The Work Life Mindset Podcast: Recent Episodes
Chris Stinson
You can eliminate the guilt of pinning your work life against your home life with one small shift. Master your mindset. This means learning how to train your brain to respond to the automatic negative thoughts that have been holding you back for way too long. I get to show others how their own thinking is getting in the way of achieving the life they desire. In this podcast I deliver tools and motivation to take back control of your life and start intentionally living towards your values, dreams and goals. I pull inspiration from Tony Robins, Joe Dispenza, Andrew Huberman, Lewis Howes, Brene Brown and Adam Grant. Tune in for coaching on self development, routines, habits, and goals.
According to Warren Buffett, the first best thing you can do to protect against inflation is to invest in yourself and your skills. If you’re the best at what you do, you will get your share of the national economic pie regardless of the value of whatever the currency may be,” Whatever abilities you have can't be taken away from you. They can't actually be inflated away from you. In this episode, we explore how the best investment you can make right now is in yourself. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
If you want to have a better work-life balance, you need to learn how to unplug once you get home. What we are striving for is psychological detachment. This is the ability to mentally disconnect from work and not think about job-related issues when you are away from your job. In this episode I share 6 ways that I have found to do this everyday so that I can be fully present at home to take care of myself, and show up powerfully for those that I love at home. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
In this episode I'm excited to show you the one new habit I've adopted to constantly strengthen my own mental resilience. There is no way I could have flipped my mindset so quickly without first learning the power of grit and mental toughness. Today I'm speak to the ability to leverage a practice of cold water exposure to strengthen your mental resilience. To access the my Leveraging Cold Water For Mental Toughness Mini Course go to www.worklifemindset.com
Resistance to change is driving most of the stress, overwhelm, frustration and fear in our world today. The hard truth is that the world, your world, is always changing. Some of this change is outside of your control. And trying to control it is holding you back in life. Now we can control some elements of the change in our lives but this takes intention, this take clarity, and this take action. New scary actions are the key to personal development where we train our brain to stop living with the negative emotions and thoughts, and instead make space for more joy, abundance, calm, and success. Crafting Mental Resilience is the path to the powerful state. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
If you’re like most people, your workday is a blend of low-velocity work mixed with continual distraction (e.g., social media and email). Most people’s “working time” is not spent at peak performance levels. When most people are working, they do so in a relaxed fashion. However, when you are results-oriented, rather than “being busy,” you’re 100 percent on when you’re working and 100 percent off when you’re not. Why do anything halfway? If you’re going to work, you’re going to work. In this episode we'll dive into why protecting your mornings is the critical to the quality of your work outputs. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
If you lose an hour in your morning, you’ll spend your whole day looking for it. If you spend your day looking for the most important time you’ve lost, you’ll be spending your whole life on a lower-level path than you could have had. If you don’t prioritize and maximize your morning hours, you’ll always be left wondering what your life could have been. You’ll never know what you could have had. You’ll never watch yourself accelerate and advance at rates that are possible but from your current vantage point, seem impossible. In this episode I cover just some of the reasons why you make or break your day between 5-7am. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
Sorry to break the news to you, but the human brain is hardwired for discontentment. This is what drove our species to evolve and survive as long as it has. After I really connected with this hard truth, I found that a huge burden lifted off of my shoulders. There are four psychological factors that make satisfaction temporary. In this episode we will explore those four factors to give you the tool of awareness, so that you can see how it is that you distract yourself, and hold yourself back from living to your highest potential in life. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
Motivation is fleeting. But DRIVE is what sustains your growth and action taking. In this episode I'm going to take you through an exercise to explore your deepest why. We will get out of your head, and into your heart, and bring awareness to what is really allowing you to take action with intention today. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
In order to do this, to grow and develop sustainably for the rest of your life, you must properly “recover” from the following things on a daily basis: Work Technology People Food Fitness Being awake Unless you adequately recover in these areas, your life is a mess. Moreover, by adequately recovering, you’ll be empowered to more fully engage in these activities. Recovery is essential to success in all areas of life. I’m going to detail the scientific findings and applications related to proper recovery In this episode we dive into recovery from Food, Fitness, and Being Awake. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
