Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 857, 857, and today we're talking about

setting standards, the standards of success, of achieving all the things that you would like

out of life. Otherwise, that's just my bottle right there, if you heard that in the mic, that's just my bottle right there I hit, if you had that in the mic, that if you

don't set your standards, society, people in your life will begin to set them for you.

If you think about it, that absolutely makes sense because growing up, who set the standards for

our life? Because standards are the things which are important to us. So in other words, our values,

right? The values that was held within this container of our mind and our body, which was instilled upon us growing up. So in other words,

if you had a high value for money growing up, like you lived in lots of affluence, you may treat

money in a certain way. You might have a healthy relationship with it. Or maybe if you grew up

in scarcity and poverty, you may actually have another

kind of association, another value. Maybe it's fearful, maybe it's scary. Maybe you have,

I'm never going to live in poverty, so you do the absolute opposite. But those standards were

installed upon us based on our environment growing up from like our

usually it's our parents but it could be the you know teachers it could be even growing up like

society that we set certain standards for ourselves.

And if we carry on those standards, it will cause us to keep on repeating. We almost mirror, like life almost mirrors back the standards that we set ourselves.

Because that standard for what we want out of life or how we want to be in life, we start to look for it.

We begin to look for that and it kind of mirrors back to us.

We delete, we distort and generalize based on that frame of view.

So if your standard is low, as in you value yourself lower,

as in I am not good enough, or I am not a value,

or I'm not capable, well of course, other people

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