Mindset Mastery: Overcoming the Saboteurs Keeping You Stuck S4E80

In this episode, we’re diving into the three saboteurs—Danger Buoys, Sharks, and Anchors—that hold us back from pursuing our dreams. You’ll learn how to identify these obstacles, challenge limiting beliefs, and take actionable steps to move forward with confidence.

If you’re ready to overcome fear, build a career aligned with your passions, and embrace your true calling, this episode is for you!

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

• How to recognize self-doubt and fear as Danger Buoys that keep you stuck.
• The Sharks: naysayers and doubters who can sabotage your dreams.
• Anchors: outdated beliefs and societal norms that no longer serve you.
• Practical strategies to overcome these saboteurs and pursue your goals.

Why This Works:

Understanding and addressing these saboteurs empowers you to take control of your mindset, rewrite your narrative, and focus on your strengths to achieve a life of purpose and passion.

What’s Next?

Catch up on the 8-Week Discovering Your Calling Challenge Episodes

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Special Announcements:

1. December Zoom Call: Join me for a live session to review the 8 Waypoints and tackle mindset challenges. Email Sheri@DiscoveringYourCalling.com for an invite or the replay.
2. Book Launch Team: Be the first to access my upcoming book and help promote it with your friends. Email me to join!
3. New DYCA Program: Launching in January, this hybrid program combines self-paced lessons with live coaching. I’m looking for 15 ambitious women to join the beta group.

Ready to leave fear and doubt behind? Let’s do this together!

Transcript

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Am I really going to do this? After all, my job isn't that bad.

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You can't leave your job. You have tenure.

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Who am I to think I could start my own business? No one in my family has ever done that.

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Oh, my friend, the stories we tell ourselves, the lies we hear that can mess with our thinking and keep us stuck.

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The thoughts that can sabotage our journey to finding our true calling. In today's episode, you'll discover what the three main saboteurs are and how you can break free from them.

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To change your voice. Sharks and anchors in the book and the discovery in your calling Academy. We treat this chapter like a floating chapter. It's there when you need it.

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And what are the danger? Sharks and anchors. They are the three biggest saboteurs that will keep you stuck, that will mess with your mind and cause all those things to happen

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that are going to make you think that you can't achieve your dream, career and life.

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And today, my friend, we are going to untie the dark lines from those thoughts and establish some truth behind them and realize what we can do, what they are, first of all, and what you can do to break free from them.

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But before we do that, I want you to know four essential truths about when it comes to mindset. So four essential truths to remember when it comes to mindset. One, these mindset issues are normal. It's natural to have doubts to expect them. But just don't let them take the wheel or stop you.

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Number two, they're just stories. These are these narratives keep us stuck, but they aren't grounded in truth.

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Three they are not a sign for you to quit. Many dreams die because people believed these false narratives. But that's not going to be you because you're here today.

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And number four, you can break free. This episode and the chapter in the book and the in the discover and your call in Academy, we show you how to defeat this negative self-talk and move forward.

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The whole key, though, my friend, is just to be ready for them and not let them stop you.

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Now if, on the other hand, you hopped on this podcast and you are feeling unstoppable right now, that's amazing. And even if these struggles have not shown up yet for you as you move through life and you're in the direction of living out your dream life or setting up a new career,

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I still encourage you to listen to this episode today.

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Treat it as a tool kit for you because

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one day

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one of these saboteurs might show up on your doorstep and you just need to know how to handle them. So if you listen to the episode,

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you know either way that your mindset is when you listen to this episode, I should say you're just going to be prepared for whenever self-doubt tries to creep in so you can stay on course.

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Now, before we jump into what exactly are these danger sharks and anchors, I have three special announcements for you.

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One

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in the middle of December. I have not set a firm date yet, but it will be coming, I promise you. I am putting together a special zoom call for those of you that have been hanging out with me, even if you've just been listening and not, maybe you haven't even you've been a silent listener.

