For this episode on What’s Working Now, meet our guest for the first time alongside host Katie Richardson, who booked a meeting with Seth Ellsworth immediately upon seeing his social profile. Listen to his raw and inspiring story of how to get out of a place where you reached your dream and, yet, you’re living a nightmare at the same time. Reframe your mindset to allow you to be yourself, feel openly, and make good choices–today.
3 Key Takeaways
- Seth shares his favorite, two-part mental framework that will help you make choices the right way.
- YOU are the most important craft that you’re working on every day.
- Your mind is powerful enough to create and destroy; train it to allow you to just be you.
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Show Notes
[1:12] Seth tells about a moment that has shaped who he is today
- He played one game and was recruited but didn’t believe in himself, and that ruined his dream
- “We have a hard time asking for help. We don’t have a great awareness of our weaknesses.” -Seth Ellsworth
[13:35] In comes the identity crisis: Seth had to figure out who he was without basketball
[17:35] Seth realized that the day after he quit his dream, there was no more pain in his feet
[19:40] Seth figured out that his mind created those injuries because he didn’t believe he was good enough
- “Your mind is that powerful. It can create and it can destroy, according to our system of belief in ourselves.” -Seth Ellsworth
[20:45] Seth was to a point of misery in his life and decided that he didn’t want to be in it anymore
- His leap year day, looking at his journal changes his life
[28:50] God showed Seth that he needed to believe he could be the kind of person who writes in a journal
[34:30] After leaving his marketing business behind, Seth sought help identifying what he is meant to coach
[38:12] Seth started delivering the solution he found in 2008 so that anyone could participate in it
- “I learn by being the crash test dummy in my life. I treat myself as a client; I am the craft that I’m working on every day.” -Seth Ellsworth
- “I already am my own greatness. I just need it to show up every day. Getting my mind and my heart to the side so that I can be who I am is all that matters. And when I do that, business just happens.” -Seth Ellsworth
[44:05] Battling the inner critic, tolerance for pain, and inability to feel: what is the fear from owning that?
[48:35] Deciding to go to an EMDR appointment was one of the best choices Seth made
- “I have the distinct privilege of an overactive mind that is also powerful. We all have that privilege.” -Seth Ellsworth
[52:52] This is what’s working now! It’s not a hack, and it’s not a trick!
- You have to work on your craft little by little, every day
- “I am the common denominator of everything in my life. Why am I not focusing on myself if I am my craft?” -Seth Ellsworrth
- Seth shares his 2-part, favorite framework: choice-based identity and identity-based choices
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