Digital Social Hour
The Ego Trap: Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Success I Adonis Bjornson DSH #1327
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Are you ready to uncover "The Ego Trap" and learn how to stop self-sabotaging your success? 🚀 In this powerful episode of the Digital Social Hour Podcast with Sean Kelly, we dive deep with guest Adonis to explore how ego, instant gratification, and negativity hold you back from achieving your true potential. 🌟 Packed with valuable insights, Adonis shares transformative tips on manifestation, raising your frequency, and aligning with your authentic self to unlock success. 💡 From overcoming self-sabotage and toxic patterns to embracing accountability and abundance, this conversation is filled with wisdom you can apply today. 💪✨ Don’t miss out on this eye-opening discussion! Tune in now to shift your mindset, crush limiting beliefs, and start living the life you deserve. 🌈 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🎙️🔥 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Adonis is Back 05:00 - Sponsored by Aires Tech 10:28 - Finding Your Alignment 14:22 - Growth and Mindset Challenges 17:08 - Familiar Hell vs. Unknown Heaven 24:05 - Women's Biggest Issues Today 27:20 - Recognizing Timeline Shifts 28:56 - Understanding Empaths 29:43 - Exploring Narcissism 32:18 - Importance of Accountability 33:35 - Discussion on Religion 37:24 - Full Moon Insights 38:34 - What's Next for Adonis APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Adonis Bjornson https://www.instagram.com/adonis_bjornson/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #selfimprovement #spiritualgrowth #mentalhealth #selfsabotaging The views and opinions expressed by guests on Digital Social Hour are solely those of the individuals appearing on the podcast and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the host, Sean Kelly, or the Digital Social Hour team. While we encourage open and honest conversations, Sean Kelly is not legally responsible for any statements, claims, or opinions made by guests during the show. Listeners are encouraged to form their own opinions and consult professionals for advice where appropriate. Content on this podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, financial, or professional advice.
Chapter 1: How Do Empaths and Narcissists Relate in Today's World?
We are living in such a time where so many people are empaths, you know, even where they really do feel. Some empaths, if they are pushed so badly or just drained of so much energy, to a degree, kind of can become a version of a narcissist, to a degree. Yeah, there's some people that just get pushed to such a level where they become that, you know.
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Chapter 2: Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up As We Age?
What's new with you, man? Man, busy. Just nonstop. Go, go, go. You know, it's good. It's good. It's... Dude, time feels like it's been going by really fast. This year has been nuts. Yeah. I feel like just days in general just feel like they're going. Do you ever feel that? Like I feel like the- Lately. Hours, yeah. I feel like time was way slower. There's actually a study on this.
As you get older, time goes quicker or something. Yeah, for sure. Because it's, I guess, it's like the percentage of life I've seen that where it's like when you're younger, it feels like a few years is like so long. Like a year would be, I guess, a few years. Yeah. Now, yeah, for sure. Well, also, school just felt like forever. Forever, yeah. I guess an eight-hour school day felt like torture.
Well, so bad, yeah, for sure. Did you go to school out here? No, I used to go to East Coast. Oh, God. Yeah, but, dude, 100% public school like that, it just felt like it was never-ending. Oh, my God. Right now, I'm like, dude, once, like, even noon, noon, 1 o'clock, I'm like, oh, my gosh, the day's over. It's over. I got to keep going, going, going. By the time I know it, it's, like, already...
Nine, 10 o'clock.
Dude, it's nuts. I don't know what's going on, but time's just flying. Crazy. Yeah. Well, a lot of people don't think time is linear.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, I don't think like our whole, like the way we see time, I just, I think it's so different for every single one of us. You know, I think Joe Dispenza even kind of said this, that it's like reality. There's no like base reality. I mean, I guess you could say there's base reality, but like every single one of us has a different,
degree of like understanding or the way we see things. I think, um, what was it? Even scientifically, all of us see color a little bit different. I think they're saying to the point where there's not like one of us who sees color the exact same. Pretty loud. Yeah. I mean, when you really think about that takes it to a whole. Yeah. So life is all perception. Yeah.
A hundred percent. We're not living the same life.
Yeah. No way. I definitely, I mean, a hundred percent you can I mean, almost with anything when it comes to, you can do the most basic things like movies, music, like one person might like it, one person might hate it. Like, you know what I mean? In that degree, does it make it a good, does it make it bad? Like, you know, everything is perspective, perspective, perspective. Right. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What Are the Effects of Instant Gratification and Technology on Our Lives?
