From Race Day to Everyday: Embracing Mindset for Life's Longest Races

In this inspiring episode of the "Do Hard Things" podcast, Jay and Angi talk about the importance of mindset, from the starting line of race day to the continuous path of everyday life, exploring the transformative power of endurance. Drawing from the rich terrain of endurance sports, Jay and Angi reveal how the principles that lead to athletic success—such as embracing a growth mindset, the art of visualization, strategic goal setting, and the resilience to bounce back—are invaluable tools for navigating the marathon of daily existence.

Welcome to the Do Hard Things Podcast with your host Jay Tiegs, Are you ready to amplify and improve your life? Then you are in the right place.  On this podcast we have unfiltered conversation with inspiring people who take on challenges and share with us, the wisdom from their journey. We talk about how doing hard things adequately enable all of us to deal with life's struggles and challenges and ultimately improve the quality of our lives. 

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Empowering Mindset for Success

Speaker 1 0:42

All right, welcome back everybody to another episode of the Do Hard Things podcast. I'm JT, he's running coach, certified high performance coach, and our mission here at the Do Hard Things nation is to upgrade and empower you to upgrade your life through health, wealth, relationships, through mindset and movement. And I have with me the lovely Angie Petrae and Angie, how you doing this morning?

Speaker 2 1:02

I'm doing good. I'm here. I got my coffee. I got coffee this morning. I got my water in. I'm good.

Speaker 1 1:09

Every Monday. I never know how these are going to go. I never know how I'm going to do it. I'm tired, but I'm feeling really good. This morning I got up at I was up at four. I did a little riding. I got a shower in, which is good. It's always good to start off. It was a good shower, right. Yeah, I got a cold shower in and took a little. I'm going to get my workout rinse. I took a little pre-workout so it's kicking in here. So as soon as this is over with.

Speaker 1 1:33

I'm going to go crush a workout. I feel really good this morning.

Speaker 2 1:37

Good yeah, that's good, that's good. I saw that you were because you sent me the StreamYard invite at five o'clock am.

Speaker 1 1:43

I was like today's going to be a good day for Jay yeah, If it's like five, 50, it's going to be a train Like oh God, jay is not having a good morning.

Speaker 2 1:54

But when it comes early I'm like, oh yeah, it's going to be a good day.

Speaker 1 1:57

Probably is a pretty good indicator there. Yeah, because I never know, man, these Monday mornings could be rollercoaster, so they are. Yeah, well, today we're going to be talking about mindset and from race day to every day. So, taking your mindset, which is required for endurance sports and how to amplify it every day, and just really focusing on the importance of mindset and how it can improve your race day and performance, but also how it improves your everyday life we're going to talk about some aspects of it. Before we get into today's episode, make sure that you smash that subscribe button and leave us a review on your favorite Ron.

Speaker 1 2:36

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Speaker 1 3:48

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Speaker 1 4:31

So, that being said, any coach in either business or athletics will tell you that a positive mindset is the key to reaching your goal. So how do you cultivate that? Because I think a lot of people leave that for they don't have a deliberate plan to upgrade their mindset. It might be just as far as, like you know, reading a book or a podcast, but there are other ways that you can do to sharpen that saw, and I don't know. What are your thoughts? How has mindset impacted you and improved your life, angie?

Importance of Mindset for Success

Speaker 2 5:08

Well, let me back up just a little bit. I want to say that I don't think people realize how important your mindset is to every little thing that you do, including your physical fitness and reaching your goals. Like you know, some people are just kind of sitting here growing and going duh, like we know this.

Speaker 1 5:25

But let's, let's, no shit, yeah right, tell us something.

Speaker 2 5:30

But I really think it's. I know people personally who talk a great talk but their mind is not in it and they wonder why they're not getting anywhere, they're not getting results, they're not achieving the goals that they're set out to do and it's kind of like that obvious thing that's staring you in the face. It's like you got to get your mind in it and for me, mindset has been every flipping thing that got me to where I am today. And I'm not a professional athlete, don't get me wrong. I am a 47-year-old, middle-aged woman who kicks ass and it's only because of what I put in my brain to do it Like if I.

Speaker 2 6:14

I am constantly on a path of self-improvement and I celebrate and I tell this to people all the time celebrate the incremental improvements, celebrate the increment. Don't do not compare yourself to anyone else, which luckily I am. I'm good at not doing that Like I have. I feel like for myself, I've mastered that I don't compare myself to anybody else and I constantly, if I'm doing something better today than I did yesterday, I celebrate it, I'm excited about it and I set a new goal for myself. And it's not about eating the whale. You eat the whale one bite at a time I don't even know.

