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Speaker 1: Everyone, It's Cali here for this week's Mojo Monday. How

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Speaker 1: often do you doubt yourself in social situations? So have

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Speaker 1: you ever walked away from a conversation and later found

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Speaker 1: yourself kind of overthinking what you did or you didn't say,

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Speaker 1: so things like, you know, did I make sense? Why

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Speaker 1: did I say that? I should have explained that better?

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Speaker 1: And I was reflecting on this recently and I realized

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Speaker 1: something about myself. Sometimes I feel kind of a subtle

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Speaker 1: pressure to show up as my best version of myself

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Speaker 1: in conversations, to say the right thing, to be articulate,

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Speaker 1: to be interesting, or even to be funny. And when

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Speaker 1: I don't feel that I've done that, my mind can

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Speaker 1: start this little review process, you know, questioning what I

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Speaker 1: said and wondering what other people thought of me. And

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Speaker 1: what's intro is that these really happens when I'm working

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Speaker 1: with clients or recording this podcast, or even when I'm

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Speaker 1: in the gym. In those moments, I'm really clear on

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Speaker 1: my role. And you might notice something similar in your

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Speaker 1: own life. When there's clarity about what you're doing, there's

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Speaker 1: often this kind of steadiness that comes with it. But

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Speaker 1: most conversations in life aren't like that. They're messy. I

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Speaker 1: can be messy, you know. People interrupt each other, thoughts

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Speaker 1: come out as half formed sentences, and stories go off

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Speaker 1: in tangents, and that's kind of just human communication. Yet

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Speaker 1: our minds often expect us to be clear and funny

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Speaker 1: and insightful and articulate on demands, and heaven forbid if

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Speaker 1: the topic shifts to something that we don't know much about,

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Speaker 1: that's when our inner critic can really pipe up. But

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Speaker 1: these are impossible standards that we set for ourselves. In

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Speaker 1: Japanese psychology, particularly Marida therapy, there's this idea that can

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Speaker 1: be really helpful. Here. Instead of getting caught up trying

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Speaker 1: to manage our thoughts or silent this inner critic, the

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Speaker 1: focus shifts to purposeful action. So rather than asking ourselves, gosh,

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Speaker 1: did I say the right thing, a more useful question

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Speaker 1: might be was I genuinely engaged with the person in

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Speaker 1: front of me? Because connection rarely comes from perfectly articulated sentences,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't come from being internally focused on how

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Speaker 1: we're performing. It comes from something much simpler. It comes

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Speaker 1: from curiosity, from presence, from interest in the other person,

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Speaker 1: and when our attention moves there, something really interesting happens.

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Speaker 1: That inner critic tends to quieten down, not because we've

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Speaker 1: got rid of it, we know that's impossible, but because

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Speaker 1: we're no longer fueling it with our attention. Our focus

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Speaker 1: is outward, and then conversations begin to flow more naturally,

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Speaker 1: not because we've mastered the art of saying the perfect thing,

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Speaker 1: but because we stop trying to so hard to perform,

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Speaker 1: which can be exhausting. So if you catch yourself this

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Speaker 1: week replaying a conversation and wondering if you've said the

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Speaker 1: right thing, just remember most people aren't analyzing your words

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Speaker 1: nearly as much as you think. They're usually busy wondering

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Speaker 1: if they've said the right thing too, So this week,

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Speaker 1: try shifting your attention outward, be curious about the person

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Speaker 1: in front of you, and you might just find the

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Speaker 1: conversation flows a lot more easily. So have a great

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Speaker 1: week everyone, I'll see you next Monday. Bye,