Welcome to the Peak

Revival Podcast.

My name is Vesna and I want to

talk about what if everything

you've learned about self

improvement was wrong?

When we struggle to have, be,

do, or live the way that we

want, well initially we can

be like, the strategy isn't

the right strategy, or we're

not doing the right things.

But essentially we, we

get to this place of,

I'm not good enough,

I'm not smart enough,

I'm not

talented enough,

I'm not rich enough

I'm not something

enough, right?

And if you've been following

me for any length of time,

you probably realize my

message about health and

life points to the fact

that That is an illusion.

from that place, when we look

at ourselves not being enough,

we are filled with judgment

and criticism and we make

ourselves feel powerless.

And I believe we are much

more powerful than what we

realize and we have this

untapped potential and in

moments of challenges or

disasters or crises we are

able to draw on that untapped

potential and really kind

of rise to another level and

see what we're capable of.

But most teachings tell

us to do more and be more

or be different to what we

are but not to see more.

Okay.

And that's really what I want

to talk about in this video.

you know, in the last

podcast I talked about.

relying on another element

in achieving our goals.

And I did share a story

about when I was struggling

initially in my business.

And so when I was in this

financial struggle years ago,

well, initially I thought I

didn't have the right business

strategy, so I employed

business coaches to help me.

But pretty soon after that,

I could, I was starting to

see, well, All these other

people, they're, they're

doing the strategies.

They are successful,

but I'm not.

Okay.

So then it'd be, you

know, I turned inwards.

It was like a personal floor.

It was something with

my personality, right?

I wasn't enough.

I wasn't good enough.

I wasn't doing it right.

I did all these things

to fix myself and my.

personality, my flaws

and the areas where

it wasn't good enough.

I did affirmations.

I did tapping on

my money blocks.

I remember one night very

late on a Friday night,

it was me and a friend.

We're working in a coworking

space and we decided that,

we had money blocks, right?

That's the reason why we

weren't making the money

that we wanted to, right?

We weren't making

enough to even survive.

And so we thought, okay,

we're going to, you

know, we're going to

tap on our money blocks.

And here we are at

like nine o'clock or

eight at nine o'clock

at night in a coworking

space and the cleaners

are around us cleaning.

It's just the two of

us like tapping on our

money blocks, right?

Because we thought that we

had some belief or some block

that was holding us back from,

being where we want it to be.

It's pretty funny in

hindsight, but I'm not

saying that any of those

things are wrong, by the

way, what I do want to

point to is that we have.

More tools at our disposal,

and it's not about a lack

or belief blocking us.

And if it is, we have other

tools to help uncover that

and remove that really easily.

So not only at that time,

because in that way of

thinking for me, I really did

believe that, Because self

development does get you to

look at where you need to

maybe even upskill, right?

So I thought I was not

that good at relationships,

and then I was not that

good at dating, and so

there was a skill issue

there I needed to upskill.

And as you can see, all

of these things that I'm

pointing to are looking at.

Ways in which I'm

not enough, right?

I'm missing something.

Okay?

And It's very

rarely about that.

So, personal development,

in my experience, points

to lack that you have to

do hard work to change your

beliefs, change your habits,

change your behaviors.

You've gotta be on

it all the time.

You've gotta change

your thinking to

change your life, okay?

Be positive in your thoughts.

Analyze your beliefs,

break them down.

I certainly did a lot

of work around that.

I spent.

Lots of journals going

through beliefs, right?

And all it does, it makes

you hypervigilant on your

thinking and on your beliefs.

It makes you more

self conscious.

It makes you more in a

focused or obsessed or

self absorbed, right?

And it's overwhelming.

It's a lot of work

to be looking in, and

it's not really going

to move you ahead.

Now I'm not saying not

to have any kind of

personal awareness, right?

That's not what I'm saying.

But what I am saying is

that You know, if we're

going too deep into looking

at our thinking and, you

know, looking at where

we're lacking, we're

missing the bigger picture.

Because I can guarantee you,

there are people out there

who are doing what you want to

do and have what you want to

have in their life, but they

have personal flaws, they have

personality flaws, they don't

have the talent or the skills

or whatever it is that you

think that you need to have.

I can guarantee you of that.

Okay?

So I've found that approach

to personal development

not very effective, right?

So if I'm going to see that

I'm lacking in something,

that I'm always going to be

Finding another way to work

on myself, finding another

skill that I have to learn,

and doing all these things,

and it places more attention

on our flaws, and If we do

that, we feel worse, right?

We don't feel good when

we're focusing on our flaws.

And the worse you feel,

we're not doing our

best in our life, okay?

If your mood's really low

and, and you're focusing

on all the bad things in

your life, and all the

bad things that you have

about yourself, you're not

really going to be confident

and working at your best.

But when we feel good, we

create better relationships.

We have, make better

health choices even,

right, when we feel good.

We have, better working teams.

our business will make more

money like all of this occurs

from a place of feeling good.

Okay.

So the idea is not to feel

bad, but we want to feel good

and we're focusing on our

flaws and we all have them.

We're just not going

to feel good, right?

It's really basic.

It's not rocket science.

Okay.

Anything that makes

us feel good makes us

perform at our best.

So what really moves the

needle in helping us either

have the ideas that we need to

have to make the breakthrough

in our life, to create the

change, even to create a

change in our behaviour.

So often we look at

changing our behaviours

is using, constant

willpower, this constant

efforting every single day

to maintain our habits.

