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Most people believe that success requires suffering - working long hours, putting up with horrible people, doing horrible things, sacrificing yourself or others. If you believe the only way to make more money is to experience more pain, your nervous system is going to make sure that success doesn’t happen for you. Your body and brain have gone through millions of years of evolution to prevent you from experiencing pain, you aren’t going to “tough it out” or “overcome” it. You

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves” - Elvin Semrad (quoted in Van Der Kolk ’s ‘The Body Keeps The Score’) I had a session earlier today with a new client and was reminded of this quote. I’m reading The Body Keeps The Score at the moment and it has been a heavy but powerful read (definite recommend). I was reminded of this quote in my session because the client was struggling to pick between two actions: One action was something they though

Poor people often think they need to “get lucky” to become rich and/or successful. However, luck isn’t lucky. I believe being lucky is a skill. You can increase your “luck surface area”, and I’m going to tell you how. First, your surface area of luck. I first came across this idea when I watched an episode of Derren Brown on “The Secret of Luck” many years ago. One guy stood out to me - no matter what happened, he never found his luck - “Because he had never won before he th

Every one of you who runs a business would benefit from taking 20 minutes to complete this exercise today. I did recently and it really helped. As entrepreneurs, we have 1001 things we could be doing. But there is a difference between can do vs should do . Identifying and working on the things that move the needle is the single biggest requirement for success as a business person. Unfortunately, people are bad at distinguishing between urgent vs important . Urgent = Catastrop