122: I Rewired My Brain in 30 Days with Self Hypnosis. Here's What Happened with Coach Polly

Coach Polly solo this week- talking FEAR and how it can be totally irrational and still feel completely real. I know that firsthand, and for a long time I kept treating it like a discipline problem: read another book, make a bigger plan, try harder, push through. Then I noticed the same thing many of us notice in private, the loop of “I know better” followed by the same old pattern. That’s not weakness. It’s conditioning.

I’m sharing what shifted after committing to the Silva Method (a practical form of self hypnosis) and applying it to the real root issue for me: an outdated identity wired for doubt and financial fear. We talk about why the brain defaults to what’s familiar, how predictive coding keeps running yesterday’s script, and why willpower crashes under stress and decision fatigue. When you understand that the subconscious mind is driving most thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, the path forward gets clearer: stop fighting the surface and update the program underneath.

You’ll hear the exact approach I used during a “Miracle Quarter” and a “Year to Live” lens that made me unwilling to keep carrying negative emotional baggage. I break down the simplest way to start, why consistency matters more than intensity, and how emotionally charged repetition plus vivid mental rehearsal can create new neural pathways without turning your life into a complicated self improvement project.

If you’re ready to rewire a habit loop, calm anxious thoughts, or build real confidence from the inside out, hit play and choose one area to train for 30 days. If this lands for you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s stuck, and leave a review so more people can find the tools to change.

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Transcript

Why I Tried Brain Rewiring

Polly Mertens 0:07

Hey superstars, Polly here, and no Sam Pruitt. It is a solo episode today, and this is me sharing. I I know we have a title, I Rewired My Brain in 30 Days, and here's what happened. Not meaning to be like all sizzly or whatever, but I am excited to share what I've been noticing. Um, in a previous episode, we had talked about how I was doing the Silva method, and uh Silva method is a form of self-hypnosis. I could think it is. I mean, it's maybe called its own thing, but basically, for I've probably been doing it five weeks now, so more than 30 days, and I just wanted to share some things with you. And, you know, if you don't know my background, I had an eating disorder for 20 years. I've been now 20 years without an eating disorder, and that was a hard frickin' road. So just so you know, eating disorders, addictions, major habit patterns, it can feel like a prison. You know, you can be super tied into it, right? And you're like, how come I can't get out of this? And I fought and fought and fought that damn eating disorder. Um, and since then, you know, I've done a lot of work in personal development. And, you know, I've even I'm even a hypnotherapist and I know this hypnosis stuff, and I wasn't necessarily using it. And something clicked earlier this year, thank gosh. And I did something about it. So, you know, besides the eating disorder, which was a hell of an overcome story, I feel like this is my next major breakthrough. And I'm excited to share it with you guys, you know, what's been happening, the results I'm seeing. And I just want to like say I'm a huge fan of all things hypnosis, all things rewiring the brain, whatnot. So, you know, if you're like me, and I've done this, and I still have this in areas of my life. So I'm not here to say, like, I'm perfect, I figured it all out, right? But like, you know what to do, right? Maybe you're like me, you've read the books, you listen to the podcast, you know, and you've had that moment where like something clicks and you're like, all right, this is it. This is the time, I'm gonna do something different. And then you don't, you know, or you go back on it, right? And I'm even in a group right now in my mastermind group, and we meet weekly. And I just see people who make a commitment to something. And and as a habit coach, you know, that's one of my specializations, is I try and give them the advice. I'm like, start small, do it for five minutes, do it one day, you know, all these things that just I know through habit work. And they try and go big, like, I'm gonna walk every day, you know, for 30 minutes, um, five days a week, and they were not walking before. And I'm like, that's probably not gonna happen. And it doesn't, right? And then they fall down and they try and get back up, right? Right. Well, you know, we're not alone, right? It's just it's our brain, it's our wiring, right? So if you, you know, maybe you've had something and you do it for a week and then you slide back into your old patterns, you have a hesitation, maybe you have doubt show up, you know, the same behavior that you've, you know, already decided that you didn't want. Like it's, it's there's there's a reason why it happens. And I want to explain some of that to you. So, you know, at some point you have to ask like this question if I know what to do, why do I keep doing it? Like I know, you know, when I was in my eating disorder, I'm like, I know I just need to not put that food in my face. Like, I know I need to not do that. And I would still do it, right? Like, why do I keep doing this? Right. And oh, the insanity loop and the shame loop of like doing something that you know you shouldn't. Now I want to say that what so where I've taken this recently, and this will be in the story that I want to tell you, is um I'm doing it not with like a physical pattern, you know. So, like some people are like, I want to walk, I want to go to the gym, I want to do meditation, whatever. Mine was just all up in my mind, right? So what I was noticing is, and I've probably no known this pattern for a while, but I've really, since I studied the gene keys in human design a few years ago, it was like, oh,

