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.

Once again.

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What's going on in your life?

What are the challenges you're facing?

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

this is difficult, this is difficult.

So the next few episodes are gonna really be covering.

Uh, some of the very real challenges that we face, uh, last bit of housekeeping.

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

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

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

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

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

The problems that we have.

Or that we perceive we have as so externalized in terms

of we blame the economy.

We blame the government.

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

everything would be different.

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

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

and money would fall from the sky.

What have you know anything about modern economics money?

Pretty much is falling from the sky.

If you are.

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

It's like,

Oh, it's the environment.

It's the weather.

It's this?

It's that?

I'll make change.

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

My friend.

To fall into the trap, the challenge.

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

What I want to suggest in this episode.

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

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

I want to suggest that the greatest opponent, the greatest

critical always be internal.

What do I mean?

Friends think about it.

Your internal dialogue, your beliefs about yourself.

Uh, what you think you can achieve?

What do you think you can change about yourself?

What do you think you can affect in the world?

This is the classic learn helplessness model, right?

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

They collapse into learned helplessness, which leads to

depression, despair, and hopelessness.

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

It's existing in our psyche.

It's been there your entire life.

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

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

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

It says, oh, you could never do that.

I mean, you lose both ways, right?

Tells you, you can't do this.

And it tells you always do this.

We all hear it right now.

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

childhood experiences and trauma and all sorts of different factors.

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

that we can do a great deal about this.

Now, the first thing is always.

Is to get conscious, right?

How many times do you hear me say that?

But to get conscious.

We've got to hear that internal dialogue.

And you must begin to realize that you have an incredible

amount of agency by agency.

I simply mean you have the ability to notice.

To challenge.

Two.

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

catch yourself in the act.

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

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

of the U S they don't record it.

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

It starts at midnight.

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

a day for the last four days.

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

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

Wow.

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

like, this is, this is tough.

Like I'm wrecked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maybe, maybe people don't really care about.

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

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

Oh, it's you.

I know you.

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

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

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

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

Step one, recognition.

Step two.

I just want to operate in a higher purpose.

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

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

going to choose how I relate to people.

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

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

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

It is not the government.

It is not the economy.

It is not the weather.

It is not world events.

Stop.

Really?

I would say, just stop watching mainstream media.

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

because it is not in journalism.

It's not it's entertainment.

All right.

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

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

nuclear Armageddon is only a step away.

Friends, put it this way.

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

One there's nothing you can do about it.

And two is all going to be over real quick.

Right?

So let's stop focusing on that.

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

So let's focus on.

We can do, which was live today.

Live today.

The best we possibly can.

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

phenomenal life that you were created for.

Okay.

Stop looking outside for the problems.

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

and potential and power is also inside.

If you will recognize that distorted.

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

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

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

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