The Mental Block That’s Costing You Deals | Dr. Noah St John - 1922
Episode
29 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Health & Wellness, Fundraising & VC, Sales & Revenue
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Inner Game vs Outer Game: Success requires mastering both components, but 80 percent comes from inner game—the mental patterns between your ears that invisibly affect every action you take in sales and business execution daily.
- ✓Head Trash Definition: Head trash manifests as the voice saying "I can't do it because" followed by excuses about time, money, skills, or circumstances. When you tell yourself these limiting stories, you actively prove yourself right and prevent goal achievement.
- ✓Goal Clarity Exercise: Write three specific goals for the next twelve months with exact numbers and deadlines, not vague statements like "make more money." Specificity activates the brain's goal-seeking mechanisms and reveals hidden mental blocks preventing progress.
- ✓Action Before Confidence: Take action even without believing you can succeed—confidence emerges as a result of doing, not before. Most imagined negative outcomes never materialize, and rejection is simply mathematical probability requiring you to move to the next opportunity.
What It Covers
Dr. Noah St. John explains how mental blocks and self-limiting beliefs cost sales professionals deals, sharing his framework for eliminating head trash that helped clients add three billion dollars in revenue collectively.
Key Questions Answered
- •Inner Game vs Outer Game: Success requires mastering both components, but 80 percent comes from inner game—the mental patterns between your ears that invisibly affect every action you take in sales and business execution daily.
- •Head Trash Definition: Head trash manifests as the voice saying "I can't do it because" followed by excuses about time, money, skills, or circumstances. When you tell yourself these limiting stories, you actively prove yourself right and prevent goal achievement.
- •Goal Clarity Exercise: Write three specific goals for the next twelve months with exact numbers and deadlines, not vague statements like "make more money." Specificity activates the brain's goal-seeking mechanisms and reveals hidden mental blocks preventing progress.
- •Action Before Confidence: Take action even without believing you can succeed—confidence emerges as a result of doing, not before. Most imagined negative outcomes never materialize, and rejection is simply mathematical probability requiring you to move to the next opportunity.
Notable Moment
A CEO stuck at four million dollars revenue for four years hired Dr. St. John after spending tens of thousands on marketing gurus. Focusing 90 percent on inner game work produced a 600 percent revenue increase to twenty million.
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