How To Trust Your Gut Instinct And Keep Moving Forward

00:01 Morning dads, welcome to the Team Super Dad podcast today. Are or how do you trust your gut instinct and move forward? Roll Theme! Welcome to Team Super Dad Real Dads creating their best lives ever more time more money more fun You are not alone. You're on team super dad Welcome dads to the Team Super Dad podcast, it's good to have you here. I'm outside! I've no idea how this is going...I have done a tight mic test and everything. I've got a house full of kids sleepovers and...sleepovers? You gotta let your kids do what they want but not what they want completely but you gotta let your kids have a sleepover right?!

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02:33 Gut instinct is a real thing, there is actually some science behind it and I'm going to try and debunk or discuss or just bring to your attention some of that as we go through today. As usual Team Super Dad podcast in these formats about 20-25 minutes long so I hope you can stay tuned if you're watching on the replay give us a hashtag replay good morning Rob good to see you here and morning chap I'm gonna guess that's Chris Errington there as well so good to have you here! We had the first first Not first ever but the first is new guys, the F5 accountability call yesterday and so that's where all the people all the guys involved with Team Super Dad in The Hero Academy they come together on a Friday we go through the f5 tracker and it sets an accountability for the week ahead but it also looks at what you just had. Acknowledges our wins our challenges and what we're grateful for so really focusing the mind

03:29 Our gut instinct is also part of that. Interestingly, there is some science behind it which I can tell you! I knew it was about the rational and the emotional mind turns out The Jonnie Jensen Show, Jonnie Jensen, Team Super Dad, Team Super Dad, Team Super Dad, Our limbic system realizes something moments before our rational brain, like our conscious brain realizes it. So we see something or we notice something We sense something about an experience that we relate to something that we've experienced before Or we've seen before It's part of our memory and so our body goes...or a brain goes

04:27 I know that, i've seen that before it went well or I know that. I've seen that before it didn't go well so then our body goes... Then our rational part of our body kicks in and goes oh! That was interesting I just felt something It's like having a slightly slower brother or a best mate you know who kind of only just tweaks or they're like ah that's what we're talking about They realized just a moment later right so when faced with the decision this is the science, when faced with the decision your brain quickly compares the current situation with past experiences and if it finds a match it will trigger an emotional response which we often perceive as a gut feeling. Genius! Right? So now we know it's a real thing we can actually trust it better there is a practice to it though of course right If you don't use this

05:23 Go with your hunches. If you don't tune into the idea that this could be a positive thing, I've experienced it before how aligned is this with my values? What do i think of this person or this situation where do we go from here if you're not tuned into it then it becomes like a reckless thing It becomes like a whoa! Do we go for it?! Do we not go for it?? The Jonnie Jensen Show, Jonnie Jensen, Team Super Dad You're meeting people, you go into a room, you go into a networking event or you meet someone for the first time in terms of business. I get this all the time when I'm speaking to a prospective member of Team Super Dad

06:14 I'm Problem solving, problem solving your creative juices right when you can lean into your gut instinct and allow your brain really right allow it if it's an emotional response. If you allow it to expand then its going have a greater sphere of reference. If you close it down and be like I'm not trusting that, I'm not doing that well then guess what? It is kind of quite tight and bound up

06:58 In a strange way, you might not realize this is linked but micro dosing... Not something I'm a huge expert on or necessarily advocating but if you've taken drugs in your time you'll know that the brain and mind expands. And the things that you consider and perceive and relate to like oh! That we could do so this whole process is trusting your gut when you have faith in it The I'm not doing that because it's not safe. Boom! Everything else is off the table Well sometimes things aren't quite safe are the right thing to do and again if i use a driving experience you'll know sometimes where you had to nip through a gap well, not nipping through your gap could have meant someone was going to smash up the back of you or who knows what whatever else but um so

08:19 Being able to go for it, right? It's part of getting out of your comfort zone. And if you've listened to any of the previous episodes if you're part of any work we've done that you'll know that Getting out of your comfort zone is part of the R in the power code The reward, the fun, going to extremes knowing yourself as a bigger better person than the person you were yesterday That IS part of your well-being because when you shrink and contract constantly There's nowhere for you to go nowhere for you to grow If you're not taking risks, if you're not being bold if you're not out there doing stuff in the world then you're shrinking. Quite literally you are shrinking so your gut instinct is... we wouldn't have been given it right? It wouldn't be part of the machine that we are as humans if it wasn't

