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  • 226. Letting Go of Nothing with Peter Russell

    Today our expert guest is Peter Russell, author of Letting Go of Nothing and From Science to God. He has degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science at the University of Cambridge. He has both expertise and experience with meditation and Eastern philosophy as well as research in the neurophysiology of meditation. He also coined the term Global Brain with his bestselling book of the same name.

    Peter became fascinated with the idea of consciousness. He was very adept at physics, but there was nothing about the world of physics that could explain why we have experiences. The only people who really explored consciousness were the yogis, monks, and spiritual adepts that looked inside themselves to find consciousness. That drew Peter into meditation, which he began studying in India. Originally growing up rejecting religion, Peter began to see that there was something to them beyond the surface-level stories that spoke to some deeper truth.

    There’s been much discussion about the importance of letting go, but Peter believes that the way we view letting go is all wrong. According to him, we are not letting go of people or things, but our attachment to them – the way we see them. So when we let go, we are actually letting go of nothing.

    A big part of letting go is forgiveness. When we forgive someone, we are letting go of something inside of ourselves. They may not ever know one way or the other, but by letting go of our grievance within ourselves we are able to come back to a more balanced state.

    Letting go of our ego is another part. The ego is not a thing that can be overcome, but a mode of thinking that we will revisit again and again. When we let our ego drive us, we can take things that we interpret as attacks and allow them to color our relationships by driving us to be bitter or resentful . But by letting go of our egoic thoughts and realize that we all want the same thing deep down, and be on guard against those attacking thoughts to act intentionally to make others feel good.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Take time to pause in your daily life between doing two tasks – between doing your emails and going and making a cup of coffee. We’ve already paused what we’re doing. Pause your thinking just to notice where your mind is. It may be on to the next thing you’ve got to do. And notice how it feels to pause your thinking. When we do there’s usually a sense of ease, relief, and we start noticing the present moment. Oh, there’s the sound of the wind in the trees I hadn’t noticed or the traffic noise I hadn’t noticed. By just doing that we come back to the present because our thinking is always taking us into the past or the future. If we just pause – just for a few seconds – we’re both coming back to being in the present moment, and we’re feeling better for it. We’re feeling easier.”

     

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    Resources:

    • peterrussell.com
    • Follow Peter on YouTube
    • Read: Letting Go of Nothing
    • Read: From Science to God
    • Read: The Global Brain

     

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    39 min
  • 225. The Truth About Philanthropy with Bob Hopkins

    Today our expert guest is Bob Hopkins. He’s spent the last 30 years in business heading non-profit organizations and publishing the magazine Philanthropy World. Bob is one of the most well-known people in philanthropy anywhere. After retiring from the magazine in 2007, Bob went on to teach communications at The University of Texas and to teach in other roles around the world.

    Known for his robust desire to make a difference in the community as well as his passion for philanthropy, he has received the Hero of Humanity Award from The Art of Living Foundation, and he has been a fundraising executive for the last 30 years, having served the Association of Fundraising Executives. 

    In all of his philanthropic work, Bob has realized that it is often misunderstood – leading to his book, Philanthropy Misunderstood. Most people believe that philanthropy is simply giving money to a cause, but the fact is that philanthropy has nothing to do with money. It is about how you express a love of mankind. It wasn’t until we needed a name for those people who wrote out big checks that we changed that definition. Philanthropy is giving a wallet back that you found on the floor. It’s acknowledging someone that is homeless and possibly hurt or in danger when others try to ignore them. Philanthropy can mean any number of things outside of simply giving money to a cause.

    The truth is that people give because of what it does for them. It makes those who give have a better life and there’s nothing wrong with that. If everyone did more good – knowing that they are actually the biggest beneficiaries of that good – the world would be a better place.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Everybody can be a changemaker. Everybody can change the life of somebody positively – only if they’re empathic. And so I tell my college students that today is the first day of the rest of your life. Giving is a habit – it’s habit formation – and, so, I’m empowering everybody who’s listening to me today that – even if you think you’re a giver – go, do something specifically that you didn’t think of before. Call up somebody next door, go knock on the door and find out how you can help them – and it’s an amazing thing that the first person next door probably needs your help – mentally, physically, or whatever.”

