Transformation Tuesday: Thoughts and Habits

On this episode of the podcast we have our Transformation Tuesday webinar.

This week, we talked about the process of forming habits that emphasize discipline over motivation. Find out more about Transformation Tuesday at Facebook.com/JohnTesh

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Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gibb Gerard, here with another one of our special Transformation Tuesday episodes of the show. That's where we take audio from our weekly Transformation Tuesday webinar, and we present it to you to take with you to put your pocket to go wherever you want to go. Transformation Tuesday, folks. If you're interested in being on one of these calls live, you can find out more information@facebook.com slash John Tesh. We've actually recently started streaming right from the Facebook page, so if you're not in the group, which is a Facebook group, to get more information about Transformation Tuesday, you can just go to facebook.com/john Tesh and get more info, and just watch it there, whatever you want to do, we bring it to you. But here is the podcast version of the show. So, here, without further ado, is Transformation Tuesday with me and John Tesh. All right, hello everybody, and welcome to Transformation Tuesday. I'm Gibb Gerard alongside John Tesh. Very excited to have you guys here today. Just FYI, we have a lot of new people. Not only do we have a lot of new people who have been joining the Facebook group, but we also, and are joining us via Zoom. We are also live on the on facebook.com/john Tesh today. So excited for anybody that is experiencing this for the first time. This is Transformation Tuesday. It is our weekly webinar, where we help you. Our mantra is to help you get from the place you are to the place you want to be. We take decades of experience doing intelligence for your life, of finding the best research to help you live your life in the best way possible. We take the decades of experience that we have from going through that research and reporting on it to help you get you to the place that you want to be. So, very excited to have those of you here that are new, very excited for those that have never gotten to experience this before, or don't even understand the concept. So, it'll be a nice introduction for some of you. Last week we talked a lot about how fear is holding us back, how our thoughts and our own mental limitations keep us from getting to the place that we want to be, how our inability to act in the moment is keeping us from the life that we want, and one of the things that we have been talking about regularly for this year, for 2026 for those of you guys that are here, is is how what we do, our habits for six months, for the last six months, determine who we are right now. Our habits are what make us who we are in this moment. We have to, if we want to change our lives, we have to build the version of ourselves that we want to become, and we have, we will be a reflection of what we do for the next six months. So, let's focus on that. Let's dive into that. John, how you doing? Are you good? I'm doing great. I just want you to know that we are live on Facebook. I know you got like 90 things that you're doing right now. I wish people could see the heads up display that I have. Yeah, so that's good. It's working. I also want to say to those of you who are, who are loyal watchers here, certainly on the Transformation Tuesday Zoom call, we're all connected now. Is as Gib is taking us through this, anytime he calls on me, it's probably going to be three minutes of what I'm, what I'm afraid of, or whatever. So, while you're, while you're watching, and while you're listening to our experts, and also to give an eye, who also have some very, very intense learned experiences about fear, getting over them, is you know, drop us a line, tell us what you know, what, what was your biggest fear, and what, what do you, what are you dealing with right now? And you don't, you can write a treatise if you want, or you can just write it later, because this is going to be on Facebook, and also in the Facebook group, but fear, I mean, fear almost destroyed my life, and I, you know, I also, I also should say that, that again, I didn't tell you about this, but I, I actually, I worked out over the weekend, sort of excerpting the my book Relentless, and I created a PDF, which, which is the six prayers that helped me get through about my, my horrible battle with, with, with cancer, and they're very specific prayers. One of them, given I actually have a tattooed on our bodies, and so you know, stick with us, because I'm going to give you this for free, so that it's just like an eight minute read, but you'll find something in here that can really help you and your family, so stand by for that. Awesome, that sounds fantastic. And yeah, definitely check that out. And again, if you would like to interact with us further, you can check us out at the Transformation Tuesday Facebook group of. Links to join that are at facebook.com/john Tesh. If you're watching on Facebook right