I’ve had far too many conversations lately with people who tell me some version of, “I’m just so overwhelmed. I have too much to do and I don’t know where to start.” If any of that sounds familiar to you, and if the feeling of overwhelm literally stops you in your tracks like it did for me, this is a big problem we need to address.
If you’ve listened to the podcast for any amount of time, you’ll know that I believe circumstances are just the facts of our lives, but you might not agree with me when I say they’re not what is causing your overwhelm. I’m diving into what is actually causing it and how you can implement a new practice to free yourself of it for good.
Join me for some tough love on the concept of overwhelm and never let it be the reason your training, work, or relationship suffers again!
We’re closing in on 100 episodes of The Not Your Average Runner Podcast! I want to celebrate by doing something super fun, so make sure you drop us a line with suggestions if you have any!
If you constantly find yourself feeling overwhelmed, I invite you to join Run Your Best Life and try out the 30-day thought challenge to strengthen your mind. See what your life could be like after a month of working on your mental muscles!
What You’ll Learn From this Episode:
- The real problem that is causing your feelings of overwhelm.
- Why your circumstance isn’t causing you to feel overwhelmed.
- The effects of overwhelm on your actions.
- How to work on your thoughts.
- Why I know you have the power to stop intense emotions.
- The 2 purposes of doing a thought download.
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Full Episode Transcript:
Welcome to The Not Your Average Runner Podcast. If you’re a woman who is midlife and plus sized and you want to start running but don’t know how, or if it’s even possible, you’re in the right place. Using proven strategies and real-life experience, certified running and life coach Jill Angie shares how you can learn to run in the body you have right now.
Hey rebels, you are listening to episode number 92 of The Not Your Average Runner Podcast. I’m your host, Jill Angie, and today we’re going to talk about overwhelm. But before we get there, can we just talk about the fact that we’re at episode number ninety-fucking-two of this show and we are coming up on 100 episodes and honestly, if you would have asked me in January of 2018 when the first episode dropped if – what I thought about being at episode 92 or being close to episode 100, I’m pretty sure I would have said I feel overwhelmed.
But lo and behold, here we are. I’m no longer overwhelmed by the podcast. Not even slightly, and I’m just super excited that we’re here. So if you have some ideas about what we should do to celebrate episode 100, because we are getting really close. We’re about two months away, I want to do something super fun. So if you have some ideas, make sure you head over to the website and drop us a line and let us know what you think we should do to celebrate 100 episodes.
And also, I just want to take a moment to thank all of the listeners of this show and everybody who supports it and shares it and tells other people about it because you guys, we are making such a difference. I am seeing every day on social media more and more not so average runners putting themselves out there, doing amazing things, and in part, that is because people like you are listening to this show and sharing it.
You’re listening to this show, you’re taking what you’ve learned, and you are teaching it to other people, and I mean you guys, that’s just amazing. The goal of Not Your Average Runner is to get a million more women up and running this year and we are well on our way. So thank you for that. Thank you for taking me running with you every week, taking me driving in your car, or wherever you listen. I just want to let you know that I really, really appreciate you.
So today, like I said, we’re going to talk about overwhelm. And this is both when you get overwhelmed by life in general and your training suffers, or when you’re overwhelmed by your training itself and your training suffers. So we’re going to talk about that and you guys, there’s going to be some tough love in this episode, so buckle up bitches.
And the reason we’re doing this episode today is because I know there are a few of you, and by a few I mean a lot, that are feeling overwhelmed right now. And maybe it’s because of your job, or maybe you think it’s because of your job or your family responsibilities, your house, your training for whatever race you’ve got going on.
And the reason I know this is because I have had at least 17 different conversations in the past few weeks with friends and with clients, in which someone has said some version of, “I’m just so overwhelmed. I have too much to do. There’s not enough time, I’ll never get finished. I don’t know where to start.”