The Shame Loop Of Knowing Better

Polly Mertens 3:55

okay. I'm sort of like, you know, they say in your DNA, you're predesigned, you're predestined like for whatever a health condition or an addiction or whatever. Um and it was like, these gene keys showed me that like I have a predisposition to doubt and to, you know, compromise and different things. Well, doubt and fear were definitely worlds that I was living in on the regular. And so mine wasn't it, it would translate into outward patterns, but they would be sort of like the root is the doubt and the fear. And the fear was around financial fear, right? Um, which we're not gonna go into that whole thing right now, but just know that like doubt and fear was what I was working on. So, you know, I just want to reframe this for you a little bit before we get into my story is like most people think that change is like effort, right? More discipline, more motivation, more willpower, like effort, ever, effort. But here's the shift that I just want to say um go about this differently, right? Change doesn't happen at the level of effort. It's not about more, more, oof more get myself to do it right. It's at the level of identity, right? And the identity is driven by your subconscious mind. And my friend Tony Robin says, you know, I there's no force stronger in the human psyche than the need to stay consistent with how you see yourself, the need to stay consistent with your identity. So if you have an identity that's out of date, that's locked into whatever patterns you're, you know, running for yourself. Like for me, it was this fear is like, you know, whether it was scarcity, not good enough, um, you know, undervaluing myself, these identity patterns. I just hadn't upgraded that identity. And some of that, who cares where it gets formulated in childhood or I made up stories or blah, blah, blah, whatever. Like I was living that. We don't need to go into all that. But research shows that 90%, 95% of our thoughts, behaviors, and our emotions are driven by your subconscious mind. You probably knew that. Like we've heard that statistic before. And it's not the part of you that sets your goals or listens to this podcast that's running the show. It's what's in the background, right? So if the part of you that is programmed by fear or hesitation or doubt in my case, like no amount of surface level effort was gonna override this for very long in my life, right? Like I would try and do this, and and it was just like, okay, just it's just my good friend doubt. Guess I'm just living that way, right? And I just want you to know, like for me, you know, it felt like failing and it felt like I'm just in this another fruit loop of just going back into it, back into it. And I would see it, and you might see it in your own life, like this pattern of, ah, okay, there I am, doubting myself again, right? Or I'd be telling friends, you know, having stories, and I just hear my own story, and I'm like, fuck, I'm telling the same story again. Like I was tired of hearing it, right? And tired of seeing it show up in my life. The financial struggles were like annoying to say the least, right? That's what I would say, like the the short version of this is I had a highway to what I didn't want, like the fear of running out of money, the doubt of like, can I, can't I, right? Whatever. And like, like it was oblivious to like success, and I can do it, and of course I can, and you know, money's coming, and whatever. It was like, nope, didn't have that pathway yet. So just know that your brain is wired for efficiency, not transformation, not your happiness, not necessarily your success. It's wired for efficiency, for safety, for keeping that damn body of yours, that you know animal alive. It doesn't care if something's good for you. It just cares if it's familiar. Like if it's something you've known, like inside of your box, you might say, or safety zone, that's what it wants to do. It's like, okay, yeah, I know this, I've

