Lets Start Over

A brand new year often brings pressure to reinvent everything. But in this Five Minute Quickie, Paul invites you to start over without throwing everything away.

This episode is about recommitting — to your growth, your tools, and your intention to become the best version of yourself. Not by chasing pity or staying stuck, but by choosing encouragement, responsibility, and action.

With over a thousand episodes behind him, Paul explains why revisiting the fundamentals of personal development isn't going backwards — it's how real mastery is built. You may have heard it before… but you're not the same person listening now.

Inside this FMQ, you'll explore:

• Why "starting over" doesn't mean starting from scratch

• The difference between healthy honesty and unhelpful pity

• Why reminders are often more powerful than new information

• How mastery comes from doing what you know — consistently

• The importance of sharing what you learn to deepen your growth

This episode sets the tone for the year ahead: practical tools, encouragement, personal responsibility, and meaningful change — for you, and for the people around you.

And if you want a say in where this podcast goes next, Paul invites you to get involved.

Let's share this message and ask others to do the same

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Let's start over — properly.

Shine Brightly 🌟

Paul

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FMQ 523 Lets Start Over

 

Welcome to a brand new year. Yeah, brand new year. And it's got me thinking because I do like to review where we're going, what we're doing.

 

And that's why the title of this FMQ is Let's Start Over. But I'm not starting over, over. You see, something got me.

 

I heard on... Well, I heard, I think it's a Navy SEALS type thing that they say to themselves. And it's, suck it up buttercup. Keep it to yourself.

 

And I'm going to guess, in a hostile environment, you can't show your emotions. So you do have to suck it up. You do have to keep it to yourself.

 

But then I thought, there's another, another place that we should suck it up buttercup, keep it to yourself. And that's if you're looking for pity. And if you're looking for pity, you don't want to be here.

 

Okay? Because this is a place where I know you and I are looking to change the way we feel. Looking to change the way we think and look to change any limiting beliefs and negative emotions. Well, how we feel, but then those limiting beliefs change what we believe.

 

And maybe we want to have access to tools, help, things that will help us change and encouragement. And that's what I've been thinking about here in this little old unplugged mind of mine. You see, there's over a thousand episodes here in Personal Development Unplugged.

 

Over a thousand. That's massive. Don't know where or how it all came out of this little brain of mine.

 

But the thing is, I want to continue to help. And when I say continue to help, I'm helping me as well. So it doesn't matter where you are on this adventure.

 

This adventure of personal development, self-improvement, looking to be and stretching yourself to be the best version of yourself. Because there's always going to be something here for you. I have challenges.

 

And I've been doing this stuff for bloody years. Still get challenges. But I also have the tools to help me with those challenges.

 

And I want to share them with you. Because you see, on this adventure of personal development, self-improvement, you're looking for your best self. There's a richness in rewards.

 

There's a richness in life. A richness of experience. And that's what I want to share with you.

 

So, in a way, I do want to start over again. Go back. I'm not going to go all the way back to episode number one.

 

No. I want to start delivering new tools. But because I've done over a thousand episodes, doesn't mean we can't go back to the type of things I did talk about.

 

And have talked about. Because they're still valid. And I don't expect you to go back and go, oh, I wonder what Paul was doing on episode 12.

 

But what I do want to do is start to cover those basics again. And also develop them into new stuff. Because even if I go over some of the stuff I've talked about in those last thousand episodes, they're going to be different.

 

The presentation is going to be different. The message is going to be different. Because I'm different.

 

So even if you've heard it before, if you think you know it before, or known about it before, you've learnt it before, couple of things. I will deliver it differently. And you will hear it differently.

 

Because you're different. You've changed. You've come further along this adventure.

 

So we're both different people. We're both with lots of different experience and learnings. And we'll listen and allow different things to come in.

 

So there'll still be an improvement. And the other thing is, it's great to be re-reminded, if that's such a word. Reminded.

 

Of the things that you know. Because, go and think of that mastery. Doing what you know and knowing what you do.

 

Because you might know this stuff, but are you using it? I have that same challenging questions to me. I ask myself, do you remember that stuff you've all learnt? Are you still using it Cloughie? And sometimes I'm thinking, well I hope I'm using it unconsciously. Sometimes when I look back at the videos I can see how I am using some of the things I've learnt unconsciously.

 

They're in the muscle for me. But there's other things I sometimes have maybe left behind and I want to develop again. Make them interesting.

 

So we can use them and really make some headway this year. Really make a difference. Make a difference to you, me.

 

The things that we believe. The emotions that we experience. Experiences in this adventure.

 

Get everything the way we want. And then be able to share it with people. Because when you share it, you really do get mastery.

 

Because then you do know what you're doing and you are doing what you know. And when we share it, we just grow. And sharing in a wonderful way helps other people grow too.

 

Which is so ecological, which has to be the basis of why we want to grow and be our best self. To serve and help others and serve and help this little old planet Earth. Because for fuck's sake, it does need it, doesn't it? There's a lot of shit going on out there.

 

And if we can all do our little little bit, like the old butterfly flapping at one side of the world, creating a storm of change over the other. And if we all flap, we'll make a difference, won't we? So that's where we're going to go. Oh, and the other thing I want to give you, completely free, is all the encouragement you can stand.

 

I want to give you every bit of encouragement because I want you to get your dreams, your goals, your desires. Everything. The full shebang.

 

So, if that is for you, no, suck it up, buttercup. Keep it to yourself. Unless it's pity and you're not going to be here anyway, are you? But if that's for you, we're in for a doozy.

 

A real doozy. And that's starting with next week's deeper, deeper dive. It's going to be exciting.

 

I'm looking forward to it. And one thing is, if you want to influence where we go next year, or this year, I'm recording it last year, now. But if you want to influence the type of things we do, learn, discover, experience, the direction we're going, so they meet your desires, your goals, your dreams and everything else, send me that email.

 

Feedback at personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Just give me a little pointer of the type of things you would like to dive deeper into. That's what I'm going to do. If not, you just have to come with me what comes out of my head.

 

But I'd love your feedback on that. And there's a cost for all of this. As you know, there is a cost.

 

I mean, everything else, you don't actually pay it, in a way. But what you do do is, if you could, pay it forward. Pay it forward.

 

Pay it forward what you learn, share what you learn, and if you could just share this this podcast. If you could, to your friends, your colleagues, but also if you could share it on social media. I know social media is a bit we don't have too much social media but there are people, if we can get them to see where we're going together, what we're going to do.

 

Show them, give them encouragement to come here. And we can just create more of that storm of change. So come sit down for a change.

 

Because it's not magic, but it will be magical. The changes you experience will be magical. If you've got the will to do whatever it takes.

 

And that was on one of the previous hypnosis tracks, wasn't it? The will to do whatever it takes. The secret ingredient of obtaining your your dreams, your goals, your desires, the richness of life. So please pay that forward if you could.

 

And also remember, we're going to be banging out hypnosis and NLP processes as much as I can. My processes as much as I can. So they're really specific into each one.

 

And I'll also if I can, keep putting them on my other site, paulcloughonline.com to where I have all my hypnosis tracks. About 60 something rather, I don't know. There's plenty there.

 

Plenty. Something for all occasions as they say. And if you want to go there now, it's paulcloughonline.com forward slash podcast.

 

And you get your unique link to all of those. To do that, have some fun. So we're going to dive in on the longer podcast.

 

We're going to start over. So get ready to suck it up, and share. Have fun.

 

And I'm going to see you on the deeper one. And every other one. Until then, have more fun than you can stand.

 

Ta-ra.

 Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited

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