Episode 37

[00:00:00] : Hey there, people. It's Rick Lewis once again with Episode 37 of the follow through Formula Podcast. Here's what I thought we could talk about today. All of this discussion about follow through probably means many of you are applying these principles and practices that we've been speaking about and follow through is actually happening in your life. But you may be wondering, Well, how do I know if I'm really following through what does? Ah, life that's filled with follow through look like Here are 19 signs you might be following through one. You've logged a string of consecutive efforts, either every day or maybe if it's something that's a weekly effort. You show up for something the same time on the same day every week, something you're doing. But if you're following through, you're making a string off consecutive efforts, and some of those efforts come at a time when you just didn't feel like doing it. But you did it anyway. That's a sign that you're following through Sign number two. You might be following through you stop being jealous off others who are following through, so if you notice in your mind, stream that there are certain people, especially those who might be doing something in a similar territory off of what you know you're capable of or what you want to do when you're following through. You stop being jealous of those who are showing up because you are no longer projecting onto them your issue of holding back and you are actually following through yourself. And so now you just feel glad and happy that you're actually engaging the thing you want to engage, and you can celebrate the fact that it's happening over there with that other person as well. Sign Number three You might be following through you stop being interested in other people's dramas. So gossip and, uh, chit chat about what other people are or are not doing their problems ways they've failed. You just don't have interest anymore, or you have much less less interest in hearing about or engaging in other people's issues. What's going wrong, What they're not doing right, what they're missing, what they're blind spots are it just becomes way less interesting to you. The fourth sign you might be following through is that other people stop coming to you for attention. Emergencies. Now an attention emergency is different than someone who comes to you to say I just broke my leg and I need a ride to the hospital. Can you help me? That is not an attention emergency and attention Emergency is like this feeling you get when someone is all in some sort of breakdown or hysteria, or there's something that's not working that they need help with. And they need you to listen to their problems. Attention emergencies are characterized by the fact that when you help and you come up with 1234 different possible ways they could solve their problem. They immediately tell you why that solution won't work. Oh, no, that won't work because I can't do that or I already tried that and it didn't work. Attention, emergencies are these recurring issues that crop up for friends and family members where they draw you into their problem and it's recurring. It's one they've had many times before, and now they need your attention again. The feeling for you is that G We've been here before. This person continues toe, have this recurring emergency, and it's not getting any better, and the solutions that are offered to this person are somehow rejected, not put into play, not taken up. So when you're following through, it sends a signal into the atmosphere. And people will just stop coming to you for these kind of emergencies because you are actually filling the space that makes you a target for such attention Needs your filling it with your own purpose. And that's a form of inoculation for this kind of for people looking for this from you. Okay, we're on number five. The fifth sign you might be following through. You need less sleep so suddenly you realize you're just naturally waking up earlier. Or maybe you're going to bed a little later because you're working on your project or whatever it is that interests you at night. You're waking up at the same time, so you might naturally find that Cem sleep is shaved off of either the time you go to bed or the time you wake up. Uh, another sign you might be following through number six. You're surprised at the amount of energy you have, so this kind of goes along with the needing of less sleep. But you just may feel like you're reflecting and going cash. Usually I nap during the day, but I haven't had to nap the last few days. Or it's 10 o'clock when I usually go to bed, and I don't feel tired. This seventh sign that you might be following through is that you're getting into fewer power struggles with other people. So this tendency to get involved in conflict and, like territory conflict where you're struggling with somebody else about what should happen in a certain situation or what should occur in a certain space, how things should go there, just less of that showing up for you. The eighth sign you might be following through is you find yourself after the fact having skipped meals or sleep to engage in follow through in something that matters. So you only realize later that you actually hear this Funny. I'm mentioning sleep again. I didn't quite. I didn't see all this, all these references to sleep in here when I first made the list, but so you skip a meal or you might even skip some other form of something you do on a regular basis. It could be exercise or for certain phone call. You have you might forget about it, and you might wind up working through something that you usually feel like. I have to get this thing or I can't function. The ninth sign you might be following through is you're surprised by the direction your follow through is taking. So you suddenly find yourself walking through new doorways and new opportunities that are opening up in front of you that you didn't see coming. Just because your follow through has been leading you down a path and you've been turning corners and moving through a labyrinth. And as you make that progress, you are coming upon new directions and new opportunities that you just couldn't see from where you were before you