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February 4, 2025

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In this episode of Transform Your Life From the Inside Out, Jim Fortin delves into why creating lasting change in life often feels hard, slow, and minimal. Drawing on his decades of work with Don Javier and personal experience, Jim unpacks the psychological and spiritual factors that keep many people stuck and struggling to make significant progress in their lives. 

Jim explores the powerful concept of “context versus content,” explaining how your subconscious beliefs shape your reality. This episode provides insights into why many people resist change, how beliefs create invisible “glass ceilings,” and actionable strategies to help you overcome them. 

If you’re ready to challenge your limiting beliefs, shift your mindset, and unlock the ease of transformation, this episode is packed with practical wisdom and tools to get started. 
 
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  • Why Change Feels Hard (01:00): The psychological and subconscious reasons why transformation often feels slow or impossible. 
  • The Power of Context Over Content (08:33): How your subconscious “frame” dictates what you can achieve. 
  • Why We Resist Change (18:14): The role of comfort zones, identity, and confirmation bias in keeping us stuck. 
  • Self-Hypnosis and Affirmations (32:55): Techniques to align your subconscious mind with the changes you desire. 
  • A Higher Frame of Context (30:55): Shifting your mindset to “change is easy” and watching transformation happen faster. 

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Change becomes easy when you learn to work with your brain and subconscious mind rather than against them. By shifting your overarching belief from “change is hard” to “change is easy,” you unlock the potential for rapid and lasting transformation in every area of your life. Reflect on this: What belief about change is holding you back, and how can you start rewriting it today? 

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Why is change so hard, slow, and minimal for so many of us? Our beliefs,
our frame of life, this is our comfort zone, and we don’t like leaving our comfort zone. We don’t challenge our context, which is our beliefs.
We tend to literally stay consistent with that belief even when given contradictory evidence, even if it’s factual and verifiable. Whatever we think we believe, that is our context and that is the foundation of our reality. The truth is this, it’s easy to change when you actually engage and work with your brain and the way
that it’s designed to operate. The three general ways to change a specific context or a general context is
You’re listening to the transform your life from the inside out podcast this episode is titled why change is often hard, slow, and minimal. Given that headline, why change is often hard, slow, and minimal, I know that you’re
listening because you want to create some level of change in life. What I’ve also observed out of many of you and interacting with you in different ways and doing this for many years and even looking at my own life is that oftentimes when we want change, it’s many times, hard, slow, and minimal. In this episode, I’m going to talk about why that happens and how to get around that. So if you’d like to speed up change and make it a whole lot easier, keep listening. Okay, so why I’m laughing. Why is change so hard, slow, and minimal for so many of us? Now, I don’t know about you, but I can totally relate to that at different points in my life. How change was just hard for me. And it was for many years until I learned what I’m going to share with you in this particular episode. And part of what inspired the episode was all of my work with Don Javier, the Shaman, for 28 years. And I know that if you listen for any amount of time, you get tired of hearing the Shaman. But you know what, we have new people listening all the time
and they don’t know that. That’s why I do it. I mean, I’m kind of in a rock, you
know, between a rock and a hard place trying to actually not wear that out with people that have been around forever, but also letting people that are new and joining us kind of get up to speed a little bit. So this was inspired by working with him for so many years and in my own life creating so much change. But watching many people work with him there’s right now. There’s probably I don’t know. I don’t know the exact number 12 15 18 people that work with him to the extent or level that I do and there’s only six of us That still work with him that I’ve worked with him for 28 years and I see various levels of change and Even like two or three years ago, and he never mentioned anyone by name But he was talking about particular behaviors, and there was someone that works with him and I was guessing who it was that just keeps going back in the same behaviors over and
over and over and over again, even though they’re not helpful behaviors. And so that inspired this episode because I look at people who listened to the podcast and I’m grateful for that. And I noticed that people fall into one of four categories when it comes to listeners. The first category is the person who listens forever. They will tell you they’ve listened since 2018 and they’ve listened to all 361 episodes. And many people have even said they’ve listened to them many times. But you know what? They still don’t do a whole lot. And I’ve had people listen for four years before they’re like, “Jum, I’m ready to take my first step doing something with you. And I’ve said, “Why?” You know, what’s taking you so long and come to find out the predominant theme, despite me saying it for many times, is that they are working from circumstance. They are working from time, energy, and money. So the reason, number one, that change is slow or minimal for a lot of people, is they’re working from circumstance, time, energy, and money. Number
two is a belief. I’ve heard this one before. A couple of years ago, and I’m going to do four or five next month or so, but a couple of years ago, when I was promoting TCP, the Transformational Coaching Program, I did approximately eight interviews with former TCP students. And I asked every one of them, “Could you have
gotten the transformation you got with me in TCP from the podcast only.
