#32: If I Spoke To You The Way You Speak To Yourself with Con Prokos
Con Prokos is authentic, honest and passionate about helping people transform their whole lives, not just their physical bodies. A Certified Neuro-Limbic Conditioning and Mindset Coach & Entrepreneur he openly shares his most valued role and biggest driver is being a Dad of 4.
Con shares his struggles in life & business, his highs, his lows and how he overcame drug addiction to go on and carve out not just a career in health and fitness but create a “life by design”. He epitomizes the philosophy of this podcast - “to change one life is to change many” starting with your own!
In this episode:
* After 2 weeks in business, the plan went out he door Con had “head in hands”, how he navigated this time
* The importance of pivoting, being flexible and adaptable & your support network in life and business
* Losing the love of his life and how he got it back (it’s not what you think), it started with a goal, a definite decision
* Failing more times than succeeding, being driven but doing what needed to be done to go from depressed to courageous
* Self Talk: “If I spoke to you the way you speak to yourself you would tell me to F off”
* Taking a 5 year business goal and achieving it in 18 months, what he did to make it a reality when the opportunity presented before he was ready & all the roadblocks he had to overcome
* Careful who you take advice from - “I only take advice from people that have achieved what I want to achieve”
* Importance of teaching kids
* Kids - the biggest inspiration to get fit, healthy and model to his kids what you can achieve in his life, body and business
* Thanking the people who have told him he couldn’t do it & using other people’s negativity to fuel his fire
* 41:10 A broken marriage that was the catalyst to ICE addiction, being detained in a mental institution, depression and stacking on the weight
* Trauma, pain, drug addiction, gambling - the spiral that ultimately changed the course of Con’s life - what was the catalyst to break this destructive cycle?
* Con shares his rules for success in life, some of them so simple but effective
* A different take on meditation - it involves a car and
* Emotional triggers, how to deal with them & how Con has used anger to drive him to achieve one goal after another
* Why the days you don’t feel like doing what you committed to are the days you need to fulfill the commitment you made to yourself
* We talk about friendships and the people around you, why sometimes we need to let them go
* His biggest fear is never living up to is full potential
* So much more
Another packed episode, so much you could take away and use to positively impact your life. If you only implement two or three learnings from this interview, pick two or three - it does not matter which ones and be consistent with implementing them you will see exponential growth and improvement in your life. So get cracking! Don’t be shy, let me know what you chose to implement.
As always thanks again for joining me, if you enjoyed this episode I would love for you to share this with your friends and leave an honest review on whichever platform you listen. #change1lifechangemany
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References
Episode #22: Being Scared Of The Gym & Why I Had An Escape Plan https://fatimaingles.podbean.com/e/22-1568629443/ [https://fatimaingles.podbean.com/e/22-1568629443/]
