You think you can, or you think you can't either way you're right. This was a quote
by Henry Ford. And I think it carries a lot of wisdom in these words, because it's all
about the mindset. And you know, when you're in career transition mindset is extremely
important. You think you're going to find a job, um, or you think that you're going
to really struggle finding a job either way. You're going to be right about this. I want
to tell you a story that happened to me just recently and really the power of the mindset,
because it was a true story. And even myself, I mean, I always try to keep a positive mind.
And sometimes I trip up a couple of weeks ago, I contacted my primary care physician.
I wanted to get some, uh, uh, some sleeping AIDS, some sleeping pills. I had never tried
a sleeping pill before, but for the last three or four weeks, I had been having a tremendous
amount of trouble falling asleep at night.
And I felt like I was doing everything that I could to, um, to, you know, make this work
without ever contacting my doctor. I mean, I was using some calming tea. I was meditating.
I was doing everything that I could possibly think of yet. I just, I would have no problem
falling asleep, but within like about two hours later, I was just up and I was just
bouncing off the walls. I would fall asleep, I'd be back up and actually ran. A couple
of apps, had just showed this Jagat, uh, type of, um, you know, uh, range of, of my sleep.
And so anyway, I contacted the, um, the, the primary care physician and she came back and
she said she was going to prescribe me 15 Ambien. And I talked to a lot of people before,
and it was like, they were getting prescription as of like, you know, 90 Ambien at a time.
And I was like getting 15. I was like, kinda like, you know, kind of insulted a little
bit there, but then it actually got a little bit stranger about maybe five minutes later,
if that I get another email. And this one is now from a psychologist, um, confirming
an appointment that I now have scheduled with the psychologist over the phone, the following
afternoon. And it's like, what is going on here? And so, um, I was just getting ready
to email back my primary care physician when I got a second email from her saying, Oh,
and by the way, I've scheduled you with our department psychologist, because a lot of
times, you know, the, the sleep problems, um, is something that, you know, is causing
a lot of stress with us. And I just want you to talk with someone. And again, it was kind
of a little insulted because I didn't feel like I had any problems or anything.
I just wasn't able to sleep, but I went with flow. I didn't have any clients, um, that
next afternoon. So I decided to take the call. So anyway, the call comes the following afternoon
and the woman I'm talking to, she's asking me a number of questions in the very beginning.
I think, questions that any psychologist wants to kind of get out of the way, like, you know,
do I feel like hurting myself or do I feel like hurting anybody else? You know, uh, do
I feel depressed? You know, number of these kinds of questions and at the end of the day,
it's like, no, I just can't sleep. And so we started talking about this and she started,
you know, giving me a couple of suggestions that I had already been using, you know, like
meditation and, you know, cool environment was my bedroom, you know, set up to sleep.
Was I using it to watch TV, all these things that I already knew about. And I said, you
know, look, I I'm doing all of this stuff. It's just that every night it's like, I just,
you know, I go to bed, I sleep for about an hour and then I'm waking up and it's like,
I just almost dread going to bed at night. And that was her clue right there. And she
said, so you're going to bed at night. You're probably the last thing on your mind as you're
falling asleep. Is am I going to wake up again? Am I going to get a good night's sleep? And
I got to admit, that's what I was thinking about. She said, you know, one of the things
that I want you to try is go to bed the next, you know, go to bed tonight with that thought
in mind that you're going to get a good night's sleep.
Well, I had the Ambien and I was going to try that first. And this is really interesting
is, um, so I took an Ambien and I, the next day I woke up and I had this really nice dip
in my sleep pattern for about three hours, four hours. And then it started up and I remember
when it shot up, it was like about three o'clock in the morning. And I woke up and I think
any of the bathroom and then dropped down. Then I was back up. And then we went through
that, you know, normal set of motions again, the following night, um, people had told me,
they said, you know, you don't want to take Ambien, um, two nights in a row. It's very,
very easy to build up tolerance. So I'd already decided I wasn't going to do that. So the
following night I was getting ready to go to bed.
And I caught myself thinking about not sleeping well that night. And I remembered what the
psychologist said. So I had a different meditation and I went ahead and I listened to some meditation.
And it was a meditation that in the meditation, you set an intention. And I actually set an
intention that I was going to have a really good night's sleep. When I woke up the next
morning, I looked at my sleep out on the phone. Not only did I fall asleep very quickly, I
was almost an exact duplicate of what the ambient had shown me. I slept for like four
hours or so. I woke up, I had to go to the restroom and then it dropped back down and
I slept that way. Through the end of the night, it was literally, it was the best sleep that
I had had in probably three or four weeks.
Since this time I've tried a couple of other things. Um, I've tried the ambient again,
um, tried a couple of glasses of wine before bed. Well, okay. No more than two, but nothing
has worked as well as at meditation where I set that intention. So I want to go back
to something, the quote that I said in the very beginning, you either think you can,
or you think you can't either way you're going to be right. You know, Henry Ford, he had
a lot of wisdom in those words, and let's just play this forward when you're in career
transition, you know, a lot of times, and especially people who are, you know, in mid
to late career transition, they think that they're going to have a lot of difficulty
finding the next job or getting the next, um, the same kind of pay, if not more, that
really it's a mindset.
And it's a mindset that I want you to start working on. So, you know, some meditations
out there set your intention every day that it's a positive and not a negative. I think
it's going to make all the difference in the world to you. So thank you for stopping by.
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