Identity Beats Willpower

Polly Mertens 7:50

experienced this before, can categorize it, know the risk, right? Check, right? Outside of that, don't know it. And so, you know, there's this concept in neuroscience called predictive coding, where your brain consistently tries to match your current behavior to past patterns. In other words, it's always asking, what have we done before in this situation? And then it runs the script and just does it over and over again, right? And you may not even remember how you got into that. It might have just been like you had, you know, for me, like I might have had, like I remember losing a job in my 20s, and I was like, oh crap, where am I gonna get the money? And you know, and this kind of thing. And you know, you're it's like survival, right? And so it's pretty damn important. So the brain wired for that, you know, and I I didn't go in and, you know, do deep psychoanalysis on myself. I'm just like, crap, I know I got it, don't want it anymore. But that's what's going on in the background, depending on where and what in your, and I'll ask you at the end, you know, like where in your life is this showing up? So that's why fear for me, it felt so immediate and so real, right? Even when logically I know I'm safe. Like, you know, I would have conversations, even with Samantha, podcast co-host. I'd be like, she's like, dude, if something happened and you didn't have money, what would you do? You know, and we talk through things. She's like, you would come here, you would live with us, you have some friends, you would, you know, and I was like, I know, I know, but the mind was just like running on empty. It had a highway to like, oh, I'm gonna end up under a bridge. So stupid. And that's where also, you know, and I had doubts too. Like I said, I swear that gene keys that said like I was predispositioned for doubt. I was like, yep, I know it, I know it. It shows up automatically, right? Even when I'm even when I'm capable, like all the things, like all you could stack up, like all the medals I've won in racing, all the careers that I've had, all the success that I've had, still doubt in the background. So, you know, these patterns they just they get ingrained, or you know, we come baked in in some cases, whether you believe that or not, right? And we just run them. And I just hadn't dealt with this deeply ingrained pattern. Like I hadn't really sat myself down. So the fear, the hesitation, you know, 20 years ago when I had my eating disorder, I didn't even go into how, I mean, I won't tell the whole story of like, you know, how I overcame the eating disorder, but when I finally did overcome it, I wasn't like taking it head on. I was like, okay, I'm this is, you know, I'm gonna go into this personal development workshop and I'm gonna solve this. It it sort of like came upon me, right? Like that was a powerful transformation in my life. So I just want to say, like, I know what it feels like to be trapped in something that makes completely no sense. Like, why do I keep doing this? Why do I doubt myself when I have so much success? Why am I so afraid when I have so much stability and security and I can totally take care of myself, right? It's just nonsense. So it's not weakness, okay? It's just conditioning. So here's where people get stuck, right? And I want to help you. And this is where I was like, bing, freedom key, unlocked, unlocked inner prison. So I have done this myself. So we try to solve subconscious of problems with conscious effort. We just think, ah, well, if I just try harder, if I stay consistent, if I push through this feeling, or just ignore it, or try again, or you know, don't be so hard on yourself. Oh, yeah, yeah. The problem is willpower, man, it's a limited resource. And you've probably heard this too, like studies, you know, in behavioral psychology, they show that decision fatigue and that cognitive load, you know, it's it's reduced, it reduces our ability to follow through over time, right? Like if we have a long day, we're doing a lot of things, and if you try to go to the gym at night, it's like, oh yeah, good luck, or try to resist that chocolate cake or or or or or those negative thoughts, or the fear thoughts, or the lackful thoughts, or whatever your particular, you know, drug of choice sounds like. That's why you can feel strong in the morning and completely drained by the afternoon. That was like 101 my addiction for 20 years. Is like I'd get up in the morning, I'm like, I'm not doing it. And then like three o'clock in the afternoon, I was just exhausted from, you know, being critiqued by my boss all day, or um, angry customers, or just stressed out in whatever form or fashion. And, you know, the shame carrying the lingering shame from what I had done the night before or the day before. So that eating disorder just like it perpetuated, right? And not quite in the same fashion, but I definitely noticed this leaning towards fear, you know, fear of running out of money. It's just like the umbrella of the way I'll describe it. And that was just like overbearing looking at my bank statement and you know, where's money coming from and this and that, and just lingering in that energy. God. So just thinking like, I'll just try harder, or if I can just be consistent, like, yeah, I'm just here to tell you, like, yeah, it you're not alone. It's just the way we're wired. And especially, you know, you can override your patterns for a short period, but A, the system resets back to what's familiar. Your brain's just gonna be like, default, right? Whatever's programmed in your subconscious mind, unless it starts to create new patterns and gets new evidence and gets out of that old rut, it's gonna go back to what's familiar, what it knows, right? Like, yep, it knows that you are a doubter, right? And it's like, okay, already, you know, and then and then we make it mean something about ourselves, right? Like, I was like, I'm just lame and you know, I'm a doubter, like I didn't have confidence. And it was like surprising to me because I have so much confidence in so many areas. But this was just lingering. And, you know, it feels like this Jekyll and Hyde inside if you have these experiences where you're like, I'm so capable, and then I'm such a piece of shit. I'm I can totally do this, and like I don't know if I can do this, right? So just that you're not alone. That's what was going on for me. So don't over try, don't try to override your system. Let's just get in the, you know, under the hood and you know, and update the the wiring, update what what's going on in the background, the subconscious, right? All right, so what does this look like? So how did I do it? And so it shows up in very specific, frustrating ways, you know. For you, you know, for me, it looks like knowing what I what I should take action on and overthinking until and then I don't, right? Or, you know, it looks like having opportunities in front of me and then I pull back at the last second. Or I'm gonna start something with energy and then just abandoning it, right? So if any of that looks like repeating like emotional patterns, you know, reacting the same way, feeling the same feelings, even though you know better, okay, that's that's something to work on, something to look at. So for me, it looked like that, like I said, the fear showing up where it didn't belong. Like, like there's there's like this irrational states of doubt and fear, just crazy. So that's just the underlying program. So, and I didn't even do this, I would say, necessarily as a 30-day experiment. I was I I bumped into the Silva Method. I must have just been scrolling on YouTube or something, and it appeared. And I'd heard actually, you know, I'd heard about that because I I was a big fan of Mind Valley and Mind Valley's founder, um, Vishn

