A short conversational excerpt (YouTube transcript) featuring Catherine Bell discussing how negative internal self-talk (“monkey chatter”) undermines progress and how merely setting goals is insufficient — goals need motivating, actionable steps scheduled in the calendar to move from wishes to reality.
What is a block that maybe you had at one point in time when, you know, as I use the adage life kicked in.
The teeth, it's definitely the monkeys, you know, the monkey chatter that goes on about, you know, the woulda, coulda, shoulda or like, beating myself up for whatever perceived failure that I had just experienced. And then the bigger piece is, which is setting a goal isn't enough. Having actual actionable items that are motivating me and then in my calendar to make it happen, that is always whenever I talk to anybody about goals. And even for myself, you know, a long time ago, writing goals, not having that, that actionable item that called me forth and got me excited about it and then put it in my calendar, if that wasn't there, then the goal was honestly, it was a dream or a wish.
That makes sense. That makes complete sense.
