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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Let it Go and Thrive | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What addiction are you holding on to that is stopping you from growing? In today’s Mindset Monday episode, I talk about the false ideas that make us addicted and trap us from fully thriving with greatness. Have you allowed a self-imposed trap to stop you from growing and being free? If so, then you HAVE to let go, because if you don’t, then your whole life will pass and stop you from being free.

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0:00.0

So the year's almost over. We're going into a new decade. And my question for you is, can you look at some of the things that have held you back from the greatness you deserve? You've heard me talk about before. Every one of us in every area of our life, we're basically in one of three places.

0:14.8

We're in dis-ease, right, disease. We're in a state of wellness, things are just okay, or we're operating

0:20.6

a level of greatness. And would I would aspire you and I

0:24.8

towards going for greatness in every area in our life. Now I get it I wrote an entire

0:29.4

book about it in 2010 there's four primary addictions that stop us from going for greatness, for accepting

0:35.7

wellness and even in some cases accepting disease, disheize in our life.

0:41.4

Which addiction is holding you back from greatness in all areas of your life? Is it

0:45.8

the addiction to the opinions of other people? Is it the addiction to the past that you're

0:50.8

stuck in the past? Is it the addiction to drama? Every day it's just, oh my God! Or is it the

0:57.0

addiction to worry that you just spend all of your time worrying and never taking action?

1:02.0

I promise you, I talk to people about addictions all the time,

1:05.5

and a lot of people talk about the addictions of alcohol and drugs and gambling

1:08.3

and all these other things.

1:09.7

I promise you, those are the effect, the cause, is that you care too much about what everybody else thinks.

1:15.0

That you're so stuck in the past with that fixed mindset,

1:18.0

you're not willing to grow and move forward, so you'll accept wellness

1:21.0

or you'll accept dishease when greatness is absolutely available.

1:26.4

What do you have to let go up to grow?

1:29.2

What do you have to let go up to grow?

1:32.1

There's so many stories. I always think of one and told to me by a long

1:36.8

time friend and I'll probably totally screwed up and I'm going to tell it anyway.

1:40.1

Here's what he said to me. Do you know how they catch monkeys?

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