Soundtracks - Switches vs. Dials
Over the last few weeks, the Fulling Management & Accounting team has been going through Jon Acuff’s video series “Soundtracks”. This series is based on the belief that many of us overthink and question our decisions. If we do make a decision, we tend to second guess it and ourselves. These are what we call “negative soundtracks”. Jon Acuff is teaching us how to turn down the noise of those negative soundtracks so we can continue to move forward.
We just started the last session of the series, “Creating Turndown Techniques”. Jon Acuff explains that we often have a perfectionism mindset and think we need to be able to completely turn off our soundtracks, like turning off a light switch. But in reality, that is pretty impossible to do. Instead of having an “all-or-nothing” mindset, let’s imagine we have a volume dial on our soundtracks and work to turn them down when they get too loud.
Different situations can cause a soundtrack to be higher up on the dial, like at a 9, or lower on the dial, like at a 2. Being aware of what situations correlate between a loud or quiet soundtrack can help us avoid overthinking. Acuff says, “We might not be able to rid ourselves of the negative soundtracks we have by flipping a switch, but we can learn how to reduce their influence through a few special techniques.” We will continue to learn how to reduce our negative soundtracks’ influence in the next few weeks as we finish the Soundtracks series.
What high-stakes situations tend to make your negative soundtracks speak louder?
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