lay out
3:14 my outfits the night before it's not
3:16 that I'm smarter or have more willpower
3:18 in fact I don't use any willpower I just
3:20 see it and then I go do it I don't have
3:22 to think at all then we would set a
3:25 visible calendar reminder on our phone
3:28 so that we remember what Our intention
3:30 is so here's a pro tip for me the
3:32 easiest way that I can create
3:34 environmental triggers is I put it on my
3:35 calendar I use my calendar for
3:38 everything I even put like do my laundry
3:41 lay out my clothes pack my bag I put all
3:43 things on my calendar because it reminds
3:45 me and then also removes friction of
3:47 remembering it ahead of time so I have
3:49 certain things programmed on my calendar
3:50 that I know I'm going to do every week
3:53 so not only do I have things sitting out
3:55 physically I also have reminders on my
3:57 calendar that I check every day which
3:59 brings me to the next point which is
4:01 minimiz in friction going with that
4:03 example of working out what would I do
4:06 to minimize friction so that I've
4:08 clarified my intention I have put
4:10 triggers in place and now I'm going to
4:12 minimize as much friction as possible to
4:14 get that workout in I would prepare my
4:16 workout space the night before so
4:17 there's no need to set up in the morning
4:18 if I know I'm going to be doing
4:20 deadlifts I'm going to set up the
4:22 deadlift workout if I know I'm going to
4:23 be squatting heavy I'm going to preload
4:26 the bar another thing you would do is
4:28 you might use an app that's comes with a
4:30 pre-planned routine so that you don't
4:31 have to think about what you're doing
4:32 when you go to the gym I have two apps
4:35 that I use on my phone and they tell me
4:37 exactly what I'm going to do what
4:40 machines what exercises how many reps
4:42 how intensely and when I'm done if one
4:44 of your goals is doing less of something
4:46 maybe eating less junk food then you
4:48 would want to increase friction then I
4:50 would say okay let me get all the junk
4:52 food out of the house so if I need to
4:54 eat junk food I have to literally buy it
4:56 there and then you could go even further
4:58 you could delete door Dash from your
5:00 phone or Uber Eats I have actually
5:01 hidden both of those so I do not have
5:04 the apps on my screen because my goal is
5:06 to eat less ordered food and so if I
5:08 don't have easy access to the apps I
5:10 have to redownload the app to get it and
5:11 that's a huge pain in the butt so I've
5:12 really got to want that food so now that
5:14 we have clarified the intention created
5:16 our environmental triggers and minimize
5:18 as much friction as possible or
5:20 maximized it now we're going to set if
5:23 then plants nothing ever goes as planned
5:24 there's always going to be things you
5:25 don't expect and it's never the right
5:26 time we're going to talk about what to
5:28 do when all those things happen so like
5:30 if you feel too tired to do a full
5:32 workout then what what are we going to
5:34 do to maintain consistency for me for
5:37 example if I feel too tired to lift
5:41 heavy then I will go for a long walk or
5:44 do the stair Master if I don't have
5:47 access to healthy meals when I go out
5:49 then I will eat a protein bar or beef
5:51 jerky ask yourself where have I failed
5:52 in the past and then we want to write
5:54 those things down and decide ahead of
5:56 time what we're going to do when those
5:58 things happen another example is when I
5:59 was competing in a bikini company
6:01 comptition I would go out to dinner and
6:02 I would go to parties and they had all
6:04 this food so what I realized is that if
6:06 I was going to go to a party that had a
6:08 lot of food that was tempting I would
6:10 eat ahead of time and so I would always
6:12 eat a meal before I went to the party or
6:13 before I went to dinner and I would
6:16 order tea or a Diet Coke and I knew that
6:18 that that would help me stay on plan and
6:21 the last piece is we want to track and
6:23 celebrate so we want to Mark our
6:25 calendar with each day we complete a
6:27 workout we want to reward ourselves at
6:28 the end of the week if we stay
6:30 consistent we want to think how can I
6:34 look forward to the discomfort of the
6:36 process because I'm really excited for
6:38 something I get at the end whenever I
6:39 have to do something really hard to
6:41 achieve a goal I ask myself what's
6:42 something i' would really look forward
6:45 to or something I really want that I
6:47 would put at the end of this so every
6:48 time I want to quit every time I think
6:50 it's really hard every time it feels
6:52 really inconvenient I think about that
6:53 thing I want and I think what's even
6:55 better is you can get other people to
6:57 help with this the next Pro tip is
6:58 social commitment when we commit to
7:01 doing something with somebody else or
7:03 for somebody else you are so much more
7:05 likely to actually do it in fact I think
7:06 it's like four times more likely to
7:09 follow through so if you're trying to
7:10 work out every day and you're having a
7:12 hard time showing up at 6: a.m. get a
7:14 friend to do the same thing if you feel
7:16 like you're accountable to somebody else
7:18 you are so much more likely to do it
7:20 than if it's just you for example I have
7:22 certain goals that I say if I achieve
7:25 this goal then I can get this thing and
7:26 I let my husband know and so then I say
7:28 great if I achieve this goal will you
7:30 get me this thing will you take me on
7:32 this trip will you buy me this thing I
7:34 want and he says yes if you achieve
7:35 those goals then I will get you that
7:36 thing and that is even more
7:38 incentivizing because I can't BS
7:40 somebody else we can BS ourselves it's
7:42 really hard to BS somebody else use what
7:44 you can to reward yourself at the end of
7:46 these things we don't want all of our
7:49 motivators to be the things that we lose
7:50 if we don't achieve it we want to also
7:53 have what we can gain if we do achieve
7:55 it if we do stick with the process so
7:56 for example something that I used to do
7:58 for myself when I was competing in the
8:00 Bikini competition and I would want to
8:01 do something nice for myself at the end
8:03 of the week if I had hit all of my goals
8:06 every day I would go to the store that
8:08 had puppies and I would go there so I
8:10 could pet all the little puppies and
8:11 play with them and I would stay there
8:12 for like an hour sometimes 90 minutes
8:14 and I would just go and play with all
8:15 the puppies and all the pens it was just
8:17 something I always look forward to how I
8:19 had set that in my mind was like hey if
8:21 I'm consistent every day this week then
8:22 I'm going to take myself Saturday I'm
8:24 going to grab a coffee and I'm going to
8:26 go pet the puppies for an hour it sounds
8:27 silly but I looked forward to that so
8:29 much that it made the week worth it no
8:31 matter how hard it was here's the thing
8:33 I know that was a lot of information and
8:34 if you need more help you can go ahead
8:36 and check out some of my other videos
