In this motivational vlog, the speaker explores how self‑image creates mental barriers that keep people inside a comfort zone and limit success. He shares a vivid gym anecdote where he and a trainer pulled a heavy plate stack with a person standing on it, illustrating how lack of prior reference experience triggers a limiting inner voice. After confronting that voice, he realizes the brain’s self‑preservation system builds these barriers based on past experiences and beliefs. He argues that true growth comes from not just stepping outside the comfort zone once, but repeatedly creating new reference experiences that expand the zone itself. The speaker recommends taking at least one small, unfamiliar action each day, rewarding oneself, and associating pleasure with growth, thereby reshaping self‑image and unlocking greater potential in both physical fitness and business pursuits. The video ends with a call to like, subscribe, and share.
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So today the topic is about the idea of self-image and how our self-perception of ourself causes us to have these success barriers or comfort zones, and that when we learn how to tap outside of it and to stretch and expand our comfort zone, we're truly able to start to feel and embody that success that we want. Well, yesterday I was at the gym and I was working out with somebody that I haven't worked out with before. And it's somebody that does exercises completely out of the norm of what I do, because lately one of the things I've been really focused on is doing things that I've never tried before. What we were doing yesterday was we were with a big, like, this rope. What we were doing is we were pulling a whole bunch of, like, this cloth with a whole bunch of plates stacked on top of it, and we were pulling it from one side of the room to the other. And What we did is we were doing like 3 or 4 sets of it, and then on the second set, we were across the room. There was one of the trainers sitting on top of the stack of plates that we have that we were pulling from the other side of the room. Well, me and him asked, you know, we're like, hey, we're gonna do our next set. And then he was like, a couple of the guys that were on the side was like, go ahead, do it with him on it, you can do it with him on it. And I looked over to the guy that I was working out with and I was like, I I can't do that. And I thought about it for a second and I was like, why do I think that I can't do that? And I realized that the reason I thought that is just because I didn't simply have the reference experience. It was something new that I haven't done before, so I automatically assumed it wasn't something I couldn't do. But right then I caught myself and I realized I was like, bullshit, why do I believe that? So what I did was is I started to pull him while I was on, while I was, you you know, pulling the weights and him on top of it. And it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, uh, at the gym was pull this guy across the room. Uh, but I pushed myself because once I got him halfway across the room, I couldn't give up. And everyone else was like, oh, you've already gone halfway, you can't give up now. So I just kept pulling, I kept pulling, I kept pulling. Uh, and at the end of it, I ended up pulling him from one side of the room to the other. What I learned from that was not to just assume that the voice saying that I couldn't do it, that that has to be true. At least that when I heard the voice, I was like, bullshit, that's not true. It's why do I even— why am I even thinking that? But what I did was I went home and I studied a little bit more about the idea of how the brain works and how those success barriers are put, or how we have those success barriers to begin with. And what I realized is that we have in our brain the idea of what we could call fundamentally a self preservation system. So what this has to do with is the fact that our self-image of ourself, how we think we can relate to them, the things that we think we can do, is in correlation with a lot of the prior thoughts that we've had, the prior circumstances we've been in, and that because we've created those barriers through relevance, through having those kinds of beliefs and then taking those actions, what has happened is, is we've created those own self-barriers inside of our head, inside of our brain, and those own self- comfort zones. And the idea is that in order to become more, in order to embody more ability, what we have to do is we have to push outside of it. We have to know where those barriers are to understand that it's an accumulation of prior experience and that if we take at least one action that gets us to have a different type of reference experience, what we're then doing is we're embodying more of our potential. We're embodying more of our possible— like our possibilities towards growing and towards expanding what we think is comfortable. Now, the reason I say the expansion of the comfort zone rather than just stepping outside of your comfort zone is because from this point of view now, that is stepping outside of your comfort zone. But if you do it consistently and you learn and you learn that it's not something to really be afraid of and you start to make those reference experiences, you've then not just stood outside of your comfort zone from that perspective. You've now expanded your comfort zone and gone from something that used to seem real scary to something that now is something that you, that you know you can do because you have those reference experiences. You've pushed yourself to be able to do them and now it's just a natural byproduct of something that you know you can do. So one thing that I've really been focused on lately is understanding more about our brain and the idea of success and understanding how we can embody more of it, but also how I can get to the core of myself and expand my own comfort zone. I've been doing workouts that I've never done before. I mean, I have a goal of, uh, of, you know, a certain weight that I want to weigh with a certain body fat percentage. So that's one reason that I've been more focused on it. But even from a mental point of view as well, like yesterday when I went through that, it wasn't just a physical transformation that I felt. It was also a mental one because I realized I had like a little epiphany in a way where I understood that I could expand how I relate or what I think is possible for myself, and I know that if I take the action to do that, it can be something that expands me. So it made me think, what else can I do that with? What kind of actions can I take to grow my business? What kind of things can I do that I haven't done before that gets me to a point to where I expand who and what I think is possible for myself and then what I can embody? So what I encourage you to do is to intend to step outside of your comfort zone and to expand it by making those reference experiences, by taking just one action. Every day of something that you haven't done before. And as you take that action, reward yourself and associate pleasure with the idea of doing it because you understand that you've now expanded what you think is possible and who you identify yourself as or how you identify what you can do. So expand that comfort zone. Understand that you, your potential is far outside of the, uh, the comfort zone that you've created for yourself. And as you step outside and you begin to push through those success barriers, you're going to begin to feel a different type of momentum about yourself because you're going to start asking yourself questions like, if I can do this, what else can I do? What other actions can I take to get me to a certain state, to feel a certain way, or to embody more of your potential? So that's it for today. Just had that happen yesterday and I thought that it was something I wanted to share with you guys. So feel free to like and subscribe. Below and share this video. And other than that, you guys have a great day. I'll see you guys on the next video. Expand that comfort zone. Bye.
