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Start with 1%: Small Steps, Big Change · D-constructing Topics

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  All right and welcome to the deconstructing topic podcast when you listen to some,
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  smoothing little piano little something going on you
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  already know that we are and i say we
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  because i am that legendary host of the deconstructing topic
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  podcast that legendary podcast when we
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  grab a topic and we kind of you know what let's dissect
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  let's do the deconstructing thing but today
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  you know i don't want to be crazy animated because today
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  we got a little motivational kind of little pep talk
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  from the legendary host David Deconstructing
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  Topics to you my audience and my legendary audience
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  whether you are a returning day one whatever it is this is your first time second
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  time third time you know let's talk a little bit of motivation and it's not
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  even kind of uh it's a little bit of motivation and a little bit of that little
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  pep talk and a little bit of that uh kind of life lesson and one of the things that I'm here,
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  Deconstructing Topic Podcast, once again,
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  we're trying to, let's make it happen type deal, you know?
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  And one of the things that I've kind of noticed in life, and listen,
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  even including me, is that there are things that one wants to address,
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  many things that one wants to address in different topics of different aspects
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  of life, but sometimes we don't know where to start.
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  And I've heard the other day, I
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  was having a conversation with a sister-in-arms who also wants to kind of.
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  How can I say it to you? It's inquiring about, you know, entering the podcast realm out there.
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  And then shout out to the sister out there doing that thing.
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  And, you know, she got a couple of questions. But one thing that they listen,
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  they don't know where to start.
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  And that's one of those things that as we are listening to this podcast or we
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  listen to this episode, where to start, right?
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  But this is not about, you know, starting a podcast or anything to that effect.
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  It's about how we address certain things in our life And sometimes we tend to
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  get a little bit overwhelmed Like I said,
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  even myself I got a little dark cloud to address But if you don't address it
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  And even if you don't take time to address it Then, hey, listen,
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  it's going to still be lingering And it comes to a point that you say to yourself It's time,
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  And what I mean by that is this, and very simple. And the other day,
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  you know, I'm in the gym, and there's one of my gym brothers,
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  and he's weighing himself.
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  And what he was telling me is that he, you know, put a little kind of goal there
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  to lose five pounds in two weeks. Amen to that.
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  And as he tipped the scale, I mean, did the scale thing, and,
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  you know, we both like, okay, what's going on? And he only lost one pound.
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  And we both kind of chuckled, like, okay, I mean, your goal was five, you only lost one pound.
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  And he looked at me, he's like, no, no, that's fine, that's one pound.
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  And I want people to be like, okay.
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  I thought, you know, the goal was five. And a lot of times, when in life,
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  we put goals, whether it's to save money, whether it's to address certain things
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  at our workplace, to a personal life, to address certain things,
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  to kind of cut a couple of our habits, whether it's spending,
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  whether it's, you know, going out than drinking and whether it's doing these
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  couple of things, whether it's gambling, whether it's whatever it is that you
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  know you need to address.
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  A lot of times we put these goals and we want to say, let's say with the gentleman
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  with the gym said, hey, listen, I want to give myself two weeks.
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  I'm going to give up or cut down on this. I'm going to cut down on that. I need to lose one pound.
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  And he's shogged and we both kind of like, okay.
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  And the lesson there is that a lot of times people, and I'm going to say probably
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  80 to 90% of the people out there that was in that situation that said,
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  hey, listen, I want to lose five pounds.
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  And they don't lose the five pounds, they lose one, they get discouraged.
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  And the thing is that the gym brother was not discouraged because he basically
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  said, well, what I did was, is that I cut down 1% of carbs.
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  What I did down 1% of cheese Because he's a cheese lover He enjoy his wine I
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  cut down 1% For two weeks He cut down 1% of something.
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  And he was telling me, hey, David, you know, normally, let's say,
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  if I'm, you know, with my wife, you know, the kids are hanging out or whatever it is.
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  You know, me and my wife, we like to treat ourselves, go out.
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  Let's say we go out to dinner.
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  We have a couple of wine, you know, wine cups, you know, wine.
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  They're doing the wine thing. Yeah, wine.
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  And he said, normally, you know, we both would drink, you know,
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  three, three little, you know, cups there.
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  And he said, we only had two. So he cut one.
