Rise Again From The Struggle
Learn mental skills, mindset, weight loss, and fitness tips to help you stay on track with your goals and succeed in all aspects of life!
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 1000
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
You can make excuses or you can make progress. Not both.
In this episode I discuss how when we stop making excuses we start to make progress.
Would you pay someone to talk to you the way you talk to yourself?
In this episode I discuss how we most likely would not pay someone else to talk to us the way we talk to ourselves. So let’s change that and talk to ourselves the way we would pay someone else to do.
It's about the reset.
In this episode I discuss how the goal isn’t to never have bad moments, but being able to get back to center faster.
Practice? We're talking about practice?
In this episode I discuss how we need to practice our mental skills in lesser times so we have them and can deploy them during harder times.
Effort counts twice!
In this episode I discuss Angela Duckworth’s equation for achieving our goals.
My mushroom theory was confirmed!
In this episode I discuss my experimentation with food after feeling too full from meals. Caveat: this might not always be the case, so be sure to see a doctor if your symptoms persist.
What's easy to do is also easy not to do.
In this episode I discuss the dichotomy of making things easy to do also makes them easy not to do. This is where the self-discipline and willpower kick in to get us started.
Easy and simple is the way to go to start new habits.
In this episode I discuss methods to get started with new habits so they stick.
Telescope to microscope goals, or in my terms, complex to simple goals.
In this episode I discuss how breaking down long term, complex goals into short term simple goals helps us achieve them faster.
The Goldilocks test.
In this episode I discuss how if things are too easy or too hard we tend to move on from them faster, but something that’s in the middle will push us to grow.
Do simple better.
In this episode I discuss how doing simple things better can build to be able to do complex things better.
Easy, hard, simple and complex. My take on these terms. Setting up for the next few days.
In this episode I discuss the difference between these terms and how we can use them to grow and develop our skills.
Love the plateau!
In this episode I discuss how learning skills goes through a plateau phase and if we can learn to love these phases we will grow faster.
Most of life is lived in average days, and that's good news!
In this episode I discuss how we get stuck thinking every day needs to be great, but most days are just average. But that’s good news because bad days will eventually level out.
F.E.A.R. - False Expectations Appears Real or False Evidence Appears Real
In this episode I discuss a fun way to break down fear from former Navy SEAL Mark Divine.
Life is not a talent game it's a strategy game.
In this episode I discuss a concept I heard from Dr. Rob Gilbert from Success Hotline.
You don't rise to the occasion, you sink to your level of preparation.
In this episode I discuss why it’s important to not just learn but practice mental skills so you can use them when it’s important.
Your feelings are not facts.
In this episode I discuss why it seems like our feelings are factual, but are often wrong.
Everything is neutral until we add the emotion to the stimulus.
In this episode I discuss the Buddhist idea that all things are neutral until our thoughts put weight to them.
Radical acceptance of your emotions so you can move through them faster.
In this episode I discuss how when you accept your emotions instead of fighting them we can move past them faster.