In this podcast episode Brendon Burchard explores the concept of living in congruence with one’s highest self and how that alignment fuels extraordinary success. He asks listeners to reflect on the past week: were they actively testing their actions against the standards of their best self, or merely going through the motions? Burchard distinguishes high performers from under‑performers by highlighting two mental habits: (1) a growth‑oriented belief that they are capable of acquiring any skill they need, and (2) a deep sense of worthiness that extends beyond basic survival to an extraordinary quality of life. He explains that under‑performers get stuck by focusing on what they lack, whereas high performers maintain confidence that they can develop the required competencies given time, resources, and effort. The episode also examines how most people limit their expectations to “good enough” (e.g., a stable job, a decent marriage) because their internal narrative of worthiness is confined to survival. Burchard urges listeners to expand that narrative, repeatedly affirming that they deserve abundant, magical, and high‑value experiences. He offers a practical self‑test: if you feel a lack of confidence or motivation toward big goals, examine whether you truly believe you are capable of achieving them. The overall message is that aligning daily actions with the highest version of oneself, coupled with a belief in one’s capability and worthiness, creates momentum and drives extraordinary outcomes.
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I am being or trying to be congruent with the best of who I know I can be. The last five days, were you really trying to be congruent with the best of who you are? Meaning you know the best of who you are, you know your values, you woke up every day and you're like, I'm being congruent with the best of who I am. Or were you just going through the motions of the day? Were you just reacting throughout the day? Were you actually comparing yourself to other people and letting it get you down? Were you aware of what makes you unique and living into that uniqueness, living into your values and attempting consistently and conscientiously to be the best of who you are, or were you going through the motions? This last week, what I found with high performers is they're more consistently testing their congruence against the standard of their best self, against the standard of what we call their highest self. And it's easy not to do that, especially when you're good, especially when you're talented, especially when things are going well, you can just get, get up and go through the day and do a good job. But what happens over a series of weeks is one day you don't feel like you're really on your path when you're just going through the motions. One day you wake up and you're kind of like, man, I feel like I'm in a funk. And you don't even know why. You're in a funk, you don't know why, like, things don't pop for you. You don't feel like there's momentum in your life. You want to talk about real misery in your life, be out of congruence, right? If you're a person whose identity I am a healthy, positive, caring, goal oriented person, and you just know that's who you are attempting to be. Congruent with the best of who you are does not necessarily mean every day you were the absolute best of who you are and everything was perfect and you were totally congruent. Listen to the phrasing here. I am attempting to live in congruence with the best of who I can be. I'm trying. It is an active, thoughtful, disciplined approach. I am kicking, capable of achieving the future I want. Now, here's the thing. You don't have to believe you have all the competencies that are necessary to succeed. You have to believe that you are capable of getting them. There's so many things that I know right now, today, I am incapable of. I am incapable of many Things I don't have the skill set yet, but I believe that I am capable. You give me enough time, energy, resources, mentorship, hard work, and days at something, I will figure it out. I will develop that skill. I will achieve. This is how high performers think. And it's so clear. Underperformers, they get stuck stewing on what they are not capable at. So they stop. Forward, momentum, they go, I'm not good at that. So they stop. I've never learned to do that. So they stop. I suck at this thing over here. So they stop. Where high performers have that growth mindset, where they really believe. No, I'm capable of becoming more. I'm capable of figuring it out. I am capable of busting through. I'm capable of getting the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are necessary for me to succeed. And that is a motivating driver for them. So here's a test. If you have been lacking confidence or motivation to go for those bigger goals, somewhere in your psychology, you do not believe that you are capable. And not believing you are capable is why you stopped. Even if you have all the reasons in the world to be confident people like you, you've achieved things in the past. You know, you're a good person. You believe in your worth, even if you have all that. But if you don't believe you're capable of breaking through or getting that next level of skill, that's why you've stopped. I am worthy of having extraordinary success. Most people who really live a little below their potential, here's their belief. I'm worthy or deserving of survival. Most people's standard in their worth is survival. I deserve to have food. I'm worthy of having a job. I am worthy of making rent. But they don't say, you know what? I'm worthy one day of flying in that jet. You know what I am deserving of? Having a deep, connecting, magical, sensual marriage. They're just like, you know, I deserve a good husband. And it stops there. I'm worthy of good is sometimes why you only ever got good. Sometimes people's belief matches up with their worth in such a way that they don't get to experience the brighter colors of life. All they ever get to experience is baseline good. Because I'm worthy of survival. I'm worthy of paying the rent. I deserve to have a good husband. I deserve to have, you know, happy kids. But they don't think about depth. They don't think about richness. They don't think about abundance. And if your belief is just good things, good things is all you get. You need to adopt the belief that you deserve an extraordinary quality of life and whatever it takes to achieve that. If you got to repeat that mantra to yourself over and over and over and over again, do that. High performers want more for themselves and their families. You know, a high performer doesn't feel bad about saying, you know what? I want to make 100,000. I want to make a quarter million. I want to make a million. There's no guilt to that because they believe that they're worthy of it. It doesn't mean they always believe I deserve it, because sometimes they're not doing the work. And it's hard to believe you deserve something if you're not doing the work. But you can feel worthy of it because you're a child of God. Because you have been a good person and a trustworthy person and a giving person, because you want good things for other people and you want good things for yourself. But you also know that that makes you worthy because you care.