The Voice in Your Head Is Not Your Strategic Brain. Episode 520
The Voice in Your Head Is Not Your Strategic Brain
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A voice in your head can sound wise: calm, reasonable, urging, “Don’t overcomplicate this.” For most of my life, it helped me go far.
But when making a decision about my future, I realized that voice echoed an earlier version of me. It didn’t know what I know now.
In this episode, I share lessons from a challenging season. My husband was sick. Two of my boys faced unsolved health issues. I was running a company and holding my family together. This episode focuses on how I found clarity in making a difficult business decision and why this lesson is vital for every high-performing woman.
This episode explores identity lag, overthinking, confirmation bias, and why getting out of your head helps you grow. Listen now to discover the mindset shift that transformed my journey.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- What identity lag is and why it keeps giving you the same answers
- Why your brain hands you your past instead of your future
- How coaching helped me get clarity after weeks of spinning
- Why high performing women get stuck in their own heads
- Three simple things you can do this week to break the pattern and move forward
Timestamps:
(01:28) – Getting stuck when your thoughts aren’t helping
(03:16) – Identity lag: why your brain hands you your history when you ask about your future
(04:34) – Why high-performing women keep trying to do this alone
(05:16) – The necklace analogy: why someone outside your life can see the knot
(05:59) – What Alli’s weekly coaching session actually looks like
(06:39) – Why the seasons with outside thinking are always the best seasons
(07:58) – Three things to do this week
(09:03) – Why you need to schedule the thing you’ve been meaning to do for six months
(10:20) – One thing to do this week to interrupt the pattern
Links to great things we discussed:
- Function Health
- Take the Secret Superpower Quiz
- Join the Uplift Community
- Follow Alli on Instagram
- Don’t forget to watch Alli Worthington on YouTube!
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