More than nothing: with your body, mind & serving others!

Welcome back to the Made for More podcast.

This week, we’re diving into what it looks like to have a more than nothing mindset!

We’re talking about two areas of life where this type of mindset can change everything:

how we show up for our bodies through effort and discipline, and how we show up for the people around us through action and service.

Growth doesn’t look like doing everything perfectly — it just looks like being a person who decides to take action rather than do nothing!

Instead of waiting for the perfect routine, the perfect motivation, or the perfect timing, we choose to take one step.

And instead of being the kind of people who say, “Let me know if you need anything,” we become the kind of people who show up, step in, serve and take action.

So whether it’s caring for your body, building discipline, or serving others well, this episode is your reminder that more than nothing still matters — and often, it matters more than we realize.

Because small steps toward immediate action is better than nothing!

Xoxo- Miranda Hammock 

Transcript

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Hey guys, welcome back to the Made for More podcast. It is your host, Miranda Hammock, and welcome to your opportunity to stand above average. Made for More is a space where we dive into everything that helps encourage us to stand in a posture where we are reminding ourselves that maybe we are made for more. Maybe we're made for more than the roles that we're currently fulfilling. Maybe we're made for more than settling. Maybe we're made for more than average. And I truly believe that we have what it takes to step into our divine uniqueness, to follow the things that make us us, and to gain and build the confidence needed to step into our more. So I am so glad that you are here with me today. As always, my goal is to always provide value because I do value your time and your time here, and I hope to leave you with something that can spike your curiosity and hopefully help you change your thought patterns or maybe encourage you to stand in a place where you shift your perspective or do something a little different. And so this week I'm going to share two recent things that have kind of come onto my radar and shifted my perspective. And I want to walk you through my mindset on both of these topics and hopefully encourage you along the way. The first area I want to talk about is having a more than nothing mindset and learning how to show up with the perspective of more than nothing. And this has popped up for me often in my workouts because let's be honest, we're all very busy people. We all have very demanding schedules, and a lot of the times we don't feel motivated or we don't feel disciplined enough to have the time to work out. But what I'm going to tell you is that I have just decided, and I want you to consider this too, but I have just decided that maybe 10 to 15 minutes of a workout a day is actually better than doing nothing. And that has led me to this more than nothing mindset. There are days when I do have more than 10 to 15 minutes, and I do feel highly energetic and glad to work out and on fire to do so, but there's most average days which are like today, which are very busy, and I only have 10 to 15 minutes. And I don't know about you, but oftentimes when I realize that I don't have enough time to work out and I only have 10 minutes, I typically will say, ah, that's not enough time, and I'm just going to skip it until I have enough time, right? But then what happens? You miss Monday because you only had 10 minutes, you miss Tuesday, because you only had 15 minutes, you miss Wednesday, because you only had 10 minutes. And before you know it, you've missed opportunity day after day. And to me, this thought came about the idea around every time I choose something over nothing, I'm choosing to become someone who says yes to showing up, regardless about the outcome of the amount of time. And for me, this isn't just about a fitness perspective. This is also just about dedication and becoming doing what we said we're going to do and becoming who we want to become, becoming a woman who keeps her word, becoming a woman who shows up even if it's not inconvenient or the most ideal. And I just want to be someone who says, I don't need perfect conditions to move forward. I just need to show up for myself. And I've consistently posted on my social media this encouraging couple words that I've I've just repeatedly said, which is just show up for yourself. Nobody said you had to do a 20-minute workout. Nobody said it had to be 30 minutes. Nobody said it had to be a long run. But what if you were intentional and you said, hey, I think I could show up for myself every day for 10 to 15 minutes. I can promise you, every single one of us, regardless of our circumstances or busy schedules, we all have 10 to 15 minutes. We just have to stop buying into this lie that it's not enough or that it's not making a difference, because it is actually making a difference. Because what you're actually doing is you're showing up when you feel like it's inconvenient or it's not enough, and you're repeating a consistent habit in your life. A lot of people will think that confidence is built on bigger things, like bigger workouts or the longest run, or confidence is gonna be built from the marathon. But what do you think gets you to the marathon? You gotta get off the couch, you