now, there are plenty of links on the page to to join our Transformation Tuesday group, where we talk about the stuff and we interact about the stuff that we are doing with here. Okay, so one of the inspirations for what I chose for today, again, for those of you that are new here, we're gonna go. I go through, and I find inspirational moments or other thinkers who have said stuff, experts that we quote on the radio show, other thinkers who are saying stuff on podcasts or videos and stuff, and I pull clips from them, and and then we discuss how to apply them. One thing that started this for me for this week's is I was having a conversation where somebody asked me why I do intermittent fasting. I do intermittent fasting as a way of trying to get in control over certain parts of my health. I do intermittent fasting as a way of building discipline, and why do you intermittent fasting instead of dieting, or instead of, you know, eating in moderation, or whatever, it's not instead of, it's an addition to, but, but I will, what we're about to see is Tony Robbins actually talking about why intermittent fasting for him is easier than dieting, and why for me it is a primer for discipline in other areas of my life, and that's what we'll talk about, the other side is, here's, here's Tony Robbins, by the way, if you're new here, I try not to quote Tony Robbins every single week, but I absolutely love Tony Robbins sound bites, I can't apologize for it, I'll explain why on the other side of this too, what do you, for example, dieting or fasting, dieting very much so. Absolutely, because fasting is absolute. You just don't do it. If you get to that place, that mindset, which is total resolve, that's what it takes to fast. In a state of resolve, it's easy when you're dieting. You're saying, well, could I do that? What if I could do that? You're negotiating. Negotiation with yourself makes you weak. So the right state, you'll get the right behavior, you'll get the right story, and you'll find the right strategies. That's where I go first. That's so good. Yeah. Now, if it's not apparent by now, Gyb and I are curators. We have a team of people who work with us on the Intelligence for Your Life radio show and our podcast and everything, and so there's so much information out there right now, and this show, our radio show, started 25 years ago, just when, when the internet was in its nascency, and there was, there was, I mean, it's really bad information out there now, even, but there certainly was then, where you weren't able to check anything, and so that's what we do, our team curates, and so, and then give it the next level curates for Transformation Tuesdays, which is what you're watching right now, and and so that's what we do on if this is your first time, is we find these, we find these experts, and then we, we, we test their stuff out on us, give, give, because of this information, give is now intermittent fasting. I'm trying to figure.. I used to do that, but after going through cancer treatment, I was losing too much weight because of the treatment, and so I'm sure I'm better now. And so I'm back into it. And there are simple ways to do that, or intermittent fasting. In fact, Gib and I, when we've been in concert before, or running together, we've done that, either exercising, but also performing fasted, and, and you have to be careful with this, depending on what your health is, of course, right, but, but if you stay with us each week, we'll take you through the different ways you can tell your body to obey by, by fasting, intermittent fasting, like to kill yourself, you know? You just, you're just saying, "Body, I'm in charge now. Then you can, you'll, the rest of your life will become ordered, and, and, and you won't, you won't have as many urges when you get, when you practice this, this process, right? So, absolutely. So, a quick primer on intermittent fasting, that is where you eat in a specific time window every single day. Some people, when, if you're trying to lose weight, the recommendation is you start with 12 hours on, 12 hours off. So, whatever time you stop eating dinner on the night before, you cannot start eating until the reverse version of that on the clock. So, if it's, you know, if you stop eating at 9pm you can't start eating until 9am That is the basic. And then some people move that into a variety of windows. Some people do 16 hours of fasting, eight hours of eating. I do 18 hours of fasting, at least, and then six hours of eating. Some people do 20 and four. You can figure out what works for you. There are a lot of apps and support, and again, we will get into details about intermittent fasting in the future, but one of the many things that I really do like about it is the absolutism that Tony Robbins was just talking about, this idea that I don't have to think about it, I don't have to make constant decisions, this goes back to the concept of you. Einstein and Steve Jobs, who would wear the same thing every day, because the decision making weight was off of their shoulders. I don't have to think about it. I don't have to think, oh, do I