Rosanne AustinDiscovery Hub
Teaching2023-04-03·19 min

EP214 Excuse Buster: Time

EP214 Excuse Buster: Time

Rosanne launches a three-part 'Excuse Buster' series, focusing first on the excuse of time. She challenges listeners to examine how they waste time on fear, people-pleasing, and numbing behaviors instead of investing in mindset work that determines fertility success.

The Real Threat to Your Fertility Dreams

Rosanne opens with a challenging truth: the biggest obstacle to becoming a mom isn't external factors like doctors or treatments, but our own self-sabotaging excuses. She introduces this as the first episode in a three-part series designed to bust the most common excuses that keep women stuck.

Why This Series Will Trigger You

She acknowledges this content will be uncomfortable but emphasizes that temporary discomfort from truth is better than permanent regret from inaction. Rosanne shares her intention to hold women accountable with love, just as others have done for her.

The Time Excuse Epidemic

Rosanne exposes how society has conditioned us into learned helplessness around time management. She challenges the fake narratives about time and reveals how much we waste on fear-based behaviors instead of investing in what matters most - our mindset.

Fear as Mind Virus

She teaches that fear and doubt are more contagious and deadly than physical threats, preventing women from taking necessary actions. The key insight: negative thoughts and failure only have power when we consciously agree with them.

The Fertility Mindset Time Finder

Rosanne provides a practical three-question framework to identify time waste, delegate tasks, and envision transformation. She emphasizes that working on mindset now creates generational change and benefits everyone in your life beyond just fertility.

Questions This Episode Answers

How do I find time for mindset work during fertility treatment

Think about how much time you utterly fucking waste doing shit to be liked and people pleasing. Think about how much time you waste saying yes to shit you want to say a roaring fuck no to.

Rosanne Austin11:30

Identify where you're wasting time on fear-based activities, people-pleasing, and numbing behaviors. Delegate household tasks and reclaim time spent being scared to take action.

Why is mindset work important for fertility success

Your mindset will determine your success or failure because it's literally dictating what you eat, what you do, what you won't do.

Rosanne Austin12:52

Your mindset determines all your decisions and actions on the fertility journey. Fear, doubt, and limiting beliefs require your agreement to have power over you, making mindset the foundation of success.

What are the biggest time wasters during fertility treatment

Think about how much time you waste being scared. Too scared to make any phone call, send an email, join a program, find a new doctor.

Rosanne Austin11:51

The biggest time wasters include people-pleasing, being scared to take action, numbing behaviors like mindless TV, and doing household tasks that could be delegated instead of focusing on fertility-supporting activities.

How does fear sabotage fertility success

Your fear, doubt, negativity, limiting beliefs, and ultimate failure on this journey, if you're not careful, if you don't get your mind right, all require your agreement.

Rosanne Austin13:12

Fear acts like a mind virus that requires your agreement to have power. It prevents you from taking necessary actions and making good decisions on your fertility journey.

Should I delegate household tasks during fertility treatment

I want you to apply this principle like a billion dollar CEO when it comes to your life. Where are you wasting time on shit that is not moving you forward?

Rosanne Austin16:08

Yes, delegation is essential. Hand off tasks that don't move you forward so you can invest time in mindset work and fertility-supporting activities that actually matter for your success.

What is the Fertility Mindset Time Finder

What are the top five ways I currently squander my time or numb out? What are three things I choose to delegate now? If I consistently made time for my mindset, where could I be in six months?

Rosanne Austin15:38

It's a worksheet with three key questions: identifying your top five time-wasting behaviors, choosing three things to delegate, and envisioning where you could be in six months with consistent mindset work.

How to Use the Fertility Mindset Time Finder

A three-question framework to identify time waste and reclaim hours for fertility-supporting mindset work

  1. 1

    Identify Time Waste

    List the top five ways you currently squander your time or numb out - be honest about Netflix binges, people-pleasing, and fear-based procrastination

  2. 2

    Choose What to Delegate

    Identify three things you can hand off to others, like household tasks, to free up time for fertility-supporting activities

  3. 3

    Envision Your Future

    Visualize where you could be in six months if you consistently invested the reclaimed time in mindset work and fertility success activities

All Teachings 8

TeachingChallenging1:23

The only existential threat to your dream of becoming a mom is you - not doctors, supplements, partners, or forums

Rosanne conceived naturally at 43 after years of treatment failure by focusing on mindset rather than external factors, demonstrating that self-sabotage is the primary barrier to success.

