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Episode 46: Focus On Making The Excellent Choice In The Moment (Gymchridion 38)

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You probably know the importance of warming up before physical activity. And if you’re really on the ball you know why it’s important to do so. But do you know how to “warm up” your mind? And why it’s even more important?

In this episode learn how to prime your mind before starting each new task. With practice you’ll create a routine to better ensure you make the excellent choice in the moment.

To learn more about the research of Peter Gollwitzer click his name to be directed to a Google scholar page with many of his articles.

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Episode 44: Keep In Mind The Context Of Your Choice (Gymchiridion 36)

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Henry Ford said, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” Leaving aside the general insult at the end he had it right. When we’re conditioned to respond one way, perhaps poorly, it takes effort to think through the factors that make for the excellent choice.

In this episode, we’ll explore what some of those factors might be. We’ll also consider why it’s necessary to go through with the effort and how it pays off.

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Episode 33: Make Better Decisions With The Third-Person Perspective (Gymchiridion 26)

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When we consider our own lives and the challenges we face we’re so close, we’re so involved, it makes it hard to see the obvious choices. But when we’re presented with similar challenges in the lives of others it seems easier.

We need to get some distance from our thinking. Today we look at how to get that distance and why it’s so useful.

Get ready for some tough love from the Third-Person Perspective.

For a free PDF copy of The Gymchiridion: Everything You Need To Master Your Life You Will Learn In The Gym go to: http://gymmanual.com

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Episode 19: Stay In Your Own Business (Gymchiridion 13)

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No matter what we do in life others will have opinions about it. How we deal with those opinions will affect how effective we are in achieving our goals. And sometimes other people’s opinions are only what we imagine they think about us. Now we’re really causing problems for ourselves.

Here’s what to do in the face of “what they might think”.

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Episode 18: For Every Choice A Consequence (Gymchiridion 12)

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We can only create our experience and influence our circumstances in the moment of choice. Yet, for most of us, it’s so much easier postponing the excellent choice.

We keep waiting until life is easier, we’re more motivated, or something outside of us has changed. Sometime in the future will be the perfect moment to make the changes we want in our lives.

Today learn why we must make the excellent choice now, not later.

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Episode 16: No Authority Higher Than Your Choice (Gymchiridion 10)

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The essence of who we are is choice–what Epictetus called our prohairesis. When it comes to our experience there is no authority higher than our own choice.

Today we explore the implications of this perspective and I introduce my simple model of the mind (i.e. The Choosing Self and The Conditioned Self). So we’ll look at our choices, the habits we have, and how they interrelate.

For a free PDF of The Gymchiridion go to: http://gymmanual.com

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