In today’s “How They Did It” interview, you’ll hear from a pediatrician with a full life – she’s a working mom who is also working on herself – and she opens up about how being more honest with yourself is the key to creating change in any area of your life!
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This story of transformation features 12 Weeks to Transformation client, Tracey.
For anyone passing by it looked like Tracey had a pretty good life. She was raising three great kids, was married to her college sweetheart for 27 years, had a successful career, wonderful friends and was doing things she enjoyed.
But behind the “good life” there was an underlying tension. Life felt closed and like something was broken. It wasn’t something she could really describe but it was always there. And those things carried into her marriage, but she didn’t really know what the root of the problem was.
In 2018 this California girl had a front-row seat to watching her life crash.
She learned that her husband had been cheating on her.
For the next six months, the trauma and stress took a toll on Tracey. She had already been living with a lung condition but under the weight of the stress, her body gave in to an extreme case of pneumonia which led to a two-week hospital stay. The sickness progressed to the point that she had to have an extreme procedure called a thoracotomy to scrape the infection out of her lungs.
It was during this time that a friend of Tracey’s told her about Elizabeth and the Primal Potential podcast. For two weeks, Tracey lay in her hospital bed listening to the podcast. Tracey recovered, was released from the hospital and continued listening to the podcast.
Through the podcast, she was hearing and seeing things that were causing the “lights to go on.” She had found exactly what she needed to change her life.
Tracey was initially drawn to the podcast because of the science-based nutritional and health information. As she began to put into practice Elizabeth’s teaching she watched her health improve dramatically. She lost weight she had battled for years. But she realized that was only one part of the equation to changing her life in a significant way.
The second, and biggest part, was changing her mindset. She came to understand how she thought, how she “talked to herself”, and how the decisions she made were key to major life change and realizing her true potential.
Even though she was still dealing with the aftermath of an affair, working through things with her husband and recovering from a major illness she knew she needed more.
That’s when she made the decision to get off the fence, invest herself and joined the 12 Weeks to Transformation.
It was during the 12 weeks that she got the practical and personalized no-nonsense tools she needed to open up her closed life. She was no longer racing through life, ignoring herself and her relationships.
By trusting the process, following the structure of the transformation and answering tough questions with brutal honesty she experienced the change she had been seeking.
To maintain her transformation Tracey has implemented a daily routine that is made up of different practices. There’s a physical component of exercise and nutrition. And then there’s the mindset component where she’s checking in with herself. She’s asking herself questions throughout the day AND paying attention to the answers.
If you desire to live a limitless and peaceful life and step into your true potential, just like Tracey you absolutely can.
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Start Your Own 12 Weeks to TransformationYou know that frustrating feeling when you don’t get something on the first attempt?
Have you ever felt like there’s no point in trying because you keep letting yourself down?
If you’ve ever felt held back by fear of failure, doubt in your ability to achieve or a sense that it won’t happen for you, today is your episode!
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What are you carrying with you each day, refusing to put down? An argument last week, a mistake from earlier in the year, a belief from childhood… what do you carry with you? Even if it seems small, if you choose to carry it over time it can create great strain.
In today’s episode, I talk about carrying and holding onto things we don’t have to. I share a story that shows this in action, and the greater impact it can have on you. I also share some of the biggest takeaways from our recent Ascend Workshop, and the effect it’s had on me and those who attended.
I’ve written an article that dives deeper into what we carry with us, so whether you choose to read, listen or both… think about what you’re carrying and question if you can put it down for a while.
TODAY’S RESOURCES:
Nobody raised their hand.
I stood before a group of people I trusted, as part of our annual Ascend Workshop. Everyone there has been part of at least one cycle of the 12 Weeks to Transformation. During this in-person two day event, we go deep. I work with everyone one-on-one, and everyone gets to work with other people as driven and focussed on growth as they are.
So the fact I stood in front of them with a small bottle of water above my head may have seemed strange.
A few people raised their hands. The weight of the water bottle remains the same, yet the idea of holding it above your head for an hour suddenly seems tough.
It would be hard.
You’d cause injury.
It would become a massive burden… right?
The point of this exercise is to demonstrate how the size or weight of something isn’t important, but rather how long you hold onto it that is.
As time goes on, the burden becomes greater.
The energy it takes to carry it over time grows.
The thought/feeling/conversation/worry remains the same.
Yet its impact on you grows and grows and grows.
A water bottle isn’t heavy until you try and hold it above your head for hours, days or weeks.
Well, replace the bottle of water with:
It drains you. The longer you keep hold of it, the more energy it requires.
The burden doesn’t come from the weight, but rather how long you carry it.
Research shows that we have between 60,000 and 70,000 thoughts per day. That’s a lot, but what’s insane is that 90-95% of these thoughts are the same each day.
Every day, we live life on repeat.
The same thoughts, feelings and habits.
The same reactions to the same situations.
It leads us to do the same things day-in-day-out. 95% of who we are is a memorized set of feelings, actions and reactions. We can change, and we can grow… but we’re always in battle with what we know and have always done.
It’s often easy to identify what we want to change in our life:
You create a plan and commit to it, but if you continue to carry those old arguments, beliefs, failures and insecurities… what chance do you have of real change?
Change isn’t defined by what you do, but rather the thoughts you have.
Change these thoughts and create a new narrative… you can win.
Cling to what you’ve always known and done… well, it remains hard.
Can you put that bottle of water down? Can you place it on the floor and give your arm a rest?
You can pick it up again whenever you like. Just because you sit it down doesn’t mean you can’t grab it when you need it. Placing it down for a while doesn’t make it unimportant. It doesn’t mean you have to throw it away or let go of it forever.
What else can you put down?
It may have seemed small at the time. Maybe it still feels small. Yet the longer you carry it, the bigger its impact on you. It also means you have less energy to focus on the change you desire.
You need to set it down.
You can pick it up again later.
But you don’t have to carry it with you all the time.
It’s a choice, and it’s one that can set you free.
Thanks for reading today. Please listen to the podcast episode in full to get a complete picture of how this exercise played out at this year’s Ascend Workshop.
I also breakdown how this 2 Day Event works and what you get when you attend.
It’s something that has a profound impact on me each year.
It also brings great change to those who attend.
I’m already excited about our 2020 Ascend event, but you can only attend if you go through at least one cycle of the 12 Weeks to Transformation. The wait list is now open, so get on it and learn the details ahead of our first cycle in 2020.
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