Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Shift your mindset about villains! #financialfreedom #wealthmindset #empowerment #resilience

3 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Short motivational monologue advising listeners to reframe past criticisms and negative experiences as ‘armor’ or fuel for growth. The speaker recommends writing down the people/lines that have criticized you, using that ‘villain’ image as motivation for action (exercise, work tasks), and building emotional calluses to handle greater challenges.

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In order for us to succeed through life, which can feel like a battle, we need to put on an armor. And the armor, in my case, is often the exact opposite of what people think it is. It's all the nos that I've been told. It's my math teacher that said that. It's my partners that said that. It's exes that feel a certain way, and I don't feel it or wear it in a vengeful manner. I wear it because it's a reminder of all the things that I've been able to overcome over the years. When difficult things happen to you, if you can alter those or alchemize those to be fodder or fuel as opposed to something that brings you down, you can really move forward in a way where nothing really hurts anymore. If you're listening to this now and you're not where you want to be, write down your villain. Write down the 1 liners or 2 liners or 10 liners of what people have said against you. Throw it up on a mirror and get after it. And every time you don't want to do this, the next sit up to get rid of the extra fat you don't want or you don't want to make the next cold call to close the client, that you need to go back at that picture that human, sit in it for a second and let that be a fuel to you. And then you build up these calluses, and calluses allow you to lift bigger and bigger weight.