Lindsey 00:12
Welcome to the Mindset Coach Academy Podcast. I'm Lindsey Wilson. And I am a high performance mindset coach, a mom, a former professional athlete and an entrepreneur, I help coaches and high performers optimize their mindset to improve their coaching their performance and those other athletes and their lives. Here, you'll learn all about mindset, how to live it, how to teach it, and how to sell it.
Lindsey 00:38
Hi all and welcome to the Mindset Coach Academy podcast. My name is Lindsey Wilson. And it's mental Monday, y'all. This is where we take one tip, tool, or technique and teach you it so you can implement it in your life. I want to talk about the cost of indecision.
Lindsey 00:55
And what I want you to imagine is that there is a bank account in your name of time. And in that time, account, you get to deposit all of the past time that you have wasted stopping and starting something. Indecision, hemming and hawing drama, voluntary confusion, all of that space and energy. And emotion that you have spent on Indecision is now sitting in a time bank account with your name on it. And imagine how much is in there.
Lindsey 01:49
Now, what I don't want you to do is think of that bank account and think, Oh, God, why did I do that? That's life. It is life to look back and think 2020 vision is 2020. Hindsight is 2020. Now, so I don't want you to do that. But I do want you to use it as a learning opportunity of thinking moving forward, I am going to make decisions.
Lindsey 02:16
Now, this is a challenging one, because decision-making does have to be thorough, so that you don't stop and start, right that's like the catch-22 is you don't want to do things impulsively. But you also don't want to hem and haw. But you wanna make sure that's the right decision. Otherwise, you'll stop and start. And this is what I am practicing.
Lindsey 02:45
And that is taking a set amount of time thinking deeply thinking, listening to my intuition, but making sure that I am willing to go the distance with that decision. So for example, I've stopped and started a lot of things. But let's say I have a project within my business, the first step would be making sure that, that thing that I think that I want to do matches up with what I say that I want long term, that's the first thing. That's how you always need to.
Lindsey 03:18
And this is what we do with mindset coaching Collective is we have a yearly goal sheet. And so you look at that and make sure that this is in line in alignment with what you say that you want in your life pillars that's really, really important. And then making sure that you are willing to see it through.
Lindsey 03:37
So if there's this project, you have to know that there's gonna be ups and downs, there's going to be times when you think it's not a good idea, there's going to be times when you want to quit, there are going to be failures, whatever it is, that is part of it. So we can't just make decisions from the idea that this is exciting.
Lindsey 03:56
And it's gonna be exciting all the way through because that's not how it works, there's going to be the low points, and you have to make sure that you are willing to see it through. And then the third step would be actually seeing it through. So give yourself a set amount of time of I'm going to be doing I'm gonna be going in this direction for three months or six months.
Lindsey 04:12
And I'm going to do this and this is what we're doing actually in our insider program. Our follow-up to the certification, I'm taking my certified students through this process for building their business and committing to one offer. So we commit to one offer, we make sure that it aligns with what we say that we want in our life.
Lindsey 04:31
We make sure that we understand consciously and rationally that there's gonna be ups and downs with this, there's no right offer and then committing to seeing it through to get better at that one offer for the next six months. But you can do this for anything. Again, three steps, making sure that aligns long term with what you say that you want.
Lindsey 04:50
You know, for us in the in my teachings, it's we called Life pillars and then making sure that we understand that we are willing to go the distance with this idea or this thing, right, we can't just make decisions based on the excitement we feel in the moment, we have to actually make sure that we are going to be willing to do it when it's hard.
Lindsey 05:12
One of the best examples I've heard of this is like, the thinking of running a marathon. Well, you can think about the finish line, how good it's going to feel. But you also have to think about, like, the morning wake-ups when it's raining, and you don't want to do your training runs, right, like that kind of thinking.
Lindsey 05:27
And then the third step would be actually seeing it through especially for a set amount of time. And knowing that you're gonna want to deviate knowing that we're on your own what the excitement of the shiny new object knowing that you're going to switch your decision.
Lindsey 05:38
So if you can do that, you will build up this time bank account of all this time that is not wasted, that is actually there for you to use. Imagine how much time and energy you're gonna have, when you don't spend it, coming back and rethinking about something, make a freaking decision.
Lindsey 06:04
And I'm saying that with love because I have to do it too. We make decisions and we stick with them. Even though it is easier, and actually feels better to switch them up. Stay the course, stay the course. Make a decision, you are going to have so much more time, so much more energy, and you're going to learn and grow faster because you're not wasting time.
Lindsey 06:37
You know, hemming and hawing going over here and over there and over there and do you're gonna stay the course and you're and make a frickin decision, and you're gonna get some shit done. Alright. Alright, guys, that's how we do it. That's how we do it. You got that bank account of time, waiting for you gonna build it up and you're gonna use all of it to make progress super fast. Alright, guys. We'll see you again next mental Monday.
Lindsey 07:03
Hey, if you love this episode, make sure to check out all of our free and paid resources over at positiveperformancetraining.com You want to take mindset training to the next level we got you. But here are three more specific ways.
Lindsey 07:15
If you want to take mindset training and live it more in your life. Definitely subscribe to this podcast. We send out bonus episodes, we have our mental Mondays, we have interviews and training episodes, definitely subscribe. If you want to teach it, meaning taking it to your athletes or your clients. I highly recommend the Psychology of Competition.
Lindsey 07:33
Again, you can check that out at positiveperformancetraining.com It is a great course that will teach you and your athletes how to have pre, during, and post-competition routines to up your performance. And if you want to learn how to have a mindset coaching business in order to sell mindset coaching, highly recommend signing up for our waitlist for our next certification cohort, which usually opens about once a year, but in the meantime, go to positiveperformancetraining.com.
Lindsey 07:58
And check out our Ultimate Mindset Coaching Toolkit which will show you exactly how to get started with your first mindset coaching clients. Again, go to positiveperformancetraining.com for all of our free and paid resources.
