Lauren Fields
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Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
You know, it has been studied that we have up to 60 or 70,000 thoughts a day, up to 90% of which can be repetitive and up to 80% of which can be negative. And so often we're just letting these thoughts run on autopilot, thinking that that's just the norm.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Yeah, I think one of the biggest ones is the limiting beliefs or the story they're telling themselves about their past. because they're holding onto it and it's like they're dragging this baggage that no longer exists. Studies show that our memory of the past is only about 50% accurate.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And so we're living by this story that's completely keeping us stuck that maybe isn't even exactly what happened. but we're letting it define our lives. And we're almost like addicted to the story we're telling ourselves about the past. And it's blocking us from attracting a brighter future. Say we want to feel free. Say we want to feel successful. We want to feel love.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Sure. I help individuals design a life that they're excited to be living and help them become the person who is able to live and sustain that life. So it's really about living with intention and getting really clear on what is it that I want my life to look like and how do I set it up to actually become what I desire it to be.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
But we're coming in with a limiting belief of like anger, resentment, jealousy. Those aren't aligned. So it's getting really clear on what the client wants to feel, what they want to attract, and ensuring that their energy in this moment is aligned with that.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
I believe it's crucial because resiliency to me means being able to get back up after you fall. And so often individuals can get knocked down or they experience a perceived failure where something didn't go as they had planned and they never get back up. But I believe, I talk in my TEDx talk, this space between falling and getting back up is the space of transformation.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
It's just as a butterfly, when a butterfly is in the cocoon going through metamorphosis, if you take it out too early...
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
won't be able to fly because it's still developing its wings we all go through these struggles and in that opportunity of struggle in that in between of falling and getting back up is our opportunity to rebuild and ultimately transform ourselves so to have this belief that i'm resilient i've made it through hard times we all already have take acknowledgement and celebrate that because on the other side of that is a whole new evolved evolved and liberated version of you
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And so to be resilient, I think in each moment, the opportunity to be resilient transforms us into a more capable, a more well-shaped version of ourselves who's capable of so much more. And so to celebrate being resilient and it just, it starts with believing in yourself and your ability to overcome adversity.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Sure. I'll give you two examples. I mean, for one, an individual, and we can just speak vaguely. It doesn't have to be like a specific person because this is what I see often, is come in with a lot of heavy emotions in the beginning and can't see a way forward, can't see a brighter future for themselves.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
but over time, over weeks of working together, they're excited to come in to talk about their life and they're starting to implement tools that they learn in the sessions that help them approach life more mindful and enjoy the experience of being alive, understanding that that's going to be, oftentimes life can be a roller coaster.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Every day is not gonna be rainbows and butterflies, but they're excited for the journey and they come in and they're like, okay, I was in this moment today where it was a difficult situation and I applied some of the tools that I learned And I realized like what was in it for me to this, I believe life happens for you and not to you.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
So to switch kind of like from a victim mode to creator of their lives. I've helped individuals go from really feeling stuck to setting out on ventures of creating their own businesses. Helping clients just gain clarity of what it is they truly want in life. So often we have all these desires, but what is it that you ultimately really want?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And I think that there's such a big thing to get clear on is what is it that I want? Because until you're clear, the universe isn't going to be able to guess for you. And I believe we're always co-creating with the universe. So when we can get clear, when we can live with intention, you can start to dance with the universe as you begin to pursue your desires.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
identify what the problem is in your life. And then when you identify it, then I think there are multiple ways you can strategize to overcome that problem. But it's getting really clear because so often we're stuck in our own melodrama that we can't even like see beyond it. And so get really clear on what it is that's the problem. What is it that's keeping you stuck? Get really clear.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And then let's figure out how we can overcome it because I believe there are multiple ways or strategies we could start doing today that would improve your problem. But what I see often, Mick, is we're blaming everything outside of ourselves for how we're feeling. And we're waiting on everything outside of ourselves to change for us to feel better. And that's the reverse.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
As soon as you start taking care of yourself, as soon as you go inward, as soon as you start changing, everything around you will start to change.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
I am most active on my social media, which is my name, Lauren Fields. You can visit my website, fieldswell.com. You can listen to the Fields Well podcast. And soon you'll be able to visit me in person at my wellness sanctuary in San Diego, also called Fields Well, which opens in a few weeks.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
So I asked myself this question. We can go to, you know, Equinox to work out our bodies. We can go to sweet greens, eat a salad and nourish ourselves. But where can we go to work on our mindset? And why isn't that something that is prioritized?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
celebrated to work on um you know when you it's not often people celebrate going to therapy i think we're becoming more open to it but i saw this gap in the market and i thought i want to create a sanctuary where individuals can come to work on their mindset and that is what i have been focused on building out with fields well um you know different things from
