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The Problem with Trying to Fix Your Life — Alyson and Tripp Lanier
Are you striving to grow and improve yourself?
Does it ever feel like, no matter what you’ve done, it’s never enough?
And what if that constant drive to fix is robbing you of what you truly want?
Today Alyson and I explore how the positive desire to fix and change can turn us into what scientists call The Personal Growth Junkie. Whether it’s fixing your marriage, optimizing your health, or dialing in your productivity we explore what’s really driving that need — and what it might be costing you.
In this conversation:
- What’s the point of doing personal growth?
- Always needing to fix something
- The fear of being content
- Fixating on an ideal future
- Can metrics/biometrics go too far?
Plus:
- Needing to fix your partner
- Rejecting our life as it is
- Turning sex into a project
- What’s the life you would have if you fixed everything?
- Problem orientation vs solution orientation
Discussed in this podcast:
- Steven Pressfield
- Alyson and Tripp discuss Drama Triangle and The Empowerment Dynamic
About Tripp Lanier
Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times.
Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
If you’d like to learn more about coaching with Tripp Lanier visit TrippLanier.com.
About Alyson Lanier
Alyson Lanier is a multifaceted expert at the intersection of psychological and spiritual healing. With a 30 year career in Psychotherapy that includes a BA, MA, and LPC in psychology, Alyson supplemented her education with extensive training and certifications in attachment work, Gestalt therapy, Transpersonal psychology, Shambhala Buddhism, internal family systems, and Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Her professional journey encompasses over 50,000 hours of therapeutic experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents across clinical and private settings.
If you’d like to learn more about working with Alyson Lanier visit AlysonLanier.co
