When you want to become more successful in business, relationships, or life, most people focus on tactics, strategies, and skills.

But there's a bigger obstacle to your success than your lack of tactics, strategies, and skills… In fact, without first addressing this obstacle, success will never come easy, no matter how hard you keep pushing.

Why?

Because the obstacle you have to overcome is yourself. And no amount of pushing, prodding, or plotting can help you outrun yourself.

That's the bad news.

The good news?

You don't have to outrun yourself to succeed. Instead, you have to master your "Inner Game," or the internal thoughts and feelings that run in the background of your subconscious. When you master your "Inner Game," your inner critic becomes your most ardent and loyal supporter.

In today's show, you'll discover how to take the first step towards mastering your internal world, so success in business, relationships, and life naturally follows.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

• The #1 biggest obstacle most achievers overlook and ignore—and how it costs them (0:32)
• The "Inner Game" secret that only the world's most successful and fulfilled people understand (1:39)
• How a tennis coach can show you how to be a better leader, a better husband, and a better father (even if you've never swung a tennis racket in your life) (1:48)
• Why pushing harder for success leaves you more vulnerable to gut-wrenching failures (and what to do instead when success plateaus) (2:24)
• 2 simple steps to transform your inner critic from your archrival to your most loyal ally (5:29)
• The bizarre way achievers fear success more than failure (and how to figure out if you do this too) (6:13)
• How worrying about the sending the perfect text to a new romantic interest or hiring the perfect candidate for your business makes it impossible to do either (9:12)
• Why preparing too much can sink a business deal, sabotage a romantic relationship, and fill you with endless dread (11:22)

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Emotional Mastery is David Tian's step-by-step system to transform, regulate, and control your emotions... so that you can master yourself, your interactions with others, and your relationships... and live a life worth living. Learn more here: https://www.davidtianphd.com/emotionalmastery