E054: Mental Fittness with Your Own Personal Socrates
Marc Champagne is a mental fitness strategist and host of Behind The Human Podcast. Marc previously worked in medical sales. He loves to connect with another person, especially in sales when it doesn't feel like sales. It's just two people having a conversation and there's no hidden agenda. With all the rejection and the struggle that come with sales, that’s when the idea of mental fitness came up for him.
From medical sales, Marc leaped into the mental wellness space, creating an app, which is a combination of daily reflections and a gratitude journal. Out of that experience came his book, Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers – the vehicle has changed but the path and the work remain the same.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
- When his mental fitness journey started
- The power of journaling
- The pivotal moment for Marc entering the mental wellness space
- Staying out of your autopilot
- Connecting the unknown to the opportunity
- The experience of deleting his app business and writing his book
Episode Highlights:
The Road to Mental Fitness
When you're able to shift your mindset into gratitude or something positive in your life, you become more aware and awake regardless of whatever situation in life you're in. Instead of complaining about your life, default your day with a morning routine such as journaling.
The Pivotal Moment
If you're working towards a certain goal, you need to have a solid plan and strategy. Be excited for the unknown versus fearing the unknown. Marc’s leap into the mental wellness space wasn't because he couldn't stand driving to work anymore, but more like he would regret not trying it.
Connecting the Unknown to the Opportunity
Do everything now as humanly possible to stay out of the autopilot. If your life has been structured and so planned out and you jump into a new world full of uncertainty, replace fear with excitement. Be excited for the unknown and connect the unknown to opportunity.
The Idea Behind Personal Socrates
The idea was to write a book of profiles that opens up the dialogue around mental fitness from all these different perspectives in different industries and different people. And then have the question be the lead-in to basically meet people wherever they're at in life.
The first step is asking questions about getting clear. Step two includes questions to help us be more intentional with our activities, and habits, thoughts, or how we react. If you do the first two, the third one just happens naturally, which is the expansion of possibility. Ultimately, for you to hold space for others, you have to first hold space for yourself.
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