And they all unequivocally said no. But the second belief that I hear a lot of is,
oh, I get everything that I need from the podcast. Well, what you’re doing,
there’s an overriding belief there. And that belief number one, without knowing what’s in TCP, the transformational coaching program is a false belief because you think
that I’m giving you guys everything here, which I don’t, which is why I also
started the secret podcast. But the belief is I’m doing okay.
That’s the predominant belief. I’m doing okay with what I have. And then you dig deeper and the predominant belief is, are you okay doing just Okay,
are you doing okay making just enough to where you’re kind of comfortable?
Or what about if you had a belief where I don’t just do okay, I bring extreme
abundance into my life. Two very, very different contexts. I’ll talk about context in just a moment. Two very different beliefs. Another one is this, you know, I’ve changed a lot by listening to the podcast and I just need to take time and let it all soak in. Well, notice that belief is based upon the concept of time. And that’s what I wanna talk about in this episode is many times we think that it takes a certain amount of time to change, which is partially why it makes it hard. Because if we are hardwired and we’ve learned that we want things fast, anything that takes time, we’re not going to do. And especially when it comes to changing our behaviors, if we can’t do it immediately and it takes time, no way, no hell, we’re not going to do it. And then the fourth category, which is the smallest percentage of listeners is okay. I got a lot from the podcast and I know there’s even more and I can dig deeper. And you know what, Jim? I want to work with you in the transformational coaching program. When did when the doors open? When can I register? So I see these these beliefs. These are the four prevalent beliefs. But all of these beliefs are built on a person’s context. Now Context is literally the context from which you think. Context is the frame from which you think.
Ponder that, your frame of thinking. So your frame of thinking will determine how you approach this podcast, but the frame will also determine how you do every other thing in your life. Everything you approach in life, you will approach with that same context. Now I mentioned the word context and you’ve probably heard me, maybe heard me say this before, context content. I just did a program last week on about not setting goals and shifting your context and I used this book as an example, think and grow rich. This was written, I don’t know, probably 100 years ago. I’ve heard it sold 100 million copies. Well, the truth is statistically only like 2 % of people who’ve read that book have become rich if they weren’t rich
prior to reading it. But what about the other 98 %? The problem was is they
couldn’t get the content from this book into their context meeting their frame of thinking. I fought that battle for decades myself growing up poor, Texas Farm Boy. I read a lot of material, tons of books about becoming wealthy, self -independent, self -employed, all these kinds of things, but I could never get the content to stick in my context. So I want to talk about the context of beliefs, context of change and the proper context that you want to start creating to make change a whole lot easier. The challenge also with context is context, whatever it is, is simply made up in your mind. And it can be your ticket to metaphorically the moon or for most of us, It is your glass ceiling,
meaning analytically, you’re sitting here thinking, okay, Jim, I listen because I want more in life. I wanna be more, I wanna do more, I wanna have more. Now,
I don’t know when you’re listening to this episode, but in March of 2025, we’re going to be delivering live again for the first time in a year, the Be Do Have series. It’ll be a three -part live series that I’ll be delivering. But we all want to be due and have more, so we listen, we gather content, which is external information, but we can’t get that in our context. Again, second time I’m going to
say it, later in this episode, I will talk about shifting context. Whatever beliefs
you have about your context, they’re invisible. They’re the glass ceiling.
We don’t know that every single time, meaning most people don’t know what I’m sharing it with you now, every single time we hit a glass ceiling,
we’re stuck. We don’t recognize that’s because of our context.
So what we do is we fight that glass ceiling, not recognizing that it’s really
about shifting the context that created that glass ceiling, a friend of mine.
He’s a very big internet marketer, very successful guy. He and I were chatting one day and out of the blue, he said, he goes, “You know, I can have anything that I want in life when I have the proper context.” I heard that probably 20 years ago and it made an impression back then, because I work from that very same place.
