Rearview Mirror

So they're very popular in automobiles. We use them to see what's behind us, so it can help our road ahead. But you know what, they're also very useful in life rearview mirrors. Let's talk about it this time on Wi's Thoughts. It's time for a virtual campfire sit down with Terry Weiss. Welcome to Weiss's Thoughts. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Welcome to another campfire sit down with yours truly, Terry Weiss, Welcome to Weis's Thoughts. I'm so glad you're here and decided to join me for this episode of the podcast today. We really do truly appreciate your listenership. And just by the way, I do have a website for the podcast, Weiss's Thoughts dot com Wycee Weis's Thoughts dot com. There you can listen to all the goodness of the past episodes of Weis's Thoughts, so you can tune in there. Just make sure you spell the name right Wycee Weissthoughts dot com. Also, you can comment on the shows and leave any feedback. 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As we talked about in the open, we were talking about rear view mirrors, and yes, while they are prevalent on automobiles, and I'm sure all of you out there know what a rear view mirror is, right, I don't have to tell you that they are also extremely useful in life. And there's a correlation here. You know, in an automobile used to see what's behind you, so you know what's behind you, so if you have to slam on the brakes or you know, if you're looking to make a change in your direction, you want to move into another lane or make a turn, what have you. You use mainly your rear view mirror. You do have sidemears as well, but you also want to look in your rear view mirror. Now, the other thing a rear view mirror can do on an autibobile for you, is it can spot signs of trouble. In other words, let's say there's an emergency vehicle coming up behind you, or something like that, or a storm behind you. You can look in the rear view mirror just glancing obviously and see that and say, okay, I have to adjust for this. So I know you're probably sitting out there saying, all right, Terry and knucklehead, how does this relate to life? What are you talking about when you say using a rear view mirror in life? All right, let's get into it. How many of us, and I'm raising my virtual hand here to you today as well, how many of us have made a decision and then further down the road come to regret that decision or go, oh boy, I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have said this in that situation, or I should have done a little more investigation before I went ahead and jumped into this project, this relationship. What have you How many of us have done that I have, I, sir, may have many times in my life. A rear view mirror for your life takes that experience. Okay, bye, and I'm not talking about living in the past. I'm not talking about that at all. A rear view mirror. What it does is it takes that experience that you had in the past, allows you to call it up and say, Okay, what am I going to learn from this, so that when I encounter something similar down the road, I can look back and say, ah, wait, wait, Ben, this is what happened last time I did this. This is kind of similar. So I'm going to wait a minute, hang on time out, time out, thirty second time out called by the home team. I'm going to draw on that information outcome, good or bad or indifferent that outcome and use that information in my rear view mental mirror to help me where I am right now in life makes sense. And you can apply this to anything, folks, anything, any decision that you want to make. You know, should you invest in that business, should you buy that stock? Should you approach a difficult conversation with someone? And how should you approach that difficult conversation with someone? These are all things that you can use your mental rear view mirror for. You see where I'm going with this? Are you with me on the highway? You see where I'm at? Yeah, right makes sense, And a lot of us, and I'm going to I'm gonna lump myself in with y'all at times, and some more frequent than other others. Rather, we don't use our mental rear view mirror. We just just boom plow right ahead and say, oh, it feels good, it looks good. Oh yeah, this is We don't use our mental rear view mirror to say, hang on a second, let's pause. Let's get a little introspective thought on this before we go rambling down into the highway, opening the door and walking in to try and save us either some heartbreak, some financial loss, emotional loss, you know, time lost, et cetera. So by using your emotional rear view mirror when appropriate, obviously, it can help you minimize problems and obstacles in your current situation and probably down the road. I would say, now you know some of you are out there probably shaking your head right now, and I hear I hear your head right on. And and when someone mentioned it to me in this form, I was too. I was like, what are you mental rear view mirror? What do you get out of here? You jokes are good? Get out of here, knock on, take a walk. But but I digress. When I said it and started really thinking about it, I'm like, hmmm, they might have something here, and it can be another name. There could be another name for it, you know, you know, you can call it something else, psych you know. One of the phrases that pops into my head here at the time of recording the Woice Thoughts podcast for you today is you know, look before you leap right, make an informed decision, take twenty four hours and think about it. What have you all different kind of synonyms for the mental rear view mirror using your mental rear view mirror, But that visualization of the mental rear view mirror just popped into my head, and I'm like, boy, yeah, I got to talk to you about this because I think this is an easy way to visualize helping in the life process. And I'm all about that. Trust me. Anything that can make my life easier. I'm all on board for you know, so you know, going over the concept and thinking about it and breaking it down