Mastering Your Mindset While Reducing Your Stress The difference between committing to your goals and just being interested in them How to set up automatic patterns within yourself using the latest brain science Easy and efficient Innercise practices that you can start to implement today Why bringing back your awareness can help you utilize your brain and stress circuits better Strategies to relax and calm your mind, achieve your goals and start taking action   Episode Summary:  John Assaraf was voted ‘Most Likely To Fail’ in high school, and grew up believing that he did not have the intellect, resources or drive to accomplish his goals. One fateful conversation at age 19 flipped John’s world around, and he has been dedicated to sharing this powerful mindset tool with anybody who needs it ever since. In addition to multiple NYT Bestselling books, countless talk show and movie appearances and so much more, John is the go-to guru when it comes to awareness, intention, and action.  One of the leading mindset and behavioral experts in the world, John is here to provide you with resources so that you can stop letting stress get the best of you and learn how to shift your focus in a matter of seconds. By upgrading your knowledge and skills, you can have more mental and emotional control, and start to feel worthy of the goals that you want to achieve. If you are stuck in your limiting beliefs, fears, or concerns, this episode is full of information that you cannot miss. Most people prefer to master disappointment and comfort zones rather than mastering change, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Today it is possible to implement change faster and easier than ever before, and with John’s simple and effective Innercise practices, you can focus on small action steps that will help you get to where you want to be.  The success you desire is readily available to you if you are willing to navigate through the slight discomfort from where you are now to a new comfort zone that will serve you better. Are you ready to stop feeling stuck and commit to taking action towards the goals you crave to achieve? Share what Innercise practice you are going to start implementing with us in the comments section of the episode page.   Quotes: “In that moment my life changed. Because then he gave me a framework of how to think, how to manage my emotions and self-regulate and how to upgrade my knowledge and skills so that I could become the person that could achieve all of those goals.” (9:02) “In a state of stress, we always revert back to our highest level of training under stress. And what we have to do is interrupt that pattern, create a new empowering pattern, and now we have rewired our brain. And if we do that one time, ten times, thirty times, we have just deactivated the triggers that cause the effects.” (20:12) “Amateurs practice until they get it right once or twice or three times. Pros practice until they can’t get it wrong.” (21:14) “Is it possible that using the latest brain science you can actually set up an automatic pattern within yourself that checks and balances all the time? Your thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations, behaviors? And the answer is absolutely.” (22:53) “Our job in our 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, is to become aware of the pattern, interrupt the pattern, and create a new pattern. That is neuroplasticity at its very, very finest.” (26:48) “Once we are in motion, we have choices. Once we are stuck, we are reinforcing a stuck pattern. So a little positive behavior in the right direction, even a behavior that is not in the right direction that you learn from, is better than stuck.” (30:59)   Resources Mentioned: Innercise: The New Science to Unlock Your Brain's Hidden Power by John Assaraf Having It All by John Assaraf The Answer by John Assaraf Follow John on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube NeuroGym Website   Other Resources: Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on F