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  And you see what we want to do, and sometimes what we tend to do as humans,
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  is that we tend to put so much emphasis on the goal, which is fine.
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  Hey, listen, it's no problem whatsoever putting yourself, okay,
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  I want to do this by this time, so this is where I want to be at.
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  And sometimes we're not going to be there. Many times we're not going to get to that goal.
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  Let's say I decided, hey, listen, I want to save $100 from here to three weeks from now.
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  Then I look and I only save $57. I'm just using an example. Again,
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  people should not be discouraged.
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  Because sometimes in life, we got to start addressing 1% of something.
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  And you don't want to be in that situation where you're going to put a lot of
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  burdens in our life where, oh, we have to do this.
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  And again, that's the mistake that us humans tend to fall.
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  And we tend to fall into that little cycle that, wow, just because I didn't
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  establish this goal, it doesn't mean that you're not established something.
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  That one pound, you might say, oh, but it's only one pound, David.
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  Not two, not three, but again, it's one pound out of five.
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  And we can get this coverage because of that. because, again,
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  we know what exactly, why we only lost one pound. He already knew.
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  He could have just said, you know what, I'm just going to cut down completely on one.
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  I'm going to cut down on carbs completely and not lose no pounds whatsoever,
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  and go back to the same routine.
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  So sometimes you just got to work with certain things and just start with that
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  1%. Address 1%. 1% becomes 2.
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  2 becomes 3. 3 becomes 5. 5 becomes 10. You understand what I'm trying to say here?
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  And I want, you know, I want this episode where people are listening to him.
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  Once again, hit the like button, share, you know, listen to me,
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  you know, listen to this little episode.
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  And, you know, you're going to start thinking, you know, he's right.
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  But it's 1%. See, I know a lot of people that will wake up early or they started
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  to wake up early, started hitting the gym.
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  The minute that they started going back to back with them, we're not waking up early.
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  Or earlier than what they normally is, then they get discouraged.
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  Then I said to myself, well, then adjust the time.
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  Instead of waking up a little bit earlier, now obviously when you wake up earlier,
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  you're going to probably put some time in the gym.
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  But the whole point is that you're going to start a little discipline, a little process there.
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  So let's say if you are 45 minutes in the gym, right?
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  And you just started and you're getting your thing, but then you're having a
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  little hard time waking up, don't get discouraged.
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  Okay, so you did not wake up that early.
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  You wake up 10, 15 minutes a little bit late than the normal,
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  but then still go to the gym. Instead of doing the 45 minutes because you lost
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  10, 15 minutes from not waking up earlier, then do the 30 minutes.
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  You see how the mind works sometimes is that we put so much pressure on ourselves.
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  We start putting these goals that are obtainable, but sometimes if somebody
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  tells me, hey, maybe I started going to the gym.
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  You know, first time ever I want to, you know, shed some pounds I want to get
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  tone, I want to do this And I started going to the gym And I'm only exercising 10 minutes.
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  And I'm going to say, 10 minutes a session, what the hell are you doing?
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  Are you, like, walking in and out?
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  But I want people to understand it's this. See, that person,
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  let's say, never ever actually dedicated themselves to go, let's say,
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  to the gym, hey, listen, you can use anything. You can do a run,
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  whatever it is to keep your body moving.
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  And if, now, I'm going to start to say that once that person started work,
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  you know, doing 10-minute sessions, they're going to go to 15.
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  Then to 20, then to 30. They're going to start to feel it. Their body's going
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  to start, their mind's going to start getting accustomed.
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  And again, I want people, I'm just using the gym example, but apply this everywhere in life.
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  Doing something is better than nothing. Now, I'll guarantee you that when somebody,
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  first time ever, let me do the gym.
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  You know what? I started working out.
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  I'll take that pride. Let's go. Yeah, you're going to get a lot in an hour,
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  but you're probably going to start to burn out after a couple of weeks,
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  after three, four, five weeks.
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  And then what happened? Now in your mind, it's like, okay, that's great. You're doing an hour.
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  But then when you go to the gym one day and you do 30 minutes because of certain
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  circumstances or whatever it is, you're going to get discouraged.
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  And I'm not doing as much gym as I'm doing before.
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  See, there you go. That's that mindset. Again, grab that 1%.
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  Start somewhere. And starting somewhere, it's better than starting nowhere.
