Are your limiting beliefs holding your back? Here’s the reality: your life is a reflection of your beliefs and I think it’s time to upgrade!
I am 100% convinced that the primary reason people are inconsistent and continue to struggle with the same change for years is that they are focused on changing their choices while neglecting to change their beliefs. For example, if you fundamentally believe and continue to make a case for the fact that you’re an emotional eater, your choices will align with your belief.
Here’s the reality about all beliefs, including limiting beliefs:
“Your body is a barometer of your belief system.” ~ Pam Grout
Your life reflects your belief system. Your limiting beliefs will limit your choices and your ability to grow!
It’s time to edit your beliefs and upgrade your identity! In today’s episode we’re diving into the impact that our belief system has on our choices, identifying the beliefs that hold you back and talking about how we can fundamentally change what you believe about yourself and your life.
Do you need to get motivated? Are you struggling with motivation and feel like change would be so much easier if you could just get & stay motivated? I’ve totally got you covered!
This past Wednesday, I wasn’t feeling motivated at all. It was one of those days when I just wanted to sit around and do nothing, but I needed to get a lot of stuff done. I quickly shifted my thoughts from, “Ugh, I’m not motivated today” to “How can I fire up my motivation?“
I pulled up a webinar from a couple years ago that was all about how to get motivated and I sat there like a student, watching it and putting myself through the paces.
At the start of the training, I shared this idea from Brendon Burchard’s book The Motivation Manifesto.
He explains that motivation is a lot like fire. Though you have fire when you strike a match, the fire only last a few seconds unless you do something with it. That spark of motivation won’t last either…unless you DO something with it.
Burchard describes 3 essential phases of motivation.
Spark
Sustain
Amplify
When we think about motivation, most of us only consider the spark – those moments when we feel really inspired and amped up. Then, when the spark fizzles, we feel less powerful and bemoan the fact that we aren’t motivated.
As we take a closer look at each of those phases, it’s super easy to see where we need to put our effort to create that motivational fire and keep it burning strong.
Spark: Ambition + Expectancy
Sustain: Attention + Effort
Amplify: Attitude + Environment
Last Wednesday, when I wasn’t motivated to get my work done, I could see that my effort and my attitude were the areas I needed to improve, so I got to work.
First: I changed my attitude from, “Ugh, I’m not motivated!” to “I am going to feel SO accomplished when I get this one thing done! I’m just a few minutes away from progress.“
Then, I applied some effort and it made all the difference. I set the timer on my phone for 35 minutes and banged it out.
Those two shifts broke me out of my funk.
Where Does Motivation Fall Through the Cracks?
When we look at those elements: ambition, expectancy, attention, effort, attitude and environment, there are a few common areas where motivation falls flat.
The ambition part is easy – we want to improve. We know the goal. But do we expect to achieve it? Do you expect to achieve it? Do you expect to be successful?
Or are you expecting to struggle or fail?
Expectancy might be your area for improvement.
Most of us are fairly solid on the attention piece. We know what we want and we think about it often. We plan, strategize and keep it top of mind.
But how about effort? Are you applying yourself? Doing the work?
Effort might be the very piece of the puzzle that needs your time and energy.
Attitude and environment almost always have room for improvement.
Does your attitude suck? Are you being negative? Complaining? Focusing on your limitations?
Are you surrounding yourself with other complainers? Is your physical space chaotic?
How You Can Get Motivated Today
Look at those elements of motivation and be honest about where you need to create an improvement. Go through each one and identify where you’re dropping the ball or where you need to apply some energy. Assess where you stand on each of them.
Ambition
Expectancy
Attention
Effort
Attitude
Environment
Where can you create a change right now?
Because these elements are such universal game changers, we work on every single one of these inside the 12 Weeks to Transformation. Every single one, every single week.
These have the power to change every single aspect of your life: your health, happiness, career, finances & relationships.
Registration opens up for the next 12 Weeks to Transformation in just a couple weeks so make sure you’re on the wait list if you want to learn more and get some insider sneak peaks!
Growth and change will both require facing your fears. Progress demands that you face your fears.
Personally, I believe that fear is a doorway. Whether we’re talking about fear of failure, fear of judgement, fear of missing out or any other fear, it is a doorway.
Do you go through the doorway of the fear or do you remain on the other side, letting fear stop you and allowing it to limit your life, your growth, your happiness and your relationships?
In today’s listener Q&A episode, I’m introducing the newest Primal Potential team member and we are sharing honestly how this transition has required both of us to face our fears and step through the doorway of fear.
We’re also answering your questions about:
overcoming emotional eating and the story of the struggle
leaving your job to start a new business
whether or not there are truly foods that make it more difficult to remain in control
adding vegetables to protein shakes
which veggies are best raw versus cooked
One of the major things I did recently to face my own fears was make three significant financial investments in Primal Potential.
I hired a new team member (you meet her on today’s episode)
I joined a $30,000 business mastermind
I hired a business coach
Talk about facing your fears! These kinds of major financial investments have always been scary to me. However – here’s what they did for me: they forced me to level up. They demanded a next-level committment and performance from me. They were big and scary enough to help me think bigger and work smarter.
How are you facing your fears? What will you do about it today? If you’re ready to face your fears and make some changes, think about joining me for our next 12 Weeks to Transformation!
Get on the wait list to learn more about ASCEND, Primal Potential’s weekend workshop! And save the date! November 8-10 in downtown Portland, Oregon – right on the waterfront! It’s a weekend that will change your life!
