Welcome to the mindset Bay podcast.
If you want more confidence and motivation, then you're in the
right place every week at your dose of self development advice
and strategies. I'm your host Perry Richardson,
life coach N OP practitioner, motivational speaker and mental
health advocate. My mission is help you find more
happiness and take more action in your life.
Now let's begin. Hello, hello, hello babe.
Welcome to to the Mindset Babe podcast.
Have you ever gone off from work, sat in your car and
thought, I literally have nothing left in me?
There's no motivation, there's no energy, there's literally no
desire except to go in the house, pull out your phone, sit
on the couch and scroll. And then you sit on the couch
and you start saying, you know what?
I'm I just don't have enough time.
I'm too tired to do this. You know what?
I'm just, I'm just going to do it tomorrow.
Because you're not just physically tired, you're
mentally and emotionally drained.
So in today's episode, I want to talk about how to stay motivated
after your corporate job, even after your 9 to 5.
How to still have that motivation, How to still feel
inspired to actually take action towards your personal goals.
Because I know exactly how you feel right now.
If you didn't know, I still work by 9 to five job.
I work 40 hours a week. I'm a full time employee.
Actually, I'm there from 8:00 to 5:00.
I'm actually there for 9 hours every single day.
Monday through Friday. I go, I drive 45 minutes to get
to work, to work for 9 hours to be there.
And then after I get home, there's still things I want to
do, like build a business, like clean up the house, spend time
with my husband, workout. And I know what it's like
working all day and getting home and be like, you know, I had
this plan in the morning and like earlier this week of like
how I was going to do all these things.
But currently right now, I'm emotionally, mentally just
drained and I'm tired. And honestly, there's just no
time. In today's episode, I'm going to
give you the hack that has completely just transformed my
life because again, I still work my 9:00 to 5:00.
I post not one, but two podcast episodes a week.
I have 11 clients. I have my husband.
I understand what it's like to have a full plate even after
your nine to five job. So I'm so excited to talk about
this episode because this conversation is needed.
All right, first, I want to set the stage for you.
Are you ready? Let's do this.
I want you to imagine you have decided you're going to run a
marathon this year. Like this is the year I run a
marathon. And so you start eating healthy.
You start feeding your body healthy foods, nutritious food,
you start drinking more water, you start doing supplements, you
start getting enough sleep. You start doing like red light
therapy, like you're just doing all these things to really
optimize your health so you can perform right at your highest
level because your performance is directly tied to how you
feel, your body, how you treat your body.
And most people know, and most people understand, right?
How to feel their body, how to take care of your body.
But most of you are completely ignoring how to take care of
your mind, how to feel up your mind, and your mind is literally
running a marathon every single day.
There's studies in neuroscience that show that your brain uses
20% of your body's total energy even though it only weighs 2% of
your body's weight, which I think is so crazy.
Your brain 2% of your body weight and burns 20% of your
body's total energy. That's literally so crazy.
Your thoughts are literally consuming your energy.
So if your thoughts are negative, if your thoughts are
heavy, if you have thoughts just resisting your whole day, it
makes sense that you get home from work, you're exhausted, you
want to check out, you're tired and drained.
So we have mindsets that drain us and we have mindsets that
give us energy and a mindset. The definition of mindset is
just a collection of thoughts. The collection of thoughts that
you have give you energy or take your energy away, just like
food. I wrote down in my notes, Super
Size Me. Have you guys seen that movie
about that guy who eats McDonald's like every single
day, which like of course his body starts, you know, not
functioning properly because he eats McDonald's every single
day, like 3 * a day. And yes, he did survive, but he
felt sluggish, he felt heavy, he felt drained.
He definitely was not energized, really motivated and clear on
his vision. And this is the same thing with
your thoughts. A lot of you guys are eating
McDonald thoughts all day every day.
Like you're going to McDonald's and pulling in their drive
through and you're like, can I order the thoughts that I don't
want to do this and what's the point?
And I don't have the time and this is going to be a lot.
And what if it doesn't work out? And they're like, do you want a
medium or a large? And you're like, I'll, I'll take
the large and you're feeding yourself these thoughts multiple
times a day during your nine to five shift, you working at your
corporate job and you're feeding yourself these shitty, non
nutritious thoughts. And of course you feel tired,
drain exhausted when you get home.
So the solution is to start feeding ourselves nutritious,
healthy foods. Maybe we pack our lunch right.
Maybe we go to Panera Bread, we get a salad and a soup, we eat
something more nutritious during our corporate job, during us
working. So when we get home, we have
replenished ourselves so we're able to actually take action
towards our personal goals and dreams.
So I have examples of mindsets and thoughts that give us
motivation that fill us up versus thoughts and mindsets
that drain us. And so the other day at my job,
I was in the bathroom after lunch in my like lunch.
I take an hour lunch. My lunch is like in the halfway
point. I'm in the bathroom and I'm
like, oh man, I have to have four more hours to go.
That's a draining thought versus oh, I'm halfway done the same
thing, right? There's still 4 hours left in my
shift. But telling myself, oh, I still
have 4 hours to go is a thought that drains me versus oh, I'm
halfway there is a thought that gives me energy.
