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When it comes to success, most of us actually have a good understanding of what to do in order to reach our goals.
Maybe it’s exercising more and eating right to lose that weight, or setting aside time to connect with others to improve our relationships, or transitioning our skills in order to reach that dream job. So if you’re already aware of the steps you need to take, what’s holding you back?
In this episode of the Stand Out Be You Podcast, your host Tequila Dodard explains why it’s not enough just to know how to reach success: the real obstacle is a lack of mastery over yourself.
Building on the previous mini-life lesson’s discussion of chasing your dreams, this episode offers a set of five self-mastery exercises you can put into practice right away. And listening is a must for anyone stuck wondering what’s truly standing in the way of their success.
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours—it is an amazing journey—and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. -Bob Moawad
One of the most difficult challenges to overcome in life is self-mastery, meaning our ability to control our own actions, emotions, and (maybe most importantly) our impulses.
In this episode, Tequila explains how these impulses can sometimes get the better of us: we live in the short-term, eating potato chips for the quick reward when we’d meant to eat a healthy snack instead.
But managing ourselves and our behaviors is possible, it’s just a matter of reframing our perspective and using a few helpful strategies. Working from the five self-mastery exercises discussed in this episode, it’s possible to avoid those short-term pleasures to key in on the long-term impact of our behaviors, reaching toward the goals we’ve been reaching for.
Once we’ve achieved self-mastery, everything else becomes easy—it’s just a matter of getting there!
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