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🤫 How she’s dropping 3 LB/wk (steal her secret)

Want to learn how to get into a "fat shredding groove," where you lose 3 LB each week, without:

Feeling hungry
Working out non-stop
Hating what you eat
Moreover, want to learn how to do it despite the obstacles of:

Traveling for work
Tending to your family
Being a perfectionist
Yup, my client Faith has learned how to “effortlessly” lose her desired weight of 3 LB each week.

Not only is she conquering those obstacles posed by work and life, but also posed by the fact she's in her 60s, post-menopausal, and dealing with nagging injuries. 😮

How?

I’ll let you in on her routine; #3 is the MOST important:

1. 𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 (12𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞)
Walking is a great tool for fat loss, especially if you're more senior. The trick is you have to do it a lot, and consistently, but it can definitely work. Faith wakes up an hour early each day and gets it in.

2. 𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 ‘𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭”
Eating a similar, repetitive menu takes the guesswork out of “what, when, and how much” to eat.

These are the 3 key facets of nutrition, as I teach in my bestselling health transformation book, “The Nine Shifts.” (See chapter 20, Optimize Your Nutrition).

Find a fat loss-friendly but tasty menu that helps you hit your macronutrient and calorie goals, then rinse and repeat.

3. 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝
We always hear about how important it is to “stick to the right habits.” But...

𝑻𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔.

That’s because we're slaves to our beliefs and subconscious thinking patterns; they drive every action (and inaction).

Without understanding the belief that’s driving a habit, we rely on willpower, which rarely lasts more than two weeks.

Instead, we must transform the thinking pattern driving the bad habit.

𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆-𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒔.

But now, she’s got it down:

The mindset, the walking, and the consistent eating that’s got her in a groove of losing 3 LB each week.

What I love the most about all this is how she FEELS. She says:

“𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 “𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴” 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐’𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦."

Getting yourself into this type of long-lasting, body-changing, and life-transforming groove isn’t a quick fix.

But Faith will say it’s worth it.

Happy “finding your groove,”

Deekron

𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘳: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺
𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴

P.S. If you're ready to find your "groove," two things that will help:

1. Read my bestselling health transformation book, The Nine Shifts.

2. Apply for a free Nine Shifts Body Breakthrough Call

😤 The “Frustration Formula” (and how to undo it)

If you find yourself feeling frustrated more than once per week, this mindset email is for you...

As a fellow high achiever, I'm prone to get frustrated at people easily.

In fact, I’ve been going through some stuff with one of my virtual assistants and it’s been leading to some frustration.

So, I came up with this formula to help explain why this happens.

THE FRUSTRATION FORMULA:
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 = 𝐅𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Let's break down each component:

A. I “expect” things to be this way
B. They “should” be no other way (i.e. you're “attached” to your point of view)
C. I feel frustrated when they're not that way!

Let’s deconstruct the formula in two easy steps:

1. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝
Our expectation has to be clearly communicated and realistic. If we make 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 that the person understands or is capable of meeting the expectation when they're not, the expectation was not realistic to begin with.

Note: This doesn't mean we're not allowed to expect and need certain things from the people we are in a relationship with. We totally are.

But it's 𝒐𝒏 𝒖𝒔 to make sure the expectation is clearly communicated, clearly understood, and fully AGREED TO by the other person (and NOT from force or coercion).

It can also help to ask them to 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅, and guide them to think things through in terms of how they will meet your expectation.

Some people "get it" faster than others, especially if they're struggling with something affecting their cognition like brain fog, anxiety, depression, poor sleep, poor diet, or simply them having a bad day.

To be effective leaders, this is something we have to be sensitive to.

2. 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐧𝐲 “𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝’𝐬”
I’ve written in the past about being careful with the word “should.” Using should indicates we are coming from a place of judgement and criticism.

It creates attachment to the outcome and locks us into one point of view.

We probably heard “should” so often growing up (and use it now in our own self-talk), it's just a natural part of how we speak.

However, our words create our perception.

𝑰𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐 “𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅’𝒔”; 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑.

