Your mind is your friend right? It helps keep you alive, keep your heart beating, alerting you to danger, communicating with the people you love. But what if I told you your mind is not interested in helping you succeed. Would that help explain a few things?

If our minds were interested in helping us succeed, they would not freeze when we want to say something to that cute person. They would not get nervous and want to die, instead of asking for a raise. They would not get sick on the day of the big presentation. You thought that was a coincidence? Nope, your mind did that! And they would not fight so much to be right instead of having peaceful, loving relationships. One of the biggest obstacles standing in your way of success is your mind! But you can change it into the biggest driver of success. Those who are successful know this and have created ways to do just that. I’ll share one of those ways later.

Our minds actually go into ‘fight or flight’ when presented with new situations or challenges. This is the fear response instinct that kept us alive when we were a more tribal civilization and had real threats to our