Latest / The You Project / #1791 TYP 7-Day Kickstart - Harps
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Oh high gang taps. Of course it is hope, You're good.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Welcome to another installment of the show. If it's your first,
- 0:08Speaker 1: welcome where have you been? If it's your hundredth welcome back?
- 0:13Speaker 1: If it's your eighteen hundredth, what's wrong with you? Just kidding?
- 0:18Speaker 1: I love you? So today is going to be different.
- 0:24Speaker 1: I'm not even sure exactly as I start this. And
- 0:28Speaker 1: this will be no surprise to you that know me
- 0:32Speaker 1: well and understand how much I fly by the seat
- 0:35Speaker 1: of my pants. But I was just sitting out in
- 0:38Speaker 1: the garden, as old people do. I was sitting in
- 0:42Speaker 1: the garden. I was thinking to myself, Oh my god,
- 0:45Speaker 1: why don't we just do something different? I was thinking that,
- 0:48Speaker 1: and I was thinking, what am I going to What
- 0:52Speaker 1: am I going to talk to you about today? And
- 0:54Speaker 1: then this kind of idea dawned on me, and what
- 0:56Speaker 1: if I don't What if it's not just another monologue.
- 0:59Speaker 1: What if it's not a bunch of not another you know,
- 1:02Speaker 1: thirty minutes of theory or and not that those things
- 1:05Speaker 1: are bad, but as we know, knowing stuff as not
- 1:08Speaker 1: doing staff theories, not action, you know, theories, not outcomes,
- 1:12Speaker 1: all of that stuff. What if I, and so that
- 1:14Speaker 1: took me down this rabbit hole of conceptualizing what I'm
- 1:19Speaker 1: about to share with you. So I had an idea,
- 1:22Speaker 1: And my idea is this, What if you and I,
- 1:25Speaker 1: those of you who are interested, what if you and
- 1:27Speaker 1: I do a little thing together, A little project together
- 1:30Speaker 1: that goes for seven days, a little process, a little
- 1:34Speaker 1: joint endeavor where you put up your hand and you go.
- 1:38Speaker 1: You know what harps want to I want to get started.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I want to create some physical or mental or emotional
- 1:45Speaker 1: or behavioral momentum. I wouldn't mind doing seven days with
- 1:49Speaker 1: you with a bit of structure, bit of accountability, bit
- 1:52Speaker 1: of process, maybe a bit of information and inspiration and
- 1:56Speaker 1: education at zero costs. So there is zero cost. There
- 2:00Speaker 1: is no cost. There's probably a bit of physical and
- 2:03Speaker 1: emotional cost. But there's no dough, and there's no dough,
- 2:07Speaker 1: and there's no sales pitch at the end, and there's
- 2:10Speaker 1: no there's no seguaey to something bigger. There's no on
- 2:14Speaker 1: sell upsell, fucking no sell none, zero, there's no agenda,
- 2:22Speaker 1: there's no hook, there's no catch. I just, you know,
- 2:25Speaker 1: sometimes I just want to do something and I don't
- 2:28Speaker 1: even I don't even know well, I know why because
- 2:33Speaker 1: part of my mission, part of my purpose. And yes,
- 2:36Speaker 1: I get paid well to do my job, and we
- 2:38Speaker 1: get sponsored for the podcast, and I do corporate stuff
- 2:41Speaker 1: that pays well, and I do other things that paid
- 2:45Speaker 1: between you know, a little bit and a lot sometimes
- 2:48Speaker 1: depending on what I'm doing and who I'm doing it for.
- 2:50Speaker 1: But part of my at my age, at where I'm
- 2:53Speaker 1: at with my career, at where I'm at with my life,
- 2:56Speaker 1: part of what I'm about is doing some things where
- 2:59Speaker 1: there's no thing in it for me, just because it's
- 3:02Speaker 1: a good thing or it's the right thing to do.