started. Following through the 10th sign that you might be following through is you have a few loyal fans who just love everything you're doing. It's kind of inexplicable, but you're getting these elated expressions of people who just absolutely love what you're up to. You start to build a fan base, even if it's a small one. The 11th sign you might be following through is your base of friendships might shift, so the people who you are closest to and perhaps have been your best friends or good friends for a long time. It starts to change, and you find yourself gravitating toward another or a few different individuals or groups that are also follow through hours. People who are really showing up for something in their own lives that they care about. The 12th sign that you might be following through is your naturally losing interest in things that aren't healthy for you. So it could be what you're eating. Could be activities you engage in. It could be how much television you're watching. It could be the kinds of conversations you're having with other people. But if you find yourself just naturally losing interest in things that you've noted for yourself before, aren't your best way of using your time and energy you might be following through the 13th sign you might be following through is you don't know how to describe how you got to where you are now. So if someone says, like, How did this happen? How did you wind up doing this? You kind of look back and you've been so absorbed in the journey. In the process, it might be difficult for you to describe how you got there, because when we follow through, we get steps and and doorways that open for us. That put us in a kind of at a juncture where we can make a nonlinear move to another trajectory and when you're actually following through, this makes perfect sense how you could go from being, ah, hair stylist to a life coach. And when you when you try and map that or or explain that to somebody else, they're gonna go. How that doesn't make any sense. But so it's difficult for you to describe your path because it tends to be non linear and sometimes nonsensical. The 14th sign that you might be following through the person you thought you were is blurring out of focus, and you might find yourself looking back, even just who you were months ago and think I don't even recognize who that person waas what they were thinking, what their attention was on what was important to them. So if you find yourself being unable to recognize yourself in the recent past, you might be following through the 15th sign that you might be following through is you wake up looking forward to the unexpected things that might arise in your day instead of dreading the unknown when were playing in the field of purpose that were meant to be playing in the surprises that show up are a delight to us because those surprises air usually the fruit off our engagement in a right manner. The exact opposite is the case if we're not engaging in lives that are aligned with our purpose because we're doing things in a field of activity that are not pleasurable or that we were not anticipating engaging with, and so we dread what might show up in that case, the 16th sign that you might be following through is that you become mawr interested in other people's journeys. You want to hear what they're up to and how they got to where they are and what they're working on next, what they're working toward. You want to hear their story about what their purpose is and what they're pursuing, and if they're not in the middle of pursuing it, you want to hear about a time when they were connected to some sense of strong purpose and you would like to see them. Revive that and reconnect to it. The 17th sign that you might be following through is you find other people thanking you for your contributions and your efforts and the thanks that you're getting is coming a little bit as a surprise to you because you've been enjoying what you're doing so much. It wasn't on your radar. It wasn't that you were setting out to elicit these kind of responses from people. You are just doing what you enjoy doing, and suddenly you're getting people saying thank you so much for what you're producing or what you're contributing or what you're engaged in. And the 18th number 18 is. You feel an increased level of gratitude yourself toward other people around you who are also following through. You begin to recognize people who are following through by what they're producing in their lives, and now is you. Look at their efforts at a surface level. You know what's behind that? You have a better idea off what kind of inner resolve and focus and commitment is required to create the kind of results that you're looking at when people are following through and you'll wind up appreciating those people, even Mawr, and you'll find yourself thanking them in a very genuine and authentic way for the sacrifices and the focus, You know that they've applied to produce what they have produced. So there you go. 18 signs you might be following through. Even though I said I I think I said 19 at the beginning. So, um, I hope you don't feel gypped on that. Like, you know, I stole one sign of follow through. You can probably come up with another one. There you go. The 19th sign you might be following through is you won't be upset if someone promises you 19 points of help and you Onley get 18 if you're following through. So there's number 19. Okay, Now I can keep the original title of this of this episode. Um, I hope some of those are true for you. I hope you are stumbling upon some of these signs and they're showing up in your life because it's a delight when any of these things start to show up and I'm sure there are many more signs off follow through. In fact, if you think of a few, then send them to me because I'd love to expand on this list. We could do a revised a dead end, um, version of this episode later on. After you, you send me some. Okay, folks. So that's it for today. There's, ah, way to know if you might be following through some signs that you can tell if you're if that's occurring for you. And, um, that's it for today. I'm Rick Lewis. This is Episode 37 of the follow through formula Podcast, and I'll be back tomorrow.