One of the characteristics of being in a flow state according to famous researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is to lose track of time. Think about it — when you are doing something you love, totally engrossed in a task, time vanishes from your mind.
So to get more flow in your business, take steps to lose track of time. Use a timer for 30, 60, 90 minutes, remove all distractions, and dive in. To get more flow overall – get away from all distractions and do something you love. That flow state will transfer over to your daily life and build your “flow” habit.
What do you do to create more flow? Comment below…
Last year, during a time of turmoil, I was standing outside on a windy day and a dragonfly landed next to me. For about a minute and a half, the dragonfly stayed with me, and it was this magical little experience. It made me feel very peaceful. I’ve since read about the symbolism that a dragonfly possesses, and have gone back in my mind to that day, and wondered what was really going on. Why did the dragonfly decide to approach me? Did it even really happen? There have been a few times since then, that I have been woken up early in the morning, and I have seen what looked like the form of a dragonfly, crawling on my wall. Every time, I see it, it crawls around for a little bit, and then disappears behind a picture frame. At first, it’s jarring when this happens, but after the experience is over, it makes me feel good. And I could tell someone that this has happened to me, and they might not believe it, but I believe it, I know that it happened, and so, to me it is real. And the funny thing is, once you believe in these strange, magical experiences, once you know that they’re real, they seem to happen even more frequently. Belief is very important, when it comes to reality.