Motivational Moment- Shift Your Mindset From "OR" to "AND" Thinking: Episode 225
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
All you need in times like these is a little extra motivation to kick start your day to jar you loose from the slump of discouragement that you feel. This episode is the short and sweet motivational moment you need to get back to being the best person and partner you can be!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. You are going to be hanging out with just me today, |
| 0:05.5 | Jocelyn Freeman, for this motivational moment, which is a new episode that we're doing on Thursdays, |
| 0:11.9 | to really invigorate your day, your week with a mindset perspective, a shift, a new way of thinking |
| 0:19.2 | that can really, yeah, add some inspiration and focus into your life. |
| 0:23.8 | And so today's quick topic that I have a feeling will make a difference is about shifting your |
| 0:29.6 | mindset from or thinking to and thinking. This is going to be so simple yet so powerful in many areas of your life. So stick with me. |
| 0:39.3 | In life, we can feel frustrated, disappointed, discouraged, overwhelmed when it feels as though we have to lose something or give up on something in order to have another. |
| 0:53.3 | Right? So we hear sometimes from couples, |
| 0:55.5 | well, because we have a new baby, we have to give up on self-care or date nights, right? Or because |
| 1:02.8 | we're focusing on our career, we have to give up on fun or taking care of our health. And so it can |
| 1:08.6 | feel no matter what area you want to apply it to, |
| 1:11.9 | as though, again, you have to have some kind of a loss or give up on something. But that is one mindset. |
| 1:17.4 | And you probably see us talk about it on Instagram, but so much of life is about your mindset, |
| 1:23.1 | about your perspective and the way that you think. the way you think drives your choices it drives |
| 1:30.1 | your actions so you can shift your life from thinking about oars i can do this or that i can be this or that |
| 1:42.0 | to and how can i be this and that. To and. |
| 1:46.9 | How can I be this and that? |
| 1:49.5 | How can we do this and that? |
| 1:56.6 | And a lot of times when we're talking to couples, when they're trying to make decisions together, again, they'll almost be battling between this or that. |
| 1:58.1 | And that's limited thinking. |
| 2:02.0 | So I'm going to give you a few examples from our life and then really think for yourself and what can apply in your scenarios, both personally and within your partnership. |
| 2:08.4 | So for us and myself, I'll even think, because this has been a big principle I've been focusing on, |
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