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Mind, it's so strange. It's like, I mean, relationships are already strange. And then you add that into the mix. Well, because everyone's awkward now, like 30 to 40% of people are virgins our age.
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And that's, it's really strange because it's going to take so much, like people already to a degree. Yeah. are starting to lose some of their humanity or like, you know what I mean? Because everything is so instant. Every technology is so integrated within us. But then having that, your only relationships or friendships is with a robot. Really strange. Yeah.
I mean, people just, when you meet with people in person now, they're just on their phone.
Yeah. They're glued. Easy. Yeah. It's what. I don't know if you've seen, there's this guy on TikTok and he has a, you know, that, I don't know the game, but the Five Nights and Freddy Bears or whatever they'll say. But he's building a robot that it's like the robot's talking to him almost like Ultron. It's like, father, what is my purpose?
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Chapter 4: How Can We Understand and Manifest Our True Alignment?
That's something I have, like I work with so many clients and there's some that when they first come to me, they're, They're not in that place at all and that frequency at all to be making that money. And that's the first thing where I'm like, okay, we got to change up your habits, everything. I mean, you're sleeping in till 12 noon. I mean, little things like that.
People think, oh, come on, that's not important. But it is. It's still, it sets the tone for who you're going to be.
Absolutely. Yeah. Manifestation is just the first step. Yeah. People think it's like the only thing you need to do.
A hundred percent. Yeah. There's so much to it. You know, I always think it's action. You have to actually do certain things. You have to have a mindset for it. And then I call it like soul. You actually have to be aligned to that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Once you're aligned, it's way easier. Yeah. I used to go against my alignment. Like I used to just chase money. Yeah. Yeah.
That wasn't my sole purpose. A hundred percent. Yeah. And I hear that so often from so many clients, they'll see a success story of that day of a client who like achieved something really great. Like financially, I'm like, Oh my gosh, I need to do this. How did they do that? How did they make that much? And I'm like, you can't look at the money like that.
If it's, if it's something you're not aligned to, you, you're not going to do it. You're not going to want to do it. I know. I mean, I do a little bit, a little bit of trading and then sometimes I want to get more into it and whatnot, but I know guys that are like diehard. I mean, a lot of people do that. Or for me, I just could like, it's, it's not aligned to me all day.
I could not just be, I couldn't, I just couldn't do it. You know what I mean? I know I would eventually, yeah, just kind of taper out with it.
Yeah.
How did you figure out where you were aligned? You know, this is a, I love this question here. If you can go back to your childhood, like the things that you were most fascinated with, that really, I feel that's the best way. I mean, everything I'm doing to a degree was always very helpful, always spiritual, like I always liked to
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Chapter 5: Why Is Protecting Your Inner Child Important for Success?
You know, I'll talk some shit, you know? But I always know not to take it to that next level. Yeah, for sure. Like, I won't get 100 fights and stuff. Some people will just, you know. Oh, yeah.
I rain crazy, yeah. And again, fist fights, playing basketball, it's like a sport. It's not that serious. That's the worst, yeah. Reacting is probably the worst thing I think we could do. You know what I mean? I always say, don't react, respond. Cause it's like when you respond, you kind of almost have to, you know, take that, like take a pause for a moment. Okay.
Let me think of what I should do next. You know, for most people, it's just reaction. Instant too. Instant. Actually with family growing up. Instant. Yeah. Instant. No matter what they said, I'd want to take the opposite stance. You see on social media too. Someone like with everything, someone would see something and they instantly comment some craziness. Yeah. It's wild. I, it's so interesting.
I've had people, you know, I have a lot of haters and whatnot, and I'll have people that'll say certain things, even message me like the meanest, nastiest thing. And I'll just actually message them back. Hey, are you okay? What's up? And then they'll get even nastier. I'm like, look, I know you're upset. What's going on? And then they'll start crying and break down. Oh my gosh, I'm sorry.
You read a shit. Like, I just feel so angry. I'm thinking, oh, wow. Gosh, they just needed someone to recognize them or kind of help them through or a friend. I mean, it's not, That's not the right way to do it. Yeah.
But it's very interesting having that approach where, okay, if I was going to be on the same level and be like, oh my gosh, why are you, you know, saying that all this stuff, it's just escalating it more, but trying to be relaxed and neutral within it. Best thing we can do.
