Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching

company. Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.

Today's podcast is called Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.

Everybody wants to change their life for the better.

Everybody wants the outcomes, positive outcomes, good results.

The truth of the matter is most people want to change their circumstances.

Most people really don't want to do the work to change their life.

Where does it all start?

It starts with our thought life.

The fact is, we all have goofy thoughts that come across our brain. The does it all start? It starts with our thought life. The fact is we all have goofy

thoughts that come across our brain. The key sometimes is A, not become attached to the thought,

B, let it go. C, replace it with something good and D, don't tweet it out. Watch your philosophy

and does it need any work. Here's a couple of things. Let's talk about it, break it down.

Personal philosophy, your business philosophy, and then what are the how-toes. So let's talk about

your personal philosophy. Three questions. First, what do you think about yourself? Second, do I

have what it takes? And third, are you dwelling on mistakes and trials rather than your victories

and accomplishments? What do you think about yourself? When no one's around and it's just silence, you're not distracted by social media. See, people aren't even thinking like this. People aren't even taking the time anymore. We're so distracted. What do you actually think about yourself? And is it correct? Is it possible you say things about yourself where you put yourself down or you go, I'm lazy. I don't have what it takes. Do you ever say those things to yourself? I know I do. And so the key is I'm going to put more good stuff in than I allow bad stuff to reside. James Allen in a man think it says a person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. You can choose which thoughts to hang on to, and you can choose

which thoughts to, okay, I had a thought to come across. I don't know if I represent any value. I don't find me good on anything. I don't know if I'll ever amount to anything. Okay, great. You had that thought. You can choose to hang on to that thought, or you can just kind of let that thought go by. circumstances do not man, they reveal them. If you look at what you've

been through in your life, I don't care how young or how old you are, what have you persevered through, what have been the difficulties, what are the challenges, what are the setbacks? What were the things, the great disappointments? They are the making of you. Now, I know you don't want to go back and experience them again the more than I do, but they're the making of us. Of course you have what it takes

because you took the shots that

life had to square up and hit you

with and you kept moving forward. You kept going. You have what it takes. So what I would say is the

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