Understanding Your Programming Series

Have you ever stopped to wonder why you believe some of the things you believe about yourself?

I'm not very good at that.

I've never been a confident person.

I always struggle with things like this.

That's just the way I am.

When we've believed something for long enough, it can stop feeling like a belief and start feeling like a fact.

But what if it isn't?

In this episode of Growing Plants, Growing People, Kristian and Daniel begin a new series, Understanding Your Programming, by exploring one of the most important connections in the way we think:

Programming creates beliefs.

Through conversation, Daniel's computer-keyboard story and a little horticultural thinking, we explore how the messages and information we receive can gradually become part of what we accept as true about ourselves — and why not every message we receive necessarily has to take root.

Most importantly, this isn't about looking backwards for someone to blame. It's about understanding where some of our beliefs may have come from and beginning to ask a very different question:

“How did I learn to believe that?”

Because if a belief was learned, perhaps it doesn't have to stay that way.

In this episode, you'll explore:

• What we mean when we talk about “programming”
• How someone else's words can eventually become our own beliefs
• Why not every message we receive takes root
• The importance of positive programming as well as negative programming
• Why programming doesn't stop when we become adults
• How becoming curious about our beliefs can be the beginning of change

Free Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Foundation Workbook

If you've been following us through the first six episodes of Growing Plants, Growing People, the individual reflective worksheets from our Foundation Series have now been brought together into one resource — the Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Foundation Workbook.

It's designed to help you take the conversations we've been having beyond the podcast and give you space to pause, reflect and explore how those ideas relate to your own life.

And if you're joining us for the first time with Episode 007, you can use the workbook alongside the Foundation Series to explore the journey from the beginning.

Download your free Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Workbook here:

Growing Plants Growing People Reflective Workbook

Would You Like to Take the Conversation Further?

Sometimes reflection brings up questions that are difficult to explore on your own.

When was the last time someone focused solely on you, what you want to be, do and have in your life?

We're offering listeners the opportunity to book a free coaching conversation — a chance to explore those questions with someone completely focused on you.

There's no obligation. It's simply an opportunity to have a conversation, gain some clarity and see where it takes you.

Book your FREE coaching conversation here:

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And in the next episode, we'll take the conversation one step further and explore How Your Brain Gets Programmed.

Growing Plants, Growing People — because the principles that help gardens flourish are often the very same principles that help people grow.