I can have anything I want in life when I have the proper context,
not content that I’m listening to and stuffing my head with, but the context to put that content into. It’s like a frame. So the context is the frame of my thinking about what I can be do and have. But for me to be do and have more, it’s not
about reading more. It’s not about me listening to more podcast episodes. It’s not about me listening to other podcasts. It’s not about me gathering more content.
It’s about me shifting the context that I’m putting all that content in,
meaning it’s about shifting the subconscious frame that I’m putting this new
information into. And if my subconscious context, my frame, my beliefs are like,
you can never be rich. It doesn’t matter how much content I put in my head about being rich, it will never happen. Why do we not leave our context?
Why is it so hard and why do we stay in our context? Because our context,
meaning our beliefs, our frame of life, this is our comfort zone.
And we don’t like leaving our comfort zone. I know you’ve heard me talk about this
before. If you’ve listened for any amount of time, and some of you might even be
rolling your eyes going, “Okay, oh, brother, here we go again. He’s talking about this again. I am talking about it again.” And the reason why is is, for whatever
reason, this is so challenging for a lot of people to integrate into their lives.
And unfortunately, there are not a lot of people who share what I’m sharing with you and teach this. You’ll hear very few people, if like really any, talking about
content versus context when it comes to personal development. So that’s why I’m repetitive about it. But also, even if you’ve heard it before, I know because we’re
all the same, we can hear something one time and not have the context to assimilate
it. And maybe you heard me say this nine months a year ago, and you’ve shifted
your beliefs and your context. So now when I say it again, you hear it in a
different way. You can’t assimilate it where a year ago, you could not assimilate it
at a subconscious level. One of my coaches used to say, and I don’t know why he
picked the mayonnaise jar, but he used to say, “If I put you in a mayonnaise jar,”
and again, I have no idea why he had mentioned the mayonnaise jar. And he said,
“If I put you in a mayonnaise jar and I told you to get out of the jar, but the
label is on the outside, the only way to read the label to get out of the managed
jar is to get out of the jar to read the label. And the same thing with your
context is the context. And I’ll talk about that in a moment. Your context is going
to keep you trapped. Now, I wanna talk about social context and I wanna talk about
personal context. We learn our personal context from socialization.
You know, Anatole Frantz once said, “Now, what he said is just because 50 million
people believe something that does not mean it’s true.” The way that I’m going to
tweak that a little bit is because 50 million people say something, it doesn’t mean
that it’s true because 50 million people say something. But what we do is we hear
all these people blabbering about A, B, C, about ABC, the EFG. I’ll give you some
roll life examples. We hear people blabbering about this stuff, talking about it,
social media. We don’t ever fact check. We don’t ever critically think about it. We
accept it and it becomes part of our context, true or not factually, but it becomes true for us. Guys, I cannot stress enough, I am not partisan in the US.
I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. If I were anything related to our
affiliation with the party, it’d be libertarian. Basically, telling the government,
keep your hands out of my pocket and leave me alone. We have heavy lines divided
in the United States right now, and it’s all because of context. But let’s look at,
and honestly, I’m sure there are examples on the other side of the aisle. There’s
no question about it. I just writing this episode or thinking about this episode, I didn’t have time to do a lot of research to find because this can take a long
time to do, at least for me. I didn’t find time to find balanced information in
the way I’m going to share it. But let’s say for example, Obama’s birth certificate.
Now, as I understand, I don’t know if it’s true or But Donald Trump started the
rumor that that or is one of the people who pushed the rumor. I don’t again, I
don’t know who started that Obama was not a U .S. citizen. And therefore, he was an eligible president, blah, blah, blah, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Even though
the secretary of state of the state of Hawaii has said, yes, he was legitimately
born a U .S. citizen. People, even with that fact, I’ll talk about facts and context
in a bit, they still don’t believe it. Same thing. Many people, as a matter of
fact, 70 % of people who identify as Republican still believe the 2020 election was rigged and it was not fair when there’s been partisan committee or bipartisan
committees and I mean legitimate government agencies that are even Republican led that have said there was no impropriety in the 2020 election. Now you’re listening right now, notice what happens. If you think the election was rigged, notice what happens. And I’m not saying it was or it wasn’t. I’m just giving you examples here. So
let’s say that you believe, oh my God, it was rigged. And then I say, there’s no
credible evidence that it was rigged. Notice how you automatically refute that.
