I threw off my episode schedule because I want to tell you about this: my wife just surprised me with an epic father's day gift. She's sending me to Mexico for three days. It's thrilling, of course, but I also noticed that just as she told me. my brain immediately began to worry about whether or not I'd be able to have fun on my current diet, one that restrains the kinds of food and alcohol they typically serve. Which brings me to today's topic:

Our brains seek out easy immediate pleasure–the short-term dopamine levels. But we're also pursuing a long term goal, a change that we want to make in our lives.

So now, our brain is in conflict with itself.

Today, I'm going to show you that there's another part of your brain available to you so you can combat those strong urges to fall off track–whether your goal has to do with your body, work, or your personal life. We're going to use our brain's own weapon against it and combat the strong emotional associations of short-term pleasure with the emotions that come from achieving your long-game goals.

In short, we're going to delay that temporary pleasure to get to the future you that you are SO excited about.

3 Key Takeaways

• Understand that it's natural for your brain to rationalize the reasons you need that short-term pleasure. It's going to tap right into the emotions it remembers from before.
• Your goals for the future will create an emotion so much greater than the little temptations along the way can.
• Use emotion to beat emotion: control the urges to dip into distractions with immediate dopamine by thinking about how you'll feel about achieving your long-game goals.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://storiedcoaching.com/short-term-dopamine-vs-big-results/