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Emily McDonald

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Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

You know, you get stressed and you always fall back to that pattern.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

I said, tell yourself a new story.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

You know, you don't do that anymore.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

That's not what you do when you're stressed.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And then come up with a plan.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Like, what do you do when you're stressed?

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

You know, like replace the habit, like replacement's so important and tell that story instead.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And two weeks later he came back and he's like, yeah,

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

I told my friend that I'm just not that person anymore.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And he's like, my friend laughed at me, but I'm really not.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

I don't do that anymore.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And now, I mean, he's done with the program and he's just thriving and he's like getting married and all that and he's doing great.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

But I mean, that's just one example of habits.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

But I've also had, you know, clients where we go through, I have this specific identity shifting visualization where...

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Um, I have people, you know, get really clear on who the version of themselves is that has it all.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And, you know, I have people come back and say like this one specific client come back and say he had the best week of the year in his business after identity shifting.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Um, and I always say there's something that I always say is like the reason that you don't have what it is that you want is because you're not the version of you who has what it is that you want.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And as soon as you can close that gap between where you are now, like the version of you who you are now and that version of you who has what you want, you would have it.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And I've really seen it so many times where as soon as you shift your identity into that, and identity isn't just labels, right?

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Because your brain doesn't just listen to your thoughts.