In part 2 of this 3 part series, we will be discussing money and scarcity in the economy. Many have slipped into a scarcity mindset in these trying times. Abundance mentality isn\'t about what\'s happening externally, it ALWAYS comes from the internal dialogue we have with ourselves. There are many examples in life where opportunity was created in times of lack. None of the people who capitalized on this could create opportunities if their thoughts were focused on fear, the economy, or scarcity....
Apr 01, 2020•41 min
Kevin begins this week with a 3 part series titled \"Training for Chaos\" for the current situation we are all dealing with. We may be in a quarantine, but that isn\'t a reason to stop elevating your alpha! We will go over mind management, and why the world needs us more than ever.
Mar 30, 2020•34 min
Kevin goes into his experience of radical change from victim (beta) to the alpha mindset. The progressive change of thought patterns that were the building blocks of the model.
Mar 27, 2020•30 min
Continuing with beliefs this week, we\'re discussing how thoughts turn into beliefs. We use the brain to practice thoughts, in order to turn them into beliefs. We then use our belief to drive our actions, which will then reinforce the belief that gives us an emotion. In this episode we learn a technique called \"ladder thoughts\" and why it works better than positive affirmations. An overly positive affirmation is often rejected by the brain. Thinking a thought that\'s further than where you are...
Mar 20, 2020•32 min
Continuing the belief series, we look at the benefits of believing in the model. The model reveals what our beliefs are, no matter how the beliefs affect us. We look at the idea \"thought-swapping\" and how it leads to different feelings, actions, and results. Our life doesn\'t happen to us, our thoughts happen to us. And when we start changing our thoughts, we change our life. Get full show notes and more information here: https://thealphamalecoach.com/believing-the-universal-truth...
Mar 13, 2020•35 min
Last week we went over beliefs in a general overview, as we view them in the model. This week we are going to go deep into binary beliefs: why we believe something is \"good\" or \"bad\". We review how understanding that circumstances are neutral plays into the alpha mindset. Get full show notes and more information here: https://thealphamalecoach.com/binary-beliefs
Mar 06, 2020•36 min
March is the month of creating new beliefs with the Spartan Academy. We are going to take a deep look at what a belief actually is, and the defining characteristics of beliefs. There is a relationship between your thoughts and beliefs that we will break down in this episode. You will understand that beliefs are NOT facts. Get full show notes and more information here: https://thealphamalecoach.com/what-is-a-belief/
Feb 28, 2020•36 min
We often view vulnerability in away that makes us look or feel weak. In this episode, we talk about what vulnerability is, and how it fits into the model and how we can use it to live in a more authentic alpha state. We look at the challenge of being intimate without being vulnerable, and why we need them to work together. We make a comparison of the beta condition\'s view point on vulnerability, and the alpha updated definition. How we can go from giving away the keys to our emotions, to taking...
Feb 21, 2020•31 min
February is the month for talking about emotional intelligence at the Spartan Academy and this episode is one that’s been a long-time coming: Love languages. This thought-model is based on an international best-selling book, yet it is clear as day that there are flaws with the thinking it’s based on it. While this is not a book review, we look at the ways that this type of thinking leaves you stuck in the beta condition. As the love language theory places our ability to feel the love in the hand...
Feb 14, 2020•29 min
Our entire lives are controlled by how we feel. If we have not developed emotional intelligence, we end up suffering under the perceived negativity of emotions we think we have no control over. In this episode, we get into what it means to develop emotional intelligence and how it makes us free. We talk about how humans tend to seek out good feelings while avoiding bad ones, but how that tendency leads to buffering and addiction. A far superior strategy is learning how to manage uncomfortable em...
Feb 07, 2020•36 min
Recently listeners have been asking whether the Alpha state, due to having the emotions ‘under control,’ is, therefore, a purely rational state. In this episode, we discuss how the Alpha state, rather than being rational, is in fact beyond both rationality and the emotions. The Alpha state is a quantum state! We look at some concepts in quantum mechanics such as superposition and wave function collapse, discovering how the Alpha mindset works in incredibly similar ways. Rather than being in a be...
