Awareness without a next step is just a well informed stuck place. In this second part of the Quit vs Pivot series, Lesley Logan reframes the pivot as evidence gathered, and gives listeners a way to tell whether they should change course or close a chapter. She shares the running story that reshaped her own goals and the science that makes changing direction a strength. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you’re enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free. In this episode you will learn about: Why a pivot means starting with data, not starting over.The method versus mission filter for what you're truly done with.Running a small, messy experiment before committing to any big change.Signals that point toward pivoting versus signals it's time to quit.How expired containers, not dead dreams, explain outgrowing a plan. Episode References/Links: Submit your wins or questions - https://beitpod.com/questions If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSI DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! 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It is using what you've learned. It's information and then adjusting course, right? And I think a lot of us treat pivot like a consolation prize. Well, Plan A didn't work, so I guess I'll do this instead. Lesley Logan 0:16 Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:59 All right, if you listened to part one, you got some homework done, and you sat with what you're actually done with, and you've checked in with your body, and hopefully you got a little more honest with yourself than a couple days ago. And today we're gonna do something with that because awareness without a next step is really just, well, it's a very well-informed, stuck place, and I don't want that for you, or, as my breathwork coach said, information without integration is constipation, a.k.a. stuck. Right? Lesley Logan 1:27 So, welcome back to Be It Till You See It. This is part two of Quit Versus Pivot series, and if you didn't listen to part one, what are you actually trying to quit? You should go listen to that one because this is going to feel a little bit of the ordinary. So it's just going to be below this in your wherever you're listening to podcast, yeah, because, I mean, if you're like me and you want to listen to the end first, you totally can. Who am I to tell you what to do? But today's episode is about a word that changes everything once you understand it, and that is pivot. And again, some of us don't like that word; we get a little tired of it. But it's a really good word. Lesley Logan 1:57 So let's redefine pivot. Let's start here. A pivot is not a failure. It is using what you've learned. It's information and then adjusting course, right? And I think a lot of us treat pivot like a consolation prize. Well, Plan A didn't work, so I guess I'll do this instead, which is framing that actually keeps you small and a little bit resentful of your own journey, as opposed to the reframe, which you can take instead, which is you're not starting over; you're starting with data. So, for example, when I first started to run a marathon, I thought, okay, I just have to run a long time over and over again, and I'll be able to run a marathon. And I started doing that, and I started having shin splints and a little bit of hip pain and things like that, and I thought about quitting, but I was, well, I don't want to quit. I really want to achieve this goal, but I'm not, this isn't working. And so now I have information about what doesn't work. I hired a coach on how to do it, and then I ran a marathon. And then after I ran that marathon, I discovered that I actually prefer running half marathons because it's easier to stay in shape for a half marathon. And I became an elite half marathon runner and doing things like that. I would not say that becoming a half marathon runner was a consolation prize of being a marathon runner. No, I was able to make a more informed decision about the goals that I have. It was information with, it was having a new goal with data on how to do what I want to do, versus I think I want to do this thing right now, which is totally fine. But now we don't have to start over. We get to start from a new starting line with the data of what to do. Lesley Logan 3:30 So every attempt you've made, every version of the plan, the class, the offer, the show, everything you've done on your goal on a thing, you actually get to ask yourself what worked and what drained you. What did people actually respond to? Not on vibes, but like on data. What about your body felt like it was in resistance before, or what about it felt like it was easy and in flow? All that information is not a waste. It's the research phase. No one calls it that, right? Everyone tells us, oh, you just should be able to do the thing that you set out to do as some b******t. So after every single thing Brad and I do in our business, we sit down and we go, what worked and what didn't work? What did we like? What didn't we like? We said 15 minutes. Was that enough time? Do we need 20 minutes? It's all information. When you do that for your business, you don't go, oh my god, you didn't know. No, you'll call it a postmortem or an autopsy. You call it reflection. Why don't we do that with our other goals in our life? Lesley Logan 4:25 So let's talk method versus mission. And this is a filter that I use now, and I want you to use it as much as you want. And you can call it whatever you want because it is simple. We talked about this in last. Am I done with the whole thing or this is just the way I'm doing it? So method versus mission. If I'm done with the whole thing, that's like mission. If I'm done with the way I'm doing it, that's just the method, right? There's other ways of doing that. Sometimes the mission is still completely right, and the method is what's wrong. You still believe in what your outcome is. You're just exhausted with the vehicle you chose to get there. Lesley Logan 4:56 So, I used to write tons and tons of blogs. That is how our businesses got started, and now I don't write blogs. I do videos, and then the transcripts become the blog. So I still do long form content. I just don't type it all out, right? So method versus mission. Maybe it's the schedule you're using. Maybe you're maybe you said you'll take calls in the evenings, and you want to take calls in the afternoons. Maybe it is the format, like mine was. Maybe it's who you are doing the thing for. Maybe it is the offer itself, right? Like as you heard for the last episode, we changed Agency. We changed the actual offer. We didn't change who it's for. We didn't change our mission of how we want to help more bodies doing Pilates, and that by doing that, we help the studio owners. We just changed the offer of how we're going to do that, and we change the environment of which we did it in. And it's not because we didn't love what we're doing before; we just needed to make a change so that we can sustainably do what we're doing. And that's key, right? It's really important for you to keep that in mind. That like we talked about in the first episode, it's not a failure. It's actually information about where you're at right now. Maybe it's the pace you set, right? Lesley Logan 6:02 I was listening to something today where this woman rea