Speaker 1 6:51

Elephant. So thank you, the elephant. The elephant, yes, I'm gonna rate one before I don't know what to taste like.

Speaker 2 6:55

I don't know either. I don't know, I don't really want to, because they're cute and cuddly and big and awesome.

Speaker 1 6:59

I like the cow.

Speaker 2 7:00

Yes, I will eat the cow for sure, but like and this goes for. So what got me thinking about this was mindset. I mean, we talk about mindset all the time, right, but for us it's a duh. But I was listening to the Ready State podcast and Tia Tumi, who's a professional CrossFit Games champion even at that high level, sometimes people forget about that and she had to get a mindset coach and she said she grew up and her dad was always telling her feed your mind. And she thought that meant she needed to eat the right nutrients to feed her body. That would translate into a healthy brain. What she didn't realize was that she needed the mindset piece.

Speaker 2 7:38

She was lacking the mindset piece and I just think that people forget about it because it's the thing that's in your face that's going hey, hey, do this, do this, do this. And you're like I'm doing everything, what am I supposed to be doing? And then you wake up and you're like good, I've got to go do this, I have to get a workout, I have to do this. And it's like no, you get to do it, you get to do it, you get to do it, I'm sorry, I'm on it, no, you're good, I love it, I'm on it.

Speaker 1 8:00

Yeah, no, I love it. I think. What people fail to realize, I think, is that their mindset, like you have an operating system for your hard drive, like your brain, is a computer system, and you have been. You have installed a hard drive that has been cultivated from years of external conditioning, both good and bad, and there are things that you do that it's all about your mind. There's a lot of things that you're doing that are on autopilot. You don't even realize. It's just like your computer is operating. It's doing things, it's working in the background and if it's not primed and optimized, if you don't have the latest software, if you don't have it defragged right, it's going to run. You ever operate a computer that was like old, out of date, clunky, like it's got a bunch of stuff on it. That's how a lot of people are operating. They don't even realize it. Now, the good news is is that you can upgrade the software. You can, you know, defrag it and make sure it's primed and optimized. But most people aren't deliberately going about it. And, to your point, you know you're talking about a world-class crossfitter, people that are operating at the elite level. They all have a mindset coach. They're all a part of a program and if you want to significantly upgrade your life, I could not recommend that enough.

Speaker 1 9:22

To focus on the mindset I was talking about energy last week I was having I was doing my sessions with my group coaching sessions.

Speaker 1 9:31

Last week we're talking about energy, and energy comes in four forms spiritual, emotional, physical and mental. And a lot of people, when they think about amplifying energy, they go right to physical and they don't think about the others. But the most important is the mental energy, because it's the mental stamina that it gives you the sense of awareness and control. To focus on your physical, to focus on your spiritual and your relationship with God, to focus and have awareness of your emotional well-being and your mental state and the hard drive that you're operating with is key. If you don't feel like working out, it's usually got to do with your mental state and being tired and not being able to process, having the discipline of starting the workout. It's you know, and in endurance sports, like we know this, like when you're feeling tired and you hit the wall, your mind is going to quit before the body. It's all about the mindset and so having that primed and optimized is critical to your performance.

Speaker 1 10:34

Yes absolutely 100%. And mindset, you know, a great starting point, you know, is and this is the great book called Mindset from oh, what's is it Dweck? No, that's grit. Ah, anyway, I can't remember the author's name, but the book is mindset. It's got purple on the front.

Speaker 1 10:56

What I love about the book, it explains the differences between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and that's number one. Like you got to determine whether or not you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset the individual believes that their abilities are static and unchangeable, like what you have is what you have and that's it. They avoid challenge because they don't want to fail. They, they. If they fail, they see it as a reflection of their own current capabilities.

Speaker 1 11:26

A growth mindset they believe that all of your abilities can be developed. They tend to embrace challenge and they don't get knocked down with setbacks. They see everything as a pathway for improvement. That's critically important because most people fall into one of two buckets and your conversation with that person will be incredibly different depending on you know what type of mindset that they have. And I think that you, if you have a fixed mindset, I think I think there's a you can recover from that and obtain a growth mindset.

