Find Your Flow: The Simple and Life-Changing Practice for a Happier You (11) (Live Well)

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Pegao : Your content is the most viral on social media. You know all the trends and dances. Singing with flow is your passion. You don’t miss a beat and are always on top of what’s cool. Just like in meditation or mindfulness training, there’s no winning at flow. So before you start getting upset at yourself for not entering a flow state during your work, ask why you’re really doing it. Is it because you feel good about the work itself? Or because you feel good about what completing the work will do for you? Bichota : You are empowered and ready to dance. Your identity is strong. It’s not just a trend; it’s a lifestyle. You must be at the balance between the perceived challenges of the task at hand and your own perceived skills

And, as Moneta warns, flow can be exhausting. The work involved in completing a big project involves a lot more than the ecstatic, if preternaturally productive, periods of flow. To get to the finish line of a task, it’s just as important to slog through the boring parts and push through the uncomfortably difficult ones. Csíkszentmihályi first developed the idea of flow from speaking with professionals across a variety of fields, from artists and athletes to scientists and academics. Each described entering a state of flow at a moment where their skills were being put to the test, but not enough so to feel overwhelmed by the task at hand. This doesn’t require any sci-fi technology that sends a probe or special rays into your brain. Instead, it just takes a few simple, very ordinary steps. First proposed by positive psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi in the 70s, flow is the mental state where we are "so immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity that we lose sense of space and time." Or as Steven Kotler describes it in Rise of the Superman, flow is where "every action, each decision, leads effortlessly, fluidly, seamlessly to the next. It’s high-speed problem solving; it’s being swept away by the river of ultimate performance." Prepare to move and find the music that genuinely speaks to your spirit. You can discover your ideal flow on Spotify if you follow these instructions:Spotify Find Your Flow: It’s the most effective method for finding your groove and making a personal connection with music For example, a writer might say I use my skill in crafting stories to help entrepreneurs and creatives create authentic and meaningful connections with their audience. If they’re not telling stories or being authentic in their work, they know they’re missing the passion mark. Once you feel good about your answers, you can put them into this template: The value you create + who you’re creating it for + the expected outcome. In fact, one of the 6 core factors a Csíkszentmihályi-style flow experience is to "experience... the activity as intrinsically rewarding." He even goes further, saying the feeling should be "such that often the end goal is just an excuse for the process."

Not only will having a personal mission statement help insure that you’re on the right path towards flow, but it will help push you beyond your comfort zone, as author Robert Greene explains when talking about mastery: We all know the state in which the actions follow each other almost by themselves, the mind is completely focused on the task & fades out everything else. But that is only the flow of the moment. The true flow, on the other hand, can do much more than just provide happiness & ease for a short time. Because the true flow is not limited to a moment, it is the flow of life. Romantic: You dedicate songs to people, much as you would compose love poetry, to communicate your emotions.Flow takes focused work with just a bit of spark that makes you creative—something you can learn about more in our look at two other books: Deep Work vs. Messy: How to Balance Productivity and Creativity.