Visualize yourself pregnant now, even if you're not planning to conceive soon. Eating well, exercising, taking supplements, and quitting smoking or drinking improve the eggs or sperm you'll pass to a future child, the same way you'd protect a pregnancy.
Imagine if right now you're the one gestating that child. I know that there probably would be even less people in the world because men would not want to be giving birth, but that's a whole other story. But all jokes aside, you know, if a man could like— and women, it's easy kind of for women to imagine that because I think we see it so often. Um, but if you kind of imagine yourself, whether you're a man or a woman, being pregnant right now and I was to ask you, what are all of the things that you would absolutely stop doing or would absolutely start doing to give yourself the best possible chance of having the healthiest possible baby? What are those things? And very quickly, people are able to identify in their own situation the things that they absolutely would start doing or would stop doing, and they're able to conceptualize that in actions. I would start doing this and I would eat healthy and I would take supplements and I would, you know, take care of my— I would exercise, I would whatever. Right. And then on the other side of that equation, people will say things like, you know, I'd stop smoking, I'd stop drinking, I would stop taking drugs, whatever. Right. Those are the things that, you know, right now inside of you, you already have 50% of the little baby that you want to create. That is the reality, right? So whether you're a man or a woman, 50% of that baby is already within you, and your job is actually to bring your best contribution to the table, so to speak, right? So your job is to really bring the best possible quality egg, the best possible quality sperm, and the way that you're going to do that is by nurturing those cells in the same way that you would if that was already a baby. Oh, I love that. It's what I call act pregnant now to get pregnant later.
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
