Ep 260: Your Identity Causes Your Biggest Problems And Keeps You Trapped

Start Your Transformation Now Have you ever been triggered by someone or with something that makes you really frustrated and annoyed? After you listen to this episode, you’ll be amazed at how you can start treating your triggers as a blessing. Triggers may be a huge source of stress for you, but you’ll come to understand why it’s a great opportunity for you to evolve and grow. In this episode I discuss: [2:30] How it could be a matter of your value judgment when you are being triggered [10:38] Whether your triggers are external or internal [12:06] What you actually see in you when you get triggered [14:29] How triggers affect you physically [20:05] How operating in a state of internal peace affects the way you react to triggers [20:40] How you can overcome inevitable triggers when you want to maintain a state of internal peace Transformational Takeaway: Dalai Lama: “Let no one’s behavior steal your internal peace.” Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

4 Nov 202023min

Start Your Transformation Now If you’ve read all the books, been to all the seminars, followed all the gurus and you still don’t have what you want in life it’s because you’ve not learned to master your attention – it’s the Master Key in life. The definition of ATTENTION IS: the act or state of applying the mind to something. Attention filters into every single aspect of your life: Health, money, happiness, marriage, relationships and every other aspect of your life. If you find yourself somewhere that you don’t want to be in life it’s because that’s “where your attention is.” Want something different, then move your attention. In this episode I talk about mastering attention and how that applies to health, wealth and happiness. And, I talk about how MOST people keep their attention in the past and future and very few people live in the present moment. I also give you an example of how most are trapped in the past and future and don’t live from and for NOW. If you want more in life then listen to this episode and start to work on mastering your attention. You’ll be glad you did. Transformational Takeaway: You are where your attention is. Time is an illusion. The past does not exist, the future does not exist, all that exists is right now and move your attention. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

28 Okt 202027min

Start Your Transformation Now I’m sure you’ve already made dozens of judgments today about yourself and other people and people have already judged you about what you’re wearing or how you’re acting or what music you’re playing. Heck, you’ve probably judged this podcast! That’s because that’s what humans do. We judge. We are meaning-making machines! In this episode, you’ll discover that judging people and being judged is a part of the human experience and the most effective way to eliminate the fear of being judged is to accept it. I provide some key questions to ask yourself surrounding fears of abandonment and rejection that you won’t want to miss if you want to start living a fuller and more freedom-filled life. In this episode I discuss: Abandonment and Rejection—the two biggest fears we have How to get over people judging you for good Are you judging yourself on externals? If so you’ll never be happy. Do this instead! Questions to ask yourself to finally eliminate the fear of judgment and rejection Transformational Takeaway: When people are judging you, how do you know to the exact degree that you’re being judged? 10%? 100%? The truth is you don’t know. If you’re not putting yourself out there yet, at what degree of judgment can you take action anyway, despite the judgment? When you’re only in a 100% judgment-free zone? Can you take action when you have 20% judgment? How will you know when to stop being in the fear of judgment? Hint: Now is a good time to let go of that fear. No matter what you do you’ll be judged. What would your life look like 3 months from now if you took action even if you knew you would be judged? Mentioned Resources: Episode 1: Transforming Your Life From The Inside Out Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

21 Okt 202042min

Start Your Transformation Now What a crazy show title, right? I mean…who titles an episode “When is a great day to die?” I do, that’s who.  I asked the question because it’s something that most people don’t want to face. Ya know, the inevitable, death! Yet, it’s a certainty for all of us.  The “biggest truth” in this 3D life is that you’re going to leave the planet and it’s something that is so casually looked at or ignored that most people miss the power in the acceptance of it.  Meaning: If death is the “worst” that could happen to you then why do so many billions of people fear far less – like if someone judges them, if they are good enough, etc. Ridiculous, right?  To the title of this episode. Death is inevitable, so what makes one day or any day better than another? There is no “better” day to die. I mean, whichever day it happens, it’s going to happen and no day is better than another.  So, while on the planet do you want to free yourself from the limits of 3D fears and enjoy a great life? Or, do you want to not free yourself and live many years and yet not be “alive?”  A blissful life or a miserable one. Either way you’re going to die. Accept the bigger awareness in life, use it to your advantage and life a life of well-being!  Transformational Takeaway: Today is a great day to die. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