And I know that we’ve all said these things at one point or another, and when we say these things to ourselves or when we say them out loud to other people, we feel overwhelmed, right? And once you’re overwhelmed, it is almost impossible to do anything.
I know for me, when I’m feeling that way, the only thing I’m capable of doing is scrolling through Facebook or binge-watching Netflix. And that is – no matter how much I have to do, when my feeling, when my emotion is overwhelmed, it is irrelevant how much shit I have on my list to do. I freeze up and I do not take any action.
So raise your hand or nod along with me if you’re in the car, if any of that sounds familiar. And if overwhelm stops you in your tracks like it does to me, you have a problem. Like, a pretty big problem. And it is one that is hard to solve the way you think you should solve it because it seems like the circumstances need to change.
You just need a magic fairy to wave her wand and make your to-do list go away, or you need to be able to go back in time and get started earlier on your project or training plan. When we’re overwhelmed, we think, if only this thing were different, then I wouldn’t feel overwhelmed.
And as much as I love time travel and magic and all things science fiction, that’s exactly what it is. Fiction. There are no magic fairies that we cannot travel back in time and change the past. In real life, we need to address our problems a little bit differently, and that means with our thinking.
Now, the real problem is not your to-do list, it is not the fact that you didn’t start that huge project at work until a week before it was due. The real problem that has created your circumstances that you have right now and also the problem that is creating the feeling of overwhelm is what you are thinking because overwhelm is a feeling, and feelings are caused by our thoughts.
And I know you’ve heard me say this before, and you’ve probably agreed 100% in everything else when I’ve said motivation is a thought, you’re like yeah, rah-rah, yeah. But then when I tell you that you can fix being overwhelmed by changing your thinking, you’re like, no, that’s not how it works.
So I can hear you right now thinking this or saying it out loud to me like, “Yeah Jill, but you don’t understand. You haven’t seen my to-do list.” I get it. But if you have listened to the show for any length of time, you know I believe that circumstances are just the facts of our lives. They are neutral. They’re completely neutral.
Your boss gives you tasks and you decide that it’s too much. Your thoughts are this is too much to do, I can’t get it all done, and then you feel overwhelmed. The tasks are neutral. It is your thought about it that creates the overwhelm. And here’s the other thing that I think is super important to know. The task list itself is not too much until it encounters your thoughts.
Here’s another example. You sign up for a new coaching group. Say you join Run Your Best Life. There are things you can do in that group. There are live coaching calls, there are training plans, there’s a Facebook group, there’s monthly challenges, monthly webinars. All that stuff.
You are the one who decides that you don’t have time for everything, you don’t know where to start, and you feel overwhelmed. So if you like, join a new coaching group or join a new program or something like that and you feel overwhelmed, it is not because of the program. It is because of what you’re thinking.
Now, I know this runs opposite to everything you think you know, but just for a moment, just stop arguing with me in your head and assume that I’m right. Just for the rest of this podcast. Just be like, alright girl, you’re right, let’s go there. Overwhelm is just a feeling. I’ve said that before, and we are not our feelings.
Sometimes it actually seems that way. When the feeling is really, really strong and that’s all you can focus on is this emotion that you have, but we are not our feelings. Feelings just come and go in and out of our bodies with our thinking. And if the circumstance of your to-do list was really what created that feeling of overwhelm, you would feel overwhelmed 100% of the time, 24/7.
If that circumstance of the to-do list makes you overwhelmed, then the existence of the to-do list, because it exists, you would be 100% of the time overwhelmed. And it might seem like you feel like that all the time, but really you don’t. Really think about it.
You have moments throughout the day when you feel other stuff. Maybe it’s joy, motivation, anger, relief, determination, accomplishment. There are a million other emotions that we have during the day. The only time you feel overwhelm is when you’re thinking about your to-do list and you feel overwhelm. So that’s how I know that the to-do list doesn’t create the overwhelm. That it’s the way you think about it.
