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How to get rid
of what is holding you back

Failure isn’t what holds you back — you can fix knowledge, action, or environment. What truly stops you is your need for control and self-imposed limits, especially when results don’t meet expectations.

What’s inside

How to get rid of what’s holding you back

Part 1

Identify, accept, and move on

Part 2

The illusion of control and the green/red dot system

Part 3

The obstacles you set yourself

3 parts

Structured modules

Practical

Apply from day one

5

Practical activities

This tool will help you

four things you'll
understand differently

01

What's actually holding you back

It’s not knowledge, action, or luck. The things that hold you back only appear when you try again after failing. You’ll learn to see them clearly for the first time.

02

Why control is an illusion and why that's good news

The feeling of needing control is nothing more than pain in disguise. You’ll understand the green and red dot system behind failure and why releasing control is the fastest path forward.

03

The obstacles you set for yourself

Most obstacles aren’t external. You’ll learn how the obstacles you create for yourself work, why they feel so real, and how to stop generating new ones unconsciously.

04

How to navigate trial and error without giving up

The struggle behind trial and error isn’t failure — it’s the process. You’ll understand how to move through it with clarity, so you stop quitting right before things change.

How to get rid of what’s holding you back

When you think about your failures, you may see them as the result of your lack of knowledge, lack of action, or as the result of being surrounded by the wrong people. Sometimes, you may even see it as the result of bad luck.

But all these things aren’t actually holding us back.

If you lack knowledge, just study more, get knowledgeable and try again. If you lack action, create yourself a plan, make it specific, and try again. If you’re surrounded by the wrong people, define the type of people you want around you, search for them, and try again.

The thing is, when you have to try again after you’ve failed, that’s when the things that are holding you back appear.

Most of the time, those are things like:

  • The feeling of control and the control you feel you need to have;
  • The obstacles you set yourself.
How to get rid of what's holding you back

Let’s imagine you want to make a living out of your passion and transform your passion into a business. You have no clue how to do it so you set yourself to buy a few books and enroll in some courses. You invest over $250 into educating yourself on the topic and, after two months of studying, you decide you want to put into practice, even though you haven’t finished learning the initial material you set yourself to learn.

You create social media profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, a website to promote your products or services, and you start speaking about your new business. But soon enough you see there are no sales and people don’t seem too interested in what you’re doing.

It’s been four months since you decided to transform your passion into a business and you start feeling sad, maybe even frustrated or depressed.

That’s when the feeling of control appears. You’ll want to feel anything but sad, frustrated, or depressed and you’ll control the presence or have to adjust a few things for that to happen.

As I’ve said, it’s important how you behave when your expectations aren’t met. Knowing that you’ll eventually get where you want to be, will impact the way you behave when your expectations aren’t met.

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