14 Okt 202026min

Start Your Transformation Now This entire episode description is left blank this week for a reason.  PONDER the single question in this episode deeply and I’ll catch you on the follow up to this episode next week.  Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

7 Okt 20202min

Start Your Transformation Now The age old question, “Who am I?”  The answer is so simple that most of us miss the answer. Who we “are” is right in front of our eyes and we’re so “close” to ourself we cannot “see” ourself.  In this episode I go into some simple ways that we can start exploring and discovering who you are.  I go into some of my own experiences of exploration of self and I give you many questions to ponder about “who you are.” The answer is right in front of you.  If you truly paid attention and observed yourself, even your awareness of self for just one day this would tell you who you are.  Your life is your mirror and who you are is right in front of you. This awareness of self will give you great growth and power.  Enjoy this episode. Transformational Takeaway: The best way to know yourself is to have courage to observe yourself, accept yourself and realize that you’re right in front of yourself. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

30 Sep 202032min

Start Your Transformation Now Here’s another in the “Five Random Thoughts” Series.  OK, full transparency, I was pressed for time this weekend and traveling so I put another random thought episode, and given the feedback, it appears many of you guys are loving these. So, the five random thoughts this week are: 1) When you run your life by emotions you’ll find yourself in the ditch. I used to find that it was hard for me to follow through and one of my coaches pointed out, “You don’t follow through with your commitments because when your feelings change so do your commitments.” This was a huge life-altering ah-ha moment. And, if you’re not following through in life perhaps you are the same as I once was? 2) Your life is this way or that way because you tell yourself life is this way or that way. Life is a reflection of you. Kahlil Gibran once said, “Words are but simple dripping from the mind.” So, how do you tell yourself that “life is.” Exactly as you tell yourself will be your experience of life! 3) Mastery Is repetition and sacrifice These are all simple and this one is as simple as the others but so simple many of us miss.  What have you “mastered” in life? We live in a world of mediocrity and most of us have “mastered” little. Most of us just get by in life. The title is obvious, to create mastery in anything it requires repetition, and most of us get that yet what most of us don’t like is that it also requires sacrifice. For everything in life, there is a price. And to be masterful at anything you must pay the price for it. 4) Changing your life is very simple but requires devotion Change is easy. Becoming who you are now was not hard. You didn’t fight to become who you ARE, you learned it. Like the last random thought, you become who you are with repetition.  It’s EASY to do most things with repetition and where and what is your repetition? 5) If I don’t have humbleness I lose everything. It took me MANY years to get this. I got it when I tried to quote what I was taught. “The common man is hooked to other men, the spiritual warrior is hooked to infinity. “ MEANING: If I lose mySELF in my ego and I then am not humble I then lose “who” I am, which is a spiritual being. There is obviously a lot more and humbleness is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. And, it requires that you place you either above or below anyone. Transformational Takeaway: When you run your life by your emotions you’ll find yourself in the ditch. Your life is “this way” or “that way” because you tell yourself life is this way or that way. Mastery is repetition and sacrifice. Changing your life is very simple but requires devotion. If I don’t have humbleness I lose everything. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

23 Sep 202028min

Start Your Transformation Now Yep, you read that right, your brain keeps you trapped in your comfort zones.  I don’t want to give you all the details here because I have to save some of the good stuff for the episode but as crazy as it sounds, it’s not your thinking that keeps you trapped, it’s your reptilian brain. Here’s a big “Ah ha, that makes sense for a lot of people.” Your reptilian brain operates from a place of predictability and safety. It’s a brain based survival mechanism. So, because your reptilian brain likes predictability it sabotages you leaving your comfort zones because that is unpredictable.   In this episode I talk about many facets of this entire concept and HOW to get out of your comfort zones and you’re going to want to hear this!  Transformational Takeaway: You will not leave your comfort zones until you leave your comfort zones. Mentioned Resources: Join the waitlist for my upcoming Transformational Coaching Program (Sept. 2020) Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

16 Sep 202029min