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 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 everybody and welcome back to the Mindset Coach Academy podcast.
My name is Lindsey Wilson. Alright guys, it's Mental Monday. If you have not left a review for our podcast, I am going to humbly ask you to do that now. I hear from many of you that you love the Mental Mondays, but let me actually hear it. If you're using the tools, if you're sharing with your friends, if you're finding these little five to eight minute like mini podcasts helpful, come on over, leave me a review, let me know about it. Okay, so it is Mental Monday and the tool that I'm talking about today is like wildly simple and y'all know I love the simple ones.
I love when you don't have to buy something or go somewhere or do something. It's just a tool that you can implement today and here's what it is. It's the five minute walk. Now, you might say, well, I know how to make it. I know how to take a five minute walk. Like everybody tells you to take a break.
It's not that. Okay, so this is what I want you to do very clearly. Sometime today or this week, I want you to wherever like your normal places like this is my office. This is like my normal place. Your office, your kitchen, and I want you to set a timer on your phone or your iPhone or what you're watching, whatever.
And I want you to walk out your door for two and a half minutes. I actually did a little bit more. I did two, three, five because I'm weird like that. I just wanted to make sure I got my full five minutes in. So you do you.
Anyway, set your timer for two and a half minutes. And when you hit that spot, you turn back and you come home or you come back to the office or whatever. Okay, that's going to be, that's where we're going to get our brain into this.
We're going to emphasize and track a new neural pathway that this is your routine. Okay, this is your spot. It's two and a half minutes away.
You come back. That's a five minute walk. This sounds ridiculously simple, but here's the thing.
What's going to happen. You can start doing this without a phone, without a podcast, without music, without any kind of technology, because now you know the routine, you know the path, you know how long it's going to take, and you know that it's only going to be five minutes. So So the next time you do it, you're going to not bring any of that crap. Because here's what I do a lot of walks. I do a lot of stairs. I do a lot of walks. I do a lot of runs. And I love to multitask.
I love to listen to my podcast. Probably some of you are doing that right now. Like, it's a great way to learn knowledge, to maybe even call people, connect on the phone. It's a great way to double up. And for those of us that are busy, like, we need that time. So, you know, we can have that time, of course.
But to also have that time that is free from everything, where you're looking at the trees and hearing the birds and noticing the condensation on the plants and, like, all the stuff. When we remove technology, like, this is not new science, right? Like, we know that this comms our nervous system. But what I find myself doing is if I don't have the routine of knowing where I'm going to go and knowing there's a limit to the amount of time and just having that, again, that routine that's going to be imprinted in my brain as a new neural pathway of, like, this is my five minute break. If I don't have that, it's easy to just be like, okay, well, I'm going to check my email. I'm going to make sure to take my phone because I don't know where I'm going or how long it's going to be or all the, I don't know if someone's going to need to get ahold of me. And it's like when it's five minutes and you've, like, staked out the route ahead of time, all of those excuses go away. You put your phone down, you turn off your podcast, and you walk for two and a half minutes and then you turn around and you come back. And in that five minutes, you are going to relax, you're going to connect with yourself, with nature, with your thoughts, you're going to calm your nervous system.
Like, I don't have to explain to you how wonderful that five minutes is going to be, but I think the setup is really important. So again, sometime this week, tracking your route, like figuring out where's the place that you, for me, it's up the street by the park and through the alley. And it's like two alleys, actually, it's actually one alley that's two and a half, but I'd like to go a little bit further. So it's like one or two alleys. And then I circle back around the pee patch.
So I get to see all the plants that will change every season. And like, that's it. And so for you, what I want you to think about is which direction and it should be the same every time. Okay. So that's my challenge to you is to find your five minute walk, track it, know where it is, and then you have that in your back pocket where you can leave your phone and leave technology, do that five minute little walking meditation or whatever you want to call it, come back and like, you're good.
All right, guys. So that's my challenge for you this week. I hope you love Mental Monday and you know we're on every week. So come back for more. If you'd like this, share it with a friend.
I'm sure they'd love to hear about it too. All right, guys, we'll see you soon. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Bye.