True growth and success is always sustainable. It’s not a short sprint with an inevitable physical, mental, and emotional crash. All goals are means, not ends. Each succeeding stage of your progression should clearly build one-upon-another, leaving you stronger and more able, not weaker and permanently damaged. In order to do this, to grow and develop sustainably for the rest of your life, you must properly “recover” from the following things on a daily basis: Work Technology People Food Fitness Being awake Unless you adequately recover in these areas, your life is a mess. Moreover, by adequately recovering, you’ll be empowered to more fully engage in these activities. Recovery is essential to success in all areas of life. I’m going to detail the scientific findings and applications related to proper recovery In this episode we dive into the first three, Work, Technology, and People. And we'll cover the other three in Part 2. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
People who have a well defined shutdown ritual to end their work day report a huge decrease in levels of stress and anxiety while at home. Taking just a few minutes to mentally but a bow on all your work tasks before ending your work day allows for psychological detachment from work. The implications of this daily 15 minute investment will change the way you experience your home life and allow you to show up powerfully for those that you love. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
Our brain and body are better at moving away from things we don't want, rather than moving towards things we do want. Old science told us that we should visualize our success every day as we make strides towards our big goals. Today’s researchers are finding that by visualizing what failure looks like, we are twice as likely to achieve success. Foreshadowing negative consequences of missing the target, we are more able to stay motivated and maintain progress. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
Your input shapes your outlook, your outlook shapes your output. You become what you consume. Garbage in, garbage out. Upgrading your life is about enhancing the quality of everything you do. Increased quality, decreased quantity. In this episode we look at how we can change our mental state by bringing more intention to what we consume. Both physically and mentally. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
A journey of personal growth and development requires one to take control of your attention and choose your life. The biggest barrier people face with this are Distractions. It's one thing to do the work and get very clear on your desired outcomes, your future self, and then learn what actions you need to be taking everyday to become that person. But it's a whole different process to learn how to show up an BE that person everyday. Distraction is the enemy. Everything you want is outside of your comfort zone. Pain always comes before transformation. And you will always try to avoid the pain using distractions. In the episode I show you two powerful forms of pre commitments that I use everyday to fight distractions and DO what I say I am going to do. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
You make or break your day by how you spend your morning. You either happen to the day, or the day happens to you. Learning how to take back control of your morning is going to be the most impactful thing you do for yourself and those around you that you love. In this episode I'll show you the 8 things I had to stop doing when I woke up so that I could start living with more calm and peace and joy, and stop living with so much stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
In this episode we look back to the life evaluation exercise from last week and leverage our new found clarity into one actionable item. By making a new commitment, and setting up a system to get you to your one new desired outcome, you will set yourself up to learn to fall in love with the process of growth. Humans outcome driven beings, and this serves us well for taking initial action, but we will lose motivation and ultimately give up on our pursuits UNLESS we build a powerful system of checkpoints and accountability to help us reach our long term goals. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
Grab a pencil and some paper for this illuminating exercise to bring clarity to a few areas in your life where you get to begin your journal to self mastery. Most people are stuck, and fail to live their dream life simply because they are not clear on what they truly want. It's okay to not know your passion or your purpose. But it is NOT okay to not be seeking what that is everyday. Bookmark this episode and share it with someone you know that would benefit from a little clarity and a tool to take the first step towards intentional transformation. Follow for more! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
In this Episode I introduce the BE-DO-HAVE model of intentionally creating your dream life. In psychology there is the Theory of Narrative Identity. What this says is that your identity is the story you tell about yourself. Rather than tell your story of who you are now, you want to tell the story of your Future Self. That’s how you Embody your future self. Explain to others who your future self is. “Act as IF’ you are already that person. You have to BE your future self, you have BE before you can DO. Because your Identity comes from who you are. Your identity shapes your behaviors. How you do anything is how you do everything. Follow me for more tips and tools https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