into its simplest form. It's simplest form using my mental rear view mirror. And when you actually take that time and start doing it, oh my lord. It saved my bacon, saved my tushy more than a few times. Because I have a tendency to be impulsive. I know. I know some of you that know me out there say, no, you terry impulsive? Come on, no, yeah I do. I you know, advertisers, I'm the for advertise. I'm one of the favorite demographics for advertisers. If it feels good, looks good, and might be good. Ay, if you catch me at the right time, man, I'm right on board. Let's go, let's roll. But as I travel on Life's highway here and get deeper and deeper down into the road of life's highway, into the into the journey, I am finding more and more and more that looking before I leave using my mental rear view mirror is really beneficial. And believe me, it just like any type of thing in your life, especially a mental exercise, and a lot of people. A lot of people don't give things like this that can help, you know, improve your life. You know, the mental gymnastics, the mental thoughts, the mental process. I and I used to think the same way. I'd be like, that's just the way I am, That's just how I think my parents thought that way, or I've just always been like this. However, however, I would offer you this in rebuttal your mental process, your mental conditioning, your mental reactions. I look at it and someone had said this to me, and I started thinking a lot about it. It really hit home your mental overall process and how you do things and respond to things and react and emotions. It can be learned and relearned and trained, just like a muscle. Just like if you were starting a workout program. Let's say you wanted to bench press I don't know, two hundred and fifty pounds, Well, you just don't grab two fifty right off the rack. If you're not in shape, or even if you have been working out for a while, would have never done that weight. You just don't get it right right raw. You're probably going to hurt yourself or not be able to do it at all and get really discouraged. And then give up and walk away into adah hell with this, Okay, So you have to practice it. You have to be aware of your thought process, aware of your reactions, aware of how you're responding. That's where the stamina comes in. That's where the dedication on your part, the stick totiveness of it comes in on your part. You see what I'm saying, and believe me, believe me, I'm right there with you, because you know, breaking a habit or starting and forming a new habit sucks. It sucks. I mean I know, I mean the only new habit I probably would say it would be really easy. If somebody says, hey, I'm going to give you a thousand dollars a day for the rest of your life. Oh wow, that's a habit. I can jump right on there there, Johnny, because that's an easy one. But things that require us to get out of our comfort zone, to get into areas of our life that we don't want to look at, we don't want to deal with. We want to take the path of least resistance, Okay. And let's face it, things that are mentally tough or physically tough. And I'm like you, I shy away from it. I don't. It's too hard, man, I don't want to do that. It's too hard with the payoff. The payoff is what's worth it in the long run. Think of it this way. A marathon runner just doesn't get up and run a five mile marathon. They trained for it months, if not years at a time, to run these marathons five miles, fifteen miles, twenty mile marathons. I don't think I've ever heard of a marathon runner that, you know. John Smith just jumped out of bed one day and said, hey, there's a Boston marathon tomorrow. I've never run before in my life except maybe over to the soda machine. But I'm going to enter it. And then they do great. No, they're usually probably throwing up after about a mile. I know I would be. But anything, anything in your life that's going to have a big payoff a reward for the most part, my friends, is going to take work from you. It's going to take effort. It's going to take blood, sweat, tears, being uncomfortable, being unsure, being even dare I say, at times, afraid, being doubtful, being hesitant. But if you can get through that, if you can navigate those waters. Navigate that process, it gets easier. And I can speak on this from experience on certain things of behavior that I've changed, certain mindsets, certain skills, certain old ways of thinking I wanted to part ways with because they weren't They weren't benefiting me at all, they weren't doing anything for me. So by using my mental rear view mirror and keep exercising that muscled my mental rear view mirror. Okay, wait a minute, this situation reminds me of something I went through last year, last month, last week, yesterday, five years ago. Let me just contemplate this. Let me give it some proper introspective thought and reflection before I jump and either say something hasty, do something hasty, make a decision that I may come to regret down the road. Now, I'm not saying you wallow and sit on the fence forever and be wishy washy, But if you can just stop yourself at that moment and say timeout, home team calls or the thirty second timeout, then you know that's what you have to and need to do. And once you start doing it more and more and more, I think you'll find that using your mental rear view mirror in different areas and aspects of your life is going to benefit you in the long run. Thanks for listening to the show today. Truly appreciate each and every one of you out there. We appreciate your listenership, and if you want to get in touch with me, it's mail at Weiss's thoughts dot com. Stop by the website Wis Thoughts dot com, leave us a positive rating and review, and don't forget to visit the website Weis Productions or Terrywiss dot com. Until next time, my friends, Be good to yourself, be good to others. Remember the change you want to see begins with the person staring back at you in the mirror every morning. It's up to you. Be kind to yourself, be kind to animals. Take care. We'll talk soon.