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  Whether financially you're struggling, but you know you can handle certain things,
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  trust me, and this applies to me.
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  I'm a social butterfly as a social can bee, and still sting like a bee.
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  Oh, I enjoy so many things.
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  Continue to find balance and continue to make the best and then continue to
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  be the best version of myself.
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  But sometimes I get caught up and then you got deep that balance because then
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  you got these personal issues, family issues, friends, work, content, this, that.
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  And I said to myself, how can I, you know, discipline myself,
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  you know, find that balance every now I'm finding.
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  But then And again, I start to, sometimes, and this happens,
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  you get rattled and you start getting overwhelmed when you just stop doing anything.
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  And I caught myself the other day.
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  I got sick, couldn't breathe. I'm like congested.
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  I didn't go to the gym. Once I got better, instead of saying to myself,
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  once I got better, okay, fully recovered or at least recover,
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  instead of saying to myself, you know what, let me just do 10,
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  15 minutes in the gym or let me do something just to remind me I didn't do anything.
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  And then after a couple of days of not doing anything once
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  you go back to the gym you gotta be like you don't have that energy and
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  again it all starts that sometimes we tend to we
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  need to know what's in our mind what's in
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  our soul what's in our body somewhere down the line how
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  can we all meet all at the same time and just start
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  with that little one percent start with that little step that
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  little step is gonna go woo and it's gonna
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  take you a long ways from now And whatever
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  it is that your practice is in your life Don't put
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  that pressure just because again And I'm using
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  the gym little thing going on here
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  story So you can have an idea That a lot of people would have been discouraged
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  If they did not lose 5 pounds And they only lost 1 pound Trust me People get
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  discouraged That's the human nature in us Because now we feel like we're failures
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  Instead of thinking of success Right?
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  Why is it that 1% it's not success, it's failure, right?
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  There are people that take tests, whatever it is, and you get a 88,
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  I mean, 98% test rate, you ain't gonna be like, wow, I had 98%.
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  You're gonna be like, damn, I didn't do with 99. I'm just saying.
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  Just because of that 1%. Hey, listen, I get it. But sometimes somewhere down
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  the line, we have to kind of manage and find that little, how can we start here?
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  And start managing that 1%. Whatever it is that you need to address in life,
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  just start with 1%. What is 1% of this?
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  What is 1% of an hour? What is 1% of a dollar?
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  What is 1%? Let's say if you are someone who's trying to cut down on the enjoyment
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  of the spirits, drinking, the adult beverage, Hey, damn, do I really need a six-pack?
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  Even I sometimes would even ask myself, do I really need a six-pack?
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  Let me just have five. Oh, I had a good time with five. Let me start doing four.
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  Remember, I'm cutting down. Oh, I had a good time with four.
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  Let me start doing three, and I'm not saying every day, but I'm just saying
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  that every time that one likes to indulge in the enjoyment of something,
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  that you know that it could affect you, then you said to yourself,
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  you know what? Let me start cutting down something at 1%.
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  Let me start increasing something at 1%. Let's decrease the productivity of the junk food.
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  Let's, you know, I love junk food. And I'm not saying me, but there's people.
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  And when I say junk food, there's people that love the sweets.
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  Got that sweet soup. There's people that love the saltiness.
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  There's people that love this. And again, you could get all that stuff even
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  in the most healthiest way.
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  But, you know, we're consumers, so we enjoy certain things.
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  Let's get it. Hey, listen, those Doritos be looking good sometimes.
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  But when you start applying that, some of that stuff that's not good for your body on a weekly basis,
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  maybe two or three Dorito bags a week, and then kind of feel like,
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  yeah, it was good, but, damn, they got too much salt in it.
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  Let's eliminate one bag. You're going to probably start to feel,
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  hey, listen, two bags was enough.
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  Let's eliminate one. One is enough.
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  The things that harm you, you can start by taking 1% off.
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  And the things that are good for you, could you start putting 1% on? Let's make it happen.
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  Once again, deconstruct the topics. This legendary podcast, Save It a Mind and
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  Save It a Life, we're definitely going to make it happen.
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  And let that may, we are in may, let that may be that thing that we are going
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  to make it happen. Let's go.
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  Anyways, holla at your boy. It's Deconstructing Topics. I'm out. Peace. I'm out of ease.