The Perfectionism Project

Another year, another set of lessons. Although 2019 is still young, I've learned a lot already! In this episode, I'm sharing a behind the scenes look at my personal development journey and my business in the hope to inspire you and also manage your expectations (because sometimes, progress can be SLOW).

Featured In The Episode:

• Get Out Of Your Own Way - join the waitlist here
• Figure Your Life Out - join the waitlist here
• Erin May Henry
• Self-Coaching Scholars
• Tapping for abandonment/rejection - EFT with Brad Yates
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
• Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes

I recently coached a client on escaping the self-pity cycle and wanted to bring this topic to the podcast as I know it's something that most (if not all) perfectionists struggle with.

What's the self-pity cycle? It looks something like this - snooze your alarm, feel guilty for snoozing your alarm, rush to job you resent, feel sorry for yourself because you feel like a mess, go home and comfort yourself with Netflix and food, feel sorry for yourself because you're too exhausted to wake up early the next day, repeat.

I've found myself in this cycle before - both when I was working at my full-time job and also once I'd left. Even though you might be believing that you need to change your circumstances to be able to love your life, that's not true at all. All you need to do is change your mindset. In this episode, I'm sharing a simple 3 step process that will ease you into a new way of life.

Featured In The Episode

• Dream Habit
• 1:1 Coaching Services
• Episode 49 - What To Do If You Hate Your Job

In this episode, I'm diving into the differences between a scarcity money mindset and an abundant money mindset. And the reason I want to do this is because there's a pretty good chance that you *think* you have an abundant mindset when, in fact, you're living from a place of scarcity.

Making more money isn't what will flip you over into an abundance mindset. If you don't intentionally create an abundant money mindset, you will go from being scared that you don't have enough to being scared that you'll lose it all. This work is SO important for that reason.

Featured In The Episode

• Episode 67 - 4 Practical Ways To Transform Your Money Mindset
• Episode 79 - The Final Update On My 2018 Impossible Goal + My 2019 Goals
• Manifestation Babe Podcast - Episode 62
• Manifestation Babe Podcast
• For The Love of Money Podcast

Do you know what your ideal day looks like? Or are you just hoping that everything you're doing will add up to the life you want? For most people, it's the latter! It's so easy to get caught up in the short-term, without taking a step back to determine whether your goals are going to add up to what you want.

In this episode, I'm sharing a simple journaling exercise that will help you clarify what you want and how to use this exercise to start living your ideal day now. The incredible thing about this exercise is that, more often than not, it reveals what truly matters - and most of the time, it's not what we'd think.

Featured In The Episode

• Dream Habit
• Figure Your Life Out - join the waitlist here
• 1:1 Coaching Services
• Episode 24: How I Use Affirmations To Achieve My Goals

Today I want to go into how to make the most out of the self-help books. I have written a blog post about this before though it wasn't too detailed. I have been getting a lot of questions lately about what I do when I'm reading, how I remember it, and how I apply the self-help books.

In the past, I've struggled to make a consistent time for reading. If you're wanting to read more books, I shared how to do that in Episode 31.

I created this podcast episode to have as a source of reference for anyone who is wanting to go from feeling inspired by self-help books to experiencing the change that they can create.

This episode is what to do with those books when you're sitting down to read them.

Featured In The Episode

Episode 31: How To Read More Books

How To Get The Most From Self-Help Books

Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Playing Big by Tara Mohr

Principles by Ray Dalio

Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss

Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova

Still Me by Jojo Moyes

Sometimes, what can be really powerful is doing a little reset and getting yourself organised - especially when you feel like you're in a slump or you're not following through with your plans and good intentions.

In this episode, I'm sharing 7 simple steps to reset and get organised. You can do all of them, you can do just one of them - but these are the things that will really help you get organised and get some sense of momentum back.

If you're wanting to stay organised and make it a habit, so that you don't need to do these resets often, make sure you find out more about Dream Habit.

Featured In The Episode

Dream Habit

For 2018, I set myself an 'impossible' goal. And that goal was to make $500,000 in business revenue (which was more than 10X what I'd ever made before).

The point of this goal wasn't necessarily to achieve it, but to grow into the kind of person who could achieve, to learn to go after something all-out (even when it's not going to plan), to get comfortable with failure and to see what I'm capable of. And I have to say - setting this kind of goal, and working towards it for an entire year, has been completely life-changing for me!

In this episode I'm sharing exactly how I went with my impossible goal. And I'm not just sharing the lessons, but also a behind the scenes look at my revenue, profit and expenses too (down to the dollar).

I hope you find it helpful! To find everything I mention in the episode, be sure to visit the show notes.

So many of us spend our time working towards our goals and wishing things would be different so that we could feel better about our lives. But the truth is, it will never get better than this moment! Listen to this episode to find out why it's important to recognise that this is as good as it gets.

The doors to Dream Habit, my habit course for perfectionists, are officially OPEN! In Dream Habit, you'll learn my step-by-step method to escape the vicious all-or-nothing cycle and stick to the success habits that have been on your to-do list for YEARS. There's no better time than now to improve your life - and it all begins with your habits!

To celebrate the relaunch of Dream Habit, when you sign up this week only you can get the course for a special new year price. Dream Habit is normally priced at $147 USD (and valued at so much more) but if you sign up before midnight (EST) on 10 January 2019, you can get Dream Habit for just $97 USD. Woohoo!

If this sounds like something that could help you, find out more at samlaurabrown.com/dreamhabit sooner rather than later. I'm SO excited to be reopening this course and can't wait to welcome you into the program if you feel it's a good fit!

Mentioned In The Episode

• The Tim Ferriss Show Podcast - 5 Morning Rituals That Help Me Win The Day
• J. Burrows Black Notebook
• Joe Dispenza meditation
• Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes
• Kayla Itsines' Bikini Body Guide
• Forest App

Until now I've been calling these my 'life update' episodes, but really - they're a glimpse into the personal development side of my life. So these will be called personal growth updates from now on!

In this episode, I'm talking about why I decided to work from home during the month of December (and put my co-working space membership on hold), the home projects I've been working on, the exciting investments I made, the life-changing book that I read and so much more!

Mentioned In The Episode

• Erin May Henry
• Manifestation Babe
• Self-Coaching Scholars
• Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza