November 24, 2024 • 34 mins
Feeling stuck in the middle of life's journey? You're not alone. In today's episode of The Purposeful Career Podcast, we explore the complex world of life's plateaus, especially in midlife.
This episode promises to equip you with practical strategies to break free from stagnation in your career, relationships, and personal growth, helping you reignite your passion and drive. We'll uncover the mindset shifts needed to unlock your potential and move past those limiting beliefs that keep you from reaching new heights.
Embrace the power of stepping out of your routine and challenge yourself with a fresh perspective. I'll share my personal experiences, including a transformative getaway to San Diego, that served as a catalyst for reassessment and redirection. Discover how a change in environment can illuminate ingrained habits and mindsets that keep you tethered to the mundane. This isn't about filling time with distractions; it's about intentional reflection and realignment with your true purpose, helping you to present your best self even amidst life's headwinds.
Midlife isn't the end; it's an opportunity for reinvention. Reflect on your life's journey with appreciation, and consider the achievements your younger self would celebrate. With personal anecdotes and a structured five-step approach, I'll guide you through overcoming career and life plateaus. By setting specific goals and aligning your daily actions with a positive mindset, you can transform your life significantly. Tune in to discover how to shift your perspective, break free from routine, and move toward a fulfilling and purpose-driven future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Purposeful Career Podcast with
Carla Hudson, episode number 207.
I'm Carla Hudson, brandstrategist, entrepreneur and
life coach, whether you're onthe corporate or entrepreneur
track, or maybe both.
Decades of experience hastaught me that creating success
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happens from the inside out.
It's about having the clarity,self-confidence and unstoppable
belief to go after and geteverything you want.
If you'll come with me, I'llshow you how Well.
Hello, friends.
I hope you had an amazing week.
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This week we are going to talkabout something that builds off
of last week's episode.
In last.
This week we are going to talkabout something that builds off
of last week's episode.
In last week's episode, wetalked about managing through
the peaks and valleys thatinevitably occur at midlife in
our career, in our life, kind ofeverywhere, and this week we're
going to talk about what itmeans to be at a plateau.
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We sort of hit on the notion ofa plateau in last week's
episode, but sometimes we canfind ourselves in a place where
our life is just where it is andit stays that way for a
prolonged period of time, and sothis week's episode is going to
hit on how do you move pastthat, how do you take a set of
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actions or have a specificmindset that will break you
through that plateau so you canmove forward in the direction
you want to go.
So enjoy this week's episode onhow to break through a plateau.
Today I want to talk aboutsomething that builds off of
last week's episode, so if youhaven't listened to that, you
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might want to go back and givethat a listen, because in that
we were talking about peaks andvalleys and how our life is a
never ending series of those,and while I don't know if you're
anything like me, you wouldjust love for life to be a never
ending series of ever ascendingpeaks.
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Right, it's all good times,everything's amazing, and we
never have to deal with thedarker side of life.
But what we talked about inlast week's episode is that
actually it's those two thingsthat are the fabric of our life
that give our life meaning, andreally it's the down cycles of
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life that help us reallyunderstand more about who we are
and who we want to be and whatwe actually want.
And so in between those downcycles or those valleys, we have
these peaks that when you lookat them, in contrast to what you
just came out of during achallenging time, it makes life
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sweeter.
So, really, the peaks and thevalleys are by design.
It's part of the humanexperience and we can't avoid it
.
But sometimes we will go throughprolonged periods that are more
about plateauing and it can bea more positive plateau or it
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could be a really negativeplateau that we find ourselves
in.
It can be either one of thosethings, but I want to talk about
that today because at midlife alot of us spend our time there.
We are in a plateau, we arestalled a little bit, we don't
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move forward.
We focus more on just sort ofliving with the series of
decisions that we've made in ourpast that have led us here, and
now we're just coasting, youknow, and I think it's natural
to do that for a while.
But I don't feel like that is agood place to stay for any
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period of time, because whenwe're plateaued for a long
period of time and think aboutit in the context of weight loss
, if you're trying to lose,let's just say, 20 pounds or
you're just going back to thegym and you're trying to kind of
hit your fitness goals and youdo okay for a while, but then
you hit this plateau and it'slike nothing you do moves you
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off of it.
You cannot shed another pound.
You know you don't see anychanges in the fitness of your
body If you're going to the gym.
That's not a great place to be,and I feel like the equivalent
of that can happen in any otherpart of our life.
It can happen in our career,where you know we hit this
period of time and maybe we'vehit a level and a level of
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income where we're comfortableand we just kind of get lost in
the comfort of that level.
Or in our personal life, in ourrelationship, we just get
comfortable.
It may not be exactly what wewant.
We may have fallen into somebad habits, maybe we're in not a
great time with our partner andwe may not be happy about that,
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but we're not really willing todo anything to change it either
.
So we just sort of coast.
And sometimes those periodshappen for a short period of
time, but too often that periodcan become years, decades or
even the rest of our life, and Iwant to talk about that today.
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I want to talk about plateauingand why does it happen and what
gets us there and how do we getourselves out of it if that is a
place that we find ourselvestoday.
So let's go ahead and dive in.
So the first thing I want totalk about is how do we get
there?
We can all arrive in that placefor a different set of
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circumstances.
Like I said, it can happen inany part of our life.
So there's so many differentways and things that can happen
that can push us into this placewhere we're coasting, where we
kind of I sort of think of it astaking our hands off the
steering wheel of our life,letting off the gas a little bit
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.
We're just sort of coasting,you know, and we're just going
with the flow.
It just feels too hard to putany more effort into it.
Maybe we've had a series ofdisappointments and we just feel
like now here we are at midlifeand we're not really sure what
else life might have for us.
So I feel like a plateau in anypart of our life happens for
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one specific reason at the root,and that is about our mindset.
If we're plateauing, we havesettled in, and you have to
double click into that and say,well, why have I settled in If
I'm not happy with where I'm atin my career, like it's okay but
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it's not great, and I have morebad days than I have good days.
Why are you settling for thatSame thing in your relationship?