Miracle Quarter And New Commitments

Polly Mertens 15:20

Lakyani, he teaches Silva Method, and he's a huge believer in it. And I was like, that's great, good for you, you know, whatever. And because I'm a hypnotherapist, I was like, oh, I know this stuff, but I wasn't doing it. I was like, wasn't doing it on myself. And I I even had thoughts at times. I'm like, why don't I use hypnosis more? Why don't I? I mean, I do, I would say in the evenings, um, one of my favorite things is sleep hypnosis. Like, I love listening to hypnosis to go to sleep and like programming at night just for well-being or you know, calming my mind and things like that, but never like with intention. And so somehow Silva Method came across my screen. I was like, you know what? I I did, I do want to like back up and say, So um, if you've heard any of our recent podcasts, uh last year in 2025, I was big involved in something called uh landmark education's team management and leadership program. It's a year-long commitment. So coming out of that program in mid to late February, I said, okay, for the next 90 days, I want to keep some structure around me. So a bunch of my cohorts from that, we all sort of graduated out of team one, and we created it's called a miracle quarter. So we're all in this 90-day experiment with ourselves, and like each one of us has whatever we wanted to get up to. It's like, okay, set your own game, create your own goals, outcomes, whatever you want to get up to, and we'll support each other. And it was like, wow, man, miracle quarter. I was like, I want some freaking miracles. And just so you know, and I'm speaking this out loud again because I love reinforcing this both to my own mind, which is listening and to you, my listeners, you know, like you guys have the listening for Samantha and I and yourselves to be powerful. And that is, I declared in 2025, end of 2025, by December 2026, my life will be unrecognizable. I will be unrecognizable to the version of myself from back then, because I was so tired of just a lot of little patterns, right? This fear and doubt that I'm talking about being a couple of them. And I was like, all right, game on, motherfuckers, you know, and so coming into this miracle quarter, I just started looking for things. I have a, you know, a list, and I'm not going to go into them of the things that I'm taking on. One of them I will double-click on because it is a part of this, and I think it's had an impact or they've worked together, is I declared that by the end of May, I will be an A like a master of AI, like a wizard in it. Like, you know, and I wrote some things like, I'll be like shocking myself how much I know, things like that. And I was like, all right, came on. And I swear the combination and the timing of those two coming together at the same time, taking on the study of AI and mastery, you know, all of that, and Silva method, and which is like accelerated learning and you know, just really um just programming myself for success and badassery and like having the outcomes that I want. That combo has me just on fire. Um, and somewhere in there, I think the other thing that's laced in here that now that I think about it is Samantha and I are doing A Year to Live, which is a program about living more fully for one year, as if you were dying at the end of that year, so that you really get down to the root of like what's most important to you, right? And so one of the things that came to me, I think this was in February, February or March, was like I don't have time for negative energy. Like, if I have a year to live, like let's play, let's enjoy, let's live full out, let's, you know, not be held back, not be stuck in freaking, you know, ruminating in doubt or fear. So I just decided like I'm not spending time in those energies. So, you know, instead of like continuing that that over abundance of thoughts and stewing in fear and doubt, I was like, I don't have time for this. So it was like a declaration. And I was describing it to someone who's like, um, I feel like I had these suitcases of fear and doubt, and I just set them down. I'm just like, I'm just gonna leave these here and start walking and go further into my life. And guess what? The further I get away from that baggage, it's like don't miss it, don't think about it, you know. And it's um it's a little bit, you know, eating disorders are a little different in the world of having an addiction because unlike, you know, alcohol or drugs, you can't set that thing down and never touch it again. You can abstain from doing that behavior. Well, eating you can't abstain from. So it's a it's an interesting addiction to overcome because it's the overeating in various ways or under-eating for you know anorexics, but you still have to have it in your life. Whereas doubt and fear don't need to have it in my life. I get this is one of those ones where I could abstain from those. And so I just set down that baggage, and it's like the and the energy. So part of what I want to share with you is like the thoughts led to the feelings. And I'm such a vibrational energy snob of like, you know, I got a year to live. I'm not gonna feel that way. I'm not gonna sit in those emotions, those chemicals any longer. So that was like one of the starts to this shift is just not gonna do it. Put that baggage down, thank you very much, let go, self-hypnosis, enter, you know, Silva method, enter AI. And then it's like foot on the gas, man. You know, so instead of just trying to fight the system, and I just was like, no, I'm I'm not gonna have those emotions. And it's been amazing, right? So what happened, you know, what matters most is, you know, and people tend to overcomplicate it, right? I would say first, consistency mattered more than intensity. So one of the things like I was just saying earlier is my friend, um, you know, he's like from not walking, like not leaving his house because he's so like indoors and you know, just working on his business or whatever, I'm gonna go out and walk every day for 30 minutes. I was like, oh shit, that's a disaster. Because it's so far from what your current pattern is. So I would, I'd always like James Clear, I love that part in his book, Atomic Habits, where he says, man, start with like the lowest minimal effort and just start there, like five minutes. Just put your shoes on every day, even if you don't walk out the house, right? Just getting like I did that every day. And then go up around the block or go to the driveway or whatever. I know that sounds like really you're like, why would I even bother? Well, the thing is like just getting out of the house, like make a commitment to get out of the house. And if you turn back around because it's like I don't have time for it, okay, well, you got out. Of the house, right? So, and you know, sort of like once a body's in motion, it tends to stay in motion. So that's what happens, right? So for me with Silva Method, it's consistency, right? And I wasn't doing hour-long sessions, I was doing, I, you know, I love um Jose Silva when you listen to his audios. He's like, five minutes a day is good, 10 minutes a day is excellent. No, 10 minutes a day is great. 15 minutes is excellent, right? And so the achiever in me is like, I'm excellent. So I'm gonna do 15 minutes. So I would say for 30 days for sure, morning and night, 15 minutes before bed, uh, and in the morning when I woke up. And then there's science behind that, I'm not gonna go into that, but you could do it for five minutes, right? Like just the consistency. And now I'm doing it, I would say 95% of the time. So like last night, I didn't do it in the evening, got home late, whatever. But it's morning, yep, got up, did it, right? And

