FMQ 511 Spicing Up Success
Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
Release Date: 09/02/2025
My Christmas and New Year Message
Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
My Christmas and New Year Message Personal Development Unplugged This is a short Christmas and New Year message from me to you. A moment to pause. A moment to reflect on how far you’ve come. And a gentle invitation to think about who you want to become — without pressure, without rigid resolutions. I share why I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, why every day is a chance to grow richer in life, and why loneliness is something we can choose to change. This is also a heartfelt invitation for you to help shape the podcast in the year ahead by letting me know what you want support...
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Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
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#470 Why Am I Feeling Alone And Feeling........?
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Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
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Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
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FMQ 520 I'm Not Good Enough Where'd That Come From?
Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
I'm Not Good Enough Where'd That Come From? In this slightly longer Five-Minute Quickie, we’re digging into one of the sneakiest, most stubborn beliefs so many of us carry around: “I’m not good enough.” Where did it come from? Why does it stick? And how do we uncover what’s really underneath it? This FMQ is all about preparing you for the deeper dive coming in the next longer episode, where I’ll be guiding you through a process to change this belief for good. But first, we need a seed — a direction — so when we get there, your unconscious mind is already lined up and ready to...
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#468 I Feel Sh*t So Let's Change
Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
I Feel Sh*t So Let's Change This Episode in a Nutshell In this deeper dive of Personal Development Unplugged, we get real about feeling stuck, low, anxious or just “not ourselves” — and what to actually do about it. No more endless talking, analysing or looping the same bloody thoughts. This is about changing how you feel at the unconscious level, where these issues were created… and where they can be changed. If you’ve ever struggled to remember what “good” even feels like, or wondered why you can’t just think your way out of the cycle, this episode gives you a gentle,...
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FMQ 519 Talking's Over It's Time To Change
Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
Talking's Over It's Time To Change In this slightly-longer FMQ, we’re taking a gentle but powerful step toward real change. No more talking about the issue. No more cycling through the same thoughts. This episode is all about shifting your focus to what actually creates transformation — how you want to feel. So many of us get stuck talking, thinking, analysing… and nothing changes. Why? Because talking doesn’t always touch the unconscious mind — the place where these patterns were created in the first place. In this FMQ, I share: The real difference between empathy and compassion...
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#467 How To Achieve Your Goals Easily
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Help Me Make A Difference
Anxiety to Confidence - The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast
Help Me Make a Difference Hey, it’s Paul here, and this episode is a little different. I want to ask for your help — because I really want to make a difference. For years I’ve been putting out two episodes a week — a Five-Minute Quickie and a longer one — and to be honest, it’s been tough to keep up. More than that, I’ve realised I want to go deeper. I want to spend more time on the stuff that really matters — the stuff that helps people change for good. So, from now on, I’ll be doing one episode a week. Sometimes it’ll be a short FMQ to plant a seed, and sometimes a...
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Ever wondered why some goals feel like a slog while others seem to flow? In this 5-minute quickie, I dive into Neville Goddard’s powerful idea of the feeling of the wish fulfilled—and then I take it further.
What if you didn’t just imagine the emotion of achieving your dream… but also stepped into the psychology and physiology of already having it? How would you breathe, walk, talk, and think if your goal was done and dusted?
This is more than just motivation—it’s how you train your unconscious mind to notice opportunities, attract success faster, and build unstoppable inner confidence.
So if you’re ready to achieve your dreams quicker, richer, and with more certainty—hit play. And if you know someone chasing their goals, share this with them. It might be exactly the nudge they need.
👉 Subscribe, share, and let’s make success contagious.
https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-511-spicing-up-success/
And you can see the video of this episode here https://youtu.be/1l6VfjwxfH8
Shine Brightly 🌟
Paul
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Hello and welcome back to the five minute quickie. Something to amuse about and this is I think really important but it's so quick because we all, I guess anyway, we all want to achieve our dreams.
