Hello and welcome back to part three of your mindset prep series.

This episode is all about self-fulfilling prophecies and I thought I would start with the definition.

So thank you Wikipedia for this.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is the psychological phenomenon. Phenomenon?

You can't say this word.

Anyway, of someone predicting or expecting something.

And this prediction or expectation, expectation.

This has been a long day.

I don't know if now.

It's a good time to record a podcast.

I'm here now and I'm doing it.

So this expectation coming

true simply because the person believes or anticipates that it will. And the person's resulting

behaviours align to fulfil this belief. So self-fulfilling prophecies can have a really big

impact because they impact the choices you then make or the behaviours you

then make. Typical examples in coaching are telling yourself that you always go on track over the

weekend or that you simply cannot just have one biscuit and then shockingly you do end up going

off track on the weekend and you do end up of eating on the

biscuits because you've told yourself that you will. You've literally talked yourself into that

action. And if you can stop telling yourself that you always go off track on the weekend and

start telling yourself that that is something that you used to do,

but this time is different, and that you are completely capable of not going off track on the

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