And I’ll talk about that in a moment about why it’s so hard to change. So that’s
all basically the refutation. We refute even facts because it doesn’t fit our
context. And the context of the last two that I gave you, the bigger frame was
proud, periodic, upstanding Americans, or so they believe and think,
from that context. Other people can say, well, it’s completely irrational. I mean,
come on, it’s been proven by the Secretary of State of Hawaii that Obama’s birth
certificate was legitimate, that the 2020 election was not stolen. It’s completely
irrational to think otherwise. So, where I’m going here is whatever side of the
aisle you’re on or of any issue in life. It does not matter in whatever country
you live in because we have listeners all around the world. What we want to look
at here is we tend to erroneously believe, interesting belief,
we believe that people make rational decisions. That is not always true.
Actually, many times our decisions are irrational and ill thought out and then we
base our personal beliefs upon irrational decisions. Then somebody can present somebody
with contradictory evidence that what they believe is not true and they will refute
that information. Why? because their context tells them their belief,
simple construct of the mind, tells them it is true.
And that is their context. The whole point here is we don’t refute.
We don’t challenge our context, which is our beliefs.
So whatever our beliefs are, we tend to literally stay consistent with that belief
even when given contradictory evidence to that belief.
Now the psychological phrase for that is confirmation bias and what that means is,
and I ain’t judging anybody because I’m sure I’ve done it or I do it, we refute
contradictory evidence, even if it’s factual and verifiable.
And the reason we don’t actually contradict the evidence, or we don’t accept the
evidence, is because whatever we think we believe, that is our context,
and that is the foundation of our reality. I remember many years ago,
an NLP trainer. Her name is Peggy Dean. She was one of the early teachers.
As a matter of fact, Tony Robbins went to her program in the 80s to start learning
NLP and their linguistic programming. She was the first person who started teaching,
well, one of the first, if not the first person who started teaching Tony NLP,
which he built his entire career on. And she and I were talking one day, we were
business partners for about 20 years. And I said, “Peggy,” because Peggy’s a
spiritualist and I’m a spiritualist. We’re non -dogmatic in terms of any kind of
conventional religion. And I said, “Peggy, how come more people don’t question their
religion?” And she said to me, I’m going to actually add a little more content
here. Basically, our religion is our belief system, whatever our religion might be.
I mean, our religion can be MTV because religion is actually anything that you
believe in strongly. Peggy said to me, which is very profound, people don’t actually
question their religion because their entire identity is based on that religion,
and if they, which is their context, and if they question their religion, they would
question their identity and that makes people uncomfortable because they don’t want to
question their identity. So ponder that. And I guess what I’m posing to you is how
many things are true for you that you take,
you just take at face value or you reject immediately. And that’s really what I
want to, you know, open up there is what things could be true for you that you
reject immediately. Now, as I just said, we talked about social,
you know, social things there a little bit, but personal, your beliefs,
as I just said, confirm your subconscious identity. We have the identity because I’m
going to back up here because I’m going to tell you why, which I’ve told you
before, but we use confirmation bias. And this is a shortcut of the brain.
Now, what I mean by that, a shortcut of the brain is we live in a very complex
world. And for many years, but especially the past 50 years,
information flies at us at dizzying speeds. I mean,
the amount of information we’re bombarded with on a daily basis is mind -numbing. So
what happens is the brain creates a shortcut with the confirmation bias.
Basically, the brain’s job is also to conserve energy. So if the brain’s got to
think about a lot of different things, that’s not saving energy. So what the brain
does is, boom, shortcuts, right to the confirmation bias and says true are not true
based upon the identity. And what that means is we either actually will open up to
a new belief or we won’t, but generally we won’t because any new belief is not
gonna be confirmed by an old identity. Hopefully that made sense to you guys.
Now, where I was going, I’ve said this before, of the three predominant parts of
the brain, the three largest parts of the brain. The oldest part of the brain
called the reptilian part of the brain, actually that’s the name generally used for
it, is the oldest reptilian part of the brain, monkey part of the brain. There is
a particular function of that part of the brain that operates from predictability.
Predictability is a survival mechanism. Now, the reason we have this predictability
mechanism as many hundreds of thousands of years ago, if we’re going to go hunt for
food and we have to leave the cave, we have to have a certain level of
predictability about how safe it’s going to be to leave the cave. Because if we
predict it’s not safe to leave the cave, we’re not going to leave the cave and
hunt for food. So there’s a mechanism in the brain that lacks predictability. Now
the thing about predictability, change is not predictable, which is one of the
reasons it’s so hard for us to change is because change is not predictable.