- 3:04Speaker 1: And so this is that, or this is me trying
- 3:06Speaker 1: to do part of that. And so I thought, wouldn't
- 3:09Speaker 1: it be good if we found a way to step
- 3:11Speaker 1: out of the theory and to practically do something. I thought,
- 3:15Speaker 1: seven days is short enough. It's short enough that it's
- 3:19Speaker 1: not too daunting, it's not too horrifying or terrifying for people.
- 3:23Speaker 1: But it's also long enough that we could have a
- 3:25Speaker 1: little bit of fun and we could create a little
- 3:26Speaker 1: bit of momentum. And I don't know, something else might
- 3:31Speaker 1: come from it. And I don't mean an on sellar
- 3:34Speaker 1: an upset we just might do another one, or we
- 3:37Speaker 1: might I don't know what, but so I'm genuinely interested
- 3:41Speaker 1: to see what happens when I open the door to
- 3:45Speaker 1: my listeners. Now, don't get angry with me for what
- 3:47Speaker 1: I'm about to say, but you know, we all come
- 3:50Speaker 1: for essentially the same or similar ish reason, all most, most,
- 3:57Speaker 1: and I think the reason for many people is we
- 3:59Speaker 1: want to think better, do better, be better, make better choices,
- 4:02Speaker 1: embrace better behaviors, settle down the overthinking and the anxiety
- 4:08Speaker 1: and the fear, and be braver and more resilient and
- 4:11Speaker 1: create good outcomes. The bottom line is, we want to grow,
- 4:14Speaker 1: we want to improve, we want to do better, think better,
- 4:17Speaker 1: be better, produce better outcomes. Right, so we're all here
- 4:21Speaker 1: for that reason. Now I'm opening the door and saying,
- 4:25Speaker 1: I'm going to coach you for seven days for free.
- 4:29Speaker 1: I'm going to spend every day. I'm going to set
- 4:33Speaker 1: a bunch of challenges and or tasks that you can do. Obviously,
- 4:39Speaker 1: everything's optional. You might do two days of this and
- 4:42Speaker 1: go fuck him and fuck his silly idea. I'm out,
- 4:45Speaker 1: Or you might do two days ago. This shit is amazing.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Where has this been all my life? I'm not sure,
- 4:53Speaker 1: but I feel like a lot of people need a
- 4:58Speaker 1: bit of momentum, a bit of structure, a bitility of accountability,
- 5:04Speaker 1: a bit of community, a bit of connection, and the
- 5:08Speaker 1: opportunity to, like in a short period of time, start
- 5:13Speaker 1: something and finish something and hopefully the seven days will
- 5:17Speaker 1: be a stepping stone something bigger and better and more.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Of course, of course life's not seven days, And of
- 5:22Speaker 1: course this is a micro in the middle of the macro,
- 5:26Speaker 1: the macro being your life, the micro being this little
- 5:29Speaker 1: thing that I'm offering you to get involved in. I'll
- 5:32Speaker 1: just repeat there's no cost. There's never going to be
- 5:35Speaker 1: a cost, and at the end, I'm not going to
- 5:36Speaker 1: try and sell you on something. Now I don't know,
- 5:42Speaker 1: I don't I really don't know how many people are
- 5:43Speaker 1: going to want to do this. My bet would be
- 5:48Speaker 1: that if one hundred people do it, less than fifty
- 5:51Speaker 1: will finish. That's not me being negative, that's me telling
- 5:54Speaker 1: you how things like this tend to work. You know,
- 5:59Speaker 1: the average active membership, which I've shared way too many times,
- 6:02Speaker 1: but is somewhere around fifteen per cent. So for every
- 6:04Speaker 1: hundred people that join a gym within a not too
- 6:07Speaker 1: big a period of time, about eighty five of them
- 6:09Speaker 1: don't go or they rarely go. So we know that
- 6:13Speaker 1: people make decisions that they don't follow through on. So
- 6:16Speaker 1: I would challenge you to challenge yourself and go, all right,
- 6:20Speaker 1: I'm going to do this seven days, and I'm maybe
- 6:23Speaker 1: going to do some stuff that's a bit unme and
- 6:26Speaker 1: I'm maybe going to get a little bit uncomfortable. Now,
- 6:30Speaker 1: I don't want this to be overwhelming and to hijack
- 6:33Speaker 1: your life, of course, so I'm going to set every day.