     

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    Resources:

    • philanthropymisunderstood.org
    • Read: Philanthropy Misunderstood
    • Read: Give to Live by Douglas Lawson
    • philanthropykids.org

     

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    26 min
  • 224. Rethinking Your Relationship to Diets with JJ Virgin

    Today, our expert guest is JJ Virgin, a prominent TV and media personality whose credits include co-host of TLC’s Freaky Eaters, two years as the on-camera nutritionist for weight loss challenges on Dr. Phil, and numerous appearances on PBS, Dr. Oz, Rachel Ray, Access Hollywood, and The Today Show. She is also the author of four New York Times bestsellers.

    JJ’s mother was a true Midwestern parent, serving up a diet of tuna casserole with potato chips for dinner and Pop Tarts for breakfast. At age 12, JJ started studying nutrition and did a complete U-turn with her diet. She went to college on a theater scholarship and started teaching aerobics at the same time. By the time she graduated from college she had built up a personal training business.

    If you’re looking to improve your wellness and fitness, how do you get started? There’s so much information and misinformation out there to wade through today. You have to rethink your approach to dieting. A diet is not something you start and stop. You can use diets therapeutically to – in the short term – balance your blood sugar, lose belly fat, or heal your gut. Take what worked and incorporate it into your everyday life.

    JJ recommends a cycling process: imagine, implement, and integrate.

    • The imagine part involves picturing where you want to go and visualizing it. Become your future self, feel those emotions, and see how it impacts your life. This is an important step but it’s one most people miss.
    • Now you need to implement that imagined path through a program. Do some research into who has had the results that you want to see. What aligns most with your imagined self? Even if the program doesn’t end up being perfect, you’re going to learn more about yourself in the process. It’s important to pick a program that is focused on just one thing.
    • Once you’re on the program, you pay attention to what you are going to be able to integrate into your everyday life. What makes you feel the best? What seems most sustainable? Track everything, and then bring what works into your personal life.

    The most misunderstood aspect of this entire journey is the emotional aspect of making change. Emotional factors and mindset make up the biggest barriers to making any serious, lasting change. Examine your mindset deeply, look at the people around you, and make sure everything truly aligns with your goals. Follow these steps, then you will start to see real success.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “One of the things that came out of Warrior Mom was something that my mentor said to me years before and I thought, You know, what she taught me twenty years earlier changed the trajectory of my life. And this little saying that’s so simple and so huge: ‘Don’t wish it was easier. Make yourself stronger.’”

     

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    Resources:

    • JJVirgin.com
    • Listen to JJ’s podcast
    • Read all of New York Times Bestselling Author JJ Virgin’s books HERE
    • JJ Virgin on Facebook
    • JJ Virgin on Twitter: @jjvirgin
    • JJ Virgin on Instagram: @jj.virgin
    • JJ Virgin on Pinterest
    • JJ Virgin on YouTube
    • Ep. 74: “The Warrior Mom Who Lived a Miracle with JJ Virgin”

     

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    35 min
  • 223. Find Your New 20/20 Vision with Taylor Rochestie

    Today, our expert guest is Taylor Rochestie, the bestselling author of A New 20/20 Vision, where he shares a unique perspective on the uncertainty of tomorrow, and an active vision for the future. As a professional athlete who has traveled the world playing basketball, Taylor’s message is a humble roadmap to design a new reality, reprogram your thoughts, and define your life through authenticity.

    Taylor knew he wanted to be a professional basketball player from the age of five. He had an underdog mentality. His high school wasn’t well-known for recruiting players, and, when his school was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, his team was moved to Texas A&M, where he tore his knee. When he found out he was returning to his school next year, he opted for a change and went out to Washington State instead. 

