The Art of Workflow with Andy Hickman

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Today on the show we have Andy Hickman. I am very excited to share Andy with you today. He has been a private client of mine over the last six months and I recently joined his program The Art of Workflow because I was so impressed with his ideas while we were working together that I wanted to learn more about it.

I have been in his program for a couple of months and I am starting to discover the power that his process and systems have in creating clarity and figuring out the right actions to take and restoring the connection to your life through these simple habits and behaviors that are very different from your typical productivity gurus out there. Today we are going to talk with Andy and discover his process for The Art of Workflow.

We discuss:

[02:37] Andy shares his defining moment.
[07:51] Controlling things in my life wasn’t life-giving.
[08:21] He learned that he could use these four behaviors to get more organized in his life and he could also use them to cultivate his own knowledge and develop and deepen his mind in a way that he had never known was possible.
[10:22] Once you understand human nature and you see it accurately you have a much more empowering vision of who you are and what you are capable of and this empowers you to tap into these innate powers and abilities you have.
[12:02] There are two problems with the average image of productivity. It is aiming for the wrong thing and using the wrong means to attain that wrong thing.
[15:32] There is an innate brilliance to how humans are designed and when we tap into that then we can create that sense of creativity, order, and flow using something that will always be part of us.
[19:00] It isn’t about doing more things. It is about doing the right things.
[22:10] If you have a limited amount of time, that is only a greater reason to learn how to get back in touch with what the right things are for you to do.
[25:33] Order is not the enemy of ease.
[29:41] The transformation occurs within the person.
[39:49] Knowledge is coming to know the union between the knower and the known. When we come to grow in knowledge. We come closer to God, the world, and ourselves.
[41:17] When you know how to cultivate your own knowledge you grow in self-confidence and you become aware that what the world needs for you to increase the clarity of who you are and then share who you are with other people.
[48:37] Knowledge gardening is all about cultivating your thoughts. It helps you get back in touch with yourself.
[50:23] We come to know things by integrating our senses into the process.
[51:24] What kind of questions do you regularly ruminate on? What is something you strongly believe that you don’t talk about in your social circles? What is a big lie that you have struggled with?
[52:27] You have a unique perspective that the universe wants to engage with and you can not share that if you are out of touch with your own thoughts.
[54:27] When you form a habit of communicating with yourself by finally integrating the sense into that project then you can make contact with this whole other wealth of knowledge that is normally passed by from the average individual.
[59:06] Good storytelling is really a high form of listening.
[61:08] You don’t need to sell the program. That is not your responsibility. Your responsibility is to help the other person recognize how they would flourish in it.
[67:45] When we feel overwhelmed, it is not a sign that the answer is missing. When you are overwhelmed you are missing the answer.