Being attached to an outcome or one point of view leads to frustration.

In sum, if we want to avoid frustration, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 for our expectations and we have to be unattached to it getting done.

Expectations, especially unrealistic or uncommunicated ones, will hurt a relationship and cause frustration.

I believe that this is a big lesson us high achievers need to learn if we don't want to be "alone at the top of the mountain."

It takes more effort and patience to pull someone up the mountain with us, but in the end, the effort is usually worth it.

Let me know if this resonated with you!

Happy “frustration free achieving,"

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The InPoweredBody
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

P.S. To learn more strategies for thinking, feeling, and performing your best, pick up my bestselling transformation book, "The Nine Shifts." I’ll be super pumped if you read it and write a review. Here’s the AMAZON LINK -> https://bit.ly/TheNineShifts.

😬 Some Hard Truth About Blood Sugar and Prediabetes 😬

I love my tribe members (i.e. you).

Sometimes loving someone means dishing out some tough love when it’s needed.

With your permission, I’d like to share some much needed “hard truths” about blood sugar and prediabetes.

Per the CDC, 98MM Americans (38% of US adults) have high blood sugar levels.

The number has increased by 300% in the last 30 years.

𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕.

Thanks to the American lifestyle, food supply, and Big Pharma, many of us will eventually develop it.

To make matters worse, traditional Western Medicine doesn’t have sustainable answers other than to put those with high blood sugar on side-effect laden medications like Metformin.

Now, there’s good news and bad news about this situation…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭:

Having high blood sugar:

• Causes inflammation, accelerates aging and puts stress on our brain and organs.

• Increases our risk of stroke, cancer and cardiac disease.

• Makes it much easier to gain weight and much harder to lose it.

For these reasons, there is 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 to bring blood sugar levels down to a healthy range once it develops (or, ideally, prevent it altogether).

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬:

High blood sugar 𝑰𝑺 reversible. I’ve helped many clients reduce their A1C levels and ditch the prediabetic label for good.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉...

It takes very carefully monitoring and optimizing all of the key inputs of your metabolism because, again, high blood sugar makes losing weight a lot harder, especially after 40.

I won’t sugar-coat it (see what I did there?)…

𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆-𝒕𝒐-𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔.

Get any of these wrong and it can lead to a stubborn plateau, or, worse, rapid weight gain.

Thus, the right strategy and ongoing monitoring is vital.

If you or a loved one has elevated blood sugar levels, or you want to avoid getting it, then time to act is NOW.

👉🏻 To help with this, I’ve created a free, 2-minute blood sugar quiz that uncovers some key areas to focus on in order to bring blood sugar levels down.

Comment “Blood Sugar” below and I’ll send it to you.

Once you get it, take it.

Based on your answers, I’ll send you a free blood sugar management resource I use with my clients.

Comment “Blood Sugar” now.

Happy “low blood sugar for life,”

Deekron

3 secrets for a strong 2nd half

Don't look now, but...

Half the year is gone (P**F! Just like that 😮).

You can say it’s officially “halftime” in the game of 2024.

Are you set up well to have a strong second half?

To help with this, let’s look at what professionals athletes do at halftime of a game.

You can steal their secrets to ensure you do the right things to “win” when the clock runs out on your 2024.

1. Rest & Replenish (Recover)
Athletes use their halftime intermission to recover and replenish their energy. Take advantage of summer weekends and vacations to do something good for your mind and body.

Pro Tip: Some people mindlessly eat and drink during such breaks. Instead, be mindful to feed your body good foods, and do something that “feeds your soul” (i.e. doing something that truly fulfills you).

2. Assess Your Progress (Reflect)
Reflect on the "halftime score" of your year. Look back and acknowledge how your year has gone so far. Celebrate and acknowledge what you, and those around you, have done well.

Pro Tip: The mind's bias for negativity will immediately focus on what’s missing. Don’t let it. Focus on the good and “praise the progress.” Progress is motivating. This will also make you fell grateful. From there, look for areas of improvement.