If you and your partner are inthis sort of dance of anger, or
you've retreated to neutralcorners and you don't really
spend a lot of time with eachother that happens too often to
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couples at midlife why are youdoing that?
Why are you settling for that?
That's a mindset.
You settling for that?
That's a mindset.
There's something in yourpatterns of thought that's
telling yourself something,probably like it's too late.
What's the point?
I don't know if there'sanything better for me out there
.
That is the series of thoughtsthat lead to you coasting,
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settling in, trying to just sortof hang on.
And I just want to talk to youtoday about that mindset.
We all can find ourselves therein any part of our life.
Like I said, with a fitnessjourney, with a relationship,
with a career, with a businessany part of our life we can find
ourselves there.
Sometimes it shows up in ourfinances where we just pile on
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this debt and then we end up inthis financial situation.
That's not great, but we're notreally willing to take a look
at it and do the hard work ofkind of digging ourselves out.
I feel like midlife is the timewhere we're more prone to this.
Granted, sometimes it happenswhen we're much younger.
For some people it's older, butthe vast majority of us will
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wake up at some point in themiddle part of our journey and
we will think why have I beenhere for so long?
And even when we think thatsometimes we just have that
thought and then we just set itaside and go right back to
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living the same way and Ibelieve it's 100% mindset it's
the things that we tellourselves, no matter how old we
are.
So, even if we were not midlife,even if we're at the earlier
stage of our career journey,sometimes it's the people around
us and the environment thatwe're in that convinces us that
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there's just no point in tryingbecause the world is against us.
There's this victim, it's toolate, I don't have what it takes
kind of self-doubt, lack ofself-confidence, lack of
self-confidence, lack ofself-worth, maybe doubting
whether you're good enough.
That's at the root of why westay in a plateau.
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Because think about it for aminute If you were not in that
place, if you were looking atyour life like we talked about
at the end of last week'spodcast we were talking about
like life is a choose your ownadventure.
And if you were living that wayand really owning that and
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truly believe that, and you werejust constantly sort of trying
to raise the bar in differentareas of your life, if you were
constantly setting ever moreexciting goals, stretching
yourself, going after it,gaining the new skills, gaining
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the new self-confidence to stepinto whatever those new goals
are, you're not going to beplateaued, because you're going
to be trying to climb and in theclimbing you'll experience
successes and failures.
Trying to climb, and in theclimbing, you'll experience
successes and failures.
You'll, you know, take a fewsteps forward and take a few
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steps back, but the point isyou're not focused on hanging on
.
You're focused on what you wantto do next.
So if you're in a place where,in any part of your life, you
feel like it's gone on too long,I want you to first do
something a little differentthan what I usually tell you to
do, because usually what I'lltell you to do is go within and
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get clear on that, but I want totalk about it through a
slightly different lens today.
I'm going to ask you to do that, but first, what I want you to
do is consider taking yourselfout of your daily routines.
If you can take some time offwork, take some time away by
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yourself, even if it's just aweekend.
You don't have to go across thecountry, you don't have to go
to Europe, you don't have to doanything expensive.
You know, if you're in a largemetropolitan area, go, stay in a
luxury hotel.
Put yourself in a differentenvironment, in a different set
of surroundings.
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Take yourself out of yourday-to-day and the day-to-day
interactions that you had, theroutines of your day, the
environments that you'retypically in.
Go somewhere completelydifferent, somewhere that
inspires you.
Do something an Airbnb or ahotel that really shakes things
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up, that's really up-leveled,you know, might be a little on
the more luxurious side,someplace that's got a nice view
and that nice linens and isjust a beautiful place to be.
And why would I ask you to dothat?
Because it shakes things up.
So it's one thing to sit in thecontext of your regular life,
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with the regular routines ofyour day and the regular sounds
of the day and the regularpeople and the regular mayhem in
the house in the morning andthe regular routines of the
office.
It's one thing to try to do itthere and you can have some
degree of success.
But the real reset can happenif you just lift yourself out of
your life and give yourself aweek, a weekend, to get away by
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yourself, not with anyone else,and do some inner work.
It is good for the soul.
It is really good for the soul.
It is really good for the soul.
And changing your outsideenvironment can do more to
change or even reveal to youwhat your mindset patterns have
been that got you into theplateau.
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So make sure that when you'reremoving yourself from your
routines you're up leveling insome way that's meaningful to
you.
It doesn't have to speak toanyone else, it needs to be
something that speaks to you.
For me, there are certain citiesthat do that.
I love going to San Diego.
I think that everyone shouldlive in San Diego.
It's the most beautiful placeyou know and there's probably a
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place like that for you.
There's a couple of other onesfor me, but that's at the top of
the list, right?
So sometimes when I'm lookingfor inspiration, that is where I
go and I'll get an Airbnb and Ijust kind of go to my favorite
places and I have some quiettime and I do some reassessment.
And it's funny because evenfrom the time I get on the plane
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and I'm going there, it's funnybecause even from the time I
get on the plane and I'm goingthere, you start to kind of exit
the plateau because you'vechanged something material in
your daily habits and that's thekey.
So that's number one thing Iwant you to do If you find
yourself there in any part ofyour life look for some time off
, even if it's just a longweekend, ideally a week and
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think about the things thatspeak to you.
Where would you go?
Don't fill it up with TV time.
Don't fill it up with busysightseeing activities.
Don't fill it up with lots ofpeople.
You can have some of that Ifyou're going to a place you know
, where you know you've gotfriends or people you want to
connect with.
But make sure you've got plentyof time for you, because that's
what this is about.
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So that's the number one thingis get out of your daily routine
.
Okay, number two while you're inthat place where you've lifted
yourself out of your everyday, Ido want you to take a look
before you get into your mindset.
I want you to take a look athow you spend your time in your
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day, and I would say the lens onthis is in what area or areas
are you stuck?
Maybe it's everywhere, right.
Maybe you're stuck in how youcare for yourself.
Maybe you're stuck in yourrelationship.
Maybe you're stuck at work.
Maybe you're.
Maybe you're stuck across theboard, or maybe it's just in one
area where you feel likeeverything else is pretty good
but you're stalled in yourcareer.