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We'll call it that. Or maybe you have been in the Facebook community. Either way, this zoom call is for you. For those of you that have been listening to these these eight weeks of the Discover New Calling challenge, or maybe you just stumble across this episode. You're welcome to join us.

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And in this live zoom, I'm going to review all eight of the waypoints.

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Plus, we're going to break down and break through any of these mindset issues that could keep you stuck.

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I'll have a little training for you, and then I'm going to open up the floor for live Q&A. Maybe a little hot seat coaching. This will be your opportunity to just ask me anything about the discovering your calling process.

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Now, if you want the details and you want to make sure you don't miss this event, just send me an email at Sherri at Discovering Your calling.com.

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Yeah, I have a new email. So it's Sherry s h e r I at discovering. Don't forget the thing you your calling.

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Com and just ask me for an invite. Or if you are in the Facebook community, keep your eye out. I'll be posting the event in there first. I'll also be sending out a special invite to anybody that's on my email list.

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So that's the first announcement. Announcement. The second announcement is

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a book launch team. So as you know, if you've been listening at all over the last few months or the last few weeks,

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I do have a new Discovering Your Calling book coming out in 2025. I'm not going to lie, it's going a little slower than I would like.

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Everything's taking longer. No shock there, right? That's just the way life goes.

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But it should be out the end of January. Beginning of February,

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and I'm going to be putting together what's called a launch team. And basically, in a nutshell, the launch team. One, you get the you get your hands on a copy of the book before it even goes live on Amazon,

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and

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you get that free copy,

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because in exchange, what I'm asking you to do is just read the book

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before it goes live on Amazon and be ready to leave a hopefully five star review when the book comes out on Amazon.

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Plus, I ask you to just share it with your friends. Help me basically launch the book. So if you'd love to be part of my launch team, just let me know. You can email me again, Sherri, at Discovering Your calling.com. And the third announcement I have is kind of along with that is I have a new discovery in your calling academy that I'll be kicking off in January,

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and it's a whole new way of doing the group program.

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It's going to be a hybrid, which means it's a little self-paced digital

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component of it, along with a life coaching with me twice a month. So I'm really excited about bringing this new cohort to you, and it's a way that anybody can join the discovering your calling academy at any time. There's no start and stop date. It's on your pace, your schedule, and I'm going to be looking for 15 ambitious but unsatisfied women to join me in the beta group when we kick it off in January.

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So again, if you're curious to learn more about that, email me at Sherry at Discovery in your calling.com. All right. Let's jump into today's episode and talk about these, three supporters.

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So the first one is the Danger Boys.

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And the danger Boys represent the hidden hazards that are ahead.

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And here's the thing. Danger boys are there to keep you from going into, danger areas.

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Like when you're when we're navigating our boat. When we see danger boys, we know that's an area we don't want to go into.

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But here's the thing with danger, boys. Some people can get so hung up on like, oh my gosh, there's danger out there. I can't even leave the dock.

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And they keep us from even stepping out into our future.

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And these danger boys represent the doubts, the fears and the stories we tell ourselves. It's that inner voice that whispers, well, I really even do this. Am I too old to start a new chapter? Or maybe you're you're danger boy. Thoughts are. I'm not equipped to create my own business.

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And these thoughts, again, are just things that we tell ourselves.

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It's kind of like when a fearful friend shows up. Do you remember fearful Fred? We talked about him in the beginning of the eight week challenge,

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and it's these thoughts that we just have about ourselves. They're eternal. The internal obstacle rules that creep in and threaten to sabotage our journey.

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For example, sometimes I feel like I'm just way too lazy to do anything new in my life, or I'm way too lazy to build a successful business.

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I mean, I love to have a good time. I love to have fun.

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I also get tired easily these days and love to take my afternoon naps. And sometimes my danger. Boys thoughts are,

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do I really want to work that hard anymore to build another business?

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Do I have the energy to do that?

