Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - More Than You Bargained For - One from the Vault- Episode 115

Starting point is 00:00:00 Great morning world. Welcome to the Rise Up with Dragon podcast with your host, Dragon. Great morning world. All right folks. Ready, set, grow. This is bargained for. But let's go over some dragon thoughts just to warm things up. So I wrote this down this morning in my warm up in preparation for this.

Starting point is 00:00:35 and it's always interesting how relevant and connected they are to my journal entry because it's a warm-up. Great Morning Universe. Today, I choose to be abnormal, not in the sense that will cause negative results. More outside of the ordinary, extraordinary. Why? After 51 years of experience, I've just never found ordinary of any value in leveraging my goals. There was a time when my current reality would have been perceived as impossible and abnormal, deeply distant from ordinary. However, today I have come to terms that this once extraordinary state has become my new ordinary, my new mediocre as it's running on autopilot right now. It's quite boring, to be honest with you.

Starting point is 00:01:28 So it's time to set my sights on a new impossible. abnormal place, a place that I can't simply try to get to. Remember, the difference between try and triumph is a little umph. This place will require an all-in, never quit, no matter what, discipline, and drive. It will, for the most part, suck, but I've learned to embrace the suck. Until that day that I notice that I've gotten comfortable once again, living in a state that the old me would have perceived as abnormal. Anyone feel the urge to join me in leveling yourself up to you 2.0? Well, feel free to reach out and run with me. So this is bargained for. What does it mean when we get more than we bargained for? When we bargain, do we bargain for less or do we not see what's possible?

Starting point is 00:02:25 Think about the word bargain and think about what you're bargaining for in life. What's the difference between bargaining and dreaming because we have a struggle with both of them sometimes. We can dream small or big too. When we bargain with our dreams, who is placing the limitations on our dreams? When you bargain with your dreams, who's putting the limitations on them? The universe or is it you? The universe of possibilities? Is it between that and you, right? Or is it you that's bargaining? It's coming from you. So we can reach a destination. that's beyond our wildest dreams as well. So that's what's cool about dreaming big

Starting point is 00:03:05 is sometimes you reach a destination that's beyond what you bargain for. If we allow that excess potential in, this can take place. By definition, to bargain refers to an agreement between two or more entities, and that could be you and another person or you and another idea or thought,

Starting point is 00:03:25 including your potential, two or more entities as to what each part is willing to do for the other in exchange for something in return of value. Typically, the process of bargaining is about getting more for doing less. Take a look at that right now. Whenever you're bargaining with yourself, the universe, or someone else, you're always trying. That's the nature of a bargain.

Starting point is 00:03:51 You're always trying to get more for doing less. This could get sticky. So when you bargain with your potential success or fulfillment, who is the other party that you're bargaining with? Become conscious of that. Can you see that you're bargaining with this learned limitation that you've been programmed with of the average success rates of society? You're basing the bargain on what you've learned.

Starting point is 00:04:17 This is another form of what the Stoicists say. In Stoicism, they refer to this as learned helplessness. So why execute the bargain? Is it a fear of failure or even more powerful, a fear of success, which we usually interpret with the word overwhelm? Why do we only ask or state what our proposed outcome will be? There's the limitation. There's the bargain. Do we need approval or are we just trying to show the universe or God that we're being realistic or refraining from greed? I know some people get caught up in that. This is what's referred to as outshining in one of my top five all-time books that I've read by Gay Hendricks called The Big Leap.

Starting point is 00:05:01 Definitely recommend that. I'll put that in the notes. The very nature of the bargain comes from the expectations that we've been programmed to accept these limitations because they are within reason. Very, very dangerous to do that. And that's why people struggle dreaming big. So we tend to have a silent conversation with the universe and godly power. that states an exchange of services, behaviors, and efforts for a reasonable outcome. Are you trying to be reasonable?

Starting point is 00:05:30 Are you reasonable in your goal setting right now? Well, that is living in ordinary life. So we do this with our potential as well with God. We say things like this. I swear, God, and I guess we're not supposed to say that, I'll never drink again if you help me get through this tough time. Or I'm going to follow, this is your conversation with you. I'm going to follow my nutrition and exercise plan for 30 days in exchange for a 10-pound loss.

Starting point is 00:05:58 What we don't know at that time of the bargain, and this is the value of putting that hard, inconvenient work in, what we don't know at the time of that bargain is how powerful and impactful the results and value will be from the work that we do outside of the one-dimensional outcome that we set. See, that's why it's important to dream big, and guess what? It's free, and you're allowed to do it. Why not dream big? Why not be excessive, obsessive, and out of the ordinary, it's where growth takes place. Not to mention the fact that taking a step forward towards your goal takes you to a place where you can move to the next step and build something called momentum. Typically during the bargain, we're not thinking about that and identifying that. This is why you're

Starting point is 00:06:45 allowed to dream big because when you take a step forward, even one step, you become somebody that can take another step. You can see something else. It's called peak to peak. Once you get to the top of one mountain, your one dimensional goal, you can see the top of the next mountain. And you can build momentum as well as gain confidence and clarity, evolve into a new you. This is how we acquire more than we bargain for. Are you open today to acquire more than you bargain for? So, bargain away, but my hope for you today is that you become open and curious to the fact that you will most certainly get more than you bargain for if you contend for your dreams and push into that inconvenient, hard work with radical responsibility today. Make sense? So as I always say,

Starting point is 00:07:36 you learn something today. Give it away because that's the way it's going to stay. So have a nice day and we'll see you next time. Bye by now. You know, Thank you.

Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - More Than You Bargained For - One from the Vault- Episode 115

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