Your Beliefs Are Your Barometer: The #1 Mindset Shift You Must Do In 2025

What's up, everyone? It's Josh Trent. And in this video, we're going to talk about why your beliefs are your barometer. It's AMA number 699. I can't even believe that one before 700. I believe this is the number one thing that you get to focus on in 2025 so that you can actually be and become the version of you you know is possible. Check this out. All right, so you saw some of our previous guests, and you know what is a common thread in all the faces that you just saw? Every single one of them flipped their mindset when it comes to being and becoming abundant. Now, what do I mean by this? This is an ama, also known as Ask Me anything. Once a week, every Friday, we come out with a video and audio podcast so that you can make these informational waves and ocean soup information tactical and practical in your life. Our superpower at wellness and wisdom is to take information and knowledge and data and all this stuff and distill it down into practical wisdom you can use right now in your life, every day to live your life liberated. Today we're going to talk about the number one mindset shift that you must do in 2025 to live your life liberated, to live your life well, to be free. Now, this one shift that I'm going to mention to you is an analogy of a plane. Imagine you were a pilot and you were flying a plane. You have a degree setting on your plane. It's called a barometer. Essentially, it tells you your altitude, your environment. It's essentially the lens that the plane flies through. Now, what happens if that barometer has a glass ceiling? Glass ceilings are sometimes conscious or unconscious. And one man that I interviewed twice on the podcast, his name is Gay Hendricks, he. He wrote a book called the Big Leap. And in the Big Leap, he talks about how people have to go through their glass ceiling in order to achieve a new barometer. But why is this important? Why is it important that we have a barometer in our life in the first place? Well, it's because if our lens of altitude and environment is straight ahead, moving towards the goal, moving towards the target that we know is possible for ourselves, then let's be honest. If that lens is altered, if that barometer is clouded by our wounds, if that barometer is clouded by our beliefs, then there's nothing we can do to try to become greater. If there's an unconscious block that is stuck in our barometer setting on our plane, we could be wanting to go to Tokyo and we'd end up in Australia. This is why it's so important. The number one mindset shift that I and all of us must have in 2025 is the understanding that our beliefs are our barometer. Now, what do I mean by this? Try this on for size. What if I told you that our beliefs, not our skills, not our communication, not just our relationships, not how much money we have. What if I told you that our beliefs are the number one factor that determines all types of success in 2025? Would you believe me? Well, the belief set that you're listening to me through is going to inform what's possible and what's not possible. Most people are prisoners of their own mindset, and here's why. There has been many, many studies around animals, specifically rats, even horses, that when they are jailed in a certain cell, or when a horse is tied to a fence, or when even human beings are brought up with a certain structure of slavery, that even when they become liberated and their environment shows them that they can walk out of the jail CE at any time, they don't. Elephants do this too. Have you ever seen elephants at the circus? This massive two ton animal and there's a circus conductor with a little whip, and this little whip is so fearful that the elephant, trained since birth, will not go against the conductor in the circus. Same thing happens with horses. Horses get tied to objects from when they're very young and then when they're this massive beast that could literally break a fence with their legs. Just the fact that the horse's mouth, the horse's head, is tied to a fence post keeps the horse still. We're no different. We are not that different than animals because I believe that we are half beast and half spirit. So in 2025, things are accelerating like never before. Look at AI and technology and information and social media and the speed of technology, if you look at Moore's Law, doubles every year and gets 50% cheaper every year. Now, it's not going to slow down. Technology is not going to slow down. Evolution is running at a much smaller pace. Evolution goes slow, yet consciousness is accelerating. So we have three forces at play here. When it comes to your barometer being affected so deeply by your beliefs. Your beliefs are your barometer. So if your beliefs are not aligned to your purpose, in 2025, it is going to be metaphysically, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and financially impossible for you to be the person that you know you're capable of. But here's the great thing. You hold the keys to unlock your own jail cell. You hold the keys and the will to be with me on this podcast and to actually go deep into the five sides of yourself. It's on the screen right now. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial. These are the five sides that we nourish or we starve with our unconscious or conscious beliefs. This is why I'm saying your beliefs are your barometer in 2025. And so in the next 10 minutes, we're going to go into the tactical practical ways you can be and what you can do so that you can have exactly the life that you want. Let's dig in. The first piece is your beliefs are your barometer, essentially the weather that you operate in. Are you focused on people that bring rain clouds? Are you focused on thoughts that bring thunderstorms? Are you focused on the things in your environment that bring you down? Or are you focused on the fact that Dr. Hawkins says there is always a sun shining above the clouds? There is always a silver lining is what I mean. So the first piece is your beliefs are your barometer. So what beliefs do you have that are running the show unconsciously that you're completely not aware of? Grab a journal, much like this, and I want you to open up a journal with two sides. On one side you're going to write 10 things that are causing you the most pain and go deep, do some breath, work beforehand, get still have a meditative practice. Write 10 things that are causing you pain. On the other side, write 10 things that bring you joy, 10 things that you love. Like, don't be like, I like my cereal. If you like your cereal, great, right? But 10 things that really, really you love and that you're very grateful for. So you're going to have 20 things, 10 for pain and then 10 for pleasure. Now here's where the barometer can get wiped completely clean. Take a moment, float above your timeline. Look down at your journal. Circle the one on the left that's causing you the most pain. Like the most pain. You'll know what it is. Relationship, job, health, I'm broke. Whatever it is, it's going to be one of the five sides of of the Pentagon that's going to show up in this emotional inventory. This is how we start to reset and wipe the barometer clean. This is tactical. This is not just esoteric and woo woo. Then on the right side, circle one thing that you are absolutely most grateful for. This is the one that causes a lot of students in the Liberated life tribe. The most challenge is actually because of the reticular activating system and the default mode network in the brain wanting to choose the things that are causing us the most pain. Because of our negativity bias, it's actually sometimes the most challenging to list out even 10 things that we're grateful for. And definitely most challenging to circle the one that we're most grateful for. And now here's where thoughts become things. This is the most important thing you can do in 2025. Your beliefs are your barometer. We're resetting our barometer. We've done the emotional inventory. You've done 10 things on the left that are causing you pain. You've done 10 things on the right that are causing you joy and gratitude. Circle the one that's causing you the most gratitude. Circle the one that's causing you the most pain. Now here's where the thoughts become things. Reach out to someone. Maybe it's a post in the liberated life tribe. Maybe it's reaching out to a friend or mentor or coach, Somebody who supports you in the chasing down of your dream, in the embodiment of all the virtues and the values that you're working on and you share with them. Hey, Josh. I did an emotional inventory, and in 2025, there has been something that's come to light here and I'm really committed to working on it. I'm really committing to embodying exactly who I want to be and then share with them. The thing that's causing me the most pain is this. The thing that I'm doing it for is this. Because if we don't have something that we're doing it for, if we don't have a goal or a being or a family or a child or love of self, that actually is an internal locus of motivation to change. It's going to be really hard to change. You may have to do this emotional inventory many times and there's no shame for that. Right? Like doing an emotional inventory is a monthly, sometimes weekly, sometimes daily practice until you can provide yourself clarity on exactly the thing that gets to be shifted and you share with that person. And this is the key. It's in the act of sharing your emotional inventory that'll actually bring you a result. Because darkness hates the light. Darkness cannot exist in the light. Light shines on darkness to bring forth the thing that the darkness is hiding. So if your beliefs are your barometer, what are the unconscious beliefs or even conscious that you journaled about and just choose that one thing? This is where people get really, really set off and they become overwhelmed because they try to change three things or five things or 10 things. Don't do that. Change one thing and commit to it wholeheartedly, with humility, with vulnerability, by sharing it in tribe, in community, or with another person. And then ask that person, can you support me in my commitment? Can you support me in my accountability to resetting my barometer? So that may have felt a little jarring, but I promise you, if you do it, it'll feel less and less challenging to do each time. This was a both spiritual and scientific mental practice. But let's talk a little bit more about the science. There are thousands of studies showing that neuroplasticity in the brain is not only real, it's neurological. So it's plastic that is getting shifted by the habitual