gotta do the five-minute walk, you gotta do the five-minute jog. So I think it's time to encourage you the way I speak to myself, which is I've got to start calling out my own BS excuses, like these ones. I don't have time. Well, we all have 10 minutes to scroll, don't we? Or 10 minutes to listen to this podcast, or it won't really make a difference what I do for 10 minutes. Well, neither does doing absolutely nothing. Or how about this one? I'll start when I have time. And when you say that, that just keeps the day moving on and on and on, and it just gets away from you. And let's be honest, nobody has more time in their day than you do. So you might as well just become a person who says, you know what, something is better than nothing. I'm gonna show up for myself, even if it's for 10 to 15 minutes. Now, I know what someone's thinking. Someone's thinking, well, that I what's the point? Like, why would I drive to the gym for 10 or 15 minutes, or I don't have any equipment on my house, or I've never worked out a day in my life. Great, congratulations. Every single one of us can get outside and go on a walk. Every single one of us most likely remember what a jumping jack was from our childhood, or an air squat. You can literally find a chair in your house and just squat up and down 10 minutes. I can promise you, your legs will be on fire. You could do push-ups, you could do burpees, you could get on YouTube and search for free workout videos, march in place, like becoming a person who is stepping into their more is the type of person who chooses to have a mindset that says, I see opportunity everywhere, regardless of my excuses, regardless of my circumstances. You just choose to become a person that just chooses to see opportunity at every area. So I just want you to start deciding today that you are gonna join me in a more than nothing mindset and you're gonna show up for 10 minutes a day, every single day. No matter what your day looks like, I want you to commit to 10 minutes. And you know what? There's gonna be good days when you might have more time or more flexibility or maybe high energy, and you may get started for 10 minutes and you may go longer. You may continue on your walk. Or there may be a really busy day where you're tired, like I had yesterday, but you still chose to show up and you gave your 10 minutes like you said you would. And when you do this, when you become consistent with your 10 to 15 minutes, this is going to remove the decision fatigue, like, oh, I don't have enough time, or should I? I don't know. This is gonna remove the guilt from not showing up because you can't be mad at the work you didn't do and you'll be like, oh, well, I showed up for 10 minutes the last three days. That's 30 minutes. I'm 30 minutes better. This will also remove all the mental back and forth that you're feeling because you're not deciding if you're working out anymore. You're just deciding, hey, I'm giving my 10 minutes a day. And then from there, you can decide if you have more time or you have more energy to show up for yourself and continue on past that 10 to 15 minute mark. Either way, you have now become a person with a more than nothing mindset, stepping into your more, and you're checking off 10 minutes of your day, and I can promise you'll be better for it. So now that we've become more than nothing mindset for our workouts and for ourselves, I want to talk to you about how that almost leaks into my next segment of my next topic beautifully, which is this topic around the words, tell me if you need anything. Have you ever been going through something in your life and somebody hits you with a tell me if you need anything, or just let me know if y'all need anything, let me know if I can do anything for you. Have you ever been asked that? Because I know that I have many of times, and most likely you're like me, and we have all said that to other people. And I want to tell you this decision that I have made that I no longer want to say that to people. I no longer want to say, tell me if you need anything, or let me know if I can do anything for you. I don't want to do that anymore. You want to know why? Because I chose at the beginning of 2026 that my word, or I chose it, but I do feel like it was given to me. I chose this word, serve. And serve really covers so many areas in my life. But when I started thinking about this and how often we say this to people, tell me if you need anything. How often have you said that to someone, and then a day or two or a week or a month later, the person comes to you and says, Yeah, man, I could really use 50 bucks. Or yeah, we could really use if somebody could just cook us dinner and help just relieve the pressure of dinner this week while we're going through what we're going through. Or I could I could really use someone to come help me hold the baby, or I could really use someone to help me come clean the house. No, like I don't know about you, but I don't think I've ever had anyone reach back out after I've told them to tell me if you need anything and them actually tell me what they needed. You know why? Because most of the time that places like pressure on somebody that they feel this, like now the ball's in their course. So we've released it and it's kind of like my hands are in the air. I said, tell me if you need anything, and they never reached out. Well, think about a time when you've been low, down, you're struggling. Maybe your family is going through