Well hello friends. I hope you guys had a good week!Mine has been amazing!June has been a month of big important (and I believe life-changing) decisions in my career and life.That has inspired and motivated me.And as a result, I’ve probably gotten more done in the past week than I have in the past three months combined. Though my own daily self-coaching, it’s been fun to dive in and explore the reasons for this sudden burst of motivation. You see, the past few years have DEFINITELY been interesting and good for me - a time of preparing and exploring and testing. But that’s now turned into a time when I start making ALL those things come true.Talking has turned into consistent doing.But why?Well, it really comes down to something I call Thought Clusters. I thought it was important to cover this today because it builds off last week’s episode around Thought Maintenance.So, if you haven’t listened to that yet, I encourage you to listen to episode 23. In that, we explore the importance of doing regular self-coaching, using the approach we teach in our practice. This helps you gain awareness in your regular patterns of thinking. And once you do, you gain awareness into the ones that SERVE you vs. the ones that DON’T.A SUPER important thing to do on a regular basis and especially in your career as it helps you uncover your blind spots, eliminate thinking and behavioral patterns that hold you back and allow you to CHOOSE new, empowering ones that move you forward.Honestly, I SO wish I’d known this stuff earlier in my career. And I had so many DM’s and emails from you guys this past week that I thought it would be good to dig a little deeper into the role thoughts play in our fulfillment and our level of achievement or success.So, this week, I wanted to talk about Thought Clusters. This concept was inspired by the principles behind cognitive behavior therapy, a form of psychology that is based on the belief that:·         Problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking.·         And in part on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior.·         And that you can learn to change or cope with these things through self-awareness and learning to recognize your own distortions in thinking that created the problems in the first place. And how to change it going forward. This type of psychology was the inspiration for the coaching method I became certified in. Which teaches you how to gain awareness of your thoughts and proactively CHOOSE to think NEW ones that empower you.So, the idea behind Thought Clusters was to illustrate how ONE thought becomes a CLUSTER of similar thoughts, many times each escalates or builds on the one before.This can work towards either the positive or the negative side.When it comes to the negative or downside, psychologists call this “catastrophizing” which is defined as a cognitive distortion that happens when people jump to the worst possible conclusion, usually with limited info or objection reason. Even if a situation is mildly upsetting, some can end up feeling like they are in a HUGE crisis. This happens because of Thought Clusters.One thought can multiply.To learn more, listen to the episode.Do you have a question you'd like to have addressed on the podcast? Want to give us some feedback or suggestions? Click here to send us a text.Follow us on Instagram @thepurposefulcareer.Learn more about Next Level, our monthly membership at https://www.thepurposefulcareer.com/nextlevel.