EP 268: Thrive Through Challenge & Change with Guest Expert Mark Black

If fear and uncertainty are holding you back from making the changes you want in life, then there’s only one hurdle you need to overcome. 

Yourself.

For most of us, the limitations we create are self-inflicted. They are merely perceptions that can be overcome by making one simple change.

Make the decision that you CAN.

No matter what your unique challenges are, the key is to simply make the decision that you CAN overcome limitations, that you CAN push past your limits, and that you CAN build resilience.

And if you think it can’t be done, then today’s guest has a message for you.  

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Mark Black. He is a resilience expert, coach, and author. His impressive feats of having survived a heart and double-lung transplant and the subsequent completion of 4 marathons are an inspiration to embrace possibility. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how to flip the script of your limiting beliefs and begin to look at what is still possible versus what you think you can't do. You’ll learn how to push the limits rather than believe your assumptions. You’ll also hear how to begin to embrace the inevitability of change earlier in the process so that you can reap the highest rewards.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right.” –Henry Ford

 

What You’ll Learn:

• (6:29) How Mark learned early in life to build resilience

• (13:01) Pushing beyond the fear to take a leap of faith

• (17:44) The opportunity cost of waiting for change to happen

• (23:40) What you can learn from his life experience

• (30:35) The real power that coaching provides 

 

Favorite Quotes:

1. “Everybody's got stuff. Somebody else's stuff is different than yours. But that's not the reason why you can't. It just means you have to adapt in different ways to deal with it.” –Mark Black

2. “Most people don't achieve the happiness, fulfillment, joy, peace of mind balance that they want for their life because of the things that they believe are true that actually aren't.” –Blake

3. “There really are far deeper levels of things that sometimes we struggle to see because we don't want to admit that where we are maybe isn't where we really want to be. But when you can really be honest with yourself about that, that's where the power really lies.” –Blake

4. “What am I showing my kids that a career should look like? What am I showing them that adult life should look like? Do I want to show them that being an adult means slogging my way through something that I hate so that I can pay bills because that's what adulthood is? Or do I want to show them that valuing my own thriving is important because that's going to make me a better human, which makes me a better parent, which helps them?” –Mark Black

5. “Most of us are far more limited by our perception than we are by our ability or our capacity. ” –Mark Black

 

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