293. How To Be Awesome At Getting Out Of Mediocre

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Polls show that over half of people walking around are unhappy and I think it’s because they are stuck in mediocre. A mediocre job, what they would consider as a mediocre relationship, mediocre health, mediocre version of whatever success means to them.

And likely they probably have a story why they are stuck in mediocre. But the real story is, you can get unstuck anytime.

Now, of course, some of us were still dealt a more difficult card than others. So it’s going to take more work to get out of mediocre but it’s possible because people who have had it harder than us have done it so we can too.

It comes down to being honest with yourself about how you feel about different buckets of your life, realizing and believing that you’re incomplete control of all of it, and then establishing daily habits that support the exceptional version of you, not the mediocre version.

I’m very positive and optimistic about the world we live in but I also think it’s so easy to win right now because most people settle for mediocre. They simply aren’t willing to do the hard work, or they are stuck in habits and routines that support their mediocre life, or they accepted that they are not good at something without actually putting in the hours required to become good at it.

We’ve got one shot on this planet and mediocre is not the plan.

Here’s the trickiest part - when you are honest with yourself and assess what in your life is mediocre - it feels painful like you should have done something differently.

But when you lose the ego behind it and take it with the approach of - well I can’t do anything about what’s happened before now but I can for sure take all the lessons learned and make the best decisions going forward. It’s not a fail on me - it’s forward focusing with a growth mindset.

WHY do we sit in mediocre sometimes?

Fear of failure

Easier to stay in your comfort zone

Lack of ambition

Conforming to social norms

Limiting beliefs

Not willing to work hard

Perceived lack of resources

HOW do we get out of it?

Get around a new crew/ have different influences

Outwork your self doubt - Alex Hormozi

Focus on learning and improvement always

Have high standards for yourself

Take massive action

Learn from failures and embrace them

Stop getting distracted and doing the wrong things

Consistency and discipline!

Set-up systems and processes so it all seems more do-able

Have a clear vision of your long term goals and set-up habits to do each day that support those goals.

We have to be willing to have discomfort now - and resist immediate satisfaction, for the long-term satisfaction that is so much sweeter!

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0:00.0	Polls show that over half of people walking around are unhappy, and I think it's because they are stuck in mediocre, a mediocre job, what they would consider to be a mediocre relationship, mediocre health, or a mediocre version of whatever success means to them.
0:15.9	And likely, they probably have a story of why they are stuck in mediocre.
0:20.0	But the real story is is we can get unstuck
0:22.4	anytime. Now, of course, some of us are dealt a more difficult card than others, so it's going to
0:27.1	take more work to get out of mediocre, but it's possible because people who have had it harder
0:31.8	than us have done it so we can too. It comes down to being honest with yourself about how you feel
0:37.3	about different
0:37.8	buckets of your life, realizing and believing that you're in complete control of it,
0:42.4	and then establishing daily habits that support the exceptional version of you, not the mediocre
0:47.6	version. I am a very positive and optimistic person about the world we live in, but I also think
0:53.1	it's so easy to win right now
0:54.9	because most people settle for mediocre. They simply aren't willing to do the hard work,
1:00.5	or they are stuck in habits and routines that support that mediocre life, or they've accepted
1:06.4	that they're not good at something without actually putting in the hours required to become good at
1:11.7	it. We've got one shot on this planet and mediocre is not the plan. Let's go. You're listening to the
1:18.0	How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more
1:24.5	awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner,
1:29.1	a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started
1:35.3	as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day,
1:40.0	and now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do.
1:46.5	Here's Lindsay.
1:49.3	I am all fired up and I am going to get right to the punchline on this one because I think it will have such a big impact on lives and the way we see different aspects of our lives. I think that this is so
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