Ep 435: Throwback To Ep16: Why Do I Keep Struggling With Commitment And Quitting On Myself?

Start Your Transformation Now 95% of what you do all day long is habit. Habits happens in your brain and you have no conscious thought about it. Habits CONTROL you. Why should you care? Easy…because everything you have in life is a habit and everything you don’t have is a habit so it’s vital that you master your habit management. In this episode I talk about: [7:07] Why you keep falling back into your old habits [7:44] The three pre-dominate parts of your brain and how habits are maintained [12:11] Why willpower never works to change habits and how it hurts you [18:13] Why your brain doesn’t want you to break your “bad” habits [30:23] The sequence your brain goes through to fire off a habit And, the exact five step process that you can go through that will help you eliminate most bad habits in a matter of minutes. If you’ve tried to change a habit before and failed this episode will be gold to you.  Master the five step habit buster process and your life will change forever. Transformational Takeaway: Two parts, one, the five step habit buster sequence and two, you are where your attention is. 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 Aug 201934min

Start Your Transformation Now This episode is another transformational interview. We are visiting with Marcus, who is a current student of mine right now. He's going to share with us his incredible story and amongst other things how he shifted one thing inside which led him to have one of the best months ever in his business. If you're an entrepreneur, you're going to want to listen to this episode. In this episode Marcus shares: [3:31] How he didn't really have a clear sense of vision or purpose even if he had a successful business [6:27] How it can get overwhelming to lead and how to overcome it [9:42] How he became brave enough to shine the light on the inside of himself [14:06] How he has peace of mind instead of stress and anxiety And, of course, much much more. Transformational Takeaway: When you change things on the inside, things automatically change on the outside. 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

19 Aug 201943min

Start Your Transformation Now Ever wondered why you’re not getting the results you want in the gym, in your business and perhaps all the areas of your life? There could be many reasons but a huge reason is talked about in this episode, self-integrity. Are you being 100% integral with your word to yourself relative to your desired outcomes? Do you eat the way you say you’ll eat? Do you go to the gym when you say you will go? Do you lead generate for your business like you say you will? Do you do what you say you’ll do when you say you’ll do it? If you just said no to the above questions you’re going to love this episode because it’s all about self-integrity! It’s all about doing what you say you’re going to do when you say you’re going to do it. In this episode I discuss: [2:46] How you can have a 100-500% increase in your productivity when you keep your word to yourself. [7:08] How I used to lie to myself about integrity (and you probably do too). [22:44] How we speak our lives into existence. [23:12] Why not keeping your word affects your self-esteem. And, of course, much much more. Self-Integrity is VITAL to your success in any activity and according to a Harvard business professor who studies it, it’s one of the most over-looked concepts in business and life. When we’re out of self-integrity, nothing works, we keep failing over and over in many areas of life that we think are important to us. Let me rephrase the last paragraph, things work in life but they rarely work the way we want when we’re out of integrity. Transformational Takeaway: Be 100% impeccable with your word to 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

14 Aug 201929min

Start Your Transformation Now The greatest pharmacy in the world is right between your two ears and Katie helps you discover that in this episode. Just last year Katie was on thyroid and hormone medications and she was also suffering from depression, anxiety and panic attacks. Today she’s free of all that. How? Easy….she learned how to use the power of her mind to heal herself. In this episode Katie shares: [6:44] How she went from sick to feeling good [7:18] The exact mental strategies she used to heal her body [24:08] How she talked her body into wellness [30:45] How she kicked the anxiety, depression and panic attacks And, of course, much much more… Personally, I think this is a vital episode. We live in a world of over-prescribed, over-medicated,sick, unhealthy and unhappy people when the answer to our complete well-being is in our own mind. Transformational Takeaway: You can use your mind to heal 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

12 Aug 201949min

Start Your Transformation Now You’ve heard it since you were a kid, “Be responsible,” however, have you ever sat with that concept and fully explored its meaning in your own life? Responsibility is a master key in life and what you create is what you’re 100% responsible for creating or not. One of my clients once said, “Wow, when I live from being 100% responsible for my life I feel like I can do anything.” He embodied the characteristic and he 10 X his business growth in 3 years. And, what he did, you can do! In this episode I talk about: [5:55] Where you’ll be next year is 100% contingent on what you’re being responsible for [12:22] To what degree are you responsible for your own personal evolution [14:04] Why blame is victim mentality [16:09] The relationship between success and responsibility [19:05] What victim mentality looks like And, what 100% responsibility looks like. Harry Truman said it best, “The buck stops here,” and when you embody that characteristic and way of BEing, your life will change dramatically. Transformational Takeaway: What happens in your life is what you’re responsible for making happen. 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 Aug 201928min

Start Your Transformation Now We’re trying a new format for the next month on Mondays. We’re calling it Transformational Monday. In this first episode I interview Jennifer, she’s been a student of mine for the past six months. As you’ll hear, when she started with me she was depressed, so much so, she could barely get out of bed and had no energy to grow her business. Her life was not in a good place, mentally, physically and emotionally. This podcast is not just “Jennifer’s story,” I ask her very specific questions about how she went from very depressed to being in a great and happy place today and how she maintains that. (I think these will resonate with a lot of people.) My favorite part of her story is the “one thing” that shifted in her that pulled her out of her depression. I also think this will resonate with a lot of people. Important. When Jennifer talks about her depression, at no point do either of us infer clinical depression versus emotional funk, etc. I’m not a licensed medical or health care professional and I do not and did not dispense any kind of medical or psychological therapy. If you’ve ever been in a severe funk, you just can’t find the energy or motivation to get on with and build life, and if you’ve ever just been stuck in a “bad place,” you’re going to love this episode. Transformational Takeaway: Live in the present and be in the NOW. 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

5 Aug 201946min

Start Your Transformation Now When people say, “Do you have it IN you,” they're usually talking about resolve and grit and the fortitude to accomplish something. I’m going a different direction with this episode. The Dalai Lama said, “If there is no anger in you, you cannot be angry.” The same applies to every area of your life. What’s in you is what you create. Poverty, wealth, health, poor health… it’s all created by what’s “in you” mentally! In this episode I talk about: [9:25] Identity [10:57] Identity [24:17] Identity Yes, I intended to state the word “IDENTITY” three times. What’s in your unconscious identity is what’s in your life. Sun Tzu said, “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” Anything you want in life you must first be in your internal world. Even if you think you understand the concept of “identity,” give this episode a listen, as I think you might hear some things you’ve not heard before. Transformational Takeaway: If you don’t have it on the outside, it’s because you’re not yet that on the inside 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

31 Juli 201930min

Start Your Transformation Now Huge topic this episode and I’m in no way qualified to fully talk about karma, but I can get the conversation started. This week Lynn asked, “How does karma play out in our lives.” I answer as best I can given I’ve worked with a shaman for over 25 years and even that being said, my understanding is very limited. However, in this episode I talk about: [3:31] What is karma [10:08] Why it’s useless to compare yourself to others given we all have different karma [14:48] We do have karma and dharma and we also have free will [19:11] We’re each working out our karma in this lifetime and others [20:21] Why giving advice to others is not a good idea given we don’t know their karma And, just like every episode, I cover a lot more. I even share what I learned from a billionaire about how he lives his life relative to karma.  Transformational Takeaway: What you do to others has already been done to you. 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

29 Juli 201940min