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And this clip, Jim explains how the three M's of mindset, motivation, and method can keep you stuck in limiting beliefs, but also liberates you from them. So this is really about a proactive approach to life rather than a reactive one. Yeah, I very much think like one of the syntaxes or strategies of success is you know, the B do have share that kind of model, you know, because it's a lot of people want to jump to have. They want to have a perfect body.
They want to have lots of money or whatever, right? Or even when people in the lottery, right? And you know, all the stats when people have what happens over the next x million years, they lose all that and more, right? Those jackpot winners, because they jumped to the B do have, they jumped at half point, but they were never being a millionaire.
So they weren't doing the things that wealthy people would do to have the things that they would have, right? So I think all behaviors, belief driven, people at these events, they'll come to me and like, Jim, I'm so glad you're here. I know you're a memory coach. I have a horrible memory or our senior moments are coming too early or I'm just not smart enough, right?
And then I'll say stop. If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. If you fight for your limits, they're yours, right? And so I really feel like, you know, everything starts at that being level.
I think the nature of what we do, you and I and others, it's about transcending. It's about ending the trance, this massive gnosis, whether it's to marketing or media or from our parents or from wherever those thoughts kind of came from, you know, and those impressions, those expectations that somehow told us we were broken, that we're not enough. Some of that, you know, says, not just coming from marketing or media or fear-based thing, it's coming from ourselves. It's like internal, you know, belief and internal doubt.
And even our internal self-talk, our brains are like this incredible supercomputer and our self-talk and our beliefs are the programs they will run. If people truly understood how powerful their minds are, they probably wouldn't say or think something they didn't want to be true. And that's not to say you have one negative thought in a ruined your life anymore than you even just want something that can't, your donut will ruin your life. But if you did it consistently every single day, multiple times a day, it will show up in your life.
And so for me, you know, when we're thinking about planning our day, it's not so much about time management, I'm thinking about more mind management. I'm trying to think about priority management. For me, it's about, you know, controlling the controllables, right? And it's about the most important thing is to keep the most important things, the most important thing.
And for me, the most important thing is three things are the three things that I control. And we can turn this into a master class. So Limitless, which is the title of my book, it's not about being perfect. Limitless is about advancing and progressing beyond what you currently believe is possible for yourself or what you're demonstrating for yourself.
Think about an area of your life where you feel stuck. Okay, I'm talking to listeners right now. Like then take a moment, is it your health? Are you not advancing in your health, your impact, your income, your wealth, you know, your level of happiness?
Where do you feel like you're not growing and you feel kind of feel stagnant and stuck? Where do you feel like you're trapped in a box? Now by definition, that cube is three dimensional, right? And so there's three forces that contain that box.
And these are the same three forces that will liberate you out of that box. So when I'm coaching a client, what I'm listening for as I'm going through like this intake and this discovery is where, which dimension is keeping them stuck? Where's the bottleneck? So if you think about a Venn diagram, like three intersecting circles, like maybe Mickey Mouse, two ears that intersecting in a face, these are the three forces, the dimensions, if you will, that keep you stuck and will make you limitless.
They're three M's. Those are the methods. So you've mentioned that as a medical, fresh and all, you know, doing the work that you do, people know what to do, but they don't do what they know, right? Because common sense is not common practice.
How many times do we need to hear the benefits of cold therapy, you know, saunas, you know, breathing, you know, meditation, you know, reading, exercising and zone two? Like we hear the same things. So those are the methods and the methods could be upgraded over time as we learn more and more and we, and then research is done and we get that feedback. But a lot of people don't know what to do, but they don't do what they know because you're not power, it's potential power becomes power when we apply it.
What's keeping people from doing what they should do consistently? Because that's the only evidence that people are, you know, committed is that they consistently act. So the first circle, the first M is your mindset. Mindset for me, functionally, how I'm looking at it, I have defined mindset as a set of assumptions and attitudes you have about something.
What's your assumptions and attitudes about money? What are your assumptions and attitudes about health? What's your attitudes, assumptions about love or relationships? I'm just thinking about mindset and the three things I would think about mindset for everybody is not just your attitudes, assumptions about money.
Because if you're attitude, sometimes money is rude of all evil or you know, you don't make them get rich if you're hurting people, whatever, that you won't use the methods. That gives people inconsistent. That's why people self-sabotages because of mindset. They take one step forward and two steps back.
They buy one of your five best-selling books, right? It just sits on their shelf on red and becomes shelf health, not self-help, right? Because their mindset is, it's just like, oh, their mindset is, oh, if I have the book, then my life is better. And that's absolutely not true.
