Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - #125: Stop Sabotaging! Find Out How to Have the Life you DESERVE With Dr. Josh Wagner

Episode Date: June 29, 2021

Have you ever worked and worked and worked and seen no progress!? Have you ever been lost and had no idea what’s holding you back? You may be harboring an Undeserving Belief that is dragging you down! Don’t worry. Today I have Dr. Josh Wagner with me to discuss the WAY OUT! He’ll tell us all about The Deserving Process and how to turn an Undeserving Belief into a Deserving one. Because a strong Deserving Belief is the foundation to success, happiness, and peace of mind. Let’s dive in!   About The Guest: Dr. Josh Wagner is an international speaker, seminar leader, mentor and author. He is well known for teaching doctors how to deliver the exceptional new patient experience. Now he consults, coaches and mentors people of all walks with The Deserving Process for moving through their biggest hurdles to have the life and business they desire.   Finding Dr. Josh Wagner: Website: https://drjoshwagner.com For The Deserving Process free guide: https://drjoshwagner.com/youdeserveit  Read You Deserve It: The Missing Answer To The Life You Want   To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/    Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you!    My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE   If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com    *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating!     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There is so much validity to having a clear vision, something that inspires you, setting goals. Oftentimes what I see is we put the cart before the horse and people in their self-development and professional development quest, focus on that and don't ever acknowledge, well, what's the stuff sabotaging me? So you can have the vision board. You can have the affirmations. You can have the crystal clear goals. You can have the action plan.

That's the mansion. But if it's on top of undeserving beliefs, you're trying to build a mansion on top of the swamp. and there's going to be self-sabotage. I'm on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals. Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. I'm ready for my close-up.

Hi, and welcome back. Today, we are sitting down with Dr. Josh Wagner, an international speaker, seminar leader, mentor, chiropractor, and author who has been featured in Forbes, ABC, CBS, NBC, Good Morning, La La Land. He's the author of You Deserve It, the Missing Answer to the Life You Want. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to get into this. His undeserving belief mentality shows how people can unconsciously hinder their chances of success in their goals.

Dr. Wagner, thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Heather. Thanks for having me. So this is crazy. I have so many questions around this. First of all, here's my first question. And I apply it to myself first, right? How do I know if I have this problem?

How does somebody know if it's an unlawful? unconscious belief. That sounds so tricky. Good question. Let's make it a lot simpler. So the undeserving belief, that doesn't take a lot of explanation or uncovering a lot of people. When you're stuck, it could be career-wise, it could be just happiness, it could be money, any area of life, if you're stuck and you're really putting effort toward that area, there's a friction. If you just ask yourself, do I truly believe I deserve what I'm going for? Oftentimes, you'll get that little voice in your head that says no. Or you get no voice, which is also a no. Or you get a yes. And if there truly is friction, meaning you're self-sabotaging, you're procrastinating. If you dig deeper,

there's most likely undeserving beliefs. So instead of trying to figure out where they are, just think, where am I stuck in life? Where am I self-sabotaging when I say I want something, but I'm not acting on it or I'm acting on it, but doing the things that we all know are causing, I guess to not get the results. So I just say look at your life and what are you going for. You're stopped and you're really putting effort. This is again, and I'm hammering this because I'm so confused. So I'm going to use myself as an example, right? I was in corporate America. I was very successful. I got fired three years ago and I had to start over as an entrepreneur. It's hard, right? It's not easy. You know, you made the shift from being in the medicine business being chiropractor to now, you know,

being out working for yourself. That shift, it's confusing to me. Is it hard because it's a grind and to get a business off the ground as a grind? Or does it mean there's undeserving beliefs that are holding me back? Yeah, good question. So it doesn't mean that stuff shouldn't be hard. Like anyone who's starting a business, yeah, expect to work 24-7 for the first five years for it to do really well. And if you get, you know, if it's better than that, congratulations. But that's just, you should expect that. And anyone telling you differently, be careful. There's a difference. Are you working hard and you're making progress? Like Heather, I would say you're making progress. You're not stuck. You're not just scraping by. You're making progress. You're increasing. You're growing. Things are going well. If you're really putting in effort and time and you're not progress and you're getting beaten down and again, you just feel stuck or trapped, that's a big difference. So I'm not saying life doesn't throw curveballs at you. Life isn't tough. It takes effort and energy and all that. but are you making progress? So if you're not making progress and it's constantly emergency,

nightmare, self-sabotage, that's where most likely there's an undeserving belief that's just dictating what's possible for your life. And the good thing is you're not stamped undeserving and undeserving isn't on your entire life every single sliver. Within money, there's an infinite amounts of undeserving beliefs or deserving. You know, it's how much you think you deserve to make, how much you have in total assets in the bank, your financial lifestyle, all of them are split up. So don't think it's something that's stamped on your forehead or genetic. You could have a deserving belief in financial security. So it's just being aware and acknowledging where are the undeserving beliefs and then doing

something about them because I'm not here to just point out where people are stuck and give it a label. It's use a process that you can get in and flip the switch from undeserving to deserving or strengthen a deserving belief so things really start moving in life. I have to tell you that I had an epiphany moment while you were speaking when you were describing a difference between things being hard versus having an undeserving belief. And I'm always thinking about work, right? Because as you said, your first five years of being an entrepreneur is consuming. However, when you were explaining that immediately, it just hit me.