Because when you’re feeling other stuff during the day, the reason you feel those things is because you stop thinking the overwhelm thoughts and you started thinking the joy thoughts, or the motivation thoughts. So your thoughts create overwhelm, and that is really good news. It may sound like bad news if you’re not sure how to change your thoughts, and we’re going to talk about that in a moment, but right now it’s good news because your thoughts create overwhelm and you have control over your thoughts.
You really do have control over your thoughts. You may not have practiced controlling them, and that’s fine. I’m going to teach you how to do that. But you are in charge of the brain. You are the CEO of everything that goes on above inside your head. You don’t need anyone else to change, any other circumstances to change so that you can feel not overwhelmed. You just need to change your thinking.
So I want to go back to an example from Run Your Best Life that I just alluded to, and basically sometimes when we have new members join, I hear them say – they either post it in the group or they’ll email us privately and they’ll say, “I’m very overwhelmed by this group. There’s too much and it’s overwhelming.”
Because they look at everything we have to offer, the coaching calls, the private webinars, the books, the training classes, we’ve got a 5K class and a 10K class that’s just starting this week and we have a half marathon coming up. We’ve got a retreat coming up, we give them all these challenges and journaling tools.
We have a list of things that’s available to them and they look at it all and they think, “How will I ever get through all of that? There’s too much to learn, I’ll never be able to do it.” Or they think, “Everyone else is so much farther ahead of me, I’ll never catch up.” Or they think, “I just don’t know where to start. What if I start in the wrong place?”
And when they think all of those things, they feel overwhelmed. And when they’re overwhelmed, they’re unable to do anything. They don’t start, they don’t just pick something and go for it. They just sit there thinking, “Oh my gosh, what if I do the wrong thing? It’s over.” So funny the drama that we create.
Because that overwhelm, it either paralyzes us or it makes us take really inconsistent action. And think about when you’ve got a really long to-do list and you do a little bit of one thing, and then you think, “Oh shit, no, I should be working on this other thing,” so you abandon thing one and you go to thing two, and you get 10 or 15 minutes into that and then you’re like, “Oh my gosh, I forgot to check my email.”
So you go over to your email and you check that, and you get like, halfway through writing and email to somebody and then you’re like, “Oh wait, I should finish up what I started on thing one,” so you leave everything sort of undone. We don’t make really progress on anything because we’re task switching and kind of having to like, constantly reorient ourselves to what we’re doing.
And then we think, “I’m not getting anywhere,” and we feel overwhelmed all over again. And hands up if you know what I’m talking about. Overwhelm creates inaction or ineffective action and the result of all of that is nothing happens. Nothing gets done, no decisions get made, and it basically proves your original line of thinking and you’re like, “See, I told you, my to-do list is overwhelming.”
You keep thinking there’s too much to do, the cycle begins again. So now, what we have done in Run Your Best Life to help people with that is we actually give them a specific place to start, so when you sign up for Run Your Best Life, you get a welcome email that says look at these things first, and then the next day you get an email that says look at these things.
And usually actually, it’s not even things. It’s like, one thing to work on. Join the Facebook group and say hi, come to a coaching call. We walk them through all of the offerings slowly. And the reason we do that is because we want to help guide people’s thinking from the beginning so that they don’t switch over into these thoughts of like, there’s too much.
Because I’ll tell you what, we offer a lot in that group. If that’s the way you’re thinking, it’s not going to be effective. So we help guide people’s thinking from the beginning and give them a little tour that they are able to just kind of slow their roll and consume things in small step wise chunks.
But the problem is not everybody has a fairy godmother in their lives like the Run Your Best Life members do. So, what do you do when you have circumstances in your life and your brain wants to think overwhelming thoughts? Well, let’s kind of shift gears for a moment and we’ll circle back around to that.