Speaker 1 11:58

But having that growth mindset means that you can embrace learning, that you can be a lifelong learner. And I don't know. That book helped me out a lot because it talked about mindset from a business perspective, from a child's perspective, from a endurance athlete perspective, and it really really helped me enable. It gave me a lot of confidence that, no matter what, I have the ability to learn, I have the ability to reprogram my mindset if I choose to. And I don't know that that that was a. That was a book that really unlocked a lot of confidence for me personally, because I knew that I had more control over my mindset.

Speaker 2 12:42

I didn't really think about it much earlier in my life, so Same and I'm glad you brought that up because I, I mean, we, we all read the book together. So I think I'm gonna revisit that book because I really enjoyed it. And every time I go back to a book and re-listen because I do a lot of listening, audio, audio reading, ears, reading with my ears Any time I go back and and re-listen to a book or reread a book, I get additional nuggets from it, I get really good reminders and that is a really good book. Mindset is a good book and, and to your point, listen, I ran with some, some teachers recently and even a school principal of elementary school kids and folks, if you're, if you're adults in the 30s and 40s range, maybe you're, you're as resilient, right, but they're seeing this trend in kids about oh yeah, there's the book, carol, yeah, carol.

Speaker 1 13:40

Tawak, I was right yeah.

Speaker 2 13:41

That kids want to give up so quickly, and I see this in my own seven-year-old granddaughter If she does not get it right, if she does not win immediately, if she does not complete the task immediately, she's just ready to throw her hands up and move on. She just wants to do it. Her way is what she says. Nani, I just wanted to play it the way I want to play it and I'm like no, we're gonna play it the way the rules say, we're gonna play it and it's okay if we don't get it right. We don't get it right and we have to learn how to do it. We're not born learning how to do it.

Speaker 2 14:10

But I'm saying this as if you are one of these people that maybe are stuck in that that fixed mindset.

Speaker 2 14:15

These actions translate down to the next generation, and we don't want a next generation of of people that are given up and quitting.

Speaker 2 14:22

Because if you give up and quit at the first sign of oh man, listen, I was 100 pounds overweight for most of my life, most of my adult life, and my knees are just jacked, my back is jacked, right I. I now have to understand that when I run I'm gonna have a level of discomfort, but I enjoy running so much I push through that and I continue doing it. I've got arthritis in my back, I know. When I go out for long runs I'm I'm probably gonna feel it, but that's not gonna stop me from going out and enjoying what I'm doing. And we need to really make sure that we're instilling in these kids nowadays that you've got to push through, you've got to push through in your, in your mind, you've got to keep going, you've got to be resilient, you've got to have grit and you've got to want it and just keep going, don't give up. Anyway, yeah, that was a long way to get there.

Speaker 1 15:17

And that's. It's easier to do that if you, as the parent, are demonstrating that and finding opportunities to demonstrate that in front of your kids, because you can tell your kids, tell your blue in the face, you need to do this, you need to do that, that that doesn't work Like. You've got to demonstrate it. You've got to be out there demonstrating it. So it's so incredibly important to focus on it, to make you know, make it a daily effort, and that's one of you know the do hard things Hard. As a mnemonic for the four lines of effort in your life health and wellness, affluence and wealth, relationships and development. And development is the mindset component. It really is. How are you skilling up every day? How are you? Are you listening to podcasts? Are you, are you enrolled in a course or how are you educating yourself and upgrading this mindset, because it is so incredibly important to every other aspect of your life?

Speaker 1 16:10

It's critical and I know, you know just my own personal well being like when I was in my lowest points of life, I wasn't focused on my mindset at all.

Mindset Training and Positive Sportsmanship

Speaker 1 16:21

I didn't know that that was something that I should. It's just most people are operating on autopilot and by focusing on mindset. You know I've, I've, I'm more aware and living life more on offense, because I'm too to be aware to my thinking patterns and I can, you know I can, I can make transitions easier because of my, my mindset, and between learning and then applying through, like pushing myself physically and mentally and endurance sports, like I just feel, like I've, I don't know, it goes hand in hand. Like you know, it has enabled me to accomplish some amazing things physically and finish some races and those lessons I feel like I can bring those back into everyday life and then apply them to relationships, to business and and then helping other people and it's just powerful. I just feel like it's a super proud like being able to upgrade and know. Knowing that you have the capability of upgrading your mindset is a superpower and it gives a lot of confidence and peace.

