Episode Summary: In the first episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Nicola Cook the CEO and COO of Company Shortcuts and a qualified NLP Practitioner, Timeline Therapist and Hypnotherapist.

She has previously published two business bestsellers and is scheduled to release six further business and personal development books in 2023 beginning with a fifteen-year anniversary edition of A New You: The small changes that make the biggest difference to your life.

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Episode highlights:

• How Nicola uses journaling to ensure she maximises learning from everyday
• How collapsing at Heathrow forced her to refocus and start to prioritise wellbeing
• The initial motivation behind her book, A New You and why she is now releasing a second edition
• The period of self discovery and change she went through writing the book and how this can in turn help others
• How to approach new phases in our lives and how to craft this for ourselves, rather than allowing the world or our environment to do it for us
• How Nicola recommends making small incremental changes rather than one large resolution as these tend to be more achievable
• How our habits need to adapt and change as we do and why what used to work for us, may no longer
• The book being split into 2 sections, the first on developing the right mindset and the second on developing the right skillset
• Techniques and strategies in the book to help with mindset and framing powerful questions

Key Takeaways:

• I'm really passionate about supporting businesses and enabling them to create sales acceleration. I'm also massively passionate about individuals and people and helping them be the best versions of themselves that they can be. - Nicola
• I learned an awful lot about myself during that process. And not all of it was great, but I felt it was the catalyst that really cemented the transition of the person that I  became and the person that I was always meant to be. - Nicola
• To become your true, authentic self or a new version of yourself, it doesn't mean that the old version of you is broken, or isn't worth anything, but it's about how do you leave the bits of you behind that are not as helpful or are not supporting you or enabling you to be the person that you really want to become. - Nicola
• When you lose stuff, you think, oh, I will choose what I'm gonna put back into my life. - Nicola
• The final chapter of the book is called Make It Stick, which is about how once you've made these changes, you've done the mental work, you know  you've changed your behaviour and you know you're moving in a different direction, how do you make it stick? -  Nicola
• There's a definition in the book of what a peer group is, but Jim Rohn is the man who says that you become like the five people that you spend the most time with. So choose them wisely is my advice. - Nicola

Resources:

• A New You: The small changes that make the biggest difference to your life.
• Jim Rohn