How Your Mental Governor Holds You Back

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day. This is John Assraf and I want to talk to you about something that very few people ever think about or even know about. But if you think about this question, you'll understand what I mean. Do you know what a governor is? And I don't mean a governor like a governor of a state. What I mean is a governor like the one that's on a go kart or on your car. And you might think still, well, what is a governor? Well, if you've ever driven a go kart, you know that you can press on the pedal as much as you want, but the go kart will only go a certain speed. Well, that's because there's a governor that's built into the small engine of a go kart that will only allow it to go a certain speed. Every car has a governor as well. Even though the engines could really go maybe, you know, 120, 150, 180, or 200, 250 miles per hour, every car has a governor that doesn't allow it to go beyond that limitation that the governor is set at. Why am I talking to you about a governor? Well, guess what? Everybody has mental governors. Things that are our ceilings that our brain does not allow us to go beyond. We have a governor on our weight. We have a governor on the amount of money we make. We have a governor on the relationship that we are in and accept. We have governors on everything. Limitations that are either self imposed or have been imposed upon us by our parents, our grandparents, our teachers, life experiences, etc. We become conditioned to play at the level of where our governor is set. So what's the solution? How do you unleash the governor? Well, the first and foremost thing you can do to unleash the governor is to set a new goal of what speed you want to go at or what game you want to play, what level of the game you want to play at. That's number one. Number two, the way you take off and rip out that governor is not by learning more strategies and tactics of what to do, but it's by winning what I call is the inner game of resetting the governor. And how do you win the inner game? Well, it's actually a pretty simple task, but because it's simple, it also means it's simple not to do every single day. What I would love you to do is take a look at the new ceiling that you want as your governor. So let's say you want to make More money. Let's say you want to lose some weight. Let's say you want a better relationship. I want you to look at every single day that new image, that new idea, that new setting. And not only do I want you to look at it, I want you to visualize it like a Hollywood actor or actress would pretend that they are this role that they're going to win an Academy Award for. I want you to close your eyes and emotionalize and visualize that new setting that you want to be at. That new income, that new weight, that new relationship, that new business level every day. I want you to look at it, I want you to write it out, and I want you to read it to yourself. And here's what I can guarantee will happen. Initially, when you start doing this, you're going to start having these dialogues in your head that this is silly, this doesn't make any sense. Why am I reading this? Why am I visualizing? Why am I emotionalizing something that's not real? Well, that's your brain doing what it's supposed to do. Keep you at where your governor is set right now. But what we want to do is recalibrate, reset the governor just like we reset a thermostat. And so through writing it out, through emotionalizing it, through visualizing it, you will start to reset your governor so that you can go faster, reduce your stress, make more money, grow your business, whatever it is you choose to change the setting of the governor, the more success you're going to achieve. And so remember, success is an inside out game. So work on the inside and your results are going to change on the outside.