The Mindset Maniac Podcast

How to Stop Creating Stress Goals: Setting the Last Goal You’ll Ever Need To Make.

How to Stop Creating Stress Goals: Setting the Last Goal You'll Ever Need To Make.

 

On this episode of The Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar talks extensively about goals, and how the old, broken model for creating and achieving goals, has been setting us up for failure for decades!!

 

Episode Highlights: 

• Leslie introduces the topic of today’s episode, and explains why most goals fail, and if they don't fail, after we reach them, we still don't feel fulfilled or successful.
• Leslie explains the old broken model for setting goals >> identity a goal, make a plan, work the plan relentlessly.
• Leslie talks science and discusses why we default to this model: hint it's useful early on in life. 
• Leslie explains the new way to set goals and walks listeners through the exact goal audit she does with her private 1-1 clients.

3 Key Points:

1. Your current goal setting blueprint is BROKEN, but it's not your fault. 
2. The way goal setting and achieving has been taught and modeled by teachers, parents, mentors and books have been setting you up for a 97% failure rate. 
3. The new model for setting a goal will be the last goal you ever have to set! 

 

Tweetable Quotes: 

• “You've been taught how to set and achieve goals from a broken model, a blueprint that sets you up for a 97% failure rate.” - Leslie Crevar

Resources Mentioned: 

• Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram

What I learned from tipping, open marriages, and being a bad mom

New Episode, 12/31/2021

 

On this episode of the Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar talks about what tipping, open marriages, and being a bad mom have in common.

 

 

Episode Highlights: 

• Jokes reveal a truth—let’s dig into what your jokes reveal about you!
• Leslie asks the listeners to think about areas they are confident in and then areas they are not so confident in
• Things that we wouldn’t dare joking about, often times illuminate a fear, insecurity, even a deficiency in some area.

Resources Mentioned: 

• Facebook
• Instagram

The MAGIC Pill for Happiness

On this episode of the Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar is going to give the magic pill or perhaps the prescription for happiness. 

Episode Highlights: 

• Spoiler alert, there are no magic pills, or even one tiny little thing that you can do that will fix everything, says Leslie. 
• Leslie references a powerful story from Deepak Chopra, exhibiting the POWER of the mind. 
• Leslie says the second that you meet her mom, you will notice her positive disposition. Leslie believes this is, in a big way because she controls her thoughts and what she focuses on. 
• Researchers who are in the field of neuroscience and neuroendocrinology, have found that people who practice gratitude, have substantially lower inflammatory markers than those who do not have this practice.

Key Points:

1. Leslie explains how it is your state of mind that controls how you experience life.
2. Leslie shares an amazing, impactful reminder about the truth of life.

Tweetable Quotes: 

• “My mom is someone who has always, naturally had a practice of gratitude.”- Leslie Crevar
• “Not only does consciousness influence our biology, but it also creates our biology. “ - Leslie Crevar
• The more you practice it, the easier it gets, the easier it gets for you to be able to shift into these states of happiness, excitement, ecstasy and joy of practicing it.

Resources Mentioned: 

• Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram
• If you are interested in taking your personal development to the next level check out Leslie's courses and Masterclasses

 

How a Traumatic Birth and a 50k Loss Changed My Life... for the better

In this episode of ‘The Mindset Maniac’, host Leslie Crevar talks on what we can do when we’re IN the middle of a challenging time… to get through it easier and quicker!

Episode Highlights

• Leslie shares personal stories of one of her toughest challenges, darkest days, to date.
• When we’re in a dark phase of life, we have a tendency to say ‘why me?’ or to get lost or buried in despair.
• We should understand that there's a lesson in everything that we're doing or experiencing, and the sooner we can pull that out, the easier it's going to be to navigate these challenges.
• The challenge that Leslie has for you is to stop avoiding these dark phases but instead look for that lesson sooner.

Key Point

• We must ask ourselves ‘what is this challenge opening-up for me?’ instead of focusing on what we’re losing.

Tweetable Quotes

• “Most of us look back and try & to find what that tough time taught us AFTER it's over. But there’s a better way”. - Leslie Crevar 
• “The pain point has to be big enough to elicit a REAL change! A 10k loss or 20k loss was definitely not as big as that 50k loss”. - Leslie Crevar 

Resources Mentioned

• Leslie Crevar: Facebook Instagram

How to CREATE more TIME!!

Episode, 10/25/2021

Today’s episode is helpful for those people who feel like time is always escaping them. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

3 Key Points:

1. We all have the same 24 hours in a day, however those 24 hours that each of us have look very different from person to person. 
2. Leslie shares game-changing tips about time management. There is a difference in multitasking out of habit versus necessity. 
3. If we don’t learn to slow down, physically, and emotionally, and actually BE present in our lives, we will forever feel victim to time, says Leslie.

Tweetable Quotes: 

• “Habits are formed with consistency, patience and dedication” - Leslie Crevar
• “We cannot create more time, but what we can do is make the time we have feel like enough.” - Leslie Crevar

Resources Mentioned: 

• Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram

Why you need to STOP saying, ”It‘s OK”

A 9 minute episode 

Episode Highlights: 

• As women, we are generally taught to be more passive, forgiving, and appeasing, which are great qualities to have, but sometimes this leads us to push down our true feelings.
• Leslie asks listeners to think about how many times they have felt themself saying yes when you really want to say no or saying it’s ok, when it really was not ok.  
• Leslie shares a short story about how her 5 year old son, gave her an important reminder on why we don’t always have to say ‘it's ok’ 

Key Points:

1. Apologizing is something that Leslie does quite often with her son, for 2 reasons. One, she feels it is important to model this for him. Second, she is wrong sometimes, and she wants him to know that she is also always learning and trying to be her best.
2. How often does someone come to us or do we come to someone else with an ‘ I’m sorry’  or an apology of some sort, and we say it’s ok when most of the time it wasn’t ok.

