Are you dealing with doubt? Is your doubt keeping you from trying? Is your doubt keeping you from consistency? When we doubt our ability to create or maintain change, we’re looking at it wrong. We’re overlooking who we become in the process. When you focus on winning the day you’re in, you become a person capable of more than you’re capable of now. If doubt keeps you from doing your best, this episode is for you!
If you want to create change, knowing what to do isn’t enough, yet, you need to know what to do. If you want to create change, you need to have the right attitude, but attitude alone isn’t enough.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about 3 critical ingredients needed to create massive change in your life:
Knowledge
Effort
Attitude
Please don’t merely acknowledge these elements. Assess yourself. In what area are you strongest? In what area do you need improvement? What will you do about it today?
Don’t miss today’s deep dive into developing this solid framework for massive change!
Recently, a few of my 12 Weeks to Transformation clients asked if I’d be willing to do a podcast on the idea of emotional sobriety. Of course I said yes! One of the most insidious barriers to change is going through your life making decisions in moments when your under the influence of emotion.
If you continue to let emotions dominate your decision making progress, you’ll continue to struggle.
In today’s episode we talk about recognizing when you’re under the influence of emotion, increasing your emotional resilience and a practice for minimizing the choices you make when your rational mind is clouded by emotion.
I think you’re going to really enjoy this show! Take a listen!
In October 2019, our relationship with Thrive Market changed. They decided to put their marketing dollars in avenues outside of podcasting but we still think they’re a good choice if you’re looking to save money on health & personal care products.
Yes, there are moments (many millions of moments) when change feels very, very hard. I know. I feel it too. But I need you to know: that’s just a feeling and you can change it. You can make change easier. You can make it easier right now.
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If change feels hard, it’s because you’re talking yourself into what makes it hard. You’re convincing yourself it’s hard. You’ve taken that perspective and continue to build a case for it being hard.
To make that case, you think about your past failures. You focus on all the temptations you must resist. You consider how far you have to go and all the work required to move from where you are to where you want to be.
From that perspective, it definitely appears to be hard!
What that perspective overlooks is the irrefutable fact that change happens one choice at a time. The only time it’s possible to make a choice is in the present moment. You can’t change yesterday’s choices or take action on something in the future. The past and the future have nothing to do with creating change – they can only distract, frustrate and overwhelm you.
One choice at a time.
That’s how change happens.
When you’re feeling overwhelmed or you’re convincing yourself that change feels hard, I want you to shift your attention to this very simple redirect:
Do I have one good choice in me?
What is it?
What’s my next great choice?
What am I able and willing to do today to make progress?
Keep it simple.
Stop convincing yourself that change is hard and start focusing on one small choice you can make now or next.
You are always just a few great choices away from feeling better and all you have to do is execute one at a time.
If I could wave my magic wand and change your mind in some way, here are the three things I would immediately change…
Before I tell you what they are, let me tell you how this came about. I have a personal coaching practice that helps me help my clients. I routinely ask myself, “What are my clients teaching me? If I could wave my magic wand and give them a skill or perspective that would make their lives easier, what would I give them?”
This keeps me from getting frustrated and helps me focus on what they need and how I’ll give it to them.
The other day, in between workouts, my inbox was blowing up with emails from new clients. Since a new 12 Weeks to Transformation recently started, there are a lot of questions, a lot of eagerness and even a lot of desperation. Instead of getting frustrated, I asked myself one of those questions:
If I could wave my magic wand and give these clients something that would help them create change in their lives, what would I give them?
In October 2019, our relationship with Thrive Market changed. They decided to put their marketing dollars in avenues outside of podcasting but we still think they’re a good choice if you’re looking to save money on health & personal care products.
