Challenge Yourself to Become Better
19 Jan 2022 · 10 min
In this episode of the Brendon Show, Brendon Burchard frames personal growth as the interplay between two core ideas: congruence (living in alignment with one’s natural self) and deliberate challenge (pushing toward higher potential). He explains that many people feel stuck either because they are out of alignment with their true nature or because they are not challenging themselves enough, leading to a reactive, unfulfilling life. Brendon urges listeners to adopt a daily intention of joy, to track moods, habits, and lessons, and to set concrete, escalating challenges (goals, OKRs, initiatives) that keep them in a "growth mode" rather than a "reacting mode." Throughout the episode he promotes his GrowthDay platform – an all‑in‑one personal‑development app offering live coaching, community accountability, habit‑tracking tools, and daily inspiration – and repeatedly calls listeners to share the episode, join the community, and engage on social media. The overall message is that every day is an opportunity to grow, and by aligning with congruence and embracing purposeful challenges, listeners can experience more joy, purpose, and progress.
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Hello my friends. I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week. Sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance, an inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your friends because we all have to share more positive messages in the world today. So share this with three friends just like you who are committed to their personal growth. And also be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram. Rendon Burchard, Join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi, thanks again for listening.
Now let's begin. One part of intention is to align with what's natural for us. That's what I'm calling congruence. The other part of that intention, that circle that overlaps, that challenge, it's because we must also challenge ourselves to become better. Because our natural inclination is to also be congruent with our potential. And when people are in misery in their life, it's usually as a coach, as a high performance coach is one of the things I listen for. It's usually one of these two buckets. They aren't being congruent, meaning aligned with what is natural and right for them. They're not being themselves, being honest and doing their best. They're not in flow with congruency. It's not natural. Yet they're not making the choices for what's right for them yet, or a lot of people have that. They're flowing through life, man. They got all the things, they've succeeded, they're happy. I mean, everything looks perfect to the outside world, but inside they're stewing, they're frustrated, they're unfulfilled. And the hardest thing to tell a person like that, and I've had to look a million people in the eyes and say this to them, is you're not challenging yourself sufficiently to your next level of potential. And so inside that part of you that recognizes that divine greatness, or that part of you that knows of that thing called destiny, or that part of you that realizes legacy matters, or that part of you that recognizes there's something that's in the future holding space for you, that's grand, it feels cheated. And as a high performance coach, a lot of the work I have to do with people is say, okay, if the only challenges you're facing in life right now are the ones that life threw at you, that's why you're unhappy. You're only in reacting mode. You're not in growing mode. Let me say it again, you're in reacting mode, not growing mode. You're going through the motions. And even if you're congruent, you're being a good person, you're showing up, trying each day to be yourself, be your best.
But if you still feel unfulfilled, if.
You still feel like you haven't broken through, that's a good, higher calling to honor. That is saying to you, challenge yourself, young man. Challenge yourself, young woman. Challenge yourself, my friend. It is time to rise to the next level. The world, the universe, God, your soul, your spirit is demanding more of you. Rise to the next level. That is a beautiful impulse we must hear. And if we don't hear it, it is because we've drowned it with negative thinking and the wrong intentions. So we must now challenge ourselves. 2022 this year. This is a year for you of challenging yourself and not getting discouraged, adopting the learning mindset, being in growth mode. And when you do that, it's different. There's pop, there's energy, there's aliveness, there's edge to our lives.
Hey, it's Brandon jumping back in here again. Are you looking to go to the next level in your life right now? The next level of joy, abundance, success. Then you already know that. You need to journal about your lessons learned in your life. You got to track your moods and your habits. You have to learn from the best personal development coaches and teachers in the world.
And you got to stay inspired and.
Accountable so that you can be more focused, disciplined, joyous and keep growing. That's what the Growth Day app is going to help you to do, my friend. It's the world's first all in one personal development app. It has all of the tools you need, all the coaching and the community that you need to level up to progress every week, to track your breakthroughs and to keep growing in every area of your life consistently over the long term. So go start your transformation right now@growthday.com or just download the Growth Day app on your phone right now. Every day. You can keep improving every day. We are here for you and every day is truly a great day to grow together. So let's make self improvement a way of life. Let's make that self improvement stick. Go to growthday.com right now. We all know that story of that person in the suburb or the big.
Fancy house who got quote unquote, too comfortable. They've got money, the car, the house, food for the kids. They can handle tuition. Like everything seems going wrong, but they're just unhappy. We got to get them back into alignment with the congruence and we've got to get them back to deliberately challenging themselves to rise to the next level. How do we do that? Well, after suffering so many years with depression in my life earlier, I recognize at some point my attitude and energy in the world was my choice. If I get to choose over the long term and in the moment, I want to experience joy. I want to be happy and free and loving and light. And I am going to bring that into each day. I really believe. If you want one thing from today, if you could take one thing as a major intention this year, I would ask for you to choose to bring the joy every day. It doesn't mean I have to fake it till I make it. It doesn't mean that I don't have dark, dark, difficult days and moments of my life. It just means on par over the average across the days. Most often you're going to get joy from this kid. That's a choice. I was not born that way. You have to challenge yourself to go.
To the next level.
Whatever that is for you, right? Whatever that is for you. What is that? Please write it down. What is the next level of challenge for you this year in your business? If you have a business, what's the challenges you're going to take on?
Right?
Whether you call that goals, priorities, initiatives, OKRs, you know, key performance indicators, whatever you call it, those are deliberate challenges. You are setting a step ladder of ever increasing challenges. Not because you're glutton for punishment, because in your heart you know there's potential. It's a beautiful thing.
That's why I love January 1st.
That's why everyone loves New Year's, because there's potential there. It's that open page, that new chapter. Oh, I love that time. Love that time. So I want to share with you again, if you are not where you want to be, the intention is, okay, I want to show up and experience life differently. And then we come back to those circles. Let me realign with congruence. Let me be more congruent with who I really am, being myself, being honest with others, what I really think, feel need and desire and let me set up some challenges for myself and stick to them. When I set up those challenges for myself and I stick to them, I feel more congruent even with my future potential. And now I am happier. And the good byproduct of it is more positive emotions, more healthy relationships and more progress in our lives.
Okay, my friend, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Brendon Show. Tell some people about this episode. It's on each of us to spread positivity and empowerment and during these times of chaos and negativity.
Right?
So I'm asking you to be the dealer of hope and personal growth and education in your tribe. So take a screenshot right now and share the screenshot and this link to this episode with three of your friends today. Post it on social media. Use the hashtag growthday. That's growthday, because that's the name of my company and we're always giving away prizes to our community. If you'd like to help me personally, then please rate and review the podcasts on Apple Podcasts. Give us some stars, cheer us on, leave a review. Because believe it or not, that stuff actually really does help. And I read all of them. So my last thought for today, please remember, you are stronger than you think and the future holds good things for you. Tomorrow can be an inspired day. Every new morning is a second chance. Every, every day is a great day to grow. We're thankful to have you here in the Growth Day community. So be sure to go deeper with us@growthday.com.
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