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
guided meditation, light therapy, sound healing interwoven with my personal coaching and life design is what individuals can get excited to experience at our sanctuary.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
So I have been big on light therapy for a long time when I was in my younger 20s working, you know, as an executive assistant for a CEO in New York City, like maxed out. I had, and like hormonally had acne, like some acne on my chin, which often is hormonal. And so I started at that point going in for blue light therapy. And that helps kill bacteria in your skin.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Okay. So we're going to go deep, Mick. And I actually sat with myself to really get clear on my why versus my because. And so for our listeners, you know, perhaps you listen to Mick a lot and you've gotten clear on what your because is. For me, I had to separate the two. My why with being a life designer is ultimately to help individuals unlock their full potential.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Then I started doing red light therapy, which helps calm the skin and reduce inflammation. And it builds collagen in your skin. And so now there's this, everyone's doing light therapy. It's so good for your skin.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
and beyond that i mean some of the factors they say it can even help with uh anxiety and depression i am a big every morning when i do my meditation it is with a red light therapy so i'm doing my meditation sitting in that have the red light on doing my affirmations my visualizations and so beyond making your skin super glowy less inflamed um killing bacteria
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
I think we may need to bring a professional to say even more about it, but I'm just a big believer in it. And what it really does, it really relaxes me because it's this warm light on my face. And I just feel like really calm in that moment and able to be in a more creative zone.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Okay. Well, I want to, I thought of like, I always like ending with a quote. And so we're going to bring in one from Theodore Roosevelt. And the quote is, if you believe that you can, you're already halfway there. So for our listeners, start believing in yourself.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Can't wait to connect. Thank you so much, Mick, for having me.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And the reason my because is when I was younger, I was in a horse accident and was life flighted into a coma, woke up three days later with a traumatic brain injury. I almost lost my life in that moment. And this happened at a young age. I was 14 years old. And upon waking up, I really believed that I get a second chance at life and I'm going to make the most of it. And that life is so precious.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And what I noticed is so many of us take it for granted. And so I want individuals to wake up and realize how precious each moment is, that life is a gift and let's really make the most. And And to learn how, you know, through my master's work in psychology, through my health and wellness coaching, life coaching, I've learned so much about the importance of living with intention.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And so this all packaged in one is how I've created Fields Well, my personal coaching business, my podcast, and have found the name of life designer.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Sure. I think the first step is becoming aware of your own thoughts. It has been studied that we have up to 60,000 or 70,000 thoughts a day, up to 90% of which can be repetitive and up to 80% of which can be negative. And so often we're just letting these thoughts run on autopilot, thinking that that's just the norm.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
But when you start to do the work, when you start to meditate and become aware of your thought processes, when you start to check in with yourself and ask, why am I thinking these thoughts? Is this what I want to be thinking? And if not, what would I want to replace it with? Then you start to realize, wow, why do I believe these things?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Perhaps they're part of the identity I formed when I was a child based on the attachment bond I formed with my primary caregivers. And I've let this run on autopilot for the past 20, 30 years. I want to change that. And one of my favorite scientists, Dr. Joe Dispenza will say, our personality creates our personal reality. So if we want to change our reality, we need to change our personality.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And that starts with becoming aware of your thought processes, how you're speaking to yourself. So again, that awareness and paying attention to what are the thoughts that I'm having, perhaps you want to write them down. Perhaps you want to start to rewire them by doing some mirror work and speaking
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
kind things to yourself, pay attention to the words you're using, and really just focus on the relationship you have with yourself.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Yeah. And for our listeners, you're not alone. We're all going through this and it takes work to rebuild your mindset. And this is important because our brain is a record of the past. And so if you want to move beyond your past, so many of us are either regretting the past or anxious for the future.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
We need to live for our desired future and get really clear on what it is we want to create because these thoughts, these limiting beliefs, these negative thought patterns can really keep us stuck from attracting the future desired state. That that we earn for.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
I mean, again, it comes back to the daily choices. I think it can sometimes feel overwhelming. Like, oh, you can design my life. Like that's a really big statement. Let's focus in on your daily living. Let's focus in on one day at a time and the choices you're making each day.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