Far too often I see people who are solely focused on some outcome. And while getting clarity on your desired future self is a critical first step, it can be difficult to then shift your focus towards not only building a system to attain that outcome, but actually falling in love with the process of mastery. It really is all about the journey, and never about the destination. PLEASE don't expect happiness to come simply from reaching a goal. Instead understand that being in pursuit of a goal is the opportunity to teach your brain to be happy EVERYDAY. Reward yourself when you hit checkpoints along your journey, and then you'll start to see the magic in falling in love with the process, rather than suffering over not yet having the outcome. Follow us https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
If you are not embarrassed by who you were one year ago, then you are not growing. When you finally wake up and decide that you are done living today in the same way you lived yesterday, you are going to need a plan for bringing intention to this change you are seeking in your life. In this episode I share 6 steps for starting the journey into your future self. The highest version of yourself where you are living your best life, your best self, everyday. Showing up powerfully for yourself, and everyone who you get to interact with. Listen you are always transforming yourself whether you know it or not. You can either let your environment, and circumstance drive this transformation, OR you can bring intention to this transformation by taking a few simple steps everyday to remind yourself of the person you are meant to become. And slowly, overtime, with daily action taking, you become that higher version of yourself. Follow us https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset
In this episode I go deep into the importance of sitting down and clarifying your values. Without clearly defined values, your actions will never really be fully aligned. Which is the leading cause of stress and overwhelm. If you are not happy with your job, your relationships, your life, then chances are that you are also not very clear on your values. So let's take some time to sit down and get clear. Spending 15 minutes writing out your current values, and also what your future self values, is perhaps the best investment of time in your life! Follow me for daily tips, inspirations, and motivations! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset @worklifemindset
We are all playing a character in life. What is exciting about this, is that you can upgrade your character anytime you want to. Too many people think that their best version of themselves is 1-3-5 years away and they have to work to get to that but NO, You just wake up and DO IT. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. In this episode I'm going to share the three steps you take RIGHT NOW to upgrade your character and start taking massive action everyday forward to become the best version of yourself.
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The first thing to understand is that a goal or outcome has three aspects to be considered: The HAVE, what is to be achieved The DO, what needs to be done to make it happen and The BE, or the WHO - who a person needs to authentically BE (how they need to behave) The problem is that that most people focus on the HAVE, the outcome instead of the BE which is the main driver for achieving the goal. In this episode I'll introduce you to this BE-D0-Have model of growing into a powerful future self identity and share the one step that most people fail to take. Follow me for daily tips, inspirations, and motivations! https://linktr.ee/worklifemindset/ @worklifemindset
Imposter syndrome is the experience of feeling like a phony—you feel as though at any moment you are going to be found out as a fraud—like you don't belong where you are, and you only got there through dumb luck.
Imposter is one of the biggest fears that is keeping you stuck in life and preventing you from taking action to better your situation. This is a learned fear that you get to unlearn to unlock your highest potential.
In this episode I will introduce you to this fear and share some ways to overcome this so that you can start taking action to show up powerfully everyday for yourself and everyone around you that you love.
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Almost all of your fears are learned. This is great news because you can train your minds to unlearn them. Our minds are always producing stories of what 'could happen' in the future. And these stories are keeping you stuck inside your comfort zone. This sucks because everything you want in life, any and all growth and development, is outside your comfort zone. In this episode we'll dive into the origins of our fears, the 5 most common fears, and the one thing you must do to overcome your fears so that you can step into the person you were meant to become.
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If you are not getting the results you want in your career, your health, your finances, your relationships, chances are that you are not taking the right action. In this episode we dive into the most common triggers for not taking action, and how become aware of these to get you back on track.
