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16th Feb 2019

174: Limitless Mindset

LIMITLESS MINDSET

I grew up constantly hearing that a sign of maturity is to know your limitations.  I believed it. And it’s nonsense.

Most of the time, you will allow your doubts to define your limits. Once you accept a limit in your mind, it becomes your story; it become your reality. You become an “I can’t person.”

Today’s guest is an “I can person.” She has earned the right to her success by constantly shattering limits, venturing into the unknown, and taking on big challenges. She reveals how to step into your limitless mindset.

Her name is Laura Gassner Otting. Her latest book, that you can preorder on Amazon, is Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.

You are in for  a treat in this episode. You will hear a very smart, highly energetic, entertaining woman whose words and thoughts can help you shatter your limits.

Here’s a glimpse at the value packed learning you’ll enjoy listening to Laura’s story:

  • Why you should live at the edge of incompetence
  • The power of knowing that you are not that important
  • Identifying if you are a star chaser and what to do about it
  • Why contained risk is good for you

You’ll be fascinated by Laura’s journey from Bill Clinton’s White House to CEO of a successful company to the high achieving entrepreneurial life she leads today. That journey helped her gain many valuable insights that she shares in today’s interview.

Here are a few more of the mind expanding insights she offers you:

  • How to snap out of analysis paralysis
  • How to discover your own super power
  • How to make the shift from your career to your calling
  • 4 words to ban from your life
  • The awesome power of saying YES to things

Laura gives you several powerful backpack moment in this episode. A backpack moment is an idea, a takeaway, that can change your life even if you didn’t listen to any more of  the interview. You could literally put on your backpack and go on your way enriched.

A few thoughts that could become the backpack moments for your limitless mindset are:

  • Why the question, “How can I help?” often leads to short term thinking
  • How to achieve consonance – living your life so that what you do matches who you are
  • The 4 elements of consonance that give your life a powerful purpose
  • The difference between your family and your “framily”
  • Why you should wave your freak flag high (we all have one)
  • Stepping into your fundamental state of leadership

BOOKS IN THIS PODCAST

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (Laura’s favorite)

Mission Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose by Laura Gassner Otting

Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life by Laura Gassner Otting

LAURA’S FAVORITE QUOTES

“…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Well behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

CONTACT LAURA

www.LauraGassnerOtting.com/Change – FREE GIFT – 4 Ways to Discover Your Calling

Facebook

www.LimitlessAssessment.com

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About the Podcast

Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Influences: Tony Robbins, T. Harv Eker, Wayne Dyer, Jim Rohn, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, Dale Carnegie, Oprah, Robert Kiyosaki, Robin Sharma, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, LinkedIn, Twitter, method acting, Marlon Brando, Marcus Aurelius
Humans are storytelling machines. You and I are constantly creating, destroying, elevating, and diminishing ourselves with our inner narratives that appear and disappear in our minds 24/7. Most people are not aware of this process. As a result, they believe that life is happening to them. This feels random, chaotic, and scary. Why do people tolerate it? Because they tell themselves, "That's the way it is. That is reality." Those seven words could not be farther from the truth.

This podcast will explore the storytelling process that is responsible for every facet of your life. It will discuss and encourage ways to take control of your personal narrative so that you can begin directing your destiny with an empowering story.

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Louis Di Bianco

Louis Di Bianco is a storyteller. He fell in love with storytelling as a child. In his teens, his ability to tell entertaining stories saved his life on the streets of the Bronx, where he grew up. He discovered quickly how to make the neighborhood tough guys like, trust, and respect him by engaging them with stories.

Louis became a professional stage and screen actor to get paid for his love of storytelling. He has appeared in numerous feature films, TV movies, and television series, as well as performing on stage internationally.

He has taught acting for both stage and camera for as long as he has been an actor. We're talking more than four decades. Eventually, he created courses in compelling communication for business people who want to present their ideas, products, and services to the world with clarity, confidence, and persuasive power.

Louis takes the words, Change Your Story, Change Your Life, very seriously. His life experience has taught him that every word we utter, every belief we embrace, is a made up story. Even your past is a made up story that seems so vivid that you swear it's real. Accept that, and you remove all the barriers between you and your dreams. You will be able to enjoy the adventure of changing your story to change your life.