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Episode #456:  Personal Development is Not Enough

As a Driven Entrepreneur I’ve cycled through (evolved) my focus over time...

-chasing success for happiness and fulfillment...

-shifted priorities to living a life of happiness...

-major life challenges brought awareness from outside to inside…

Personal Development became my focus…but I have always had ability to push past obstacles in my life

-through inspiration, motivation and education.

But I wanted to make an impact so I created Mastermind, Mobile, and Podcast.  Through out this journey of motivating, inspiring, and educating I have become more and more AWARE of a major issue with the personal development space…that is that awareness is not enough…personal development is not enough….identifying your limiting beliefs is not enough.

I like many of you have pursued these things my whole life (with success) but without lasting change in many areas…example of courses, events, teaching, etc…

What we really need is as David Bayer puts it, a PD 2.0 where we truly understand the science and processes needed in our minds to create the lasting change.

Let me explain…

We all have heard the process of the Belief cycle.  As a review and for those of you that have not, let me walk you through it…

Thoughts…Feelings…Actions…Results…Beliefs

-we are always in this cycle.

-this is why our thoughts create our life.

-this is also why our “limiting beliefs” will hurt our ability to create and grow.

-you can tell yourself you believe or want something but your subconscious works against you.

So, we identify our limiting beliefs and traditional PD tells us to be aware and change them…breakthrough!

But its not that simple…which brings me to the point of this podcast and what I want to help provide you and i with over the next couple weeks.

 After 20 years in the personal development, financial education and entreprenuer space I heard some topics that really changed the way I think you should approach your life.  Maybe it was something new or maybe it was just the timing and way it was said, but listening to a gentleman named David Bayer…

I have had many puzzle pieces in my learning and development fall into place.  Let me explain a bit more…

 You’ve heard me talk about the concept of neuroplasticity, so let me walk you through it again and I really want you to listen and sit on this thought for a while.

 Neuroplasticity is the ability of our brains to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or EXPERIENCES we have.

-this is important because everything we Believe is created from our Experiences

-everything we store in our minds/brains is based on these Experiences we have that create beliefs.

-so, herons that fire together, wire together…so we over our life Create these patterns/beleifs that guide our thinking and the more and more we travel the path, the more automatic it gets.

(example) this is why when we are in a state of believing we are not worthy, or depressed, or not enough, or people take advantage of us, or bad things happen to us, or we can never catch a break, etc…we hardwire these thoughts and beliefs literally into our brains/minds.

 The challenge is that is we don’t effectively work to ReProgram or ReWire our minds, then our brains/subconscious/limiting beliefs (or whatever you want to call it) will work against us.

 Now, do I believe you can Motivate, Inspire, Educate with Strategies and push through circumstances and create new Experiences and Beliefs…YES.  I’ve been doing it my whole life.

 BUT…

 Wouldn’t it be nice to have a clear Understanding, Strategy and Process by which you can learn to REWIRE and REPROGRAM your thinking so that you can effectively (intentionally) Create NEW Belief Patterns, New Experiences, and New Empowering Tho