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Welcome to 1 Minute to Unstuck, your quick and powerful way to break free from procrastination and self-sabotage! Each episode offers bite-sized wisdom in under a minute to help you breakthrough your procrastinating and self-defeating habits. Perfect for busy lifestyles, 1 Minute to Unstuck reveals psychological triggers that hold you back and actionable steps to overcome them.
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When I was growing up, any time I felt insecure, I thought I needed to change the external. I needed a big house, fast car, nice clothes, or a high paying job. Like that is what I was missing to feel better and more confident about myself. And I would put in all this effort to go after it. But that rarely did anything. As soon as I got what I thoug…
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The third thing is the most devious. 1. There are so many options and distractions wanting to pull you out, and they never stop wanting to pull you out 2. There’s a part of your brain built to keep you procrastinating and sabotaging and it never stops trying to sabotage you. And 3. Even when you do achieve your goals the ego comes in making you so …
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The lie that keeps you in a cycle of binging. Do you ever say to yourself “one more.” When you wanna stop watching television, playing video games, or eating sweets, a voice enters in your head that says, just one more show, one more game, or one more bite. Know that’s not your voice. It’s the voice of your procrastination and sabotage. Your brain …
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Your fear of others winning is costing you more than you know. Here’s what I mean A part of you doesn’t want others to succeed. You don’t want others to have success from your efforts. You don’t want others to use your knowledge, expertise, or experience to get ahead of you. You’re afraid someone else might benefit from your efforts and you won’t g…
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The third one makes life a real drag. 1. You always have to feed it, meaning the ego seeks to be validated, recognized, and phrased. Second, you always have to defend it, putting you on guard for making mistakes or things not going well. And third, because there’s a constant need to feed and defend your ego, you’re always comparing yourself to othe…
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Many of us have habits or behaviors we don’t know we have👇 What’s more, we don’t realize they might be annoying to others. Communication can be a surprisingly easy way to address it! When you tell a friend about an annoying habit, the key is to be kind and non-judgmental. Start by assuming they don’t realize it’s bothering you. Instead of framing i…
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Welcome to another addition of the voices in your head. I’m Kam Knight, international speak and author of a dozen best selling books. Have you ever given someone a suggestion or advice and before you could finish, they started throwing up excuses of why it can’t work, won’t work, or work for them. This is simplest way your brain stops forward progr…
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When I look back at my life, I gave people way too much credit, specially successful ones. Growing up I assumed people who were rich, popular or had things going for them knew what they were doing, had it figured out, or were rational actually thought things through. What I realized is most people are not rational and don’t have it figured out, and…
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Last week, I talked about how your feelings create a pain and tell you what you need to do to remove them. But doing what it says doesn’t always make the pain go away, and I today I’m gonna share what you can do to make it go away. First and foremost, try not to fight the feeling or pain. I say “try” because you’re really not the one fighting it. W…
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You know the voices in your head? Well they’re not always working for you. A lot of times they’re working against you to stop you from doing things. One of voices that comes up is “what’s the point.” What’s the point is very interesting, because when you say it, you may think you don’t want to do the thing. But it’s the opposite. You want to do it,…
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Let me share a story. I was talking to a woman who was telling me about her challenges with her weight and looks, but I watched her spend over an hour putting on make up and doing her hair. I thought to myself if she put that same time to exercising most of her issues wouldn’t be issues. I wondered why more people don’t do what seems like the obvio…
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Did life cheat you? Or are you cheating yourself? It can feel like you received the short end of the stick, like you got short changed in life. That can make the glass always seem half full, like you’re falling behind or that you didn’t get the same opportunities. That very thinking can keep your life half full and falling behind. When you have tho…
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Emotions are very interesting. It’ll create a certain pain and tell you what you need to do to remove it, and when you do, it goes away. For example, hunger tells you to eat and when you eat, the pain goes away. Loneliness lets you to hang around others, and when you do, it goes away. But sometimes and for some people, doing what the feeling doesn’…
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3 destructive things you’re doing because of the high it gives you, that you don’t even know you’re doing The last one is sabotaging you more than you know. 1. You resist authority because of the high you get for breaking the rules and still getting away. 2. You dress poorly because of how cool it makes you feel for not following the norm. And 3. D…
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It’s human nature to be jealous. If you find yourself getting jealous it’s not a bad thing, just don’t let it consume you. Use it as a form of motivation to spark a light in you. Or use it as a way to practice humility and find joy in someone else’s success. But more importantly, know you’ll get much farther working and teaming up with that person …
