Quick Cut: S2E185 The Best You is all in the Mind

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today’s world often exposes us to an overload of damaging and divisive information. In this episode, Brian teaches how to renew our minds so that we can reject the negativity we’re constantly subjected to and instead gain clarity, become more positive and achieve growth. Topics discussed include: the value of journaling, the usefulness of a ‘technology fast’ and the importance of monitoring what we consume and who we associate with.

YOU WILL LEARN:

How technology creates a social dilemma.
Why a renewed mind is so powerful.
How to renew your mind.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

“The Power of Positive Thinking,” by Norman Vincent Peale

“The Social Dilemma,” documentary-drama

“Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life,” by Martin E.P. Seligman

“Man's Search for Meaning,” Viktor E. Frankl

“The Shawshank Redemption,” movie

“Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” by Carol S. Dweck

“As a Man Thinketh,” by James Allen

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“Do not conform; be transformed.” – Brian Buffini

“The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.” – Zig Ziglar

“Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Your input determines your output.” – Brian Buffini

“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale

“Once you're clear, you can take action. If you take action without being clear, you will be in a constant state of anxiety.” – Brian Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	Top of the morning to you, coming to you from the Earl Nightingale Studio in Bofini and Companies Headquarters.
0:24.1	So today we're going to talk about renewing your mind as a coach and the head of the largest
0:28.9	small business coaching company in North America where we've seen great success is when we encourage
0:34.8	somebody to stop something and start something else and and it doesn't have to be
0:39.8	always monumental but it's stop doing something negative and start doing something beneficial and positive.
0:47.5	And that's kind of really where we're going to go today.
0:50.0	One of my favorite verses in the whole Bible says, do not conform to the pattern of this world,
0:54.9	but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
0:59.2	That's ultimately a big part of what God's will for our life is, to be able to renew our mind. We need to stop
1:05.9	something which is conform into this world and be transformed. Right? So do not conform be transformed stop something start something and we're going to
1:17.5	give you some thoughts on that today and kind of a simple how-to presentation
1:21.3	the three points I'm going to cover today, the first thing we're
1:24.6	going to cover is the social dilemma. The next thing we're going to cover is
1:28.8	the power of a renewed mind, and then the third thing we're going to cover is how to renew your mind.
1:34.0	Just a couple of specific how-tos there. Mindset motivation methodologies.
1:38.0	So first and foremost, we're going to cover the social dilemma itself.
1:43.4	You know, renewing your mind is not refreshing your screen.
1:45.9	You know, people underestimate by 50% how much time they spend on their phone.
1:53.0	The average person spends three hours a day on their phone.
1:56.0	You know, that's 11 years over an average lifespan.
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