have time to make eggs, because that's a better breakfast than toast? Do I have time to do x, y, or z, because it's better than eating something that's high sugar? I don't think about it. I just look at the clock and I go, it's not my time to eat right now, so I'm going to have a glass of water or whatever, and I'm going to stay focused on other stuff, and it builds in discipline into my day, it builds in identity into my day in a way that allows me to accomplish more, in a way that allows me to be more focused, and I know you have experiences with this, where you'd call yourself a magician, a musician, where you decide that you are going to be the person that does these things, and it helps you become the person that does those things. Yeah, absolutely. In fact, there was a watershed moment in my life when I was at, I grew up as a musician on Long Island, I played trumpet, I played trombone, and I was in a rock band playing organ, the same one that's behind me, and I, my whole life was, you know, was amazing. I just told this story recently at an event, but my dad was convinced that I would starve to death, and so he, he enrolled me in school in textile chemistry, because he, he was the vice president of the underwear division of Haynes, so he wanted me to carry on the underwear legacy of the of the Tesh family, but Muzik was always like, I'm trying to get out, and so I would always sneak to the practice rooms and do all that, and I got into, I got into the media business when I took a course in school to try and raise my GPA, and I got bit by that media bug, but it was still always, you know, still always music, and so when I was at Entertainment Tonight, reading a celebrity birthdays, I kept trying to get a job as trying to get signed by a record company, and you know they just weren't interested because they didn't want the guy reading who was reading the celebrity birthdays on their label with with with Billy Joel, and I, I totally got that, but I realized that I had to do something to not only convince myself but to convince the people who were buying records that that I was, I was a musician, and so I got the idea of doing a PBS. Oh, it's lost. I lost your sound, but I know this story well enough to say yes. So you did the PBS special, and you became.. I think.. oh, there you go. You're back. My phone tried to take over. Let me just do this. I don't know why. Okay, yeah. So basically, what happened was I had, I had an opportunity as a, as a, as a musician when the PBS special did pretty well, and, and so I realized that if I stayed on Entertainment Tonight and just sort of quote unquote dabbled in music, which is what people thought I was doing, then I was never going to really think of myself as a serious position, because I had something to fall back on, right, and I had, I had a safety net, nothing wrong with safety nets at a certain level, but what happened was I did something that you know that Tony Rabbit's actually talks about all the time, is burning your boats, right, is making the decision that you are this, I am this, and you talk to your, you talk about yourself that way, and what happens is when you start doing that, when you, when you decide that you're going to, that you're a writer, when you decide that you're an exerciser, you're, you're a fitness freak, or that you're a pastor, you don't have to have an education to be a pastor to help the people, to help people, then all of a sudden your brain hears that, right, but what's going to happen is you're going to get, you're going to get resistance, the people around you who know you as either heavier or skinnier, or or as a an accountant, or whatever, they don't want you to change because it just makes them uncomfortable for some, for some reason, and the resistance, whether it's whether it's the devil saying, oh, you can't do this, whatever, making those suggestions, the more you push out of of the person that you are at this moment, which is probably going to be necessary for you if you, if you're uncomfortable in this person, the more people are going to push back, the more, the more, if you want to say universe, the more the universe, and the more demons going to push back on you, yeah, and recognizing that recognizing that you have to say, hey, I'm not, I don't say yes to that, to that suggestion, that's a no, I say no to you, but I am, I am this, I know it sounds like the guy on Saturday Night Live, Stuart Smalley, but it works, yes, I mean, look, here is Jim Rohn talking about exactly this concept of why you have to, Jim Rohn's an old, but he's Tony Robbins before there was Tony Robbins about exactly this, about how you have to protect your thoughts, not just from, you know, the headwinds that you get from record labels telling you no, but also from the people in your life, in your life who see you as. Certain way, and this is this is an important way in which your thoughts become who you are. But if somebody dropped sugar in my coffee, they said, "Well, you'd be okay. I said, "What if somebody dropped strychnine in my coffee? They said, "Well, you'd be dead. I said, "Correct. I