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Your Mindset & Beliefs in Your 30s and 40s Can Add Years to Your Life · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  Welcome to Doctor Turned Health Coach Podcast. My name is Dr.
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  Ishori. Welcome to another podcast episode.
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  I want to talk about mindset and beliefs, and I know it's a very fluffy subject,
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  and a lot of my health coaching clients sometimes are like, Oh man,
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  Doc, I've heard this so many times, and there's just so many ways to approach this topic.
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  In the end, it ends up being not very approachable. Okay, I get that.
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  Maybe today I'm going to give you three ways to approach it so that it actually
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  is actionable, not just something in the atmosphere, right?
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  So mindset and beliefs are important
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  because there is no way to reach something
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  that seems unreachable or something that seems complicated or complex unless
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  you break it down into smaller actionable steps and you actually believe that
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  in the end you will achieve that set goal. I'll give you a perfect example.
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  Medical school, becoming a doctor for many people is so insurmountable.
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  It's so unimaginable to go from an 18, 19 year old or a college,
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  you know, graduating college student that one day you're going to perform this
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  really complicated aortic root surgery on a person whose heart is beating and moving all around.
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  And it's just impossible to imagine you're going to become a cardiothoracic
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  surgeon, but of course, that's not the way it works.
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  The person first takes all these tiny, small classes, and then they take exams,
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  and every one of these actions and steps gets them a little bit closer.
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  It reinforces their mindset and their belief.
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  And of course, nobody's really going to make it through medical school unless
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  they actually believe that they can one day become a doctor.
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  This is reinforced by the medical school curriculum, by talking to other graduates,
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  by seeing physicians who were once students give lectures to this incoming new class.
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  And unfortunately, every single year, there are a percentage of medical students,
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  though fortunately pretty small in the U.S., who end up not making it through.
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  They drop out or they have to be kicked out.
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  And the reason for that often is because they just don't believe it,
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  they don't have the mindset, they don't have also the idea of the steps that
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  they need to take to get to that end goal.
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  For many of my health coaching clients, oftentimes they come to me because they
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  are looking for a pretty major transformation.
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  They have tried a lot of things, they've tried medications, they've tried it
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  on their own, maybe they've had some successes, but in the end they didn't get
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  what they were after, and so they're looking for something bigger.
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  This is going to require a mindset shift and a belief in the end goal that if I do these things,
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  I'm going to achieve this particular health goal which is why the first few
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  months in my health coaching practice I really really want to dive in and figure
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  out what are your health goals what is it you're actually after,
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  somebody says I don't want to get a heart attack I don't want to die of a stroke
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  I don't want to get cancer I want to lose weight I want to improve my blood pressure.
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  And these are great goals to have but you have to have a belief that you can
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  actually achieve those You have to actually visualize yourself achieving that.
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  And then you can cultivate, meaning you can develop the new mindset necessary to support that belief.
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  So let's break it down into these three important actionable takeaways that
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  you can do so that this doesn't feel as fluffy as maybe what you thought in the beginning.
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  So number one, go find examples of people who have transformed their health
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  in the way that you've tried to transform it.
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  Whether friends, family, co-workers, people on Reddit, people in health groups, on Facebook groups.
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  Go find some examples of people who have actually achieved it.
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  Look at YouTube, look at Instagram.
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  And that is going to first reinforce that it is possible.
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  Next, you need to develop the belief that you can achieve what you're going
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  to achieve. You need to believe in what you're doing.
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  So a great example might be global warming. Do you believe in global warming?
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  I mean, some people don't.
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  Do you believe in poverty? Okay, some people don't. Some people just say people are lazy.
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  These are things you need to cultivate on your own.
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  You have to sit down with the facts, with a pen and paper,
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  maybe with a recording device, and cultivate,
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  form your beliefs that, yes, I can imagine myself six months from now with this
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  body, with this blood pressure, with this health biomarker, with this new state.
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  I can believe it. I can see it. I can visualize it.
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  I know I believe it. Yes, I'm still going to have doubts. There's nothing wrong
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  with that. but at the core, or at least 80% of me, believes it.
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  And finally, number three is developing the mindset necessary to achieve this.
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  You know that if you continue doing certain actions, they're going to lead to
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  the same results. You know that because maybe for the past five years,
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  you've had the same blood pressure.
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  So we can assume that if you continue doing the same things you've done for
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  the past five years, you're going to maintain the same blood pressure.
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  Meaning that of these actions that I helped you identify as a health coach,
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  if one of these changed, you would have a change in your blood pressure. Likely.
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  And if you attacked multiple of these, if you addressed multiple of these points,
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  you probably would have an even more significant change.
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  That's the mindset that fuels the belief, the mindset that these are the things
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  that are leading to this outcome.
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  And if I adjust these, then I'm going to have the right outcome.
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  Thank you guys for listening. I hope this stuff is of value to you.
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  You can email me, hello at drashori.com. Go to my website.
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  And if you are interested in working with me, book a free introduction call,
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  and I'd love to see how we can work together.