thought patterns that we allow ourselves to think. Here's a great example. Your brain is wired to think thoughts and then repeat those thoughts as a habitual loop. That's why grooves that get run into the earth from rain or from water or from streams become even more carved out. Your brain is no different. The thoughts that you think could essentially be water. And the tapestry of your brain is the earth. So the more that you allow yourself to think thoughts that are negative, to think thoughts that are harmful to self or others, the more those are going to get grooved in. But here's the paradox. The more that you consciously seek out the evidence that you're safe, that you're supported, that you have all the resources coming to you, you have all the network, all the community, all the money, all the love from self and others, the more you are actually tricking or training your brain to seek out the neuroplastic pathways where that abundance can actually come in. So here's the mindset shift that we must do in 2025. It is not positive thinking. It is not good, good vibes. Only positive thinking does not work. It's about alignment. See, the alignment of our beliefs actually allow us to have the neurology match the person that we know we can become. It's about the neurology. So when it comes to a mindset shift, we first and foremost have to approach the beliefs and the neurology behind the fact of why that belief is there in the first place. Now, there's many episodes that we'll link in the show notes today. Joshtrant.com 699 and this is a place where you can go to start deepening your journey in the mental portion of the wellness pentagon. But I'll tell you that anytime we have a mental journey, it is also going to Be a spiritual journey as well. Here's why the body cannot live without the mind and vice versa. We are a soul inhabiting the body. So as we go into this audit of our beliefs, write down your core beliefs about money. Write down your core beliefs about relationships, health, and success. Are they empowering or are they limiting? Turn off every limiting belief, like, get them down on paper. Write them down right here. And know that repetition is what rewires your brain. It's in this conscious repetition and the flushing out of our unconscious beliefs that are harmful to self or others that we actually become free. I mean, I just got a chill in my whole body right now saying that. Feel into this. It is in the repetition of writing down, of practicing the awareness of the beliefs that are keeping us hostage that actually yields us liberation. If we're the amalgamation of the five people that we spend the most time with. Audit your people this year. Audit your people. Do I enjoy hanging out with my five closest contacts, my family, and my friends? Liberation is not always easy because a lot of these relationships that we formed, they actually created this network or this spider web to keep us stuck. But we don't even know that. We don't know we're doing it. In other words, it's unconscious and competent. So after you've done as many emotional inventories on your journal as needed, go deeper into an audit. Audit your finances. What are the habitual spending patterns that you're doing that are sabotaging your results? Audit your physical self. Are you training? Are you doing the cold plunge? Are you. Are you moving? Are you just simply going for a walk? Are you strength training? Are you doing yoga? What are the things that are blocking your physical self from being a river and turning your physical self into a dam of stuck energy? Audit your emotional self. Where do I know that when I do my inventory, I am blocked emotionally? Right? Emotion is energy in motion. It's very simple. Yet we make it really complicated just by doing the audit of the physical, of the financial, of the emotional, and then two more of the spiritual. The spiritual is a big one because anytime I am cut off from the connection to my creator. I don't have any kind of practice of stillness. I don't have any kind of practice of checking into my creator, the thing that created me. Many of us call this creator God. Some call it Allah, some call it universe. Whatever word you want to use is fine. Have a connection. Practice, whether it's five minutes of breath work. You can find that@joshtrent.com M21 that's a free guide I'm giving to you to use in 2025. It is in this conscious connection to our creator, that which created us, that we actually have a fuel source that's never ending, right? Bob Proctor says you take from abundance, abundance is still there. But when you take from abundance, you have to know how to even speak to abundance, which is our creator. So we've talked about the physical audit, the financial audit, the mental audit, the emotional audit, and the spiritual audit. These are the five ways in which we get to take an audit of our life, of ourselves. And there's honesty here. When honesty is at play, there's nowhere to hide. The light cannot hide when you shine the light of honesty. Now, I want to talk about one more key thing in 2025 as it relates to our beliefs being our barometer. When your beliefs are your barometer, sometimes that barometer gets cloudy. It gets cloudy from our wounding. Our wounding is actually a gift. But on the other side of the wounding is actually the wisdom that we're all