My book has launched! So if you’re wanting to overcome patterns that keep you stuck, the sneaky peak into the book, Deep Grooves is here. This week we do things a little differently – Abby is interviewing me about my book Deep Grooves: Overcoming Patterns that keep you Stuck.
It’s a fun look into a few parts of the book. We look at the difference between Good Reasons and Real Reasons, why we use Short-Term Hits of Happiness, and how Journaling fast tracks your thinking changes. I also read an extract I love, and how getting suspended from kindergarten impacted my approach to leadership.
Show Notes
- [2:20] Why a wealth manager writes a book on step changing your thinking?
- The gaps in my thinking and identity that emerged once I left corporates. Who was I when boss’s and colleagues weren’t telling me what a great job I did?
- So little about financial success is related to finance and maths – it’s about the mindset to put off spending today for the future.
- [6:30] Abby’s favourite part of the book – Good Reasons vs Real Reasons
- You can’t ever change something if you don’t get down to the real reason, otherwise you’re treating the symptom not the cure
- The impact of listening to Good Reasons – the Real Reason I went to med school
- We can only ever live our best life, solve our relationship issues, sort out our career paths or health, if we deal with the Real Reasons.
- Challenge yourself to dig deeper into the Real Reason – there is ALWAYS something deeper going on. And how you know that you’ve got to the Real Reason.
- How leaving corporate and starting my own business has accelerated my personal growth because if things don’t work out, it’s just me to ‘blame’.
- [13:12] Short Term Hits of Happiness – and how it relates to eating and exercise
- Our brain is wired to avoid pain and discomfort keep us safe.
- Our brain stored the memory of teenage diets as pain and discomfort. So when we want to change our eating, even if it’s healthy eating and not a diet, triggers that thinking.
- [16:06] Short Term Hits of Happiness at work
- The brain change that happens that Short-Term Hits of Happiness have in common
- [18:12] How are you different now that you’ve written the book
- I still struggle with all the same things, but the speed I move through difficult situations to a place of calm and Joy
- I’m mindful when I’m ‘out of sorts’ I go through the framework and tools and it helps me increase my productivity
- [21:06] Why is journaling so important
- The link to the subconscious
- It activates so many parts of your brain, that helps you sort through challenges quicker
- The prompts that are in the book that you can use to journal or think through that help speed up your thinking person
- [25:17] The uniqueness of the book lies in the personal stories I use to teach the principles
- I read through one of the opening stories in the book which retells when I got suspended from pre-school (kindergarten)
- Abby and I discuss how that incident shaped my leadership path, and how it still impacts me
- How the thinking stack works
- [32:24] Everything has its consequences
- The choices we all face – to live a safe, comfortable life
- Or, to step out and be brave and take on our journey to live our Best Life.
- How we reframe our experiences for who we are today.
- [35:01] The challenge of women and claiming their space
- [35:50] The experience of writing a book and my hopes for the book
- As you write a book, you go through the process of transformation that your reader goes through.
- I believe deeply it can change people’s lives – that it would help people be more mindful of their journey.
Links to other episodes
- Listen to my interview with Dr. Abby Medcalf on how to talk to your partner about money
- Beating the stuff that triggers you
- Why we procrastinate and 6 Steps to beating it
- Rewire your brain and change your limiting beliefs
- Can we really live our best life?
- How to stop talking and start slaying your dragons
- How to overcome your biggest stumbling block to change your life
- The secret to radical step change
Buy the book
- Kindle version: Get it on Amazon
- Paperback version in South Africa: Get it on my website
- Paperback version elsewhere: Get it on Amazon
Sign up for the companion course to Deep Grooves
- Starting on 5 August, I will be taking a few people personally through my companion course. I’d love you to join me. It’s an hour-and-a-half once a week on a Wednesday at 10am South African Time.
- Sign up here!