Dreading Mondays? It's holding you back!

I love Mondays - it's why I have chosen to release podcast episodes every Monday morning.

I want you to be able to begin the week with something uplifting, motivating, funny ... and positive.

In this episode I talk about a Winnie the Pooh quote that I used to keep in my kitchen.  I break down why your brain clings to negative, repetitive thoughts and how a single sentence can interrupt the pattern so that you canlook for proof that the week can be good (not the pile of dogshit that you think it will be on Sunday at 3:58pm.)

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Transcript

Winnie The Pooh Morning Mindset<br>

The Sunday Scaries And Research<br>

Negativity Bias And The Ego Trap<br>

Reprogramming Self Talk For Mondays<br>

Why The Podcast Is Short<br>

Share And Review Plus Final Riff

SPEAKER_00 0:06

I'm so glad that you're here. You're listening to What the Fuck Did She Just Say? With your host. That's me, Stephen Foods Late. I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in. I say random crazy shit, which is why I called this podcast the way that I did it. And I really hate long, drawn-out intros. So let's fucking go. Before renovating this house a few years ago, I had two quotes that were hanging in my kitchen that were really important to me. The first one I'm going to talk to you about on the next podcast release, so I won't spill the beans yet. But the second one is actually a Winnie the Pooh quote. And before you start to wonder, is she a Winnie the Pooh enthusiast? Does she have some sort of obsession with honey or bears or pigs? I do not. I just actually happened to be on Facebook. I saw this um like clip from a Winnie the Pooh movie. I never forgot it. I always would quote it. And so I ended up just finding the quote again, printing it out, and framing it and putting it in my kitchen. So the quote is this When you wake up in the morning, Pooh, said Piglet. What's the first thing you say to yourself? What's for breakfast? said Poop. What do you say, Piglet? I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today, said Piglet. Pooh, nodded Thoughtfully, it's the same thing. Now, for a couple of reasons, I love this quote. First off, I really do love food. And I do think, what's for supper? What kind of cool things can I find on the TikToks so that I can make for supper that would be amazing. But also, I am that chick who has started to really think about what exciting things are going to happen this week. I was noticing that every single Sunday, I was kind of getting up into that trap that everyone else was in. Everyone was, you know, on Sunday complaining about having to go to work. And I caught myself doing the same thing. And I realized this is just fucking ridiculous because the more I focus on problems, the more I was ruining my weekend. I was shortening my weekend because by Sunday I was starting to think about work already. And I didn't want to do that. And I didn't want to focus on the negative. I read some research the other day, and new research says that 88% of, I think I believe it was an American research paper, but it was 88% of Americans get what they call the Sunday scaries. And the Sunday scaries are negative thoughts, anxiety, or dread about work on Sunday afternoons or the evenings. And apparently 3:58 p.m. is the typical time that they kick in. I just think that's so sad. That the majority of the time that we have on this planet, we spend our waking hours spent at work and we're dreading it. And what's worse is that a lot of times it's really not as bad as we think that it is. But when 80% of our daily thoughts are negative and 95% of them are repetitive, we need to interrupt that pattern. We have this negativity bias. Our brains are going to be negative. That's just normal. So we're not going to shit on ourselves for thinking it. But we don't have to continue it. We don't have to start to program ourselves thinking negative thoughts, thinking anxious thoughts, and really listening to our brain 358 on a Sunday. Think about it, ruin our Sunday evening, and then start to think about it all week long. Because the bottom line is this our brains are buggers. They want to be proven right. Our ego is like, okay, let's go. You're thinking negative thoughts. I'm going to prove you're right. The more we think negatively, the more our mind is looking for evidence we're right. We will only be able to see the things that are negative, the things that are proving, yep, see, told you so, told you this week was gonna suck, told you that person is lazy and this person is gonna show up to look to work late. And these are a whole bunch of problems that I already have to fix to begin with, and now there's a whole bunch more, and I don't want to go to this meeting, and this one is really boring, and we don't need to focus our efforts there. We can choose to distract ourselves away from that. We can choose to say to ourselves, Monday's coming, I wonder what kind of cool things are going to happen. I wonder what exciting things are gonna happen. Show me the fucking magic. Because when we start our week with show me the magic, I am open to miracles. My name is Sandra, and only luck finds me. When we start our day looking for the exciting things, when we start our week saying, this is gonna be amazing fucking week, our brain goes, Oh, amazing week. All right, let's find it. We are never going to have those completely positive thoughts. I don't think that it's reasonable or rational, but what I do think is an expectation for a happy life is to intentionally reprogram the negative thoughts so that our self-talk is as much positive as humanly possible. And in order to do that, we start out our week like that. Start out your week with a sentence of what amazing things are gonna happen this week. I am open and ready to receive miracles. Your brain will start to find those two. The reason that I'm going to be releasing podcasts on Monday is because I used to go to work every single day. It was a 15-minute drive to work, and I would listen to a podcast on the way. And I would love them, but they were always an hour long or more. And so I would listen to something for 15 minutes, I would just get excited about it, and then I would end the podcast, get to work, forget what the fuck I listened to, and I would have to start it all over again because I wanted to get to the end. To be honest, I probably started the same podcast episode for three weeks until I just gave up. You cannot give me an hour-long podcast episode and expect me to get to the end. I'm just probably not going to do it. But because my drive to work was 15 minutes long and I could not get or find a podcast episode that was 15 minutes long that I wanted to listen to, that's what you get. Also, a typical coffee break is 15 minutes long. And what I realized was when everything went to hell in a handbasket at my work and I needed a break, the thing that I didn't need to do was stand around the coffee machine waiting for my coffee and listening to everyone complain about how shitty the day was or how shitty the week was or how they wish they weren't there, or how they're waiting for Friday for wine. I wanted to reprogram that. I wanted to listen to something positive. I wanted to reprogram my thoughts. So I created this podcast so that you can listen to me in the time frame of a coffee break or a couple minutes later. But typically all of these episodes are around 15 minutes long for that reason. I want you to be able to use this podcast as a powerful injection of mindset work every single Monday morning. And at this episode, I think is like episode 252, 253, there is a lot of episodes that you can go through. Just scroll down, find your fucking favorite, and press play on it. It's 15 minutes and it is an injection of transformation for your thoughts. If 80% of our daily thoughts are negative and 95% of them are repetitive, we need to do everything we possibly can to trigger ourselves to think positively. If what we want is a positive life. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you've had some laughs, maybe some ideas, and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed of. If you feel so called, I would love it if you would share with your besties. Leave a review down below. I look forward to bringing you along, and I will see you in the next episode. And then this one happens to be 10. What the actual hell? I was sure this would come in at around 15 minutes. It didn't. So I could sit here, I could sing to you. You don't want to hear that. I could drone on for another five minutes just so that it fits into the 15. But no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to torture you. What I want you to know is many of these podcast episodes are 15 minutes. Some of them are shorter. Some might be a little tiny bit longer. But you're always going to get something that is going to be fun. It'll be probably cheeky, really interesting. And hopefully it'll be something that you'll want to share with your friend, with your family member, with your coworker. But you'll have some positivity that you'll be able to inject into your life. And maybe there will be something that I say every single episode. My goal is to say something that you won't forget, either because it's ridiculous and makes you laugh, or it's a visual explanation of something, like a visual analogy that you'll never forget, or because it just makes you think differently. That's always the goal. Interrupt the pattern so that you can be happier, live better, live more abundantly. The goal is not to endure life and then die. Right? The goal is to make the absolute most out of every single moment that we can. And I hope that this podcast will help you do that.