    When his wife was pregnant with his daughter, he began writing her letters to read when she graduated high school. He wanted her to see what her father’s hopes, dreams, and aspirations were for her when she was born. He hoped that this would help her to shape her approach to the world from the interior instead of exterior – by not letting social media and outside influences tell her what to do.

    Taylor doesn’t take a specifically scientific approach to this line of thinking. He recognized that we all pick up a lot of bad habits along the way or the ways that we accept less than we deserve. He has developed a few techniques to help reprogram your mind and your day. One of those techniques is his morning intake, which forces you to start focusing your day internally instead of letting external factors decide what you want for yourself.

    One quick way to put you on the right path towards happiness is to realize that it starts with all of the small choices we make on a daily basis. When you play basketball, you start to gravitate towards other people that play basketball. It’s that simple. So when you’re always learning and always broadening your experiences, you are humble, you reach out to new people, and you try different things that generate excitement and optimism.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “I think that so many people are looking for motivation, looking for inspiration, looking to cultivate joy for themselves, looking to figure out their own path – and I think the best thing that you can do is you can be a light, you can be an example. I have two kids. They’re sponges, so what are they picking up when they see me? And, so, I want to be the best version of myself, and I want to constantly be learning and finding out what that best version is, and I want to fail so many times on my quest to figure out the best version of myself because it is a choice, and I’m going to wake up every day and say Today is going to be the best day of my life.’”

     

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    Resources:

    • taylorrochestie.com
    • Twitter: @trochestie
    • Instagram: @trochestie
    • Read: A New 20/20 Vision

     

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    29 min
  • 222. Giving Yourself Permission to Be Authentically You with Regina Louise

    Today, our expert guest is Regina Louise, the author of Permission Granted. Her best-selling memoirs, Somebody’s Someone and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, were made into the award-winning Lifetime movie I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story which was nominated for the 2020 NAACP Award for Best Director.

    A summa cum laude graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a master’s degree, Regina is a Hoffman Process teacher, workshop, facilitator, and has been featured in outlets such as NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America, The CBS Show, The BBC, and more.

    Regina managed to survive 30 foster home placements as a child, spending the greater part of her adolescence in solitary confinement. At the time, those experiences were not interpreted as trauma, but, looking back, it’s easy to see how traumatic those events were. To her, those traumatic events actually brought out a deep sense of intuition that helped her survive.

    Regina had to move through the trauma, and she did so through imaginative play. She began to investigate the concept of “home,” the concept of “character,” and whether it was something that could be obtained. She came to recognize that she could create a home wherever she was.

    When you give yourself permission to go on an inner journey, you give yourself an opportunity to meet yourself. You can step into your license to exist on your own terms. This is what her book, Permission Granted, is all about. One of the techniques she offers to discover self-love is to stand in your dignity. If you can fully accept who you are, and just show up as a spirit having a human experience, you can embrace your worth.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Wherever you are, love is. I dare you to step into your own courage, your own definition of dignity, and invite love in; get acquainted with it on your terms.”

     

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    Resources:

    • iamreginalouise.com
    • Instagram: @therealreginalouise
    • Read: Permission Granted
    • Read: Someone Has Led This Child to Believe
    • Read: Somebody’s Someone

     

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    33 min
  • 221. Becoming a Champion in the Game of Life with Rodney Flowers

    Today our expert guest is Rodney Flowers, bestselling author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, thought leader, and resilience trainer. He leverages his unique life experiences and business acumen to help individuals, teams, and companies cultivate resilience, crush their goals, and achieve peak performance.

    At 15 years old, Rodney loved playing football. In the first game of his sophomore season, he suffered a serious injury. He was rushed to the emergency room, where, after extensive testing, he was told he had a 92% chance of remaining paralyzed for the rest of his life. He gave up on living for over a year, where the only thing that prevented him from taking his life was the thought of the upset it would cause for others.