Everything else is pretty good,but your relationship with your
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spouse is what you want it tobe.
Whatever area, if it's multiple, that's fine.
Just take it one by one.
I want you to think about it.
And I want you to think aboutokay, well, what are the things
that go on every day, like, whatdoes an average day look like
and what is your part of thatlook like on a day-to-day basis?
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And what I mean by that is howare you showing up?
Are you, from you know, a dailyhabit perspective?
Are you showing up as your verybest self?
And this is every facet of thatself, and this is every facet
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of that, from the way you putyourself together to the mindset
that you have when you tackleyour daily work, or the mindset
that you have when you'reinteracting with your spouse or
your children, or even like yourdaily habits.
This is about like, how well doyou structure your eating
protocol and schedule time atthe gym and how well are you
living up to that Like?
I want you to look at it and behonest with yourself, not just
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focusing on the bad things thatmight've happened or the
challenges that get thrown yourway, but really, first and
foremost, how do you show up?
Because I can tell you like,even during the worst times of
our life, if we decide to showup as our very best, despite
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whatever headwinds we're facing,we're not going to plateau.
We might still be in a at a lowpoint for a while just because
of the circumstances of our life, but if our mindset is not down
in the valley but actuallyfocused on the next peak, you're
going to get there much quickerthan wallowing and getting
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stalled in kind of a down cycle.
That's not where any of us wantto find ourselves.
So as you lift yourself out ofyour environment, which is
number one, number two, I wantyou to spend a ton of time
getting really honest about yourdaily habits.
How do you show up?
How do you present yourself tothe world, how do you take care
of yourself, how do yourepresent yourself, how do you
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articulate, how do you tackleyour job?
How do you do all of it?
Because even if everythingsucks right now, you can still
put yourself together reallywell.
You can still focus on beingyour very best inside the
challenge of that situation, andI would say it's worth it.
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This is your life.
So we're all going to faceheadwinds, we're all going to
face tough times, but we candecide that, no matter how tough
the time, we are going to showup as our very best.
And I think a lot of times, ifwe find ourselves in a prolonged
period of a plateau whetherit's a super negative one or
we're just coasting off of agood time it's because we're not
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really doing the things that wewant to do to kind of keep
moving ourselves forward.
We're just sort of settling forthe mundane, we're settling for
coasting.
And if we're doing that, thatleads to number three.
I want you to get clear on whatyou're thinking.
Whatever the answer to numbertwo was, whatever was revealed
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to you, and how well or not wellyou're showing up as it relates
to your daily habits, I wantyou to think about, in number
three what is the mindset thatyou are dealing with every day?
Because if you're not rising tothe occasion of your day in the
best possible way, the best waythat you can, you're doing that
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because you don't feel great.
And you don't feel greatbecause of whatever it is you're
thinking and that gets to someof the things that I was talking
about earlier, to some of thethings that I was talking about
earlier Uniquely, at midlife,many times, especially during
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the down cycles, when we facesome headwinds especially if
there's a series of those maybecoming at you from all sides,
because sometimes that happensright, it's like we can tell
ourselves there's just no point.
Right, it's too late, I made allthese bad decisions.
It's too late for me to make myrelationship decisions.
It's too late for me to make myrelationship better.
It's too late for me to go outand get a better job.
It's too late for me to changecareer paths.
It's too late for me to losethe weight.
It's too late for me to get inshape.
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It's too late for me to changemy financial picture, like,
whatever it is.
It's too late is usually at theheart of the midlife malaise.
Right, and I'm here to tell youmidlife can be the time when you
refire into your second half,where you get recharged, where
you get re-inspired, where youdecide what you want to do next,
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how you might want to reinventwhat you decide you know might
be possible for you, whether ornot you want to climb to an ever
higher peak.
Or midlife can be a time whereyou just give up, where you stop
even rowing towards the shore,where you just kind of put your
paddles down in the boat andjust coast, and I just don't
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think that's ever a good idea.
Even at the very end of ourlife and we're all going to get
there.
Even at the very end of ourlife, and we're all going to get
there I think like that's not avery interesting way to live.
You know we are here for such ashort period of time.
I mean sometimes in the mundaneof our everyday it can seem
like you know, an endless, likeslog through life.
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But I'm here to say like lifeisn't forever and, as someone
who lost both their parents overthe course of a year last year,
it all comes home, you know,and you realize.
I realized what a great life myparents had, but it made me very
cognizant of my own life and Itook a hard look at how I was
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approaching certain things andmade some really big decisions.
And I'm on this journey, whichis the start of a really big
pivot in my life, and I'm veryexcited about that journey and
this business is a part of it,for sure, but it's a very
multi-dimensional journey for meand that all kind of came to
light and I just realized when Iwas caring for my parents.
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I realized how many parts of mylife I had I don't know, like I
don't want to say diminishedbut I hadn't paid attention to
because I was so focusedmyopically on my career.
And career for me is definitelya place that is meaningful,
like I've really enjoyed mycorporate career I mean, not
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every minute of it, because itcertainly has its challenges at
times, but I love what I do andI feel like I've met so many
interesting people and I've gotto be a part of so many
interesting things.
And you know, sometimes I doallow my, when I'm feeling
malaise, I do allow myself tolook back on the things that
I've accomplished and realizehow far I've come and that, more
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than anything, if you findyourself stalled in a place
where I don't know.
You just don't feel likethere's any point.
You don't feel like you've gotit in you to keep trying.
Or you feel like you've facedsuch a steady stream of
disappointment or challenge thatyou're just not sure that you
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can get up again and try.
One of the best ways to get outof that mindset is to actually
look back to the very beginning.
To the very beginning, to yourfamily of origin, to the
beginning of your career or, ifit's a challenge, with your
relationship, to the beginningof your journey together and
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look how far you've come, evenif your life doesn't look
exactly the way you want it tobe.
I will say it's very, verygratifying to look back with
eyes of appreciation, not blame,not judgment, not negativity
towards yourself, but just toreally look at yourself as a
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child and imagine how thatfive-year-old would look at
where you are now.
