Craig Brydon’s Post

Imagine each morning you woke up and took a drug that would give you the following throughout the day: A clear head and clarity of mind, feelings of meaning, purpose and connection, your body feeling strong, alert, energised and healthy, feeling proud of yourself, happy, alive, fulfilled … You don’t need a drug, you have all this within you, it’s just a matter of accessing it. One of the best ways to tap into these feelings is through exercise … but not just exercise alone, positive exercise. How we approach and perceive exercise will affect our minds and bodies. If we approach exercise in a negative way by complaining, dragging our feet, telling ourselves we have to do this and beating ourselves up if we don’t do it right, then our brains will perceive this as a threat and turn on the stress response, making the whole experience that much harder. The next time you go to exercise your brain will remember the last experience as being unpleasant and won’t want you to repeat the process. If we were to approach exercise in a positive way by reminding ourselves of the benefits, anticipating how we are going to feel afterwards and telling ourselves excitedly how proud we are to be making this choice, then our brains will perceive this as a great thing and will be fully on board, making the whole experience that much easier. The next time you go to exercise your brain will remember the last experience as pleasant and will enthusiastically cheer you on to repeat the process. If you would like some support, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you! www.mmcoaching.com.au

It seems simple, just get out there and move … just do it! But it’s not that simple. Why? Because of our mindset. People who exercise regularly think differently to those who don’t. Mindset of regular exercisers: 1. Visualise and focus on how they are going to feel afterwards 2. Visualise and focus on the benefits, both short term and long term 3. Talk to themselves in an encouraging, excited, motivated way Mindset of non-regular exercisers: 1. Visualise and focus on current comfort 2. Visualise and focus on feeling uncomfortable during exercise 3. Talk to themselves in a slow, relaxed, convincing way How can we simply switch our mindset? Start by taking just one small step and that is … putting on your exercise shoes. You don’t even have to exercise, just put on the shoes. Once you have them on, you may choose to go for a walk or you may not. Just put on the shoes and by doing this you are beginning to switch your mindset. If you would like some support, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you! www.mmcoaching.com.au

Let’s look at the differences in strategies between the late sleeper and the early riser: Late Sleeper 1. Will talk to themselves using a slow speed of voice 2. Will use words like ‘should’ or ‘have to’ rather than ‘want to’ 3. Will bargain with themselves why they need more sleep Early Riser 1. Will talk to themselves in an excited and active voice tone 2. Will use ‘want’ words like ‘I want to eat,’ ‘I want to move,’ ‘I want to get this day started’ 3. Will anticipate what they are looking forward to in the day What if the sleepers took on the early bird's strategies? Remember when you were a child and you had to get up early for a holiday? Or Christmas? How does that feel on that day? Totally different, it's amazing, you feel like you're alive. What if you could bring some of that into whatever day you're in? You already have these resources in you if you have done this. If you have to get up anyway, what would it be like to wake up differently? If you would like some support, please get in touch, we would love to hear from you! www.mmcoaching.com.au

Would you get on a bus and just randomly go wherever the bus is going, or would you ensure that the driver is going where you want to go? Richard Brandler, author of ’Using Your Brain For A Change,’ mentions that most people are prisoners of their own brains. It's as if they are chained to the last seat of the bus and someone else is driving. If you don't give your brain a little direction, either it will just run randomly on its own, or other people will find ways to run it for you - and they may not always have your best interests in mind. Humans have an amazing ability to learn. The bad side is that you can learn garbage just as easily as you can learn useful things. Brains, like computers, are not 'user-friendly.' They do exactly what they're told to do, not what you want them to do. Then you get mad at them because they don't do what you meant to tell them to do! We have photographic memories, but most of the time we use this skill for an unpleasant experience, why not harness this ability for more useful experiences? We procrastinate. What if you used that skill to put off feeling bad when someone insults you? Or what if you delayed eating junk food forever - you just never quite got around to it? Everything we do has a structure, and if you can find out about that structure, you can figure out how to use your brain, your mindset, for change. If you would like further support, please get in touch, we would love to hear from you! www.mmcoaching.com.au

When you look back over your life you will notice that you have consistently reinvented yourself. Very few people hold the same likes, dislikes, habits, behaviours, beliefs and expectations that they had 10-20 years ago. We live in a constantly changing world. In the last couple of years we have changed the way we think about working from home, online study, vaccinations, holidays and more. Change is all around us but what is interesting is that we often buy into the idea that later on in our lives change is more difficult and we are just stuck with who we have become. As humans, we have a bias towards the negative. This possibly stems from the fact that our ancestors needed to know where the tiger was before they searched for honey. We tend to lean towards what hasn’t changed in our lives, where we are stuck, rather than looking for what has changed. If you want to start pointing your mindset towards positive change, do this simple exercise. Each day before you go to bed, ask yourself 3 questions. What positive changes did I notice today? What am I proud of? What am I grateful for? Not only does this put you in a great emotional state before bed, it also trains your mindset to look for evidence of positive changes and therefore opens up exciting possibilities. ‘If I can change this, what else can I change?’ Is it possible to reinvent yourself and make positive changes in your life? Absolutely! If you would like further support, please get in touch, we would love to hear from you! www.mmcoaching.com.au #mindset #change

At Melbourne Mindset Coaching, we work with many clients to help them move from where they are now, to where they want to be. What we have found to be the biggest obstacle getting in the way are their personal beliefs about how they see the world. The funny thing about our beliefs is they are not often logical. There’s an old story described by Abraham Maslow that illustrates this. A psychiatrist was treating a man who believed he was a corpse. Despite all the psychiatrist’s logical arguments , the man persisted in his belief. In a flash of inspiration, the psychiatrist asked the man, “Do corpses bleed?” The patient replied, “That’s ridiculous! Of course corpses don’t bleed.” After first asking for permission, the psychiatrist pricked the man’s finger and produced a drop of bright red blood. The patient looked at his bleeding finger with abject astonishment and exclaimed: “I’ll be damned, corpses DO bleed!” It’s a humorous story yet we often work with people who share something in common with this man. An interesting study had been done where 100 cancer survivors were interviewed in the hope of finding out what these survivors had in common. Different people received different treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, nutrition programs, surgery, spiritual healing, and so on. However, there was one thing that these survivors all shared: they all believed that the method of treatment they were getting was going to work for them. The belief, not the treatment, made the difference. Our beliefs matter. If you find you have unhelpful beliefs that are getting in your way then get in touch with us and we will help you navigate your way through making lasting change. https://lnkd.in/gzDVWVjf