The Battle Against Negativity is Won by Surrounding Yourself with Your Own Hard Won Insights

hey it's David and I want to make a video about surrounding yourself with the truth surrounding yourself with reminders of deep insights that you have found in your life surrounding yourself with it and the reason for this is we surround ourselves with these insights these things that we've picked up this truth these helpful pointers for ourselves because of our enormous potential and tendency to forget them i have noticed this personally in my own life and I've noticed it with many clients that I've worked with we might pick up a a genuinely paradigmshifting lifealtering insight into our into our life and you know how to stay productive how to get things done how to go after our goals how to meet our needs how to be happy and it will change things dramatically things will start to work we'll have new ways of seeing things and we're treating ourselves better and moving forward and then what'll happen is some some event might happen in life something will happen and it will distract us it will take us into maybe you know we we get distracted and we stop focusing on these insights or we lose touch with them the reminders are no longer there and what happens even though it was a profound insight and it was massively helpful because of the distraction because we are no longer around them they get memory hold we forget them so these insights that we get in life they are not that common and they are like solid 24 karat gold they're like diamonds they need to be and it is like mining for them we live our life and we have challenging experiences and we go through all sorts of pain and usually it's not until we go through that pain and deal with those challenges that we find the insight so isn't it strange then that when we do get the insights and we have them these new ways of thinking about things that we are prone to forget them and that's a great shame and I'll give you example of you know insights come in all different shapes and sizes and forms but personally a few insights um that I have found I'll give you examples one is everything that ever gets done gets done one thing at a time now there was a point in my past when I was painfully unaware of that i was trying to do everything at the same time of course you can't do that nothing gets done another example would be focusing on starting leads to finishing and of course I was very much focused on how am I going to get this finished god there's so much to do and of course that leads to overwhelm and inaction it's focusing on starting when am I going to start and just only focusing on starting leads to finishing things a third example here final example big insight for me personally guilt-free play is the secret to success of course I was living from a paradigm of working harder being more organized getting disciplined pushing myself was how you achieve success and I lived from that truth for a long time and it didn't work so the insight that I got through all that lived experience and all that pain was "Oh my god I'm totally wrong on this i have a new aha moment here." Now you too in your own life may have had these types of insights and a part of you as you're listening to me talk will probably remember I did have an insight something shifted in me something started to work there a while back and but it's gone the impact of it hasn't lasted it's it's no longer living within you and that's because of the of this video the the topic of this video is our tendency to forget them because of distractions or we go back into old patterns it's so subtle we can we can lose contact with these so the idea of today's video is to write them down be around them don't lose contact with these insights that you get another example would be inquiry so let's say you find a limiting belief uh a guilt narrative if I'm not good enough something's wrong with me or I can't do that thing or something like that inquiry is a very profound personal process where you go in and you start challenging a lot of these narratives is that true can I know for sure it's true how do I feel when I believe this etc etc and so it's a process and Baron Kadia even calls it the work so it's it's like there is some input in our behalf and invariably when you do it you will find new ways of thinking about yourself new ways of seeing situations but then the great shame is well okay I I found they're called turnarounds a new way I found a new way of looking at this situation it makes me feel a lot better but then we lose contact with it so have a place in your journal or in your bedroom or in your bathroom or someplace where you are around these ideas and that's called taking responsibility for your mindset is is to be influenced by the truth not by the old self-limiting beliefs or narratives and it it will be such a help to you um not losing contact with these ideas and these truths that you find these insights means that they will benefit you um much much more and you won't have these ups and downs these highs and lows all the time which is just basically fundamentally to do with losing contact with the truth of who you are and in my opinion my experience the truth is actually very very loving most people think that uh the truth is uh the truth will piss you off or will annoy you or people can't handle the truth or the truth is painful really it's the lies that are covering up the truth that are painful for us but when we actually get to the truth it makes us feel alive it makes us feel grateful it makes us feel enthusiastic about life and it does take work to get rid of all the junk that's in the way of seeing that so that work don't let it go don't let it be wasted once you find whatever it is that you did the work on to get to that truth protect it be around it preserve it and that will be a massive gamecher for you even to the point where you could say like at the end of a month you can look back and say "What insights was I able to uncover for myself and my personal life this month?" Okay highlight them underline them doubly underline them keep them safe write them down somewhere and keep returning to them and then challenge anything that seems to um undermine them okay you can do that and at the end of the year you might have had who knows a dozen deeply profound insights that you found about yourself ones that you are protecting and staying in contact with keep that in mind i really think that's a useful concept for most of us and uh it could be a big game changer for you protect the insights that you find in your life and be surrounded by them hope that's a useful video if you want to reach me the link is in the description below and uh hope you enjoyed this share it with somebody that it might benefit and if you like the video please like it and uh subscribe to the channel it helps me reach more people thanks so much take care talk soon bye-bye [Music] [Applause]