Feb '24 • General discussion & FUN
Testimonial from Leila Hormozi
Thought this was really good!
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“I am so far from where I want to be in life…”
When I was 18 my life was going wrong in pretty much every area you can imagine.
-Doing drugs and drinking
-Arrested 6 times
-85 pounds overweight
-Flunking out of school
-No real friends
I continued to fail until I hit my first major ‘rock bottom’ moment… It was the sixth time I got arrested. The police took me home to my dad’s house. I remember sitting in the living room and my dad saying to me,
“I don’t care if you want to keep doing this, but I have to tell you, I do think you’re going to kill yourself. I think you’re going to drink and do drugs so much that you’re going to die.”
The toughest part in hearing that was that I knew he was right. I realized that I had been a victim of my life and let all these feelings and emotions dictate how I act.
That night I made a commitment to change my life.
-No more parties
-No more social media
-No more drinking or drugs
-No more unhealthy food or being lazy
-No more hanging out with the same people
I dedicated myself to becoming the person I always wanted to be, which started with changing my mind.
Here are the 3 tools I used to become the person I always wanted to be:
1) 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
I started asking myself productive questions…
“If I continue to do this and I do not change, what happens 5 years from now?”
2) 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
Why did I eat? → Because I didn’t want to tolerate feeling hungry
Why did I drink? → Because I didn’t want to tolerate feeling anxious
Why did I flunk school? → Because I didn’t want to tolerate feeling like I wasn’t good at something
High achievers are able to tolerate large amounts of unwanted thoughts & feelings.
Here’s the crazy part about feelings...the more you step into them, the more they dissipate.
Increase your frustration tolerance with the following:
– Accept the frustration
– Label the frustration
– Create realistic mental cues around the frustration
“I may feel anxious, hungry, and alone, but I can become the person I want to be if I work hard enough.”
3) 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠
Thoughts are not facts and emotions are not commands.
Here are 5 questions I ask myself to prove my brain wrong:
– Is it true?
– Is it absolutely true?
– How does this thought make me feel?
– Is it a productive thought?
– What would it be like if I didn’t believe this thought?
Build a case on why your thoughts are not true.
This will help you convince yourself of new thoughts that will lead to the life you want.
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