    Eventually, he realized that the position that he was in was an opportunity. He shifted his mindset and his perception about what was happening, and started to look at the emotional pain he was feeling. He realized that his emotional pain was not because of the injury, but because his dreams had been taken away and he hadn’t found anything to replace them. So he started asking himself some questions. They all led back to one major question: “What if I could walk again?” And that became his dream, which is when things began to change. 18 years later, he was able to leave his crutches behind and walk on his own once more.

    Rodney has refined a process for overcoming those obstacles. First, view challenges as opportunities. When we recognize what the challenge is exposing, therein lies the opportunity to improve. Next, start seeking out challenges – specifically selected ones that won’t hold you back, but will instead allow you to move forward. Finally, focus on your dream. Make it as real as possible. When you can envision your dream and imagine yourself there, it will make pushing through the hard times easier.

    Rodney’s story is one of overcoming extreme adversity, and it’s proof that anyone can put in the effort. Even if Rodney had never walked, he would have been so much further having made the effort to do so, and that mindset shift is available to all of us. It will push us further than we could ever imagine.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “My philosophy is this: if you’re alive and breathing, you’re on the field of adversity in the game of life. It’s something that we can’t escape. Every one of us are going to feel some level of opposition and adversity in life, and perhaps you’re feeling it right now. You’re not alone, OK? It’s a privilege and a responsibility. If there’s one thing that you want to take away from this, it is that you attack that – that’s your privilege. You get to play on this field and it’s a lot of fun. Sometimes it’s painful, but yet it’s a lot of fun if you are on the attack, if you can just get out of the defense mode. It’s not fun playing defense all the time, it’s not. So play a little offense, create some things, innovate, produce, push back on the opposition, and see what you can come up with, see how far you can progress, see how much you can score, and once you find out you can score, continue that process, become a star in your own game, and eventually a champion in the game of life.”

     

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    Resources:

    • rodneyflowers.com
    • Read: Get Up!
    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rodneyflowers
    • Instagram: @gamechangermentalitylife
    • Twitter: @RodneyFlowers22

     

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    33 min
  • 220. Living in Your Zone of Genius, Pt. 2 with Gay Hendricks

    Today is the second part of our interview with expert guest, Gay Hendricks, one of the most influential people in the personal development space. He’s been a leader in the field of relationship transformation and body-mind transformation for more than 45 years. After earning his PhD from Stanford in ‘74, Gay served as Professor of Counseling Psychology at The University of Colorado for 21 years. He’s written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap, and Conscious Loving. His new book, Conscious Luck, reveals eight ways to change your fortunes through the power of intention.

    In the first part of this interview, Gay explored how to find our genius zone, but once it’s found… how do you stay there? His new book, The Genius Zone, is about two big ideas: how to spot genius moments and how to stay in the genius zone longer.

    Every day, people get opportunity after opportunity to jump into their genius zone, or otherwise increase their stake there. Most people miss the vast majority of them. Once you’ve made a commitment to bringing forth your genius, you have to learn to “spot the drift and make the shift.” You must get very good at noticing when you are drifting off course and start to make adjustments to keep yourself on the right track. Any time you are not operating in your genius zone, you are actually running into your upper limit problem. 

    We all have the opportunity to find that genius part of ourselves, and if you can find the thing that you most love to do and that brings the most value to the world and you work to stay in that zone every day, you can make massive change in the world.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “I promise you, I guarantee you, that you get moments every day to break through to your genius. The big takeaway: watch for those moments. Watch for those moments. Especially watch for moments, even when you feel like you’re getting stuck, where you’re not feeling on center in your body, where you’re feeling off center. Come to be a one-person awareness machine of those kind of things that are going on inside of you. I promise you, down in the depths of the most beautiful part of yourself is that part I’m calling genius, which is that part of you that can do something every day that you love to do that makes a huge contribution to the world around you.”