Putting Down Fear And Doubt

Polly Mertens 22:55

I already have a lot of patterns and habits built in. Um, so you know, it's tying it to those other habits. But I want to say I also focused on identity, you know, not these outcomes. So I there's various ways that you can do self-hypnosis. You know, there's a lot of people who say, like, visualize yourself and this and that. I love not only like the mental rehearsal, but doing it with energy, right? So like energizing that feeling. Some of mine can get so powerful, like I just have just this enthusiasm or love or power or success or like excitement for what I'm doing, right? And uh research says from mental rehearsal studies that the brain activates many of the same neural pathways during vivid visualization as it does when you're actually living that thing, right? So in um various magazines and publications, they say that participants who mentally practice a physical task showed measurable brain changes, even without physically doing the task. There was this one city I remember they talk about um, I think it was high school or college, and they were basketball players and they had three versions, uh, three groups, little subsets. And so they would have, you know, the the one, you know, they're used to playing, let's say, or practicing, I don't know, an hour a day or 30 minutes a day, doing free shots, right? Free throws. Um, and they took one subset and they did in the gym, go practice for 30 minutes. Another group, um, go and uh mentally rehearse practicing and making free throws. And the third group, no extra, like they didn't get extra. And they all maybe like had their regular um teen training, but this was like additional. So 30 minutes extra of three throws in the gym, 30 minutes of three throws in their mind, and no extra. You might actually be surprised which ones improved the most. I was like, huh, I love this.

Silva Routine And Mental Rehearsal

Polly Mertens 24:55

Because it wasn't the ones that were in the gym throwing or you know, shooting free throws that actually improved the most because sometimes they'd miss, right? And so the brain was like, eh, I don't get it all the time, kind of thing. The ones that improve the most are the ones who mentally rehearsed, shooting free throws, and they landed every time. I love that. I love that, right? So that's the mechanism, right? You're not just thinking differently, you're rewiring your brain differently, right? And then, you know, also want to just add like bringing emotion into it, right? Like your brain and your body, like, you know, what is it? The brain is electrical and the heart is magnetic. So you're an electromagnetic field, right? So if it's just up in one part of your body, like the electric part, and you don't integrate the other part, the heart, the emotional body, the electromagnetic field, the combo, it's just a different, let's just say like it amps it up, right? So I would definitely say it, you know, change comes from emotionally charged repetition. Emotionally charged repetition. Like, not just like seeing yourself, like looking out into the future, like, oh, wouldn't it be nice to be on a vacation or take a cruise or you know, have a loved one or something like that, you know, have someone in your life, but like feeling the feeling of being on that vacation or having that person in your life and hugging them and like can't wait to see you and like talking to them and texting them or um you know, going on that vacation and actually enjoying smelling the roses on a hike or whatever it is, right? So the emo and as many um senses as you can bring in, definitely the emotional, like I said, the electromagnetic field in your body. Huge, huge. All right. So here's what like hit me is like, you know, I wasn't stuck because my life was hard, right? I was stuck because my identity was outdated, my mind was outdated, and it was frustrating, right? And then like once you see that you can't unsee it, you're like, I know I'm doing this to myself. Like I know that I was, I would just, and I mean, you know, as somebody who's quite self-aware, and then as a life coach, you know, I know what it looks like to