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Sports Motivation Podcast

Get Ya Mind Right Monday #46: The tyranny of the should

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8755 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The decision to live life at a high level comes with a range of emotions. I can’t lie y’all… the past couple of days haven’t been kind to me, and I even felt guilt for this. As I stumbled across Wayne Dyer’s book, "Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life" and his concept of “The tyranny of the should”, all feelings of frustrations and overwhelm were lifted. No false expectations over here man. You must remind yourself that the process is all worth it at the end of the day.

Get Ya Mind Right!

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0:00.0

It's get your mind right.

0:05.0

Yo, and that's exactly what I gotta do.

0:08.0

I gotta keep it real, man.

0:09.0

The past week, I've been struggling, legit.

0:13.0

And you guys know, I coach, I got this podcast,

0:16.0

and I'm supposed to have the game figure out, right?

0:19.0

But the thing about it is that I get overwhelmed, I get frustrated, I get tired, I get mad,

0:26.4

I get sad.

0:28.0

In this past week, man, it's been a flurry of emotions for me.

0:32.1

You know, I've decided to live my life at a high level y'all, like a high level.

0:35.9

That means with my family my kids my wife my business

0:40.3

my health my wealth my happiness my emotions and the frustration for me is it feels like as soon as

0:48.3

I go hard on one area of my life other ones have to suffer meaning they don't always meet my expectations.

0:55.0

I have high expectations, I got high visions.

0:58.0

And so this has been making me feel down.

1:00.0

I've been interpreting these events in such a way that it's been making me feel frustrated and overwhelmed, quite frankly.

1:07.0

In the past couple days, it's topped off with me feeling like legit, just damn.

1:11.6

You know what I'm saying?

1:13.6

And I started feeling guilty about that.

1:16.6

I started feeling like, man, you shouldn't, you shouldn't feel like that.

1:19.6

You don't need to feel like that. You should be feeling like this.

1:22.6

Why don't you just do this? But nothing was working.

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