something, maybe the passing of a loved one, something hard, and someone has said to you, tell me if you need anything. When you're low or you're struggling or you're down, sometimes you don't even know how to tell someone how to help you. I know I haven't. I know I I've I've like needed things. I've been drowning in certain seasons, and I didn't know how to tell people what I needed. But what I will say is I did have a very a few, few small handful of people that instead of saying, Tell me if you need anything, they just showed up for me. They said, I'm coming over. I remember I had a friend, she just said, I'm coming over, and I was I was in such a low night, and she really didn't even know it, but she's like, What are you doing? She knew I was alone and she said, I'm coming over. I had people just do things for me without even asking, and it makes the biggest difference. And so I started thinking about this because I had um a neighbor that is going through something with a sick child right now. And the first initial thought is tell me if you need anything. And I I I think I said that in a text. And I just thought, no, I don't want to be a tell me if you need anything. I want to be a, hey, I'm showing up. So as awkward and as conflicting as it may feel against your nature, I just said, hey, these are the three dates that I would love to bring your family dinner. Let me know if this works for you. And that can feel intimidating, right? Because we don't know how it's going to be received. But my thought process here was like, I don't want to be a tell me if you need anything. If I know anything, a meal helps somebody so much. Whether you cook it, you send delivery, or you send them a DoorDash gift card, a meal helps people in a time of need. And it's like a quick, hey, I see you and I'm here for you. I can't fix it all, but I'm going to provide you a meal. And so yeah, I sent the text and I was like, I don't know how this is going to be received. I I don't really know this person that well just yet. And she was like, Yeah, this day would be great. And I thought, great, perfect. I feel like I'm serving the family, I'm fulfilling a need, I'm helping a need. I know that a meal doesn't fix circumstances, but you know, it might save them time or money or just provide maybe like a home-cooked meal, maybe if they've been eating out during a busy week. And so my thought process here is the encouragement of the reminder to not be someone that says, let me know if you need anything. Instead, I want you to move into action. That is what I'm choosing to do. And also, we don't know how that's going to be met, but I so far I've seen it's only been received like met and received well and with love. Somebody can easily be like, We're good, we got it, thanks. Well, at least you tried. So don't even give people an option. Just be like, hey, I'm bringing a meal, or hey, would you rather me bring a home cooked meal or would you would adorn ash gift card be better for your family this week if someone's going through something? Or you know what else I've been doing? I've been just randomly venmoing people. If I see someone's going through something, and I can't you can't do it for everybody, right? Like that's the hard thing. But again, you can't fix everything, but maybe maybe$25 would cover their breakfast or their coffee, or maybe$50 would cover their family's dinner. Like you just never know. And I don't want to be a person that says, let me know if you need anything. I want to be a person that steps into the word serve, and I want to serve people. And you know what? You do it because you can, you do it because like God calls you to take care of other people. And like, I don't know about you, but often you hear these stories or these situations, and you're like, gosh, that just sounds so heavy and so hard, and I can't believe they're going through that. And be glad you you aren't going through what they're going through, and then be glad you're in a good place so that you can support and serve the people that are going through the things. Serve people how you would want to be served. Think about the times where you've been in a need or you've been down or you've been struggling or your family has suffered loss. How would you want to feel seen? How would you want to be supported? And try to just step into a place of action because everybody says, let me know if you need anything. And I just don't want to be in that camp anymore. I want to say I'm moving towards a place of action instead of let me know if you need anything. I think these are two uh very intentional ways that we can step into our more and choose to live lives where we are bettering ourselves and our walks so that we can have eyes and um we can have hearts to see other people. And I just hope that you have found value in some of the things that I've shared today. These are real life things and you learn as you go, and you're not called to be perfect. You're there's no promise you're not gonna make mistakes, or you're not called to do it exactly right. But I think when you show up with good intentions and a pure heart, what what could go wrong? So I hope that this um helps set the tone and gives you eyes for something new, but sets the tone for you to continue to hold yourself to a different standard, to be above average, to be a person that says that you want more for yourself, but you want more for the people around you because you are made for more and you always have been.