Cj Arete Eagle Podcast
A motivational, inspirational podcast by Coach CJ Arete designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners learn mindset, branding, marketing and sales secrets for lifestyle freedom.
Cj Arete Eagle Podcast
202-MINDSET BLOCK called Cognitive Dissonance
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Almost everyone has the same mindset block. It’s called “cognitive dissonance” You’re going to learn a brand new psychology term that is going to blow your mind and set you free from all of your stinking thinking.
I believe that you’re only one mindset block away from total financial freedom the life that you deserve. It is time, my friend.
It’s time to level up and become the best version of yourself
There's all types of mindset blocks, but do you know what the number one mindset block is, in my opinion? It is called cognitive dissonance. I'm going to explain to you what it is and how to get rid of it. Listen, cognitive dissonance is where your brain cannot accept a new reality. It's like when you believe something for years or maybe even decades, then you find out it's not really true at all. And your brain has a very difficult time accepting it. Okay? So what if there was another way? Right? Let's just say, for example, you've been taught in school, you know, go to school, get good grades, and when you get out of school, you'll be able to go to college, and when you get good grades in college, and you'll invest in a uh uh student loans, and and then you finally get a good job, and then you're going to get a mortgage, and you're gonna get a family and have three kids and a dog or whatever, right? That is the way most people, 99% of them have been taught this is how you become successful, this is how you make it. But let me ask you a question: how has that worked out for you so far? Mmm, if I ask that to a thousand people, 900 of them will say, not too good. They'll say, Well, you know, I'm doing okay, I'm maintaining. But most people are going from paycheck to paycheck. 30 years, 35 years, 40 years, and then they're trying to figure out, they're trying to figure out what the heck, man? What did I do wrong? Where did I go wrong? I I did everything they told me to do. Why am I not succeeding? Why am I not, you know, what is what happened to my American dream? My friend, let me ask you a question. What if you could make money from the bathtub or make money while fishing, or make money while camping, or make money while playing video games, or traveling the world? You see, if I ask you something like that, instantly your brain runs into that cognitive dissonance that can't be true. Yeah, yeah, it's probably a scam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just that happens to like one in a million people. I don't believe it because you know, it's it's some kind of little con or some type of trick or something. I don't know what they're doing, but it it can't be normal. You see, your brain tries to reject anything new. And when I come along, I'm trying to teach people how to make money with no money. And they say, Nah, but you need money to make money. Who told you that? That is not true. And so when I even show you that you can make money with no money, even if you sat right next to me and said, and I and I said to you, hey, listen, check me out, watch me, watch how I do it. You can make money with no money. Your brain has a difficult time receiving new information. Listen, it's like that movie. I don't know if you saw it or not, but it's one of me and Giva's favorite movies. We talk about it every once in a while, but The Matrix. And Neo kept feeling like his world of getting up, going to work, being a computer programmer, that something was wrong. I don't know what it is, but something is wrong. And so he kept questioning his reality. Finally, a woman named Trinity came along and she said, I know exactly what's going on with you. You need to go talk to this guy named Morpheus. Now, Morpheus was a guy who lived in another realm of thinking and thought and being. So when he talked to Morpheus and he asked Morpheus, what is the matrix? So Morpheus told him, This, that, and the other. And did you know that Neo had a real hard time understanding that and accepting the new program? He said, No, it can't be. It can't be true, no way. And Morpheus kept trying to tell him that your world that you thought was real is not real. But this is the real world. And this that's the way I feel. I feel kind of like Morpheus trying to explain to all of these Neos out here that your the world that they told you is not accurate. The go to school, get a job, get the house, the three, you know, three kids and a dog and the white picket fence. That does not work for most people. I'm telling you, my friend, it is freedom. Being a freedompreneur, using AI or not, being a coach, being an affiliate marketer, being uh an Amazon seller, but basically like being an entrepreneur. That's the one of the only ways to get out of this matrix. It's one of the only ways you can keep saying, oh my gosh, the light bills keep going up. Oh my gosh, I can't believe the rent keeps going up, or the mortgages, or the interest rates, or the gas prices, or the all of that stuff does not matter. Listen to me, my friend. I'm trying to help you with your cognitive dissonance and your mindset block. So you gotta accept a new programming. Yes, you can make money from the tub or from your porch or while camping or as a YouTuber or you can make money as a streamer or you can make money playing video games. You can make money as a reaction person doing reaction videos. You can make money selling products and services that you like. Most of these cost absolutely zero dollars to start. And yet, people will not reach out to me and say, Coach CJ, please help me. Help me. Will you show me how to make money with no money? Will you show me how to make money in my sleep? Will you show me how to make money doing what I love? Those are three right there. Those are three goals that you should aspire to. Make money with no money, make money in your sleep, and make money doing what you love. That, my friend, is the life of an entrepreneur. And I've made money from the beach, from the pool, from the porch, from the you know, Miami, from you know, traveling. I've I've made I've done it so many times, and even when I stream it live and show people, it's very difficult for them to accept because of their cognitive dissonance, which creates that mindset block. So here's how you fix it. You have to give yourself a new program in your brain by saying these words. I may not know how this game goes, but I believe it to be true. You see, if a person said, I make a million dollars as a realtor, you may not know how it goes, but you have to say, I do believe it to be true. I may not know how Coach CJ is doing all of this stuff as a coach, as a speaker, as an author, as a trainer, as an affiliate marketer, selling selling merch, and he has like over eight to ten streams of income, and I don't know how he's doing it, but I believe it to be true. I I have a feeling that Coach CJ is on to something. He's been doing this for 25 years. It's gotta be something. I I believe it, but yet your old thinking wants to say, yeah, but I don't have time. And when I tell people, yes, you do, yes you do, you got the same amount of time as Tony Robbins or Oprah or Tiger Woods, all these other billionaires, you got the same amount of time. And then if they say, Well, I don't have the money, really? And I try changing their cognitive dissonance. I try changing that mindset block, but they don't want to hear me. And I say, you have just as much money, opportunities as anybody else. There's you have access to trillions of dollars and millions of opportunities. Have you tried network marketing? Well, yeah, but you know, that stuff didn't work for me. Have you tried so-and-so? No, yeah, but you know, see, they don't want to accept the new program. I tell people all the time, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. Take notes. There's a million ways to make a million dollars. And I've given people 30, 40, 50 ideas of how they can make money and how many people I've helped make money with no money, making money in their sleep, making money doing what they love, and they still won't believe it. I've had people get give me testimonials. Okay, well, tell me exactly what you did. Well, I followed your system, Coach CJ. Okay, great. Write me out a testimonial or do a video. And you know, I've had so many people, I think I've collected like hundreds of testimonials. And then I stopped collecting them because it's like no matter what I show them, they still don't want to accept the new programming. My friend, if you want to make millions of dollars or even high six figures, you've got to change your mindset and you've got to take and yank down the old programming and the old stinking thinking, as I like to call it. And you say these magic words, I may not know how the game goes, but I do believe it to be true. I will go and figure it out. I will get Coach CJ to help me figure out how to make my dreams a reality. My friend, you can do that.