Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough in this episode 1146, and today we are doing a

power talk all about growth. And in a way, it's going to be some of the downsides of growth.

Because we've kind of talked about elements of this in the past, but for any goal or dream that

you have, there's always going to be a drawback. And those drawbacks are going to be unconscious

saboteurs, right? They're going to sabotage you without even realizing or knowing. It might create procrastination. It might create

anxiety, worries and doubts, which we know of or we don't know about. We just have this feeling of

anxiety and we think of the goal of a dream life that we'd like to have or be the person. So the analogy I've always said because it's so

obvious to be painted into our minds is if you wanted to be like a celebrity, there's going to be

lots of drawbacks to being a celebrity. More money, more taxes, fake friends, expectations,

lack of privacy, many, many things, new friends who are taking advantage,

the need to be continued relevant, like there's so many potential negatives. But as I said,

that's not really the real problem. Because for any goal or outcome, there is going to be a negative to it.

Even a similar thing is like being in a relationship. You might go, yeah, I really want to be in a

relationship. But of course, you have to sacrifice elements of yourself and your life in order to be in a relationship, whether that be through time,

whether that be having to help, despite the relationship being great, there's going to be a sacrifice.

If you want to get healthy, there's going to be sacrifices and drawbacks, maybe having a clean diet, maybe walking out, all of those things, buying new clothes.

And then even people reacting to you differently because you've changed your physical appearance.

So this power talk is going to go on three different kind of levels when it comes to the grandest scheme of potential

negatives. Now, it's important to know these because your unconscious mind is having them anyway.

Regardless of what you think, your unconscious mind will be repeating stories, beliefs, ideas, other people's opinions,

deep beneath the surface and it'll be just showing up into your reality or your actions

or your thoughts, your feelings and your beliefs, no matter what.

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