I ended my engagement a year and a half ago. And I'm constantly always saying, I'm too busy with work. the pandemic. I'm not going to date during a pandemic. My mind immediately went to relationship. And I wasn't even thinking about that when I've been reading about you and researching you. It's so interesting, your point that look at and ask yourself that question through different aspects of your life. It doesn't have to just be work. Right. And so, Heather, I also don't want you to immediately think, oh, you have an undeserving belief in relationships. That may not be the case. Like you may fully just be, I really want to

concentrate on my work right now this year. And I'm not as interested. in starting a new relationship, that's different than you really want to be in a, let's say, romantic long-term relationship, but nothing's working. Those are very different things. Now, I don't know which is the case, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. You're more focused on your work. But if you do notice a pattern, this is very similar for people, where at a certain age, you realize a lot of relationships end the same way.

You felt one way, they felt one way, something happened. And there's a lot of people who just call them subconscious programming, subconscious beliefs. It's all true. When you dial it down to you don't believe you deserve to be in a great, fulfilling, long-term, monogamous, romantic relationship, well, what do you or the people you attract into your life end up doing to sabotage that? And so when you get really clear on how is my life progressed, money-wise, career-wise, relationship, health, weight, body, you start to see what are you.

are some recurring patterns. And if they're not working out in your favor, because you could just as much have a deserving belief, and then there's patterns that always work it on your favor, but those are already working for you. Let them run. For the undeserving ones, let's do something about it. Let's not just leave it up to chance or hoping the seventh time is going to be different than the last six times. And that's what I love sharing of people is not just pointing out this understanding, but a tool, a process, and methodology that doesn't cost a dime you could do from the privacy of your own home. Does it take work? work, does it take effort? Absolutely. But things will start to shift internally, how you feel about

yourself and the situation and externally when you rewire that part of the brain. So what's the first step that we need to take? Well, the first step before doing the process is targeting where do I need to do this. And again, it's not damaged my whole life. It's, is it money? What section, what part of money? Is there fear? Is their anxiety? Is there anger? Like, what are the driving emotions behind how you feel about that area of life that's not working out. Because usually if it's not working out, relationships, career, money, there's a negative emotion behind it. It's not that it's purely confidence and inspiration, but you keep not getting the position

or the venture doesn't work out. There's something deeper. There's fear. There's anxiety. There's anger. There's a core emotion that you don't realize is dictating the decisions you make, the choices is you make the people you meet, how people connect with you, they feel it subconsciously or subconsciously.

So the first is like your first question, how do we know where these are? Just get clear, what is stuck? Where am I putting effort, energy, and attention? But it's not really progressing just to know where to do the process. And then the process I outlined in the book. I've a guided audio online you can use. So we're not going to go into the mechanics of the process,

but really stimulating viewers to take that step back and look from the bird's eye view, where am I stuck, where am I self-sabotaging, and I'm committed to making a change about it. And so this all came to be from your own life and your own realizations? You know, adversity breeds resilience. So I grew up with the mother where nothing was ever good enough and everything. I was always pointed out what was wrong. 95 on a test.

Oh, that's nice, but what about the other five? I came home. MVP trophy from the basketball tournament at first. 13 years old. We crushed the other team and she says, oh, I feel so bad for the other team. Like, nothing was ever good enough in her eyes. And then in the sports world, there was immense pressure from my father that I couldn't make a mistake. So I had this perfect storm of life wasn't easy growing up. And there wasn't any sense of peace of mind. To me, that's what I value most. So that's why this is so important. I've dedicated my life and my career and my message to just

wanting to give that to people. Like, I don't care how much money you make if you have the relationship. I just want you to have peace of mind and whatever that looks like in your life. So, yeah, a lot of very stressful growing up became a chiropractor to facilitate healing and help people in that realm. And then I started seeing issues in my profession and I started helping my profession do their job better. And in that process, I realized that I can give the same exact instruction coaching strategies

to chiropractors. And some of them take it and see amazing results and some of them self-sabotage, procrastinate, don't act on it and stay stuck. And that's where I realized after 20 years of my own personal growth and development and consuming as much as I could find in the world. And then teaching over five years, others, noticing this understanding, the undeserving belief that I haven't really seen talked about, discussed, promoted in any way in the self-development world.

