Don’t Allow your Mood Majority Vote // Spartan STAND 018

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Brian "Tosh" Chontosh says this is just another way of saying don't be an emotional based decision maker, don't be impulsive, or think about what you are doing / not doing. For me, phrasing it this way simply invites engaging about what it means to not allow a transitory feeling or emotion to rule on my actions.

I start to introduce the power of feedback mechanisms and discipline. When we give in to mood we have an often temporary high followed with a low of sorts. [ It doesn't always have to be the pleasure & guilt dynamic. ] What happens is the decision to arrive at the immediate high receives the connection to a response from mood and the further down the road low just gets labeled as a new mood that needs to be placated. The opposite is true where discipline to do an uncomfortable thing now yields a down the road high where if we can remember to associate that feeling of high as a reward to the decision to deny comfort (in this example) we can modify behavior and decisions.

LESSONS:
Anytime you say to yourself “I don’t feel or I’m not in the mood…” check in
Let your mood have an appropriate vote along with a handful of rational informatives

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CREDITS:

Producer: Marion Abrams, Madmotion,llc.
Host: Brian “tosh” Chontosh
Show notes: Brian “tosh” Chontosh

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Spartan's Brian Shantosh and this week on Spartan stand I want to talk to you about your mood.
0:10.0	I like to say don't let your mood have majority vote. Don't let your mood affect the
0:16.4	decisions that you know you should be making just because you don't feel like making them.
0:20.8	It's a I don't feel good today. I'm not going to do what I'm supposed to do. My
0:26.4	mood is going to have the majority of vote on whether or not I move through and do what people
0:32.0	expect me to do, what I intended to do, what my
0:36.0	responsibilities say I should be doing. And I think when our mood is driving
0:42.3	our decision-making process this can lead to being
0:45.9	disappointed with yourself this could lead to being frustrated with yourself creating
0:50.4	feeling negative feedback mechanisms in loops that you're constantly
0:54.8	disappointed and you feel like a failure or self-dow creeps in or you start
0:59.1	riding your narrative that oh well I'm just I just can't keep my timeline or oh I'm just that and when I turn it all back I think about yeah
1:09.7	You're living your life in reaction or response to your mood.
1:15.8	When does that get the majority vote
1:17.9	on what we're supposed to do?
1:19.6	And so how I like to work it is be sitting down and it have triggers right and when I find
1:26.8	myself saying something either in my head or out loud and it's like oh that's a trigger
1:31.4	that I'm about to do something that I really try or I practice in my life not to do.
1:37.0	For example, it would be, oh, man, I just not in the mood today to work out.
1:44.0	I'm like, oh, I just said I'm not in the mood today.
1:47.0	That's an opportunity for me to check in.
1:50.0	Okay, I don't feel like working out, but am I supposed to do what should I do I
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