Monday Mindset: How Much Better Can It Actually Get?

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 EVacademics .

Thanks so much for listening and let's dive into our Monday Mindset . All right , this is the third time I am trying to record this , so I hopefully it works and nothing disrupts me . I'm not sure why those first two other things disrupted me recording this . Maybe I'm not supposed to share this with you , but I do think that I am .

So third time's a charm , but I am excited to talk about this topic with you guys because it hit me like a ton of bricks when I heard this , and I hope it hits you too .

So back in December , I had the privilege of going to a business retreat one weekend in December and one of the speakers was there as like a motivational speaker , talking to us about our vision and who we need to be in this world and how our vision for our life starts to pull us forward and it becomes about something so much bigger than any one of us , so

much bigger than self . It's so much bigger than ego . It's about the impact that your vision gets to have on the world .

It was incredibly , incredibly moving and this kind of aligns with what we talked about the other day , the other week on the podcast episode about life happening for you as opposed to to you , and one of the things that he brought up is that human nature typically , what we do when things are going really , really , really well for us is what we go oh no , I

hope the other shoot doesn't drop Like what bad thing is about to happen . When everything's going our way , we get all the things that we want . That's kind of our default . We're like , oh , I hope everything stays like this . I don't want to lose anything or I don't want to go back to the way things were . I'm just waiting for something bad to happen .

So often we do this . I do this , we all do . Most of us do this but he offered us a very interesting thought that really changed my perspective of this .

So when things are going really well for us whether we've gotten a great job recently or our class is doing really well , our kids are on target , things are great at home our kids at home are listening God forbid . They're doing what we asked them to do and saying , yeah , mom , sure , I'd love to help you with that . Whatever it is , life is going great .

What if , instead of offering ourselves the thought of like , oh , I hope it stays like this , or what's going to happen , something bad's coming ? What if we offered to ourselves instead how much better can this get , how much better could this get ? Holy cow , what a radical thought to say , what a radical perspective to have .

Sure , maybe it won't , but maybe it will . And I think , just like over the years five years ago , 10 years ago , 15 years ago , 20 years ago where I was in my life and all of the things that transpired and events that unfolded and things that came into my life and came my way , I never would have anticipated how great it would have been right .

And so I want you to think about the same thing too , of how much better can it get . It's going to be hard to offer yourself that brain for a lot of you , for most , I mean , I think , most of us because it's a totally different way of thinking and it's not what we hear all the time around us . Right , we are who we surround ourselves with .

You think about the people , conversations that we're having and things that we're taking in on a subconscious level , that impact our lives and who we are , and how we show up in the beliefs that we have and the thoughts that we have in all of these things . Well , of course that's our perspective is waiting for the other shoe to drop .

Of course that's our thought , and so , replacing that thought with huh , I wonder how much better it could get . Wow , because then your perspective starts to shift too and you actually start to find the things that you're looking for .

This is why , with our EB teachers , at some of our workshops , we'll do intention setting at the beginning of the workshop what is your intention for these two days together ? What is your intention for our next hour together ? Because , typically speaking , we find what we're looking for . We find what we're looking for .

This happens so much with our spouses , at least for me and with my partner , right , I find what I'm looking for , meaning I don't actually hear the things that he says . I hear the things that I think he says or that I believe about him to be saying , because of a perspective that I have about him .

So I'm not actually receiving what he's saying in the way that he's saying it . I'm receiving it through my lens and my perspective , my belief about him . How many of us do that in so many situations in our lives ?

That is not serving us , and so if we find what we're looking for and we are looking for things to get better , what are we probably gonna find ? Better things ? So I don't know if that hit you like ton of bricks , like it did me when I heard that , but , holy cow , ever since I heard that , I've just been telling myself that over and over again .

Of how much better can this actually get ? Wow , what a loving way to look at our lives , to look at our future . So I really hope that that serves you this week as you head into a new week filled with possibilities . How much better , how much better can it actually get ?