Soulburn.fit Podcast

Where Are You Now And Where Could You Be One Year From Today?

• Nicholas • Season 1 • Episode 4

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We explore the transformative question "Where do you want to be one year from today?" and why answering it effectively requires first understanding your current situation through honest self-assessment.

• Identifying self-sabotage patterns and limiting beliefs that may be holding you back
• Understanding how your current physical condition affects your daily life
• Recognizing the importance of "unbecoming" who you think you are
• Finding light in the darkness by acknowledging what's going well in your life
• Setting the foundation for creating a clear vision of your future self
• Practicing gratitude even when life feels challenging
• Preview of episode 5, which will focus on creating a vision for your future self

The first step is awareness—write down how you're sabotaging yourself, identify your limiting beliefs, and find at least one thing in your life that's going well. This process of self-discovery is essential before you can truly envision where you want to be one year from now.


Speaker 1:

Welcome to episode 4 of the Soul Burn Fit Podcast. Today, I just have one question for you. Okay, I lied, I have several, but question number 1. Where do you want to be one year from today? That is the question I'm going to ask you in approximately 10 to 15 minutes Before we get there. Answer this question when are you now?

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Let's describe your current circumstances and if you want and what I would recommend is that you get a journal or you get your laptop and you actually write some things down but just for example, you might look at yourself and think to yourself maybe I'm sabotaging myself, maybe I have limiting beliefs, or let me let me rephrase that, because you might not even be aware that you're doing some of these things. But just answer this question for me. Well, answer, just ask yourself are you sabotaging yourself? Do you have limiting beliefs? Are you out of shape? And to me, out of shape means that there are times in my day-to-day activities where my body limits me from doing what I want to do. To me, that means I'm out of shape because I didn't have it in me. To you know, if you go hiking and it's really hard, unless the trail is like incredibly difficult, because some trails are actually really difficult. But if it's harder than it should be, you know what that feels like. Then acknowledge it.

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This is where you throw all your dirty laundry out right in front of you on the table, like write all the shit that is bothering you or that is going wrong, or that you don't have, that you wish you had, or that you do have, that you can't get rid of. Write it down. Are you lacking confidence? Are you lacking self-esteem? Do you have feelings that are negative towards yourself or towards any other people? And if you have those feelings to other people, are you dealing with those things? Ask yourself these questions. Before we know where you're going, we have to know where you are.

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So answer these questions. Are you sabotaging yourself? What are you limiting? I shouldn't even say that. I should rephrase it again how are you sabotaging yourself? How are your beliefs limiting you and what beliefs are limiting you? When you find those limiting beliefs, I need you to extract the clarity of the present moment. I need it to slice through the delusion of whatever that limiting belief has associated with it. So if you have a belief I'm not good enough, we need to trace that back. Okay, guys, I'm getting ahead of myself. We're not quite there yet. We're not quite there yet.

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We're going to get deeper into all of this, but I do want you to ask those questions. I do want you to lay it out on the floor, but don't necessarily worry about going too deep and figuring out your childhood and blah, blah, blah, no, no, no, no. Just figure out the present moment and maybe, like the last 48 to 72 hours, or like the last week or so, how have you been? How has been your mood? What has your energy been like? How is your sleep? Are you drinking enough water? How do you feel about yourself mentally? Do you feel like you're a good person or do you feel like you're a bad person? Just answer these questions and really think about it. This is just identification. That's all we're doing right now is identifying what's there Underneath the covers, what is there in your psyche.

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For a lot of you, it's going to come down to those two things self-sabotage and limiting beliefs, and I guess you could argue that a limiting belief is a form of self-sabotage, but they're two separate things, so I'm keeping them separate in this instance, those two things you have to be very aware of. I will say that as like a pro tip Self-sabotage always be looking for the ways in which you are sabotaging yourself. Ways in which you are sabotaging yourself, because if you aren't successful right now like literally in life, if you're not successful right now, however you would define that success. I'm not talking about money or whatever status, nothing, just, however you would define success. If you're not successful right now, there is a high, high probability that you have sabotaged yourself for potentially your entire life, and that is why you to do things that are completely against the principles or out of alignment with the person that you want to become. You have to get like hyper aware of those things, because all the progress in the world, you can do all the things that I tell you to do, but there's also an aspect of your soul that is the unbecoming. You are becoming someone new every day, but you must unbecome the person you are now, because you're not really that person. It's just who you think you are.

