How come we’re not happy when we get what we want? So many of us believe that if we just made more money, if we got that promotion we wanted, or if we lost that last ten pounds we’d be happy. Then sometimes we finally achieve our goals and realize we’re still unfulfilled. This is because we bring ‘us.’ We always have ourselves and our limited beliefs.
Today we have a live Dad Edge Alliance Q&A session with Gary John Bishop. His book How to Unf*ck Yourself just made the NY Times bestseller list. He has been on our show twice before and was a speaker at our Dad Edge Summit.
This episode is in-your-face and explicit. Some of it you may not like hearing, but Gary John Bishop will tell you (in his Shrek-like Scottish accent) how to come to terms with your own bullsh*t so that you can be relentless in executing your goals while also finding the joy in where you are, here and now.
What You’ll Learn
- His counterintuitive approach to being a human being
- Why your thoughts are a crappy guide
- The sanctity of your word: why what you say is so important
- How your success in life is exclusively tied to you keeping your promises to yourself
- How to speak, be, and act to become a force of nature
- What it means when you have crazy people in your life
- Why a lot of personal growth doesn’t work
- Why transformation is not possible until you come to terms with your own bullshit (not your wife, your job, or your life).
- Why you need to be the center of your universe
- What a mid-life crisis really is midlife
- Why you should question everything you calmly accept
- How labeling things perpetuates the battle
- The fallacy of common sense
- How to manage your family when you are growing and evolving as a person
- How to create framework for your kids to question everything and find themselves
- Why you have to find the joy in your life in where you are instead of where you’re going
- How to give yourself a break when you screw up
MENTIONED EPISODES:
How to Unf*ck Yourself with Gary John Bishop
Dad Edge Alliance Q&A – Gary John Bishop on Fatherhood
Gary John Bishop’s links
Unfu*k Yourself: Get out of your head and into your life
Resources
Grab a copy of The Dad’s Edge AUDIOBOOK on iTunes or Audible
GRAB A COPY OF THE DAD’S EDGE HERE
Originally published on The Good Dad Project
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