Episode 2: How Your Mind Shapes What Happens In Your Life

Hello Everyone and welcome to the second episode of the Motivation Monday Podcast! Imagine tuning in to a short pep talk at the start of every week to get you in the right frame of mind to tackle your goals and ease your way through the week without anxiety and procrastination. That’s exactly what this is! For those of you who don’t know me super well, I have been studying human behavior for over 15 years and have learned quite a bit about why we do what we do. It’s allowed me to peek into the operating system of our minds and fine tune what’s going on in there so that we can live with less chatter and distractions, and feel more confident and enthusiastic about what we’re doing in life. If you want secrets to “hack” your mind and enhance your self-development, this is absolutely the place for you! Each week, I’ll be releasing an episode on Monday mornings with tips and tricks to hit your week with your best foot forward I hope you enjoy this Episode! Transcript below if you’d like to read instead or follow along. Wow! Another Monday is already here. I hope that you all had a productive and fulfilling week last week! Keep in mind that Monday has been proven to be the hardest day of the week. So if you know that, and can plan to use a little more of your energy today to “get going”, that will spark momentum, which will help carry you through the rest of the week. Remember, dreading Monday and giving resistance to the day will only make things go by slower and will not provide you with that energetic momentum to conquer the rest of the week Just remember that things do get easier as the week goes on and you always have the weekends to look forward to. Keep in mind, I am speaking to the majority of the people who enjoy their weekends more than their weekdays. The end goal here is to enjoy each day in your week so much, that you forget what day it is! So why does it get easier as the week goes on? Simply put, your body adapts to anything it experiences, so in this case, after you get through a Monday, you’re mental muscles have been primed for the rest of the week. And since Monday is the most difficult day of the week, imagine if you lift 20 pound weights on Monday, on Tuesday it’s going to feel like 15 pounds because you’re already getting back in your flow for the week. Just keeping this mindset will make everything easier. A simple way to think about it is “If I get through Monday, which is the hardest day of the week, I can get through anything this week”. A charging thought like this goes a long way and I encourage more thoughts like this. In today’s episode, I want to share something with you that I got out of one of Dr. Joe Dispenza’s paid courses. For those of you who don’t know Dr. Joe, he’s an icon in today’s world because he was able to recover from a near fatal injury when he got hit by a truck back in the 1980s, refused the advice to get surgery by 4 expert doctors, and proceeded to completely heal himself using his own mind. Dispenza discovered that your thoughts DO in fact matter, so much that they can literally steer the course of your life. Your thoughts essentially decide whether you enjoy your life or not. They also decide whether you progress forward or not. Dispenza poses a question to his audience and asks them if they believe that their thoughts shape their reality during the day. The majority of them raised their hand in agreement. He then asks them how many of them consciously planned out their day this morning. Almost no hands went up… This shows us that even though people are on board with the concept, they don’t really believe that it works. If they did, they would be up every morning, excited to use the power of their mind to plan their day. So why don’t we believe this works then? The simple answer is: Our conditioning tells us that “magical” things such as this are not real and cannot happen. Only societal logic prevails and if we don’t do things the way everyone else is doing them, we will fail, or even worse, be labeled a looney toon by our societal network. But what if the magic of using your mind to program your reality actually worked? In fact, Dispenza has proven this with over 30 years of watching client miracles happen, from people standing up out of wheelchairs, shrinking tumors with their mind, and overcoming the darkest depression and grief scenarios imaginable. It’s important to note that although easy to tap into our animal instincts and just “go with the herd” by doing what everyone else is doing, we are not setting ourselves up for success. Why is that? A closer look at this group (the majority) will show that they are not living the lives they want, they do not have the things they want, and therefore do not feel fulfilled. So why follow them them? Our conditioning automatically tells us that it’s more comfortable to do what the majority is doing because our brain inherently believes that if most people ar...