Have you ever noticed that when you’re say, really, really hungry, or maybe you’re out running and you’re just so tired, and it’s all you can think about? And we’ve all been there when we’re running. It’s like, you’ve got two miles left and every footstep is just an effort, and you’re just so focused on it and you’re thinking, “I can’t go another step,” or, “I’m so hungry I can’t go another minute or I’m going to pass out.” I know you’ve all been there.
So you’re focusing on it, your brain goes into all this drama, and this cracks me up when this happens to runners who have like, a mile to go and they’re like, I just can’t do it, it’s too far, it’s too much. And we all know we can go another mile, especially if you’re a distance runner. You can always go one more mile, but our brains want to create this drama.
And the more drama we create, it sort of escalates. It spirals and spirals and spirals, but then sometimes something will come along and distract you for a moment. Maybe if you’re in a race and you’re having all this drama, I don’t know, somebody will come in, fall into step beside you and start talking to you, and you’ll actually forget about how your legs hurt and about how tired you are while you’re talking to that person.
Or you’re super, super hungry but then I don’t know, something really exciting happens in Game of Thrones and you’re like, all focused on that and you totally forget that you’re hungry. And then suddenly you remember and the feeling comes back. That is exactly what happens with overwhelm.
We have a thought that something is too hard, that we don’t know where to start. We feel overwhelmed and we get paralyzed, and then we start thinking, “I’m so overwhelmed, I’m so overwhelmed, I’m so overwhelmed,” and it just escalates until we have all of this drama about it.
And we focus on it, and the more we focus, the worse it feels, and the less we can do. Our thoughts just take over and they seem uncontrollable. So the way to stop that is to interrupt the way you are thinking. And the reason I know you can stop intense emotions is because when you’re really hungry, and hunger isn’t an emotion, I guess. Maybe we should use the whole drama that we create when we’re out running.
Maybe you’re bored when you’re running or you’re fatigued or something like that. The reason I know that we can step away from those emotions is when something else comes in and gives us something different to think about, it breaks the cycle. It breaks the cycle.
So we need to interrupt the way we’re thinking to stop the overwhelm. That is the first step. And here’s the thing, believing that you have too much to do does not help you, even if it’s true. That is so powerful for you to understand. Even if it were a substantiated proven fact that you have too much to do, spending any amount of time reinforcing that thought keeps you overwhelmed and keeps you from getting anything done.
So even if it’s true, does it really matter? Do you want to just prove that point to yourself over and over again? I have too much to do, I have too much to do because thinking that is keeping you from getting anything done and it’s creating even more for you to do because time is ticking, right?
And this applies to every single thing in your life. It applies to your training, it applies to your finances, to your job, to everything. For me right now, it’s marathon training. And I was actually getting pretty overwhelmed last month when I was thinking about running 26 miles. And so my circumstance is I’m signed up for the Philly marathon, and my thoughts were – they were just all over the place.
I did a five-mile run last week and it was physically a challenge. The physical sensations in my body were like, this is taking me some effort. My respiration was a little higher and I am coming off of an injury. I just finished rehab for a knee injury, and so I had all these thoughts like, “I should be farther along, I’ve wasted time by not fixing my knee earlier, I’m never going to get strong enough to finish the distance, I’m too slow to make the cutoff.”
All of those thoughts, I was just overwhelmed thinking all those thoughts. And I know that some of you can relate to this. We get all caught up in that spiral and the next thing you know, you’re like, under the covers with a box of Oreos thinking, “What is wrong with me? Why did I sign up for that race? This is terrible.”
And for me, this pattern of thinking, this way of thinking has really kind of been a pattern for most of my life. It’s no longer a pattern for me. I’m going to talk about how to break the pattern. But honestly, starting in graduate school when I had to write a thesis for my degree, all the way through my entire career, right up until the point where I started my own business, I used to spend a lot of time very overwhelmed and very stuck.