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The voices in your head aren’t all your voices and they’re not always there to help you. Some times they come up to procrastinate and sabotage you. For example, have you ever wanted to do something, and you told yourself you’d do it later or next time, but you didn’t do it later or next time. In fact you forgot all about it. Well that’s a trick of …
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Let me tell you a story. I was helping a woman once overcome resistance to starting a business she had always wanting. She was telling me her pattern of procrastination, and I said yea, that’s a pretty common pattern. She responded, what, I thought I was the only one. So, what was holding her back was a need to be unique or different, because this …
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You might think about starting something or taking a chance on a relationship, but you freeze. You don’t know why you freeze or what’s causing it. You just find yourself procrastinating, telling yourself “I’ll wait until I feel more ready,” or worse spiraling down into self-sabotage. It’s cause underneath there’s fear that you’re being selfish, gre…
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1. The solutions your brain comes up to most problems can only be as far as what you’ve learned or been taught. So, You wanna learn from people who have found easier and betters solutions, and that’ll make your life easier. 2. Your brain looks at what others are doing before feeling comfortable and safe to let you do it. So, you wanna expose your b…
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Have you ever had an ah ha moment that changed how you saw the world. Where you use to see things or a person one way but your eyes opened to see things differently. Now what what really changed? Did reality change or just your perception of reality? It was just your perception of reality. How are you see the world or people now that is not true bu…
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The spotlight is never on the new. In real life, we shine the light on the new and different. But in your brain it’s the opposite. Your will always put the spotlight on what you old and familiar. Even if you learn something new or a new way of doing things or living life, the spot light will always go to the old. And the rest will be dark, you won’…
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If you try to eliminate something immediately, you set yourself up to snap back harder. It’s because the more you restrict something, the more your body goes into scarcity mode. So when you finally have it or the opportunity to have it comes up, your body goes overboard because it doesn’t know the next time it’ll have it. So, the key isn’t to cut t…
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It’s in those tiny actions that seem insignificant but unlock all the doors. In other words, it’s not about the big, overwhelming tasks—but the little one that create the biggest barriers. Want to start that side hustle? Just buy that domain name. Need to apply for a new job? Just finish that résumé. Looking to organize your time, just buy that pla…
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Wants seem like such a simple thing 🤔 They appear to be just a simple longing for something. But they are much more than that. They can make life extremely difficult 🔄 By creating a need or push that is painful 💥 And often, the only way to remove the pain is to achieve the want 🎯 But here’s the kicker: achieving the want isn’t stays as fulfilling a…
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It’s a cliche, but the biggest barriers aren’t out there but inside you. Your amazing brain and body have an amazing way of making things seem much bigger and more difficult than they really are. Have you ever started something that you thought was going to take a lot of time and effort, but it wasn’t as bad as it seemed? Well your brain is doing t…
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Your mind’s a busy place Just like you have to distill the meaningful from the noise in the outside world. You have to know what to listen to or avoid in your head. Being mindful about the chorus in your head can make a big difference. Choose which ones to nurture. Your thoughts can be a shining light, only if you pick ones that push you forward #s…
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One of the simplest ways your brains stops forward progress is by making excuses. It’ll throw up all sorts of excuses in your head. When the excuses come up, it seems like you’re the one thinking them. Because the voices are in your head, it’s easy to assume you’re the one that came to the conclusion. But it’s really the voice of your fear and resi…
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The universe isn't just listening when you shout your dreams from the rooftops. It's also tuning into the whispers in the dark corners of your mind. The louder you shout, the more this part whispers. So the solution isn’t more positivity. But understanding and acknowledging that soft, subtle voice underneath. That’s because even if the universe res…
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Your monkey mind has one and only one purpose. To keep you procrastinating and spinning your wheels. As long as you keep jumping to new and different things, you don’t make any progress with any one. That’s not even the worst part! The worst part is… Anytime you arrive at a step that you fear or is difficult, you avoid the step by switching to anot…
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When you fantasize about the outcome of goals, you create an unrealistic vision of success that’s almost impossible to achieve. In doing so, you create an unrealistic gap that not even your mind believes. This gap can be so unrealistic, your mind prevents you from starting. Because deep down you know that outcome will never be achieved and you’re s…
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Imagine this: you’re at a party, and feel this burst of energy and excitement to join the dance floor and show off your moves. You embrace the moment and go for it. But after, a voice surfaces that says, “that was so embarrassing, I can’t believe that!” Amazing how you have one part eager to express, act, or take risks, but another part that feels …
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