said, "What if my worst enemy drops in the sugar, they said,'Will you be okay? I said, 'What if my best friend, even by accident, drops in the strychnine? They said, 'Well, you'd be dead. I said, 'Coretty, it doesn't matter who hands you the bad stuff every day. Stand guard at the door of your mind, and you decide what goes into your mental factory. Don't let anybody just dump anything they want to in your mental factory, because you've got to live with the result. You've this is so good, and he's been around for forever, and it basically is - I mean, a lot of the stuff that self-help people, whether they admit it or not. I know Jim Rohn was a Christian, but is in the Bible, you know, above all, above all else, guard your hearts, that's that's a proverb, and also there's another proverb that says that do not let my word keep your word, keep my word on your lips, and do not let my word depart from your from from your ears, I mean, in other words, be very careful, yeah. Be very careful what you let in there, and now what we let in is so, is so much easier, because if you just got, you're just scrolling through it. I mean, you know what he's talking about exists before doom scrolling, but this is why, you know, how much, how many pieces of advice do we give about not checking your phone first thing in the morning about not inundating yourself and controlling what you are ingesting on a regular basis, because of this, because what you are reading, what you're ingesting, what the people in your life are saying becomes your thoughts, and your thought, your thoughts become your words, and your words become your actions, and your actions become your habits, and as, as we are saying, for 2026 your habits become who you are, it becomes your identity and your character, and so the more we ingest, whether it's righteous indignation or anger online, or or negative stuff online, and that feeling of of of stress that that keeps these multi billion dollar companies keeps you engaged with them, so that you are you're reliant on them for your dopamine and your serotonin, and then the next thing you know that's that's becomes how you think, I mean, there have been multiple studies that show the way that the algorithm pulls you in and makes your thoughts more extreme, and then those thoughts become your own words, and those words become your own actions, and those actions become your habits, and your habits define who you are, and the more we, the more we are aware of that, the more power we have over that cycle, and we need to have power over that cycle. You need to understand that that that what you are thinking about, what you allow yourself to to ingest, and what you think about yourself, it will become true for you no matter what. So you might as well take control and make it positive. We have on this and our longevity lab, we have these five habits that we believe, based on, you know, the stuff that we've been looking at over the years, are there is no downside, and they are fundamental to your ability to live to accomplish anything that you want in life, and that includes waking up at the same time every single day. It also, though, includes five to 10 minutes - it's not long - of meditation or prayer every single day, and that does a lot for you to be able to control your thoughts. Additionally, we believe in gratitude journaling. Multiple studies show that when you go through life with, with a feeling of gratitude, with that on your lips, on your mind, that you are more grateful for the stuff around you. You're a more positive person, you are, whether you know at the chemical level or not, you are a happier person. Yeah, and also, just real quickly, if you just scroll down a couple of the previous memes on Facebook, Facebook, where you are right now, facebook.com/john Sesh. You'll see a couple of studies that I posted there on what happens to your body when you, when you, when you consistently express gratitude. It is a physical thing that happens to your body. Go ahead, kid. No, so I mean, that is it. You, you need to be doing that stuff. You need to be grateful for your, for, for the things that are working in your life. And the more you do that, the better your life gets. The more you meditate and pray on the identity that you want, the more that becomes true for you. And you have to protect yourself. I mean, there are going to be. Believe there are people who love that feeling of pulling you down. This doesn't mean you ignore your friends. This doesn't mean you stop showing up for your friends and family. It means that when you are dealing with this, that you identify it, and you, and that you move on from the pulling back as much as you can. You still have them in your life, but you don't allow that to be to permeate and become your identity, and you become so much more aware when you go through these processes again of being grateful every day, of meditating and praying every day, and to your, to your point, to when you're, when you're making big decisions on what you, who you want to be and what you want to do with your life, is you're gonna lose some