Sometimes I do that If I am notfeeling great, I think well,
five-year-old Carla would bepretty in awe of how far I've
come, how many cities I lived in, the things I've achieved in my
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career, the salary that I earn,the car that I drive, the house
that I have, the friends thatI've made.
Five-year-old Carla would bepretty in awe of that.
And if you're having a hardtime feeling good about where
you are, that is a really greatexercise to go through.
How would your five-year-oldself feel about you right now
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and everything that you'veachieved?
So when you think about whereyou are and you feel this
malaise and you think it's toolate, or you think what's the
point?
Or I've tried before, it's notgoing to work, or whatever it is
you're telling yourself I wantto tell you it's a decision you
can coast for the rest of, butI'm going to tell you I don't
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think that's why you're here.
You have something to offer inevery area of your life and you
deserve to have a life thatlooks exactly the way you want
it to look and that's going torequire you to shift out of the
things you're telling yourselfthat got you to the plateau and
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choose a new set of thoughtsaround what's possible for you.
That not only is it not toolate, but it's exactly the right
time.
That not only is it not toolate to make a big pivot.
Really, all of the experiencesof your life have prepared you
exactly for that pivot.
So I think it's just adifferent decision, it's a
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different lens that you justdecide to look at life through.
No one can convince you of thatexcept yourself.
And yes, I know that by the timewe get to midlife, there's all
kinds of things that we'vestruggled through and you may be
in the middle of it right nowand, like I said, you may be
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getting it from all sides andsome days it might feel like
it's just too much.
But the way to get out of thatis just to say you know what.
It has been a tough time, butit isn't too late and I'm just
getting started and, while thatcan sound like a cliche, that is
a mindset and that is a mindsetthat you need if you want to
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start refiring into what's next,into a life that is more of
what you want.
That is about possibilities.
That is about you achieving thebest possible outcome for
yourself in every area of yourlife, and I believe that's
possible at any age, no matterwhere you are, no matter what
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challenges you're facing and nomatter how many times you've
tried and fallen down.
I'm just going to tell you getup, dust yourself off, pick a
new thought and start movingtowards it, and that is number
four.
Once you have, number one,lifted yourself out of your
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daily routine.
You've moved yourself to adifferent place.
You're out of your daily things.
You're in your place ofinspiration, wherever that is
for you.
And, number two, you've startedto assess the daily habits that
got you stuck in the firstplace.
What are all those routinesthat you follow day in and day
out, and how well are youshowing up in every area of your
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life?
Once you look at that andyou're honest with yourself
about that Number three, I wantyou to take a look at where's
the mindset that got you there,into those daily habits.
What got you stuck in the firstplace?
And then, number four, I wantyou to start moving, but not
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just in any direction.
I want you to set a goal.
I want you to find one thingthat speaks to you.
So, even if, like, every partof your life is a bit of a
challenge right now, stop tothink about you 10 years from
now.
Where would you be if you werein such an amazing place?
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What would your life look like?
And start to paint that pictureLike where would you be
financially?
Where would you be in yourcareer or your business?
Where would you be in arelationship.
Where would you be in terms ofhow you show up physically in
the world?
Look at all of it and then pickone thing from that menu to
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focus on.
Don't focus on all of it.
Pick one thing, the thing thatyou care about the most, the
thing that you think will do themost to move you forward, and
focus on that.
Set a goal that's very tangibleand specific and get that in
your mind.
Specific and get that in yourmind, let yourself understand
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kind of what that is.
And then, number five I wantyou to start moving towards it.
That means keep that front andcenter in your mind and focus on
your everyday.
And I want you to orchestrate,you know, go back to those
habits that we talked about innumber two, and I want you to
orchestrate a new set of habits,because it is the things we do
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day in and day out thatultimately create our life.
That is what does it.
The things that you do or don'tdo are why you are where you
are Granted.
It all starts with a mindset,what you believe is possible,
but that leads to the emotionthat you feel, and the emotion
that you feel will determinewhether or not you show up the
way you want to show up and youdo the things you say you want
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to do.
So, when you start movingtowards it, I want you to do
that through a set of structuredhabits.
Look at the way you're showingup today in relationship to that
goal that you picked, and thenI want you to find a new way, a
new set of daily habits that youcan exercise Little things that
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you do day in and day out thatare going to move you forward.
If it's a weight loss goal, thenutrition that you give
yourself, the way you schedulein your activities and the way
you do that day in and day outwill move you there, and it will
be supported by an empoweredmindset and a determination to
stay with it right.
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If it's a financial goal, lookat your spending habits, the way
you were showing up before inyour life maybe running up debt
or not paying down debt orwhatever the issue is and then I
want you to look at okay, whatdo you need to change there?
If it's going to lookcompletely different in 10 years
, right.
And then it's that dailyroutine that is going to change
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your life.
The plateau is gone now whenyou change the things that you
do every day.
The outcome of every daychanges.
So that is my advice to you Ifyou find yourself in a plateau,
five steps to take, and it'sreally important, I will say, to
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not try to do this from theconstruct of your everyday.
If there's any way at all toeven give yourself a day or a
weekend or an overnight stay ina place that inspires you, do it
.
And if you don't have thatluxury, here's some alternatives
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, because this is reallyimportant stuff.
At a minimum, take a day off ofwork and go find the most
beautiful surroundings in yourcommunity a park, the lobby of a
beautiful luxury hotel,gorgeous restaurants and I want
you to spend at least a coupleof hours in that environment and
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do the five steps that I talkedabout.
If you can't give yourself theluxury of days away, at least
give yourself the luxury of somehours away.
Changing your environment is soimportant, because that's the
environment that you're in, iswhere you're plateaued, and when
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you leave it, even if it's justfor a couple of hours, and go
someplace completely differentI'm not talking about down the
street to your neighborhoodStarbucks that you go in every
day.
I'm talking about the otherside of town, in the lobby of
the Ritz Carlton, whatever it issomewhere beautiful and
luxurious that looks different,that looks up level that lifts
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you out of your life.
And spend the time goingthrough those five steps figure
out what you want and structurethe new set of daily habits and
routines that are going to moveyou in that direction and
believe, first and foremost,that doesn't matter what
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headwinds you face or how longyou've been at the plateau or
how old you are has no bearingon it.
