"Make Your Vision So Clear That Fear Becomes Irrelevant" (Ep. 78)

“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Anonymous

“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” Dalai Lama

“We are limited not by our abilities but by our vision.” Anonymous

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” George Washington Carver

Matt Finch & Chris Scott share some of the best tips they’ve learned regarding the importance of having a crystal clear vision of what you want your life to look like.

This really is fundamental to transcending addiction.

Without a compelling vision, recovering is much harder than it has to be.

However, with a clear vision of your ideal life, this can be the driving force that takes you to the promised land.

Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:

“People aren’t lazy, they just have impotent goals.”
Procrastination often comes from not having a compelling future vision
The power of leverage (positive or negative) to help you transcend addiction
A simplified process: What do you want? Why do you want it? Why don’t you already have it? What are you willing to do to achieve it? Will you start NOW?
Balancing push motivation with pull motivation
Having an obsession that permeates your mind 24/7 so addiction doesn’t monopolize your mind
Matt’s recent vision of redesigning his website and being in a total flow state for days in a row while doing the project
Matt’s essay on how Tony Robbins changed his life which won the grand prize in an essay contest, where he won a free ticket to a seminar called Date With Destiny, an advanced 6-day seminar with Tony Robbins
Matt’s story of designing his dream life in a journal and then years later achieving it
Chris’ story of designing and achieving his dream life
Self-development leaders and culture
Studying from Earl Nightingale, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Jim Rohn, and others
Transcending addiction is 20% withdrawal remedies and 80% mindset and psychology
No one views life and reality in the way it actually is, we view it through our own lens of reality shaped by our experiences (the NLP principle “The map is not the territory)
Reframing anxiety as being ‘excited’
Being grateful for the smallest things
“Life is a summation of days”
Make every day count and seize the day
Worrying is negative goal-setting
Life is a series of problems and our job is to work towards getting better quality problems
Developing skills, mindset, and a high sense of self-efficacy
Importance of our beliefs, attitude, and perspective
“Where focus goes energy flows”
Altering your neurochemicals by altering your thoughts