Hey everyone, Ben Cumber Radio, how an earth are you doing.

So today's show is going to be talking about how we as people, as humans, sabotage our own success.

And I'm going to use a very personal story to illustrate this

a story I've never told to anyone or like discussed on this podcast before and it

came through I'm aware of it and it came sort of to the front of my mind.

I'm listening to a book called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks who's kind of a psychologist, counselor and works with people to break through their

limits and the reality is, as this book details, we all limit ourselves we limit ourselves through our beliefs

through our experiences the people around us and that's why I talk a lot about the

power of environment because our environment,

our thoughts, the people around us, our work, our habits, all of this stuff shapes our actions, shapes our potential.

And if you're an individual that's looking to improve their body,

improve their mind, improve their relationship, anything, then we've got to understand the barriers in our way to be able

to break through them.

And some people break through them easily with momentum, you know, we look look to change something there's not much in

our way we create a plan we go for it we create early success and that success

just creates this massive snowball of momentum, but then other people have

trouble doing this because there's things in their way. Might be their belief system,

might be people around them, might be time, it might be lack of sleep, there's lots of

different things. So anyway, I got recommended this book for a friend, James Moody, who we chat to about just personal development, business, being a better version of ourselves and that's my jam.

Like if you've been listening to this podcast for a while you'll notice my jam is trying to make you an awesome human being a more

awesome human being you're already awesome I'm just trying to get you to next level yourself. So I've

been listening to this book because we were talking about how you can potentially

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