And the reason that it was a pattern is because I just got into a habit. A pattern is just the result of creating a habit where you are thinking about your life a certain way, and I was thinking about my life in a certain way, about the facts of my life in a way that created overwhelm for me a lot.
And eventually, if you keep up that pattern, it becomes your identity. You’re just like, “I’m just always so overwhelmed, I’m just always – I always have way more to do than I can do.” It’s almost a badge of honor. It implies that we are important because we have so much to do, but I can actually guarantee that you will always be able to find other people with more to do, less time, and they won’t be overwhelmed because they’re thinking about it differently.
And what is that old saying? If you want something done, give it to a busy person. And the reason is like, that busy person that’s getting shit done doesn’t create thoughts for themselves that make them feel overwhelm. They eliminate those from their brain so they can get some shit done.
So if you are overwhelmed a lot, I promise, it’s because like me, you have created this habitual thought pattern. And so no matter how much you have to do, you’re always going to create overwhelm for yourself. And if you don’t have enough to do to justify overwhelm, you’ll heap shit on your plate and so that you get into that comfortable space of like, oh, I’m overwhelmed, I know what this feels like.
So I know you’re thinking – I can sense your concern with where I’m going with this. You’re thinking, “Okay fine, if I think differently, I won’t feel overwhelmed, but I don’t know how to think differently. I don’t have time for this shit. I have too much to do already and now you want me to think about my thinking.”
So the thing is if you’re overwhelmed all the time, you’re not effective in your life. It’s not working. It’s just not working for you. So what do you have to lose by just trying it a different way? So here’s what I want you to do. This is exactly where I want you to start. I want you to spend five minutes a day looking at your thoughts. Writing them all down in a journal without judgment.
Just start writing, go for five minutes. Brooke Castillo calls this a thought download, and of course, she’s a very intelligent woman and I have used this technique and I’m just going to call it a thought download too. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel.
Now, the thought download serves two purposes. At least in my mind. One is it helps you organize your thoughts. Get them all out of your brain so you can look at them. Kind of like when you do a jigsaw puzzle and you put all the pieces out, you flip them all over, you put the edges at the edges so that you can – you put the stuff that looks like grass over together and the stuff like looks like clouds in another area.
You organize them. So that’s one thing that the thought download does. And then the other thing is it gives you the ability to see the cause of your pain. So let’s start with the organization piece. I want you to imagine that your brain is the junk drawer in your kitchen.
There’s so much crap in there, you can barely close it. Drives you crazy that it’s so disorganized because you can’t ever find anything, but you open it, you look in there, you’re like, hell no, there’s just too much. I’ll never find whatever it is I’m looking for because there’s just so much crap in there, it gets in the way.
So one day you’re like, I’m done, I’m going to clean this thing out, and what do you do? You pull the whole drawer out, you dump it out on the counter, put the empty drawer back in. Maybe you like, wipe down the inside from all the random debris that’s stuck to it. Clean it out, and then you just sort of sort out everything that’s in the drawer.
You lay it on the counter, you throw out the broken scissors, the two dozen ketchup packets, the pens that don’t write, the broken Happy Meal toys from 15 years ago that your son swore would be a collector’s item someday. You know what I’m talking about. You get rid of everything that doesn’t belong and you only put back in what is necessary.
And then the next time you open that drawer, you’re like, oh look at that, everything is so neatly organized. That is what a thought download is like, mostly. So you’re going to get all the stuff out of your brain and look at it. Decide what is working and what is not working. You’re going to look at every single one of the thoughts you have and figure out what emotion they’re causing.
And you could even write the feeling, the emotion next to the corresponding thought. And now, here is the very important part. To take the action that you want and maybe working on your to-do list is the action that you want, you must be feeling – you have to feel something other than overwhelmed. Because if your thoughts are making you feel overwhelmed, overwhelm leads you to the action of freezing. Doing nothing.
