Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the Mindset Coach Academy podcast. Today, it is Mental Monday, and we are talking all about mindset, how to live it, how to teach it, and how to sell it. All right, guys. Welcome back to Mental Monday and the Mindset Coach Academy.
I want to talk about uncomfortable growth. And this is just a really quick reminder. I'm in it.
I am in a huge period of growth. I know I've talked about it in the podcast before, but I want to just give you a really simple example. So I've been doing a ton of teaching lately, and I've been going through my workbooks. I've been teaching the mental game plan.
I've been obviously coaching the certification and our six-step process and the insider program. I have tons of content. I have PowerPoints.
I have workbooks. And we're redesigning some of them. I'm going back, and I'm looking at them, and I'm tweaking them. And I do that pretty consistently as far as thinking about how to change them. But then I go back, and I actually do the changes every once in a while.
And with that is a lot of discomfort because I go back and I think, oh my goodness, there's times when I think, this is terrible. And I know it's not. Obviously, it's not. But I look at it, and I'm like, oh, it's just not where I want it to be sometimes.
Right? I look at my PowerPoint, and I'm like, this is not at the level that I want it to be. And it's massively uncomfortable. And I'm telling you that because sometimes when you're in it, you forget that the discomfort, one, is not a sign that you're doing it wrong. It's also not a sign that what you're doing is not good.
Because the discomfort comes at every level. And when I legitimately look at my content now versus where I started, I will literally look at my Office Depot PowerPoint clip art photocopied content from when I started 20 years ago. And then I look at it, and I'm like, oh, yeah. Well, the discomfort of that got me to this level.
And look how beautiful these workbooks are. And I think it's important to remember that that discomfort just never goes away. And not only is it not a sign that you're doing things wrong, or you're... It's not a sign that you're doing things wrong, but it's more a sign that you're doing things right because, and I say this all the time to my students, you will always feel more out of shape going for a run than you will on the couch. That is just the nature of the beast.
You will feel more discomfort, worse about what level you're at, beating yourself up, more discomfort, and more annoyance at yourself when you go for a run than you are on the couch. It's just how it works. And so I find that to be a really helpful metaphor because then I remember I am in it. I am always going to feel more uncomfortable because I'm improving versus staying where I am.
So it does the discomfort is a sign that I'm on the right track, that I am growing and moving. And again, this isn't stuff you don't know. It's not stuff that I don't know. It's just stuff that we constantly need to be reminded of because when we feel that discomfort, our brain sends alert bells and it says you're doing it wrong. You shouldn't be feeling this. Run back.
Go back to the couch. And the fact that we are doing, we are going to be uncomfortable. That's part of the process. As my kids love to tell me, which I love is like one of the most important things we say in our house is learning is messy.
Growth is messy. And I'm in it. You're probably in it in some aspect of your life as well. And it's going to be uncomfortable. And that's it. Bring it. All right, guys, we'll see you again next week for Mental Monday. Hey, guys, come on over to Instagram and connect with me at Lindsey Positive Perform. You can tag me in stories. You can send me an audio message or a direct message. I post stuff like sometimes stuff related to mental training. Other times I post my granola recipe or my crazy salads because I'm all about the salads, the full fat salads, mind you. So come on over to Instagram and connect at Lindsey Positive Perform. I'd love to connect with you on Instagram.
