Flow Fundamentals , updated for 2016, now includes over 25 new videos, a fully interactive app, wearables integration, automated calendar reminders and a social community!

Getting ahead while still enjoying the ride is the biggest challenge for many of us. We lose track of what makes us come most alive when we are weighed down by life, work and responsibility. We have to wade through the hucksters, hype-sters and the plain old gullible when we are looking for more meaning. We come back to what we have been doing all along, a little more tired each time. It doesn’t seem like we’re asking for much, just a simple, reasonable method to play at the top of our game, to experience deep satisfaction, and not have to give up our critical perspective or common sense to get there. That doesn’t make sense, does it?

Why does “Flow” even matter?

• You are finding it increasingly hard to shut off your relentless Inner Critic
• You spend most of your time not in the present, but “elsewhere”— daydreaming or worrying about the past or the future
• You routinely run out of willpower and have a list of personal dreams and goals that never get any closer to reality
• You’ve looked into some spiritual or personal growth programs but felt like an outsider or a total cynic—unwilling to “drink the kool-aid”
• You find yourself looking back on an earlier phase in your life where you did experience Flow, and have been quietly resigning yourself to never seeing “the good old days” again
• You self medicate or distract in ways that leave you feeling even less satisfied than before (think: social media, Netflix binges, shopping, porn, video games, substances)
• You occasionally ask yourself “is this really all there is?” and suspect the answer might just be, yes
• It’s been way too long since you’ve hooted and hollered just from the sheer joy of doing something you love

Flow Fundamentals can help.

It is like a training program for your whole life. It is practical and experimental. You learn a new idea about training Flow, apply it in your life, and then you make it your own.

I’ve found that the most common enemies to accessing Flow on demand are:

• Quitting when you’re right on the verge of breaking through to a new level
• Struggling inefficiently, and making whatever problem you’re facing worse
• Not having proven methods to relax, redirect and solve challenges when your initial approach doesn’t work
• Nagging inner monologue that constantly undermines your efforts, and when you do actually get into the Zone, knocks you right out of it
• Pushing from one challenge to the next without allowing yourself to truly recharge
• Telling yourself that you’ll “take a break” after the next goal or project, but you never do, until you get sick or injured
• Trouble getting to sleep right away, or waking up earlier than you’d planned because your mind is racing
• Feeling like you don’t have enough time or energy to do what you have to, let alone what you want to

And, did you know…

• Flow can be experienced by anyone, regardless of age, background or skillsets—from Japanese grandmothers, to Yosemite rock climbers, to Korean motorcycle gang members, to your friend on Etsy
• We spend over $4 trillion dollars on the Altered States Economy—buying products, chemicals and experiences that give us a brief moment outside ourselves. Flow does it naturally
• The people who report having the most Flow in their lives also report having the highest overall life satisfaction of any population on the planet
• When you are in Flow, your performance, creativity and problem solving spike by as much as 400%
• Flow releases five of the most potent neurochemicals for motivation, learning and well-being—norepinephrine, dopamine, endorphins, anandamide and oxytocin
• Learning new skills while in Flow cuts the path to mastery in half

Most of our lives seem to be designed to wring the Flow out of us. We get dragged away from the effortless focus and deep satisfaction of being lost in the moment because of open office plans, constant digital distraction, and over scheduled family calendars. It is crazy to think that we can perform at our best while taking our lead from people who will never get there. It is time to get beyond Self Help and New Year’s Resolutions and get to the source code of your motivation.