3. Make Halftime Adjustments (Reset)
If you're looking to improve your body and health, think about some high-leverage areas that will really move your progress forward (e.g. elevating your mindset, tracking your nutrition, adding muscle and strength, etc.).

Pro Tip: Think about some easy “micro shifts” you can make in your daily or weekly routine to start moving things in a new direction. Perhaps it’s waking up 10 minutes earlier to start your day with an mind and body empowerment practice, logging some meals to better understand what you're consuming, or getting some accountability to ensure you’re staying consistent with your habits.

By treating this mid-year checkpoint like a pro athlete does during halftime of a game — to recover, reflect, and reset — you will ensure you finish the year strong!

Happy “winning your second half,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The InPowerment Company
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

🇺🇸 4 Stay-Lean Strategies For The 4th of July

Tomorrow, July 4th, is American Independence Day. 🇺🇸

For me, I like to connect the ideals of "living freely" and being "independent" with maintaining good health throughout our lives.

By being healthy, strong, and lean, we get to live life freely, without limits...

..and without having to depend on anyone as we age!

This starts with knowing how to manage our mindset and our schedule so that we're eating and exercising properly, year round, even during holidays.

The 4th of July is usually celebrated with lots of eating and drinking -- and not always the healthiest food options, if you know what I mean! 🌭🍔🍺

But I got you covered in this blog post:

4 Strategies For a Guilt-Free Fourth of July

These strategies will help you enjoy the festivities without hurting your goal of staying lean and healthy.

In fact, they work great for ANY holiday or big eating event - not just The 4th of July.

Read more -> https://www.theinpowermentco.com/blog/4-weight-loss-strategies-for-a-guilt-free-fourth-of-july

Happy "health and independence year round,"

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The InPowerment Company
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

🧐 Do you take an all-in/all-out approach to things?

Do you ever feel like you take an all-in/all-out approach to things?

In other words, when you're good, you're really good. But when you're off, you're totally checked out.

Does this result in you being inconsistent with your habits?

If so, you're not alone.

This is actually pretty common for high achievers and perfectionists.

👉🏻 Here's an easy fix:

Consistently taking minimal actions towards your goals cures wild extremes.

💰 If it's a financial goal, this can look like saving a bit each week or each month. (Set up automated savings or investment withdrawals. I like to use the Acorns app for this).

🩵 If it's a health goal, this can look like multi-tasking some level of activity into your day. (Seek to take more calls standing up, or while walking outside or on a treadmill).

👔 If it's a career goal, this can look like creating at least one post per week on LinkedIn or your blog to showcase your expertise. (Create a recurring time block in your calendar; this will create an "appointment with yourself" for getting this done).

From a mindset perspective...

Taking these minimal actions (also know as “Imperfect actions”) instead of WAITING to do the perfect thing at the perfect time...

..keeps your goals top of mind and prevents you from going into the "guilt mode" that results from us doing nothing for long stretches.

Here's to more consistency and less guilt.

Happy “imperfectly perfect progress,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The InPowerment Company
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

P.S. To learn more about how to implement Imperfect Actions to stay more consistent, check out page 171 of my bestselling transformation book, The Nine Shifts: The Mind-First Method To Transform Your Body and Your Life.

Here's why we procrastinate…

If you ever wondered why we procrastinate instead of doing what we should, know this:

Procrastinating is the mind’s default.

Here are two reasons why (and how to overcome them)…

1️⃣ The Mind Does Not Like Exertion

Giving effort takes exertion, and exertion takes energy.

The body relies on energy for survival.

Thus, anything that requires energy makes the mind resist.

2️⃣ The Mind Prefers the Familiar

What’s familiar reduces the risk of harm or injury.

So the mind will always prefer familiar roads, familiar people, familiar tasks, etc.

The mind will constantly seek to reduce uncertainty and the unknown.

Especially if taking a chance on the unfamiliar created pain in the past.

Examples include the pain of failure, rejection, disappointment, heart break, etc.

Combine obstacles 1 and 2 above, and you get a formula for staying stuck. 😖

This is the mind’s default: It will be resisting anything that takes effort or that is unfamiliar.

