We’re almost at midyear. So, this is a time when people tend to look back at the year so far and evaluate – whether formal or informally – what they’ve managed to get done this year. And that’s especially true for people who are looking for change in some part of their career or life. Whether that’s about changing jobs, making more money, starting a business, losing weight, finding a relationship or anything else that’s calling to you. Mid-year is a natural time to evaluate how we’re doing against those goals. 

A few episodes ago, in Episode 78, we talked about “How to Transform Your Career and Life.” 

And the focus in that episode was about how you can make big transformational shifts by looking to your FUTURE vs. what we typically do, which is trying to build from where we’re currently at. So that’s all about channeling the thoughts, feelings and actions that are consistent with that FUTURE version of you. And learning how to BE that future version of you that already HAS that big new thing so that it eventually comes about.

So, if you’re dreaming of something big and new and you haven’t listened to that episode yet, you might want to go back and give that a listen because I think you’ll find it a very helpful perspective and one we don’t usually think about when it comes to achievement.

Today, we’re going to talk about that same thing – how to make changes in your career and life – but from a different perspective. I want to talk about what to do if you’re someone who might dream of making big changes in some part of your life but maybe finds it tough to get started. Or maybe you get started but you find it hard to stay with it.

Now if you’re a regular listener to this podcast you know that our actions – whether we start or don’t start, or whether we quit or stay with it – it’s all driven by what you’re thinking. And if you’re thinking things like “it’s too hard” or “it’s impossible” or that “it’ll take too long” or “you’re not disciplined enough to stay with it,” then that’s going to cause emotions like defeat or procrastination or whatever. And you’re going to either not start or quit. 

It's so easy to let our brain talk us out of the big things we want to go do. And in my experience, it’s far too easy to believe whatever lie our brain is telling us. Because when we want something that’s far from where we are right now, the new thing we’re dreaming of seems like it’s just out of our reach. And when we look at it through that lens, from where we are vs. where we want to end up, it’s easy to believe that the journey is just going to be too hard. That it’s too big a shift. That we won’t stick with it long enough to make it happen.

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