friends, you know, there are some very creative people that I could mention, who, who decided on Lin-Manuel Miranda, is one of them, who created Hamilton in the Heights, the big Broadway Musicals, and he was interviewed on 60 minutes, and it was just asked, what kind of a dedication does it take, and he was just saying that there are times where he lost friends who just didn't understand what he was was doing, and who weren't aligned with him, things like that, you know, and so there we have to, you have to recognize the fact that there's going to be some jealousy when you make big changes in your life. Who is the violinist who is playing at Carnegie Hall, and the person came up to tell that it's our promulgate? he would say, after big concerts at Carnegie Hall, somebody had backstage passes, and the guy just sort of blurted out, you know, oh my gosh, I would give my life to be able to play like you, and he said I did, and the guy left, and had he asked to say that people don't want to understand what it takes to change your identity to become that person that is the person that you want to be. And again, for those of you that signed up previously, and one of my things that I always remind you guys of is you sign up for a reason, you signed up to transform your life because you felt like there's something that you want to accomplish something about who you are that you have not been able to accomplish, and our goal again is to help you have the tools to form the habits that help you become who you want to be, or whom you to be as a linking person, who you want to be. Anyway, here is Brian Tracy, another person that predates Tony Robbins, but has and predates all the self-helpe people of today, but has a lot. No, I didn't mean to interrupt you right then, but when you're watching this, and Jim Rohn, you just saw Tony Robbins later, but these guys, they've been teaching this for what, give 50 years, I mean, at least, at least it's 26 there's like 70 years of this stuff, yeah, yeah. So this, this nostalgic old school advice works even better now than it did back then, and and Tracy's approve it. Well, and it's because it's it's on steroids now. Here we go, there's only one thing in the whole universe over which you have complete control, and that is your thoughts. That, if you wish to change any of the conditions of your life, you have to change the thoughts that precede those conditions. You have to change what is going on in your mind, that whatever you believe with feeling, and this is the key with feeling, and the more emotion you put into a belief becomes your reality. If you believe something that is positive or believe something that is negative, or, as Henry Ford said, if you believe you can do a thing, or if you believe you cannot, you are right. That most of the limitations we have do not exist in reality, they exist only in your own mind, we have a deep down desire inside of us to remain consistent, so we're always trying to view our world, rationalize our world, interpret our world, so that it is consistent with what we have already decided to believe. However, if we begin to change our beliefs, we begin to change our realities, because our perception of reality changes when we have a belief about ourselves, or we have a belief about the world. It doesn't - it's not a magical thing, you know. People love to talk about quantum mechanics. Oh, I can change the quantum field. It's not really what quantum mechanics is. I understand what they're trying to say, but, but what he's saying right there is really true. The way that we engage with our mind, our own mind colors the way that we perceive the world, and it doesn't matter, like what Jim Rohn would say, it doesn't matter if it comes from an enemy or a friend, it's going to have the same impact on us. It colors the way that we see the world, and we see the world through that lens, it creates the reality for ourselves. And by the way, this is 100 this has been shown in the Facebook's own internal studies that they did, you know, 15 years ago, when it was just Facebook, it wasn't Facebook, Instagram met, it wasn't the whole thing, about they did A/B testing on them by presenting people with their, with the algorithm that showed them positive stuff versus negative stuff, and the more positive stuff they showed, the more positive the interactions that people had. And the more negative stuff they showed, the more negative interactions that people had. So these social media companies know, and they will be feeding you this information, whether you like it or not. You might as well take control over it. There are two things that I'd like you to do between now and next, and next Tuesday, and people are one of them is going to make people think you're a nutcase if you, if you do it in public, but I still do it, and that is rather than thinking about changing, rather than thinking about what just expecting and thinking about what your future is going to be, speak it out loud, and that's that's no woo woo at all, is as Gibb said, that is also, also biblical, because what happens when, when you, you speak it is