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The Eight Bolts Holding You Back: How to Launch Your Full Potential

• Terry L. Fossum

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We explore the eight crucial factors that hold people back from achieving their goals and how to break free from these restraints. Using the space shuttle launch as a powerful metaphor, this episode reveals how even with tremendous potential, small obstacles can prevent us from soaring to our full potential.

• Powerful space shuttle metaphor: 16 million horsepower held back by just eight relatively small bolts
• Terry's background growing up in America's poorest city and overcoming significant personal challenges
• Identification of the eight factors that kill people's dreams and aspirations
• Strategies to help listeners identify their personal restraints and break free
• Recommendation to take notes during the series and complete all exercises for maximum benefit
• Suggestion to listen multiple times to absorb different insights at different life stages

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Speaker 1:

If you've been stuck in fear, self-doubt, your past failures and you're ready to break through your comfort zones to finally reach the pinnacle of success in every area of your life, then this podcast is for you. Here's your host, Terry L Fossum.

Speaker 2:

Have you ever set a goal and failed? Well, sure, we all have right. We start off with the best intent. We're really going to do it this time, but for some reason, life just seems to get in the way and, before we know it, nothing changes. Our goal has eluded us once again. Well, congratulations on taking a major step towards changing this, a major step towards your future success, by purchasing this audio series. I truly am proud of you for taking this step. See, many, many, many people saw the information on it and passed it by, but you decided to invest in your future, and I believe you're going to be very, very happy you did so. Let me ask you something what if you could identify the factors that have held you back in the past and make sure they never hold you back again? What if we, once and for for all, could take all of the obstacles out of your way so you could finally reach those goals, whatever they may be? Would that be helpful? Hi, I'm Terry L Fossum, and my entire life goal is to help as many people as I can before I die. Quite frankly, I hope you're one of them Now.

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I'm proud to say that I was born in the poorest city in the entire United States of America, mcallen, located right on the Mexican border, on the very southern tip of Texas. Now, don't get me wrong. I love my hometown, I love the people, I love the culture, and the food is amazing. But being a Texas-Mexico border town, things could get a little rough. When I was growing up down there, drugs and gangs were prevalent. In fact, I found myself staring down the barrel of an assault rifle in my own back alley when I was in middle school. Imagine yourself for a minute being 14 years old in a dark alley with someone pointing an assault rifle at your chest. Not a great feeling. That's when I was in middle school. When I was in high school, my father was killed. Before he died, one of the neighbors came up to him and said I just want to make sure you understand something Not a single one of your boys will ever grow up to be anything. Wow, he was talking, of course, about my brothers and I. So if you're looking for some silver spoon always had it easy guy to learn from, that's not me. If you're looking for someone who has been in the trenches and had the hard knocks, overcome the obstacles and has the bruises to prove from. That's not me. If you're looking for someone who has been in the trenches and had the hard knocks, overcome the obstacles and has the bruises to prove it, I'm your guy.

Speaker 2:

So the information in here is from literally decades of failing and succeeding and failing and succeeding and failing again, and succeeding again. This isn't just knowledge I learned from books, though I've certainly studied leadership and personal improvement for decades as well from some of the best people around the world. No, this is from actually experiencing it in leadership positions in the business world, where I developed sales teams around the globe. The military, where I was an officer in the United States Air Force. The philanthropic world, where I've led and been on boards of directors and have projects around the world. Even in martial arts, where I obtained my black belt in Taekwondo. This comes from a vast array of experience in many different arenas, but a serious aha moment came from a fact that I learned about the US space shuttle from my brother, mike. That completely blew my mind. It gave me a visual that completely made sense to me, something I wanted to research and share with the world. What's that mind-blowing fact? Check this out.

Speaker 2:

Imagine a space shuttle launch or a rocket launch. You might have seen it on TV, in the movies, in person. Whatever the space shuttle, just before takeoff, would be thrusting toward the sky with nearly 16 million horsepower of force. That's the approximate power of 16 million horses all pulling at the same time, and yet it goes nowhere. It can't go anywhere. Have you noticed that T minus 5, 4, the main engines of the space shuttle combined were all going at full force, but it's just sitting on the launch pad. See, something's holding it back. Even with all of that power thrusting it to the sky, with the plan of going into space and traveling at 17,500 miles per hour, something more powerful than all of that is holding it back. So what is this massive power that's keeping this space shuttle from reaching its potential? Eight relatively tiny bolts, that's it. Eight bolts Only about five inches in diameter, hold it from accomplishing anything but making a bunch of smoke and steam while it's sitting there on the countdown.

Speaker 2:

Now, a launch was an amazing sight. The engines would scream at a deafening roar, the entire shuttle would shake in anticipation, the ground would quake as 12 billion watts of power attempted to propel this 5.5 million pound shuttle out of our atmosphere. And it sat there Until, at T minus zero seconds, small explosive charges were set off in those eight relatively tiny bolts. Explosive charges were set off and they were blown away. They could no longer hold back that thing that was meant to soar. It broke free of its bonds and accomplished the mission that it was meant to accomplish, and in so doing, it made a difference in the world and inspired millions.

Speaker 2:

After working with people literally around the globe, I've become a student of what holds people back and then a teacher of helping them through it. Over 30 years of doing this three decades I've identified the eight factors that seem to be the biggest stumbling blocks that kill people's dreams, kill their hopes, kill their aspirations the eight bolts that hold them back on their launch pad, that keep them from soaring to the heights that they were meant to soar. Perhaps most importantly, I've developed the methods that help them see the problem in themselves, to help them get through it. And that's what this audio series is all about Helping you get past your obstacles to finally break free, to achieve the greatness that you were meant to achieve. Through this series, you're going to identify the bolts that have held you back. You're going to have strategies to help you blow those bolts forever so you can reach heights you never could have before. Now, as you're listening, I highly recommend you take notes if possible and anytime there's an exercise, please make sure and do it.

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You're not listening to this series just for the fun of it. You want results, right, and you'll only get those results if you take the actions and feel free to listen to it several times. You can only soak in so much the first time, and the second time and the third time, and each time you listen to it you'll hear things you missed before. Not to mention, each time you'll be at a different point in your life, so you'll need to hear something in there. You really needed to hear at that moment, at that time.

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And finally, as you're listening to it, I'm going to ask a favor of you. Think of who else you know that needs this information. We all know people who have things that continue to hold them back, things like fear and excuses, people who have some attitude challenges or maybe self-doubts or any of the other bolts that you're going to learn about here. As their names come to you, do me a favor and write them down and recommend this series to them.

Speaker 2:

See again, it's my goal in life to help as many people as I can before I die. That's my life mission statement, and I've spent literally years developing this series for exactly that reason To help people like me who might have gone through some challenges be released from those bonds that have held them back to fly and be free to reach their goals and their dreams and their aspirations. If you find this audio series helpful to you, I would sincerely appreciate your help in spreading the word. But first things first. It's time for you and I to go on a journey together a journey of self-analysis, a journey of knowledge, a journey of openness, a journey of truth and, hopefully, a journey that will have a major impact on your life and change it in a very positive way, forever. And as every journey begins, it's time to take our first step. Let's get started.

Speaker 1:

So that's it for today's episode of the Comeback Chronicles. Let's get started. Success in every area of your life. Head over to terrielfawesomecom to pick up your free gifts and so much more. We'll see you next week on the Comeback Chronicles podcast.