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- Forged In The Dark: What if I told you I had a key, a very special key, that had the power to unlock all of your heart's desires that had the power to unlock your fullest potential? What would you do for my magic key? Welcome to Forged in the Dark. I'm your host, Jamie. Let's dig in. Now, some of you may have have picked up on the jingle. What would you do, ooh ooh, for this magic key? What wouldn't you do to unlock your fullest potential, your greatest potential? And the spoiler here is that you are the key, but a key. Only works when you turn it, and turning it is the reps. so it's not just about the reps that you are putting in. Because if you continue to put in reps that aren't working, you are going to continue to get the same results. It's not. Just about the reps that you are putting in. It's about the quality of the reps. Now, the other morning, I showed up to my run group, and I had missed a text that said we were walking. Someone had an injury, but I was already there. So we start walking, and everyone's walking really slow and and I was feeling frustrated. I showed up ready to run and here we are walking slow. And when we got to the end of of mile two, that's where the that's where the walk ended. And they looked at me and said, Jamie, are you going to stick around and run? And I said, No, I'm going to go home and run. So that's what I did. I I came home frustrated, dumped my stuff in the kitchen, started a new timer as I ran out the front door, and I ran. But I hadn't finished my run and I noticed that I had no knee pain. I was running hills and I had no knee pain. And this made me take a step back and look at the whole morning differently. Here I was so frustrated that we weren't just walking, we were walking a slow pace. But then I was able to come home and run three miles by myself on hills with no knee pain. Are you following me? Like when our reps are not working, it is our responsibility to look at them, break them down, and see what's not working. When when our results start to flatline, or maybe even before your results flatline, it's good to check in with the reps you're putting in every single day. Because if the reps you're putting in are getting you results that don't work or that you don't like, then it's almost more like you're just spinning your wheels. And this is where the the my this is this is where my brain went. We change the plan, we don't change the goal. We can change the plan, but we don't change the goal. So I was looking at this whole morning of running from a place of pure information. what started off as frustrating, a slow walking two miles. Yielded me three running miles with no pain. my gosh, this is actually quite exciting. Now I'm not saying that I want to start every run with a two mile walk, but but this is a new rep to try. On my next run, I am going to try walking a full mile at a moderate pace and seeing. If I can run three or four miles pain free, do you see how you are the key? Your awareness, your curiosity to get anything that we want in life, to get good at anything we want in life, we have to put in the reps. You must put in the reps. But if the reps are not getting you what you want, your desired outcome, you must be willing to shift, you must be willing to pivot, you must be willing to try something different. There have been so many times in my life where where I felt stalled, I felt stuck, I felt stagnant, or It's not even that I felt it, I was. There was a time where I felt like I was standing behind a door that was locked. Now that door that I was standing behind turns out that it didn't even need a key. It was never locked. All I had to do was reach down, turn the knob, and open the door, and boom, no more. You are and always have been your own magic key. You are, you always have been your key to your transformation. Think of, I want you to think of this, especially if you are in a season. Of the reps aren't working, the reps aren't working, the reps aren't working. Okay, all reps require time, patience, and repetition. That's that's it. But then also you must be self-aware and curious enough to identify the reps that aren't working and change the plan, not the goal. Maybe this slow season of your life where the reps don't seem to be working, maybe, maybe they haven't had enough time yet. And maybe the reps that truly aren't working, what you need is a tweak. And there's also the possibility. That this season of your life where the reps don't seem to be working is preparing you for what comes next. So if you are your own key to your transformation, and reps are what get you to where you're going, And you are aware enough to see what reps aren't working, it gives you information, it it this brings the power back to you. This brings your power back to you. How are you viewing the setbacks? How are you viewing the keys where the lock is sticky? If you are the key. And the key only works when you turn it. Are you turning your own key? I am super excited that I took a frustrating morning and w and and and was able to gain new information from it. If if if walking two miles means I can run. Three, four, five, six plus pain free. Why wouldn't I give that rep a chance? Now I am going to play with this and I am going to find the magic number. Is it walking a half a mile, a mile, a mile and a half, or is two my magic number? I don't know yet, but I'm excited to try. I am excited to experiment. And if this were a situation where I hadn't already given you the spoiler that you were the key, what would you do to obtain this magic key? What wouldn't you do for this magic key? And what is stopping you from trying it today? Okay, that's what I have for you. Until next time.