Ep. 54 Gabriela Blandy: Get Out Of Your Own Way

We are not our circumstances. And while privilege, environment, the past and our place in the world play a huge role in our outcomes, we are not completely without a say in the way our lives twist and turn. And although copying the morning routines of billionaires is unlikely to turn us into billionaires, our mindset can play a huge role in the quality of our lives. It’s been said a thousand quotable times over a thousand years, but Henry Ford said it well enough when he uttered the words: “if you think you can do a thing or you think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” In a society with such heavy constructs, frameworks and conventions around the idea how life should be lived, it’s very easy to give up our ownership of life, and instead wait in vain for our time to come, for our big break, or to put the blame on external factors for everything that goes wrong in our lives. Surely it’s not our fault we’ve put on all this weight when they’ve only gone and opened a McDonalds next door? But when we start to take ownership of our choices, of our situation, of our failures and also our successes, the world starts to bend to our will. We see our results improve. We begin to find out what works and what doesn’t. All that we need to do is get out of our own way. As I discuss with Gabriela Blandy, who is a mindset coach for writers and creative entrepreneurs, we can reprogram ourselves to go from can’t to can. It just takes awareness, faith, and a little bit of effort. As motivational speaker David Brooks said, “almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.” And we can train ourselves to have those beliefs, as this conversation highlights. Useful Links: Website: www.gabrielablandy.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9Hbh7Ic55ZzpXmZXAlUKw/videos Masterclass: https://tinyurl.com/gabrielablandymasterclass

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