And even if you read the book and then apply it, your life is no better than somebody who is illiterate, right? So the mindset's a little bit different. I would also say that in this mindset, it's not just your set of assumptions about health and relationships and love that will keep you from doing the methods. Your attitude is something about yourself.
So there are three things that I would focus on in mindset. Number one, what I believe is possible. Because if you don't believe it's possible, you're not going to do it, right? And that's the other second thing is what I believe I'm capable of.
Because you could believe it's possible for someone else to heal or someone else to have a great relationship or someone else to be happy, but you might not believe it's possible for yourself, right? So what I believe is possible, what I believe I'm capable of, and then the third one, what I believe I deserve, right? Because that's kind of a thermoset setting that, you know, if you feel like we don't deserve that income or deserve that relationship or deserve that level of intelligence, that impact, whatever, then we're always going to be mitigated in that box because that dimension is holding strong. So that's mindset.
And the last part of it, the third dimension, and that starts with am is motivation. So you're only going to be stuck in that box if you have the right methods, get out of that box, if you have the right mindset that allows that box to expand and the motivation to even get out of that box, right? To be able to practice and play at the edge of what you perceive are your limits. And I believe that motivation is a very straightforward thing for me.
In order to motivate yourself or to motivate someone else, your kids, your team, right, or someone to buy, your product, or someone to invest, there are three factors that formula is three parts to get limitless motivation. And limitless motivation is just P, the letter P times E times S three, P times E times S three. So really, let's just use an example. Let's say, you know, you listen to one of our podcasts and hear all these experts talk about exercising and it's good for your brain, right?
Your body moves, your brain grooves, your brain derived neurotrophic factors. And but you're not exercising. You know, I'm moving daily, right? Because the first part is P is purpose.
A lot of people, they think purpose is something cognitive. I'm pointing to my head, but really, I think it's more of the heart. It's a feeling. It's something that you feel, you feel purpose.
And if you don't have a reason, you won't get the result. And when people forget people's names, right? So if I ask an audience of a thousand people, I say, who's has trouble number names, 95%, 99% of people raise their hand, right? If they're honest.
And then I said, okay, what if we gave you a suitcase full of millions of wealth, right? Currency. If you just remember the name of the next stranger, you meet outside, who's going to remember that name now? And then those same people raise their hand, right?
And then so as a coach, I'm saying, okay, how would you all become memory experts all of a sudden, right? You just said you couldn't do this and now you can do this. So I'm calling you on your BS, your belief systems, right? It's not true that you can't remember names.
You're just not motivated, right? Because we don't remember all names, but we don't forget all names either, right? So that's the power of purpose. People trying to jump the gun.
Are they trying to get to just give me the method, give me the hat, tell me how to learn, but you're like, no, no, no, back up a minute. Let's go up to him. What's your reason without the reason? Forget it.
And that's the thing because I truly, and I get the guy who's pumped, you've zoom in here, like in the truth, I'm like, I get so passionate about this. I don't know what I'm talking to right now, but I expect that you listening to this right now, you've probably forgotten more about health and personal growth and self-actualization and anything that you've heard of as baguettes, more than most people will learn, most more than most of your family and friends will learn. You're like, you're probably your friends are probably asking why you listen to another podcast, watching them, this YouTube, right? And it's hard to change people.
Like just something about how hard it is to change ourselves, right? And I would say also how much you putting them to play because common sense is not common practice, right? My book Limitless, when I was first submitting it to my publisher, it was all methodology. And then before I hit send on the email, I was like, we'll 100% of the people who read this book get the results they're hoping for.
And I was like, there's just no way. Because a lot of people know what to do, but they don't do what they know. So it's missing mindset and motivation. But the things to do is always there, right?
But do you have the mentality to do it and do you have the motivation? So the first thing is purpose. And I'll give you a hard illustration that I had recently. I was going out and about and I saw someone, I thought I recognized, do you ever see that?
You know that person? They called me my name. I was like, oh, that's the person. I didn't recognize them.
I'm not going to remember. They look totally different because the back story is this person was very, very unhealthy when I knew this person. I mean, extremely unhealthy, very overweight and lethargic. And the friends, we were just like, he's not a close run.
But we would just kind of coach him. I'm just like, I don't want you to stop smoking that and doing this and drinking that and drink this. And we would take pride in being unhealthy, right? And I see him years later.
And I don't even recognize him. He looks younger and he's fit and he's got this kind of glow. And I was like, I need to know because geniuses, because it was like, well, what happened? He starts telling me all the things he's doing.