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And I can get my son myself into this downward spiral, believing that I don't have the energy or the wherewithal or the ambition to build anything new again.

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But I know deep in my heart

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that I wouldn't be happy if I weren't using all my God given gifts to make a difference or working towards something meaningful. And I've experienced that firsthand. When we were on our boat for seven months, I didn't work. And you know what the first thought I had when we decided that we were done living on a sailboat and we were going to sell it, the first thought I had was like, yay!

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I can get back to working. So I know truthfully that I love to work, and I know I can build something successful because I've done it before. In the past, a couple of different times I built successful businesses,

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so

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I know for real,

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I'm really not that lazy. Yeah, I like my afternoon siesta, but who doesn't, right?

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And I know that I

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genuinely want to run a successful business

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and that that danger, but we thought is just a fear keeping me in my comfort zone.

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If you follow me on Facebook, you might have seen me post our decision to move back to New York. And if you've ever moved before, you know how stressful that can be. The last few weeks have totally got me off of my schedule. Like way off. But luckily, one healthy habit I have been able to stick to is my magic mind.

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It's perfect for all the chaos of moving.

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And ashwagandha has been used for thousands of years in aromatic medicine. It's sourced from roots and berries of small shrub native to India

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So, my friend, what are those thoughts that you have about yourself

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that are your danger thoughts? What are those thoughts that keep you from venturing out into the land where your dreams lie?

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And once you can identify those thoughts,

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here's three things you can do to start taking your life over again and not get stuck in fear of these danger boys.

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Number one, remind yourself of your past successes.

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Number two, look for evidence to prove that your thoughts are fake news. They're just fake news. They're not real.

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And number three, look to your natural talents and strengths. Which natural talents and strengths do you have that can overcome these negative thoughts?

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The second saboteur.

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Oh, before I jump into the second one, I do want to mention if you have downloaded the Discovering Your Calling workbook, there is space in the back of the workbook to work through this actually.

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It used to be phase ten,

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so I'm not sure where it is now in the workbook because again we're revising the workbook. So it may still say phase ten,

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but check it out. You'll recognize where it is and there's space for you to kind of really journal about this and spend time thinking about it. What are those negative thoughts you tell yourself?

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What are your danger beliefs

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and write them down, because as soon as we can identify them, we can break through them.

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All right. So Dane or the next avatar is the sharks. We say, watch out for the sharks in the water,

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because in your journey toward achieving your dreams,

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you will encounter sharks. And sharks are those naysayers, those doubters, those negative nellies who lurk nearby, ready to sabotage your aspirations if you let them.

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And these sharks might swim around you saying things like, you don't have time for this right now,

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why on earth would you walk away from a successful career to start something new?

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And the challenges

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that sometimes those sharks are people you live with

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or people you love dearly, dearly?

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They could be your spouse, a parent, a boss, coworkers, perhaps one of your best friends.

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And while they genuinely care for you, they might not understand your dream.

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And here's the thing a lot of people they love you so much, they want to protect you. And if they don't understand why you're doing this new thing, they're going to tell you all the reasons why

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you shouldn't be doing it as a protection.

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But in reality, these sharks can take a bite out of your dream.

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So we don't want to let them do that.

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The other reason that sometimes sharks show up when we're trying to do something new

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and they don't support our dreams, is because when you're taking bold steps out of your comfort zone, it shines a light on their own dissatisfaction.

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You know, as the saying goes, you know, misery loves company.

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And when somebody in our group is stepping out of that place of misery and discomfort,

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the rest of us get kind of antsy. We're like, oh, wait, what is she doing? Wait a minute, wait a minute. Maybe she's right. Maybe this is a bad place to be.

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And it just sends us into this weird place. So sometimes the sharks are just in this weird place because you're doing something great and they're not.

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So, my friend. Think about it. Who are those sharks in your life?

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Who are those? Those people that

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you had hoped they would encourage you? You had hope that they would support this dream. And they're not. They're just not.