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the crystal clear goals. You can have the action plan. That's the mansion. But if it's on top of undeserving beliefs, you're trying to build a mansion on top of the swamp. And there's going to be self-sabotage. Wow, that visual really resonates with me because it's such a powerful analogy for what you can be doing to yourself. And it's scary to think. You're accessing the, you know, the secret and all of these ideas of, you know, manifesting the future that you want. You're putting the work in and you're just running in place until you get clear that first problem. I will tell you, another thing just came up in my mind. When I got divorced, I went to a hypnotist. I just came to this moment where how did I end up here? If I, you know,

I'm in charge of my life and I ended up here and I'm not happy with it, I want to start digging deeper into what is going on in some similarities in regards, you know, to what, to what you talk about and the meditation, whatnot. But I got real benefit from that. Did you ever get into hypnosis? Good question. I can think of one session I did. And, it was more of a trade-off back when I was early on in practice as a chiropractor and retreated. And it was more of a guided visualization. And I didn't feel a shift, but in no way, shape, or form by my knocking in or discredited hypnotherapy.

I just, I've never really dove into that realm. One of the things that you brought up that part of the process is being around or spending time around deserving people, people who have these deserving beliefs. How do you know to identify those people correctly, especially where there are so many people that have that fake aura out there or want to appear a certain way that I've got it all together. I've got the great marriage. I'm driving the nice car. But when the closer you get to them, you start seeing these things aren't adding up.

It doesn't seem to be the same kind of light that I would want. It's a great question. So before how to connect or how to make sure you're connecting, just for your viewers, the understanding of like attracts like. And maybe it's a Tony Robbins quote of you're the sum of the five people you're around most in wealth, in social life, in romantic life, all that. We just energetically, it doesn't even mean they're teaching you or they're telling you what they do.

It's just you start picking up on the people you're around the most, their qualities, their behaviors, how they tick. So that's why when you're around people who have what you want, you're more likely to think they're in the same way, make the same choices, cut out the bad habits. Now, in terms of being around those people, yes, we're not on the place. ground anymore where we have three recesses and elementary school and we can choose who we decide to hang out with. Like we have our fixed lives. We have our, you know, we're adults. I would err on the side of less social media and really think to your personal life and sphere of all the people you've

encountered growing up. Who are the people? Now it depends what area you're looking at, who you know have really happy, healthy, like long-term relationships or marriages. That's the person that would go to who's the person who doesn't need to have the flashy thing that represents wealth, but you know they're really sound. They're really secure. Just get real and honest with yourself. If you're looking for the next social media person, it could be them. It could not be.

There's a lot of, it's easy to false represent. I would stick to who's in your community physically. You can call and say, can I take you to have coffee or tea or take you out to lunch? and maybe that develops into phone calls or more in-person interactions, and that's the best way to start it. It's so true. My old boss came into town on vacation with his wife, and I met up with them for dinner, and I hadn't seen them over a year and a half or whatever it's been with a pandemic and whatnot.

And immediately, you know, he just goes bigger with his companies and he's been extremely successful. So immediately the conversation goes to that. And every time I lead him thinking, oh, yeah, I can do more. I can get bigger. And it definitely influences what you think is possible when you are around those people that they take it as second nature. Of course you're deserving of having a massive company. And of course you should have that. Exactly. And I have people like that in my life. And when I see a text from them, immediately my confidence goes up, my certainty like, wow, that quality of character

person is messaging me. And I think of myself as having extremely high quality of character and just up to something in life. And they are raising me up. And I, immediately start thinking differently in the day. Like, if I'm interacting with that person, that person cares about me, why am I putting up with this stuff? Because when we're just operating from our own headspace, we deal with a lot of junk, we deal with a lot of garbage, and our wiring of undeserving beliefs, when we take it from an outside perspective and realize, like, hey, I'm connected to someone that doesn't put up with that, then we won't either. And you just got to start the process. Reach out and how can you be gracious, acknowledging? And

yeah, who's not going to accept? Can I take you out to lunch? Can I have a quick phone call? Can I take you for coffee? And most people love not only talking and sharing about themselves, but contributing to others. So they actually get value of knowing they're making a difference for you. Especially in this time where people are just starting to reconnect. I feel like people are excited for the opportunity, you know, to jump on a call or interact and engage. And it's actually, I've learned this from, I teach a class at Harvard and the professor that I work with taught me the science behind when somebody is truly being heard and they see that, dopamine is released in the brain and the person just begins feeling better.

