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38. Micro Vs. Macro Thinking

Insource

Ashlie Molstad

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.2940 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When was the last time you gut checked whether the decisions that you’re making everyday are in alignment with your values overall? So often we’re so zoomed in on that *one* meal, that *one* comment, that *one* bedtime routine, that *one* disagreement, that we forget it doesn’t really matter to us in the big picture, the macro values of our lives.

I hope todays episode offers you some perspective, and an opportunity for you to zoom out and reach for more peace.

See you inside 💥

Website: ashliemolstad.com

Email: ashlie.molstad@gmail.com

IG: @ashliemolstad

Transcript

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0:00.0

You got 365 days in the year and if you put like a sticky note in a jar

0:04.9

365 sticky notes in the jar I can look at it and I pull one of those out and say

0:10.8

how did this day go that's that microthought that is looking at like

0:14.5

how can I make this day most comfortable for everybody? Versus what I want the

0:19.9

overwhelming vibe to be from this year.

0:22.5

What are my values?

0:23.8

And one of my values is connection with my husband.

0:27.5

Getting out and prioritizing our relationship.

0:30.1

Like that's the zooming out, that's the macro, looking back on the year.

0:34.4

What is important to me to prioritize? Well, welcome back to the InSours source podcast I'm your host for the evening or

0:57.4

morning or whenever you're listening to this my name is Ashley Molstead and

1:08.9

this episode I want to share with you a concept that came up with one of my clients this week and it's sort of this thought of micro versus macro thinking. My brain goes all kinds of

1:18.3

of weird directions when I'm in the middle of sessions. Like I just get these

1:21.2

strange visuals of things and I was talking to a client this

1:25.7

week about micro decisions we base that we make off of micro thinking versus decisions that we make off of macro.

1:38.6

And I kept saying it, saying it, and then she's like, can I ask what you mean by that?

1:42.8

I'm like, yeah, let's chat about it.

1:45.4

So when you think about what you had for dinner yesterday,

1:51.7

right?

1:52.0

So what I had for dinner last night was salmon, like this brown sugar

1:58.0

salmon with herb butter rice and apricot glazed green beans and almonds and that sounds

2:08.3

super fancy but it's one of those like home meal kits right that gets delivered

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