367: Change Your Mindset & Change Your Life with Michael Hyatt
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
There's something in your life you want to change. Where do you start?
My friend, business coach and wildly successful entrepreneur, Michael Hyatt, says there's one thing we can change that transforms everything else: our minds.
Our thoughts drive our actions, and our actions drive our results, which is why if we want different outcomes in life – whether in our relationships, our business, our finances or our happiness – we have to start by looking within.
In this episode, Michael explains the inner narrator we all have, a part of us that seeks to make meaning of our lives by interpreting and telling stories about the things that happen to us. The problem? These stories are often untrue or rooted in fear, which creates limiting beliefs that hold us back.
Michael shares his three steps for working with the inner narrator and how to choose a more empowering mindset that leads to a life of agency, choice and power. We talk about how to get out of victim, why adversity can open up new possibilities in our lives and how to avoid getting sidetracked by triggers, fear and grief while still being radically honest about our emotions and reality.
Listen to discover:
● Why mindset affects everything about our lives
● How to reframe our stories and choose more empowering thoughts
● Michael's three steps to challenging our inner narrator
● How adversity can open up new possibilities in our lives
● Understanding intuition vs. fear
● What triggers are and how not to get sidetracked by them
● The power of taking breaks
● Choosing imagination over worry
● Why failure can be our greatest teacher
One of the pillars of being a healthy adult is busting stories and living in fact and truth, which is the key to an empowered mindset. And as Michael shares, even when we have a challenging set of facts, we can still choose the most empowering story for ourselves, reframing adversity and believing in possibilities – and ultimately, in ourselves.
"Success begins with your thinking…Getting your thinking right is about 90% of anything. If you have the right thinking, you'll eventually take the right actions that lead to better results." - Michael Hyatt
"If you don't like your reality, you have to look at your thinking." - Michelle Chalfant
"As long as I was the victim, I was powerless. Once I could stop being defensive and accept the fact that I had agency in the midst of this situation...all the power came back, and it gave me a whole range of options." - Michael Hyatt
"Our brains are meaning-seeking machines. We can't live without meaning." - Michael Hyatt
"Everything that's happened to you is in the past. You can't change any of it. All you can change is how you interpret it." - Michael Hyatt
"The greatest advances in my life have been on the heels of some adversity. I had to have a breakdown to have a breakthrough." - Michael Hyatt
"I realized that nothing can trigger me. Only I can trigger me." - Michael Hyatt
"Triggers are a gift, because when we're triggered, it's a way for us to uncover an unconscious limiting belief that we have about ourselves." - Michelle Chalfant
"Stress is antithetical to good creative thinking." - Michael Hyatt
"To take a break can be life changing." - Michelle Chalfant
"Worry is basically a distortion of imagination." - Michael Hyatt
"Experience is our greatest teacher." - Michelle Chalfant
"There's no failure. There's only feedback." - Michael Hyatt
LINKS & RESOURCES
Michael Hyatt Website
"Mind Your Mindset" (Michael Hyatt Book)
https://mindyourmindsetbook.com/
Full Focus Planner
Michael Hyatt Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/michaelhyatt/
Michael Hyatt LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhyatt
Find an Adult Chair® Coach
https://theadultchair.com/coaches/
Share Your Love: Review The Adult Chair® Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-adult-chair/id941317634
MORE ADULT CHAIR
The Adult Chair® Website
The Adult Chair Events
https://theadultchair.com/events/
The Adult Chair® Coaching Certification
https://theadultchair.com/certification
STAY CONNECTED
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themichellechalfant
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMichelleChalfant/
The Adult Chair® Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theadultchair/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michelle Shelfand, psychotherapist, holistic life coach, and human just like you, |
| 0:09.4 | learning to navigate life challenges. |
| 0:11.8 | With over 25 years experience, I teach people how to get healthy using the adult chair model. |
| 0:17.6 | The adult chair model is where simple psychology meets grounded spirituality, and it teaches |
| 0:23.0 | us how to become healthy adults. |
| 0:26.2 | From anxiety and depression to codependency and relationship issues, you can use the adult |
| 0:30.7 | chair for just about anything. |
| 0:33.8 | Each week, I share practical tips, tools and advice from myself and a wide range of experts |
| 0:40.0 | on how to get unstuck, how to live authentically, and how to truly love yourself, all while |
| 0:45.8 | sitting in your adult chair. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to the adult chair podcast. |
| 0:51.8 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the adult chair podcast where we talk all about how to |
| 0:58.2 | become emotionally healthy adults. |
| 1:02.4 | I am Michelle Shelfand, happy to be here with you on this third week of May. |
| 1:07.9 | Hope everyone had a lovely Mother's Day last weekend. |
| 1:11.0 | Boy, it is a busy, busy time of year. |
| 1:16.2 | Everybody I am talking to is going to some sort of graduation, lots of college graduations, |
| 1:23.6 | and getting ready for other graduations, and also, of course, the kiddos being home all summer. |
| 1:29.5 | It's a busy time, I know. |
| 1:31.1 | I'm actually leaving this weekend to go to Tennessee. |
| 1:35.3 | We're doing a second adult chair coaching certification program. |
| 1:39.8 | Yes, indeed. |
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