You’ve heard the term “flow”. You know a “flow state” refers to an immersive and highly focused mental state and that when it occurs, you are more creative, productive, and happy.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the Hungarian psychologist who recognized and named the concept said, “The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow — the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”
Sounds like a plan.
To achieve a flow state more often, manage your environment to make it more conducive to achieving flow:
- Outsource or delegate tasks that don’t lend themselves to a flow state, if possible, to give yourself more time for those that are.
- Allow more time for flow to occur, e.g., don’t schedule appointments immediately after a writing session, for example.
- Eliminate distractions and interruptions; you know the drill.
- Single task; one thing at a time, so you can do “deep work”.
Then, when things are going well, when you find yourself lost in a task and losing track of time, don’t kill the mood by stopping. Breaks can wait. Other tasks can wait. Maintain the flow state as long as possible.
When you do this, you should find that in addition to getting more of your best work done, you actually have more energy than before you started.
All that and a bag of chips.
Get into the flow of getting more referrals