I also think it's a really hard experience growth when you're in a hateful mindset.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How Does Managing Ego and Perspective Influence Our Growth?
It either self-sabotages us or moves us forward to what we want. Yeah, it's crazy.
I used to self-sabotage myself and I didn't know why. For sure, yeah. I'd attract great people and then just cut off the relationship.
It was weird, dude. For sure, yeah. Has that happened to you too? Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. There's been so many... Throughout my whole life, there's been a lot of beliefs I had to overcome big time. You know what I mean? And I could tell there was big pivotal moments where I'm like, if I don't... squash this and change my subconscious, this is not going to be good for some of the big ones.
You know, as funny as this may sound, there was times like growing up, like in high school, I was really bullied. I tried, you know, I, I don't know. I did my best, but I was really bullied. I just, I didn't even do good at all in school. I almost like got freaking expelled. I just was really bad. You know what I mean? That's funny. Just on a side note. You could get expelled for bad grades.
Oh, I was really bad. Yeah. I actually, my senior year, I almost didn't finish. And they were like, they told me just to stop. Like, I forget. it wasn't trigonometry. I was like, I forget what algebra or whatever it was. And they're just like, just no, like we just got to pull them out of the class just to get them through. But it's so funny.
Cause I mean, I guarantee I'm probably the most successful person now that my high school and other times. Yeah. I thought about driving my Lambo back or my goals are always, I mean like, Hey, what's up everybody? I had those thoughts too. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. It'd be freaking awesome. But I've took the high route, high road for sure. Yeah.
It's one of those things that like who even cares, but there's times I'm definitely like, this would be pretty freaking cool. But, Yeah, a big thing I always, probably in my early 20s, there was times I'd feel like a loser all the time. And I remember my mom even saying, like, you got to stop saying that.
You're going to fulfill a self-fulfilling prophecy if you keep saying that over and over again. You know what I mean? And I know when I would say it, it would get worse. Things around me would get worse. You know what I mean? And I will say this. This is... It's amazing. Even if someone doesn't believe in manifestation or any of this stuff or spirituality, it's Really analyze your day.
If you are going about your day in a negative way, you'll be attracting so much negativity. If you just change it up right away, I don't care if it's the worst thing that has happened to you. I don't care if there's no money in your account, whatever it may be. If you truly start to change up your mindset, I call it the Lulu is this Lulu.
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Chapter 7: What Causes Self-Sabotage and How Can We Overcome It?
I just think the way society's made, it's amazing how much control there is and how much people fall victim to that control, thinking they have to do that. Yeah. Just so strange to me. Super strange. I mean, we didn't start questioning it until we were done with sale. For sure. Absolutely. Yeah. And now I think people are waking up, which is good. For sure. Absolutely. Yeah. It's,
There's probably the most ever people really waking up and questioning things and being like, no, I'm going to do it a different way than there's ever been before, which is cool. And it's just going to get more and more. Obviously, there's going to be more and more people that don't do that, too, that want to stick to like, no, I'm going to do it this way, that way.
You probably get the craziest comments and DMs, dude. All the time.
I see some of the ones I get on my clips. Yeah, it's wild.
Wild. Yeah. And that's, it's crazy within social media. People don't realize, I mean, you're talking to people all over the world and people, you don't, I mean, they legitimately could be the nicest person or they can be someone. You just don't know. Did the hate get to you at first? Yeah, definitely a first. It was, I can't even remember this.
I would like, I responded back when I first started to this one comment on Instagram and I actually got in trouble for it. Oh, really? I got, yeah, like a strike for it. This was a long time ago. It was all finished, but I was so mad. I was like, oh my gosh. And I was more mad at myself because I was like, why did I do that? Why did I even entertain that person? I got a freaking strike for this.
Where now I just don't even look at it at all. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think sometimes it's good to have some controversy, but it's also, it's like, if it's, Not really serving a purpose, just like the person.
Absolutely. Now, I know you have a big female following. What are the biggest issues you're seeing with them?
Yeah. Biggest thing is the dating where almost all of these women, they want to be, they want to feel good. They want... They want princess treatment. And I know a lot of people are going to be like, oh, this is ridiculous. Well, it's not. Women aren't asking, hey, you got to be making a hundred grand a month. You got to be making crazy. They just, they want to be treated like a lady.
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