Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 831.

Now in the past two episodes, I've just released two sleep sessions. So go ahead and check those out.

And on today's episode, we are talking about our standards. The standards that we set for ourselves and how they

dictate our success, our abundance, our physical health, our relationships, our career. Look, they

dictate everything. Standards are the benchmarks that we set up for ourselves. Now,

the problem is that most people have a confusion of where their benchmarks should be or where

their standard should be. They might have high standards for

other people, but because we live in our own mind and live in our own body, we can get a little

bit confused as to what is appropriate and what is not really living up to what we want.

Now, I'll give you an example, right? So back at school, I would probably say from 11 to 16, actually going up to 18 when I kind of left second school went to like the two years of college that you can do my standard of success so my

standard of success was a C that was my A right if I could only get a C I've won

everything's good like I was so happy because that was my benchmark.

And it caused me to then only go for that scene.

Like, it was very hard to go beyond it because I set my agenda, my outcome, on just getting a C.

So, if we're going to go ahead and put it into terms

of how we feel about ourself,

go ahead and think about the standards

that you're setting yourself for.

You could go for the easy one, like money.

Are you thinking about that money of like, if I just get by, everything's fine.

If I just get out of debt, I can breathe and that's my standard. Because on the same notion,

if we're moving away from badness, right, like negativity, we're just getting out of pain to just feel that bit of comfort.

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