#106 – Raise Your Baseline: How to Elevate Your Default Level for Lasting Success
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Episode Summary:
Have you ever felt like you make progress in an area of life—success, finances, relationships—only to fall back to your previous level? That’s because you have a set baseline, and without raising it, you’ll always revert to old patterns. In this episode, Ian Hawkins explains why this happens and shares a step-by-step approach to breaking the cycle. Learn how to gain clarity on your vision, build self-awareness of limiting patterns, and create effective solutions to increase your baseline. Plus, discover the importance of circuit breakers to prevent setbacks and sustain lasting change.
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Is there an area of your life where you
Speaker:feel like you get a degree of growth, a
Speaker:degree of success, only to
Speaker:drop back down to the level you were at
Speaker:previously? That's because you have a set
Speaker:baseline, and to make a change to
Speaker:that, you need to increase your baseline.
Speaker:Today, we're going to talk about some of
Speaker:the ways you can make that happen.
Speaker:I'm Ian Hawkins and this is Sporty's
Speaker:life. The purpose of sport, as I
Speaker:see it, is to see your vision become a
Speaker:reality, find your voice, create
Speaker:strong connections and learn to trust
Speaker:your body.
Speaker:You would have probably heard that stat
Speaker:about the huge percentage of lottery
Speaker:winners who end up squandering that money
Speaker:within a very short period of time, year
Speaker:or two. What happens is that
Speaker:people have a default level of success,
Speaker:default level of financial.
Speaker:Value that they value themselves and if
Speaker:they don't lift their mindset to
Speaker:be someone who has that money then they
Speaker:will find a way to come back to their
Speaker:level. And this is true for all
Speaker:different areas of your life.
Speaker:Happiness. Success
Speaker:relationships. You have a default
Speaker:level and you might have
Speaker:fluctuations up and down from that level,
Speaker:but in the main you come back
Speaker:to your baseline
Speaker:unless you do the work
Speaker:to raise that baseline. Because
Speaker:what often happens is you have those
Speaker:moments where you go, Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker:flying, but then suddenly you crash back
Speaker:down and you can't work out why.
Speaker:It's because you're defaulting. So there
Speaker:might be those times where you fall into
Speaker:a hole. Just got to remind yourself
Speaker:you'll get back to parity soon enough.
Speaker:But if you want to raise that line, if
Speaker:you want to raise your baseline, if you
Speaker:want to greater success, greater
Speaker:financial.
Speaker:Security. Greater
Speaker:health. Happiness,
Speaker:quality of relationships, everything.
Speaker:It's about raising that line and we do
Speaker:that, changing your mindset,
Speaker:removing some of those old patterns.
Speaker:Going through a period of growth
Speaker:by learning more self awareness.
Speaker:As many things as you can
Speaker:about how you value yourself because
Speaker:you look at the financial one. If
Speaker:you don't value yourself enough to not
Speaker:only receive that amount of money, but
Speaker:also be able to keep it and
Speaker:increase it. Then you'll
Speaker:default and and have a think about. You
Speaker:might have heard those stories and you
Speaker:know, there's no way that happened to me.
Speaker:Well, it's a great quote from Wes Brown
Speaker:that said. Along the lines
Speaker:of. If you.
Speaker:Be a millionaire or if you want to have
Speaker:vast amounts of money, you better.
Speaker:Get a millionaire mindset, otherwise
Speaker:you'll just find a way to lose. O
Speaker:it's the same for anything that
Speaker:you're working on. How do you raise that
Speaker:baseline?
Speaker:So some things that you can action
Speaker:straight away is getting clear
Speaker:on what that future looks like, what is
Speaker:it you're actually working towards
Speaker:because unless you've got some sort of
Speaker:plan. Well, then you have to again
Speaker:default back to whatever the the
Speaker:existing plan has been. So get some real
Speaker:clarity on that vision. Get some.
Speaker:Detail around it, get some process
Speaker:around it. So that's your first
Speaker:step. Then it's some self
Speaker:awareness on some of those patterns that
Speaker:unfold where you find yourself.
Speaker:Defaulting back to that, that current
Speaker:level. So maybe you've had a level of
Speaker:success. Let's use health for an example.
Speaker:You've you've been on a run of of good
Speaker:fitness, but then suddenly it all drops
Speaker:off the Cliff. Maybe you get injured,
Speaker:maybe you get sick, Maybe something
Speaker:happens that you need to dedicate time
Speaker:and energy towards you stop the exercise
Speaker:and then the pattern continues.
Speaker:So self awareness is the first step,
Speaker:starting to recognise the patterns. Where
Speaker:do these patterns show up? How often do
Speaker:they show up?Is it the same or very
Speaker:similar every time I have these setbacks
Speaker:when I seem to come back down to that
Speaker:same place?
Speaker:Because self awareness will allow you
Speaker:to start identifying where your
Speaker:leaks are, where your traps are, the
Speaker:things that are keeping you stuck.
Speaker:And then once you see where those things
Speaker:are happening. Then you can start
Speaker:putting some things in place to address
Speaker:those, to address the leaks, to address
Speaker:the traps, to come up with some better
Speaker:solutions so that you can then change
Speaker:what needs to change. And when you can
Speaker:identify what needs to change, then you
Speaker:can start finding solutions.
Speaker:More often than not, what you think is
Speaker:the problem is not the problem.
Speaker:Again, if we come back to the money
Speaker:thing, you think you haven't got enough
Speaker:money to make more money?
Speaker:It's not from a lack of
Speaker:resources, it's a mindset
Speaker:restriction, a belief system.
Speaker:A question of how much you value
Speaker:yourself.
Speaker:So we've got getting that clear vision,
Speaker:we've got that self awareness
Speaker:about where are some of those things and
Speaker:then it's OK, how do I come up with a
Speaker:solution? I've got the awareness I can
Speaker:see. The traps,
Speaker:then I can start building a plan. And
Speaker:you also need a circuit breaker
Speaker:because when you see the things that are
Speaker:happening, that loop will continue
Speaker:unless you can find a circuit
Speaker:breaker. And a circuit breaker might be
Speaker:having some external help with
Speaker:whatever you're going through. It might
Speaker:be that you need to change some of that
Speaker:you're doing. It could be that. You need
Speaker:to have. Some sort
Speaker:of?
Speaker:Assistance to help you
Speaker:upgrade your mindset. For me,
Speaker:my my first foray into
Speaker:personal growth was very much from me
Speaker:chasing financial independence. And
Speaker:the very first thing that I learned
Speaker:once I started learning from someone who
Speaker:was who was teaching other people to
Speaker:change, that was how important it was to
Speaker:upgrade my mindset. To
Speaker:change my mindset, to change my value of
Speaker:how much?Belief I had, how
Speaker:much I value myself and
Speaker:how much I was capable of bringing into
Speaker:my life.
Speaker:Once you raise your baseline, then
Speaker:when those setbacks happen.
Speaker:You'll default back to this new improved
Speaker:baseline. You won't drop back down again.
Speaker:So find a way. Follow these steps
Speaker:that I've given you. That's your starting
Speaker:point, and then, as always, then
Speaker:be. On alert
Speaker:for opportunities that come your way once
Speaker:you've got these three steps in place.
Speaker:You've taken the time to listen to this
Speaker:whole episode. Now it's time to take
Speaker:action. Commit to one thing you've
Speaker:learned today and make it happen. And to
Speaker:avoid any obstructions, join the Sporty's
Speaker:Life movement by clicking on the link in
Speaker:the show notes.
