13171: A Simple Shift For Your Mental Health

Raw transcript:

I’ve been doing something recently that
I think has really aided my mental
health and it’s not a hard thing to do
it’s super super simple it’s just a
simple decision that we make at a very
particular moment I I I’m going to share
with you what it is in this episode of
the vo Heroes
podcast so I am a huge fan of James
Clear James Clear wrote the book Atomic
habits if you haven’t read it or
listened to it you should because it’s
really really good and he said something
recently in his newsletter that I’d like
to share with you it’s more fun to be a
fan than a Critic I’m not looking to
spend my life tearing things down when
it can be so satisfying to build things
up and when I read that it immediately
hit home for me uh I had been noticing
that you know we have a very divisive
situation in our world these days uh
politically socially gender uh
generationally and I find myself found
myself before I started doing this
seeing something immediately
disapproving of it and wanting to push
it down not give it amplification reduce
it cancel it if possible just exert my
judgment on it and be the sheriff in
town and I noticed that I was feeling
kind of crappy about that afterwards
it’s like oh that person sucks we have
plenty of people who can cause that kind
of reaction and now what I’m doing and
thank you James clear for this now what
I’m doing is when I start to feel that
way I’m making the instant decision to
turn my attention away from that you
know maybe shake my head on the way out
if I want to but turn my attention away
from that towards something that I feel
great about building up and I and I
realized that one of the things that was
you know one of those moments happening
all the time was when I work with my
students and clients and they are
working to make their stuff better the
way they perform the way they do their
script preparation the way they do their
cold reading the way they do their
business the way they they line
everything up and get their schedules in
place a lot of the things that we talk
about here on the uh on the podcast and
I think that celebration is so much
better for our lives mentally socially
emotionally than getting rid of the bad
stuff I mean you do have to protect
yourself and you do have to keep the bad
stuff out of your life but you don’t
have to you don’t have to fixate on it
and I found that by not fixating by by
not fixating on it and by not saying how
do I how do I damage this and get rid of
it and just turn to something that
instant decision to turn to something
more positive that I just felt so much
better just so much better let me read
it to you one more time it’s more fun to
be a fan than a Critic I’m not looking
to spend my life tearing things down
when it can be so satisfying to build
things up let me thank you James Clear
one more time what do you think of that
let me know in the comments below if you
have found yourself uh more aggressive
these days and you need a little need a
little pullback on
that comments will will be lovely to
hear from you hit the like button if
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here you go and we’ll let you know when
the next episode comes out I’m David H
Lawrence the 17th I thank you so much
for watching and for listening and I
will see you in the next episode of the
vo Heroes
podcast

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