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 of their 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 to Mindset Coach Academy. My name is Lindsey Wilson and today is Mental Monday where we spend about five minutes talking about some tool, technique or trick that you can implement in your life today.
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They help other people find us, they help the algorithm, they help everything. So please, please, please leave a review. Okay, today I want to talk about three ways that you may be thinking about meditation or mindfulness. And the reason I want to talk about these is because these are three barriers, if you will, to meditating, to creating a mindfulness practice. And spoiler alert, the reason that I know these things is because I have these barriers and all my students do as well. And I think whether you are an expert meditator already, understanding the barriers is really, really helpful because if you trying to help anybody else meditate or have any mindfulness practice, you know, if you're a coach or a teacher or a parent, it's important to understand some of, I think, the more natural things that come up for people.
So just bringing into the light of day, I think, is helpful. So the biggest barrier, well, the three of them, but the first one is you may feel like you're not any good at meditation. So imagine you started your meditation practice or imagine you meditated and most people, not everybody, but most people feel like they suck at it. Now this is a barrier because we don't actually like doing things that we suck at. So one little trick that I have with that that I learned from my mentor is repeating to yourself something along the lines of my subjective opinion on how that went, meaning the meditation, doesn't matter.
I did the work. You know, I was liken it to like stretching, right? Like nobody says, well, I didn't stretch very well today. Well, no, but you stretched, right? And maybe you were better than you were yesterday. Maybe you were tighter than you were yesterday. But you did the work and we continue to show up and we continue to stretch. We continue to stretch our mind and that is the work. It doesn't really matter how you felt it went.
You did the work, okay? The second thing is you will likely find reasons to procrastinate. So you will find reasons to not meditate. Things will come up. Other people will eat into your time. You'll, you know, the dishwasher suddenly has to be emptied.
I think this is a really natural reaction. Again, because we don't actually like doing things that we're not that good at. So procrastination, it's a barrier. Build it in as you're planning your practice. And again, I'm reminding myself of all this.
Number three is potentially when you start meditating or on certain days when you meditate, you may feel more anxious or more stressed or more in your own head when you start the practice. And I always liken this to when you start cleaning your house, you really start noticing how dirty it is, right? You know, you may not notice that the window seals have crud on them if you're not cleaning. And so things always feel worse when you start paying attention to them. And it doesn't mean that they weren't there before. It means you weren't aware of them. And the benefit to being aware of them is you can let them go.
You can do something about it. So again, three biggest barriers, feeling like you might not be good, doesn't matter. Second is you will probably procrastinate, build that in as you plan. And number three is it's likely or at least highly possible that you will feel, let's say worse when you start. You may feel like this doesn't work because now I feel more stressed. Well, we got to get the crud out of the house first.
So we got to be aware of it. So those are my three barriers. Again, if you're a perfect meditator, which I don't know if that even exists, just know that if you're teaching anybody else about this, they are experiencing this as well.
So that's it, that's all I got. We're gonna be back on next Mental Monday. And if you are interested in learning mindfulness, in particular mindfulness for competitors and performance, the Mindful Competitor Project is on our website. It's an $87 course. You learn five different tools on different techniques, I should say, on implementing mindfulness in your daily life, videos, guided visualizations that you can download or use on your phone. It's a really great course for you and or, that your athletes in your life. And whether you're a starter on meditation or you just want some more things in your toolbox, it's an awesome course.
So we'll put those in the show notes, check those out, or you can go to positiveperformancetraining.com and click on our products and the Mindful Competitor will show up for you. All right guys, have a great day. We'll see you soon. Talk to you later, bye.