09:11 in the comments, in the comments. Why does your neighbor have to do the weeding during your life? Well funnily enough I did not schedule this with my neighbors it's actually quite nice to be outside having a coffee in the fresh air kicking off the adaptogens by being outside and if I'm lucky the kids are doing some kind of tidy up that's at indoors...I'm actually sitting on a carrier bag because this bench is so wet because been raining so hard Hello to all our viewers in the south of Europe where instead of getting pissed on in the rain, they're actually dying in 45 degree heat. So where was I? Yeah gut instincts! How can you practice this how can you evolve how can you grow your gut instinct right well it's there is a balance to it okay but you've got swing out a little bit right

10:15 Curiously, sports. Sport helps trust your gut instinct because the decisions that you're having to make when you're playing sport if a ball is coming at you at great speed there's a part of your brain where... You might have experienced this if you've gone and caught a ball like someone throws you something and you catch it kind of over here Someone throws you some keys generally that happens isn't it? It's like... You kinda catch them over there The I can't help but think you know that time when you're a bit pissed and you go to play pool or you play darts and like the first couple of shots are brilliant. That's because the conscious you is not involved okay, that's because the mechanical brain is taking charge there and just getting it done Being clear for yourself right about your boundaries

11:31 I'm Fears and concerns, your blame and resentments. Your resignation and hopelessness when all those are let go part of ownership And you are clear about who you are what you're capable of I am dad. I am father. I am friend. I am coach. I am entrepreneur. I am business leader I am firewalker All this is part of the I AM process When you're really clear on that when a situation comes up What your limbic system will refer to or go to

12:16 I am strong, I am leader. I am coach okay well if that's the frame that's the context and do you make this choice? So your gut instinct becomes something you can tune into more confidently it's when people live in a state of fear and anxiety upset and resignation...and by the way you don't have to be broken to be in that state right! Anxiety comes to all people A sense of failure and impending doom can come from I'm going to be talking about the most important things you need to know before you start a relationship.

13:13 You've gone through a hundred CVs, you've had ten interviews. You're down to the last two and the person you wanted says I'll take in a different job when you go with the second choice and as you're doing it you're thinking...I'm just not sure about this but we gonna hire them anyway! Nine times out of ten probably more so that person will turn out to be yeah the one you shouldn't have hired And the same in relationships to be honest whether is business partnership or your love interest When you know its not working out And you stick with it, you hope it can be fixed. You hope somewhere down the line more often than not like do you know what I knew this wasn't going to work out? I knew this wasn't going to be the outcome that I desired and that is your gut instinct so... you know one of the risks of not trusting your gut is that it creates something called a double bind again I looked up the science in this but there's a great video on on YouTube by Tony Robbins

14:13 Where he pulls someone out of the crowd as he does with one of his interventions. And that was my impression of Tony Robbins! The double bind, so you're damned if you do damned if you don't and that is where you know you really should be doing one thing but you're just not sure I can't do it what-if right? It's a paralysis and that kind of paralysis, that double bind will impact on your mental health because you're stuck The Jonnie Jensen Show, Jonnie Jensen, Team Super Dad

15:04 And the more you're indecisive, that will crank up your stress and anxiety. And guess what? If your stress and anxiety is cranked up then you're not going to be a very nice person to be around if you are not a very nice person to be around then that relationship gets drawn down into a spiral You will be able to relate to all these things The secrets of success are not that secret as I always say The Jonnie Jensen Show, Jonnie Jensen, Team Super Dad

15:48 The Jonnie Jensen Show, Jonnie Jensen, Team Super Dad, Team Super Dad, Team Super Dad, And I'm pissed off about it, it's huge! And that is what Team Super Dad is about. It's about putting an end to that and getting yourself up off the canvas of Rocky Balboa. It's not how hard you hit, it's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done if you watch last week's live you'll know that's what we focused on

16:33 Trusting your gut is a habit, it's a practice. And if you take on board everything we've spoken about today you'll realize how many situations you're stuck in that double bind You'll realize how many situations where you are not trusting your gut or operating in alignment with your values and goals and then you can go into like oh my gosh actually I knew this So start to notice that gut instinct more. It will generally happen around the gut, guess what? Second brain down there in the gut and when you understand the science of it its your... its your....its..it's the machine of your body going I know that I've been here before this would be the right way to go

17:16 Practice it, give it a blast. Give you a go and see let me know how some of the results that you're achieving I am gonna have to get going It's gonna rain really hard so a quick click of brand and we get the outro up Team Super Dad come on over to The Team Super Dad group teamsuperdad.com forward slash group And you can get in on the free community and the next intake at the Hero Academy is happening So go over to teamsuperdad.com forward slash hero You can find out all about that and get yourself involved. It's the second, it's a new launch, new version and you'll be mad to miss it! I can't wait to see on the other side Team Super Dad out! This has been Team Super Dad Find us at teamsuperdad.com Join the program and create the best life ever for you and your children You are not alone...You're on Team Super Dad