Welcome to the Mindset Coach Calving Podcast. My name is Lindsey Wilson, former professional athlete, turned high-performance mindset coach and entrepreneur. On this podcast, we're talking all things mindset, how to work on your own mostly, but also how to teach it and how to have a business teaching it if that's your thing. If you're an athlete, coach, mindset coach or high-performance individual that loves all things mindset, welcome.
You're in the right place. Let's see this. Hi guys and welcome to Mental Monday. Today I want to talk about how you're doing. But in particular, what I want to talk about is how you think you are doing.
Do you see the difference there? See oftentimes our perception of how we are doing shapes how we're doing. Brené Brown talks a lot about this.
She talks about how the way that we describe how we're doing changes how we experience it. And I've seen this recently with one of my clients who had a lot of shame about how much she was making as a mindset coach when in fact she was actually doing really, really well. But that idea that she wasn't doing well was coloring her experience of making over $100,000. The shame that she was putting on it was making that amount not feel good. Now if she had put the feeling of pride, she would experience that exact same amount, that exact same level of success in a totally different way. This is why it is so powerful and important to be aware of how we are perceiving how we are doing. Because we can get really overwhelmed only based on the idea that we're not doing enough, that we're not handling it enough.
So check in with yourself. I think especially right now when so many of us are doing so many things, there's so much coming at us, there's so much anxiety, there's so many things to think about and risks and you know it's just things are crazy right now and if our perception of ourselves is that we aren't handling it well, that affects how we actually are handling it. It affects our entire day, our entire week and so the ability to check in with our perception of how we're doing is honestly one of the most powerful mindset tools I believe because it allows us to get above the fray, have that 30,000 foot view and potentially even play with how someone else might perceive us because often when we're in our own head we think well everybody else has it all figured out.
Everybody else is dealing with COVID so much better than I am. They're not feeling so anxious or so overwhelmed or all these sorts of things and when we layer those feelings on we start to experience the world that way. We start to experience it in an anxious overwhelming. I'm not talking about mental health issues, I'm talking about just the general ups and downs of someone that's trying to improve their mindset and trying to improve their life. Okay so remember these feelings sometimes these negative feelings come from how we are pursuing it. It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy right like if we feel like we're not doing well enough we end up experiencing the world in the sense that we aren't doing enough and we go through the world consistently telling ourselves that we're not doing enough. Remember what Brené Brown says, emotions shape, they don't just describe. It's not a small thing to describe our emotions. It shapes how we experience the world so start paying attention.
All right guys that's all I got. Hey guys if you've ever thought had just even an inkling of a thought about becoming a mental performance coach it's likely that you also had some questions about that like where would I get clients, what would I teach them, what would I charge, can I do this without getting another degree. If you've ever had any of those questions I have really good news for you because I've answered all of them in a free 60 page book called How to Become a Mental Performance Coach even without your sports psychology degree. I go into all of these questions and so much more in this book and the best news is it's totally free. Go get your copy of How to Become a Mental Performance Coach at PositivePerformanceTrain.com forward slash guide.
