Achieving Your Goals with Tom Bilyeau and John Assaraf

I learned the value of progress versus perfection. So I was taught that failure is an opportunity to learn. And I was also taught to disassociate me being a failure from failing. How to get healthy and stay healthy. We know how do I build a business and sustain it? We know how do I get into a relationship and make it successful? We know, we know most of the how to for anything that anybody wants to do in this timeframe that we live in. So the how to is the easiest part of the equation. So the harder part of the equation is why am I not doing the things that I know I should be doing and why am I not doing the things that I could find out easily how to do? When we take, let's say, visualization, right, and you start to see yourself, even if the picture is not clear in your mind of achieving the next level of your success, whether it's releasing weight and keeping it off, getting into a relationship that you love and are happy, and whether it's to make two or three or five times more money. Live a certain type of lifestyle that allows you to do the things that freedom with having money allows you to do. If you start in your mind first and you impress that through conscious efforts into the subconscious mind, it then causes thoughts and emotions and behaviors. Emotions are all triggered at the subconscious level. They release neurochemicals. That causes a feeling. We are consciously aware of feelings that are triggered at the subconscious level. The feeling is the end point of the human experience in the physical body. The mechanism of how the brain works. It's Einstein's brain, Hitler's brain, Genghis Khan's brain, Tom Bilyeu's brain, John asset brain, all the same functionality. So if you understand the mechanics of what's supposed to happen, then you say, okay, great, when I feel this, then what am I going to do? When there's this enormous adrenaline and epinephrine, you know, that could stop most people dead in their tracks. They learn, here's the feeling. It's normal. Do you have the knowledge and the skills and the preparation to deal with this in a safe way? Go. What's one very small action step that you can take? Now the reason you want to take one small action step is one small action step your brain can handle. If it's one small step towards it, the threat response goes away. But if you focus on the end game right away, you're going to get that rush and that instant trigger of the fear response, stress response. So the first thing you want to do is learn how to manage your mindset and what you focus on. Learn how to manage your emotions because they drive your behavior more than anything else. We move away from pain and we move towards pleasure. We move away from pain a thousand times faster. The biggest gift we have as human beings is our awareness. Because awareness is what gives you choice, and choice is what gives you freedom.