The End of the Day Podcast with Kari Watterson: Using Mindset Work to Live Your Best Life
The End of the Day Podcast is a mindset podcast for people who feel stuck in life but know they're made for more. Each week I explore different ways we hold ourselves back, and how mindset tools can help us work through our thoughts so we can start taking action and start living the lives we want.
Episodes
98 episodes
Ep. 98 - The Inner Voice: What It Is, When It Breaks Down and How to Work With It
We all have an inner voice.It helps us plan, reflect, problem-solve, and create meaning.But when that same voice starts spiraling into rumination, self-doubt, or mental noise—or chatter—it can become the very thing that k...
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Ep. 97 - Salience: What Is It and Why Understanding It Can Change the Game
Why do certain thoughts feel impossible to shake? Why does your brain keep looping on self-doubt, worry, or fear—especially when you know those thoughts aren’t helping? In this short but powerful mini-episode, w...
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Ep. 96 - When Life Feels Hard & Unbalanced: The Want of an Interesting Life
What if the reason life feels so heavy right now isn’t because it’s hard… but because it’s the only thing in focus?In this episode, we explore what happens when the little things—like chores, emails, or keeping up with life—start to take...
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Ep. 95 - The Craving-Reward Habit Loop
What makes a habit sustainable—one that makes you excited to build?It’s not just about discipline or consistency. It’s about what your brain wants to come back to.And that comes down to choosing the right craving—and satisf...
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Ep. 94 - Gently Strong
For so long, we’ve been taught that strength looks like pressure. That discipline has to hurt. That if we ease up, we’ll fall behind. But what if there’s another way?In this episode, I explore the idea of Gently Strong—a quiet, ro...
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Ep. 93 - Thinking Greater Than Your Emotions: Interrupting the Mind-Body Feedback Loop
Ever notice how you can go from feeling confident… to spiraling in self-doubt… in a matter of minutes?That’s not weakness. That’s a pattern.And once you see it, you can change it.In this episode, we’re unpacking the mind-bo...
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Ep. 92 - Releasing Mental Busy Work
We all know what busy work looks like at the office — tasks that take time, energy, and focus away from making meaningful progress on the projects that actually move the mission forward. They feel productive, but at the end of the day,...
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Ep. 91 - Not Choosing Is Choosing: Disengaging Autopilot
Have you ever felt like you’re moving through life on autopilot—checking off the to-do lists, meeting obligations, doing what’s expected—without feeling truly alive? You're not necessarily unhappy, but you're not fully alive either. Yo...
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Ep. 90 - Why Progress Matters
"I wish I had let myself be happier."In this episode, I share insights from a conversation with ChatGPT on one of the most profound regrets from Bronnie Ware’s memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, based on her exp...
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Ep. 89 - When You're Stuck: Tim Ferriss' Fearsetting, Maurice Ashley's Thinking Like a Chess Grandmaster, James Clear: Trajectory Matters More Than Present Lack of Results, Ben Hunt-Davis: Complexity Is Not an Excuse for Lack of Clarity
Many personal growth strategies assume you already know what you want.But what if you don’t?Not having a clear vision can feel like an obstacle to progress. It’s easy to believe you need answers before you can take action. But wai...
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Ep. 88 - Endurance for the Journey
We hear a lot about motivation, discipline, and consistency when it comes to transformation—but what about endurance, the ability to sustain change long enough for it to truly take root?In this episode, we’re exploring the often-o...
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Ep. 87 - Part 3: The Toll of Open Loops
This is the final episode in a special three-part series on ADHD-friendly strategies for improving productivity—focusing on task initiation, continuation, and completion.(Missed the first two episodes? This episode builds on Episode 85: ...
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Episode 87
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Ep. 86 - Part 2: Starting With a Mindset of Sufficiency - An ADHD Strategy for Rebuilding Self-Trust & Belief in Capacity
This is Part 2 of a special three-part series on ADHD-friendly strategies for improving productivity—or, more specifically, task initiation, continuation, and completion. (Missed Part 1? This episode builds on Episode 85: Touchi...
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Ep. 85 - Part 1: Touching the Task: An ADHD Strategy for Overcoming Task Avoidance (ft. the work of Dr. Russell Ramsay)
One of the biggest challenges for individuals with ADHD (and honestly, for many of us) is overcoming the initial resistance to task initiation.In this episode, we’re diving into a simple yet powerful strategy called Touching the Tas...
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Ep. 84 - REPLAY - Who Is The Real You: A Look Inside The Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman
If you’ve ever struggled to sustain change—whether in your habits, your mindset, or the way you show up in a specific area of your life—it’s likely because your brain is holding onto an identity that doesn’t yet match the change you’re trying t...
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Ep. 83 - Do You Take Your Capabilities Seriously? If Not, Why? A Look Into Dan Sullivan's Capableism
Why Taking Your Capabilities Seriously Might Be the Missing Link to the Change You SeekWe all have unique capabilities—strengths, skills, and talents that set us apart. But here’s the question: Are you actually taking them ser...
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Ep. 82 - What Happens When You Remove All Excuses and It's Just You and The Work
We all carry an internalized voice telling us what we can’t do. Maybe it came from culture, society, past experiences, or people around us—but at some point, we absorbed it. And for many of us, it’s been running the show.Nike’s ...
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Episode 82
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Ep. 81 - Self-Compassion Backlash and the Reframe We've Been Missing
If you’ve ever felt that tension—grateful for self-compassion but wondering if it’s holding you back—this episode is for you.Maybe you used to struggle with an unrelenting inner critic but found self-compassion and now have a kinder rela...
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Ep. 80 - Quick Ways to Go From 0 to 1: Think Things Once; The Two-Minute Rule
What if you could tap into momentum as an energy source to shift your state and start moving—without relying on motivation?In this episode, I break down two simple but powerful productivity hacks—inspired by David Allen’s <...
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Episode 80
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Ep. 79 - First, Let's Not Make Things Worse: A Surprisingly Powerful Tool to Stay Grounded In Tough Moments
We’ve all been there—those moments when life throws a curveball, and our first reaction is to spiral into frustration, stress, or self-blame. In this episode, we explore a simple but powerful mindset shift inspired by author Jon Acuff: “If ...
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Episode 79
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Ep. 78: REPLAY - Using ChatGPT for Self-Development - Part 3
In this final episode of the three-part series, we explore one of the most critical but overlooked steps in personal growth: deciding what to do with what you’ve learned. It’s not enough to expand your awareness or gain new insights—real change...
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Ep. 77: REPLAY - Using ChatGPT for Self-Development - Part 2
In this episode, I continue exploring how ChatGPT can serve as a powerful tool for personal growth. By refining prompts, I’ve discovered how it can help us prime our brains for tasks, expand our thinking, and uncover insights we might not reach...
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Ep. 76 - REPLAY - Using ChatGPT for Self-Development - Part 1
Do you use ChatGPT in your self-development journey? Over the next three episodes, I’ll share screen recordings of my recent explorations with ChatGPT, where I use it to find fresh ways to talk about tools and concepts that can help us move for...
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Episode 76
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Ep. 75 - Loving Effort After Burnout
In this episode, we shed light on a very real but little talked about struggle of those suffering with burnout: the challenge of embracing effort again after burnout.For many, words like “effort” or “hard work” trigger resistanc...
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