A few things you need to know about your brain…
1. Your brain is obsessed with searching for certainty & will often shut shit down in a nanosecond when things don’t feel like a sure thing.
Spoiler…all new things are going to put your brain on high alert because they are uncertain & new. Your job is to manage the mind drama & act anyway.
The goal of mindset work is NOT to completely eliminate mind drama. Instead it’s to manage it & continue to take inspired action in order to move forward.
If you have a brain, you have mind drama.
If you have things you want to do (especially if they are new), you have mind drama.
2. Your brain is also almost always going to overestimate the difficulty of something new, so much so, that too often you ending up quitting before you begin.
This week I’ve challenged my clients to flip the script in their mind & we debunked a whole lot of “But it’s going to be hard” with these 2 questions.
–> Is it true? (Spoiler it’s never ultimately true.) Is it true that it’s going to be hard and/or impossible for you to figure out? No it’s not.
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–> What if it could be easy & or easier than your brain is currently assuming? (It can & I challenge you to imagine how it can be.) In fact, I encourage you to make a list of all the ways it could be easier.
Listen…your brain isn’t trying to screw up your progress. It’s just doing what it does when it’s left to it’s own devices. It jumps into protective mode & seeks to keep you “safe” the best way it knows how.
YOUR job when you’re doing anything that feels big, scary or new is to learn to manage your mind drama, be intentional about expanding your belief in yourself & keep moving forward.
That’s really it & it’s exactly what I teach you to do consistently & in a way that feels much easier than your brain can even imagine right now.
It’s time to stop letting your mind drama win & convince you to give up on yourself before you even begin.
You were made for more & you know it. The question is what are you going to do about it? This is a good place to start.