Katie McManus says don't make decisions after 9pm because fatigue lets fear take over your thinking. When you're tired, your brain scans for threats instead of trusting what you actually know how to do. Protect your creative work by stopping early.
Massively successful. Then here's the one piece of advice that is going to save your don't Trust yourself after 9pm and really, if you're an early riser, then don't Trust yourself after 7pm and what do I mean by this? So in coaching, we look at the thoughts that happen in our brains as really just two different voices, okay? And those voices are in our leader, our intuition, our spirit, whatever, anything that you align to, okay? They know everything that you're capable of, okay? They know everything great that you've ever done. They know everything amazing that you will ever do in your life, okay? They believe in you when you do not believe in yourself, okay? They are the incredible voices that know what's possible for you, okay? The other voices are the saboteurs, okay? These are those fear gremlins, as Brene Brown calls them. They like to tell you how much you suck and they like to present you all the evidence that you suck and that you're terrible and that you failed here and you failed there and you're probably going to fail in the future. Now these fear voices, the saboteurs, the fear gremlins, they tend to come up more when you're tired, when you're achy, when you're sick, whenever your body is not at its best. That is basically an open door policy for them to come in and start running the show. Now these fear based voices, where do they come from? Okay? They are your survival drive, okay? They are pointing out all the dangers that they can identify in your current world and they want you to be hyper aware of them in case they could like jump out and bite you like a tiger in the woods. And because our brains have not evolved beyond like being a cave person out in the wilderness by yourself, having to hunt and gather and look for predators. These fear gremlins will point to like that time that you said that embarrassing thing and it made people look at you weird and that thing that you posted online that people like kind of came for you about and that one time that someone told you that your program was not good enough and that you should basically go back to a 9 to 5 job. Those voices will point to all of that kind of evidence to show you the dangers that they're identifying out there in the world as if they are predators coming to eat you. But just because this part of your brain thinks it does not mean that it's true. So this is why after 9pm or 7pm you need to just turn your brain off, okay? Because these voices are going to start talking that will make you see, feel like you're in fight or flight. You won't be able to sleep and then you'll just be more tired the next day and you'll be more susceptible to them. And really, we wouldn't have survived this far as a species without these voices because previously we needed them to be able to scan the world to look for danger. Okay? But now that we've evolved into this world where thankfully, like, there's abundance and there's lots of food and shelter, these voices want to identify anything that is outside your comfort zone that could result and you getting kicked out of the tribe, okay? That could lead to ostracization. I think I pronounced that right. Anyway, these voices are not to be trusted. So if you want to be unstoppable in your business, if you want to really reach that next pinnacle of success in your life after about 7 or 9pm in the evenings, do not try to work in your business, okay? Because the person who is going to be creating content or developing your program or doing anything that is supposed to move you further along in your journey isn't going going to be these high level voices that believe in you. It's going to be these fair to figure out your profitable niche, design an offer that they are incredibly hungry to buy and figure out how to market and sell it without wanting to vomit. My name is Katie McManus. I'm a business strategist and money mindset coach.