Speaker 2 17:25

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's so many examples out there. So you know we talk about listening to podcasts. Well, what podcasts are you listening to? I mean, what are you feeding your brain? What are you feeding your brain Are you listening to? You know people that get on podcasts and they're just spewing all this negativity. And they're spewing negativity about the world. I mean what? How are you choosing to view the world? How are you choosing to view your life? How are you choosing to view anything?

Speaker 2 17:54

Really, when you think about going out and let's say, you've set a goal to run a half marathon I'm just using that because I better run one next weekend I could wake up and say, oh my God, I have to go run today. I don't want to do this. I just I have to do it, or I could look in the mirror and I may not. I don't always want to go out and run. I love running, but I don't always want to get out and do physical activity. Let's just be real. I'm human. Or I could look in the mirror and put my shoes on and go hey, get your shit together. You get to go run today. You get to complete this. How many people are going to go out and just run a half marathon today. How many people are going to do this?

Speaker 2 18:32

You know, in our circle of people that do endurance sports, a half marathon is like drinking a eight ounce cup of water. Because, you know, the people that we know are just completely awesome and their, their brains, are trained and they run 100 milers and 50 milers like nobody's business, which I thought was not possible. I don't know, six years ago, if you would have told me that I would have been friends with people that do this on a regular basis, I would have been like you're insane. People don't do that, but they do. But it's because they've trained their mind to do it. You know they've, they've got it. They've got it right. They figured out the formula and the formula is getting your mind right in order to complete the things that you want to complete and not letting adversity stop you.

Speaker 2 19:13

You know we're all. We're all human. I'm not a psychologist and I know that. You know sometimes bad things happen and shit happens in life and sometimes you got to sit and wallow in discomfort and sadness and fear and whatever you're going through. But you can't stay there forever and you have to acknowledge I mean you have to acknowledge the feelings, you have to feel the feelings and then you have to pull yourself out of that and you have to say, hey, look, it's time to it's time to keep going. Let's, let's get out of that. You know, honor, whatever it is you're going through, and then work through it, figure out a path to work through it, whatever way works best for you.

Speaker 1 19:45

To your point. Yeah, I look as you're. I was reviewing my social circle then. Like what we're doing, like Saturday night, like it's Saturday night, we're out running, like it's it the course route that we had for the the run, the running for daylight course, which was in St Robert, like it ran past the Taco Bell and like all of these like scooters and you could just tell the people were like who are these people like out running like tonight, like what is going on, like weaving around this and stuff. It was just funny because, like those people there, like most people there, they at least ran a half marathon before they went home or call it. But anyway, yeah, half marathon has become like just training run, right, yeah, a lot of people.

Speaker 2 20:25

Yeah, and I wish I was so sad, so okay, so Saturday I wasn't there because I have to give my team a shout out. The Rollin Rockets roller derby team kicked ass. On Saturday night we played an amazing game against Cape Gerardo. Cape Gerardo is an amazing roller derby team up near St Louis, I believe. Maybe no, I don't remember Cape is here in Missouri, but that team was so much fun to play and even though they lost, they were not bad sports on sport. They did not display bad sportsmanship on or off the track. They continued to smile. Our teams continued to high five one another, smiled each other on the track, cracked jokes even when they were getting knocked down, even when we were getting knocked down, and that just.

Speaker 2 21:06

I was so proud to watch both teams, our team and their team. We did take home a win Yay, go Rollin Rockets. But it was just so nice because we have played teams in the past who were just straight up assholes, like their mindset was trash and it. It makes you not enjoy the sport, it makes you not have a good time and, yes, we're. You know we are here for the win, but not everybody can be a winner and how you take that loss is a huge, huge testament of who you are and how you train, and so I mean, it's just, it transcends across everything. But anyway, driving home, I saw you guys out there. I saw y'all and I was like oh, there's everybody, I see them out there doing racing for daylight.

Speaker 2 21:52

I my kids came into town this weekend so I went and hung out with them, or I would have. My original plan was to go home, sneaker up, lace up and get out there and join you guys, because I knew you're out there till seven o'clock in the morning. But my kids came in to visit so I spent some time with them.

Speaker 1 22:06

I had my kids so I didn't stay out as late as many.

