Coming up on the ultimate health podcast. Let's challenge assumptions. Let's challenge beliefs. Let's challenge habits

Let's challenge, you know the stuff that's holding us back and let's challenge ourselves to use our brain in a way that can help us

Get into a state of peak performance

Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 489. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your help to the next level.

Each week I'll bring you in depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world.

This week, John Acerath is back on the show. John is one of the leading high performance success coaches in the world.

He's written four books including two New York Times specialers created the exercise movement and has been featured in 11 movies including the blockbuster hit the secret and quest for success with Richard Branson in the Dalai Lama.

Today, John is CEO of MyNuroGem.com, a neuroscience based company dedicated helping individual strengthen their mindset so they achieve their goals and dreams faster and easier than ever before.

If you'd like some guidance on how to achieve your big goals in life, stick around and let John break it down for you.

Highlights of our conversation include what is causing your stuck state, the four things stopping you from achieving your goals, start building self trust, managing your emotions is a skill and the best foods for brain health.

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Without further ado, here we go with John SRF, John, if somebody were to come up to you saying I feel stuck in life, you know, things aren't bad, but I know they can be better.

How do I begin to transition in an up level?

I mean, it's a great question. The first question I would ask them is what do you believe is causing your stuck state? Right? So if you think about, you know, a car.

Right? If a car is in drive, you can drive the car and shift left, right, go reverse. But if a car is in park, that's because you're in park. So the question is what's causing you to be in a stuck state?

And the answers are going to be, you know, either somebody do with my mindset, you know, something to do with fear, something to do with uncertainty or doubt.

And so whenever we're looking at any state of mind or being, states are effects. So the question is effect of what? So we need to dive beneath the surface to get a greater perspective of what's causing the effect.

And as we all know, there's a positive, constructive effects that we like and want more of. And then there may be a destructive, negative effects that we don't like.

If we live at the level of effects, then we keep repeating those effects because we're looking at effects, which perpetuate more of the same effects.

But if we're looking at playing the game of life or health at the level of cause, at cause, we can change. At effect, okay, we're usually repeating patterns. So that's where we begin.

You named a few different causes there. And obviously again, it's going to be different depending on the person and what they're struggling with. But let's get into some of the nuances there, starting with mindset.

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