identify patterns, and especially the subconscious ones, and especially when I see it and I speak it, I'm like, this has got to go. And once you see it, you can unsee it. It's like, all right, I have a pattern of doubt. I have a pattern of going into fearful, lackful thoughts, um, that you know, type that running out of money. But I just wasn't doing anything about it, right? And I just wanted you to know because I have seen it myself, is we are trainable. You know what? And I just want to say, if I can change this and I have, then you can too. Like there, like I set those bags down called fear and doubt, not picking them up anymore. The Silva Method and AI, like I am so on fire right now, like powerfully moving forward with belief in myself, belief that I can help people, believe the things that I'm learning in AI, like they're so valuable. And you know, I'm just gonna make a difference in my clients' lives in the future and all this stuff. It's like it feels unstoppable. So, and if I can do it, and if you can, then at some point you have to ask yourself, like, why wouldn't you? Um I I like I feel like I'm walking around with like, I don't know, when I learned hypnosis, like, this is so dang powerful. Why don't more people use it, right? And now that I've done this, I wouldn't call it an experiment, it was just like I'm sharing this with you because I was just like, this like has me so lit up and fired up. I'm like, people get on it. Like, get about making whatever, you know, change you're up for in your life. And so just like this isn't complicated and it doesn't need to be. And if you make it complicated, guess what? You won't do it. Right. So basically, there are videos out on the web on the silva method. If this is something you want to try, or you can find other ones yourself, or work with a coach, work with a hypnotherapist, whatever you want to do, but like start with one area of your life where you already know you're the bottleneck. It's not the circumstances, it's not other people, it's you. All right. And then five minutes a day, just you know, promise yourself five minutes in the morning, five minutes in the evening, you have five minutes. I promise you, you do. And if you don't, you don't have a life. Like get over whatever is in the way of that. And I like to do it, you know, going to bed, because your your brain is the most susceptible to subconscious programming right before you fall asleep and right when you wake up. So, you know, learn about this, try this out yourself. I just wanted to share this. And it's like, I am like, I can't wait to see where this is going. It is April of 2026 when I'm recording this, and it's like, look out, like, I can't wait to see. So May is approximately 30 days from my target goal of when, you know, it's said to myself, you know, I'm just gonna be this AI master. And already I'm just like shocking myself. I mean, I'm like, oh my God, I have 30 more days. This is awesome. And then, like, that's about six months from the end of the year, or eight, six, seven months from the end of the year. I'm like, it is gonna be unrecognizable. Cannot wait. So just know, like, start with something small, don't overcomplicate it. You don't have to have a perfect vision or version. Not every day for me is like jaw-dropping the most amazing, you know, self-hypnosis, but it's the consistency. It's right, it's like I go to the gym each day or workout, whatever, and they're not always just like 100%, not always slam dunk, right? But it's the repetition. It's you feel it and you see it in your mind, and then you do it again tomorrow, and then you do it again tomorrow. Because this only works if you give your brain enough repetition to believe you, right? So emotional repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. You've got to reprogram with repetition. It's not just once it's gonna do it, right? So I hope you're getting something out of this. Look, you don't have a discipline problem, you have a programming problem. Okay, your identity is not fixed, it is trained, it's reinforced, and it's changeable. It's changeable. And if you're willing to work at the level of your subconscious mind,

