Welcome to the

Peak Revival Podcast.

My name is Vena.

Today I am gonna talk about

the CEO's secret weapon,

which is mental bandwidth.

So if you are a

business owner.

Or a founder, or you're

running a team or anything

in a leadership position, you

will understand, particularly

in business, You may sign

up for freedom and more

income, but you still come

to realize that they come

at a cost and that cost is

the roller coaster, right?

That is the nature of.

Business.

It's very normal for it

to be a rollercoaster.

I don't know anyone

who has just continuous

ups and no downs.

Right?

And But I think if you're

established in business, you

already know that, right?

You've already experienced

enough of that to know

that it's pretty normal

for it to go up and down.

It's how you manage

the down times, right?

Because this is where we

can get in a complete.

Tailspin, we lose our

mental bandwidth, which

I'm gonna talk about.

We lose our mental

clarity and it seems like.

It would be very normal to be

stressed at that time, right?

Look at everything

I've got going on.

It's normal to be

stressed, right?

Some months are great, some

months are not so great.

When you have a quiet

few months, you start

to panic, right?

Or maybe you've got issues

with growing your team.

Maybe you don't

have the right team.

Maybe you don't have

enough team, though there's

growing pain issues.

Maybe the economy takes a

turn and they're forecasting

doom and gloom, and you're

wondering, right, how am I

gonna get through this phase?

Right?

And so, again, a lot of these

things happen in business.

It's a normal part of

business, but the outside

factors don't have to

completely rattle us.

And it's important to.

You know, keep high bandwidth,

and our high bandwidth is

not impacted by what is

happening with our team, with

our income, with the economy.

Or whatever the

problem is, right?

So let me talk about

what bandwidth is.

I did talk about this in a

previous episode, but I wanna

go into it more because I can

see a lot of people when I

speak to them, they're like,

yeah, but I've got this going

on and I've got that going on.

Of course, I'm stressed

and I'm not gonna deny that

business has challenges,

which I've already

mentioned, but the stress

of it is an inside job.

It's not created

by outside factors.

And we can argue this

point, but I wanna

share some examples of

what, how low bandwidth

increases our stress.

Right.

So high stress is an

indication of low bandwidth.

Okay?

It's not an indication

of what's happening

in your business.

It's an indication of

where your mental and

emotional bandwidth is.

When we have high bandwidth,

we just operate differently.

So on the days that we have

low bandwidth, it looks like.

Everything is urgent.

you're driving through

traffic and you're so

frustrated because you've

got no time for this.

You know, everything seems to

take so much longer that day.

You are.

Got a mental to-do list, which

is going off in your head.

Like, I've gotta go,

I've gotta pick up the

chicken on the way home.

I've gotta go fill

out that report.

I've gotta respond to

that email that I haven't

responded to, I've gotta

have that team meeting, or

I've gotta pay the bills

of whatever it is, right?

There's a continuous

mental to-do list going

off in the head, and it

just feels like you, you

don't have enough time.

You're running around and

you just don't have enough

time to get anything done.

So that's a low bandwidth

day, which I know that you

will recognize, but a high

bandwidth day looks like.

Time has slowed down.

Everything feels chilled,

feels easy to do.

It's like even though

you're courting traffic,

you're like, that's okay.

I've got time.

I'll get everything done

that I need to get done.

It doesn't feel so rushed.

It doesn't feel so urgent.

It feels a lot calmer and

things don't bother you

the way that they bother

you on the other days.

Right.

And you'll find on

these days that you just

get a lot more done.

on these high bandwidth days,

we are really productive.

So the difference between

these two days is our level

of bandwidth our mental

and emotional, emotional

bandwidth, not what is

happening in our life.

Why is this important?

Because I didn't really

understand bandwidth.

In the beginning, in my

early days of business,

and that's this business,

like I didn't really

understand it before at all.

coming into this business,

it was a lot harder for me

to get the online business

going, and I stayed stuck

for quite a number of years.

And I was very stressed

because, you know, I was

running outta money and my

mind went through all these

worst case scenarios and I

was very, very stressed, but

it seemed pretty normal to be

stressed if I wasn't stressed.

I'd be crazy, right?

Because I should be

worried about these

things because I need to

provide for myself, right?

I need to have an income.

And I didn't realize then,

what I realize now is that

level of stress that I dialed

up, the mental stress, right,

was blocking my bandwidth.

And what that meant was the

way that I see this scenario

is that it kept me stuck

in my business and where

I was at in my business.

Which is nowhere.

It kept me stuck for a

very long time, right?

But I didn't

understand bandwidth.

I didn't understand that

all that mental stress that

I was going through was

actually blocking my ability

to solve the problem in

my business and get it to

grow and get it to scale.

