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 in 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. Hi all and welcome back to the Mindset Coach Academy Podcast.
My name is Lindsey Wilson. I am so glad that you're here. It's mental Monday guys where we're just going to talk about one tip, tool or technique that you can implement in your life today. And I want to talk about giving people grace. Now I just got off a podcast interview with Brooke Wycoff who is the head coach at Florida State University, head women's basketball coach. And we were talking about just life and just how challenging things are and it's a really great episode.
I don't think it's released yet but it will be soon. And we were just talking about like this idea, this was offline, but we were talking about this idea of like you really don't know what other people are going through, right? And that's like a comment that I hear a lot.
It's a comment that I say a lot. And it's, I think it's a really good thing to sort of just keep in the back of your mind, right? But I was also thinking about like in daily life, you know, our brain prioritizes our own experience. Like that is how we are ultimately selfish, right? Like that is how we are wired. That is how we have survived is to think of things as they're going to affect us. And I was thinking, you know, in Mental Monday, I always think of how I can implement these sort of principles or tools or one little way that I can try it out.
And I was thinking for myself, and so I thought I'd talk about it here is like the next time you're in a difficult situation, like, and that's probably later today, right? I mean, I'm talking about little things like yesterday I was at the airport, and the self scanner thing wasn't working, which is like, like crazy annoying, right? Like, because they never work. And then I had to like wait in line again, to get in line to talk to the person then the person that was like doing the credit card didn't know and they call the manager and like, I was getting annoyed, right? And, and I didn't at the time, I didn't do this at the time, but like looking back once the next time that I'm in that kind of situation and like, I don't know what's going on in that woman's life. like maybe she can't figure it out because she can't focus at work because I don't know maybe her mom has Alzheimer's and doesn't recognize her anymore or maybe she has to get it all with autism and she was up all night or maybe she's worried she's gonna lose her job and what that's gonna mean for her family like you have no idea we are all walking around looking like normal human beings with whatever reaction is on our face or you know whatever and there's this whole backstory that no one knows because you have one right now right you've either had something you've either had a shitty day or there's something going on your life that you're stressed about and if there's not like amen to that like let's bask in that and use that as like you have a like a little bit of a deeper well right now but here's the problem is that often we are more annoyed with other people and less patient with them when things are all so hard in our life you would think that that would be the time we'd have more compassion but it tends to be the time that we get annoyed easier so you know with that in mind knowing that you are likely going through something and this isn't a rating scale this isn't someone else is going through more than you just the idea that like whatever you're going through it's likely that the person across from you has no idea what you're dealing with and therefore logic tells us that they're probably going through something that we also have no idea and I find when I remember that and again the challenge for you and me if you're up for it if we choose to take it is just the next time someone does something that irritates us whether that's cutting in line or not turning at on the free red light or taking too long to bag at the groceries or whatever our little teeny tiny you know impatient moment is that you just give that person some grace and I'm going to try it too I know that the problem area for me is often on the phone I'm just going to be straight up with this like when you're put on hold that's going to be my load that's my growth area is when I'm on the phone or I'm on hold or someone can't understand what I'm trying to say and there's the bad to go put me to somebody else who's also not sure what's going on and I'm on hold then my patient starts you know going down but I'm going to have to remember I don't know what that person's going through in their life so that's my challenge to you to do the same giving people grace includes not knowing and never knowing what's going on in their life and just giving them grace because because they're a human being with a human experience just like you just like me so that's my challenge for you guys today it's mental Monday so just take that little piece go out into the world if you do it come on over to Instagram and tell me about it I'm gonna really try this guys I'm gonna try it in the places that I get irritated in my life give people grace alright guys come on over to Instagram let me know about it alright see you next week bye for now
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