From Chaos To Clarity: Building Discipline One Step At A Time With Nick McGowan

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“Go directly to your subconscious and say: this is the thing I’m looking for” In this episode, Nick explores the concepts of self-mastery, discipline, and personal growth. He emphasizes that self-mastery is not a destination but a continuous journey, highlighting the importance of understanding that goals, habits, and disciplines can vary greatly from person to person. What to listen for: Self-mastery is a continuous journey, not a destination Goals and habits are unique to each individual Understanding the principles behind habits is crucial Finding what works for you is more important than following trends Small, consistent actions lead to significant changes Meditation and mindfulness can help reset the mind Self-awareness is key to personal growth It's okay to start small and build from there Listen to your own needs rather than external pressures Embrace the chaos and beauty of your journey “You don’t have to listen to what anybody else says. Listen to your heart, listen to your soul” Trust your inner guidance over outside noise External opinions aren’t always aligned with your truth You’re allowed to follow what feels right, not what’s popular Inner peace often comes from tuning into your soul’s voice “Your mindset and the journey that you work through with your mental health is your journey” Everyone’s path to healing is personal There’s no “right way” to grow mentally or emotionally Honor your pace and your process Comparing your journey to others only creates resistance You have the power to define what mental wellness means to you About Nick McGowan I’m Nick McGowan, entrepreneur, podcaster, and mental health advocate, and I've been on a 20+ year journey of personal development, learning to master my mindset, emotions, and the art of living with purpose. As a Mindset and Self-Mastery Mentor, I work with ambitious men and women who want to live their most authentic and joyous life, by helping them master their mindset, emotional awareness, and authentic communication. My mission is to empower people to lead lives that feel aligned, grounded, and truly their own. Throughout my career, I’ve built teams, streamlined systems, and improved client experiences across SaaS, media, marketing, and personal development spaces. Whether I’m leading cross-functional projects, optimizing SEO, Podcasting, designing strategies, or guiding clients through transformation, I bring a hands-on, solution-focused approach to everything I do. I’m also the host of The Mindset and Self-Mastery Show, where my guests and I unpack the stories that shape us, challenge us, and ultimately guide us back to who we are at our core. 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Please subscribe on iTunes and give us a 5-Star review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mindset-and-self-mastery-show/id1604262089 Listen to other episodes here: https://themindsetandselfmasteryshow.com/ Watch Clips and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1tCM7KTe3hrq_-UAa6GHA Guest Inquiries right here: [email protected] Your Friends at “The Mindset & Self-Mastery Show” Click To View The Episode Transcript Nick McGowan (00:01.272)There's a lot to be said about goals, discipline, and a lot of people have a lot to say about it. I understand that this show is the mindset and self mastery show, which in my mind, self mastery is just a heightened level of discipline. And I've heard from different people saying, know, self mastery isn't a destination. Like I totally get it. I don't think there's actually really any destinations. I think we're just continuously moving and doing things. But I want to talk about the discipline and the goals and habits and how all that stuff works. I'm sure you've read all the different books. You've listened to all the different things you've heard from all the different people. You've watched all the reels and Tik Toks and all this stuff about all these things. And there are great bits and pieces in all of it. And some of it may have spoke directly to you where you're like, this is exactly it. This is what I needed. Mr. Clear, you know, from the atomic habits or this is what I need, whatever it is. I want us all to understand selfishly that we are all different. And the reason why I say selfishly is because I would like for us all to understand that. You may not, somebody else may not, but I would really love for us all to be able to understand that goals, habits, disciplines, all of those things can look and probably do look vastly different for every single person. There are principles to each of these though. Like yes, it can take X amount of time to form a habit. Some will say seven days, some will say 14, some will say 30, some will say six months. I think that kind of goes along with if you practice the wrong things, you're never gonna get the right things. You gotta know what those right things are to be able to practice on. And I want to give a little bit of an example. I've talked about journaling different times. You probably even heard me talk kind of poorly about it in different episodes and interviews that I've had with people because I've tried that and that's not really my jam. However, I'm probably two or three days away from starting the artist way and writing out multiple pages per day and given that a shot and seeing Nick McGowan (02:28.746)if how I was doing something before wasn't actually aligned with me, but that the act of can help me. The principle underneath of it, of being able to write and be able to have from your brain to your hand and doing the act of makes total sense to me. I think of that almost like music too. I'll think about a thing, my hands will move and I'll play guitar. I'll think about a thing, my vocals will move and my vocal cords will move and I will sing a thing. There are principles in place for a reason and there are ways that these things work. How we do it and the flavor that we do for all of this is really up to us. Now, if you talk to somebody or rather hear somebody on some podcast or social media clip and they talk about, they do meditations for three hours a day and they do all these other things and you think, that's crazy. Maybe it is. Maybe it's not. To those people, it's clearly not. To the people that subscribe to that. clearly not. For you it might be a little different. So if that automatically comes up then you can think well why do I think that? Well I think of the amount of time or I think of this or whatever it is but at least you're on that journey thinking about it and you're trying to figure out for yourself what actually makes sense for you. Meditation for me has been a thing that I have really really worked on for years and years and years and I am not close to being able to meditate for hours at a clip. I don't know if that is really in the cards for me, but maybe it is. Maybe it's just not right now today, but down the road it may be. However, I do know that meditation and quieting my mind, helping me reset and be present with myself and with my creator, that actually really helps me. And I can think back to… A few years ago where I was trying to just do the thing and I was trying to meditate and my brain would just go all over the place and I thought, well, this is part of it. And in some ways it is, but some ways it was also, I wasn't actually rooted into it to be able to say, I'm going to do this thing and I'm just going to do it. However, it looks today is how it looks today and what it looks like tomorrow is kind of tomorrow's problem and taking the small steps with that. So. Nick McGowan (04:54.87)I've had different times of meditations where I've gone 20 minutes, 30 minutes. I had a few hour long ones and I'm surprised I didn't even fall asleep. But for the most part, the consistency and the habit of meditating at least once or twice a day for even just a few minutes has taken me a long time to be able to get to. And sometimes it doesn't happen all the time. There might be a few days or a week or a few weeks even where I don't because I've gotten myself out of the habit of it. Now I find that sometimes it can be really difficult if you're moving around a lot. We travel during the summers and… travel at different times and we live in a tiny home so sometimes space and the volume of things can be a lot. But being able to find what that looks like for you, what's that little space that you can take in that moment right then and there or something you can plan for that day, just that day though, not the next day or something I'm gonna do for 90 years. Just do the thing today and being able to start with that one thing. I use an app called Insight Timer that a friend of mine from years and years ago told me about literally when I was struggling. I was like, man, I'm trying to meditate using these different YouTube videos.

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