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Today lets discuss how to make changes in your life by changing your Philosophy or beliefs… Quote of the day Brian Tracy- There is no security in life…only opportunity.   About a year ago I did an episode on why Personal Development is not enough to create change.  I want to discuss some of those concepts today because they tie in directly to the topics we are covering this week. 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…
• But, Major life challenges helped to bring my awareness from outside to inside…forcing me to change my beliefs

So...Personal Development became my focus…but I have personally always had the ability to push past obstacles in my life through inspiration, motivation, and education.  What I really wanted was to help others make changes as well... I wanted to make an impact so I created TheDailyMastermind, Mobile app, and Podcast. Throughout this journey of motivating, inspiring, and educating I have become 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. Like many of you, I have pursued these things my whole life (with success) but without lasting change in many areas…examples 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 it’s not that simple…which brings me to the point of this podcast and what I want to help provide you and I with through the Daily Mastermind. After 20 years in the personal development, financial education, and entrepreneur 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 neurons that fire together, wire together…so over our life we create these patterns/beliefs 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 hard wire these thoughts and beliefs