One of the questions coaches ask when working with clients is, “What do you value?” If I asked you that, could you list your top ten values? Often I find that when people list things out, they’ll say, “This is what I value—this is it!” and it makes complete sense at the time. But it’s only a piece of paper. Oftentimes they’re not living in direct correlation to that. “Well, why is that?” you might ask. Wyatt Woodsmall says that if you ask someone specifically what they value, they’re going to tell you what they think their heart should feel. So values really come from the heart. But when I ask a question, it intellectually comes from the mind. So …
VIDEO: Chris Yonker asks, “What’s Your Vice?”
What’s Your Vice? Are you addicted to being busy? Now wait. Before I go any further, I want you to pay attention. I mean you may actually already have something else up on your screen or you might be in another conversation. The fact of the matter is we’re trying to multitask so much today it’s profoundly ridiculous. If I followed you around with a notepad and recorded how much focused time you spent on a specific thing, what would it be? I mean 100 percent being present. Think about that. As a celebrity or as an entrepreneur or as an executive. How much focused time do you spend on any given task? We’ll take notes. That’s an external track. …
VIDEO: Chris Yonker Speaks on Ditching Distraction – Why We Need to Retrain Our Brains to Focus
In this video, Chris Yonker explores the ideas around focus and concentration. In today’s society, your ability to master your focus is imperative to your success. Due to the abundance of ongoing distractions like cell phones, text messages, email alerts, instant messages and more, people today have conditioned themselves to not even have the ability to focus and have become addicted to distraction. We are programming ourselves to concentrate on things in “bite-size” pieces of time and are unable to sit still long enough to concentrate. So, what can you do? Chris challenges you to retrain yourself to be focused, be present, be mindful and be in the here and now. The practices of yoga and meditation are hugely beneficial …
VIDEO: Chris Yonker on How We Run Our Minds
In this video, Chris Yonker turns your thinking to how you are running your own mind. He uses an example from his experience as a karate instructor of young children to break down the importance of being self-aware. Most people go throughout their day without thinking about how they are thinking. But who really runs your thinking? Are you truly aware that you run your own mind? Much time is often spent wondering about the future or dwelling on the past, and not tuned in to specifically what we are doing in this moment. Chris encourages you to be more conscious of how you are thinking and to consistently ask yourself if you are tuned in or not.