So even when I have a

problem now, when something

goes wrong, I can see that

if I catastrophize that

problem, then it just like

eliminates my bandwidth.

can you see this as I'm

talking about it, right?

Because I know that you

would've experienced our, our

mental stress and the noise

and the worry and the concern

has this ability to just shut

down our bandwidth or minimize

our bandwidth so much.

And then the problem becomes

so big and we dunno how

to find our way out of it.

And we can get stuck

in this mental loop all

day long or week long.

And it's not until we

regain our bandwidth that

we'll know what to do.

our mental clarity in our

bandwidth will give us

solutions that we need.

The other example The other

example that I use is, um,

you know, the show Master

Chef in Master Chef, you

know, everyone gets like the

same list of ingredients and

they're told to make whatever

they need to make right, or

to make something out of it.

And so there's like

six ingredients.

Everyone gets it and they're

like, some people are they

just go to pieces, right?

They are just freaking out.

They're looking at the list.

Their mind is just like, you

know, million barrels an hour.

They look like headless

chickens running around.

They're losing control.

They don't have it together.

Right?

And then other people have

the exact same list in

under the same pressure.

Got the same scenario going

on in the same environment yet

they look at the list and you

can see that they're looking

at it quite calculated.

They're like, Hmm, hmm,

yes, I can do this.

We can do this.

And you could see their

mind processing it right

in a very different way.

They don't look that stressed.

They don't look like

they're out of control now.

That task is exactly the same.

The pressure of that

environment is exactly

the same, yet the outcome

between different people

was different, and that

comes down to bandwidth.

Now, as you can imagine in

your business, that would

be really important to not

have those times when we

lose bandwidth, when our

mind just spins so outta

control that we can't put a

proper thought together to

think about what to do next.

Like we get stressed

immediately, and maybe

you don't catastrophize,

but you get stressed.

And you can't find

a solution, right?

It just stuck,

stuck on a loop.

And you could find it that,

you know, you come home, you

talk to your partner about it

and you know you need a glass

of wine or something, and

your partner's not really that

concerned and you're like,

stuck in this loop and you're

talking about it, whatever

it is, like, however that

looks for you, but you're not

able to switch off from it.

Do you know, I remember, um,

having a client once who said.

At night when I'm in bed

is the only time that I

can really think about what

I need to do and resolve

the issues in my work.

I was like, wow, what a crazy

time to, to do that, right?

You need to get sleep.

And, until she could see that

she wasn't actually resolving

anything, she was just

keeping herself up at night.

but that was also robbing her

of her bandwidth the next day.

And so our bandwidth is.

elevated or decreased through

different things, right?

So we need to take

care of ourselves.

We need to take care of

our energy, our mental

wellbeing, our physical

wi wellbeing, all of that.

So nutrition plays a key part.

Sleep also has a massive

impact, you know, um,

supplementation and

all that kind of stuff.

But the biggest interference

to our bandwidth is our worry.

Is our overthinking, is

our negative thinking

is our catastrophizing.

So all that mental noise

lowers our bandwidth.

And when our bandwidth drops,

we're in no place to resolve

the issue that we have.

We're in no place to

grow our business or

scale our business.

We're in no place to

figure out what our team

needs or how to resolve

an issue in the business.

We don't have that

capacity anymore.

It's completely diminished.

And the irony is,

is that we worry.

Because we think that we're

going to find a solution,

but it does the opposite.

Okay?

So the more that we spin in

our mind, the less ability

we have to find the solution.

So what I'd love for you to

take away from this podcast

is that bandwidth is a game

changer in our business.

And we can have access to

more bandwidth, which is our

natural state when we let go.

A lot of that noise that we

carry around in our head,

if you can just see that the

days that you have higher

mental bandwidth, that you get

a lot more done compared to

the days that you don't and

the days that you don't like.

You just gotta kind

of say like, I just

don't have it today.

Right?

There's no point trying

to overthink stuff to

try and create bandwidth

that does the opposite.

But if you can see that

you're gonna value the

high bandwidth days, you're

not gonna spend so much

time replaying and getting

yourself stuck in a loop of

negative thinking and worry.

So let me know in

the comments below.

If you see the

comments, let me know.

Have you experienced those

days of high and low mental

bandwidth and what have

you seen as a difference

in your business on the

high bandwidth days?

Do you get more done?

Do you, you know, have time

for a laugh with your team?

And do you feel like

it just changes the

energy in your business?

Like what have you noticed

in the high bandwidth days

and do you notice on the low

bandwidth days that there is a

lot of mental noise going on?

Any one of those, I know I've

given you a few comments there

to respond to, but let me

know in the comments below.