ITL125: The Toughest Mental Obstacle I've Faced
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Toughest Mental Obstacle I’ve Faced
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question about the toughest mental obstacle I had to cross after overcoming homelessness.
Has there been any point when I felt like hiding under the pier again?
- I occasionally feel like crawling back under the pier.
- I say that jokingly, but I really am very aware of where I am when I walk on that pier.
- Living under the pier was undoubtedly the worst time in my life, but without that perspective I don’t think I would have become what I am today.
Part of life is the struggle to think a certain way.
- It’s not just to improve and increase your level of thinking.
- We are all in the process of becoming.
- The people who are humbly listening and learning from other people are the people with money and influence.
The toughest thing I had to do was distance myself from that pier.
- I needed to get away from it with my thinking, choices, and actions.
- Your thinking is the foundation of your success as a parent and member of your community.
If you want to read more about how to become a better parent, businessperson, and member of your community, pick up a copy of The Noticer Returns.
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- Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
- E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.1 | Now here's your host. |
| 0:12.3 | Hello and welcome to another great episode of In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm your host, David Loy and Andy. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm excited to be here with you again today. |
| 0:20.9 | How are you? |
| 0:21.9 | Good, good, David. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm excited about this too. |
| 0:25.0 | I love doing these things and I love, I'm traveling around the country and having people come up in airports and saying, hey, you know, will you read your books? |
| 0:35.1 | I know, but I love that in the Loop thing. So people are listening |
| 0:38.8 | and I am certainly enjoying it. And I think you are. And so I'm glad everybody else is. |
| 0:44.5 | I really am. And, you know, one of the things that we hear, and I know you hear this all the time |
| 0:49.1 | is you're traveling across the country is people just love engaging in conversation with you. And that's one of our goals |
| 0:55.5 | here on In the Loop is to have a conversation. We've mentioned several times that, Andy, you don't |
| 1:01.5 | know exactly what the topics are or what the questions are going in. But I think that part of the |
| 1:06.6 | appeal to that and one thing that people are really benefiting from in this format is that it is a |
| 1:12.5 | conversation. We're just a couple of guys talking and we're relaying questions from listeners, |
| 1:17.7 | and it's about as casual and informal as it can be. Yeah, and I think that's part of the reason |
| 1:24.7 | I enjoy it so much. I am really enjoying doing these. |
| 1:29.9 | And so I hope people are getting a kick out of them too. |
| 1:32.7 | And I think they are as much as I'm hearing. |
| 1:35.3 | And I would encourage you if you are getting a kick out of these or if they are helping in some way, |
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