The only thing that matters isthat you decide where you're
going and that you then put inthe effort to go get it.
That's it.
That is the secret.
So that is what I wanted totalk to you about today as it
relates to plateaus.
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I hope you found these fivesteps helpful and with that I'll
leave you till next time.
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This is the Purposeful Career Podcast with
Carla Hudson, episode number 207.
I'm Carla Hudson, brandstrategist, entrepreneur and
life coach, whether you're onthe corporate or entrepreneur
track, or maybe both.
Decades of experience hastaught me that creating success
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happens from the inside out.
It's about having the clarity,self-confidence and unstoppable
belief to go after and geteverything you want.
If you'll come with me, I'llshow you how Well.
Hello, friends.
I hope you had an amazing week.
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This week we are going to talkabout something that builds off
of last week's episode.
In last.
This week we are going to talkabout something that builds off
of last week's episode.
In last week's episode, wetalked about managing through
the peaks and valleys thatinevitably occur at midlife in
our career, in our life, kind ofeverywhere, and this week we're
going to talk about what itmeans to be at a plateau.
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We sort of hit on the notion ofa plateau in last week's
episode, but sometimes we canfind ourselves in a place where
our life is just where it is andit stays that way for a
prolonged period of time, and sothis week's episode is going to
hit on how do you move pastthat, how do you take a set of
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actions or have a specificmindset that will break you
through that plateau so you canmove forward in the direction
you want to go.
So enjoy this week's episode onhow to break through a plateau.
Today I want to talk aboutsomething that builds off of
last week's episode, so if youhaven't listened to that, you
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might want to go back and givethat a listen, because in that
we were talking about peaks andvalleys and how our life is a
never ending series of those,and while I don't know if you're
anything like me, you wouldjust love for life to be a never
ending series of ever ascendingpeaks.
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Right, it's all good times,everything's amazing, and we
never have to deal with thedarker side of life.
But what we talked about inlast week's episode is that
actually it's those two thingsthat are the fabric of our life
that give our life meaning, andreally it's the down cycles of
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life that help us reallyunderstand more about who we are
and who we want to be and whatwe actually want.
And so in between those downcycles or those valleys, we have
these peaks that when you lookat them, in contrast to what you
just came out of during achallenging time, it makes life
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sweeter.
So, really, the peaks and thevalleys are by design.
It's part of the humanexperience and we can't avoid it
.
But sometimes we will go throughprolonged periods that are more
about plateauing and it can bea more positive plateau or it
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could be a really negativeplateau that we find ourselves
in.
It can be either one of thosethings, but I want to talk about
that today because at midlife alot of us spend our time there.
We are in a plateau, we arestalled a little bit, we don't
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move forward.
We focus more on just sort ofliving with the series of
decisions that we've made in ourpast that have led us here, and
now we're just coasting, youknow, and I think it's natural
to do that for a while.
But I don't feel like that is agood place to stay for any
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period of time, because whenwe're plateaued for a long
period of time and think aboutit in the context of weight loss
, if you're trying to lose,let's just say, 20 pounds or
you're just going back to thegym and you're trying to kind of
hit your fitness goals and youdo okay for a while, but then
you hit this plateau and it'slike nothing you do moves you
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off of it.
You cannot shed another pound.
You know you don't see anychanges in the fitness of your
body If you're going to the gym.
That's not a great place to be,and I feel like the equivalent
of that can happen in any otherpart of our life.
It can happen in our career,where you know we hit this
period of time and maybe we'vehit a level and a level of
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income where we're comfortableand we just kind of get lost in
the comfort of that level.
Or in our personal life, in ourrelationship, we just get
comfortable.
It may not be exactly what wewant.
We may have fallen into somebad habits, maybe we're in not a
great time with our partner andwe may not be happy about that,
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but we're not really willing todo anything to change it either
.
So we just sort of coast.
And sometimes those periodshappen for a short period of
time, but too often that periodcan become years, decades or
even the rest of our life, and Iwant to talk about that today.
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I want to talk about plateauingand why does it happen and what
gets us there and how do we getourselves out of it if that is a
place that we find ourselvestoday.
So let's go ahead and dive in.
So the first thing I want totalk about is how do we get
there?
We can all arrive in that placefor a different set of
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circumstances.
Like I said, it can happen inany part of our life.
So there's so many differentways and things that can happen
that can push us into this placewhere we're coasting, where we
kind of I sort of think of it astaking our hands off the
steering wheel of our life,letting off the gas a little bit
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.
We're just sort of coasting,you know, and we're just going
with the flow.
It just feels too hard to putany more effort into it.
Maybe we've had a series ofdisappointments and we just feel
like now here we are at midlifeand we're not really sure what
else life might have for us.
So I feel like a plateau in anypart of our life happens for
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one specific reason at the root,and that is about our mindset.
If we're plateauing, we havesettled in, and you have to
double click into that and say,well, why have I settled in If
I'm not happy with where I'm atin my career, like it's okay but
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it's not great, and I have morebad days than I have good days.
Why are you settling for thatSame thing in your relationship?
If you and your partner are inthis sort of dance of anger, or
you've retreated to neutralcorners and you don't really
spend a lot of time with eachother that happens too often to
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couples at midlife why are youdoing that?
Why are you settling for that?
That's a mindset.
You settling for that?
That's a mindset.
There's something in yourpatterns of thought that's
telling yourself something,probably like it's too late.
What's the point?
I don't know if there'sanything better for me out there
.
That is the series of thoughtsthat lead to you coasting,
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settling in, trying to just sortof hang on.
And I just want to talk to youtoday about that mindset.
We all can find ourselves therein any part of our life.
Like I said, with a fitnessjourney, with a relationship,
with a career, with a businessany part of our life we can find
ourselves there.
Sometimes it shows up in ourfinances where we just pile on
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this debt and then we end up inthis financial situation.
That's not great, but we're notreally willing to take a look
at it and do the hard work ofkind of digging ourselves out.
I feel like midlife is the timewhere we're more prone to this.
