¶ Practical Mindset and Defining Indecision
What if mindset coaching was focused on being practical instead of just being positive? Practical, as in you could practice it. Welcome to Unlifted Essentials. In these mini episodes, you'll learn the enlisted system of practical mindset tools to unlock freedom and confidence for yourself and your clients. Let's do this. All right, Mark.
I get the idea of writing down my choices and my options to help me make a decision. And I don't want to have to do that all the time because I'm just indecisive. All right. Like I've always been this way. I'm always going to be indecisive. I just. I'm just indecisive, man. Here's the punchline about being indecisive, that you had to decide that you were indecisive at one point in time to be able to say you're indecisive. So you made a decision about indecision.
What? Yeah. Yeah. How'd you get there? How did you get to titling, labeling, identifying yourself as indecisive? Because I've never been able to make decisions. Never once. I mean. It's really hard most of the time. So you have. Well, I suppose, yes. Yes or no? Yes. You have what? Yes, you have what? I have made decisions. So you have been able to decide. Yes. Did you ever write down your options? No. It'd be a lot easier if you did. And to address the.
statement that you started with i don't want to always have to do this okay what is that affirming What is that affirming? That it's a process. You always got to do it. Take out the always, put in sometimes. I don't want to sometimes have to do this. What happens when you go from always to sometimes? I still don't want to do it.
¶ Indecision as a Practiced Affirmation
And is it as intensive? It's dialed back a notch. Perfect. So were you indecisive when you were two? Did you label yourself as indecisive at two years old? No, no. When, when did you get there? I know how you got there by practicing indecision. That's what happens. People practice and ladies, gentlemen, go back to and lifted essentials the first season and listen to.
The show on soft talk, because that's how people practice indecision, which they eventually if they do that for long enough, they they then identify themselves, label themselves, title themselves as indecisive and then. Guess what happens when that happens? They get even better at it. Oh, and then and then and then they'll put a word, the just word in there. I'm just indecisive, which absolves them from any responsibility. And it's just it's this this this habit that.
very often causes a tremendous amount of stress.
¶ Everything is an Affirmation, Not Just Positive
For a variety of reasons, being indecisive, they have now affirmed them as such. And that's part of the reason for this conversation is affirmations have got a sophomoric rap. It's not that they have a bad rap. They just have a sophomoric rap. Which means, sophomoric means underdeveloped. Most people think that affirmations are only positive. No, nothing ever works out for me. That's an affirmation. I'm affirming that sentence. I'm affirming that story. I'm affirming that reality.
You can't trust anybody these days. That's an affirmation. That is affirming an idea, affirming a story, affirming an identity, affirming a reality. I always get the short end of this. Pick your shitty victims. sentence and say it and believe it, you have now affirmed something. So affirmations, it's not that they can be positive and negative. They are positive and negative.