A.W.A.R.E Goal Setting Ep #4: Break the Terror Barrier and Move Into Action

🎧 Listen to the EG Mindset Podcast: https://pod.link/1528974087 Hello and welcome back to the EG Mindset Podcast with Ernest Gikuma —a platform created to help individuals, business owners, and team leaders understand personality, improve performance, communicate with confidence, and build a productive culture. In Episode 4 of the AWARE Goal-Setting Series, Ernest goes deeper into the Awareness stage before moving fully into Action. This episode explores how your conscious mind, subconscious mind, and body must work in alignment if you want to break through fear, overcome internal resistance, and create better results in life, business, and leadership. If you have ever felt stuck between knowing what to do and actually doing it, this episode will help you understand why. What this episode is about The AWARE framework is a repeatable cycle for sustainable growth and goal achievement: Alignment — align your values, beliefs, and goals Awareness — understand how your inner world shapes your actions Action — move deliberately toward the result Reinforcement — use accountability, community, and support Evaluation — review results, learn, and refine In this episode, Ernest revisits Dr. Freeman Fleet’s stickman model of the mind to explain the difference between the conscious mind, which thinks and chooses, and the subconscious mind, which does not choose but reproduces what has been programmed into it. He explains how your body becomes the instrument through which your inner programming expresses itself in the world. Why this matters Many people do not fail because they lack potential. They fail because they are internally divided. One part of them wants growth, impact, better income, stronger leadership, or healthier habits. Another part is still conditioned to stay where things feel safe, familiar, and predictable. That internal conflict creates what Ernest describes as the terror barrier — the invisible emotional resistance that appears when your goal is bigger than your current conditioning. This episode helps you understand how fear, comfort zones, and past programming can slow your progress, and how to move through that tension with greater clarity and confidence. Key ideas from Episode 4 1. Your conscious mind chooses, but your subconscious mind reproduces Your conscious mind receives information through the five senses and processes it through higher faculties such as imagination, perception, memory, intuition, and intellect. Your subconscious mind, however, does not decide what is true or false. It accepts repeated impressions and reproduces them through feeling, behavior, and habitual response. 2. Your body follows the dominant programming Your body is the instrument of the mind. It moves through time and space according to the emotional instructions it receives. That means your results are often not just the product of hard work, but the product of the alignment — or misalignment — between your thoughts, feelings, and conditioning. 3. Big goals can trigger fear When a goal feels too far beyond what your subconscious mind considers safe, fear rises. You hesitate. You procrastinate. You overthink. You pull back. This is not always laziness. Often, it is subconscious protection. 4. Results are feedback, not failure One of the most powerful insights in this episode is that results are feedback. They reveal past conditioning. They do not define your future potential. When you learn to interpret results correctly, you stop panicking and start adjusting. 5. The 80/20 rule can help you double results Ernest uses a business and sales example to show how many people plateau at a familiar level of performance. By applying the 80/20 principle, you can identify the customers, activities, or team behaviors creating the greatest return and focus your effort where it matters most. Three practical tools to reduce internal friction Ernest shares three simple but powerful tools to help align your conscious goals with your subconscious conditioning: Affirmation Use emotionally engaged, intentional language to reinforce the result and identity you want to embody. Visualization See the result in your mind before it appears in your reality. Let imagination create emotional momentum. Education Feed your mind with the right ideas, frameworks, and language so you can become the person your next level requires. Episode timestamps 00:00 Awareness, mindset, and goal alignment 00:07 Welcome and AWARE overview 02:05 Awareness and the mind model 05:27 Ideas, feelings, and vibration 09:34 Terror barrier and comfort zone 12:15 Doubling results with 80/20 18:55 Affirm, visualize, educate, and wrap-up Listen and watch 🎧 Listen to the EG Mindset Podcast: https://pod.link/1528974087 📺 Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@drgikuma?si=30FiYP8TPweOwB6p Take the next step If you want to understand how you are wired so you can lead, communicate, and perform more effectively, take the CODE Personality ...