So that's like 1 tangible example that I just had in the
bathroom the other day at work. Another example that I wrote
down in my notes is having obligation versus desire.
For example, being like, oh, like I have to do this.
I have to go to work. Like I have to drive 45 minutes
to get there, then 45 minutes to get home.
Like this is like such a the obligation that I have to do to
make money. Like I have to do this versus
desire. I get to do this.
I get to drive to work. What a privilege that I have a
car to go to work. I get to make money.
What a privilege that I get to make my own money.
What a privilege that I have water here and coffee here.
What a privilege do I get to listen to my favorite podcast
while I'm at work? What a privilege do I get to
make money so I can hang out with my friends so I can do cool
things? What a privilege it is to do
this job that I went to school for that I was stressed out at
the interview for. What a privilege that I'm here
today completely like the energy from those two of like, oh, I
have to go to work today so I can make money versus what a
privilege it is that I get to go to work, that I get to make my
own money today. And I just have a strong hunch
at one point in your life, you prayed for this job.
You prayed to have this opportunity, you prayed for
this. You are currently living one of
your prayers. Make sure that you are grateful
in it, that you feel the blessings, that you look at the
gratitude that you realize that it's a privilege to be where you
are today. The last mindset I want to talk
about is the mindset of losing versus gaining.
A lot of people are like, oh, like I'm losing my time, I'm
losing my freedom. Like I have to go to work all
day, like I'm losing something versus gaining.
You're gaining money, you're gaining experiences, you're
gaining connections, you're gaining friendships.
Your job isn't just taking, taking, taking ticky, ticky
ticky taking from you. Your job is also giving
something to you. So my question for you is, how
is your corporate job actually giving something to you?
How are you actually gaining something in this career?
And of course, right, I think money is the first thing that we
can think of. What is this money hoping you
do? And also I want you to think of
examples that are non like financial gains when you think
of your job. And the first thing that came to
mind for me is that we always get like food catered and we
always have like something going on.
I have my degree in healthcare administration.
I have my minor in public health.
I graduated in 2018 at the University of Las Vegas, NV.
And I work in healthcare. And we always have like vendors
and stuff like treating us out for lunch and just buying a
Starbucks and snacks. So that's just one thing I can
think of. And also, I have the best
coworkers, all of my Co workers, we just all get along.
We mess really well, which I know may not be the case for
you, but maybe you have that one Co worker that you really get
along with. There's two more things I have
to say before we end this episode.
The very first thing is it's not your job that's exhausting you.
It's your thoughts about your job.
Circumstances do not 'cause our feelings.
It's your thoughts about those circumstances that cause your
feelings. For example, you can have a job,
the circumstance of a job, and you can think I hate this place,
which will cause exhaustion for you.
Or you can have the job and say I'm so grateful to be here.
What a privilege, which creates motivation, excitement for you.
It's not your job that's taking your energy.
A lot of people think if I quit my job, I'll feel better.
That's a lie. That is a lie because you're
going to take your brain, you're going to take your thoughts,
you're going to take your mindset to the next job.
Has this happened to you? You'll think I'll leave XY and Z
and then I feel better. And you get into that new place
and yeah, you feel better for a first couple months or so.
But guess what comes back? Those thoughts telling you how
you don't have time, how this place sucks, how your Co worker
sucks, how you're tired and drain all day, how you don't
have time for your life. You're going to take your brain
with you no matter what job you have.
So we have to fix the mindset, the thoughts first so you're
able to actually have a amazing experience no matter where you
go. And my homework for you is, I
really want you to make a list of all the thoughts that drain
you, that make you exhausted. And then I want you to make
another list of all the thoughts that give you energy, that make
you excited, that make you like hyped and ready to go.
The final thing I have to say in my closing remark is let your
job be your job. Let your job be your job.
You don't need to get wound up in these office politics.
Get the bag and go. We don't need to be thinking
about our job when we're driving away.
We don't need to be thinking about our job when we're at
home. Let our job be our job and keep
the job at the job. And that's the second biggest
problem is we work at the job for 8 hours and then we take the
job with us. And so we're actually working
non-stop. We're always on the clock.
So please let your job be your job.
Start your job when you walk in, when you clock in and when you
clock out, leave the job there. Do not bring it with you.
This is literally the only way I'm able to go to work and be
there for 9 hours with like drive time.
It's like a 10 1/2 hours of drive time and working.
Get home, pull in my driveway at like 5:40 and then get on a
client call at 6:00. Deliver an amazing client call
that has transformation and breakthroughs.
I literally had a call yesterday and she said that she was
feeling depressed and within 15 minutes she was like, I feel so
much better. Like I'm actually so happy and
so grateful that I met up with you tonight.
I can deliver a valuable, impactful coaching call and then
still have the energy to go on an hour walk with my husband,
connect with him, bond with him, watch the sunset.
I can only do this because I leave my job, at my job, and
during my job I feed myself thoughts that energize me.
That is the trick to having it all, to having your an life.
This is it. That's what I have for you in
today's podcast episode. I hope this is helpful.
I know this is going to change someone's life today.
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