Friday Five #14 – Multi-Potentialites, 10 Questions & a White Blood Cell

Hey, good evening!

Here is your Friday 5 weekly roundup on health and wellness, innovation and science, freediving and sport, laughs and life.

✨ Are you a multi-potentialite?

• I recently watched a short TEDx talk by Emilie Wapnick and absolutely loved it. It explains how certain people are ‘multi-potentialites’ – who are people that have many many interests and creative pursuits.
   
• Multi-potentialites have a hard time focusing on just one thing / career path / hobby / you name it, something I’ve felt guilty about for a long time! But there are advantages to being a multi-potentialite like:
   
  • developing a superpower for rapid learning!
  • generating groundbreaking ideas!
  • and becoming adaptable to a world that’s changing faster than ever!

🤔 What 10 questions to ask yourself everyday:

• For 32 years, entrepreneur Jeff Booth asks himself these 10 questions. He reads them everyday when he wakes up and again before going to sleep. With that perspective I think there’s little mystery behind his success.

1. Am I putting thought into action?
2. Am I setting new and interesting goals?
3. Am I visualizing my goals?
4. Am I stretching my comfort zone?
5. Am I happy with what I have?
6. Am I filling my mind with positive self-talk?
7. Am I being a positive force for others?
8. Are my actions the same as my values?
9. Am I staying in balance?
10. Am I focused and persistent?

• “Through all the ups and downs that life throws, the questions have helped me understand that it is not outside events or people or things – but our thoughts to them that control us”
   
• When asking myself Jeff’s questions, I realized that one area I want to push my comfort zone is with my online teaching / coaching. I’m naturally more of an introvert and can read, think, meditate and write all day, and stay in my own little world. I’ve gotten better by teaching freediving and doing the weekly LIVE sessions in the Facebook Group, but still have aways to go, and have a lot to learn with teaching in front of a camera! But I know it’ll be worth it in the end – Dr Liz Hardy explains on SimpliTeach, that being able to teach to an online audience is a superpower. I’ll continue working on it.

💬 What quote I’ve been thinking about:

 
“At the higher levels of competitive swimming, something like an inversion of attitude takes place. The very features of the sport that the “C” swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring—swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours—they find peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or therapeutic. They enjoy hard practices, look forward to difficult competitions, try to set difficult goals. Coming into the 5:30 A.M. practices at Mission Viejo, many of the swimmers were lively, laughing, talking, enjoying themselves, perhaps appreciating the fact that most people would positively hate doing it. It is incorrect to believe that top athletes suffer great sacrifices to achieve their goals. Often, they don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it.“

– Daniel Chambliss
American sociologist, on how top performers feel about hard work

🎥 What I’m recording –

• I finally started recording some beta videos for putting together my online breathing, meditation and wellness course! I’ve been doing weekly live sessions in the Facebook Group and posted some of these early videos on YouTube.
   
• Check-out this video which is half-way decent with a powerful breathing / stretching routine that helps calm the mind, energize the body and helps to prepare for freediving. Loads more YT videos to come!

🎞️ What I watched:

• Incredible footage of a white blood cell chasing a bacterium!

It’s a pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, I hope you have a great weekend!

Renee