Hello and welcome to episode 17 of the bouncing back podcast with me, James Middleton,

excited to be here as always and talk to you guys about the topic this week which is the ways that you are or

may be preventing your own growth a fascinating topic and one that I've wanted to

do for a while but having had so many other topics to get in there the time has

been delayed a little bit. But here we are.

Here we are preventing your own growth. Are you one of those people that are preventing your

own growth? Or is there something in your life that's stopping you from getting to where you want

to be? Now, many of us blame our circumstances, our setbacks, our disadvantages in life, people around us,

anything and anyone but ourself. Yet this untapped potential, these dreams, these unobtained

dreams, are entirely down to you. And maybe you're lacking focus.

Perhaps you're not honing in enough on what it actually is that's stopping you from achieving

your own growth. In this episode, I am going to discuss some of the key ways and reasons why I

believe that so many people fall short in their

own personal development. A lot of time and for a lot of people, they lose sight of what

will make them grow as a person, but not only that, what they truly care about. And it's a well-known

phenomenon that our minds can be our own worst

enemy. I've spoken about this before in previous episodes, how on a daily basis we have to battle

with our own heads and our own thoughts and how many times that we have all experienced it.

You know, when you're in a good headspace and things seem to be

going really well in your life and then boom, your mind just starts throwing all of these

concerns and worries and doubts, fears, alarm bells. And you're like, get out of there, get out of there.

I'm having a good patch in my life. Just leave me alone for a second.

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