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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Mojo Monday. If you're new, I'm

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Speaker 1: Karlie Taylor, so a special welcome to you. And on

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Speaker 1: that note, I actually just wanted to thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here. So Mojo Mondays gets around one point five

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Speaker 1: thousand listeners and I'm so grateful for that. And this

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Speaker 1: is very much related to the topic today because I

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Speaker 1: started doing these Mojo Mondays because Paul was flat out

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Speaker 1: busy with his PhD. But we continued on and I

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Speaker 1: really enjoy sharing these strategies and tool for life with

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Speaker 1: you because you know, we're all struggling with this roller

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Speaker 1: coaster of being human and I'm a passionate believer that

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Speaker 1: we all need the skills to develop our capacity to

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Speaker 1: be our own coach, so we can develop our mental

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Speaker 1: fitness to throw in life even when we get hit hard.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of my purpose behind these Mojo Mondays.

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Speaker 1: But when I first started doing these, I didn't really

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Speaker 1: feel worthy of being a podcaster. But what I did

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Speaker 1: have is a lot to talk about, and I had

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Speaker 1: a real passion and drive to help as many people

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Speaker 1: as I could with these life skills. So the podcast

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Speaker 1: really aligned with that. So instead of using my level

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Speaker 1: of self worth as my compass here, I used what

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Speaker 1: really mattered to me, and that was helping others. So

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Speaker 1: that leads me into what we're going to talk about today,

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Speaker 1: and that is about self worth. And Paul and I

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Speaker 1: did when we were doing Merjo Mondays together. We did

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Speaker 1: talk about self worth back in twenty twenty three, but

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to talk about it again.

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Speaker 1: So if you do a Google search on self worth,

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Speaker 1: it comes up with things like being overly self critical,

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Speaker 1: feeling unworthy, so maybe it's un worthy of love or

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Speaker 1: respect of others. And it talks about our in increasing

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Speaker 1: your self worth through self understanding, self love, self acceptance.

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Speaker 1: And what I want to do today is expand on

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Speaker 1: those And the common thread here is that it's about

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Speaker 1: me and my beliefs about myself. So let's just pause

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Speaker 1: here and take a moment and ask yourself right now,

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Speaker 1: how do you rate your self worth across the different

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Speaker 1: areas of your life? So you think about your roles

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Speaker 1: in life, you know, like at work, in relationships as

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Speaker 1: a friend, how worthy do you feel in each Is

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Speaker 1: there any area of your life where you struggle because

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Speaker 1: you don't feel worthy? So how do we coach ourselves

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Speaker 1: when that self defeating narrative kicks in. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to walk you through what I call the four a's

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Speaker 1: in relation to self worth. So the first A is awareness.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to look firstly at the role of

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Speaker 1: neurodevelopment in relation to our self worth. So how our

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Speaker 1: brains would developed from the moment we are born right

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Speaker 1: up to now, and depending on our environment growing up

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Speaker 1: and how safe and secure we were, it's going to

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Speaker 1: have a huge influence on the wiring of our brain.

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Speaker 1: We see the world and ourselves through the lens of

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Speaker 1: our experience, and to be able to acknowledge that helps

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Speaker 1: us to develop an awareness of why we think and

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Speaker 1: act the way we do. And it's not an excuse,

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Speaker 1: it's an awareness of where we're at right now. Because

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Speaker 1: if we don't have this awareness of ourselves as unique

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Speaker 1: humans based on our life experiences, then we can easily

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Speaker 1: get caught up in this self defeating behavior based on

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Speaker 1: our self worth and self worth if it's low, is

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Speaker 1: not a good compass for life. And this is really

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Speaker 1: important for change because the way we see our own

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Speaker 1: value can really influence the decisions that we make. When

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Speaker 1: we cling tightly to the belief that we're less than others,

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Speaker 1: that we don't deserve happiness or success or love. We

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Speaker 1: can easily slip into a really dark place, and when

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Speaker 1: and the easy option is to give into these thoughts

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Speaker 1: of unworthiness. So if we can start with awareness, being