your subconscious mind actually hears it, right, and and is much more powerful, and the other thing is, forget about typing it on your phone or on your computer, write it out long hand, right, write it out long hand, speak it and listen, I this is a whole other thing, but I speak in tongues now, because, because I, because I am well aware of the power of the of the Holy Spirit, and and there are just there are times when you're you're if you're just thinking stuff that that's my opinion, that's where the devil could just make suggestions, you know, but if you're speaking it out all the time, then all of a sudden you're hearing it, it's you're just, you're, you're, you're pulling it in in all kinds of different ways, you know, and it's going to be much more powerful, so speaking and also writing longhand, here's where the data supports exactly this. So, there was a study of bodybuilders, weight lifters, and they engaged in positive or negative self-talk, or they were quiet, and the ones that engaged in direct, they talked to themselves in the second person. So, you've got this, you can do this. They said it out loud, and they were able to lift more weights and do more reps than those in the other two groups, so we know there is empirical evidence that our self-talk is it affects how we behave, and if we do it out loud, it is more powerful. Now, the hypothesis for the reasons why writing longhand and speaking out loud to yourself work the best is because it engages more of your brain in the activity of forming those words, right. So, when you, when you write, it takes more muscle and more of your motor cortex, and it takes more of your learned behavior in order to become written word than it does if you type it or just think it. Similarly, when you say it out loud, you have to engage more of your motor cortex. You're also then going to engage your ears, you're actually going to hear it, all of those things again engage more of your brain, and therefore it becomes more of your reality, it becomes more of the way that you perceive the world, and that makes it 100% more beneficial. So that is, that's where that, that's where that really influences you. Now, before Gil closes it out here, I just want to remind you that we always have a way for you guys to take the next step, and the best thing to do is to go to tesh.com just tesh.com and you'll see a couple of ways there where you can dig deeper. We've put together a thing, which is basically personalized audio, so if you were to click on Deeper Faith, then there's audio messages that come to you in email form five five days a week, which is the combination, which is what helped me get healed from cancer, is the combination of we call the dual modality of medicine and also also healing prayers, and there's also a button in there that says touch.com/health and it's all the stuff that give and I are talking about, and it's delivered to you by by by audio in in your email, and if you just, if you, if you email me at john@tesh.com I'll send you this, which is the, which is the six prayers that helped me get healed from from cancer, the six spreads are just six, is about it's about six that I use, and it's about about an eight minute read. It's absolutely free. Just, just email me at John tesh.com and tell me you want that thing. Go ahead, Kim. Fantastic. So, if you're thinking right now, I'm overwhelmed by what I have to do before me, the changes that I want to make. I know that I want to make changes. I'm overwhelmed by these ideas. It seems like it's too much. I don't know how to get ahead of this. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to change my identity. There's a great author that we love, and it is James Clear, and he wrote the book Atomic Habits, which is all about how atomic ways to create habits, so if you, if you've been following today, we talked about how our thoughts become our words, our words become our actions, our actions become our habits, and our habits define who we are, our character, our identity, and nobody has written a more exciting book about habits than James Clear, so. Here he is talking about whether I like the way he phrases this, and we'll wrap it up on the other side, and I'll put it in a bow for you guys. Every action you take is like a vote for the type of person you wish to become. The real reason that habits matter is that they reinforce your identity. Each action is like a little vote building up some evidence for being that kind of person. No, doing one push up does not transform your body, but it does cast a vote for I'm the type of person who doesn't miss workouts. And no, writing one sentence does not finish the novel, but it does cast a vote for I'm a writer. Take a little bit of time to think about that. Who's the type of person I want to cast votes for? Who's the type of person you want to cast votes for in yourself? That's so good, that's okay. Yeah, and answer that in the, in the comments. Who is the type of person that you want to cast votes for this week? Between and remember, too, that we're here

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