Unlocking Your Potential By Overcoming "Overwhelm Paralysis" | Ep 56

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"That is what caused so much of the overwhelm, was having these crazy expectations that were unrealistic." Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) discusses how to overcome overwhelm paralysis when starting a new business. She identifies cognitive distortions such as black-and-white thinking, “should” thinking, and overgeneralizing as the root causes of overwhelm and provides strategies for managing them.

Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.

Timestamps:

(3:38) - Remove negative labels

(5:10) - Overwhelm: high demand, low clarity

(8:45) - 3 ways of thinking: black-and-white, “should”, & overgeneralizing

(16:10) - Don’t run away from overwhelm

(17:46) - Take notes on overwhelm, observe your brain

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0:00.0	Many people tend to believe that the thoughts that come into our heads are true.
0:03.5	Thoughts are not facts.
0:04.9	Right.
0:05.3	Thoughts are actually just little blips that your brain is putting into your mind of things to keep it safe.
0:10.7	Right.
0:10.9	And your brain will do anything to keep you safe.
0:12.5	It's set up for survival, not success.
0:20.3	How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.
0:25.9	Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons I've
0:30.8	learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same.
0:34.8	Buckle up and let's build. Today's is a little bit different than normal
0:42.6	because it's a little less tactical and a little more philosophical mindset. And the reason for
0:47.1	that is this is a question I got, I think I counted like eight times at this event that I was at
0:51.6	about a week ago. How do I avoid overwhelm while starting
0:55.3	my new business? I was like, you know, like I can't answer this in like one sentence. This is like
0:59.9	a lot of stuff to unpack. And I really want to unpack it because I feel like, you know,
1:04.2	so often what prevents people from progressing in business, from starting a business, et cetera,
1:08.5	it's not the how and the tactics. It's the mindset.
1:12.2	It's the feelings. It's that you feel terrible. You feel like you're going to die. You feel like
1:15.4	you're in danger. And that's the stuff that really stops people when they're really trying to
1:18.9	get started. Right. And so I wanted to unpack this because, you know, I can tell you guys,
1:23.5	back in 2016, when we were starting gym launch, I consistently felt overwhelmed all the time.
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