"Make the walk. Walk into the arena of your life every single day. Figure out what it is that makes you happy. Find your power. And then go give it to the world. Give it away."
Eliot Marshall
Mar 25, 2021
EFR 454: Befriending Cowardice and Why Change is Our Most Defining Characteristic with Eliot Marshall
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EFR 454: Befriending Cowardice and Why Change is Our Most Defining Characteristic with Eliot Marshall
Eliot Marshall is a martial artist, business owner, podcaster, bestselling author, and a self-proclaimed “ex-UFC fighter turned motivational speaker”.
Eliot points to change as the defining characteristic of his life and career. He looks at each new day as an opportunity for growth, and believes fully that he is a better man today than he was at any other point, regardless of past successes. In fact, even with a prolific run in MMA behind him, Eliot admits that “my UFC career was literally just me trying to hide all these insecurities I have.”
Today, instead of running away from the coward within, Eliot embraces that side. He made it a point to learn all about his fear, and to coexist with that fear. He goes on to speak about how love from those he cared about the most yanked him out of the literal death spiral of negative self-talk that enslaved him early on.
Eliot explains how anybody can reverse engineer their ideal life in order to start taking steps toward it. This includes going through the three Is that you need to write down to start calibrating your mindset for growth: your I ams, your I cans, and your I wills.
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Key Highlights
Eliot explains how and why he used his career as a professional fighter to hide the coward inside of him.
How was Eliot able to surround himself with a great community of people that he could trust in his darkest hours?
How good can our life become just by changing our mindset?
Eliot may no longer be in the UFC, but he is clearly still a fighter. He shares what he is fighting for today.
Powerful Quotes by Eliot Marshall
As your coach, I don’t want to see “perfect”. I want to see the mess. I want to see you when it all falls apart. I want to see as ugly and as bad as it gets. Once I see that, we get to plug the holes. I need to see what you’re going to do when the shit really hits the fan because you can’t hide who you are when that cage door closes.
There’s a coward in all of us. If you won’t say hi to him, then he comes out during really inopportune times. He comes to say hello. But if I say hello to him every day, knowing that he’s part of me, then he can come hang out, but he doesn’t get to mess things up.
Living by your values is not easy. It’s not comfortable. It’s not fun. There’s no fun about it. But if you say who you say you are, then you do it.
I never want to equalize outcomes; but I want to equalize the opportunity for every single human being that walks on this Earth to be able to find, discover, and harness their power.
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