160: Understanding Your Past

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As a team, we decided to go through one of Rohit’s worksheets to help him test out a piece of his upcoming 30-day Life Reset. After completing the worksheet, we decided that it would be a powerful episode to discuss on air.

In this exercise we used a graph to chart our lives from our earliest memory to our current day. We marked off our high points and our low points where either great things happened, or bad experiences brought us down. What we noticed is that we had a pattern. Anytime we were in a bad place we worked hard and we saw improvement. However, once we reached a place that we were comfortable we almost always had a steep decline where we sort of crashed.

When we experience these deep dips in our positives and negatives, it is usually because we got complacent or comfortable. We let off the gas for our goals and we ended up failing. Failing hurts and can put you into either a fight or flight situation. You will either fight to get out of a failure or continue to run from facing it making it worse in the progress.

Life is a series of ups and downs, but the only reason we have steep crashes in our personal lives is because we let it happen. We are ultimately in control of where we go with our lives. There is no one to blame for where we end up. When we realize that it is our own decisions that led us to where we are, we can begin to take the right steps to get back on a path of growth and success. Analyzing our lives’ highs and lows can help us recognize the patterns we create for ourselves and set new habits that counteract our bad habits.