Granted, sometimes it happenswhen we're much younger.
For some people it's older, butthe vast majority of us will
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wake up at some point in themiddle part of our journey and
we will think why have I beenhere for so long?
And even when we think thatsometimes we just have that
thought and then we just set itaside and go right back to
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living the same way and Ibelieve it's 100% mindset it's
the things that we tellourselves, no matter how old we
are.
So, even if we were not midlife,even if we're at the earlier
stage of our career journey,sometimes it's the people around
us and the environment thatwe're in that convinces us that
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there's just no point in tryingbecause the world is against us.
There's this victim, it's toolate, I don't have what it takes
kind of self-doubt, lack ofself-confidence, lack of
self-confidence, lack ofself-worth, maybe doubting
whether you're good enough.
That's at the root of why westay in a plateau.
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Because think about it for aminute If you were not in that
place, if you were looking atyour life like we talked about
at the end of last week'spodcast we were talking about
like life is a choose your ownadventure.
And if you were living that wayand really owning that and
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truly believe that, and you werejust constantly sort of trying
to raise the bar in differentareas of your life, if you were
constantly setting ever moreexciting goals, stretching
yourself, going after it,gaining the new skills, gaining
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the new self-confidence to stepinto whatever those new goals
are, you're not going to beplateaued, because you're going
to be trying to climb and in theclimbing you'll experience
successes and failures.
Trying to climb, and in theclimbing, you'll experience
successes and failures.
You'll, you know, take a fewsteps forward and take a few
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steps back, but the point isyou're not focused on hanging on
.
You're focused on what you wantto do next.
So if you're in a place where,in any part of your life, you
feel like it's gone on too long,I want you to first do
something a little differentthan what I usually tell you to
do, because usually what I'lltell you to do is go within and
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get clear on that, but I want totalk about it through a
slightly different lens today.
I'm going to ask you to do that, but first, what I want you to
do is consider taking yourselfout of your daily routines.
If you can take some time offwork, take some time away by
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yourself, even if it's just aweekend.
You don't have to go across thecountry, you don't have to go
to Europe, you don't have to doanything expensive.
You know, if you're in a largemetropolitan area, go, stay in a
luxury hotel.
Put yourself in a differentenvironment, in a different set
of surroundings.
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Take yourself out of yourday-to-day and the day-to-day
interactions that you had, theroutines of your day, the
environments that you'retypically in.
Go somewhere completelydifferent, somewhere that
inspires you.
Do something an Airbnb or ahotel that really shakes things
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up, that's really up-leveled,you know, might be a little on
the more luxurious side,someplace that's got a nice view
and that nice linens and isjust a beautiful place to be.
And why would I ask you to dothat?
Because it shakes things up.
So it's one thing to sit in thecontext of your regular life,
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with the regular routines ofyour day and the regular sounds
of the day and the regularpeople and the regular mayhem in
the house in the morning andthe regular routines of the
office.
It's one thing to try to do itthere and you can have some
degree of success.
But the real reset can happenif you just lift yourself out of
your life and give yourself aweek, a weekend, to get away by
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yourself, not with anyone else,and do some inner work.
It is good for the soul.
It is really good for the soul.
It is really good for the soul.
And changing your outsideenvironment can do more to
change or even reveal to youwhat your mindset patterns have
been that got you into theplateau.
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So make sure that when you'reremoving yourself from your
routines you're up leveling insome way that's meaningful to
you.
It doesn't have to speak toanyone else, it needs to be
something that speaks to you.
For me, there are certain citiesthat do that.
I love going to San Diego.
I think that everyone shouldlive in San Diego.
It's the most beautiful placeyou know and there's probably a
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place like that for you.
There's a couple of other onesfor me, but that's at the top of
the list, right?
So sometimes when I'm lookingfor inspiration, that is where I
go and I'll get an Airbnb and Ijust kind of go to my favorite
places and I have some quiettime and I do some reassessment.
And it's funny because evenfrom the time I get on the plane
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and I'm going there, it's funnybecause even from the time I
get on the plane and I'm goingthere, you start to kind of exit
the plateau because you'vechanged something material in
your daily habits and that's thekey.
So that's number one thing Iwant you to do If you find
yourself there in any part ofyour life look for some time off
, even if it's just a longweekend, ideally a week and
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think about the things thatspeak to you.
Where would you go?
Don't fill it up with TV time.
Don't fill it up with busysightseeing activities.
Don't fill it up with lots ofpeople.
You can have some of that Ifyou're going to a place you know
, where you know you've gotfriends or people you want to
connect with.
But make sure you've got plentyof time for you, because that's
what this is about.
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So that's the number one thingis get out of your daily routine
.
Okay, number two while you're inthat place where you've lifted
yourself out of your everyday, Ido want you to take a look
before you get into your mindset.
I want you to take a look athow you spend your time in your
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day, and I would say the lens onthis is in what area or areas
are you stuck?
Maybe it's everywhere, right.
Maybe you're stuck in how youcare for yourself.
Maybe you're stuck in yourrelationship.
Maybe you're stuck at work.
Maybe you're.
Maybe you're stuck across theboard, or maybe it's just in one
area where you feel likeeverything else is pretty good
but you're stalled in yourcareer.
Everything else is pretty good,but your relationship with your
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spouse is what you want it tobe.
Whatever area, if it's multiple, that's fine.
Just take it one by one.
I want you to think about it.
And I want you to think aboutokay, well, what are the things
that go on every day, like, whatdoes an average day look like
and what is your part of thatlook like on a day-to-day basis?
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And what I mean by that is howare you showing up?
Are you, from you know, a dailyhabit perspective?
Are you showing up as your verybest self?
And this is every facet of thatself, and this is every facet
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of that, from the way you putyourself together to the mindset
that you have when you tackleyour daily work, or the mindset
that you have when you'reinteracting with your spouse or
your children, or even like yourdaily habits.
This is about like, how well doyou structure your eating
protocol and schedule time atthe gym and how well are you
living up to that Like?
I want you to look at it and behonest with yourself, not just
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focusing on the bad things thatmight've happened or the
challenges that get thrown yourway, but really, first and
foremost, how do you show up?
