It’s time to Rebel (aka...Get Outta of Your Messy Middle)
Gary Vaynerchuk says we all need to be at “raw level....executing” That we’re “too stuck in the minutiae”, that we “don’t see the bigger picture or know how to navigate”
Vaynerchuk also says,“half-assing sucks”. I tend to agree.
We need to stop playing safe. It gets you nowhere real fast.
Time to do the damn work, that higher-level thinking.
Break the conformity, the same, same.
Rebel. Like a badass.
Going against the grain is how new inventions are discovered.
Because someone chose to do something differently.
There’s be no cars or, for that matter, no traffic lights. Heck, there’d be no internet.
Staying in the messy middle sucks as well, but you don’t realize it until you get out.
Even if you have no motivation to do anything. Do 1 something.
Just one. Then, call it a day.
And then repeat that action over time.
Get in the habit of the one thing, especially if a long-ass to-do list just sits on your desk gathering dust.
Di one thing on that list.
Over time, it’ll jump start your motivation engine…..getting it used turning over.
Like a car that’s not been driven for a while. You go outside, start the engine and just let it run for a few mins, then turn it off.
So that when you come back to drive it one day t drive it on the road, she starts to purr when you turn the key, press the button OR use your phone to unlock.
If, where you’re at IS the messy middle, things are jumbled.
Your thinking is hazy and stuff starts to not make sense.
There’s a haziness there that shrouds everything in its cloudiness.
It’s where dreams die. It’s where we get stuck.
We might even con ourselves into believing that it’s our safe refuge.
It is not.
If we stay in the messy middle long enough, we start to believe in the falsehood of that “safety”.
It’s also where lots of hiding takes place.
Hiding out in the messy middle we get to say we’re working, we’re progressing but really, we’re not moving. We’re stagnant.
On the one hand, yes, the messy middle sucks but….if you allow it, it’s where the best work gets to start.
And you find yourself moving up from there.
Here’s an example.
I had a client who, even though we’d done lots of work to shore up her self-belief, filling her confidence tank stalled at one point.
On one of our calls, she gave me an update on a personal issue that had been dogging her for a little while, unbeknownst to me.
It was time to dig into what that was all about.
What we found out that she was in hard resistance, trying not to accept what was happening.
And in refusing to acknowledge that this circumstance existed, or deal with head-on, it started to affect every other thing in her life, including how she showed up in her biz.
The only good thing about this period is that it gave her, and me, insight into how she operated when she was stressed.
She hadn’t a clue that this was how her stress played out.
Clues are always all around us.
So what we did was to go right back down to ground level, to her foundations.
We spent a whole session talking about this one issue and how best to manoeuvre through it rather than bury it or skirt around it.
Her confidence, previously, didn't have a space to grow because other areas of her life were taking control.
And, it was if a light bulb had switched on for her.
She could see what she was denying and how it was negatively affecting her not to mention how it put a damper on the larger goals we had been working on together.
What we did was to go back to raw, base-level executing.
We started small. That meant dealing with one thing, one issue.
We used one thought process and and 1 tool. This eventually led, over the course of a couple of calls, to taking one action step.
One.
We repeated this process over and over again to get her brain used to this new way of thinking and being and trusting.
Truth be told, sometimes that action step she took was to just sit in stillness with her thoughts.
Doing that 1 thing, repeatedly, gave her the space to restart her mental engines and brought in the foresight she needed to tackle other areas of her life.
Her messy middle got cleared up. It wasn’t hazy for her anymore.
And now she has the customized tools she needs to countermand the mess when things start to get hazy again.
She had to learn how to be comfortable at her raw level, messy though it was, and executing when she needed to.
Even being quiet when it was necessary.
How can you change the game, especially when you get stuck in your messy middle?
How can you shake things up enough, so that when the tide rolls in, it takes you in a different direction and not back where you were?
Vaynerchuk calls this raw-level executing. I call it creating a Mindset Rebellion™.
Rebel against what you know and have always done.
By the way, I’ve been working on just that, The Mindset Rebellion. Juicy stuff.
Get ready for it.
I’ll come back at you later with details on exactly what it all will be and how you can be a part of it.
But for now…..keep doing your 1 thing to get you out of any messy middle you find yourself in.
Keep your head above.
Alrighty then, till next time,
Be Brave.
Be Bold.
Stay Badass.
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