Recently, I shared in one of the Primal Potential VIP emails a personal growth mantra that inspires the heck out of me:
If you want to double your income, triple your growth.
To me, this doesn’t mean triple the growth of your business, it means triple your personal growth.
I believe this has much broader appeal.
If you want to double your rate of progress in any area of life, triple your personal growth.
If you want to 2x the quality of your relationships, triple your personal growth.
Without fail, one of the ways that I create personal growth every single day is via the circle of achievers inside the 12 Weeks to Transformation and the Primal Potential Masters Club. In fact, that might be one of the most powerful ways I create daily personal growth.
Recently, of my 12 WT clients shared someone that helped me grow tremendously, and we’re exploring it as a personal growth strategy in today’s episode. This is one you can apply immediately and with incredible results.
Here’s the post that started it all:
In today’s episode we’ll be walking throug how this perspective can be applied to health, fitness, fat loss, relationships, careers and more. Through it’s immediate application, you will reduce stress & frustration and accelerate your progress toward any goal! This is a must-hear episode!
Are you in the Primal Potential Facebook group? Join us there to discuss today’s episode, create motivation, help each other grow and so much more!
Listen to episode 521 to hear more about how you can get out of debt no matter how much you make (and learn about my sister Debi’s journey to becoming debt free!)
Listen to episode 548 for more tools that will help you overcome frustration, accelerate progress and facilitate personal growth.
Though I consider myself a change maker in my own life and the lives of my clients, it definitely was not always that way. In fact, if you had told me just a few years ago that I’d have created these massive changes in my health, finances and life in general, I’d have rolled my eyes in annoyance. If you had told me I could lose over 100 pounds and keep it off, I’d have seriously doubted you. If you had told me I could both get out of debt and create wealth in a few short years, I’d have told you it was impossible. If you had told me I could leave my secure job and double my income in less than two years, I’d have told you there was simply no way. I’d have been wrong.
I think you’re wrong, too. Your potential is so much greater than you think and you’ve been drastically underestimating your ability to be a change maker in your life. I’d like to help you change that.
If you’d rather listen to this than read it, please hit the play button below. Otherwise, keep on reading!
Most of my life was a sad mess. On the outside, it probably didn’t look too bad. I had a job, a career. I was in debt but I was living the middle-income life. I certainly had food to eat, a car to drive and a roof over my head.
What wasn’t so obvious to the outside observer was that I was completely miserable. I felt trapped in a prison I had created.
I was obese and felt trapped by my weight, my desperate desire to lose weight and the grip of my own excuses, doubts and delays. I was making a decent income but was under a ton of financial pressure, living paycheck to paycheck and hoping that there wasn’t a need for a new tire or other unexpected expense that I just couldn’t afford.
My past failures to lose weight discouraged the heck out of me and the idea of my future being any different was completely overwhelming.
I wanted a life so different from the one I was living but at the same time, I wasn’t really doing what it would take to create it.
Sure, I read every diet book and initiated 1,000+ attempts to lose weight. I created budgets that I’d fail to stick to…all the things you think you’re supposed to do when you want to change your life. Except every week was just like the week before: some good days, some awful days and very little progress.
I would tell myself, “I’ve tried everything!” Sure, that might have soothed my fragile ego, but it wasn’t the complete version of the truth.
I hadn’t tried everything. I hadn’t tried consistency. I hadn’t tried changing my mindset. I hadn’t tried working with my body instead of against it.
I hadn’t tried being stronger than my excuses.
“I’ve tried everything” was just one of my many ways I talked myself out of progress. I was talking myself out of a different approach. I was talking myself out of my potential.
Sometimes I’d wake up full of fire and motivation to create change in my life. I’d create an elaborate plan and take a few action steps but it never lasted long.
Every “slip” would become a “slide” and that cycle eroded my trust in myself and further convinced me that change wasn’t possible for me.
It didn’t last long because I was focused on transactions more than transformation.
Maybe you’ve taken this less-than-effective (but super common) approach, too. When you focus on transactions, you focus on changing what you do.
Eat less
Exercise more
Count calories
Cut carbs
Weigh daily
Stop snacking
Drink less alcohol
Drink more water
Spend less
Make a budget
Save more
Earn more
Simplify
The transactional approach was never sustainable for me because I wasn’t fundamentally changing how I made decisions, how I thought about excuses or how I showed up in my life.
When you focus on transformation, you’re focused on optimizing who you are. How you think. How you feel.
I’m a creative, energetic problem solver.
I’m a victor, not a victim
I want to take amazing care of myself today
Food is my solution only when hunger is my problem
I want to feel full of energy
I make choices that make me feel more confident
What I want most drives my choices more than what I want now
While that’s just the tip of the iceberg, that shift is how I became a change maker in my life.
Becoming a change maker requires that you focus on the transformation of your mind and not the transactions of your body.
This is the very essence of the work I do with my clients.
We focus on happiness as the path to health instead of health as the path to happiness.
We focus on working with ourselves instead of against ourselves. Shame is not a change maker strategy.
Willpower and discipline aren’t the tools for permanent change.
There is joy in the journey when you’re on the right path!
When you take the transformational approach, you build trust in yourself. You create a sense of freedom – you’re no longer owned by the process and the struggle. You create a growing confidence in your choices and your ability to find answers from your own body (instead of relying on someone else’s opinion).
Whatever change you want to create, I’m telling you right now that with a transformational approach, you have the ability to create it. You have the ability to maintain it. You have the ability to enjoy the journey and I’d love to be part of it with you!