So I want to cut this episode not short, but I want to actually start winding this
up and start concretizing this. Two truths I want to share with you. Truth number
one, whether you believe it or not, you can pretty much have anything and thing you
want in life. There are certain physical limitations, but not a lot.
You know, for example, I’m like gonna be 60 years old in about two weeks. The
probability of me winning the Boston Marathon are very low, extremely low,
but the probability if I wanted to run the Boston Marathon or any marathon is very
high because I know that if I wanted to do it, which I don’t want to do it, but
if I did, I know that I can do it. So we are limited to some degree by
physicalness. I mean, if I have no legs, then it’s gonna be pretty much impossible
for me to win the Boston Marathon. But there’s so many, I mean, there’s so little
restrictions. For the most part, I have found, because I had a student one time, 57
years old, who ran 75 consecutive marathons with no preparation,
no training, three weeks after he had a heart attack, and he ran from Minneapolis
to Atlanta, Georgia 26 plus miles every single day. So don’t even begin to tell me
what is possible and not possible for people. And this goes back to Napoleon Hill.
If the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. But it’s not the
analytical thinking, it’s the contextual thinking. Whatever the contextual thinking,
meaning a subconscious thinking, can think what you think subconsciously, your context,
you absolutely, with like a 99 .9 % chance can do it with the limited exception of
what I shared with you metaphor of the marathon. The two truths are you pretty much
can have anything and everything that you want in life. That’s one truth.
The second truth is you don’t believe me and that’s true for a lot of people
because even notice when I said you can have pretty much anything and everything you
want, but Check in with the body. What kind of resistance were you giving me?
What kind of resistance were you feeling? That wasn’t you consciously. That was your
unconscious mind, like popping its head out, going, “Uh -uh, no, no, no.” That’s like
me growing up a poor kid in Texas. And many years ago, if you told me that I
could be a multimillionaire, I’d have been like, “Are you kidding me? What? Are What
are you smoking crack? There’s no way no howl. I can’t. I remember back in the
year 2000 I had a man that had as a client of mine that was a Venezuelan oil
billionaire And he hired me for coaching specifically to teach him Subconscious
persuasion influence and hypnosis and he said to me one day I remember this we were
sitting in his office rocker fellow center 30 rock in New York City. And he said,
“Jim, I can teach you how to make a million dollars a year.” This was 26 years
ago, by the way. And by the way, this day and age, if I make a million dollars a
year, I’m broke. But he said to me, “Jim, I can teach you how to make a million
dollars a year.” And I remember scoffing at it, and not in a disrespectful way,
but I’m like, “Yeah, whatever, me, there’s no way I can make a million dollars a
year. I was right. I couldn’t make a million dollars a year back then. I can now
easily, but I couldn’t back then because my context operated from I’m not the kind
of person that can make a million dollars a year. Now, where I want to go, and
this is vital, is many of you, as you’re listening, are thinking about, okay, how
do I shift my context about health, money, relationships,
meaning, okay, I’m struggling with money. How do I shift my context and believe more
that I can have money? Or how do I shift my context and believe that I can have
better health or better relationships or whatever it might be? And I also did that
for many years, because what I tried to do, which is what many of you are trying
to do, we try to shift our context about specific behaviors.
In particular, we shift our context into three primary areas. We try to shift our
context about our money, about our health, and about our relationships. And here’s
your big “aha” in this episode. Where I suggest you work from is a higher frame of
context. And what I mean by that is your context,
as I started this episode with, could be that it’s very hard to change.
So if it’s very hard to change, and that is your context, next, when you go to
the sub context, the money, the health, and the relationships,
it’s hard to change. Why? Because The next level above that context is it’s hard to
change. So anything you try to change is hard to change. I would suggest a higher
context, which is an all -encompassing, utilitarian context. And that context would be,
are you ready? And it’s really simple. It’s easy to change,
ponder that. It’s easy to change versus would you probably believe it’s hard to
change? I’m going to share with you right now It’s not hard to change the reason
it’s hard for people to change is because they’ve been taught the change in a way
The brain does not work and many people work against themselves when they’re trying
to create change Which means they fail which then actually Reinforces their belief
that it’s hard to change and it also reinforces their belief, “Why should I even
try? Because every time I try, I actually fail.” Now, I’ve shared this in many
episodes before, but I want to share here, and I’m only going to share three
because I’m going to share one heck of a lot more with you in this secret podcast.
