Stop Applying a Governor to Your Life w/ John R. Miles EP 31
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
John R. Miles
4.7 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
- Studies That Illustrate We Are Not Living Our Capability
- What is a Governor and How is it Used
- How We Apply a Governor to Our Life
- John's Own Story of Applying a Governor
- What is Keeping You From Living the Life You want
- The Three Governors We Apply to Our life
- Making the Choice to Accept Yourself
- How to Get Out of Your Own Way
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| 0:00.0 | We are living our capability, our purpose in life, our future potential with the governor that we apply to ourselves. |
| 0:07.4 | And you know what that governor is? |
| 0:09.1 | It's our minds. |
| 0:10.1 | And when it starts facing fear or adversity, it shuts down. |
| 0:13.7 | You can think of our governor as our survival mechanism, as our safety blanket, as that crutch. |
| 0:19.3 | When things start to get very painful, your mind ends up taking control and then it tells you and your body that you need to be doing something else. |
| 0:27.8 | Anything other than putting yourself into that uncomfortable place. |
| 0:31.6 | But when you can start taking control of your mind, you can start removing the governor from your life. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello, visionaries, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders of all types. |
| 0:42.8 | Hi, my name is John Miles and I wanted to welcome you to this episode of the Passion Start Podcast, where it is my job to interview high achievers from all walks of life and unlock their secrets and lessons to become a passion start. |
| 0:56.6 | The purpose of our show is to serve you a listener by giving you lessons, tools and activities that you can use to achieve a passion driven life. |
| 1:07.1 | Now let the journey begin. |
| 1:09.5 | Welcome to Momentum Friday, an episode 31 of the Passion Start Podcast. |
| 1:13.9 | And today, I want to start off by giving you three quotes from retired Navy SEAL, David Goggins. |
| 1:18.9 | This birth quote, he says, |
| 1:20.3 | The Nile is the ultimate comfort zone, and then he goes on to say, don't focus on what you think you deserve. Hey, aim on what you're willing to earn. |
| 1:28.1 | In the third quote, and maybe the most impactful, he says, |
| 1:30.9 | You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential. |
| 1:38.1 | And I decided to pick those quotes today because I happened to be listening to a podcast that featured David Goggins on it the other day. |
| 1:45.0 | And as I was listening to him, he came out with one of his most famous statistics, which is that 40% of people he believes are not living at their true capability. |
| 1:55.2 | And it got me to start thinking about some of my previous shows and some of the research I had done, I talked about the demise and people becoming entrepreneurs and an overall business fatality, not only in the US, but across all Western cultures. |
| 2:09.2 | And so I decided to dig a little bit deeper and what I found was pretty shocking that I would share with you some of these statistics from studies that I found. |
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