Mindset Monday - Am I an actions manager?

This is episode 103 of the Empowered Athlete podcast. This is the Empowered Athlete podcast Mindset Monday 10 minutes with Kari Schneider to learn new mindset tactics and tricks to optimize your performance in sport, business and life.

And in doing all of this prep for this presentation for TD bank on wellness and all these good things, I wanted to really make a difference in their lives. In doing all this, I created a PowerPoint, I drove to Toronto, I rescheduled all my clients, I did all these things. And then it felt amazing. It seemed to land for the people who were there. It seemed to really make a difference for them. And the person who organized it was looking for a way to find budget to have me back, maybe to do a little more work with TD bank and their employ. And I was really excited about it. And then one of the things that happened overall was I revisited or reflected on this experience with my coach. So at the time, the person who was coaching me was learning about some of the things I wanted to do and the direction I wanted to take my business and some of the areas I wanted to grow in. And she was coaching me on this. And one thing she said is, she said, well, did you get your results? And I said, well, what results? It was great. I just told you about it. So I thought she got what my results were. And I said it was all good. And she said, well, what about your results? And I said, well, I just told you the results. She said, no, you know your results before you do whatever you're doing. If you know your results before you're going to do it, then you have a clear picture when you're finished, whether or not you got your results. And when she said this, I was like, oh, well, of course, I do this all the time in the gym, and I have for years. We go for world championship, we go for healing an injury, we go for weight loss, whatever the goal happens to be, and then all of the actions are leading into that particular goal. And so she says, you are doing, you are busy doing so many actions that you are a manager of actions. You need to shift just slightly to become a manager of results. And again, this really landed. I was resistant at first, but it really landed because as I looked further, I was like, of course I do this all the time. In working with clients and getting more mobility, we know what the result we want, and then we take all of the actions that create an inevitable result, an inevitable outcome, the one that we are going for. So we kept going on this and I started to reflect on this further. And this is a key area that we focused on this morning for our power up call for the reset. And what we focused on was the intention today to create the management of the results that we want for just one day, doesn't have to be for the month, doesn't have to be for the week or the year, just one day. And what does that look like? And what it looks like is really understanding at least the three most important things for you. So if you know that family is most important to you, your work is most important to you, and perhaps your personal health is most important to you, if those are your three big buckets and you broke that down today, and you know that today you want a result in your work, you want a result in your family, and you want a result in your health, just for today, maybe the health, you want your best energy, you want your best focus, and you want to work a little bit towards your bigger goal that's down the road. Maybe for your work, you want one particular project to be complete. Maybe for your family, you just want some cuddles, you want that real connection, love time. Maybe you just want some cuddles. If those are your three things that you want as your results, then the question becomes, what actions do I have to do just towards those results? That means that you're being a results manager instead, instead of an actions manager. What an actions manager is doing is just doing a whole bunch of actions, but they may not be getting to the goal that you actually want to go towards. So depending on what that goal is or the main result that you want, that can be the thing that you spend time looking for your actions to direct towards. As you can tell in this particular mindset Monday, I have all sorts of distractions. I have a service provider going downstairs to change a hot water heater. I've got homeschooling going on and I've got other family members home with visitors. So there's a whole bunch of distractions. But if I want my number one result to be to get the work that I want to have done, then what actions do I have to take? And that's what motivates me to get out to you for this mindset Monday. So today take a look at one question and you can put it into two parts because it really has to do with not only who you have to be to get the results that you want and the actions that you have to do to get the results that you want. And if you look at those two things, it's a simple question preceding the actions that you take. If I want this result, my best energy. If I want this result, my project complete. If I want this best result, a best connection with my family, what actions do I have to take for that? Who do I have to be to take those actions with the most effectiveness? So those questions, those two questions can get you so much closer to where you want to go instead of just spinning your wheels taking tons of actions, but they're not actually fueling where you really want to go. So again, who do I have to be to take the best actions towards my result? What actions do I have to take for my best results in the most meaningful areas of my life? If you are asking yourself those questions, then you will have an inevitable outcome of incredible results that make the most difference in your life. So that's your mindset Monday for today, guys. Let this set your Monday to be powerful. Let this start your week into an incredible week. That is my wish for you. Have a fantastic day and have a fantastic rest of your week.