EP 038 - Bridges, Tunnels and Doors
The Workday Mindset Podcast
In this episode I want to do something a little different and invite you to think about how three visuals - bridges, tunnels, and doors - are great vehicles for thinking about how to navigate challenging moments you encounter in your day, and at the same time be a way to open yourself up to receiving opportunities that are all around you that are ripe for the taking.
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EP 037 - Stuck Inside Our Routines
The Workday Mindset Podcast
Routines are a great vehicle for change. But sometimes we get so caught up in whether we’re doing the routines right that we can find ourselves unintentionally stuck inside of them. And what I mean by that is we can get trapped in our desire to strictly follow the process of the routine, instead of really pausing to notice whether the routine is actually helping to deliver what you need, in that moment, and whether the routine is actually aligned with your purpose for creating the routine in the first place. In this episode I’ll guide you through a simple thought...
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EP 037 - Stuck Inside Our Routines
The Workday Mindset Podcast
Routines are a great vehicle for change. But sometimes we get so caught up in whether we’re doing the routines right that we can find ourselves unintentionally stuck inside of them. And what I mean by that is we can get trapped in our desire to strictly follow the process of the routine, instead of really pausing to notice whether the routine is actually helping to deliver what you need, in that moment, and whether the routine is actually aligned with your purpose for creating the routine in the first place. In this episode I’ll guide you through a simple thought...
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EP 036 - Birds Before Land
The Workday Mindset Podcast
Many of the big, meaningful changes we want to experience take time. They unfold over time and in a way that we almost never can quantify or completely influence or accurately predict. And sometimes when we’re working toward a change that takes time, one of the challenges we face is that we get caught up in waiting for the big change to happen. In other words, we’re so focused on waiting for the entire change to materialize in full that we end up overlooking all of the signs and indicators along the way that are confirmation that what we’re doing day after day is actually...
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Ep 035 - Caught Up In Other People’s Success Stories
The Workday Mindset Podcast
We can learn a lot from the success stories of other people. But if we’re not careful about how we process and relate to those stories, we can start to get caught up in them and use them as a template to measure our own success - instead of studying the through lines or the nuggets of wisdom they contain. In this episode, we discuss how we can avoid getting caught up in other people’s success stories, and use them instead to promote our own growth.
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EP 034 - Get Your Hopes Up
The Workday Mindset Podcast
We have a tendency to tell ourselves to not get our hopes up about something that we really want or something that we’re excited about that involves a level of uncertainty. And we tend to tamp down our excitement through the words we use by adding qualifying statements - something like “This would be perfect for me, but it’s a long shot” - and we do that because if we don’t get our hopes up, then we don’t have to feel the perceived judgment of others or our own disappointment if it doesn’t work out. In this episode, we talk about why you absolutely must get your hopes...
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EP 033 - Divesting a Thought of Its Power
The Workday Mindset Podcast
When we think about a potential future scenario that makes us uncomfortable, our mind wants to “confront” the thought. It wants us to meet the thought on the thought’s terms and to accept the future scenario as true - even if it has no basis in fact - so that we can come up with a solution, just in case that future scenario actually happens. When we confront thoughts like this, what we end up doing is breathing life into them and giving them power over us. So instead of “confronting” a thought, in this episode we talk about a better way to address these thoughts - a way...
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EP 032 - Embracing Inconsistency
The Workday Mindset Podcast
We all spend a lot of time trying to be consistent and trying to project a sense of consistency to other people. And we do that both because we think that inconsistency signals to others that we’re unfocused or undisciplined, and also because inconsistency can make us feel uncertain. But in truth we need to embrace and make room for inconsistency in our life - because if we don’t make room for inconsistency, we leave no room for growth. By definition, growth is a state of consistently being inconsistent. Growth means that you are a version of yourself that is inconsistent with a...
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EP 031 - Moment to Moment Responsibility
The Workday Mindset Podcast
When we think about what we want for ourselves in the future, it’s natural for us to try to issue spot and for our mind to want to solve any problems that we see coming down the pipeline. Our mind wants to think through all the little nooks and crannies related to events in the future so that we can feel like we’re prepared for everything that might come up - because if we feel like we’ve thought through things then that gives us a level of comfort and it helps us feel safe. But the challenge we face when we look into the future like this is that it forces us to lose touch...
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EP 030 - Internalizing “The Struggle”
The Workday Mindset Podcast
When we’re envisioning how a future version of events will play out, we tend to associate those events with “The Struggle.” We constantly hear messages about how “Life is hard”, “No pain no gain”, “Nothing in life is free” - and we also are instinctually wired to look for the warning signs of potential future struggles so that we can avoid them. But this type of mindset can significantly impede our progress because if we believe that we have to struggle, our attention is drawn to the struggle - and we tend to find all sorts of evidence in our day to day to confirm...
info_outlineThere’s a common misbelief we have about how to approach our workday: in order to be productive, we constantly have to be in a state of stress. But it turns out that in many ways that belief is backwards. When we’re able to identify the root of our stress and strip it away, and when we stop equating stress with productivity, that’s actually when we’re able to do our best work. In this episode we’ll talk about a 4-step process for how to do it.