283: Better than Before
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
At one of my first personal growth and development retreats, I wrote down my goals to build a huge health and wellness center with yoga, a restaurant, diet programs, and more. Financially, I wanted it to be so successful that I spent the latter half of my life giving away wealth (think a yoga version of Bill Gates). This HUGE goal got me really excited when I was 25, but it was just too big and too abstract to pull out any specific actions I could implement right then.
It's great to think big, but what do you right now to get started? What is your 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year plan?
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we learn about incremental (but very significant) growth using the "Better than Before" mindset where we simply put one foot in front of the other and embrace the process without an over-obsession on the destination. This has been hugely important for me and my goals, many of which I have achieved surprisingly quickly (my Bill Gates status is still a work in progress). I think you'll find it helpful.
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Listen & Learn:
- Rewards versus treats
- Inner vs. outer expectations: how to differentiate and utilize
- How to utilize the strategy of treats to increase "self mastery"
- Strategies to quit sugar (internal vs. external)
- Rethinking procrastination
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including bestsellers, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. Gretchen started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. She is also an accomplished speaker and podcaster herself. Her show is called: Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
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| 0:36.9 | In 2002, a friend of mine gave me Tony Robbins book Unlimited Power |
| 0:44.9 | Cheasy name cheesy over-the-top American writing, but the book never disappoints. I've never given it to anyone who wasn't just totally enthralled with it. |
| 0:53.2 | It's a really powerful book worth checking out and it led me down this path of |
| 0:56.8 | personal growth and development for the past 15 years, reading everything I can, going |
| 1:00.6 | to lots of seminars and workshops and audio courses, everything I could really get my hands |
| 1:05.2 | on I consumed and continue to consume. |
| 1:08.0 | And one of the big challenges I find with personal growth and development, with goal setting setting with planning for your future is a lot of times we'll come up with these big crazy goals as is often recommended these audacious goals. |
| 1:20.0 | I want to sail around the world I want to retire at age 55 I want to adopt 12 the world. I want to retire at age 55. I want to adopt 12 kids, whatever it is that you want to do. |
| 1:26.0 | And those are awesome and those gets really fired up and they make us excited in the moment. |
| 1:30.0 | But very quickly that excitement turns into frustration when we can't see the steps and I see this |
| 1:35.5 | You can see a direct analogy in in yoga classes people see a pose like a handstand or a complex back bend and they know they want to do it but they're really unsure what the |
| 1:44.8 | progression is. What are the things that build up? So most things, most poses demonstrate |
| 1:49.7 | rather than develop the actual skill. |
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