Are your assumptions sabotaging your relationships and decisions without even realizing it?

Today, we're going to talk all about your assumptions and how they might be holding you back.

And I get it.

It's hard to always understand this.

Like, is it what are assumptions?

Why do they matter?

We're going to get into all that.

This is Havela's podcast.

I'm your host, Havela. and you're going to love this today because when we talked about a couple

weeks ago about setting up intentional living, we talked about your aim and your intentions

and all of those type of the three A's, but we forgot one A. And this A is assumptions. We have to look at why assumptions matter,

why they hold us back, and why they might be sabotaging what we're really trying to do in our

lives. So let's jump into what it looks like to break free of those assumptions. So the first

thing I want you to understand what we want to talk about is we need to understand

our assumptions and their power. So what does that mean? Well, assumptions are mental

shortcuts that filter how we see the world often based on past experiences. So they're like a shortcut.

They're a little hack that our brain does.

And it literally causes us to filter what we're experiencing,

but they're often, it's a filter we picked up

from something that's happened in the past.

Now, not all assumptions are bad.

A lot of times our brain uses assumptions

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