When you set out on an adventure, people love to say, “Be safe out there.” …and I totally get what they mean, but the TRUTH is that being safe is NOT why we got there.
In school we’d always hear adults sayin, “Safety first.” - but I believe that is why so many people have a hard time making the ...
We all believe that holding our standards and demanding people rise to meet them is a powerful stance - but it is NOT!!
The most powerful person in the room is the person who does not need anyone in the room to do or be any particular thing in order for them to be okay.
The person who has the s...
Cognitively we KNOW that forgiveness is a good thing, but what about our safety?
If I forgive, doesn’t that just let them off the hook?
Doesn’t it remove ANY accountability for their actions?
How will they learn their lesson?
Won’t people just walk all over me?
Let’s take a look at options t...
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Dr. Bob Rotella puts it in his book "Golf is Not a Game of Perfect”:
"The trusting mentality is essential for getting ready to play competitively. If you want to be able to trust your swing on the golf course, you have to spend time doing it on the practice tee. Human beings are creatures of hab...
“I can’t disappoint people - I just have a big heart” - Do you? Or are you really just avoiding the emotion that comes up when your actions don’t match someone else’s expectation?
Disappointing people is simply a name we give to the experience of making choices that don’t match OTHER people's ex...
There is NO benefit to guilt!! Okay ...maybe there’s a tiny miniscule benefit, but the way you show up in guilt is so unhealthy that even THAT doesn’t get to add value to your life.
So what DOES it look like to show up WELL in guilt?
- You don’t over explain yourself
- You don’t always change t...
Skip the “pros and cons list” it’s ineffective and it leads you to this stressful place where your decision making skill is more like future predicting skill. If I have to know the future to make good choices ...then yes, I am definitely living in stress!!
So what if you separated the SKILL of ...
The thing about myths is that they tend to keep us in a box. Then we use the limits of the box to determine if we’re doing good or bad - and if we are or are not capable of success in the future.
In this episodes, Whit Busts these FOUR MYTHS about weightloss
- I MUST eat perfectly at least 80%...
It’s a pretty common cycle when you’re trying to change an eating habit - restrict, overeat, guilt, restrict ...ad nauseum. The big error is actually WHERE we attempt to disrupt this cycle. Right in the little space between restrict and fail.
The REAL culprit is the guilt!
Without guilt, you ...
I've wanted to be the hero since I can remember. My first concussion came from jumping off of a boulder onto my dad without him knowing because I had seen the hero do it on TV.
Unfortunately that incident was not enough to teach me the danger of the love affair with swooping to the rescue. Whe...
You open the fridge, you see the cupcakes, you’re tired - it’s been a long day, you decide to just eat one, then you feel terrible. WHY would I eat that at 10pm?? Now the one next to it starts to look really good - and you know where it goes from here.
Whit and Jake do it too - we eat refined ...
