How to solve any problem: 5 key elements

How to solve any problem: 5 key elements. I love all the great feedback I am getting about the podcast, thank you. Some of you make it the first thing you listen to each Monday morning to start your week out right. Somebody reached out to me about this week about the podcast from two weeks ago about falling forward and asked how they can get better at that. And said, they were feeling stuck and didn’t know how to put that into play in their life. So, let me just take a moment here to remind you that you can hop online at zachspafford.com and set up a free mini session. I will help you out, let me hook you up. There is a link for the work with me button so you can just take advantage of that. I’ll also talk to you about options that you have if you want to keep working with me if you choose. My spots are filling fast, so I am thinking about opening up a group coaching program as well so more people can get better at the self mastery that we all are striving to work on. It is gonna be amazing Whether you are interested in working with me or not, I’d love to do a mini session with you and help you out, so don’t hesitate to go there. So, today, we are going to talk about how to solve any problem by understanding 5 key elements. All of the coaching I do stems from the model, which was developed by my mentor brooke Castillo, the owner of the life coach school She is a woman who I really respect for her work in helping people others work on how to become a better person and better at being the person that you want to be. I also work with a really amazing coach jody moore. Who is my friend and a coach who brought me the model before I knew really anything about being a coach and is now my instructor at the life coach school. I have yet to find a problem that this model will not work on. So, if you think you have one that this model doesn’t apply to, then, sign up for a mini session and let’s give a test run and see. The idea of the model is that everything we deal with in life, pain, suffering, negative emotions, all come from something other than our circumstances. The traditional way of thinking is that circumstances make us feel bad. The model shows us that our feelings come not from our circumstances, but from what we think. That our thoughts generate our feelings. So let’s start at the beginning of the model. The “circumstance” of our model. Let’s just define that. a circumstance is a fact, it is what we consider the indisputable facts of the case. They are things that we don’t control and cannot change directly. Some examples of this are, the weather, other peoples, behavior, our past. What do I mean that it is a fact, so this is something that is not up to interpretation and everyone can agree on. For example, if you said to me, ‘I’m addicted to pornography’ that would not be a circumstance. That is a thought. If you say to me, “at 2 pm I looked at pictures” that is a circumstance. It can be, essentially, proven. It isn’t subjective or someone’s opinion. Everyone would agree with it. Your car is a circumstance. weather is a circumstance. Other people’s behavior is a circumstance. You can’t control them. The second part of the model is your thinking, your thoughts. I want to define what I mean by your thoughts, because I use this in my coaching a lot. This is a pivotal point in your ability to understand not only who you are, but also how you can change what you believe and think to become who you want to be. Firstly, thoughts are sentences that are constantly running through our minds. This is essentially the conversation we are having with ourselves. Sometimes we are aware of our thoughts, but often, because of how powerful...