Jan 31, 2020•32 min
Get ready to hear about two high-level concepts that can be applied to the process of developing cognitive mastery in this episode. These concepts are what we call the Alpha Mirror principle and the Inversion principle, and in the conversation that follows, we break down how each of them works. These concepts are implicated in thinking negative things about others, thinking others are having negative thoughts about ourselves, and feeling victimized in a situation where somebody says or does some...
Jan 24, 2020•32 min
Today we take a deep dive into the abstract idea of what it means to operate from the alpha state. Remember guys, we are born into the beta condition, so the alpha state is one that we need to contend for. When we reach the final stage of beta development, we experience a period of turmoil during which we are uncertain about ourselves in the context of a community and have the sense that things are not as they should be. The good news is that once your consciousness of the alpha state is awakene...
Jan 17, 2020•33 min
Brothers, it is an absolute privilege for me to be your guide to elevating your alpha once again on the show today. This week’s episode is all about switching from a limiting ‘how to’ mindset into a place of cognitive mastery and self-empowerment provided by visualizing oneself in a place of ‘having done’. We are currently living in an information age where the chances are very high that a resource exists which contains all the information you would ever need to accomplish anything you could thi...
Jan 10, 2020•30 min
Welcome to the fourth episode in our four-part series on the results and benefits of cognitive mastery and emotional ownership. Today we focus on conscious action and mastery of behavior. We come to understand their benefits and also hear two techniques that we can use to achieve them. We firstly talk about the central pillar in cognitive mastery, which is that thoughts control emotions and actions, and that thoughts themselves are controllable. The tree analogy helps us to understand cognitive ...
Jan 03, 2020•30 min
Today, we continue to find out about the results and benefits of cognitive mastery and emotional ownership. This is episode three of the four-part series and it explores indomitable self-confidence. We’ve spoken about self-confidence a lot on the show and we all know self-confidence is the feelings we have about ourselves and all our feelings come from our thinking so what we think of ourselves comes from how we feel. We begin by discussing the five roots of the cognitive mastery and emotional o...
Dec 27, 2019•33 min
Today we continue the cognitive mastery and emotional ownership series. This is the second episode and it explores the benefits of amazing relationships. Time and again we have spoken about relationships on the show. So, this is a dedicated discussion to the bounty of beautiful relationships. We begin by exploring what relationships are. We discover before you can enjoy amazing relationships, you must first cultivate one with yourself! This is a pillar of cognitive mastery and emotional ownershi...
Dec 20, 2019•33 min
We’ve just finished the four-part series on emotion and today we start our next four-part series on the results and benefits of cognitive mastery and emotional ownership. We talk a lot about why it’s an alpha trait to have cognitive mastery and emotional ownership as a skillset, but what we don’t speak about enough are the benefits this learning will have on your life. In this episode, we discover the first of the four benefits of cognitive mastery and emotional ownership: Future-focused thinkin...
Dec 13, 2019•32 min
Indulgent emotions are those that you are comfortable with but don’t serve you at all; in other words, they don’t get you the results you want. Doubt is a good example of an indulgent emotion: it feels like it might protect you in some way when it fact it only prevents you from reaching your goals. Doubt is a beta condition that puts you in a place ahead of time, therefore anticipating an outcome based on the past. This outcome more often than not comprises failure, and therefore the doubt makes...
Dec 06, 2019•31 min
Today I am taking a break from the emotion series to share something extra special and exciting with you! The idea of an impossible goal might seem difficult, it might seem like a waste of time, but I am here to explain to you, brother, about how I think it is absolutely necessary to your growth and success! Oftentimes we set goals and the lack of results deter us from pursuing them properly. The right way to go about it is to rather think about daily steps towards the goal and forget about the ...