But until we have a shift

with insights, until we

have an internal shift, it's

going to be very hard for us

to maintain any new habits.

And what I mean is that

Insights are what we have.

They are built into us and

it's kind of like those

moments where you could call

it intuition or you could

call it insights, but you

see a higher perspective.

You see things differently.

You get a fresh perspective

on things, right?

And it could look like an aha

moment or anything like that.

So, you know, I talked about

in the last podcast that I

had one insight that changed

my, Business life and my

life very, very quickly.

Okay.

And so if I was looking

to, get the results that

I did without the insight.

It would have been a lot of

hard work and I honestly don't

know how much longer I would

have been stuck in that place.

And so my insight was with my

business that not everything

you do is going to work out.

It's really basic

insight, but I heard it

on another level, right?

It's like when that was said,

everything in my brain just

kind of slotted into place.

I don't know how

to describe it.

It's just, it was like a,

like a light bulb moment.

And I went, Oh, that

makes so much sense.

Now I can see why I'm

not getting the results.

Okay, and it's that level of

awareness that makes change

seem almost effortless.

Okay.

you know, had clients over

the years, you know, I had

this woman, she was a, a

long term chronic smoker.

And she would have smoked

for about 30 years.

And she went to a seminar, she

had an insight, and she came

home and told her family, I

am never going to smoke again.

Like, I absolutely know I'm

never going to smoke again.

And her family were

like, That's crazy.

Like you've been, that's

never going to happen, right?

And then she started

to doubt herself and

doubt her insights.

She did actually maintain and

be a non smoker because her

insight, she had a revelation

in that seminar, loosened

the grip of the addiction.

Okay, so she didn't

have to control her

behavior the next day.

She didn't have to

remind herself every day.

Okay, just don't smoke,

just distract myself,

keep myself busy, do

whatever it is, right?

Her brain had already switched

into her being a non smoker.

Okay.

Through that insight.

Okay.

The things that had kept

compelling her to smoke

were gone with an insight.

So that's kind of what

I'm talking about.

Insights help to

really the way to make

change much easier.

We hope it helps us to

find the way and it.

it helps to make it easier for

us to implement that change.

So there isn't struggle

associated with it.

So that's why I think

that, this idea that we

need to struggle to make

these changes is just

missing the mark, right?

It's just, yes, we struggle

when we don't have an insight.

And so we can either decide

to rely on our intellect or

we can rely on our insights.

And intellect is, you know,

if you're worried about

something that's happening

in your life Or you need to

make a change or you need

to make a business decision.

You don't know what to do.

You don't know what the

right thing is to do.

And often we rely on our

intellect, which is not as

good as an insight because

our intellect, we're going

to make the same decisions

that we always make, right?

We're only going to draw

on our previous experience.

We say we, you know, our

previous experience, we

got to level five and all

of our decisions will be

based along level five,

if that makes sense.

But an insight will

take you to level 100.

And we can't think along those

lines because we never have.

And so our insights will

give us much more traction

and much more growth and

much more transformation

and much more change than

our intellect ever will.

So, but the problem is we

rely too much by worrying

and overanalyzing and

overthinking things.

So I love a quote

by Nikola Tesla.

Nikola Tesla understood more

about electricity and the

earth and energy than anybody

else, I think, still today.

And he had this

quote which I love.

He said, My brain

is only a receiver.

In the universe there

is a core from which

we obtain knowledge,

strength and inspiration.

He said, I have not penetrated

into the secrets of this core,

but I know that it exists.

And, you know, we have an

intelligence behind our life.

We have an intelligence

that runs the human body.

When you think about it,

when we cut ourselves,

our immune system gets

to work so automatically.

We're not sitting there

thinking that we should

do these things, right?

We're not going to bed at

night and hoping and keeping

ourselves awake so we can

remember to breathe or we

can keep our heart pumping.

You know, you're not

digesting your food right now.

It's happening.

All by itself.

And there is an intelligence

that runs all of that and that

same intelligence is there

to guide us through our life.

Okay.

When we learn to rely on

it, you know, in the last

podcast I talked about,

Price Pritchard said,

rely on unseen forces.

And this is the

same thing, right?

This unseen intelligence

that is guiding us through

insights, which are built

into us to guide our life.

That's what they're there for.

So if you're stuck anywhere in

your goals, or in your life,

or in your business, in your

health, in your relationships,

in your family, within your

community, then look for an

insight, Really kind of keep

your mind as quiet as you can

until you get that insight

because once you get it It

really the best place to get

an insight is through a quiet

mind Okay, so when you're

busy trying to figure things

out, which is what I was

doing years ago It really kept

me stuck for a lot longer.

Okay, I didn't know it then

I didn't understand that

then but I certainly did

afterwards that When I can

feel my mind's state I'm

spinning on a problem that I

can't find a resolution to.

I need an insight.

There's nothing else is

going to move me forward.

Okay.

And then I have to pull

back and really trust

that that insight will

show up, which it will in

a quieter state of mind.

Okay, so look at what is

happening and where you're

stuck right now and how

could you, what could you

do in order to kind of have

faith that an insight is

what you need to move you

forward or share below in

the comments, what insights

have you had that have

really made a significant

change in your life that felt

almost effortless, right?

Felt like you didn't have

to make this big decision

and it wasn't hard and it

wasn't hard to implement.

What insight did you have

that was really bit of

a life changing moment.

Let me know in your

comments below.