     

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    Resources:

    • hendricks.com
    • Read: The Genius Zone
    • Read: Five Wishes
    • Read: The Big Leap
    • Read: Conscious Loving
    • Read: Conscious Luck

     

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    26 min
  • 219. Living in Your Zone of Genius with Gay Hendricks

    Today our expert guest is Gay Hendricks, one of the most influential people in the personal development space and one of our most popular previous guests. He’s been a leader in the field of relationship transformation and body-mind transformation for more than 45 years. After earning his PhD from Stanford in ‘74, Gay served as Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He’s written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap, and Conscious Loving. His new book, Conscious Luck, reveals eight ways to change your fortunes through the power of intention.

    Ever since writing The Big Leap, Gay had continued to work with people, developing the two big ideas presented in that book: how to get out from your upper limit problem, and how to get into your genius zone. But once you’ve found your genius zone, what do you do in your day-to-day life to stay there? That’s what his new book, The Genius Zone, is about: living in your genius zone.

    Most of us spend our time living in one of three zones, with very few spending time in the fourth. That first zone is where we spend a lot of time doing things we’re not good at and don’t enjoy. There are also many things we spend time on that somebody else could do just as well. The zone of excellence can be the trickiest, because it feels like what we should be doing, but it keeps us from that fourth zone: the genius zone. That is when you are doing what you most love and what makes the biggest contribution to the world.

    Once we’ve discovered our genius zone, how do we stay there? Commitment is the first step. If you want to spend more time in your genius zone, you have to commit to doing whatever it takes to live there every day. You can’t operate with a divided mind. Once you know what you really want in your life, it will likely be simpler than you’d imagined. 

    In the second part of this interview, Gay discusses the things we can do to stay in our zone of genius and truly live a life of purpose.

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    Resources:

    • hendricks.com
    • Read: The Genius Zone
    • Read: Five Wishes
    • Read: The Big Leap
    • Read: Conscious Loving
    • Read: Conscious Luck

     

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    24 min
  • 218. Your Network Is Your Greatest Asset with Dr. Ivan Misner

    Today our expert guest is Dr. Ivan Misner, the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. Founded in 1985, the organization now has over ten thousand chapters worldwide. Last year alone, BNI generated 11.5 million referrals resulting in 16.3 billion dollars worth of business for its members.

    Called “the father of networking” by both Forbes and CNN, Dr. Ivan is considered one of the world’s leading experts on business networking, and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations across the world. He’s been featured in the LA Times, Wallstreet Journal, New York Times, CNN, BBC, Today Show, and more.

    Dr. Ivan wasn’t always drawn to this line of work – in fact, it didn’t come very naturally to him. In junior high school, Ivan had run for student council two years in a row and lost soundly each time. As a freshman in high school, his class was picking a student council representative and not a single person volunteered. So the teacher looked around the room and picked Ivan. The entire room groaned and, despite how hurt he felt, he knew at that moment that he would have to change people’s opinions about him. It was the point when he realized that he could be a leader, that the best way to lead is to pour into people, and that when you do, great things happen.

    When Dr. Ivan and his friends needed referrals for their businesses, he put together a referral group among them where he only allowed one person per profession. When someone approached him whose profession was already spoken for, they asked him to help them set up their own group. Things snowballed from there, and within a year, one group had turned into 20.

    In his recent book, Who's in Your Room?, Ivan explored the true importance of your network. Imagine that your mind is a room with only one door, and that door only opens one way. When someone enters, they can’t leave. When you think of it that way, wouldn’t you want to be more selective about the people who you let enter? When you start being more intentional about who you let in, you are much more likely to curate the life that you want.

    So how does that process begin?

    • Start by hiring a “doorman.” This is your subconscious mind. If you don’t let this guard your mind, then anyone can come in.
    • Know your values. If you don’t know what you value, you can’t evaluate who you let into your life.
    • Identify your deal breakers: the behaviors you absolutely will not allow into your room.
    • If someone is in your room already, you can’t kick them out, but you can stop fueling them. If they like to stir up drama, just don’t feed it by giving it attention.