Speaker 1 22:09

I was home by nine but I did get a few miles in so it was good. But to your point about well one, I mean roller derby like I don't know much about it, but I do know that it's a full contact and the team that you have assembled is pretty freaking awesome. I just love seeing people doing humans need to be doing gritty, like difficult things, and I think that this is another avenue. And it's so cool to see a whole group of women that are just out there getting after it, playing full contact, but then doing it in a way that is like, like you said, good sportsmanship right, like taking the loss with strike. You see it in professional sports, right Growing men throwing like temper tantrums. It's pretty sad to see that, and so seeing people being able to play full contact and then have good sportsmanship after the fact is awesome and that speaks to good mindset, right, and part of your training and coaching with the team has been focused on mindset and sportsmanship right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:06

Yeah.

Speaker 1 23:07

That's a lot of what we talk about, yeah, so it's so incredibly important because that's a key indicator. If you lose your emotional control, that's a sign that you know and it happens to people. I mean, I'm not going to say I have perfect days, but my losing my emotional control now is like few and far between compared to what it used to be, and that speaks to mindset. That's why we do that training. So you don't, you know, you have fewer of those moments of weakness. I think having a strong mindset, you know, mitigates a lot of that.

Speaker 1 23:34

And yeah, that's why that that's the case for working on it.

Speaker 2 23:42

Yeah, so it's funny because part of my part of my my hype speech before every game is like listen, we're all here, we're not sitting in jail right now, and why is that? Because we have self control and, yes, tensions are going to run high and we're going to get frustrated because this is a full contact sport. However, we have managed to stay out of jail because we are all adults here and we can control ourselves.

Speaker 1 24:08

Well, in that that pep talk, you know it goes to one of the the key signature components of mindset is visualization. And visualizing, you know, for for the athlete, like how the event is going to go, and realizing that you're going to have highs and lows, you're probably going to have a moment where you're going to want to lose your emotional control and you've got to rein it. In Same with like towing, like you know, a big race, like you know that at the very beginning you're going to be amped up. At some point you're going to hit the wall. How are you going to navigate that wall or that circumstance that you may find yourself in? And visualizing yourself through that. So, when it does happen, like you've already rehearsed it, you've already rehearsed it in your mind and it's so incredibly important to be able to do that, yeah, and so it. It'll boost your confidence and motivation and significantly enhance your performance ahead of time, which is which is really important to do.

Speaker 2 25:06

So I'm super excited about this week's weekly winner and I know we normally like wait a little bit later in the show, like almost till we're done, but can we go ahead and announce this week's weekly winner? Yep, give me a second here.

Speaker 1 25:19

Let me show the screen, yeah. Okay so almost there, almost there here we go. And boom.

Speaker 2 25:28

There you go. There we go. Benjamin Kirk Rudy. I nominated Benjamin Kirk Rudy because this human I met him when he was active duty oh, I can't get back to my screen Act in active duty service member and he was like the epitome of fit, like he was just like super fit and just like one of those gunhole soldiers.

Speaker 2 25:50

And you know you could tell that he really cared about his career and himself and he was just. You know, you look at people and you're like, oh yeah, that's a, that's a fit person right there. And then, I'm not sure you know, he went through some things and I saw him and I was like, bro, oh yeah, you're showing him on TikTok. And I was in my mind I'm like, oh man, he must have gotten injured or something, because I saw him and he was walking with a cane. And you know this, I went from seeing him from the super fit person to someone that was like really, maybe facing some adversity and maybe some health challenges, I don't know because I never asked him. But then I see him again and he's out there and he's doing couch to 5k. He's showing up weekly, he's showing up for himself, he, he's just smiling, he's happy.

Importance of Mindset and Community

Speaker 2 26:32

He was the complete opposite of how I saw him the last time, and Saturday he ran a marathon. He went out to race him for daylight, he ran his first marathon and he just kicked. But man, he's just he's, he's. He's showing up, he's biking, he's shown up for himself, he showed up for his family, he's. He's back to being the person that I first met and I just want to say Congratulations, I am super proud of you. I feel like you've got a growth mindset. You are just man, you're kicking ass and taking names and you are just being a really good role model of how to come back from whatever challenges you were facing and Just doing it. And I and we are super proud of you and we're gonna send you a shirt and thank you so much for For just putting in the hard work.

Speaker 1 27:21

Yeah, appreciate your service and I think that Speaks volumes. I think a lot of people. This is where at some point in people's lives we have like an injury, some type of major setback, and for some people it can define you and you can just kind of give up or you can come back and you can fight through it and figure out what the new normal is is for you, and you know and adjust accordingly. And you know a testament is going out there and getting after it and demonstrating that and I think that's freaking awesome. So we appreciate you and thank you so much for your service to our country and we're gonna definitely send you a shirt. So that's awesome. I love hearing stories like that. Like don't let your these, these things limit you. Like you can be limited if you allow it to, and that's where the the mindset comes in. You can overcome these challenges that you have and I keep getting after it.