Nov 29, 2019•29 min
A lot of us struggle with social and approach anxiety, worrying and stressing about interacting with and meeting people. The good news is that this is a problem that you can overcome, just like I did! I used to find it very hard to attend gathering and parties and would find excuses to not go or drink too much when I did, to buffer these feelings. The main lesson here is to take ownership of our feelings and concerns. It can often feel like we know what others might be thinking of us or problems...
Nov 22, 2019•26 min
It is said that shame is the most human of emotions, something we all share. But that does not mean we cannot improve our relationship to this feeling and alter the path of where it comes from. Shame does not arise from things we do or experience, it is the result of thoughts that we have about ourselves and how others view us. As soon as we start taking control of these thoughts and rearranging our patterns of behavior in a more nourishing and intentional way, we can break free from the cycle o...
Nov 15, 2019•19 min
Contrary to what you might believe or may have been told, loneliness is not such a big deal. Like so many other things, we tend to think that changing our circumstances is going to make us feel less lonely. But the problem is never the circumstance but rather the thoughts we have about that circumstance. We often speak about loneliness as if it’s an all-consuming state of being, but it’s a time-limited feeling like any other. It’s fleeting. It also has nothing to do with the lack of people aroun...
Nov 08, 2019•24 min
Welcome, brothers. Today I am here to speak about the idea that controlling your thoughts can allow you to also control the emotions you feel on a daily basis. When you start thinking differently about the way you think, you start creating your life in a different, more intentional way. I talk more about the three steps you can take to reprogramming your thinking in order to get out of a victim state and into one where you are in charge of your feelings. These steps are emotional awareness, emot...
Nov 01, 2019•34 min
Today on the show I sit down to talk about morning anxiety-producing thinking and how it can be managed. I share some of the mental strategies that I have researched and practiced myself which have been very effective for me in learning to create more positive thought patterns in my life, which start when I wake up. Most of us wake up and immediately experience some kind of negative and obsessive thought pattern, which can often end up affecting the entire day. What most of us don’t realize thou...
Oct 25, 2019•32 min
Today is particularly special because we’re on episode number 52, which means the podcast has been running for a full year! I’ve helped many of you guys on your way to cognitive mastery, and today I’m going to be sharing everything I’ve taught myself and my students over the past year. How I will approach this overview is by going over each level of the model, namely circumstance, thought, feeling, action and result. But while it may be tempting to understand it in terms of positive thinking, it...
Oct 18, 2019•31 min
There are so many people out there who are hanging onto the past and defining themselves by what they did or did not do or what happened or didn’t happen to them as kids. It can be so easy to get wrapped up in thinking about the past, which is why in today’s episode, we are talking about how to get rid of it. The past can be 30 years ago and things that happened to us as children or it could be something more recent, such as choice we made five years ago that cost us the job of our dreams. What ...
Oct 11, 2019•31 min
Money is not a problem in and of itself. It is a mere circumstance. We recently spoke about wanting from abundance and not scarcity, which basically requires you to stop thinking about everything you don’t have and instead focus on the things you already have – and wanting them! It’s not the money in your bank account that makes you feel either good or bad, but the narrative you tell yourself about that money – what that money means. Separating money from the thoughts about the money is an impor...
Oct 04, 2019•37 min
There is so much to be said about goal setting and its effects! There are even some schools of thought that would have you believe that goals might take you out of present focussed mentality. This episode is all about how you can remain in the present while setting up for the future you are dreaming of. Writing out goals that you have dreamed up provides the brain with structure, it creates a framework for us to move forward and experience progress. If we doing the imaginary and solidifying part...
Sep 27, 2019•32 min
Rejection is not about you. When someone does not buy your product or your service, or when that woman says no when you ask her out, it has got nothing to do with you. Regardless of how terrible rejection can feel – that energy that causes shame and makes you want to hide – it is not a message about who you are, your ability as a man or your worth as a human being. It is always about the thoughts of that person, and nothing more. Get full show notes and more information here: https://thealphamal...
Sep 20, 2019•32 min