TeachingChallenging10:58

Fear and doubt are a mind virus more contagious and deadly than any physical threat

Rosanne's 12+ years coaching women across six continents shows that fear-based thinking patterns consistently prevent women from making decisions and taking actions that lead to conception.

TeachingEmpowering13:12

Your fear, doubt, negativity, limiting beliefs, and ultimate failure on this journey all require your agreement

Women in Rosanne's programs consistently report breakthrough results when they stop agreeing with limiting thoughts, as evidenced by her clients' success stories across continents despite challenging statistics.

TeachingEmpowering14:47

Time invested in mindset work benefits everyone in your life and changes multiple areas beyond fertility

Women in Rosanne's programs report improvements in work relationships, businesses, promotions, and overall life quality as side effects of fertility mindset work, demonstrating the ripple effect of mental transformation.

TeachingEmpowering14:25

Working on your mindset now benefits women two generations from now who will be inspired by your story

Rosanne's own story of natural conception at 43 after treatment failures continues to inspire thousands of women globally, proving how one woman's breakthrough creates generational change.

TeachingChallenging11:30

We waste enormous amounts of time on people-pleasing, saying yes when we want to say no, and being scared to take action

Rosanne's analysis of hundreds of women's schedules reveals consistent patterns of time waste on fear-based behaviors rather than fertility-supporting activities like finding new doctors or joining programs.

TeachingEmpowering16:08

Delegation is a billion-dollar CEO principle that applies to your fertility journey - hand off what doesn't move you forward

Rosanne demonstrates through client examples that women who delegate household tasks like laundry and cleaning have more time for mindset work and consistently make better fertility decisions.

TeachingEmpowering12:52

Your mindset determines your success because it controls what you eat, what you do, and what you won't do

Rosanne's four-time bestselling author status and success coaching women across six continents demonstrates that mindset work creates measurable behavioral changes that lead to conception.

Episode Tone
3 challenging4 empowering1 teaching

Key Teachings 8

The only existential threat to your dream of becoming a mom is you - not doctors, supplements, partners, or forums

1:23

Fear and doubt are a mind virus more contagious and deadly than any physical threat

10:58

Your fear, doubt, negativity, limiting beliefs, and ultimate failure on this journey all require your agreement

13:12

Time invested in mindset work benefits everyone in your life and changes multiple areas beyond fertility

14:47

Working on your mindset now benefits women two generations from now who will be inspired by your story

14:25

We waste enormous amounts of time on people-pleasing, saying yes when we want to say no, and being scared to take action

11:30

Delegation is a billion-dollar CEO principle that applies to your fertility journey - hand off what doesn't move you forward

16:08

Your mindset determines your success because it controls what you eat, what you do, and what you won't do

12:52

Perspectives 3

I don't have time for mindset work on my fertility journey

CONSIDER: Time spent on mindset work is the most valuable investment because it determines all your other decisions and actions

Getting help with household tasks is for rich people

CONSIDER: Delegation costs less than you think and frees time for fertility-supporting activities that could save you thousands in treatments

Fear and negativity are protective and realistic on the fertility journey

CONSIDER: Fear is a manipulator and mind virus that requires your agreement to have power over you

Quotable Moments

The only existential threat to our dream of becoming a mom is us.

Rosanne Austin1:23

Your fear, doubt, negativity, limiting beliefs, and ultimate failure on this journey all require your agreement.

Rosanne Austin13:12

Fear and doubt are a mind virus, more contagious and deadly than the bullshit the fearmongers tried to scare us with since twenty twenty.

Rosanne Austin10:58

You are only a failure if you consciously agree to be one.

Rosanne Austin13:43

You taking the time now to work on you benefits your great granddaughters.

Rosanne Austin14:25

Time is no fucking excuse. Things that are not adding to your life, making you better, helping you forge a way forward to this baby are taking from it.

Rosanne Austin15:17

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