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We can't change their attitude. But what we can do is change how we approach the sharks, and so that they don't steal our dreams away and they don't take that bite out of our dreams.

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So here are three steps you can take. Once you identify who the sharks are, take these three steps so that they don't stop you. Number one, just avoid discussing your dreams with the sharks. They're never going to get it. You can't convince them of it. Now you can show them. So stop talking about it and just go quietly around about your business, doing the work you need to do to get to your dream, career and life.

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Eventually, they'll see what you have achieved.

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Number two, remember, iron sharpens iron.

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That's super important to surround yourself with the right people.

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Listen to the right podcasts, read the right books, and find resources that will support your dream.

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What communities can you,

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hang out with if you want to? If you want to be an entrepreneur in the future, go find communities where there's entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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If you want to switch careers, go find people who are doing the career you want to go to

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or surround yourself with people who are already living your dream, or

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read the books about it, or listen to the podcast. Fill your mind with things that aren't shark related.

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Number three, the third step you can do to get away from the sharks

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is remember your why.

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Remind yourself daily who will benefit from you achieving this new vision for your life.

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Sometimes it's the sharks that'll benefit, which is kind of ironic, but just keep that vision in your mind clear that who will benefit when you achieve this goal so that you can keep moving forward?

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The last saboteur. Oh, so don't forget to jot it down.

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Spend some time really thinking about the sharks in your life and how you can move through them or around them, or avoid them.

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Okay, the last saboteur that we need to look out for are the anchors, and the anchors are meant to just hold you back.

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They just keep you in one place. That's what an anchor is designed to do.

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And sometimes anchors are really good and valuable, but other times they're keeping you stuck. They're keeping you from going where you want to go.

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And anchors are similar to danger buoys. However,

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while danger buoys represent what you are saying about yourself or the beliefs you have about yourself, that may not be true.

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Anchors are the common misconceptions about life that can keep you stuck.

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These are the beliefs that may have been true at one point in your life, but they're no longer. They no longer serve you today.

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And some of these anchors have never been true. Yet you've heard them so often that you accept them as fact.

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And many of these anchors have been passed down through generations. They've been ingrained in our work environments, and they've been echoed through society.

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Anchors can be thoughts like, you need to stay at a job for the health, health insurance and the benefits plan,

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or take the job that offers a great paycheck and a 401 K over the one that fuels your passion.

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Or

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teachers out there may have heard this one. You can't leave your job because you have tenure.

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Or my least favorite anchor,

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which I talk in depth about in the Discovered Your Calling book, is you need to go to college, get your degree, find a well-paying, secure job that pays the bills, work there for 20 to 30 years, and then at age 65, you can start enjoying your life.

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And that, my friends, is my least favorite anchor.

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And that's the anchor that keeps so many people stuck in a career that they don't enjoy, and they're not called to do

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so. What are the anchors in your life

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that have been keeping you stuck?

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And this one's kind of hard to really see because sometimes, again, we've heard them so often that they're really hard to recognize that like, oh my gosh, I have been believing that.

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And is that really even true?

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And that's exactly what we have to start thinking. If we want to pull up the anchors and move towards our dream career and life.

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Now, in the book and in the Discovering Your Calling Academy,

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I take students through, this process called changing the crease in the paper. It was something I learned way back in the early days of my direct sales.

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And I'll never forget learning this. It was from a, top leader. Her name was Rena Tarbert, and she taught us that, you know, she took a sheet of paper and just folded in half and really made the crease defined. And she talked about how, you know, in the course of our life, we keep hearing these things over and over and over again.

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It becomes that crease in the paper that it's so ingrained in us, it's hard not to believe anymore. But she taught us, and I want to teach this to you right now. You can just flip the paper around just turn it a quarter of a turn and create a brand new crease.

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So what are those thoughts that you need to just flip that paper a little bit, stop believing them and start creating your own new crease.

