051: Finding Freedom Beyond the Exit with Renee Russo

All right.

So let's talk about that.

So in the book, you talk about the 555 playbook.

Let's start with the five rules.

What are these governing beliefs that people need to change so that, you know, things start to work better for themselves and you be the prime example?

Yeah, I discovered through a little bit of self-assessment that I was the main character in all the challenges in my life.

I was the root issue.

Not that I was the problem, but I was the root issue.

I loosely sometimes say I was a problem, but that's just to get people's attention.

I was a root issue.

And I realized that the change had to start with me.

And the more I looked into personal development work, I realized a lot of this had to do with mindset first.

When you change your mind, you can change your outcomes.

And so I developed this little bit of a sequence.

If I can change my mind the way I think, I'm then going to be able to change the way I behave and then change the results I get.

And so I thought to myself, well, how do I change my mind? Joe Dispenza makes it sound pretty simple.

A lot of people are writing about this.

How do I do that mindset work? And I found the work of Miguel Ruiz.

He wrote Four Agreements.

And I started to practice those Four Agreements.

They were just... kind of like make no assumptions, always do your best, like basic things.

And I started to practice that.

And I thought to myself, if I'm going to keep my mind and my brain above the line, if I'm going to stay in this place of embracing possibility and pursuing progress and doing this for myself and no one else, this is the thing I need to work on first.

So I said, I, But I realized as a former athlete, I needed to train my brain.

I couldn't just allow it to be free flowing because it kept going into the dark corners of self-loathing behavior, negative self-talk, judgment.