So they actually lead the interaction feeling great that you were listening to them and learning from them, which is really powerful. 100%. Absolutely. Do you feel that it's as important to get rid of the negative people who are mired in in their own limiting beliefs. Because as I'm thinking about the positive impact that it had for me being around my boss, I'm thinking of someone who is, you know, definitely has self-limiting beliefs,

definitely and constantly trying to pick people like that up can be very draining. So you're absolutely right. Let's think of the process. Like attracts like. So there's a level of that person's in your life and in your energy and influencing you in some way, shape, or form because you have a certain amount of that that resonates with it. Maybe she's at 80%, you're at 10%. Rather than trying to just cut them off to make you better when you grow and build yourself

up to the point where that drama, that negativity doesn't resonate with you, it's going to happen naturally. They're not going to feel comfortable around you. You're not going to be compelled to want to have a pity party with them or anything like that. So rather than cutting them off, build yourself up and it's going to naturally, organically move forward. You have relationships that have gone in different directions and it was meant to be. So do I. And focus on building yourself up rather than cutting off the fat, it's going to happen. So, so true and very powerful. What were your thoughts on the pandemic and people being in such a

negative situation? You know, how can they leverage that for advancement for them? Well, okay, so with more people being disconnected physically and in person and socially, there's obviously a lot more eagerness or open space to be online, let's say social media. And what I highly recommend people is to realize, you probably don't realize, how much compare and despair happens every time you're scrolling, whether it's you're checking out your friends or you're just influencers, ads, everything that's on it. What is it? The social dilemma, that Netflix documentary

that really recently came out, you should watch that and realizing extreme sabotaging hormonal cascades and psychological, undeserving beliefs, just getting implemented from the consumption of stuff

that really isn't, we don't need to know, isn't important, it's there, we think it's for entertainment or interest, and guarding yourself. So I'm not saying,

delete your accounts, throw it out, any of that. Just guarding yourself. For instance, do you need to do a first thing in the morning? Like, your mornings are precious. It sets the tone for the rest of your day, just like your childhood sets the tone for your life. If you're waking up and you're immediately checking emails, when let's all be honest, 95% of emails are stuff you don't want to see,

things you have to do, people they have to respond to, it's negative. It's rarely just positive news. If you're checking emails, looking at social media, listening to the news, which is mostly negative, you're just flooding your head with negativity, compare and despair, and all this extra to-do is in the day. And other people's wants and intentions just getting into your day. Eliminating that in the morning, and what do you need to fill it with?

Is it something you need to read that makes you feel great and inspires? Is it meditation or prayer? Is it some sort of exercise that break a sweat? You get your body moving. It's just generally healthy. principles. What are you putting in your body? The first thing of the day is it stuff that drains you or energizes you. But back to the social media, it's just being careful of how much it actually sets you up to be in a negative headspace and adding more undeserving beliefs when

you're just seeing the photoshopped pictures, the humble brags, the perfect life on Instagram, Facebook, whatever you choose to choose to watch. Well, luckily the phones fix that for us now if you have an Apple phone because my phone reports me each week. Your usage this week is up or down. If you have to look at the details and really dive into the data, it can be alarming. So I start cheering myself on when it says your usage was down 7% this week. I'm like, all right, for the win. As long as I have the information, I can respond and make better decisions from it.

Absolutely. And to make it easy, you know, it's hard. There's a new book out, Willpower doesn't work. If you know to do something and you're planning on just doing with willpower, good luck. It's a battle. But if you set up actual structures and things physically, like you write something down, there's six times more chance it's going to happen. Calenders, appointments. Things are structured, the more likely going to happen. So before I go to bed, I turn my phone to airplane mode. I still use it as my alarm. But when I turn my alarm off in the morning, I don't see any notifications. So I don't have to have willpower to say, oh, I'm not going to look at that. I just don't see it. And people say, oh, What if there's emergency, if you structure your life where there's not going to be emergencies, emergencies don't show up. It's the best way to put it. Well, for everyone who's been listening, who's saying, okay, I'm raising my hand, I have

undeserving beliefs and I can't build my mansion on top of a swamp, where can they go to access that recipe for success to break these bad, unbiased or unaware of self-conscious beliefs? So I give away a guided audio of me guiding you through how to do the deserving process at my website, Dr. Joshwagner.com. it's a free giveaway. There's also videos on just making sure you're doing it correctly. So you get the guided audio, make sure you're doing it correctly. And then I highly recommend either the audible, downloading an e-version, or getting the physical copy of you deserve it at Amazon or it's Noble. Amazon's usually the easiest. Thank you so much for the work that you've done for

everyone, Dr. Wagner. And thank you so much for being here today. Thank you. Thank you, Heather, for having me and everything that you're contributing to your audience and the world. Thank you. All right, guys, until next time, keep creating your confidence. Grab the book, work on your subconscious beliefs, and start building the future you want. Until next time, thank you.