Ep 107 Getting More of What You Think

Posted November 11, 2020

In Today’s Episode:

Join me as I discuss how you will always get more of what you want in life. You always have the opportunity to decide how you want to think about all of it. In today’s episode I look at how you can go from dream job to ….. not so dreamy.. and what you can do to truly make it the dream you desire. Listen today to learn more.

In This Episode:

Medical Device Sales Dream Job
Having no control of your schedule
Making a difference in the lives of others
Changing the way you look at your personal and professional life
Work with me – send a quick email – contact@michellebourquecoaching.com

Episode Transcript:

Hello hello hello –

Welcome back to the podcast

So happy you are here

What is new and exciting in your world?

It has been beautiful in NY these past couple days

I’m loving it

You know what else I’m loving that I want to tell you about ?

This book I’m reading

– Think Like a Monk – it’s so good you guys

It’s a lot of what I talk about here

I talk about habit brain – he calls it monkey brain

I call it using your pre-frontal cortex

He discusses thinking like a monk

Get it?

Monkey brain vs Monk brain..lol..

It’s so good

I’m sure once I’ll done I’ll bring you my book report lol

Ok – he also talks about living in the present moment

So let’s dive into todays topic for now

Today I want to talk to you about the idea

Of you getting more of what you believe to be true

In your life

And I’m going to start with

how you see your job

And honestly this topic

can relate to how you see so many things in your life

But I thought it would be good

to start with job

because I noticed something in my new mastermind group recently

I think I told you guys – I reinvested in my coach

Because I think she is amazing

And all the work I do

I get to share with you

Now,

during the intros I discussed how I coach women in device sales

who want to find life outside of work

And how I am a device rep myself

And one of the other amazing women in the group

said

Oh – medical device sales

That was my dream job years ago

And

it made me stop to think

I remember when I first started

Over 14 years ago…

I was shocked at what exactly the job was

In fact – I wasn’t sure if it was for me

After all.. I was a communications major

Which

By the way

When patients ask me if I’m a nurse

And I tell them no – I have my masters degree

In public communications

They kinda give me a look

And I just remind them

We are communicating right? Lol

But, back then

When I started

so many people I knew

Talked about how it was an amazing opportunity

And I think what happens is

It does seem like a dream job

And then you get in it

And maybe your thoughts change

As you are in the OR late

Or find out last minute about an add on case

Get called from a family event to take care of someone in the ER

Or have to cancel another personal doctors appt

Because the schedule changed

Not thinking dream job so much now right?

I might know these examples

because

They may or may not have happened to me

More than once

lol..

Intersting point to notice

The job didn’t change

Our thoughts did

It really can still be a dream job

But

What I see with so many people I work with

And myself years ago

Is we get in this victim mentality

I have no control over my time

Omg

You guys

This is such a poisonous thought

I can not tell you how long I thought it

And it’s simply not true

You always have control of your time

The issues is

The more you think that

The more you play the victim role

The more you stay overwhelmed

And the less you take action

To set priorities

The less you take a breath

To stop and think

If this next fire to put out

Is really even a fire

Could it have been avoided

With some proactive thinking

Using your brain energy

To yell yourself

You have no control over your time

When you can take ownership

Of knowing

You control every second of your day

I’m serious

If you just looked at me

With the same side eye the patients

Give me when I tell them

I’m a communications major

lol.

This is your work

And it is so worth doing

I tell you this

Because it took me awhile to get it

And I want to help you move through the process

Faster

So you can get back to

Either

Deciding this is not for your and move on

But from knowing you are doing it because you want to make a change

Not from being a victim

You can get back to seeing how it really can be

A dream job

I’ve said this before

And it’s true

You look at my brain 3 year ago

Before coaching

And I thought

I can’t keep doing this

Im on the hamster wheel every day

There has to be more to life

And I thought coaching was the answer

I would just leave and coach

But you know what happened instead?

I learned all the tools

I implemented them

And I continue to do the work

And I can’t imagine leaving right now

I have become more engaged than ever

I am part of 2 development programs

I chair two different parts of an employee resource group

My territory has doubled

My team is cut in half

And I have my coaching practice

And I have never felt better with my life

And my time

Knowing

I still have areas where I can clean up more of my mind

And take it to the next level

I love when I make a difference in our patients lives

And I love when I can help reps make a difference in their lives

Which in turn

Helps more patients

Its crazy!

And imagine

I was going to leave

So think about that if this is you

You don’t have to go anywhere to feel better

I know this in my core

And I want you to keep doing this work

The more you believe you don’t have any time

The more you will find all of that evidence

You guys

Like I said

This is for all areas of your life

The more you think one political party is better than the other

The more evidence you find

The more you think your brother is crazy

The more evidence you find

And it goes both ways

The more you think how much you love your partner

The more evidence you find

Try it out

Just try on a thought like

I just want to love him

He never does anything right

I’m not claiming to be Sherlock here or anything

But

I know you will find clues

For either you choose to believe

Oh – and you know what

Sherlock ? Where did that come from?

I always wanted to be a Charlies Angel ..lol..

But

I guess since I’m neither you just trust me and try it for yourself

And btw

This is not me just communicating to you

There is science behind the concept

I talked about the reticular activating system

In episode 81

It’s the filter we all have

Super side note

And a fun example

I had a meeting with someone recently

Who told me I should start watching

The Queens’ Gambit

Pretty sure that’s what it was called

And don’t you know

All weekend

I saw posts on FB

About how I should watch the Queens’ Gambit

Truth is

I would’ve never noticed those posts

Except for the fact

That someone brought it into my awareness before hand

So what is in your awareness now?

What do you want to start brining more of into your awareness?

Find all the ways your do have control of your time

Let me share one not so obvious fact

You are choosing to be in this job

You don’t have to be

Therefore

You have control

Start there

Now get to work on finding all the other evidence

That is true for you

And once you start seeing that

Have fun and find all the ways

Its truly is a dream job for you

And you guys know

If you want help with this work

Because I get it

I was IN it deep

I needed help

Send me a message

Either michellebourquecoaching on the socials

Or email

Contact@michellebourquecoaching

And we can discuss what might be best to get you started

That ’s what I have for you today my friends

Keep going

– you are creating an amazing ripple effect in the world

And it matters – you matter

So stay safe

And make it a great day

Take care

Ep 107 Getting More of What You Think

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