1225: How To Deal With Uncomfortable Emotions And Reshape Your Identity by Benjamin Hardy on Achieving Success

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🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Benjamin Hardy shares how to deal with uncomfortable emotions and reshape your identity. Episode 1225: How To Deal With Uncomfortable Emotions And Reshape Your Identity by Benjamin Hardy on Achieving Success Benjamin Hardy has been the top writer on Medium.com since late 2015. He focuses on self-improvement, motivation, and entrepreneurship. His writing is fueled by his personal experiences, self-directed education, and formal education. His research focuses on the psychological differences of "wantrepreneurs" and actual entrepreneurs. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina with his wife and they are the foster parents of 3 children. The original post is located here: https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/how-to-deal-with-uncomfortable-emotions-and-reshape-your-identity-58142db8cfd4 Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1225, how to deal with uncomfortable emotions and reshape your
0:06.2	identity by Benjamin Hardy of BenjaminHardy.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Friday,
0:12.2	happy Good Friday actually, and welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast
0:17.5	where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from.
0:22.0	For now let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:25.2	How to Deal with Uncomfortable Emotions and Reshape Your Identity by Benjamin Hardy of BenjaminHardy.com
0:37.8	Jack Canfield once said, everything you want is on the other side of fear.
0:43.2	And he's right, but I'm going to take it one step further.
0:46.7	Pain, discomfort, shock, boredom, imposter syndrome, awkwardness, fear, being wrong, failing,
0:54.7	ignorance, looking stupid. Your avoidance of these feelings is stopping you from a life beyond
1:00.6	your wildest imagination. These are the feelings that accompany a life of success.
1:05.9	And yet, these are the very feelings you relentlessly avoid. Interesting how that works, right?
1:11.4	Wealth, optimal health, incredible relationships, deep spiritual maturity are all available to you.
1:18.1	But you have to pay the price to have these things. The primary obstacle in your way is how you feel
1:24.0	about what you need to do to have these things. Most people aren't willing to feel difficult
1:29.2	emotions on a regular basis. However, if you're willing to disregard how you feel in the moment,
1:34.4	you'll have access to a world of opportunity unavailable to 99% of the population.
1:39.7	When you feel the fear and do it anyways, you get the satisfaction of living life on your terms.
1:45.9	Instead of being a hostage to your emotions, you get to experience them more deeply.
1:50.5	Hilariously, once you break past the emotional blocks and just act, it's never as bad as you think it will be.
1:57.1	Make the decision and act. Napoleon Hill said,
2:01.0	When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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