But if you reduce the mind’s resistance to 1 and 2 above, you get in action. This creates forward momentum and motivation.

You can do this by breaking down tasks into something small, and allowing yourself to take “imperfect actions.”

✅ This will reduce the perceived exertion required for doing the thing.

✅ Once you start doing the thing, it starts to become familiar, and voilà, procrastination disappears!

Ultimately, the mind will procrastinate.

But starting small and finding easy steps you can “just do now” will help you move past it every time.

Happy “procrastination busting,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The InPowerment Company
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

P.S. For more strategies on how to beat procrastination, stay motivated and be more consistent, check out my book, The Nine Shifts: The Mind-First Method To Transform Your Body and Your Life.

👉🏻 Want your results to last?

Want to know why most people struggle to achieve lasting change?

It's because they are too focused on the outcome.

This applies to any goal, but I will show you how it applies to keeping your body and health in an optimal place throughout your life.

Let’s start with a business example.

If an entrepreneur has a goal of growing his or her business to $1MM in revenue, they can push hard to try to reach this goal.

One of two things usually happens:

A. They hit the goal but burn themselves out (successful but not sustainable)
B. They don’t hit the goal but keep trying futilely and eventually quit (sustainable but not successful)

This also applies to reaching one’s heath goals.

Most people can push hard to lose some weight but they do it in a way that’s not sustainable, and they eventually regain it.

Or they don’t reach their goal, eventually quit, and accept that they’re destined to not having the body and health they want.

To achieve results and have them last, whether in business or with your body, we have to shift our focus from the outcome we want (e.g. earn a million dollars, lose 30 LB, etc.) to the process that will get us the outcome.

Here’s what I mean.

A client messaged me today saying:

“My mom and I are doing a challenge for the next week. She wants to lose 2 lbs and I'm going to lose 4 lbs!”

I replied to her saying "cool" that she was getting mom involved, but I also added the following wisdom:

We don't get the outcome by focusing on the outcome.

We get it by focusing on the process -- and consistently working the process --- that gets us the outcome.

You also want to tie this perspective to your identity.

Ask yourself, “Who do I have to BE to get the outcome?" (e.g. lose 4 LB).

You have to BE it before you can become it.

This means:

You have to BE the person who earns a million dollars per year, and it will show up.
You have to BE a person who is healthy, in both mind and body, and the weight will stay off.
You have to GIVE UP ATTACHMENT to the outcome and play full out on doing the right things that get you the result.
The progress you're looking for (e.g. more money, less body fat, etc.) will take care of itself.

I talk more about this in my bestselling transformation book, The Nine Shifts.

Keep this quote from Deekron in mind:

"The progress is in the process, not in the outcome."

Happy “lasting results,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The Sharp Body
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

P.S. Are you a high-achieving professional or business owner wanting to elevate your results and your resilience? I'm currently opening up two slots in my Holistic High Performance Transformation Program. It empowers you to be your overall best in mind and body so you can achieve more success with less stress. Comment with "My Overall Best" and I'll tell you more.

😏 Want to see how I just schooled Mel Robbins?

I think I just schooled Mel Robbins.

In case you haven’t heard of her, she’s a pretty famous author, motivational speaker, podcaster, etc. (No relation to Tony Robbins)

Recently, she made the following post on LinkedIn:

“I don’t understand why everyone is afraid of failing when it hurst so much more to miss out on everything that you dream of because you lack the courage to try.”

No, Mel?

You, of all people, don’t understand why this is?

(I was pretty surprised she posted this. She’s someone who is supposed to be known for her mindset teachings).

I left the following comment on her post (it’s my answer her rhetorical question).

It will help you understand why we fear failure and how to overcome it to not miss out on your dreams (better put, your most important goals).

My response to Mel’s post:

“I’ll tell you why (Mel). Because we're wired for safety and avoiding pain. Failing at something triggers our subconscious fears of not being "good enough to be loved" and accepted by those we rely on for protection and survival (i.e. our parents and our tribe).

