What is it and how will this help me achieve my goals?
I was watching this TEDx talk by New York City cognitive psychologist Amanda Crowell, who shared 3 powerful mindset blocks that defend you against achieving your goals. It made me so curious so I thought it would be interesting to you guys! She starts talking about her struggle to commit to running. She knows running is good for her but struggled to do it. Can you relate? Hands up here! She shared “I will run when a bear is chasing me and never before then.” This hatred “went on for another 34 years,” she says in a TEDxHarrisburg talk , “until I woke up one day with an infant … and a back that hurt all the time.” If she wanted to be the kind of mum she hoped to be ― as she put it “a mother who can chase around her kids at the park or pick her kids up and swing them around,” ― she needed to get in shape and focus on her fitness. One Sunday, she told her husband that starting that week, she’d go to the gym regularly. Monday came and went without her making it there. And as t...