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180. Living Your Predictions · Impact Ready

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  Welcome to Impact Ready, a show dedicated to helping you elevate
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  your impact in the world. I'm Steph Safra, your host.
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  Let's explore the power of showing up with intention and
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  energy each day. This is for those who seek to
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  make life truly meaningful. Get ready for impact.
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  Hey everyone, welcome to the show.
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  I hope that you are having an awesome week.
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  I'm so glad you're here. I was talking to my teenager the
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  other day and we were having this conversation and, and she
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  kind of broke from the conversation as teenagers do.
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  And she looked at me and she said, I think I might be
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  telepathic or really intuitive or something like that because I
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  think that I can predict the future.
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  And I said, oh, yeah. I said, well, what makes you
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  think that? She said, well, I have these
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  thoughts about things and then they just happen.
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  And we were kind of laughing about it.
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  But of course, I told her that she most certainly was intuitive
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  because most people do have a, a pretty deep sense of intuition,
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  especially if they cultivate it. And I said, you know, maybe you
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  are telepathic, why not? Who knows, you could be.
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  And even though she said it in kind of a joking way and our
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  conversation was pretty light, it got me thinking about the
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  fact that there actually is a way that most people don't think
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  about in which they are very predictive of their future.
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  And in this episode today, I want to talk about how we often
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  live up to our own predictions. On this podcast, we talk a lot
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  about the language of our life. You've heard me probably do
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  multiple episodes on that very idea.
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  It's the way that we talk about our work, our relationships, our
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  circumstances, our life in general.
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  It's the language that we use. We talk about the stories that
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  we tell ourselves, about the perspectives that we have that
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  are driven by our thoughts and our beliefs that we hold onto.
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  We talk about that stuff all the time on the show.
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  And all of those things act like tiny predictions into the future
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  for your brain. Think about this.
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  You might tell yourself, oh, I'm really terrible at managing my
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  time and my life is very chaotic.
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  And then often because you expect that you're terrible with
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  managing your time, you don't manage your time well.
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  And then as a result, your life feels chaotic.
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  And people miss the connection here.
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  They miss how powerful our brain can be in its role in creating
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  our life, and it's really because people don't understand
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  how the brain works. But they miss how powerful our
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  thoughts and our language, both external and internal, can
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  really, truly be. Every story that you tell
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  yourself is giving your brain a prediction, and then your brain
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  takes that prediction and creates your reality.
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  We've spoken about this in the past, but to go over it again,
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  when we have a thought or belief that repeats, that becomes part
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  of our identity. It is therefore something that
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  our brain looks to justify and support.
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  And it does that through a system called the reticular
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  activating system, the Ras. It's a function in the brain of
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  filtering information that comes from the external stimuli in the
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  world, and there are millions of pieces of information that are
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  coming into our brain at all moments of the day.
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  It would totally overwhelm our brain if we didn't have some
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  sort of filter to sift and sort out the information that was
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  deemed important for us, for our survival, for our well-being.
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  And when we have a thought or belief, the information that is
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  sorted and sifted and really allowed to come through the
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  filter is the information that aligns with the thoughts and
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  beliefs that we really have locked in.
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  But we're not very careful with our thoughts or our language,
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  are we? We're actually pretty cavalier
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  about it. We say things to ourselves, like
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  I'm really bad at managing my schedule.
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  I'm not a very disciplined person.
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  I'm just wired this way. I'm not great at relationship.
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  I'm terrible with money. Life never goes my way.
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  I'm never going to get ahead. My my spouse, my husband, my
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  wife. They never understand me.
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  I'm not valued at my work. I'm not a really motivated
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  person. I'm not a confident person.
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  I'm always going to be behind in my life, and these things roll
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  off the tongue for me because they're things that I hear
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  people say often. But if we could understand the
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  power of our stories and how these beliefs or ideas or
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  thoughts signal the brain to look for the evidence that
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  supports those ideas, we would be a lot more careful about what
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  we say to ourselves internally and out loud.
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  Every story you're telling yourself is giving your brain a
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  prediction. And your brain will take that
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  prediction and run with it, filtering information, releasing
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  neurochemicals as a result of those specific thoughts, and
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  having all kinds of downstream effects that will create a
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  reality based on those thoughts and stories.
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  And the implications of this are so far reaching.
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  I think about this often and it it boggles my mind.
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  I think if people really grasped the power of this, we would be
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  so much more careful about the way that we speak about
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  ourselves and the people in our lives and just our circumstances
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  in general. So I don't know if my daughter
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  is telepathic. I don't know if you are
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  telepathic. I don't know if you are a
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  skilled intuitive. But I do know that you have the
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  ability to predict the future with your words and your
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  thoughts and your beliefs. Biology supports that, and
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  neuroscience will back it up with receipts.
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  You know, people always say I want to live up to my own
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  expectations, but I would add to that and I would say you want to
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  live into your own predictions. So be really thoughtful about
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  what you are predicting. Bring some awareness to how you
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  speak about your life this week, maybe how you speak about
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  yourself, and see if perhaps you could start to shift those
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  predictions to be more aligned with the life that you actually
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  want to create. This is a short episode today
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  because I don't think we need to be labor at this point.
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  I think we need to integrate it. And so I hope that you can
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  Createspace for that this week and feel the shift when you
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  start to upgrade your predictions.
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  I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're listening.
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  Thank you for always being ready to Impact.
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  Thanks for listening to Impact Ready.
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  I hope today's episode inspired you to own your impact and
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  recognize that you are powerful. By elevating our energy and
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  awareness, we can create exponential change in this life.
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  Thanks again for being here.