seeking. Yet you first must go through, right through the wounding. A lot of times there are many spiritual teachers out there that don't talk about resistance. It is in the resistance to our wounding or the healing of our wounding, where we actually develop the courage and the capacity to be liberated. That's what it's all about. So if the only way out of unconscious programming of a barometer that keeps you stuck is to go right through it, then how do we cultivate courage in the face of resistance? Here's how. First, you must counter skepticism. You might be thinking, oh, this is too easy, or, oh, this won't work. But it's in the simplicity that the magic is held. Something doesn't have to be super complicated in order for it to hold significant weight for your personal growth, for change. A lot of times when something is really simple, the mind might say, well, this is too simple. But that's where the magic is. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy. So in the simplicity comes acknowledgement. And this is the last piece I'll talk about acknowledging the fear of change, turning to the fear and actually asking it. What it's here to teach you for is where everything shifts. People always ask, what is the difference between successful people and people that don't acknowledge their success? Or for people that don't fulfill their potential, it's this one thing. It's the acknowledgement of fear. It's the learning how to dance or to love. The fear, to quote gay Hendricks. And it's in this skill set, this practice of turning towards your fear and asking your fear, what are you here to teach me? This is what breaks you out of the comfort zone. If you stay in the comfort zone, you're going to miss out on what's possible this year if you lean into the fear, if you learn how to dance with the fear by doing all the practices we've talked about today, especially if you just do one thing. The journaling, the emotional inventory, and the outreach to a trusted friend and the asking for accountability. Your life's going to change. I promise you, your life's going to change. It has for me. Why should you even listen to me? In 2015, I was overweight. I had chronic sinusitis. I was $80,000 in debt, and in the span of six months, I broke up with a woman I thought I was going to be with. I got fired from a, quote, safe corporate job, and I put my mom in a mental home. That's where I started this podcast from. My environment was completely not conducive to me starting a podcast. There is never a perfect time for you to start, and actually, the only perfect time for you to start is now. It's when you're becoming aligned. It's the alignment of. Of the beliefs that shape the fabric and really the lens of your barometer. This is so key. This is so big. If I can just share with you one more thing. Your beliefs shape your reality. Align them and 2025 won't just be another year. It'll be your year. This is your year. This is your life. This is the place where everything can change. Do you feel it? Do you feel it in your heart? Do you feel it in your soul? This is where everything changes because you say so. So write me podcastellnessandwisdom.com tell me your dreams. Tell me your alignment. Tell me the beliefs that are blocking your barometer, that you're committed to letting go of. I'll share with you my beliefs. My beliefs are, as I expand, there's a story, there's a belief that it's become conscious. It was unconscious. And the belief in me said, how are you going to crack a million in 2025? How are you going to hold the community? How are you going to hold your family? How are you going to hold your business? And you know what my belief is? Now that I'm gathering evidence that I'm being vulnerable with my men's groups that I'm even sharing with you right now, you know exactly how I'm fortifying the new belief. I'm fortifying the new belief by sharing it with you. I'm fortifying the new belief by sharing, by holding up the lantern. Because when I shine a lantern, I shine a lantern on my stuff and I shine it on yours too. That's what a true leader is. Leaders hold lanterns. Leaders hold lanterns. So write in the comments below. What belief is holding you back? What belief are you committed to letting go of in 2025? And this is the key. How are you going to practice it? What is your practice for being liberated? Join us in the Liberated Life Tribe. It's on the screen right now. LiberatedLife.com join the wait list to be in community this year, to be in tribe where you can actually be supported. Fact is, you never do this alone. Transformation, healing and growth does not happen when you're a lone wolf. Lone wolves that are ostracized from the tribe, when the ego puts them on the cliff and says you can do it by yourself, they die. Don't die in 2025. Live, live, live your dream. Live your process of letting go of these beliefs that are not of service, that never have been, and give yourself grace as you go through the journey. In community, in tribes, you can actually be supported. All right. I hope you enjoyed this AMA today. If you enjoyed it, please like, please subscribe, please share. It helps myself and my team get this message of liberation out into the world. Until I see you very soon on the next video, the next ama, I'm wishing you love, wellness, peace and power. We'll talk with you soon.