So if you’re looking at your thought download, you write down all your thoughts, and you write overwhelmed next to half of them, those are the ones you want to start on. So you’re going to pick – just for now, let’s not get overwhelmed by thinking you have to fix all of them. All you need to do is pick one, maybe two to work on.
So how do you work on your thoughts? How – if you give your car to a car dealership to work on, they have a process for how to work on your car. They diagnose the problem and then they get to work on it. So we have a process as well in Run Your Best Life.
So working on your thoughts means you decide what to think instead. What to think on purpose. Most of the time, our brains are running around unsupervised, and I just – oh my god, you guys, I just saw this video on Facebook of this poor guy. He put both of his kids down for a nap and he went downstairs to take care of a few things. I think he cut the lawn and was cleaning up the kitchen and so forth.
And he would like, go up once in a while and listen at the door and he didn’t really hear anything so he thought, okay, everything’s fine and good. So he’s just doing thing and then a couple hours go by. His son comes downstairs and he is colored head to toe with permanent marker. I can’t even – it was so funny.
If it was my kid, I don’t know if I would have been able to stop laughing. He handled it very well, but like, even his face and the poor little kid, he’s like, “I tried to color my teeth but the marker wouldn’t stay. The marker kept wiping off.” So great, I don’t know how much marker ink he swallowed.
But the child was like, super excited. He’s like, look what I did, and dad is like, oh my god, this is what happens when you don’t watch your toddler like a hawk. He gets up to shenanigans before you know it. And brains are kind of like the same thing.
So an unmanaged mind is going to go to some very dark and unhelpful places. So managing your mind is deciding what to think on purpose. It is making decisions and giving your brain a direction. It is – if you’ve ever driven a car and you have your foot on the gas and take your hands off the wheel, you will notice that the wheel starts to turn whichever way it wants to.
Right away, it keeps going straight but then it starts to turn in one direction or the other, and next thing you know, you’re not going where you wanted to go. So your brain is the same way. You have to keep your hands on the steering wheel just like you do in a car, to make sure you get to your destination.
Of course, the next thing is like, if you’re going to manage your mind, how do you decide what to think on purpose? And where I like to start is I look at the unhelpful thoughts, and I imagine like, somebody has just erased them from my brain. Like it’s a whiteboard and somebody just wiped it off. They’re just like, the trash. I threw them in the trash, somebody took them away, put them in the dumpster, that dumpster is on the garbage truck, I will never see those thoughts again.
Imagine if that were the case, if I literally just didn’t have access to those thoughts anymore, what would I think instead if I had a clean slate? And that’s where I like to start. And I work on that thinking. I practice it and I keep refining it. I write those new thoughts in my journal every morning, put them on Post-It notes on my computer, I think them over and over to myself when I run.
I do this thing I call thought intervals. So if I’m – when I’m doing a run interval, I try to spend that time thinking, thinking, thinking, the same thought over and over again that I’m trying to practice. And when I’m walking, I just get to walk and enjoy, let my brain do whatever it wants. I rest my brain during the walk, and then I strengthen my brain during the run interval, just like we do with our bodies.
So for me, when I take away the thoughts that create overwhelm, I can fill my mind with thoughts that create calmness or maybe determination, and I know that my actions are so much more effective when I feel calm and determined. So I look for thoughts that will make me feel that way.
And with regard to my marathon training, some of the thoughts that I’ve been using are, “I want to see what is possible for me if I stick to my training plan. I want to see what is possible for me if I trust that I can do more than I’ve done in the past. I’m committed to showing up prepared as fuck for my race.”
This is one of my favorites. “I don’t have to do 26.2 miles right now. All I have to do is six miles. That’s it. I can do six miles.” I also like to think, “It is normal for my mind to want to worry, but I’m going to stay focused on my intentional thinking right now.” So I give myself that there’s nothing wrong with you, it’s normal for your brain to want to do this, but we’re going to do this other thing instead. It’s a very just rational discussion that occurs in my brain.