Speaker 1 28:16

That's what's all about. Do hard things Absolutely, absolutely so Awesome, yeah Well, yeah, well, that's, I mean, that's. That's what it's all about. It's all about, you know, upgrading your life through mindset and movement. And don't discount the, the importance of mindset and cultivating that and focusing on that every day.

Speaker 1 28:37

And you know, if you you read books, listen to podcast, find a course, you should always be learning something, whether it be traditional or non-traditional, and there are other means to improving your mindset. You know, like a mindset Coach or a mastermind group is like going to a gym specifically for the mind and working with a mindset coach is like going to a personal trainer specifically for the minds. If you really want to amplify that, you want to upgrade it and up that to the next level, you know, find, find someone, and I know a guy. So if you're interested, you know reach out to me directly. But if it's not me, you know fine, find someone to go work with or find some type of accountability group, because here's the here's that what I've learned about the mindset community or or just the society in general.

Speaker 1 29:26

If you tell people that you're reading a book, they most people will laugh at you. Or if you know it feels very lonely if you're out running on a Saturday night. People will laugh at you, right it's, we're kind of. That's the unique thing is that we're kind of a few and far between. Hence why we created a community, so you don't feel like an outsider.

Speaker 1 29:44

I've got great friends I love to go drink beer with and have a good time with, but they want to talk about football scores. I want to talk about you know Mindset and what I the nugget that I got from Carol Dweck and they're looking me like what are you talking about, dude? Yeah, and I love them, and but I need a space where I can talk, where I can talk about you know real life, and the fact of the matter is most people are an autopilot and they don't care. And you need a community. You need a like-minded tribe of people where you can, you know, talk about fitness, not get made fun of. Talk about how you you know you, you skipped out on the cake and you did the workout in. People are cheering you versus laughing at you. Yeah, and I know that they don't mean it in a negative way, but it can feel lonely out there. Hence why we created a growth mindset community around. You know growth, mindset and movement.

Speaker 2 30:32

So I have a quick challenge for people this week, since we're talking about growth mindset. A very Easy and simple place to start if you're on social media, as I want you to look at. Just take a step back and Scrub your social media. I want you to look at what you're, how you're responding on social media. What are you putting on social media? What tone does it have? Does it have a positive so a tone? Does it have an argumentative tone? Are you always looking for that?

Curating Positive Social Media Presence

Speaker 2 31:03

Next, are you looking for a post or Something to jump on to argue with people and to show and approve how right you are and how wrong they are, or what are you putting out there? That's just a really easy and quick place to start. If you're on social media, check, check yourself and and see how you can change that tone, see how you can change what you're putting out there, and then that's just one small step. Also, another thing that I'm gonna challenge you to do is get out there and smile, make yourself smile, make somebody else smile. I'm wearing the shirt. You might smile when you're scrubbing your social media, because you might be like Jesus, I am an asshole. Or you might be like bro, I'm killing it like I'm not an asshole, but that's just a really easy, easy, way, easy place to start. Just gonna challenge everybody to do that.

Speaker 1 31:52

I'm very aware of what I put out on social media and you know, if I look it back my social media 15 years ago I'm absolutely embarrassed in what I used to post and talk about. And I you see people you know that they're in your Feet and you look like, did you? It's cringy, like you know what are you saying, like, do you really have to like complain about that? People that complain all the time. That's the. That's the one thing that wears me out. It's just the Complaining, especially when it's like first world problems and things like that. And I got it. People complain from time to time, but you know that personally, complains all the freaking time and that's just a indicator of mindset.

Speaker 1 32:29

And you can use your. You can use your social media for good and you can here's a cool thing you can actually curate your social media. So if people are driving you nuts, you can still be their friend and you can unfollow them and you can kind of make your social media a super positive place if you want to and you should so and Find yourself a bunch of people that make you smile. That's right, do it all about, so, all right. Well, that's it for today's episode. If you gained any wisdom or anything like that, or a nugget? We'd love to hear about it and, in the meantime, make someone smile. Keep kicking ass. Do hard things, upgrade your life through mindset movement and we will see you all in the next episode we love. Do our things, steve.