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The second thing you can do to break, to pull up the anchor is kind of like we did for the Danger Boys

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question. It is it really?

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Is it really real or is it just fake news?

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You know, question these thoughts.

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The third thing you can do is learn what I call the art of possibility thinking.

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And so instead of believing that, oh wow, I can't do this, start asking yourself, how can I do this?

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So instead of believing I can't do x, y, and z because of something, just start asking the question how can I do this?

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So my friend, those are a brief overview of the three basic saboteurs that can keep you stuck. Danger. Buoys. Sharks. Anchors,

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and the whole point I want you to know is just be prepared for them. We can't

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go through life without having them show up.

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They're there

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and they might try to hinder your journey. But if you know that they're there, you're prepared for it.

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You know how to overcome them.

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You can move through them,

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and sometimes it's just needing the right tools and strategies to help you work through it.

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Now, you may recall hearing me talk about the attitude, well, to be honest, I can't remember if I shared it on the podcast during the eight week challenge or not. My mind is getting confused.

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So what chapter did I write about? What did I dislike about in the podcast,

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and what have I talked about in past podcast? But I do know for a fact that I go into depth about the attitude. Well, in an older episode from still in season four, but episode 65 on how to navigate the emotional roller coaster and achieve your goals even during chaotic times.

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I talk a lot about the attitude well,

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so I encourage you to go back and listen to that episode, because what happens when

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the danger buoys, sharks and anchors show up and keep us stuck?

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We can get stuck at 6:00 on the Attitude wheel, and we need to learn how to just move through that and keep on going.

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The last thing I want to leave you with my friend

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is remember, you are made for such a time as this

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and I want to remind you that you listening to this episode right now is no accident.

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You are here for a reason,

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and I wholeheartedly believe that you are called for such a time as this.

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You possess talents and gifts unlike anybody else in the world.

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And as Don Clifton said,

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you can each do something better than 10,000 other people out there.

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And we know that you're 1 in 33,000,000,000 based on your unique blend of talents and strengths,

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not to mention your experience, your personality traits. There's nobody else out there like you,

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and you have been called to contribute something meaningful to life, and it's time for you to step up and embrace that calling.

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It's your time to shine.

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So when those negative mindsets try to sabotage your progress, remind yourself that they are just lies keeping you stuck.

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Lean into your strengths and practice possibility thinking as you pursue your calling.

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This is your time to let your light shine or

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so take a deep breath, my friend. We've covered a lot over the last nine weeks.

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In fact, I'm going to take next week off to give everybody a chance for bringing out a new episode, to give everybody a chance to just go back and listen to these episodes again, catch up to things,

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and don't forget to email me at Sherry at Discover Your calling.com.

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If you want to get on the list, join me on a zoom call.

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I hope you will. I would love you hear me talk every week. I want to hear from you. I want to see your faces, and I want to connect with you on a deeper level. So join me on that. In that zoom where we will review the eight waypoints, we'll talk about these saboteurs will break through anything keeping you stuck.

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You can ask me any questions about the discovering your calling process, about the book. The Academy.

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Maybe if we have time, I'll do some hotseat coaching. So just email me, say Hey Sherry, make sure to send me an invite to that

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if you're curious and interested and would want to be part of my book launch team, I would be so appreciative.

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And or if you want to know more about the Discovering Your Calling Academy, the new hybrid course that's coming out next year, let me know that as well. I look forward to seeing you're seeing you in the emails. If you haven't yet, pop over to the Facebook community. I'm going to keep that open and live until the end of the year.

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And I appreciate you so much for joining me on this journey, on this eight week, really nine week Discovering Your Calling challenge. I hope you found it valuable. I hope you feel a little clear on your calling, and I hope that today helps you see how to break through any of those mindsets keeping you stuck. The most important thing is that you have identified them and then you can go to work to break through them.

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So use the workbook.

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You can still download that

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now for a few more weeks. And hopefully I'll see you on zoom in a couple of weeks.