So while the logical mind says "try" the emotional mind says "nope." And since emotions drive our decisions and NOT logic, we stay stuck.

Yes, it may eventually “hurt" to miss out on our dreams, but the survival mind associates more pain with failing (and pain is associated with death), so it will always prioritize avoiding the pain we risk feeling when we chase a dream.

Preventing the mind from putting on the brakes and keeping us in procrastination requires gaining greater self-awareness around our subconscious beliefs, fears, patterns, and identity, and transforming them.

This is the only way to overcome fear of failure and ensure we don't miss out on our dreams.”

On that note, my transformation book, The Nine Shifts, talks about how to transform your limiting beliefs and identity.

This allows you to overcome fears and stay in action around your health, wealth, and relationship goals.

BTW, was this useful?

If so, comment back and let me know!

Happy “reaching your dreams,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The Sharp Body
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

6 steps to a breakthrough (in any area)

Let’s talk about a super important topic for your quality of life:

Limiting Beliefs

In short, limiting beliefs are super important because:

Your results are a reflection of what you believe
Your beliefs create your reality
Limiting beliefs create resistance/inaction and a cause a "gap" between where you are and what you want
In short, any area of life in which you're struggling (health, wealth, or relationships), you have a limiting belief holding you back.

So how can we overcome this?

SIX STEPS TO A BREAKTHROUGH
To have a breakthrough, we must identify the limiting belief and create a new belief or story that will help us take action toward our goal.

Pick an area you want to have a breakthrough in.
Ask yourself "What do I believe around this area?"
Think about what you feel in that moment (e.g. resistance, fear, boredom, anxious, etc.).
Think back to the past and identify when that internal conversation may have started.
Disassociate the feeling with what happened.
Reframe and create a new story about what happened that will empower you.
Repeat the new story to yourself daily, and really embody it, until you've rewired this old belief (you'll know you're getting there when your results start to improve).
*I talk more about how to do this breakthrough process in Chapter 16 of my book, The Nine Shifts.

Please know this…

Rewiring your limiting beliefs is a deep, transformative process that will change your life and unlock your full potential.

This email alone is not going to get you there, but it’s a good start.

Do the exercise above, and read my "Rewire Limiting Beliefs" chapter, and let me know how it goes.

Happy “better beliefs,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The Sharp Body
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

P.S. If you’d like some help with creating a breakthrough in an important area of your life, you can apply for a free consulting call with me. Just comment with “Breakthrough” and I’ll tell you more.

😔 Have you "lost your way”?

Have you ever felt like you’ve lost your way?

This story will help...

For several weeks, I had been feeling stuck.

Was banging my head, trying to figure out this next phase of my career and business (post publication of my book).

I kept researching, observing, reading, watching, analyzing, etc. for a long time.

After weeks of doing my best to crack this nut, I felt like I had finally figured it out.

I was elated! 😃

I could finally move forward.

I was clear on who I was going to be…

…until I wasn’t.

A conversation with my super-smart bestie, where she (lovingly) shot down what I was thinking, left me feeling deflated.

I was back at square one.

Back to feeling stuck. 😔

Luckily, a conversation I had with a client later that day helped me have a breakthrough.

I realized an important lesson…

I had lost my way because I wasn’t standing in my power.

I was trying to “fit in” to what everyone else was doing.

Trying to have the right “spin” and say the right things.

Trying to be and act in a way I thought “they” wanted me to be.

I was looking too much at what others were doing and forgetting who I was.

I was trying to find who I am by looking outside.

But who I truly am was within me all along.

I just got a little lost.

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve lost your way, or maybe feel that way now, remember this:

The world will always try to tell you who to be.

This can make us lose our way.

It disconnects us from our soul.

(And social media can make this way worse).

But the more we stand in our power, the less outside influences will affect us.

So, be true yourself and stand in your power.

Not matter what “they” say.

You’ll get back on the right path and you’ll be found again, happily re-connected with your soul.

Happy “standing powerfully for you,”

Deekron

Chief Transformation Officer: The Sharp Body
Bestselling Author: The Nine Shifts

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