And I'm like, well, yeah, we've been telling you about that for years. He was like, yeah, but he's like a little while ago. I was off on a business trip, killing myself. I came back and my daughter was crying hysterically and a nightmare that I had died.
And she was like, she was broken. And she was just like clinging on him. That was purpose for him, you know, because he had a reason and he got a result. So I'm just saying the P times E times S three, you start with purpose.
If you don't have purpose in reading that book, you're not going to remember what you read in that book. Right. And most people just read a page in a book, get to me. I just forgot what they just read because they didn't have purpose.
Right. The second thing though, is someone can have a limitless purpose to work out or to read or to start a business and still not do it because the E is, you need energy. Someone who is exhausted is not going to be very motivated to work out or to study that day or to make those calls they need to make. Right.
And so if you had a big process, let's say we're going back to working out or reading, like you want to, you committed to reading 30 minutes a day, you're not doing it. If you had a big process meal, maybe that's why, because you're in a food coma, right? So the energy is saying, you've got the purpose, you've got the desire, you've got the motivation, but because of maybe your lifestyle behaviors, you've got no energy to kind of act on that purpose. You have a purpose to drive somewhere, but you don't have the gas to fuel to get you from here to there because you're in a food coma, maybe you have a newborn child and you have a slept in three days and I'll be very motivated to go to the gym that day.
So I'll just say, you know, a lot of what you and I talk about in our books and podcasts is how to get energy, how to manage stress, because stress depletes a lot of energy, how to create a positive peer group, because energy vampires can steal. I think some people are batteries included, they're born with it, but some people are batteries not included, and they're just stealing everybody else's energy, right? Or foods, you're being allowed to process foods and high levels of sugars and not the best brain foods, you're not, or I'd sleep, can we talk about you're like, sleep? So if you're not getting that, then you're not going to be exhausted person is not going to be motivated, right?
And so when exhaustion will make a coward out of anybody, you know, we're not going to boldly go into what we need to do. And then finally, you can have limitless purpose to do whatever you're trying to achieve, you know, that box, the money, the relationship, whatever, you can have unlimited amount of energy and still not be motivated, because you need S3, small, simple steps. It's been my experience that sometimes when people set goals, I want to make the next unicorn, I want to find my romantic partner live happily ever after my soulmate. I want to make a million, whatever it is, I want to do that six pack out, but it's way too big for somebody who hasn't been close to that.
And how do you break that down in this small, simple step? Meaning maybe working out, you haven't done it, and you've just had to spin on your to do list, and you're not doing it, that's too big, a small, simple step put on your running shoes, right? If you can't get your kids to floss their teeth, get them floss one tooth, right? Because little by little, nobody's going to stop at one tooth.
Maybe reading is too hard. Opening up a book is not hard. Reading one line is not hard, right? So I think that how I get my small, simple step is I ask myself this key question, and I want to invite everyone to write this down.
What is the tiniest action that I could take right now that will give me progress towards this goal where I can't fail? And so you get your small, some step because little by little, a little becomes a whole lot. So when I'm working on coaching somebody or I want to be able to get them to do something that's going to be empowering, I want to say, is this their mindset? Do they not believe it's possible?
Do they're capable of doing it? Do they believe they deserve it? Then you know where the intervention is, right? If no, or I get motivation, do they not feel purpose?
Do they know it intellectually, but they're not feeling the purpose? Do they have energy, right? So they have to generate more energy, maybe to check their stress or their sleep, or their diet. And maybe they're just confused because it's to confuse mind, won't do anything, right?
And so maybe with the breakdown in the small, clear, simple steps. And then finally, the last M are your methods. And then those are the methodologies, right? How to lose weight, right?
And how to be able to sleep out of whatever the method, how to invest and how to do something on with AI, whatever it happens to be. The reason I just put it last is if you don't have the mindset or the motivation, you're going to be stuck in that box. And so my message to anybody if you're going to sum this up is I think out of the past few years people feel a lot of fear. And when people feel fear, they're looking for safety.
They're not looking to grow because that's uncertain, right? And that could be unknown and that could be very threatening. And so I would say that maybe have looked at it through a new lens, instead of downgrading your dreams to meet the current situation, maybe we should be thinking the opposite. Maybe instead of downgrading our dreams to meet the situation, maybe we should think about how do we upgrade our mindset?
How do we upgrade our motivation? How do we upgrade our methods that we're using to be able to meet those incredible dreams? Hope you enjoyed that bite size clip. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
And I'll be back next week with my long-form conversation on Wednesday and the latest episode of Bite Science next Friday.