Are you ready to take a moment to consider whether or not you're living in the past, present, or future? In today's Monday Mindset, I reflect on the importance of self-reflecting on exactly where you are operating from.
So often we choose to allow frustration or regrets from our past or the fear of the future to completely destroy our mindset and the choices we make today. I invite you to consider taking your thoughts captive and reflect on whether or not they're helpful or actually having a negative impact on your life. It's very likely that those thoughts and emotions that do not serve you are stemming from something in your past or a fear of the unknown.
It can be a challenging cycle to break, but it is definitely one that is worth your focus and effort. I'm excited for you to take a quick moment to listen in today!
Are you ready to take a moment to consider whether or not you're living in the past, present, or future? In today's Monday Mindset, I reflect on the importance of self-reflecting on exactly where you are operating from.
So often we choose to allow frustration or regrets from our past or the fear of the future to completely destroy our mindset and the choices we make today. I invite you to consider taking your thoughts captive and reflect on whether or not they're helpful or actually having a negative impact on your life. It's very likely that those thoughts and emotions that do not serve you are stemming from something in your past or a fear of the unknown.
It can be a challenging cycle to break, but it is definitely one that is worth your focus and effort. I'm excited for you to take a quick moment to listen in today!
Here's to another day of intentional living!
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Hello, hello teachers, and welcome to your Monday Mindset Podcast episode. These are short, little snippets of thoughts, reflections that I share with you on a weekly basis, that are focused around mindset Things that we can do to live our best lives, to live an intentional life, and I invite you to not just listen to these for yourself and how they apply to you and your life, but consider sharing them with other people too. Consider sharing them with your students every Monday and having a conversation about it and doing a reflection together, because I think a lot of these thoughts, these topics, these questions are just a part of being human, and sometimes being human can feel lonely and to know that other people are struggling through some of the same challenges that you are and are benefiting from having these types of conversations is hugely powerful in allowing us to get to be the best version of ourselves, to take who we are and who we be and who we show up in the world as to that next level. So I really hope that you enjoy these Monday Mindsets and, if you do, let us know over on our Instagram at avacademics. Thanks so much for listening and let's dive into our Monday Mindset. So I'm not sure if I've shared this on the podcast. But I run another business, separate from EB, and I work with a lot of entrepreneurs. I work with a lot of founders and CEOs and I consult them on leadership, and what's really cool about that is I'm given the opportunity to work with people really closely, just kind of in their day to day mindset, their day to day state, what they think about things, how they feel about things, and something that I notice that is very interesting, that has kind of had me reflect on myself and I want to share it with you.
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For you to be able to reflect on yourself too is where a lot of people live from is concerned about the past, things that have happened in the past, and complaining about them and being frustrated by them, which is fine. We can be frustrated by things, and I believe that that's a choice. We get to see things as either a gift, as a positive I'll share something with you in just a second about gratitude but a lot of people live in the past and also a lot of people live in the worry about the future, about a future outcome that has never happened and probably won't ever happen, and this worry and this anxiety and these fears and these frustrations from living in both of those places really steals away people's happiness. It takes their peace away from them, it takes their gratitude away from them, and what's interesting about this is we as humans have the power to choose where we're putting our time, energy, attention and efforts toward, and I think a lot of all that starts with just the awareness, the metacognition, of where your thoughts are. You know, if we're thinking in the past about things that we're upset about or frustrated by, we can ask ourselves you know, is this a helpful thought? Is sitting in the past and being over and over? I'm so mad, I'm so frustrated. This is how it's all.
Speaker 1:
Whatever story we're saying, I asked myself a lot, you know is this a helpful thought? Is this thought helping me be a happier person? Is this thought helping me live the life I want to live? And nine times out of 10 on, I'm living in the past. It's not. And then the same thing goes for the future. And again, I see this a lot with a lot of the people that I work with. Is this fear of the unknown, of this anxiety, of this pressure of this, you know, just intense? I'm looking for another word other than anxiety, but it's not coming to me where they're living in the future and they have all of these thoughts about the future of, well, this could happen or this could go wrong, or what's going to happen if this and blah, blah, blah, all of these kinds of negative, maybe unhelpful thoughts. Maybe they're helpful thoughts for some people, but I think a lot of the times when I notice them and have these conversations with these people, they're not helpful thoughts and it's they're allowing those thoughts to kind of steal away their present joy of living in the present moment. You know, I've shared this before.
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My grandma always said like life is not a dress rehearsal, like this is it this moment, this day. And so I think about how can we start to live differently, and I believe that that's with starting with celebrating today, like where you are right now, in this current moment. I think about the me from five years ago, the me from 10 years ago. I want you to think about the you from five years ago, the you from 10 years ago, from 20 years ago. You know, are you living a life that you never could have dreamed possible? What do you have ever thought you'd be where you are right now 10 years ago, 15 years ago, and I believe that when we live a life of intention, we live a life of choice. That no matter where we currently are, we can choose to be happy in the, in the current moment, in the presence that we have.
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And I think that when we look at life from a place of, everything happens for me this is all happening in my favor that no matter what happens, it's all for the benefit of ourselves. So, either where you are right now, today, in this moment, you are either a product of your growth and the things that you've done to personally grow, to understand yourself better, to be a better person in this world, to be the person that you want to be in this world. So you're either a product of that growth, or you're in a place right now that might be difficult, that might be challenging, but if you choose to see these challenges and these difficulties as a way that it's helping you grow and become the person that you really wanna be, there's no negative right, there's no thought of that. This isn't happening for me and I think that that's just a really peaceful, beautiful place to come from, and that's what I was gonna talk about, just like gratitude, we can be gratitude for the things that have happened in the past. We can be filled with gratitude for the things that are happening now. We can be filled with gratitude for the things that are happening in the future. And I think the next kind of levels of gratitude are we get to choose to be thankful for the bad things that happen, the things that go awry or the things that don't go our way, because really, at the end of the day, if it's all happening for us, then there is no bad right. That's like the next level. There is no negative that it's all happening for me for a specific reason.
Speaker 1:
Now I'm not talking about traumatic experiences. That's a choice and we can have a separate conversation about that another time in terms of how we choose to view anything that happens to us in our lives. I think about my grandma they're passing. I think about my best friend losing him to suicide this summer. I think about my dog suddenly dying.
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While those aren't massively necessarily traumatic life experiences like others have gone through, there were still very difficult moments for me in my life and I've chosen to look at those through the lens of gratitude, and when I've done that, my life is just so much more peaceful. I feel so much happier. I feel so much more just joy in the day to day, and I wanna invite you to just celebrate today through the lens of gratitude. I am thankful for the growth that I've gotten to this point and I'm thankful that maybe I'm in a difficult spot right now, because I know it's serving me in the long run. So that's hard, I know that's difficult. It's been a journey for years that I've been going on to be here, but I think when you do get here it's incredibly rewarding. So I hope that that serves you in some capacity and I'll see you next week on a Monday mindset where we're talking about opening the doors, and I love this concept as well.
