Appendix: Common Traps

Appendix: Common Traps

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Appendix: Common Traps

Common self-limiting thinking we occasionally see (and experience ourselves). 

This type of thinking is natural, but not capital-t "True," nor productive. Here are our responses.

“I can’t change, this is just who I am.”

We built this program with the goal of helping people explore, identify and purge the self-limiting mental blockers inside of them to unlock their potential. This means we believe you’re already capable of far more, and we want to help you reach your current potential.

Other programs believe people are lacking and need to change – need to do more – to make it. These programs are prescriptive in what to think, what to do, and don’t acknowledge the unique and genuine values you already have that you’re unaware of and blocked from accessing due to holding on too tightly to non-capital T truths.

“I’m not seeing as much progress as I expected.”

Striving for breakthroughs and creating narratives around your progress so far both hinder progress. This is an example of self-limiting thoughts that prevent buy-in and result in you getting in your own way.

Instead, focus more on committing to the process. Ask yourself if you’ve managed to introspect as deeply and honestly as you would like. If not, consider increasing the intensity of your introspection or asking for greater accountability from an accountability partner.

“I expected to discover brand new values and ways of thinking.”

This program does not exist to recommend specific new values you should adopt.

Rather, we’re helping you search within yourself for core values that you resonate with upon articulating, but may have been unaware of.

We’re also identifying non-core values that you’re misconstruing to be core values, which are hindrances hidden in plain site. We help you cope with, resolve, or explore them as appropriate.

You should not be seeking a feeling of grand epiphany. Instead, you should be seeking feelings of resonance with your core values and reduced fight-or-flight responses when contemplating the options you face in your specific life decision.

The litmus test of success is not whether you end up making a decision you expected to make, but whether you have conviction in whatever decision you make regardless of the future outcome.

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