And then I also have decided that I have a lot of support in training for this race. I do not have to do it all alone. And that makes me feel very, very calm because I don’t. I don’t have to do it all alone. And even – I do have a part-time training partner who’s actually a member of Run Your Best Life. So I’m super excited to get to spend time with her.
But even if I did not have her to do some of the long runs with, I still believe that I have a lot of support because I have my running community, I have Andy, who will not be training side by side with me, but I know that he believes in me, and I know there are people I can reach out to and say I’m struggling. So it’s not just the support of having somebody running by your side. It’s the support that you know you can tell other people, “I’m struggling with this and I need help. Will you talk to me about this?”
So all of these thoughts make me feel very, very calm and peaceful and determined. So you feel free to steal any of them. Now, I was coaching my Run Your Best Life clients a few days ago on mental training, and what we just talked about, the concept of doing a thought download to identify what’s causing you pain, deciding what you’re going to work on and then imagining what you would like to think instead and crafting intentional thoughts, that’s what I call mental training.
So I was coaching my Run Your Best Life clients a few days ago on this concept and I said, “What do you think will happen if you devoted just 10 minutes a day to managing your mind around your running and your training plans?” And we are very focused this month in May on motivation, the topic of motivation.
My team and I have created a 30-day thought – mental work challenge. Thought challenge, to help people do that 10 minutes a day of mental work. Because most people spend zero time working on deliberate thinking. They just let their thoughts run amuck and then they wonder why they’re not getting what they want. They wonder why they feel overwhelmed all the time. They wonder why everything seems so fucking hard, and it’s because they’re not training their brains.
So the challenge everything in Run Your Best Life will be doing is – it’s kind of like a plank challenge for your mind, and I know y’all have done a plank challenge before. Every day you do a plank and then at the end of 30 days your core is stronger. And running, because your core is strong, running becomes easier. Activities of daily living become easier, and so I like to think of the thought challenge that we’re doing, just like a plank challenge.
Every day my Run Your Best Lifers are going to be working on strengthening their mental muscles. And then over time it gets easier and you can do more, and those muscles help you support you all day long. So daily planks make running easier. Mental planks, I just totally coined that term. I’m going to call thought downloads as mental planks. It’s practicing managing your mind and running and life become easier because your mind is so strong.
So that is the practice of training your brain. That is the practice of changing your thoughts so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, and I invite you to join us in Run Your Best Life for our 30-day thought challenge. Now that I’m talking, I’m seriously thinking of renaming it the mental plank challenge.
But I invite you to join us and see what your life is like after spending a month working on your mental muscles. You might find that overwhelm or worry or panic or whatever emotion it is that is keeping you stuck is significantly reduced or even gone after 30 days of mental planks.
And if you join us, that challenge is going to be something you can start at any time. So even if – say we’re on day four of the challenge, it’s totally fine. You can start at day one because you can just download all the materials and then do it on your own.
But honestly, I think this is a game changer, and I know my clients that do this work, that really take that time and effort to put in daily thought work, it’s what I like to call it, daily mind management work, get insanely good results with their training because they are – they no longer indulge in the drama because they have crafted a belief system and a thinking system that gets them out of bed in the morning, that doesn’t have them like, sort of wallowing in self-pity and overwhelm about their training.
They’ve crafted belief systems for themselves that get them up and moving and get them the results they want. So like I said, I invite you to join us in Run Your Best Life for our 30-day thought challenge, our 30-day mental plank challenge, and yeah, just see what happens when you spend 30 days working on your brain. You would not be – you’d be amazed at the changes that happen.
Okay rebels, that is it for this week. You can find the transcript of this episode at notyouraveragerunner.com/92 and of course, if you want to join Run Your Best Life, which I highly recommend, just go to runyourbestlife.com and sign up. Runyourbestlife.com, sign up there and we will hook you up. Alright, have a great week and I’ll talk to you next week.
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