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But you have to unassume that identity, you have to let it go, and that takes processing. Processing takes time for emotions to heal and for you to have new perspective on things. But if you don't go through that process and you just do the surface level work, then then you're probably not even going to stick to anything that I say. Really, like everything that you heard in the last episode, all the tips that I gave you like free advice just how to like transform your entire body, you might as well just not even have listened to it because you're not going to do it anyway. If you don't deal with this self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, if you don't tackle that problem, nothing I say right now really matters. So that's why I'm bringing that to your attention. So I do want you.

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The first step is awareness. So right now we're not looking to actually deal with anything, we're just looking to bring awareness to it. So do that. Then, if that leads you to a place where, like now, you're not feeling good about yourself, maybe you start thinking some like really negative things about yourself because you don't necessarily like the position that you're in. Well, this is where we have to kind of change paces a little bit. So, before you change paces, pause this and write down how you are sabotaging yourself. Identify at least one, think about at least one thing that you believe about yourself that you know is limiting. You Just find at least one limiting belief and at least one way that you're sabotaging yourself. Once you've done that, we're going to change paces a little bit. Now we want to look at light. So limiting beliefs and self-sabotage. That's where you're kind of getting into the shadow. And now we're getting into territory that I didn't want to get into yet Because you're not ready yet. You're not ready yet, we're not there yet. But yeah, that is semi tells you a little bit about what the shadow is Self-sabotage, limiting beliefs Because they do coordinate with your shadow. Light is the opposite. What is going well for me right now? Ask that question. Ask that question.

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Pause this video, take some deep breaths in through your nose, slow exhale through your mouth and ask yourself what is going well for me? Maybe it's only one thing, but even if it's one thing, like if you can't think of anything, if you can't think of anything, let's start with this You're alive. Okay, you're alive. So you at least have that which is worth so much, because you have infinite opportunities and limitless potential when you're alive. So you're alive. Do you have the use of all four of your limbs? Do you have four limbs? If you have four limbs, do you have a brain that is functioning? Are you listening to what I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying?

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I just listed like half a dozen things that you should be extremely grateful for, and I know sometimes it feels hard. Why should I feel grateful? My life sucks. This is so hard. All I do is suffer. I'm in so much pain, all these things that you're feeling. You're not wrong for feeling that way, but you do have to acknowledge the good. This is what it's all about.

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Okay, the first question we're diving into the shadow. We have to go into the darkness, descend into the abyss, okay, and it is there that we search for the light. That is what we are doing now. We are searching for the light in the darkness. What is going well for me? What do I have going well for me? Answer that question, list at least one thing. But if you can list like three to five things and then spend a minute or two thinking about how grateful you are for those things or for that one thing, that's what I want you to do next. That is the first step. Okay, that is the first step in answering the first question, which is where do you want to be? One year from today, because it's a multi-part question, from today, because it's a multi-part question.

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You can't just answer that because you're uninformed right now. You lack awareness. You lack awareness to thought patterns, ways that you think, loops that you get stuck in, emotional patterns, triggers, emotional triggers, emotional feedback loops there's all these things that go on inside your body all the time. And again, I'm not a therapist. If you are struggling with, like, your mental health in a real profound way, listen to what I'm saying and take heed to my advice. But I'm not a licensed mental health professional. I'm. I'm just a fitness coach that has some real world experience and this is how I personally would apply my knowledge if someone was asking me to help them. This is the kind of stuff that I would say to do. So that's what I'm saying to do now.

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First, answer the question where are you now? Address self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, are you out of shape? Lay out the gaps in your feelings, like if you feel ashamed of yourself or you feel guilty about something. Write these intense emotions down or whatever it is that's bothering you about your present, current state, and then go into the light a little bit. Just bring some light to the situation and bring the acknowledgement that, even though all these things are going bad or going wrong, there's still this one thing that's going right, and I'm grateful for it, because that is super powerful. To find the light in the darkness is probably the most transformative thing that you can experience Finding the light in the darkness so, honestly, I went pretty deep there, so I'm going to end it there. That is part one of the question when do you want to be one year from now? One year from today?

Speaker 1:

Next episode, I'm going to talk about, like the second half, um, and I'm going to ask you a couple questions to help you actually, like create I want you to create the image for who you want to be.

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I want you to be able to like close your eyes and picture that person your eyes and picture that person, picture him standing there, like looking back at you in the mirror, like look in the mirror, look into your eyes and try to catch glimpses of your future version of you, because he's in there. If you just do, if you just do what I'm saying, man, I'm trying to tell you like I've been down this path. I've done it the hard way. I've gone years. I've been doing this since like 2019. At this point, I'm just telling you like. You can take my advice or not. This is what I've experienced and that is what I would recommend to you. Dip into the shadow a little bit. Find out where are you now, lay out all your junk on the floor, find the light in that darkness, and then we travel to the future in episode five. Until then, I'll see you in the flame.