First Steps to All Improvement
What’s the first step to improving your life?
Where do you begin?
And how do you know you’re headed in the right direction?
Making Change
To make any sort of change you need awareness.
Without awareness, you don't realize something is wrong, so you continue on with your life.
Have you ever met a really angry person, who you can tell from talking to them, has a lot of bottled-up pain or trauma?
You know this person needs to get help, but they may not know it.
Hopefully this really angry person is not you, but we all have something similar in different areas of our lives.
We go about are day, oblivious to changes we need to make. Then an outside force (a stimulus) shows us there's another way. We think about this outside force, using our thinking skills and together with self-awareness we develop the motivation to change it.
How We Go On A Diet
If you ever went on a diet, you probably followed this process:
- The outside world told you; you need to lose weight. It could have been a person, too many social media posts or maybe an ad. (This is your stimulus.)
- Using your thinking skills (cognitive functions) you developed an awareness that this is related to you, and you need to do something about it.
- Then either through emotional or logical reasoning, you went on a diet.
Working on Your Inner Self
The same process happens when you work it your inner self.
- Let's say, you read Brene Brown’s book on vulnerability. (The stimulus)
- Using your cognitive functions, you're thinking skills, you become self-aware and notice how vulnerability shows up (or doesn’t!) in your life.
- Either emotionally or logically (or both!) you get motivated to start making change.
An Outside Force - Your Stimulus
If you want to make a change in your life, you’ve got to have an outside force, a stimulus. Something on the outside needs to trigger your thinking skill.
An outside force can be someone telling, reading a book, listening to a podcast etc.
You can also be your own outside force.
If you take the time to think, to journal, to ask yourself questions you don’t usually ask yourself, you are creating a stimulus for yourself.
Stimulus Questions
Here are some questions to help you get started:
- What do you fear most?
- What problem do you wish you could solve?
- When was the last time you felt on top of the world? Where were you? Who were you with? What were you doing?
- Where do you want your life to be in 5 years time?
- What does the future look like for you? Does it scare you? What parts of it do you love? What parts do you wish weren’t there?
- What’s holding you back from being your true self, with your spouse, partners, children and friends?
- Who do I need to spend more time with? Who do I need to spend less time with?
- What areas of your life are you struggling with most?
- What excuses do you use most often?
- What does inner peace feel like to you.
Benefiting Your Stimulus
Once you've been triggered by an outside force, you're thinking skills kick in and see how it's related to you. This develops self-awareness and you decide if it's right for you take action or not.
Now you may know you need to take action, but if you don't have motivation, you wouldn't be able to do it.
In episode 375, we spoke about motivation for not wanting to get out of bed, but in there, there is a great exercise you can do to help you find the motivation to do anything you don’t want to do.
Your Challenge
Your challenge this week is to be aware of outside force giving you cues for improvements.
If you aren’t getting any or want to be more direct, answer journal questions.
Then decide if you need take action and GO!
Hi, I'm ST,
Just like you, I want to be more efficient and effective.
Most entrepreneurs want to grow their business but already got a lot of stress.
At LifePix University we help you rewire your brain to become more efficient and effective while experiencing more inner peace.
Learn more here.
Your Essential Guide
to Cognitive Functions
This guide will give you all you need to start improving your cognitive functions. Learn what all 28 thinking skills are, how they apply to you and what you can do today to begin improving them.
Cognitive Functions Assessment
Thinking is not one big thing. Thinking is made up of 28 parts, called cognitive functions.
Take the FREE assessment to see where each of your cognitive functions are currently at.
We're on for 1M downloads
By the end of 2025
Can you help us reach our goal?
Share this podcast with someone you love!
First Steps to All Improvement
What’s the first step to improving your life?
Where do you begin?
And how do you know you’re headed in the right direction?
Making Change
To make any sort of change you need awareness.
Without awareness, you don't realize something is wrong, so you continue on with your life.
Have you ever met a really angry person, who you can tell from talking to them, has a lot of bottled-up pain or trauma?
You know this person needs to get help, but they may not know it.
Hopefully this really angry person is not you, but we all have something similar in different areas of our lives.
We go about are day, oblivious to changes we need to make. Then an outside force (a stimulus) shows us there's another way. We think about this outside force, using our thinking skills and together with self-awareness we develop the motivation to change it.
How We Go On A Diet
If you ever went on a diet, you probably followed this process:
- The outside world told you; you need to lose weight. It could have been a person, too many social media posts or maybe an ad. (This is your stimulus.)
- Using your thinking skills (cognitive functions) you developed an awareness that this is related to you, and you need to do something about it.
- Then either through emotional or logical reasoning, you went on a diet.
Working on Your Inner Self
The same process happens when you work it your inner self.
- Let's say, you read Brene Brown’s book on vulnerability. (The stimulus)
- Using your cognitive functions, you're thinking skills, you become self-aware and notice how vulnerability shows up (or doesn’t!) in your life.
- Either emotionally or logically (or both!) you get motivated to start making change.
An Outside Force - Your Stimulus
If you want to make a change in your life, you’ve got to have an outside force, a stimulus. Something on the outside needs to trigger your thinking skill.
An outside force can be someone telling, reading a book, listening to a podcast etc.
You can also be your own outside force.
If you take the time to think, to journal, to ask yourself questions you don’t usually ask yourself, you are creating a stimulus for yourself.
Stimulus Questions
Here are some questions to help you get started:
- What do you fear most?
- What problem do you wish you could solve?
- When was the last time you felt on top of the world? Where were you? Who were you with? What were you doing?
- Where do you want your life to be in 5 years time?
- What does the future look like for you? Does it scare you? What parts of it do you love? What parts do you wish weren’t there?
- What’s holding you back from being your true self, with your spouse, partners, children and friends?
- Who do I need to spend more time with? Who do I need to spend less time with?
- What areas of your life are you struggling with most?
- What excuses do you use most often?
- What does inner peace feel like to you.
Benefiting Your Stimulus
Once you've been triggered by an outside force, you're thinking skills kick in and see how it's related to you. This develops self-awareness and you decide if it's right for you take action or not.
Now you may know you need to take action, but if you don't have motivation, you wouldn't be able to do it.
In episode 375, we spoke about motivation for not wanting to get out of bed, but in there, there is a great exercise you can do to help you find the motivation to do anything you don’t want to do.
Your Challenge
Your challenge this week is to be aware of outside force giving you cues for improvements.
If you aren’t getting any or want to be more direct, answer journal questions.
Then decide if you need take action and GO!
Hi, I'm ST,
Just like you, I want to be more efficient and effective.
Most entrepreneurs want to grow their business but already got a lot of stress.
At LifePix University we help you rewire your brain to become more efficient and effective while experiencing more inner peace.
Learn more here.
Your Essential Guide
to Cognitive Functions
This guide will give you all you need to start improving your cognitive functions. Learn what all 28 thinking skills are, how they apply to you and what you can do today to begin improving them.
Cognitive Functions Assessment
Thinking is not one big thing. Thinking is made up of 28 parts, called cognitive functions.
Take the FREE assessment to see where each of your cognitive functions are currently at.
We're on for 1M downloads
By the end of 2025
Can you help us reach our goal?
Share this podcast with someone you love!