I’ll talk about that in just a moment. The three general ways to change a specific
context context, or general context, is number one, and I’ve talked about this since
like the first five episodes, number one, self -hypnosis. Number two,
affirmations. You speak your life into existence. You know, Khalil Jabral once said
is that your words are drippings from the mind. What you speak to yourself,
you program yourself with, but what you speak to yourself about comes from your
mind. And we’ve got to use affirmations like Dr. Emile Clouy, and you can find that
on YouTube, E -M -I -L -I -E, I believe, C -O -U -E, our French physician,
his patients were recovering five times faster than patients in nearby clinics through
self -talk, which is affirmations. I’ve also mentioned before the book by Dr. Shad
Helmstetter. What to say when you talk to yourself? Learning to talk to yourself.
Affirmations are not these hokey things we’ve seen many years ago, you know, on TV
and et cetera. They really work because they create neural pathways in the brain.
But the way to make affirmations even stronger is through imagery, in particular,
visual imagery. Well, of course, visual imagery is what imagery is, it’s visual, but
imagery. And the more we imagine something to be true, the truer it becomes for us.
So let me wrap this up. Your transformation will take away. The question is,
why is change so hard? And change is so hard because many of us have an overriding
belief that change is hard. So what you want to work on is changing your belief
about how easy it is to change. Because your current belief or changing your belief
to how easy it is to change. Because I guarantee you, 99 % of you,
you talk to yourself about how hard it is to it. How hard it is to stop smoking.
How hard it is to get up off the couch. How hard it is to break any XYZ habit.
And many of you talk about how hard it is, how hard it is, how hard it is.
Notice what you’re reinforcing. All you’re doing is making it a stronger belief that
it’s hard to change. And I don’t know about you guys. I learned that it’s hard
from my dad. Why? because watching my dad try to change things, my dad did not
change and he often felt short and he taught me through observation that it’s hard
to change. But the truth is this, even if you don’t believe me, the truth is this.
It’s easy to change when you actually engage and work with your brain in the way
that it’s designed to operate. I’ll say it again. It’s easy to change when you
engage with your brain in the way it’s designed to operate. And those three simple
ways, and I’m going to give you more in the secret podcast or talk about it more
because we’re going to start challenging your beliefs in the secret podcast, but
three ways are self -hypnosis, affirmations, and imagery. Make a mental note of this.
It’s more powerful to change the belief about your ability to change than it is to
change an individual belief. I’ll say it again. It’s more powerful to change your
belief about the ability to change than it is to change an individual belief.
About the secret podcast. The reason I started that is there are some people who
want a lot more and they want to dive even deeper. And I’m just going to be
transparent. I’m looking for a way right now, and thank you for bearing with me, to
make doing this podcast a win -win deal for both of us, where we both are in INE.
It’s vital to me. And I’ve recognized this the last six months. It is vital to me
that we’d be in INE. We’d be in exchange. Because if we’re not in exchange,
and it’s left -sided, it’s not fair, and it’s out of balance energetically, and
that’s not a fit for me. So to listen to the rest of this, and I’m going to
actually talk about how to challenge your beliefs, what you want to do,
I’m going to ask, I’m going to give you 22 questions to challenge your beliefs.
Self -coaching questions that you can start asking that will automatically start
challenging your beliefs. Go to gem410 .com /insiders, gem410 .com /insiders.
And that when I say insiders, that’s the B2Hive group and it’s called the B2Hive
insiders and we’re going to dig even deeper into this episode. Again, thank you for bearing with me as I find a podcast format that works for us both.
I’m balancing bringing you value here in the episodes, but also creating more value over on The Secret Podcast. Thanks for listening, and I’ll catch you over on another
episode. Bye bye.

Mentioned Resources

Want to access my Secret Podcast? Go here www.jimfortin.com/bedohave-insiders
Émile Coué’s Self-Suggestion Techniques
What to Say When You Talk To Yourself

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Jim is an international subconscious self-transformation and high performance expert with over two decades of expertise in brain based transformation and high performance. Using a brain based approach coupled with transformational psychology and ancient wisdom Jim has created programs that create long-term core-level life transformation in his students.

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