How to Outsmart Self-Doubt

I was coaching a client today, and we had a good laugh about how our brains can be bratty or lazy teenagers. I shared in my Voxer broadcast channel where I was struggling with taking action on some of my goals. I’m on a self-care and weight loss journey right now, trying to lose some of the baby weight that’s still hanging around even though my baby is now 3 years old. I mentioned before, but I’m on the 75 Soft Challenge. I started, and after one week, I quit and rebooted. I couldn’t even last 7 days! How sad is that?! But here’s the real story behind it. I’m a mom. So life can be very unpredictable. For instance, today, my 5 year old woke up at 4 AM and I’ve been up with her ever since. And I almost let that stop me from taking action on my personal goals. But when I decided to reboot on my 75 Soft, it was because I hadn’t accounted for some of the pieces of mom life, so I wanted to tweak things a bit. It didn’t undo the work I had done on the challenge up to that point. But my brain wanted to feed into my self-doubt. And this morning, I decided it was time to out-action my mindset. Mindset work is so important. It’s the foundation of everything I do, and mindset work is the foundation of everything I do with my clients. But I was already well aware of the mindset I was struggling with, and in this instance, I knew the best way to work on my mindset was to prove it wrong by taking action. What’s that look like for moms? It depends on the goals and the mindset causing setbacks. For me today, it meant getting up off of the chair and doing the workout instead of having an internal coaching session with my brain to convince it WHY I should be working out. Would I have been able to do that earlier this year? Probably not…I would have believed the thoughts my brain gave me. Thoughts like: • You probably won’t finish the challenge anyway. • It’s not like you’re going to lose the weight. • You never follow through. All thoughts that are unhelpful, but all thoughts I used to have about myself regularly. And it left me feeling like 💩 and highly unmotivated. But now when my brain gives me those kinds of thoughts, I know where it’s coming from and I know how to interact with it in a way that works for me and my personality. That’s what coaching has done for me. How might coaching help you? Let me know if you want to know more. You don’t have to do it alone! Warmly, ~Samantha (The Life Coach for Moms)