Now, on the Life Coach School episode, Brooke talks about how our minds like to make decisions from the past. To quickly summarize, the past is predictable and safe. Your brain wants you to be safe and survive. So, it’s easier to look at your past experience to always choose what to do. But, what if you can make decisions from your future instead? To take advice from your future self? It’s a different way of making your brain work. It requires A LOT of imagination and creativity. 

We’ve all fell into the trap of “I can’t because I never have before.”  That’s what your brain wants you to think about the goals that feel too scary and too big. Maybe it’s losing weight, maybe it’s finally getting out of debt, or starting your dream business. Your brain wants to tell you “GIRL, you think you can do it? You haven’t done it before.” That thought will become more prevalent the more it’s something you tried to do but failed at. 

Using business as an example, maybe you have the goal of building a six-figure business. But, you haven’t yet. Your business isn’t there yet, but you’ve been trying for years to get there. So, your brain wants to make decisions and operate from “We can’t do it. We haven’t successfully done that before.” This is very adult thinking! It’s fascinating to watch how children don’t think this way. I love the analogy of a baby who hasn’t learned to walk yet. It doesn’t know how, so to learn he/she falls down a bunch of times. They need help from parents, resilience to keep trying, and ultimately after a lot of trial and error will walk. But what if the baby, who was meant to walk, just thought “I can’t walk. I haven’t done that before.”

If we thought like that, we’d never go anywhere. We’d be stuck constantly doing the same things, in the same place, or worse… getting worse. But, that’s how your brain wants you to think about growth and change. You have to tell it to think otherwise. If that feels impossible. This exercise really will help you do just that.