Wits & Weights | Evidence-Based Fitness & Nutrition for Lifters Over 40 Ep 165: The Mind Trick to Stop Making Excuses and Stay Consistent (Paul Salter)
Do you struggle with self-sabotage, procrastination, or perfectionism? Are you looking for practical tips to address emotional eating and stress-related behaviors?
Today, Philip (@witsandweights) welcomes back Paul Salter, an expert in hypno-mindset and performance coaching. A mentor, a friend, and a fellow podcaster, Paul is back to dive deep into the power of the mind and share his expertise on self-sabotage, procrastination, or perfectionism, and how to uncover the roots of these behaviors. Paul also discusses the different faces of perfectionism and what fuels them. It’s time to understand your motivations and free yourself from unrealistic expectations.
Paul is a master at hacking the human psyche. Having helped everyone from elite athletes at the pinnacle of their sports to high-flying entrepreneurs and professionals across multiple fields, Paul has spent the last 15 years crafting his approach, which combines hypnosis, subconscious reprogramming, and mindset shift training. This approach is all aimed at one thing — helping you break free from the chains of self-sabotage, overcome mental roadblocks, and shatter the glass ceilings of limiting beliefs.
Paul is also a Registered Dietitian, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and Certified Hypnotherapist, and he hosts The Unstuck Yourself podcast. You are going to love his insights on how to stop procrastination and perfectionism dead in their tracks so you can finally get unstuck in your health and fitness journey.
Today, you’ll learn all about:
2:54 Understanding the subconscious mind
9:32 Psychology and mechanisms of self-sabotage
12:51 Identifying and transforming sabotaging behaviors
21:55 Psychological triggers of procrastination
33:44 Perfectionism tendencies and childhood influences
38:58 Different types of perfectionism and overcoming them
44:14 Techniques to align desire and action against perfectionism
47:19 What is the core emotional home
50:18 The question Paul wished Philip had asked
51:26 Where to find Paul
51:50 Outro
Episode resources:
- Ep 33: Sustainable Weight Loss, Emotional Awareness, and the Dieting Mindset with Paul Salter
- Paul's IG: @paulsaltercoaching
- The Unstuck Yourself Podcast
- 1:1 Hypno-Mindset and Performance Coaching
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