045: The Power of Choice
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm talking about how we all have the power to make our own choices and decide which opportunities we want to take on. I'm sharing 5 actionable steps you can take to change your attitude from "I can't" to motivated and driven. After today's episode, you'll feel more inspired and ready to begin making purposeful choices that lead you towards big dreams.
What's In This Episode:
• How 'learned helplessness' may be a major factor getting in the way of working towards and accomplishing your dreams.
• What internal locus of control is, and how it will help you be more successful and make improvements for the future.
• Examples of people who have little to no choices, and how they deal and develop.
• 5 steps for strengthening your internal locus of control and creating motivation for yourself.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquale Press, and this is episode 45. |
| 0:29.1 | Today, we are talking all about the power of choices and how important it is to understand |
| 0:35.5 | the choices you have as you're pursuing your big goals and |
| 0:39.3 | dreams. But before we get started, I want to share with you that today's episode is brought to you by |
| 0:44.7 | Fresh Books. If you are a freelancer or entrepreneur, FreshBooks is the simplest way to be more |
| 0:51.6 | productive, get organized, and most importantly, get paid. Fresh Books is offering |
| 0:57.5 | a free unrestricted trial to my listeners, and I'll be sharing more about that later on in the episode. |
| 1:03.8 | But let's go ahead and get started talking about the power of choices. So let me begin by asking you |
| 1:09.9 | this. When you've been listening to the |
| 1:12.1 | season of the podcast, which is, of course, all about the pursuit of big dreams and goals, |
| 1:17.9 | do you find yourself thinking, that sounds great, but I'll never be able to do that? Or sounds nice, |
| 1:25.5 | but there's no way I could make that happen. |
| 1:28.2 | Or do you use my least favorite word, lazy? |
| 1:32.3 | I'd love to, but I'm lazy. |
| 1:35.8 | Why do we think we have no choice in our future? |
| 1:39.3 | Why do we feel it's so out of our control that we have no say? |
| 1:47.6 | Or why do we fall back on that word lazy? |
| 1:55.8 | Well, it's called learned helplessness. Learned helplessness means simply that you don't feel like you have any choice in the matter. Sometimes it feels like our life is so rigid and made up of so many rules |
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