Because I can tell you like,even during the worst times of
our life, if we decide to showup as our very best, despite
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whatever headwinds we're facing,we're not going to plateau.
We might still be in a at a lowpoint for a while just because
of the circumstances of our life, but if our mindset is not down
in the valley but actuallyfocused on the next peak, you're
going to get there much quickerthan wallowing and getting
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stalled in kind of a down cycle.
That's not where any of us wantto find ourselves.
So as you lift yourself out ofyour environment, which is
number one, number two, I wantyou to spend a ton of time
getting really honest about yourdaily habits.
How do you show up?
How do you present yourself tothe world, how do you take care
of yourself, how do yourepresent yourself, how do you
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articulate, how do you tackleyour job?
How do you do all of it?
Because even if everythingsucks right now, you can still
put yourself together reallywell.
You can still focus on beingyour very best inside the
challenge of that situation, andI would say it's worth it.
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This is your life.
So we're all going to faceheadwinds, we're all going to
face tough times, but we candecide that, no matter how tough
the time, we are going to showup as our very best.
And I think a lot of times, ifwe find ourselves in a prolonged
period of a plateau whetherit's a super negative one or
we're just coasting off of agood time it's because we're not
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really doing the things that wewant to do to kind of keep
moving ourselves forward.
We're just sort of settling forthe mundane, we're settling for
coasting.
And if we're doing that, thatleads to number three.
I want you to get clear on whatyou're thinking.
Whatever the answer to numbertwo was, whatever was revealed
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to you, and how well or not wellyou're showing up as it relates
to your daily habits, I wantyou to think about, in number
three what is the mindset thatyou are dealing with every day?
Because if you're not rising tothe occasion of your day in the
best possible way, the best waythat you can, you're doing that
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because you don't feel great.
And you don't feel greatbecause of whatever it is you're
thinking and that gets to someof the things that I was talking
about earlier, to some of thethings that I was talking about
earlier Uniquely, at midlife,many times, especially during
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the down cycles, when we facesome headwinds especially if
there's a series of those maybecoming at you from all sides,
because sometimes that happensright, it's like we can tell
ourselves there's just no point.
Right, it's too late, I made allthese bad decisions.
It's too late for me to make myrelationship decisions.
It's too late for me to make myrelationship better.
It's too late for me to go outand get a better job.
It's too late for me to changecareer paths.
It's too late for me to losethe weight.
It's too late for me to get inshape.
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It's too late for me to changemy financial picture, like,
whatever it is.
It's too late is usually at theheart of the midlife malaise.
Right, and I'm here to tell youmidlife can be the time when you
refire into your second half,where you get recharged, where
you get re-inspired, where youdecide what you want to do next,
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how you might want to reinventwhat you decide you know might
be possible for you, whether ornot you want to climb to an ever
higher peak.
Or midlife can be a time whereyou just give up, where you stop
even rowing towards the shore,where you just kind of put your
paddles down in the boat andjust coast, and I just don't
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think that's ever a good idea.
Even at the very end of ourlife and we're all going to get
there.
Even at the very end of ourlife, and we're all going to get
there I think like that's not avery interesting way to live.
You know we are here for such ashort period of time.
I mean sometimes in the mundaneof our everyday it can seem
like you know, an endless, likeslog through life.
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But I'm here to say like lifeisn't forever and, as someone
who lost both their parents overthe course of a year last year,
it all comes home, you know,and you realize.
I realized what a great life myparents had, but it made me very
cognizant of my own life and Itook a hard look at how I was
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approaching certain things andmade some really big decisions.
And I'm on this journey, whichis the start of a really big
pivot in my life, and I'm veryexcited about that journey and
this business is a part of it,for sure, but it's a very
multi-dimensional journey for meand that all kind of came to
light and I just realized when Iwas caring for my parents.
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I realized how many parts of mylife I had I don't know, like I
don't want to say diminishedbut I hadn't paid attention to
because I was so focusedmyopically on my career.
And career for me is definitelya place that is meaningful,
like I've really enjoyed mycorporate career I mean, not
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every minute of it, because itcertainly has its challenges at
times, but I love what I do andI feel like I've met so many
interesting people and I've gotto be a part of so many
interesting things.
And you know, sometimes I doallow my, when I'm feeling
malaise, I do allow myself tolook back on the things that
I've accomplished and realizehow far I've come and that, more
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than anything, if you findyourself stalled in a place
where I don't know.
You just don't feel likethere's any point.
You don't feel like you've gotit in you to keep trying.
Or you feel like you've facedsuch a steady stream of
disappointment or challenge thatyou're just not sure that you
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can get up again and try.
One of the best ways to get outof that mindset is to actually
look back to the very beginning.
To the very beginning, to yourfamily of origin, to the
beginning of your career or, ifit's a challenge, with your
relationship, to the beginningof your journey together and
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look how far you've come, evenif your life doesn't look
exactly the way you want it tobe.
I will say it's very, verygratifying to look back with
eyes of appreciation, not blame,not judgment, not negativity
towards yourself, but just toreally look at yourself as a
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child and imagine how thatfive-year-old would look at
where you are now.
Sometimes I do that If I am notfeeling great, I think well,
five-year-old Carla would bepretty in awe of how far I've
come, how many cities I lived in, the things I've achieved in my
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career, the salary that I earn,the car that I drive, the house
that I have, the friends thatI've made.
Five-year-old Carla would bepretty in awe of that.
And if you're having a hardtime feeling good about where
you are, that is a really greatexercise to go through.
How would your five-year-oldself feel about you right now
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and everything that you'veachieved?
So when you think about whereyou are and you feel this
malaise and you think it's toolate, or you think what's the
point?
Or I've tried before, it's notgoing to work, or whatever it is
you're telling yourself I wantto tell you it's a decision you
can coast for the rest of, butI'm going to tell you I don't
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think that's why you're here.
You have something to offer inevery area of your life and you
deserve to have a life thatlooks exactly the way you want
it to look and that's going torequire you to shift out of the
things you're telling yourselfthat got you to the plateau and
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choose a new set of thoughtsaround what's possible for you.
