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Today lets discuss how to make changes in your life by changing your Philosophy or beliefs…
Quote of the day
Brian Tracy- There is no security in life…only opportunity.
About a year ago I did an episode on why Personal Development is not enough to create change. I want to discuss some of those concepts today because they tie in directly to the topics we are covering this week.
As a Driven Entrepreneur I’ve cycled through (evolved) my focus over time…
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Chasing success for happiness and fulfillment…
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Shifted priorities to living a life of happiness…
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But, Major life challenges helped to bring my awareness from outside to inside…forcing me to change my beliefs
So…Personal Development became my focus…but I have personally always had the ability to push past obstacles in my life through inspiration, motivation, and education. What I really wanted was to help others make changes as well…
I wanted to make an impact so I created TheDailyMastermind, Mobile app, and Podcast. Throughout this journey of motivating, inspiring, and educating I have become more AWARE of a major issue with the personal development space… That is, that awareness is not enough… Personal development is not enough…. Identifying your limiting beliefs is not enough.
Like many of you, I have pursued these things my whole life (with success) but without lasting change in many areas…examples of courses, events, teaching, etc…
What we really need is as David Bayer puts it, a PD 2.0 where we truly understand the science and processes needed in our minds to create the lasting change.
Let me explain…
We all have heard the process of the Belief cycle. As a review and for those of you that have not, let me walk you through it…
Thoughts…Feelings…Actions…Results…Beliefs
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We are always in this cycle.
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This is why our thoughts create our life.
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This is also why our “limiting beliefs” will hurt our ability to create and grow.
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You can tell yourself you believe or want something but your subconscious works against you.
So we identify our limiting beliefs and traditional PD tells us to be aware and change them…breakthrough!
But it’s not that simple…which brings me to the point of this podcast and what I want to help provide you and I with through the Daily Mastermind.
After 20 years in the personal development, financial education, and entrepreneur space I heard some topics that really changed the way I think you should approach your life. Maybe it was something new or maybe it was just the timing and way it was said, but listening to a gentleman named David Bayer…
I have had many puzzle pieces in my learning and development fall into place. Let me explain a bit more…
You’ve heard me talk about the concept of neuroplasticity, so let me walk you through it again and I really want you to listen and sit on this thought for a while.
Neuroplasticity is the ability of our brains to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or EXPERIENCES we have.
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This is important because everything we Believe is created from our Experiences
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Everything we store in our minds/brains is based on these Experiences we have that create beliefs.
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So neurons that fire together, wire together…so over our life we create these patterns/beliefs that guide our thinking and the more and more we travel the path, the more automatic it gets.
Example; This is why when we are in a state of believing we are not worthy, or depressed, or not enough, or people take advantage of us, or bad things happen to us, or we can never catch a break, etc… We hard wire these thoughts and beliefs literally into our brains/minds.
The challenge is that if we don’t effectively work to ReProgram or ReWire our minds, then our brains/subconscious/limiting beliefs (or whatever you want to call it) will work against us.
Now, do I believe you can Motivate, Inspire, Educate with Strategies and push through circumstances and create new Experiences and Beliefs…YES! I’ve been doing it my whole life.
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You truly need to create a clear Understanding, Strategy, and Process by which you can learn to REWIRE and REPROGRAM your thinking, so that you can effectively (intentionally) Create NEW Belief Patterns, New Experiences, and New Empowering Thoughts? And at the same time eliminate and stop Negative Patterns, Beliefs, and Paths your neurons travel…. I KNOW that would impact many of us. But it will take some work.
But if you dont commit to identifying and changing your patterns it will be a life long struggle for you the rest of your life.
The key to making lasting change is to find a way to interrupt the pattern, create new patterns, and slowly allow your mind to move a new direction Automatically. That takes Practice, Repetition, but more importantly it takes an understanding of the process. And, truth be told, it takes a foundation of Personal Development understanding as well.
The first step is to identify the patterns you want to change.
The second step is to truly understand the ins and outs of why they happen…dig deep.
The third step you need to take is to map out the new pattern you want to form.
Then, the key is to recognize when the patterns happen and quickly interrupt them and change them.
The awareness and preparation is critical to make the changes and having them last.
Remember…the neurons that fire together, wire together.
Now…over the coming weeks we are going to cover strategies, techniques, mentoring and principles that will all assist you in your journey of creating your best life and the best version of yourself. Please make time for YOU. Make time to work on creating the patterns you really, truly want to have in your life.
That is the purpose of the Daily Mastermind. That is why I do this podcast.
I hope these ideas have awoken a new awareness in your.
Tomorrow I want to walk you through ways you can learn to live outside your comfort zone and create new, empowering experiences, beliefs and the Best Life you can live.
Thanks for listening
George Wright III