Tweetable Quotes: 

 

• “It is ok to mess up, we all mess up, but we have to be accountable for those things and look for ways that we could do better.” 
• “The more that we see anything, the more normal it becomes.”
• “If we make someone talk to us before they are ready, or if they are not in a space to receive whatever it is that we are going to say, that never works out.” 
• “If we felt some type of way about an interaction or an experience enough so that someone needed to apologize, it probably wasn’t ok.”

Resources Mentioned: 

Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram

If you are interested in taking your personal development to the next level check out Leslie's courses and Masterclasses

How To Make Tough Conversations, EASY!

In this episode of The Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar is going to talk about navigating tough conversations. Why to have them, how to start them and how to close them out to get your desired outcome. 

Episode Highlights: 

• Leslie has come up with this four-step process in order to navigate tough conversations.
• The process is called P.S.S.S 
• Step 1 is the purpose-- is the purpose of your conversation driven internally or externally. 
• The second step of this is S-- to set it up. Make sure you are having it in the right place, the right time, and you are setting it up for success.
• Step 3 -- Say it. We don’t dance around it. 
• The final step is to share your purpose 

Key Points:

1. Anytime we are getting ready to have a tough conversation, the most important thing to do is to identify the purpose for ourselves. 
2. If your goal going into a conversation is for someone else to do something or not do something, you are more likely to leave disappointed. We have little control over the other person’s response. 

Tweetable Quotes: 

• “We want to make sure that we set the conversation up in a way that it has a fair chance of being successful.” - Leslie 
• “Be tactful, but still be direct and very clear on your point.” – Leslie

Resources Mentioned: 

Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram

If you are interested in taking your personal development to the next level check out Leslie's courses and Masterclasses

The Sneakiest of all ‘Intention Killers‘ ＞＞ Your Ego Bling Part 4/4

Episode, 09/29/2021

 

In this episode of The Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar talks about the final part of the four-part series, talking about leading with your intention.

 

Episode Highlights: 

• In part one, we talked about identifying your intention. In part 2, we talked about the first of the silent killers of intentions which was ‘waiting’. Then we talked about the second silent intention killer, which we identified as the drive by intention killer, otherwise known as ‘rushing’. Today we are going to talk about the final intention killer. It’s a little something Leslie calls good old fashion, ‘ego bling’. 
• Ego Bling can be anything that we hold onto (for any number of reasons) that keep us from doing the things we want (and need) to do to be living in alignment with our intention.
  • it might be the job we hate but keep hanging on to because it comes with a certain status
  • it might be the relationship we’ve outgrown because the title of ‘taken/married/in a relationship’ is more appealing than ‘single’
  • it might be the home you live in, the car you drive, the ‘things’ you buy. That all have a certain ‘status’ but really, mean NOTHING to you. 
• In this episode we unpack what Ego bling looks like, why we hold onto it, and when to let it go. 

Key Points:

1. Ego bling is an interesting silent intention killer because it looks different for each individual.
2. When we decide that we are going to change something or add something or subtract something or become something new it can feel very scary because change is scary, it is unknown. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram

Are you guilty of this ‘drive by‘ intention killer?? Part 3/4

In this episode of The Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar talks about leading with intention in your life. Today, we will dive into part three of this four-part series around leading with your intention. 

 

 

Episode Highlights: 

• In part one, we talked about identifying your In Part 2 we talked about the first of three silent intention killers which was, waiting, and today we’ll discuss the second silent intention killer, which I like to call. The drive-by intention killer, otherwise known as rushing.
• Maybe you are not a waiting type of person. Your style might not be defined by the brake pedal but more so defined by the gas pedal. 

Key Points:

1. Instead of rushing, we need to be able to find that middle ground. We aren’t waiting, but we also aren’t grabbing someone else’s random intention that we see and then making it our own.
2. This intention killer, rushing, means that you aren’t really following your intention. You are merely reacting on impulse, and that keeps you skating on the surface level of life. 

Tweetable Quotes: 

• “You are making unnecessary or irrelevant sh*t happen, and I hate to break it to you, but this is an intention killer too.”
• “What we are trying to do is develop the ability to make decisions for ourselves, to decide what’s best for us, not what someone else thinks is best for us.”

Resources Mentioned: 

• Leslie Crevar Facebook Instagram
• If you are interested in taking your personal development to the next level check out Leslie's courses and Masterclasses

 

Are you WAITING your life away?? part 2/4

The 1st or 3 silent intention killers

 

In this episode of The Mindset Maniac, host Leslie Crevar talks about leading with intention in your life. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

• In part one, we talked about how to identify your intention. 
• In this episode we will talk about how self-sabotage shows up to subtly kill our intention.
• When we start killing or blocking our intention through things like self-sabotage, it is typically pretty subtle. You will probably barely notice it is happening.
• Change does not feel safe to us on a subconscious level, and a lot of times on a conscious level as well. But staying stuck, not making any movement, whether that is forward or lateral stains stuck pulls. It gets you nowhere. 
• This first intention killer that we are going to talk about today is waiting. 
• Maybe you are waiting for approval, maybe you are waiting for permission, maybe you are waiting for security or money, or you know that all elusive 'right time', you name it people find themselves waiting for it. 

Stay tuned for part 3 where we will dive into the 2nd silent intention killer... which I like to call, 'The Drive-by' intention killer also known as 'Rushing'

 

If you are interested in taking your personal development to the next level check out Leslie's courses and Masterclasses