Start the New Year Right

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. How you honored the struggle of the last two years directly correlates to your life satisfaction, to your stress levels, to your wealth and income, to your career advancement, to your own self reported quality of your own work. In doing the research in High Performance Institute we have found over and over and over again this mindset of how you perceive struggle and challenge is the critical linchpin in whether or not you change. Honor the struggle. I teach it every year to honor the struggle to know that struggle is part of the human narrative. You have it, I have it. Everyone you meet has it. We all must experience challenge and conflict and awfulness in our lives. We all will. How we meet. Greetings. Adapt and grow from that struggle is the difference maker. What I've studied of seeing people come out of complete poverty to wealth, studying people who had no skill in athletic endeavors to literally me being on the Olympic track with them. The difference at some point came to how in those times of hardship, when they felt discouraged, when they failed, when they were judged, when they were struggling, how did they experience it, adapt from it and grow from it? And to me, those who made it, they honored that process as a learning journey and a chance to improve. They honored the process as a learning journey, a chance to improve. They didn't feel struggle. Listen, write this down for all you self haters out there. I love you because I've been there. They didn't take struggle as a verdict on their worthiness. They didn't take struggle as a verdict on their capabilities. They didn't sense struggle and quit and bemoan and hate themselves. They sense struggle and they go, this is hard. Of course it's hard. I've not done this before. I've not trained for this. I don't have the capabilities or skills yet. I don't have the peer group yet. I don't have the mentor yet. Guess it's my job to go get those things. This will change everything for you. They didn't take struggle as a knock to their identity or their worthiness. Instead, they took struggle as an indication to learn to get better. They didn't hate themselves in it. Instead, they engaged themselves with the process to get better. That was a difference maker. One you hate yourself, the other one you engage to get better. And honoring struggle as an opportunity to grow is. Is the mindset. That's the mindset. Honoring struggle as an opportunity to grow. 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. I always love this time of year. I meet so many people who tell me one of their intentions in health is to run a marathon, which I think is amazing. You know? Now why would anyone want to struggle through a friggin marathon? Because they honor that process as something that will demand of them to get better. Better. How cool is that? How cool is that? Think for that. That's cool. It's the difference between stopping progress and getting progress. Whether or not we choose to honor the struggle, meaning we take the struggle as a reason for challenging ourselves. Struggle becomes a rationale, an indicator light to challenge ourselves to learn to get better. Or we take struggle as a stoplight to sit in our car on the side of the road and cry and bemoan ourselves and speak negatively about ourselves and diminish ourselves and to minimize ourselves. And if we do that, watch out. Because guess what? That intention can become. Well, intention. I'm not worthy, I'm not capable. Why should I even try? A lot of people's intention, the way they actually show up week over week and month over month is their actual intention. Consciously and unconsciously is often why should I even try? That is the thought, that is the belief, that is the behavior. And it becomes an intention in life. Because see, from intention initiative flows or doesn't. We only take initiative because we have intention to. If you're not taking initiative in life, it's because your intention has been hijacked by negative thinking. Let me say it again. If you are not taking initiative, taking action in life, it's because your intentions have been hijacked by, by negative thinking. And so what we have to do is recognize, observe, be mindful of that. Like wow, every time I'm struggling or discouraged or feel fear, I shut down, I quit, I stop, I speak bad to myself. We have to recognize those, we have to see that, we have to honor that and understand that. And honoring the struggle often begins with honoring ourselves as capable. I honor myself as capable. I recognize I am able. I recognize I have worth. And I recognize that I am deserving of improving my life. So this struggle right here, this struggle might actually be well beyond my capabilities. This struggle might be the scariest, hardest, most difficult thing I have ever faced in my life. This struggle might scare the crap out of me. And this struggle might really make my life hard, but this struggle will not destroy me. This problem is not bigger than my personhood nor my potential. And so we keep going. How you honored the struggle of the last two years directly correlates to your life satisfaction, to your stress levels, to your wealth and income, to your career advancement, to your own self reported quality of your own work. In doing the research in High Performance Institute, we have found over and over and over again this mindset of how you perceive struggle and challenge is the critical linchpin in whether or not you change. 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 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 podcast 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 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. Sam.