127: Navigating the Messy Middle

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m going to give you my Bloomsday Race Report and share my weakness – The Messy Middle… Whenever I set out out to accomplish something I start out 100% inspired, motivated, excited, strong, powerful, eager, peppy, spirited – and eagerly anticipating success. Then I get about 60 % toward my goal and I CRASH. This is where things get uncomfortable, uncertain, not-so-strong, less powerful, way less motivating, uncertain and ugly. I often feel self doubt, fear, and negative self talk. Welcome to the Messy Middle. Have you ever been??? Once I push through the Messy Middle I once again feel optimism, motivation, excitement - all those initial feelings come flooding back. I feel powerful as I approach my finish line or deadline. When you’re in that Messy Middle, you want to BAIL. Maybe you actually do bail sometimes. I know I have. Listen in to hear the strategies I use to take control of my Messy Middle and reach my goals (including my Messy Middle at Bloomsday last weekend). These are simple things that will take you far. The Messy Middle is where you will make something of your goals and dreams OR where you will lay them down to die. The choice is yours. Understand the power of that decision. You can do anything – but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do anything. It’s never easy. It’s rarely pretty. But it’s always worth it. Lastly, SHOUT OUT to the Bethany and Katie, the mamas in the photo for this episode. They were the best Bloomsday running buddies! Links Mentioned: Sponsor: Aaptiv.com (use code SMA30 for a free 30 day trial) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 127. Show notes for this episode can be found by going
0:06.0	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode one, two, seven. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:15.7	I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms
0:20.2	the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap
0:21.8	between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.
0:24.7	I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building
0:29.3	a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building?
0:33.5	So let's dive in.
0:36.9	Hello, shameless moms.
0:39.3	Happy Monday.
0:41.3	I have a race report for you and some good convo.
0:46.6	So I have spent a lot of the last week talking about the messy middle.
0:50.9	It's kind of became the theme of my week.
0:53.5	I actually had, I spoke with two different
0:56.5	groups about this topic. I spoke with my momentum mastermind. It was part of our conversation on
1:01.7	last Monday night for our weekly Zoom conference call. And then I also am speaking,
1:09.7	had this conversation with some of my gym members as well. So the messy middle is like what I'm all about right now. And then I also am speaking, um, you had this conversation with some of my gym members as well.
1:11.9	So the messy middle is like what I'm all about right now. And I wanted to tell what kind of inspired
1:16.4	the messy middle was some things that happened at the race last weekend. So I wanted to fill you in
1:21.5	on all of that. So you might remember that last weekend, a week ago now, I ran, I had a seven and a half mile
1:27.8	race that I spent all of five weeks training for. So the good news is I survived.
1:33.3	It was not pretty, though. It was challenging. And what was funny to me, okay, funny now,
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