Sometimes, we all stop and think about where our life is going and feel like we’re meant to accomplish more. Life might be good, but there’s something inside that is urging us to grow and do something bigger, and we are willing to work for it. It’s a feeling many of us have had, and it often leads to big changes. When you feel like this, how do you turn that feeling into real steps forward?

In this episode, I sit down with Christian Ray Flores, a performance coach and entrepreneur. He discusses the common experience  that we seek more in life despite achieving some level of success. He explains the concept of hedonic adaptation and the natural cycles of life, including the need for personal growth and fulfillment at different stages. Redefine success — tune in today!
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Embracing Growth and Change with Christian Ray Flores
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. We’ve had some episodes that have covered some broad topics and we’ve also had some episodes that have covered some specifics, specific aspects about starting a business, specific pursuits, specific components of our lives. Today, I want to take us a little bit back to the more broad topic because we’ve all found ourselves in that situation and I think the broad category of experiences around the situation can be I’m looking at my life and maybe it’s okay, maybe it’s not, but I know I’m capable of something more and I have the desire for something more, I have the willingness to work for it, which is the situation that a lot of people find themselves in and I found myself in quite a bit throughout my life. To touch on this topic, I would like to introduce to you my guest today, Christian Ray Flores, who is an entrepreneur, evangelist, media producer, and a performance coach.
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Christian, welcome to the program.

 

Thank you for having me.

 

Thank you so much for joining. So, as a performance coach, you work with a lot of people in the situation that I just kind of described there where someone’s saying, “Okay, I’m taking a look at my life and I’m deciding that I’m ready for something more, I want something more, I’m capable of something more.”

 

Yes, a lot. Me, actually, most of the people I work with are in that space. 

 

Yeah, I can imagine that. What’s a good way to kind of wrap your head around it, starts with a feeling, I’m assuming, for most people but –

 

It totally does, yeah. 

 

Right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an excellent question, by the way. Thank you for setting me up for success here. You know what I think? I think what happens is that the world changes around us and we change and those are the main reasons why we find ourselves in these places where we go, “You know what worked for me two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, it’s just not working for me anymore. It’s just not satisfying me and something that I would be grateful for five years ago, it’s just not enough, and what do I do with that now? What kind of moves do I need to make? What kind of skills do I need to acquire? What risks do I need to take?” And that is sort of in the back of our mind. It’s a little voice telling you, “Is this all there is?” and, yes, and I think the – I’ll tell you a story of – I’ve had so many of those, so many. I can count at the very least five big ones where I’ve made, as a result of that thought, thinking about it, talking to some people, making a switch that is dramatically into another lane professionally, for example, so I’ve had five different careers, and I think I can name maybe five more that are more minor but also significant. But I’ll tell you a story of one of the earliest ones. One of the earliest ones earliest ones was I think it describes the situation when you have acquired your first level of success, you professionally have mastery, maybe you’re a senior executive, VP,