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The Biggest Threat You Will Ever Face?
Episode 2721st March 2023 • The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle • Jonathan Doyle
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As we face the challenges of life it is very human to focus on outside forces that we tell ourselves pose a threat to our progress, happiness, or success. However, the biggest threat you will ever face is not outside you. The biggest threat will always be within."

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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again.

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What's going on in your life?

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What are the challenges you're facing?

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You know, often, uh, I just get these emails from people about, you know,

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this is difficult, this is difficult.

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So the next few episodes are gonna really be covering.

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Today, my friend, we are going to be talking about a really important topic.

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It's the topic of the toughest critic that you are ever gonna face.

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The toughest challenge that you're ever going to face.

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What I think is probably the biggest single opponent you will ever face.

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I believe we are living in a world right now where so much is externalized.

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The problems that we have.

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Or that we perceive we have as so externalized in terms

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of we blame the economy.

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We blame the government.

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We just think, well, if only our political party got in, then

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everything would be different.

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If I preferred political party was in power unicorns and rainbows and

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little Pixies would be holding hands, dancing down the street together,

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and money would fall from the sky.

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What have you know anything about modern economics money?

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Pretty much is falling from the sky.

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If you are.

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If you have the right connections, but, uh, we just externalize everything, right?

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It's like,

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Oh, it's the environment.

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It's the weather.

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It's this?

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It's that?

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I'll make change.

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When this happens or this external problem is fixed, it is so easy.

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My friend.

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To fall into the trap, the challenge.

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Of believing that if only X was different than our life would be radically better.

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What I want to suggest in this episode.

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Is based on a great deal of life experience, thinking, reading, and

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observing some of the greatest people in history and in current modern life.

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I want to suggest that the greatest opponent, the greatest

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critical always be internal.

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What do I mean?

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Friends think about it.

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Your internal dialogue, your beliefs about yourself.

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Uh, what you think you can achieve?

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What do you think you can change about yourself?

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What do you think you can affect in the world?

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This is the classic learn helplessness model, right?

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Like as soon as people believe that they really can't change or affect anything.

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They collapse into learned helplessness, which leads to

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depression, despair, and hopelessness.

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So this opponent that we have is existing in our consciousness.

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It's existing in our psyche.

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It's been there your entire life.

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We don't need to delve too deeply into the roots today, but it's there, right?

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It's this voice that says, oh, you always do that.

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Or the voice that says, you know, Instead of saying, you always do that.

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It says, oh, you could never do that.

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I mean, you lose both ways, right?

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Tells you, you can't do this.

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And it tells you always do this.

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We all hear it right now.

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It's different for each of us, depending on how we were raised and

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childhood experiences and trauma and all sorts of different factors.

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You know, no matter where it came from, what I really want to suggest to you is

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that we can do a great deal about this.

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Now, the first thing is always.

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Is to get conscious, right?

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How many times do you hear me say that?

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But to get conscious.

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We've got to hear that internal dialogue.

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And you must begin to realize that you have an incredible

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amount of agency by agency.

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I simply mean you have the ability to notice.

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To challenge.

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Two.

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Delete a lot of what's going on inside your head and just

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catch yourself in the act.

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You know, I, I, uh, I've been on a course for the last four days as

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many of, you know, It's a, it's a very sort of high level course out

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of the U S they don't record it.

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So you've got to do it live and, uh, it runs for 14 hours a day.

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It starts at midnight.

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And so I basically slept off kind of two and a half hours sleep

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a day for the last four days.

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And today I've got to be out of the studio and I got a really busy day.

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So, of course I woke up this morning and, uh, around 5:00 AM and I'm like, oh, wow.

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Wow.

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Cause normally I'm like, you know, out there and charging, but I'm

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like, this is, this is tough.

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Like I'm wrecked.

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And then the internal critic starts or the eternal opponent going, oh man.

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You know, you're not going to be able to do X today.

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You're not gonna be able to get into the studio.

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You're not going to be able to do this.

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And then, and then it starts, um, critiquing other people.

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It goes, ah, Maybe, maybe people aren't being supportive enough.

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Maybe, maybe people don't really care about.

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And you can hear it and they're going, hang on, hang on, hang on.

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First step is like, Oh, it's you.

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Oh, it's you.

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I know you.

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You're the one that wants to steal my destiny.

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You're the one that wants to steal my purpose.

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You're the one that wants to hold me back.

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You're the ones that wants to keep me exactly where I am in life.

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Step one, recognition.

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Step two.

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I just want to operate in a higher purpose.

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I just want to operate at a higher level and go, Nope, no listening,

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going to get on with it, going to choose how I respond in the world,

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going to choose how I relate to people.

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I have way more power than I realize, and I'm going to get on with it.

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So my friend, I just want to put that thought in your head today

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that the greatest opponent you will ever face is not external.

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It is not the government.

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It is not the economy.

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It is not the weather.

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It is not world events.

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Stop.

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Really?

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I would say, just stop watching mainstream media.

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I mean, honestly, unless do, there are so many other forms of entertainment

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because it is not in journalism.

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It's not it's entertainment.

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All right.

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It's basically clickbait and fear-based fright bat bait.

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That a is designed to convince you that the world is a dark, terrible place where

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nuclear Armageddon is only a step away.

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Friends, put it this way.

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If nuclear Armageddon is only a step away, two things.

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One there's nothing you can do about it.

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And two is all going to be over real quick.

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Right?

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So let's stop focusing on that.

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Because there's nothing that almost any of us can do.

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So let's focus on.

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We can do, which was live today.

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Live today.

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The best we possibly can.

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Ignore reject, delete the internal opponent and get on with living this

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phenomenal life that you were created for.

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Okay.

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Stop looking outside for the problems.

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The problem is inside and the destiny is also insight and the amazing capacity

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and potential and power is also inside.

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If you will recognize that distorted.

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Antagonistic self that lives within you and refuse to participate in its

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pity party today all right go ahead subscribe go and check out all those

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links book me to speak book me for coaching It is all there God bless

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everybody my name's jonathan doyle this has been the daily podcast and you

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