MEET YOUR UNMANAGED MIND
It treats your dreams and thoughts of a BETTER life as DANGEROUS to you and creates thoughts to instill FEAR and DOUBT to stop you. In QYL you will learn how to challenge these fears and doubts, and train your mind to EXPECT them, EMBRACE them, and ultimately IGNORE them while continuing to move forward.
3RD STEP - LEARN TO READ your brain's DEFENSES
When you've been stopped by the Brain Defense before you finish the play, REMEMBER - YOU are the QUARTERBACK OF YOUR LIFE - LEARN FROM IT, MAKE ADJUSTMENTS and EXECUTE the next play in your playbook.
When you start to take your next action to move your life forward, get ready for your UNMANAGED MIND to release a tsunami of negative thoughts to stop you - Then Remember, "I am the QUARTERBACK OF MY LIFE, my unmanaged mind is lying. I'm calling the next play in my playbook and throwing the ball!"
Do not underestimate the influence of your brain on what you can accomplish. It can generate thoughts that keep you in fear and doubt so you stay where you are and give up on your goals; or, it can be an accelerator of ideas and energy that drive you to accomplish more than you ever thought possible. Thankfully, IT'S UP TO YOU to manage it wisely.
"I can't get it all done, THERE JUST ISN'T enough time"
You'll have enough time when you learn how to MANAGE your THOUGHTS about time and think in terms of MEASURABLE RESULTS. Remember: people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day, and grossly underestimate what they can accomplish in a year.
"MY BOSS MADE ME FEEL STUPID WHEN HE CALLED ME OUT in front of everyone.
You must STOP thinking that the circumstances in your life create your feelings. Your thoughts about those circumstances, and YOUR THOUGHTS ALONE, create your feelings. When you INTENTIONALLY QUARTERBACK YOUR LIFE, an amazing TRANSFORMATION takes place. You find yourself assigning meanings to circumstances that move you forward rather than hold you back. You stop trying to change the circumstance, but instead, use that energy TO TAKE ACTION to accomplish your goals. You keep throwing the ball down field.
"I HAVE to complete this before midnight. I SHOULD HAVE started sooner. I hate this job!
Procrastination is another POWERFUL defensive player you face everyday. Procrastination puts you on the bench and causes you to miss opportunities. When you procrastinate, YOU ARE WALKING OFF THE PLAYING FIELD. Can you imagine TOM BRADY walking off the football field when things got tough?
When you QUARTERBACK YOUR LIFE intentionally, YOU put PROCRASTINATION on the bench and yourself back in the game, to execute the plays in your playbook, to manage the game, to keep throwing the ball down field. To score touchdowns in life YOU NEED TO BE ON THE FIELD AND IN THE GAME!
"THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. I HAVE TO WORK THESE LATE HOURS BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS!"
By making what "others are doing" your guide for acting, you abdicate responsibility for your life, you ignore YOUR playbook and you put others in control of how you live!
NFL Quarterbacks don't look to see what other quarterbacks are doing to determine what they need to do, or how to execute the plays in their playbook. Quarterbacks are leaders, they focus on their own playbook and run the plays designed for them to succeed. They trust themselves.
When you intentionally Quarterback your life, YOU develop the PLAYBOOK, you use your offensive resources to design YOUR GAME PLAN, you anticipate DEFENSES, call the plays, throw ball and and ultimately SCORE the touchdowns necessary to get you where you want to go. If adjustments need to be made along the way, you make them. If you need advice or guidance, you get it. YOU DO THE WORK that NEEDS to be done. NO EXCUSES anymore.
"I'M TOO OLD to keep doing this BUT I CAN'T LEAVE. Who will hire me at this age? I'm stuck.
YOUR UNMANAGED MIND will always try to disempower you with this thought if you are over 50 and want to change your life.
When you INTENTIONALLY QUARTERBACK YOUR LIFE, you replace negative thoughts like this one, with thoughts that focus on your life skills, your wisdom, your successes, your strengths, your comebacks, and all you have to offer the world! Which is alot. Learning to manage your mind and intentionally quarterback your life, will generate feelings that will drive you to take action. DON'T GIVE UP.
You can ALWAYS make any circumstance mean something that serves you rather than something that keeps you stuck. It's your choice, and I am here to help you make choices that will get you the RESULTS you want.
YOUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT ETCHED IN STONE - you can change your brain TO WORK FOR YOU!
- Your brain is elastic. If you put in the time to manage it, feed it thoughts that serve you, give it different beliefs, your brain will create new neural pathways and rewire your negative patterns of thinking. Soon you will start to think differently, feel differently, act differently and see different results.
- You can learn to manage your mind, anticipate the negative and limiting thoughts your brain is certain to offer, and have a game plan to manage them.
- You can't change the circumstances you face, however, you can ALWAYS assign each circumstance a meaning that SERVES you rather than HARMS you. It is a choice and the GREAT NEWS is YOU can think ANY THOUGHT you want, even if you don't yet believe it!
Be open to coaching - as your coach, i will:
- Have your back.
- Be your COACH but not your FRIEND.
- Coach you hard in a nonjudgmental caring space.
- Help you clarify WHAT YOU WANT AND NO LONGER WANT in your life;
- Help you MAKE the DECISIONS you've been wanting to make but haven't!
- FACILITATE discussions among your fellow QYL Quarterbacks;
- Be available during the exciting journey of learning to quarterback your life intentionally every single day, regardless of the circumstances you face;
- Use Football principles and NFL examples to coach you to become the best QUARTERBACK OF YOUR LIFE you can be and to sustain the momentum and attitude needed to create the RESULTS you want;
- teach you how to increase your emotional and mental toughness, adjust in the moment, and take the actions needed to create the life you want to live.
- I promise, you will not be alone on this exciting, and at times difficult journey.
6th STEP - evaluate the resources you have on offense to determine what you have and what you need.
Most people have no idea what they want in life, or where they want their life to be in five, ten or 15 years This makes it impossible for them to know what resources they need to get anywhere. If you don't make the time to evaluate where you want your life to be, and create the playbook and design plays to get there, don't expect your life to change anytime soon.
7th step get on the field of your life - call your plays - be the quarterback of your life every waking minute!
Let's not fool ourselves. We all are playing the game of life every waking minute of every day. Some more intentionally than others. The question for YOU is: ARE YOU GOING TO QUARTERBACK you life INTENTIONALLY? Are you willing to do the work to MANAGE YOUR MIND? DO you have the courage to keep throwing the ball after an interception, fumble or sack? Or, will you let the defense and your UNMA
WE ARE ALL MEANT FOR MORE.
I founded QUARTERBACKING YOUR LIFE to help people acquire a "quarterback mindset" to help them manage their Brain's chatter telling them they're not meant for more. WE ARE ALL MEANT FOR MORE, and I am fully committed to helping people become "THE MORE" they KNOW THEY WERE MEANT TO BE, and the "MORE" they WANT TO BE.