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There are two states of being that I like to call the Primal State, and the Powerful State. One state of mind comes with stress, anxiety, overwhelm, fear, anger. The other brings you joy, love, peace, calm, fulfillment. For the longest time I thought that I was in a powerful state, because I was happy-ish. But what I came to realize is that I was in a very low level of the primal state for most of the time everyday. Even being content and having my needs met, amazing wife and great kids, I still spent 4-6 hours everyday in a state of stress, anxiety and overwhelm. In this episode I'll cover more about what these two states look like, why it's important to be aware of your current state, and how you can move from one state to the other at your own will. Follow me for daily tips, inspirations, and motivations! https://www.worklifemindset.com/ @worklifemindset
Fear is holding you back from taking action. Somewhere in your life there is a desire, an aspiration, a dream, and a subconscious fear is keeping you from taking the bold actions to get you there.
In this episode I will introduce the difference between the two types of fear and show you how the brain's inability to differentiate them is getting in the way of your greatest achievements.
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Three common things that seem to be holding many of us back from taking action are; lack of self worth, perfectionism, indecisiveness.
The solution to not taking action is to get off the bench and get on the court. Stop 'thinking' and start 'doing'. How? One Step at at time. READY, FIRE, AIM.
You don't have to believe in yourself to take action. But the only way to change is to start getting results, which comes from action taking.
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Beliefs are meanings that we give to experiences. Many of our beliefs were formed when we were very young, and we lacked appropriate logic to really understand how the world works. And for this reason, many of our beliefs are not aligned with the person we now know that we are meant to become. And until we work through these limiting beliefs, and do the work to change our paradigm, our own thinking will continue to keep us from taking the right actions, and in turn we will never get the results that we are looking for. Follow me for daily tips, inspirations, and motivations! https://www.worklifemindset.com/ @worklifemindset
Transformation is what we are here to do. Whether you believe it or not, you are a different person than who you were one year ago. You can change yourself either from a decision you make, or through a circumstance outside of your control. So you can be intentional about your change, and take control of the ship. Or you can be passive and let the autopilot take you wherever it pleases to take you. I believe that it's best to choose your transformation and be in the driver's seat.
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Today I'll dive into the feeling of Languishing and discuss how using Flow may be a step towards lifting us all out of this middle ground state so that we can start to THRIVE again.
In this episode I introduce the concept of the hedonic treadmill which highlights the need for us to be stay connected with the gain, rather than always focusing on the gap in our personal development. Hedonic adaptation is whatever you have, you stop appreciating it, and you want the next thing. You don't need to do that. You can have big clear future self, big clear goals, and have a lot of anticipation, and excitement, motivation, while at the same time being so absorbed and grateful, savoring your life, what you've got, who you got.
In today's episode I dive into what it means to start designing your future self and I also share a list of daily tasks that will help you start to uncover the greater version of yourself that you will use to start living more intentionally and guide you to daily peak experiences of growth and development.
In this episode I share two different ways that people motivate themselves and we explore how much more effective one way is over the other.
Here's one of my big secrets to abundance, success, and joy...
Get your butt out of bed! Having two hours every morning dedicated to self care and growth is a total game changer. No wonder every highly successful person has a powerful morning routine that is runs on auto pilot.
In this episode of the work life mindset podcast I will share the two reasons that we do anything and everything in our lives.
In this episode we explore a barrier to personal development that keeps people stuck. Namely not being clear on the identity they want to create and being fearful of changing who they are. By putting thought into a list of 10 characteristics of who you want to be, we can use this list to live more intentionally and find opportunities to grow into that person.
In this episode we will chat about how to bring a gratitude practice into your life everyday and use it as energy to keep yourself in a beautiful state of joy, love, and abundance.
In this episode we will dive into how to create powerful affirmations and add them into your daily routines so that we can keep our goals and aspirations front of mind.
In this episode we will talk about 5 strategies to take control of your anxiety and take yourself out of a suffering state of stress and anxiety and bring your mindset into a powerful and beautiful state full of happiness, joy and abundance.