136: Breaking Dysfunctional Habits, Beating Anxiety, and Why You Need to Declare War on Yourself (feat. Levi Lusko)

Time doesn’t change who you are. Time makes you more of who you are. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is an essential component of living life on purpose. We all have blind spots. Yet, making a conscious effort to see and understand them is a challenge few people embrace. Left unchecked, blind spots will sabotage your potential, especially if you are a leader, because unattended blind spots have a compounding negative effect upon the people you lead. What does this mean? At the end of the day, you are in a war with yourself to fight negativity, insecurity, depression, anxiety, self-sabotage, and perpetual bad habits that will keep you from taking you in the direction of the life you want to live. And today’s guest has a lot to say about that very subject…and a passion to help you defeat every self-inflicted obstacle in your path. Meet Levi Lusko.

Levi Lusko is a bestselling author, and pastor of Fresh Life Church, a multisite church that he founded with his wife Jennie in 2007. But life hasn’t always been roses. Despite his success, Levi has had his share of struggles with anxiety, moodiness, bullying, suicidal thoughts, night terrors, and difficulty managing himself amidst being a husband, father, and leader. But through his own battle, Levi discovered four keys to winning the internal war against himself in order to live a life of lasting significance; four keys he’s going to share with you today.

In today’s conversation, you’re going to learn how to retaliate against your anxiety by filling your heart with truth and making it inhospitable to terror, stop being victimized by your bad behaviors and become the victor you were born to be, overcome self-imposed isolation by learning to think right so you can live right, and spare your family unnecessary heartache by confronting your dysfunction so they don’t have to. It’s time to stop being your own worst enemy. As Levi says, “Declare war and become the person, the spouse, the parent, and the leader God intended you to be.”

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Get out of your own way. Whether you recognize it or not, you’re at war with yourself. There’s anxiety. Selfishness. Self-sabotaging tendencies. Narcissism. The black dog of depression. The inability to do the great things you long to do because you spend so many hours mindlessly drifting through the internet. It is war, but all is not lost. You can win—if you choose to engage. In I Declare War: Four Keys to Winning the Battle with Yourself, Levi Lusko candidly shares about his struggles with moodiness, bullying, suicidal thoughts, night terrors, and difficulty managing himself. He identifies four weapons you have at your disposal—thoughts, words, behaviors, and power—and illustrates how to use them to achieve ongoing victory. It’s time to stop being your own worst enemy. Declare war and become the person, the spouse, the parent, and the leader God intended you to be. Buy I Declare War: Four Keys to Winning the Battle with Yourself now.

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