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you can change patterns that have been running your life for years, decades, maybe, right? So do something with this. Do something about this, right? So, you know, where in your life are you getting results that you don't want? Right? If you're honest with yourself, you're the common denominator. It's not other people, it's not the situation, it's not the world, whatever. What pattern are you still running that you already know isn't working? You already are aware, oh that, whatever it is, right? Whether it's a physical thing you're doing, the physical thing you're not doing and you need to be doing, or is it something like me, like a mental pattern, an inner dialogue, let's say, an old story? And my question to you is this if you had the ability to change that, why haven't you? Because guess what? Now you do. You know enough. I've given you at least one method, one place to look. Get on YouTube, it's little method, it's out there. So don't feel stuck. Feel an action, take an action. What is something that you are already thought of? If you've made it to this point, you probably have had at least one, two, or three ideas of like, oh yeah, I should probably look at that and do it. Just like, just freaking do it. Take it for take it on for 30 days. I promise you. You I promise you, it will, you know, and some of this thing is like we think we need like earth shattering results or whatever. Like, I didn't, I don't feel like this is earth shattering, but I know it's a pivot in my life. Like setting down the fear and doubt, that mental exercise, that feels, I don't know, that feels like such a transformation, an inner shift inside of me. So that is pretty fucking jaw-dropping to me. I'm like, wow, I don't have those states in my body anymore. That's freaking amazing. And layering that on top with the self-hypnosis of like, I'm a genius, I can do this, whatever. Like, it's amazing. So get after it, go do it, take on, take this on, take this on. If I can do it, you can do it. And if you can, you must. All right, my friends. Uh, wish you the best, Miss Samantha. We missed you today. And to all of you listening, remember how your life feels is more important than how it looks. And every day is your opportunity to find your awesome. Love you guys.