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Speaker 1: aware of your default thoughts about yourself is the first

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Speaker 1: step to change. And there can be like almost in

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Speaker 1: our harm moment. So for example, if you were emotionally

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Speaker 1: abused as a child, then chances are your self worth

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Speaker 1: So with that then comes acceptance. So acceptance is around

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Speaker 1: accepting those things that are not within your control. And

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Speaker 1: if you think about the alcoholics anonymous serenity prayer, God

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Speaker 1: grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

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Speaker 1: wisdom to know the difference. So let's apply this to

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Speaker 1: of course this doesn't mean you're excusing it or that

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Speaker 1: only I hadn't made that choice, or I didn't deserve

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Speaker 1: And unless those thoughts and emotions are going to serve

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Speaker 1: you in some capacity now, so unless they motivate you

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Speaker 1: to move on to the third A, which is attention.

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Speaker 1: So attention is, in my experience, the the most powerful

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Speaker 1: So imagine you are holding a flash light and that

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Speaker 1: beam of light is your attention. So what we consistently

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Speaker 1: shine that beam of light on is how we live

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Speaker 1: our life life. We know that we pay what we

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Speaker 1: pay attention to, our brains commit sels to So if

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Speaker 1: you keep directing that light on thoughts of unworthiness, those

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Speaker 1: feelings can grow stronger. It's like throwing fuel on the fire.

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Speaker 1: So instead, imagine that you have control over where you

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Speaker 1: shine that light, So you redirect that beam of light

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Speaker 1: matter to you. And this is where the shift happens.

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Speaker 1: So becoming a worthy person isn't about thinking ourselves worthy

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Speaker 1: or going into battle with those default thoughts that pop

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Speaker 1: about waiting to feel worthy. It's certainly not about getting

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Speaker 1: our worth from other people or even from our achievements,

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Speaker 1: although this can raise our self worth in the short term.

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Speaker 1: But what if we look at this from a different perspective.

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Speaker 1: What if rather than approach this as a feeling, we

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Speaker 1: approach this more as a behavior. So you don't need

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Speaker 1: to feel worthy to be a worthy person. So if

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Speaker 1: we go back to my example of doing these mojo mondays,

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Speaker 1: where I didn't feel worthy, but I didn't need to

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Speaker 1: what mattered to me, and I'm super clear on this,

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Speaker 1: is that you, the listener, get value and worth from

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Speaker 1: listening to them. So if that makes me feel worthy,

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Speaker 1: then that's a bonus. But as long as I can

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Speaker 1: keep passing on what I have learned over the years

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Speaker 1: and that you benefit from that, then that makes what

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Speaker 1: I do worthy of it. So how I feel about

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Speaker 1: I'm doing what matters. So the goal here is not

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Speaker 1: using what matters my values as my compass. But what

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Speaker 1: the research does show is that over time that feeling

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Speaker 1: A and that is around action. So this is about

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Speaker 1: doing what matters, doing worthy things for others, aligning your

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Speaker 1: actions with that, not on how you're feeling, not on

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Speaker 1: your low level of self worth, which if you did

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Speaker 1: use that as a compass, you could easily go into

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Speaker 1: avoidance mode distraction mode. So and this framework of the

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Speaker 1: you may need to keep going back to awareness or

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Speaker 1: back to acceptance, while you're getting into the action. So

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Speaker 1: your heart, not your feelings of self self worth. So

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Speaker 1: let's go back to the serenity prayer, which I just love.

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Speaker 1: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I

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Speaker 1: takes courage and wisdom to recognize your painful past and

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Speaker 1: doing worthy things rather than the feeling of self worth,

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Speaker 1: which I know is really difficult. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: feelings of self worth can really take over. You take

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Speaker 1: life of worthy action. So I hope you have got

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Speaker 1: value from that. It is a different a bit of

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Speaker 1: increase our self worth earth. It is definitely these strategies

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Speaker 1: it really encourages us to live a life based on action,

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Speaker 1: aligned with the things that matter to us. So have

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Speaker 1: a great week everybody, and I will catch you next week.

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