We have goals that we'd like to succeed in and we'd like to have a life that is something worthwhile, isn't it? And that is made up of lots of mini goals, I guess, things that we'd like to have happen. And there was a guy who called Neville Goddard who spoke and wrote about a thing called the feeling of the wish fulfilled. And if you lived your life with that feeling, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, which in effect is if you can imagine having already got that goal, the thing that you wanted for, the thing you desire, your dream, what would that feel like? And then if you began to work towards that goal with that feeling, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, so as if you've already got it, it would just make it so much easier.
And it would, you'd attract it, your unconscious mind would look for all those different things, the reticular activating system and your biological just tends to notice and focus on all the things you want. And it's brilliant. The feeling of the wish fulfilled.
I'm going to do a longer podcast on this, but just to muse, what I've been thinking about is how could we make that a little bit richer, richer than the feeling of the wish fulfilled? Absolutely. Because that feeling is wonderful. If you imagine having already got the things that you want, being specific by the way, individually, wouldn't it be good? But hey, when you have that feeling and you can imagine having got your goal, you already know then what would it be like physically? How would you feel physically in your body? The physiology of the wish fulfilled.
So not only then would you have the emotion, you'd also have the physiology. But what else? Well, if you think about it, not only the physiology, you'd have the psychology. So you've got the emotion, the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
You'd also know the type of things you'd be thinking about, the pictures in your mind, having already got that goal. Now, if you put those three together, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, so you really ramp up that emotion. Then you start to think of the way you'd think having already got that, because now you know you could do it.
You've got that confidence, that inner confidence. And then you've got the physiology, the way you'll breathe, the way you'll walk and talk and everything about that. You've got a richness of the feeling of the wish fulfilled, because now you've got it in every modality.
So when you think of that goal, you just imagine having already got it, what would it feel like? What would I think? What would I see in the pictures in my mind? How would I talk to myself? And how would I act? And that would be the true, for me, acting as if. Act as if you've already got that dream. And I guarantee you, the old Cloughie guarantee from personal development unplugged, got unplugged.
That's when dreams become bigger, better, and you get them quicker. You achieve your goals so much quicker. And they are, I like to use the word richer so much, I don't know why, but it is richer in every way.
Richer in experience, you know, is everything just gets better. So have a think, just have a think. If I was to think of a specific goal, a dream that I have, something I want to do, and it could be today or anytime.
Just imagine, having already got it, what would it feel like? The feeling of the wish fulfilled. How would I think and talk to myself, my inner voice, the pictures I make in my mind, having already got it? And then how would I move? My physiology, how would I breathe? How would I walk? How would I talk? And then just go with those three wonderful ways of being. I don't know if I made sense in any of that.
It's just something I just had to come and talk about. This just came into my mind and I thought, do you know what, I'm going to record this really, really quite quickly. So I hope it made sense.
I'm going to use this as a basis for a longer podcast, so we can really get deep into it and then have a process, I think, to get the whole thing together. And we should be good, I think, for everyone, and me included. So I'll be able to do it too.
Anyway, if there's anything that you want, as you know, if there's a particular dream and goal you want and you're having problems, just email me, feedback at personaldevelopmentunplugged.com, get it right, Cloughie, and we'll find something for your process or direct you into somewhere of how to get what you need. Okay? Enjoy, because it's time to fly. Oh, by the way, you can share this if you want.
Why not share how to get goals, how to get success. Be nice on it to your fellow mates. Time to fly.
Bye-bye. So before you leave this unplugged mind of mine, this hypnotic mind, if you enjoyed this podcast or any of the other podcasts, please do subscribe. It helps this podcast grow and affect so many more people.
And we love to leave everyone in a better place than we found them. And this will help, help the podcast, it will help you, and it will help, well, everyone that you know. So if you just subscribe and share, share this podcast to everyone you know.
That's the only cost. Pay it forward to everyone. And when you do that, boom, we are all going to make a difference to this little old planet earth of ours and the people in it.
Let's make a good world, a nice world. Okay. Okay.
You can now prepare to leave this unplugged mind. Warning. You are now leaving the unplugged mind of Paul Clough.
It's time to fly. Be brave, my friend. Personal development unplugged.
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