say you're saying you want success or you want to earn more money, however you're spending the nights out late at a bar, those are out of alignment. So really look in on what you do each day. And if that is what a person who, in your mind, you know, a person who is successful, fulfilled, would those be daily habits they would be employing in their lives?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And if not, it's time to make a change in your life to ensure that the acts you're taking each day are in alignment with where you want to go.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Yeah. So, you know, Mick, we talked about this last week on the Field Swell podcast. It's so important to set goals for yourself and and to write them down. There's this statistic that shows we're 42% more likely to achieve our goals just by writing them down. And so it's so important to do that inner work and check in with yourself, like what are my goals?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And to get clear on what your goals are and to write them down, because when you write down your goal, you can then break that goal into actionable steps. And start working those steps and put it in your calendar. You have it written down. Put those steps in your calendar.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And as soon as you start to take steps towards your goal, you'll start to feel this incredible momentum that'll make it easier to keep going. I think that sometimes that hardest part is taking the first step toward your goal because it can feel so overwhelming. But once you start, take that first step, it will all become easier.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And so goals are so important because they keep us guided towards where we ultimately want to go.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
I think there are different practices we can employ in our day, like well-being related practices, mindfulness practices that really help you slow down. A couple that I really enjoy are having a gratitude practice. And so being thankful for everything that you have in life instead of rushing to try and get more, appreciating what already exists for you.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And so for me, at the end of every day, I write down at least three things that happened that day that I'm grateful for. It keeps me aligned with that day as opposed to wishing for all these things maybe that aren't currently in my day-to-day life. So having a gratitude practice, being grateful for what's around you, I find then you'll have more to be grateful for.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And another thing that I do is time away from technology really gives you more space and I believe freedom. So every night my phone's from 8 p.m. to around 8 a.m. It's on airplane mode. and it sleeps in the kitchen. And this space from technology has given me so much extra time each day. And so then I can go into my evening routine, which is dim lighting, warm shower, reading, journaling.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And it's just creating space from like all these external demands that enable you to slow down. And then I'm so much more productive the next day when I enter work mode, because I've had this like self-care time and wellbeing time that I think is so important.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Hi, Mick. I am fantastic. Thank you so much for having me.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Yeah, I think it's almost creating non-negotiable habits for yourself. So for example, I have here my aura ring, which tracks my sleep every night because the more I learn, the more I realize how important our sleep is.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
So say you make this non-negotiable habit for yourself that you devote seven or eight hours every night to a good night's sleep, no matter what else happens in your day, in your life, that sleep needs to be number one. Because again, you can't pour from an empty cup. Your well-being is going to immerse itself in every other area of your life.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And when you change inside, your reality is going to change outside. So you really need to prioritize taking care of yourself. So if sleep is a non-negotiable habit, maybe you also prioritize moving 30 minutes every day. Maybe you prioritize having a salad with protein for lunch. And these are these habits you start to build and stick to.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And if you can stick to them for say 30 days, they're much more likely to become a consistent habit because you'll start to see the changes. So many people, maybe they'll sit in meditation for two, three days and they're like, oh, I don't notice a huge difference in my life. I'm just gonna go on without it.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
It takes time to see the difference, but this is difference that is consistent and it's sustainable long-term. And it really is what ultimately sets you up for success.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Yeah, I think to start, it's when you come perhaps to a life designer or a life coach or a lifestyle manager, like when you come to someone to help you with your life, often you're realizing you want to improve your life or you want to make a change. So I think that's the first step is like acknowledging change. acknowledging your why, like, why am I deciding to meet with a lifestyle manager?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
No, we do. We're turning the tables today.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And then, okay, that's because you want to see a change in your life. So what is it that you want to see the change in? And what do you want your life to look like? And what do you want your life to feel like? And so often, Mick, people will desire an end result because of the state that they believe it's going to make them feel when they get there. Hmm.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
the more I learn regarding energy and quantum physics, the key is really to figuring out how we can have that individual feel that emotion now, because that will help them get it and be able to sustain it in the future, as opposed to saying, okay, once my life looks exactly like this, then I'll feel this way. How can we get you to feel this way now?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Because then you're more likely to be aligned with the potential that already exists in the field of the life that you desire.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
It's so important. So to give even more background, when I was in my younger 20s, I was living in New York City, and I was a lifestyle manager. And so I was planning all these external realities for individuals. Okay, yes, I know the best restaurant to send you the best hotel, gala, what have you. But then I was like, how are these individuals doing inside?
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
Granted, much of this was my own internal turmoil from experienced trauma when I was younger, never fully working through it. And this is when I started doing all the health and wellness coaching, yoga teacher training, life coaching, psych masters, all of it. And then I was like, okay, I do love the hospitality element and ensuring people have lives that are beautiful on the outside.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
But I think what's so important is how they feel about themselves on the inside. And I believe when individuals are given this space of like love, compassion, care, understanding, that's so important.
Mick Unplugged
Lauren Fields: Mindset Mastery and Strategies for Purposeful Living
And to be able to hold that for clients in alignment with being someone with a background in business who can help them strategize on their lives and to give them shortcuts based on my experience in coaching, in psychology and combining the two has been really harmonious. And it's ultimately what I live for. Hmm.