Your Friday Five: The Five Second Funeral That'll Save Your Weekend

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Transcript

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Welcome back to another short episode. I was talking the other day to a patient about what I call a five second funeral. Now this might sound morbid, but let's dig into what this means. I find that 99% of people, the thing that holds them back the most is that they'll have something occur, whether it's that they said they were gonna exercise and they don't, or they plan to have one cookie and they had four. Or they went out to eat and they thought, I'm gonna order this super healthy chicken salad. And then they end up ordering mac and cheese and a dessert and all the things. And none of these things are inherently bad, but it's that they lament so long on what a bad person they are oh my gosh, I'm not doing all the things and it's this really big event. And sometimes for. Days it can carry on weeks or months depending on how big of a negative critic you have inside. And the problem is that it leads to you not just immediately getting back on track. One thing that I'm really big into is this concept of a five second funeral. Go ahead and mour it. Go ahead and acknowledge I'm not happy with myself that I said I was gonna do something different and I'm not carrying through with my promises. I'm not honoring myself. Got it? Yes. There can be a moment where you just decide it's not who I wanna be anymore. Got it. But we very quickly are then gonna move past it. So you get your five second funeral, and then you need to move past it. Now you get to decide what is in my control? How quickly can I reset? How quickly can I just get right back to the things that serve me? The reason that this is so freaking powerful is that let's say you're going through the day, instead of it saying, oh, well now the whole day's blown. Nope. You now get to reset in the next 30 minutes. You get to have the feelings you need to have, but then you right away are getting back to what works. A lot of my patients might. Let's say that something kind of goes south, they might say, you know what? I'm gonna make sure to really hydrate with my dinner and I'm gonna make sure to do a 10 minute walk afterward. It's not punitive. It's not like, oh, we have to do this to lose weight, or because we ate this other thing. But they realize I wanna right away be doing things that make me feel amazing where I'm staying in integrity with myself, and it's because they're getting over things really. Really quickly. It's not the same thing as being in denial of what's happening or not troubleshooting different techniques or never learning from things that are happening, Being able to move forward quickly. You can be more creative, you can be more energized. You can come up with things that are actually gonna work. Verse constantly doing the inner critic negative back view, which just doesn't get you anywhere looking in the rear view mirror. You see the past, you don't see. The future. And we're trying to see the future. If things don't go exactly to plan five second funeral, and then you're gonna move right on along and you've gotta get real good at this, you'll get lots of practice at it. Don't worry about it. So see you this weekend. If things pop up that don't go ideal at five second funeral, moving right along, what's the next best decision? We're not waiting for tomorrow to reset. Right now, what's the next best decision given what's gone down? What can I do right now that could help myself? It could be some deep breathing, it could be a walk. It could be just let it go and move on with my day and don't ruminate on it, there's so many versions of what moving forward looks like, but you've gotta start with a five second funeral. Alright? I hope you have an amazing weekend.