The Masterstroke Move: Going Against Groupthink
While masses dismiss 2020 as terrible, Rosanne teaches doing the opposite. Groupthink keeps you powerless, but independent thinking reveals gifts and growth that occurred even during challenging times.
Teaching2020-12-28·15 min
EP96 Adieu 2020: Ending Your Year Wisely = Success In 202
Rosanne teaches how to close out 2020 wisely by mining for the gifts and lessons rather than joining the collective complaining. She provides a two-step process to identify what was awesome about the year and how to leverage those lessons for success in 2021.
The Two-Step Wisdom Harvest Process
First, identify everything awesome about the year by being an honest historian. Second, plan exactly how you'll use each gift or lesson to propel yourself forward, creating actionable wisdom instead of just positive thinking.
The Power Position of Gratitude
When you harvest gifts from difficult times and plan how to use them, you place yourself in gratitude - the most powerful position possible. Gratitude slays fear, negativity and doubt every time, creating the foundation for future success.
Questions This Episode Answers
How do you end a difficult year wisely instead of just complaining about it
“I want you to close out this year wisely. I want you to get very familiar with how awesome this year was. What are some of the nuggets of hard won intelligence and hard won wisdom that you can walk away with from twenty twenty.”
— Rosanne Austin▶ 3:17
Write down everything awesome about the year, then for each positive thing, identify exactly how you'll use that lesson or blessing to propel yourself forward in the new year. This creates gratitude and actionable wisdom instead of victimhood.
Why should you avoid groupthink about bad years
“if you just join the bandwagon and agree with everyone that this year sucked, you're never doing any independent thinking for yourself”
— Rosanne Austin▶ 3:48
Groupthink prevents independent thinking and keeps you powerless. When everyone agrees a year sucked, you miss the real gifts and growth that occurred. Smart women do the opposite of what the masses do.
How does gratitude help on your fertility journey
“Gratitude will slay fear, negativity, and doubt every single time”
— Rosanne Austin▶ 13:45
Gratitude is one of the most powerful positions you can be in because it slays fear, negativity, and doubt every time. When you focus on gifts and lessons rather than problems, you shift into a mindset of abundance and possibility.
What does it mean that the only true failures are quitters
“A mentor of mine was, telling me the other day, the only true failures are quitters”
— Rosanne Austin▶ 10:18
As long as you keep trying and moving forward on your fertility journey, you haven't failed. Setbacks, failed treatments, or difficult years aren't failures - they're part of the process. You only truly fail when you completely give up on your dream.
How do you prevent saboteurs from talking you out of positive thinking
“The quicker that you go from that's a great idea to doing the work, the less opportunity your saboteurs have to get you off track”
— Rosanne Austin▶ 7:53
Take immediate action on good ideas instead of waiting. The longer you delay between having a positive insight and acting on it, the more time your inner saboteurs have to convince you why it won't work or why you should stay stuck in negativity.
How to Close Out Any Difficult Year Wisely
A two-step process to harvest wisdom and gifts from challenging years instead of dismissing them
- 1
Identify the awesome
Get out paper and write all the things that were awesome about the year. Be an honest historian and look for real gifts, breakthroughs, and lessons rather than joining groupthink about how terrible it was.
- 2
Plan how to use each gift
For everything awesome you identified, write exactly how you intend to use that lesson, blessing, or increased awareness to propel yourself forward in the coming year. This creates actionable wisdom.
All Teachings 7
Groupthink about difficult years keeps you powerless - do independent thinking instead of joining the bandwagon
Rosanne helped women in her Fearlessly Fertile Method program change their thinking and results even during 2020's challenges, demonstrating that perspective creates power regardless of circumstances.
Two truths can exist simultaneously - there can be legitimate tragedy and real gifts in the same time period
Despite 2020's global challenges, Rosanne's team had exceptional success in their work, writing, and projects, proving that abundance and difficulty can coexist.
The only true failures are quitters - everything else is moving in the direction of what you want
Rosanne learned this principle from her mentor and applies it to fertility journeys where women think setbacks are failures, when actually continuing to try means success is still possible.
Quick action prevents saboteurs from convincing you why something won't work
Rosanne instructs women to do the year-end reflection exercise immediately while listening, because delay gives internal saboteurs time to convince them the year was only negative.
Gratitude will slay fear, negativity, and doubt every single time
When women complete Rosanne's two-step process of identifying gifts from difficult years and how to use them, they place themselves in gratitude which becomes their power position against fertility journey fears.
Overthinking is one of the ways we completely sabotage ourselves on the fertility journey
Rosanne observes that women will spin for hours or days over decisions they already know the answer to, which keeps them stuck instead of moving forward toward their goals.
Smart women live consciously and on purpose, taking lessons and making commitments about how to use them
Rosanne's methodology requires women to not just identify positive aspects of difficult years, but specifically plan how to leverage those insights, which her Fearlessly Fertile Method program participants do successfully.
Episode Tone
2 challenging1 reframing3 empowering1 fierce
Key Teachings 7
Groupthink about difficult years keeps you powerless - do independent thinking instead of joining the bandwagon
▶ 3:45Two truths can exist simultaneously - there can be legitimate tragedy and real gifts in the same time period
▶ 5:40The only true failures are quitters - everything else is moving in the direction of what you want
▶ 10:18Quick action prevents saboteurs from convincing you why something won't work
▶ 7:12Gratitude will slay fear, negativity, and doubt every single time
▶ 13:45Overthinking is one of the ways we completely sabotage ourselves on the fertility journey
▶ 8:23Smart women live consciously and on purpose, taking lessons and making commitments about how to use them
▶ 14:05Perspectives 2
“Difficult years like 2020 should be dismissed and forgotten as terrible experiences”
CONSIDER: Every challenging year contains valuable lessons and gifts that can be harvested for future success
“You fail when treatments don't work or setbacks occur on your fertility journey”
CONSIDER: You only fail when you quit - everything else is moving toward what you want
Quotable Moments
“the only true failures are quitters”
— Rosanne Austin10:18
“Gratitude will slay fear, negativity, and doubt every single time”
— Rosanne Austin13:45
“when everyone else is going left, I go right”
— Rosanne Austin3:47
“We do not live our lives by ear. We are conscious, and we live our lives on purpose”
— Rosanne Austin14:15
“What if twenty twenty was actually an incredible year for you?”
— Rosanne Austin4:08
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