How to Rest Without the Guilt Spiral

Welcome to The Achievers Podcast.

I'm your host, Amber Deibert, Performance Coach. I help enterprise sellers unlock their full potential by aligning their work with how they workout and cleaning up mindset trash, so they can sell more, stress less, and take back control of their time and success.

A low-energy day hits, and before you can even rest, a voice shows up asking what's wrong with you and why you're not working harder. When your energy dips, you assume the problem is you.

In this episode, I walk you through exactly what I do on a low-energy day (I used it two days ago while fighting a virus): how I rest without guilt, get the most important things done anyway, and come back stronger. The low energy was never the problem. The spiral is.

🎯 In this episode, I riff on:

• Why the low-energy day isn't the problem, the spiral is

• Work Like You Workout®: reading your physical energy as a map for your mental energy

• The 1-to-10 scale, and how grinding a 4 into the ground just makes tomorrow a 3

• My Disneyland day: fully booked, totally wiped, and how resting between sessions got everything done

• The minimum viable day, and the $2 Post-it Note trick every client loves

• Why rest is a strategy, not a reward, and what Steph Curry and LeBron do every single day

• The reframe: your manager hired you to hit quota, not to work 12-hour days

Resources Mentioned: 

• The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

• Take the energy-style quiz: https://www.mentalmastery.com/quiz

• Work with me 1:1: https://www.mentalmastery.com/coaching

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The stuff I'd tell you in a coaching session about mindset, energy, and getting out of your own way.

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