That not only is it not toolate, but it's exactly the right
time.
That not only is it not toolate to make a big pivot.
Really, all of the experiencesof your life have prepared you
exactly for that pivot.
So I think it's just adifferent decision, it's a
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different lens that you justdecide to look at life through.
No one can convince you of thatexcept yourself.
And yes, I know that by the timewe get to midlife, there's all
kinds of things that we'vestruggled through and you may be
in the middle of it right nowand, like I said, you may be
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getting it from all sides andsome days it might feel like
it's just too much.
But the way to get out of thatis just to say you know what.
It has been a tough time, butit isn't too late and I'm just
getting started and, while thatcan sound like a cliche, that is
a mindset and that is a mindsetthat you need if you want to
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start refiring into what's next,into a life that is more of
what you want.
That is about possibilities.
That is about you achieving thebest possible outcome for
yourself in every area of yourlife, and I believe that's
possible at any age, no matterwhere you are, no matter what
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challenges you're facing and nomatter how many times you've
tried and fallen down.
I'm just going to tell you getup, dust yourself off, pick a
new thought and start movingtowards it, and that is number
four.
Once you have, number one,lifted yourself out of your
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daily routine.
You've moved yourself to adifferent place.
You're out of your daily things.
You're in your place ofinspiration, wherever that is
for you.
And, number two, you've startedto assess the daily habits that
got you stuck in the firstplace.
What are all those routinesthat you follow day in and day
out, and how well are youshowing up in every area of your
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life?
Once you look at that andyou're honest with yourself
about that Number three, I wantyou to take a look at where's
the mindset that got you there,into those daily habits.
What got you stuck in the firstplace?
And then, number four, I wantyou to start moving, but not
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just in any direction.
I want you to set a goal.
I want you to find one thingthat speaks to you.
So, even if, like, every partof your life is a bit of a
challenge right now, stop tothink about you 10 years from
now.
Where would you be if you werein such an amazing place?
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What would your life look like?
And start to paint that pictureLike where would you be
financially?
Where would you be in yourcareer or your business?
Where would you be in arelationship.
Where would you be in terms ofhow you show up physically in
the world?
Look at all of it and then pickone thing from that menu to
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focus on.
Don't focus on all of it.
Pick one thing, the thing thatyou care about the most, the
thing that you think will do themost to move you forward, and
focus on that.
Set a goal that's very tangibleand specific and get that in
your mind.
Specific and get that in yourmind, let yourself understand
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kind of what that is.
And then, number five I wantyou to start moving towards it.
That means keep that front andcenter in your mind and focus on
your everyday.
And I want you to orchestrate,you know, go back to those
habits that we talked about innumber two, and I want you to
orchestrate a new set of habits,because it is the things we do
(29:10):
day in and day out thatultimately create our life.
That is what does it.
The things that you do or don'tdo are why you are where you
are Granted.
It all starts with a mindset,what you believe is possible,
but that leads to the emotionthat you feel, and the emotion
that you feel will determinewhether or not you show up the
way you want to show up and youdo the things you say you want
(29:31):
to do.
So, when you start movingtowards it, I want you to do
that through a set of structuredhabits.
Look at the way you're showingup today in relationship to that
goal that you picked, and thenI want you to find a new way, a
new set of daily habits that youcan exercise Little things that
(29:55):
you do day in and day out thatare going to move you forward.
If it's a weight loss goal, thenutrition that you give
yourself, the way you schedulein your activities and the way
you do that day in and day outwill move you there, and it will
be supported by an empoweredmindset and a determination to
stay with it right.
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If it's a financial goal, lookat your spending habits, the way
you were showing up before inyour life maybe running up debt
or not paying down debt orwhatever the issue is and then I
want you to look at okay, whatdo you need to change there?
If it's going to lookcompletely different in 10 years
, right.
And then it's that dailyroutine that is going to change
(30:37):
your life.
The plateau is gone now whenyou change the things that you
do every day.
The outcome of every daychanges.
So that is my advice to you Ifyou find yourself in a plateau,
five steps to take, and it'sreally important, I will say, to
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not try to do this from theconstruct of your everyday.
If there's any way at all toeven give yourself a day or a
weekend or an overnight stay ina place that inspires you, do it
.
And if you don't have thatluxury, here's some alternatives
(31:21):
, because this is reallyimportant stuff.
At a minimum, take a day off ofwork and go find the most
beautiful surroundings in yourcommunity a park, the lobby of a
beautiful luxury hotel,gorgeous restaurants and I want
you to spend at least a coupleof hours in that environment and
(31:45):
do the five steps that I talkedabout.
If you can't give yourself theluxury of days away, at least
give yourself the luxury of somehours away.
Changing your environment is soimportant, because that's the
environment that you're in, iswhere you're plateaued, and when
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you leave it, even if it's justfor a couple of hours, and go
someplace completely differentI'm not talking about down the
street to your neighborhoodStarbucks that you go in every
day.
I'm talking about the otherside of town, in the lobby of
the Ritz Carlton, whatever it issomewhere beautiful and
luxurious that looks different,that looks up level that lifts
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you out of your life.
And spend the time goingthrough those five steps figure
out what you want and structurethe new set of daily habits and
routines that are going to moveyou in that direction and
believe, first and foremost,that doesn't matter what
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headwinds you face or how longyou've been at the plateau or
how old you are has no bearingon it.
The only thing that matters isthat you decide where you're
going and that you then put inthe effort to go get it.
That's it.
That is the secret.
So that is what I wanted totalk to you about today as it
relates to plateaus.
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I hope you found these fivesteps helpful and with that I'll
leave you till next time.
Make it a great week.
My friends, do you have a lifecoach?
If not, I'd be so honored to beyour coach.
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I've created a virtual coachingprogram and monthly membership
called Next Level.
Inside we take the material youhear on this podcast, study it
and then apply it.
Join me atthepurposefulcareercom backslash
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Don't forget thethepurposefulcareercom backslash
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next level.
Join me and together we'll makeyour career in life Everything
you dream of.
We'll see you there.
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