    Who you let into your world – your room – defines who you are and who you become. It’s time to start being more intentional about our networks and how they shape us.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “I think it’s really important for people to understand their network. Their personal network is a beacon of hope in a sea of fear. It is where you go to for support. The people in your network are the people you go to for help, for guidance, for emotional support, for referrals – obviously, in BNI, but for so much more. And people either get frozen by fear or focused by fear, and I think your network helps you get focused by the fear that is out there.”

     

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    Resources:

    • ivanmisner.com
    • Instagram: @drivanmisner
    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ivanmisner
    • bni.com
    • bnifoundation.org
    • Read: Who's in Your Room?

     

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    34 min
  • 217. How to Go Big in Your Life with Julia Pimsleur

    Today our expert guest is Julia Pimsleur, the author of Go Big Now and Million Dollar Women. She’s a master practitioner and coach of neurolinguistic programming and the founder of the Million Dollar Women social venture. She also grew the number-one language teaching company for kids, Little Pim, into a multi-million dollar business.

    Julia has always had a passion for bringing things that were once only accessible to the few to the many. She was frustrated to see that it was often only the 1% that could afford to teach their kids a foreign language. They had enough head starts, and she wanted to make language-learning accessible to more people. Now, with her coaching, she is helping women get access to more money and more freedom.

    A few years into the business, and seeing a decent amount of success, Julia started feeling stuck. The business wasn’t growing anymore. She was the primary breadwinner in her family and she needed this to grow in order to continue. She had almost thrown in the towel until she got access to coaching and mentorship which led to her developing a “Go Big Vision” that turned it into a million dollar business.

    When she wrote Million Dollar Women, she shared the story of how she built Little Pim into a thriving financial success. During that process, she interviewed several women across the country who also built multi-million dollar businesses. She found that you only need three things to “go big”:

    • The right mindset
    • The right skillset
    • The right network

    Of these three things, people struggled most with the mindset. That’s when she knew what her next focus was going to be, and she became trained as a mindset coach to train women in business. If you don’t nail your mindset, it’s going to be difficult to find success in any area of your life. She set out to write the essential guide of where to start on the journey of establishing a strong mindset. She took the top mindset teaching and boiled it down to eight essential practices.

    One of the biggest things holding people back are their limiting beliefs. Tackling that requires two things: learning to identify that limiting belief and the technique to overcome it. When you look at your life – at what you don’t have but that you want – there is always going to be a limiting belief around that thing. Once you’ve identified a limiting belief, there is a four step process to tackle them:

    1. Identify the limiting belief and say it out loud.
    2. Write it down.
    3. Come up with a positive opposite.
    4. Come up with ten action steps that will take you closer to the positive belief.

    To achieve things you’ve never had before, you have to do things you’ve never done before. If you can shift your mindset around accomplishing your goals, the impossible suddenly becomes possible.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “I want people to think about, What do I want to change in my life in order to get to my Go Big Dream, Go Big Goal, as I teach you in my book to identify a go big goal and go for it. But the quote that always comes back for me is ‘If you want something you’ve never had, you’ll need to do something you’ve never done.’ And that, to me, is the ticket. Because all of the coaches I’ve worked with were people who embraced the idea that a coach is someone who makes you do the things you don’t want to do so you can become the person you want to become, and that usually means trying some things you’ve never tried before. So, if someone listening is about to embark on a big, crazy dream or just really go for it, this is the time. You’ve decided, I’m going to make it happen. Maybe write that down on a post-it or put it up in your kitchen and think about, Yeah, some of this is gonna be hard and it’s because I want something I’ve never had so I’m going to do something I’ve never done.”

     

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    Resources:

    • juliapimsleur.com
    • Instagram: @juliapimsleur
    • Twitter: @JuliaPimsleur
    • Read: Go Big Now
    • Read: Million Dollar Women

     

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