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Fear. It’s such a simple term yet such complicated subject, since not only it can affect you physically, but it can seriously mess you up in your head! In today’s episode, Glen and Kyle share how they have been affected by fear and how they have gotten their shit together and learned to conquer their fears, but before we get into that, we must truly understand what is fear and where it really drives from?

Fear is something that can lead to life or death situation based on traumas and bad experiences, but as crazy as it sounds the best way to get over is by moving those experience. Fear is explained based on physical hurt, but, fear can take many shapes and forms. It can take shape in fight or feat, fear of memory, fear of failure, fear of progress, name YOUR fear and it will appear. Question is, how do YOU move past it?  Every single person is different. Every single person has their own experience and each moment can lead to a different type of fear in each person. It’s how we overcome and move on with our life is what’s most important.

One of my biggest fear was getting behind the wheel after getting into a life-threatening accident. It’s not the fear of getting behind the wheel, but it’s the fear of knowing that this is possible at any second and with a split second your life can be over. Knowing that my life can be over at any moment when I am on the road. The worst thing is it can be out of my hands. It takes an even bigger toll on my mental health when I must relive that moment by driving on that same road every single day. I can take alternative routes and avoid that road, but is it really helping me conquer my fears or run the other way? Is it easy? Fuck no. Is it scary to drive through that road every day? You betcha. Do I feel like I am conquering my fears? Every single moment I drive through that because if I didn’t and took alternative route every day I would be running away from my fears.

You see the wonderful part of life and growing up is going through different stages of fear. We wouldn’t be where we are without fear. With fear, you learn to push yourself to beyond your limit and break through whatever brings you down. You must learn to trick your beliefs and mind to NOT stop you from achieving what you want. Most people will avoid anything that they fear like a plague, but look deeper and ask yourself if this fear is holding you back or helping you move your life forward?

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Welcome back, listeners!

During my 28+ years of my life, I have run into few people who have been living with depression for a long time. These people have been going day by day feeling depressed at most times and honestly, just living like a Zombie. I have known people who have been let go from their place of employment because they stopped coming to work and giving a shit about themselves or anyone close to them. Heck, they even stopped coming out of their room! Even though I have seen people live like this every day, there was always a part of me that always wondered is it even real? It always baffled me because I could NEVER understand why would anyone want to be at this stage? Why would you be so drowned in your sad thoughts that you are now making the environment toxic? Why don’t you just man the fuck up and just get over it?

It wasn’t until recently when I went through a life-threatening car accident where I was lucky to be alive and walk away without a scratch. I might not have any physical indication that I wasn’t hurt, but oh boy was I messed up mentally. This is when I realized that depression isn’t physical, but emotional and mental. What’s even more fucked up, which in reality is just a cruel humor of life, is that NO ONE can help you like you can help yourself. Quickly, I came to the realization that if I don’t work on my mental health and start moving on I will never get back up. If I don’t move past this, then I will keep spinning in the Depression world like a sports car stuck on a beach (don’t laugh yes, it did happen to me).

I believe that’s one of the biggest pieces – overcoming your emotional and mental state. This doesn’t sound very challenging, but the fact is not one person can control other person’s emotional or mental state. You have to work on it yourself just like going to the gym if you want to get better. For some people, it might be really easy. For some people, it’s the toughest thing in their life. There is no right or wrong way of doing this. You have to work on yourself to improve your life every day. Even if it’s a small improvement, it’s a small progress toward beating depression.

In today’s episode, one of our podcast members is getting their shit together by opening up on air and truly sharing what it’s like living with depression. These are real thoughts, real emotions, real tears, and real depression. This was a shock to me because I knew that my best friend was unhappy and given the circumstances I understand, but I never knew that he was living in depression. It is shocking to see my best friend go through this, but should I really be? A study shows that depression has become #2 reason impacting our health, but by 2030 this will be #1 cause of loss of longevity of life.

Join in and listen to today’s episode as Amit shares how it’s like living with depression to Kyle to not only help himself but to also give a blink of hope for all the people out there who want to Get Their Shit Together.

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There are certain thought processes and beliefs that we have that are negative about ourselves. These Self-Limiting Beliefs may seem innocent enough, but your subconscious only hears them as limitations on what you can achieve.

A few self-limiting beliefs are:

• I’m not smart enough
• I’m too old, too young, too fat, too out of shape, etc.
• I could never do that.
• I don’t have the confidence to do that.
• I don’t have what it takes to succeed.
• I’m terrible at managing my time, money, etc.
• Taking risks always turns out bad for me.
• I’m comfortable doing what I’m doing right now.
• Successful people are just lucky.
• I deserve better.
• I’m a slow learner.
• I don’t like to read.
• My partner isn’t supportive enough.

Anytime we make a declaration of a limitation like the ones above, they hold us back and lock us into a place where we can’t grow. So many times, I ask people I’m coaching about the books they read and then make some suggestions on books they should read. I would say 8 out of 10 times they come back and let me know that they don’t like to read.

It doesn’t matter if you like to read or not! Will it make you more successful? Yes! So, do it!

Another great example is when people tell me that they are horrible at remembering names. I ask them if they could remember the next 10 people that they meet if I give them $100 for each person. Of course, they would remember it then. Well, what changed? See the person could have remembered names all along, but it just wasn’t important enough to them.

And that is a fantastic way of summarizing self-limiting beliefs. They are excuses that we tell ourselves so we don’t feel bad. “Sure, I could make more money, have a more successful career, and an amazing relationship, but I’m already happy with my life.”

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It feels like communication in your life should be a very easy concept to understand. In fact, what can be more straightforward than using words to express yourself? Unfortunately, the words and phrases we use often time have a hidden negativity to them. These phrases do very little to motivate you, and even though they may be used as jokes or statements of fact, they do more damage than good.

The secret to changing things around is to rephrase the phrases that you use every day to empower you, instead of disempowering you. Here are a few examples that we try to hold each other accountable for all the time in the studio:

“I can’t do that” >>> “I haven’t done that yet”

“I have to” >>> “I get to” or “I choose to”

“I’ve been busy” à I’ve been productive

That last one is an interesting one because it has become the default answer that we all give when asked how we have been. But by telling someone that you are busy, all that does is let them know that you don’t know how to manage time. If it takes you 8 hours to do something and takes someone else only 6 hours to do the same work, well now you can see what we mean.

Phrases that empower you don’t necessarily come without success. The starting point is to have a positive attitude.

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