Weight Loss Mindset from the Cookie Monster

🚀 Plus: Slashing your mortality rate, a Netflix mindset and rethinking self-discipline.

Aug 07, 2023

Hey — It’s your captain speaking.👨‍✈️

Welcome to ✈️ Flight #152. It should only take about 3 minutes.

Here’s the flight plan.

3 magnificent mindsets
2 Dean discoveries.
1 recommendation.

We’re cleared for takeoff. Lets gooooooooo!!!!!

1/ A Marie Forleo Mindset.

🤔What this means → When you truly believe that thing you are struggling with is figureoutable, solutions begin to reveal themselves in unexpected ways.

🔥Why it matters → It’s the antidote to “That’s impossible!” thinking.

🎬How to use it →The next time you bump up against an “impossible” problem…

take a sheet of paper and write “This is figureoutable” at the top of the page
then write down every possible thing that comes to mind.
go through your list and pick the one thing you can do next to move in the direction you desire.

📚Read her book → Everything is figureoutable.

2/ A Cookie Monster Mindset.

🤔What this means → CooMon has created a very important category for food consumption — “Sometimes Foods.”

🔥Why it matters → Category creation is a valuable strategy to use to break down any desired outcome into more achievable steps.

ie. How to eat for effective weight loss
- Anytime foods
- Sometimes Foods
- Never Foods

🎬How to use it → Create your list of “Sometimes Foods.”

Here’s mine.

alcohol
popcorn
nut butter
cheese
dried fruit

📹Watch the video → A cookie is a sometime food.

**Great for teaching your tiny tots how to make good eating decisions.

3/ A Reed Hastings Mindset.

🤔What it means → The visual of a full cup of coffee on my dashboard is powerful. This mindset has changed how I drive.

🔥Why it matters → The best mindsets create clear mental imagery that have a profound impact on our desired behaviours.

🎬How to use it → This is a great mindset to share with new drivers. My niece is going to get her driver’s permit in 9 months. This is how I am going to frame driving for her so she can become a great driver.

📚Get the book → That will never work: The birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea.

1/ Habit investing.

🤔What it means → Habits are like money. Both compound over time.

🔥Why it matters → To leverage the magic of habits, do them for decades not days.

🎬How to use it → Adopt the identity of habit investor & start building a habit portfolio that will yield amazing results for the years & decades to come.

2/ Rethinking self-discipline.

🤔What it means → Self-discipline is not a gene. It’s a learnable skill, no different than learning how to type, knit, code, cook, sing, or play the guitar.

🔥Why it matters → It means anyone can master self-discipline regardless of age, ability or past results.

🎬How to use it → Decide to become a disciple of self-discipline.