How To Stay Motivated When You Don’t Feel Like It (Midlife Career Reinvention)

Are you letting your mood run your reinvention? This episode is for mid-career professionals who know they need to change, but keep getting knocked off course by fear, doubt, and low-energy days.

Todd Jason and Chris Thide break down a real-world growth mindset for midlife career reinvention, built around one core idea:

Follow your plan, not your mood.

Instead of fake positivity or “just grind harder,” they walk through a practical mental framework you can actually use when you’re tired, stressed, and questioning everything.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why most of us are wired for negativity, worry, and worst-case scenarios
• How to raise your default setting toward optimism and possibility
• The core rule: follow your plan, not your mood
• The two paths on a bad day:
Willpower / push through
Allow & reflect so you can reset instead of burnout
• How to use “allow & reflect” without getting stuck in a spiral
• Todd’s practices: solo walks, self-talk, emotional release, music, personal “reset” time
• Chris’s practices: morning pages, gratitude, running, and turning a 2/10 day into an 8/10
• One powerful question to ask yourself in any tough moment: “What do I need to do right now?”

If you’re being shown the door, burned out from corporate, or already experimenting with your next chapter, this episode will help you build the mindset to actually stick with your reinvention.
Your next career move can be your best one yet when you design it around who you want to become, not who you were.

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