Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

harnessing the present and the past and what is going right in our world now. So therapy gives

a lot of focus to our past where modern day success coaching tends to focus

primarily on the future.

I had long been an advocate just of coaching and had no interest in the past.

That is, until I realized that I wanted to understand why I kept repeating the same patterns.

Today, I feel both are highly needed in order to better understand ourselves and

transform as a result. In the field of positive psychology, the idea is to look at your past,

and while acknowledging the struggles and traumas, really looking at how they can uniquely equip

us to have strengths we wouldn't have otherwise.

And then not just looking at what you want now, what you want to progress to,

what else you desire, but also what is going right in your world, right, this moment.

We often give so much focus still to what's wrong or at least what's missing.

So I'm revisiting a conversation I had with Nick Pigeon.

Nick is an author.

She's an award-winning positive psychologist and a high-performance coach.

I had Nick, I really just found her insightful, kind of a vivacious thought leader who has a profound impact on a lot of big influencers, including Elon Musk.

And Nick's muse and the focus of her book, Now Is Your Chance, is What Perspectives Will Enable Us to continue instead of ultimately quit.

How will we more healthfully pursue our desires and perceived commitments when we think differently?

Get a paradigm shift.

That's what we talk about in this episode. I find Nick's

perspectives really flying in the face of today's negative media influencers, I think are dragging

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