Welcome to the Level up Your Life podcast hosted by the inspiring Mark Black. Level Up Your Life is all about reaching that next level in your life. Mark is a different kind of motivational host because he doesn't solely focus on your business or your health, instead, he gives you incredible advice on how to improve all the areas of your life. You want to live life to the fullest and achieve your goals. Mark is the man to help you get there. Strap it, get a notepad and pen, and . . . like Mark says, 'get ready to level up.' With Mark as your coach, you can accomplish any goal you set in front of yourself. Level up Your Life will quickly become your favorite podcast.

In this episode, Mark discusses how to handle challenges in the correct way and has prepared a four-part strategy to help you tackle difficulties when they arise. He even gives an example of using these steps a difficult situation he encountered in his own life. These steps allow you to be the hero of your own story and quickly maneuver around a difficult task when it arises. Mark doesn't promise it will be easy, but if you continually practice these steps you will see a big change in the long term when achieving your goals.

1. Accept
2. 1. Accept the things we can't change. (Serenity Prayer)
   2. Let go, let it be, don't spend energy on something you can't change
   3. Locus of Control Diagram
   4. The quicker we accept something and recognize if we can or can't change it, the quicker we can move on.
   1. Don't lose sight of the ultimate objective.
   2. What's at stake?
   3. What am I hoping to accomplish?
3. Aim
   1. What got you here will not get you there.
   2. Darwinism
   3. Examples about corded home phones and losing weight
   4. If you're unwilling to learn you can become irrelevant (in business)
   5. Evolution is unstoppable
   6. Humans are a naturally adaptive species
4. Adapt
   1. It is what it is? No.
      1. Going through the motions
   2. Fear of taking the wrong action often prevents us from doing something
   3. Failure to act is where dreams die
5. Act

 

"We don't live in a Pollyanna world. Things go wrong."

"Every challenge, every problem . . . you have in your life is really a psychological level caused by your expectations and reality not meeting."

"There are pieces of the puzzle we do not have control over and that's difficult to deal with."

"Okay, what can I do? Is when progress happens."

"During The Gap, we're only spinning our wheels."

"There is a temptation to think that if we get off track we can't get back to where we're going. If we're not careful, that may happen."

"If you don't make a change, nothing changes."

 

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