Diane GardnerFounder, Adept Business Solutions · Profit First Professional

#288 Highlights- JOHN JANTSCH: DAILY MEDITATIONS – BUILDING SELF-RELIANCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS

21 Feb 2020 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, the host asks John Jantsch about the "demons"—the persistent negative internal conversations that undermine entrepreneurs' confidence, especially when trying to maintain a morning routine. Jantsch describes this as a daily battle, emphasizing the importance of first recognizing how much control these thoughts have over us. He explains that many of these limiting beliefs are internalized messages from parents, teachers, or other authority figures—examples include a teacher telling him he would never amount to anything, which later is understood as reflecting the teacher's own fear. The discussion highlights the need for awareness of these inherited negative narratives as a first step toward building self‑reliance.

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Hey, John, what about the demons and the internal conversations that go on? I think many of our listeners have heard and want to be more self-reliant. They want to have that morning routine, but the demons in their head says, "You got to work harder. You're not good enough." And there's this negative conversation going on. What do we do to combat those issues?
Well, I think that's just a— I think it's a daily fight. I mean, I think the first thing is you have to start realizing the control they have. Over you because I think the insidious part is that it is a lot of times our own thoughts that were hammered into us by, heaven forbid, a parent or a teacher or somewhere along the way. A lot of those things, I remember distinctly having a teacher tell me that I was never going to amount to anything. You grow up and you realize that was actually more about sort of their fear.