Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I’m your host Kristin Maxwell, and in this show we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life. Today, I am going to be talking to Scott McComas about how to step into your superhero self. And Dr. Scott McComas has two graduate degrees in psychology and is a lifelong nerd and geek who is passionate about helping others step into their best versions. Using scientifically proven tools from performance and clinical psychology, he helps clients explore their purpose and identity, adopt the right mindset, increase motivation, set productive goals, address limiting beliefs, and improve communication and stress resilience, which all sounds like stuff that I can’t wait to learn about. Dr. Scott McComas, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Thank you very much, Kristin. Great to be here.
Yes. Well, first off, my first question always is, what superpower did you discover as the result of mastering your mind?
Oh, wow. Okay, so first, it’s interesting because I don’t feel like I’ve mastered my mind, to be perfectly honest. I guess I’ve been on a 30 year personal development journey that’s included grad school, grad school in psychology, and doing a bunch of other personal development work, and I think it’s an ongoing process, right? It’s a process that, for me I hope will never end until the day I pass from this place into the next level or wherever or whatever that looks like. However, what I have discovered in that journey so far is, for me, the biggest superpower that I’ve discovered for myself is self acceptance, vulnerability, authenticity, along with this concept of self awareness, because to be that best version of you, you need to have awareness. If there’s no awareness, there’s no choice. If there’s no choice, there’s no power. So it’s really this process of developing self-awareness over the course of time.
Yes. That is truly what is at the base of all of it. And I’m thinking that I want to go directly into the meat of everything because how do you develop awareness, this idea that you know what’s going on in your head and that you then have this choice to not think this or to respond in a different way?
Right. So there are lots of ways to do that. There are many paths, many ways to do that. I think the first step in that is to create the intention to do that, to be on that, to be like, “My intention is to develop my self awareness,” to declare that.
Language is reality. Language is your perceptions, the what you think and what you say. That’s what’s real for you. That’s what is real in your reality. So declaring an intention of, “I developed my self awareness.” And from there then it’s all about, okay, you start trying different things, really. I hate to say this but in a lot of ways it’s like you’re throwing some spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks, for you. Because this is an individualized process for everybody. Everybody’s on a hero’s journey in the way I perceive things. Everyone’s on a hero’s journey because you’re the hero of your own story. So the solutions that you find, the processes that you take on to help you develop that self awareness, whether that’s reading a personal development book for 10 minutes a day, whether that’s journaling, whether that’s meditation, whether that’s going to grad school for 10 years, and developing.
Yes.
It’s going to look different for everybody. It’s going to be unique for everybody. And one of the things I like to talk about with folks is that you’re building a toolbox over time and you choose the tools. If a tool doesn’t work for you but works for 99% of the other people, don’t use that tool. If it’s not working for you, don’t use it.
Yes.
Find what works for you.
That’s what I love, and I’m so glad. Okay, I do meditate now, but I was so glad that you didn’t say that the way to build awareness is to meditate because there are so many people who resist meditation or they want to but that they say they can’t.
Right.
And I wanted to meditate for years and I almost had to go through other tools and learn how to calm my mind down other ways before I even could feel the benefits of meditation.
I know and I love that point too, that great point too, meditation may not be for you right at this moment. However, five years down the line, a year down the line, five years down the line, 10 years down the line, suddenly you may pick it up again. It’s because of the power that you’ve gained in that last five year, five, 10 years. Now you may be ready for it. Now it may be a tool that becomes effective for you. I love that. That’s great.
That’s great. Okay, so we have to actually already go to a break.
Oh no.
Yeah. I mean, it’s crazy. We will come back though because I really want to go into what you do to help people increase their resilience. I know that’s part of that. But before we do, let people know where they can find out about you and your work.
Great, heroyou2.com. That’s my website. You can find ways to contact me through there or if you just want to reach out for me directly, [email protected].
Awesome. Okay, hang on everybody. When we come back we’ll talk a little bit more about what it means to step into your superhero self and how you can do that too.
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