- 6:36Speaker 1: I'm going to set some simple, maybe slightly uncomfortable, depends
- 6:45Speaker 1: on where you're at and what you're up to, tasks
- 6:49Speaker 1: or activities or whatever that you can do. And it's
- 6:54Speaker 1: going to take somewhere between three minutes and twenty minutes,
- 6:57Speaker 1: depending on what you do and the way that you
- 6:59Speaker 1: do it, and that's up to you. Some of these
- 7:04Speaker 1: challenges will be more in the physical space, nothing too hard,
- 7:09Speaker 1: and again I will give you options, so realizing that
- 7:13Speaker 1: some of you don't work out or are not fit,
- 7:16Speaker 1: are not particularly super healthy, there'll be physical options. There'll
- 7:20Speaker 1: be psychological or kind of more mind based challenges or
- 7:25Speaker 1: emotion based challenges or tasks there'll be things that there
- 7:29Speaker 1: will definitely be something that you can do. So you
- 7:33Speaker 1: do not need to be a genius, you do not
- 7:35Speaker 1: need to be fit, you do not need to have
- 7:38Speaker 1: any particular skills. All you need to do and by
- 7:41Speaker 1: the way, all you're going to do is you're going
- 7:44Speaker 1: to do your best. So if I ask you to
- 7:46Speaker 1: do something that you can't quite do, then you do
- 7:48Speaker 1: what you can do and that's your outcome for the
- 7:51Speaker 1: day and it's more that it's more than you would
- 7:53Speaker 1: have done anyway. So the way that it works practically
- 7:57Speaker 1: is I'm going to upload a video every day to
- 8:01Speaker 1: the you Project Facebook page. So if you're not a member, again,
- 8:05Speaker 1: no hooks, catches, agendas, cost nothing, no on sell, up sell,
- 8:08Speaker 1: but go to the bloody Facebook page, sign up, become
- 8:11Speaker 1: a member of the Facebook page, the you Project Facebook
- 8:14Speaker 1: page if you are not, and find the relevant post
- 8:21Speaker 1: for this particular episode so you'll see the promo for
- 8:24Speaker 1: this episode. The promo is going to be all the
- 8:28Speaker 1: episode's going to be called typ seven day Kickstarts, so
- 8:31Speaker 1: you'll see the promo and under that, just go into
- 8:34Speaker 1: the comments and go I'm in like a I'm in,
- 8:40Speaker 1: and I'll know that you're going to do it, and
- 8:44Speaker 1: you can write whatever else you want. Also, you can
- 8:47Speaker 1: write more than I'm in, or you can just write
- 8:49Speaker 1: I'm in. And then I've got an idea of how
- 8:50Speaker 1: many people are going to commit and how many people
- 8:52Speaker 1: want to get involved. And every day I'm going to
- 8:56Speaker 1: post a video and there'll be a little bit of
- 9:00Speaker 1: info and inspo, a little bit of information and inspiration,
- 9:05Speaker 1: and there'll be there'll be a bit of a to
- 9:07Speaker 1: do list, and out of that to do list, you
- 9:10Speaker 1: can pick one thing. They'll be like I said, there'll
- 9:12Speaker 1: be options. But what I think, what I think things
- 9:18Speaker 1: like this can do is they can really help people
- 9:22Speaker 1: who are stuck, who are fearful, who are apprehensive, who
- 9:27Speaker 1: feel alone, who feel disconnected, who don't feel supported to
- 9:32Speaker 1: belong to something. I will spend more time in the
- 9:35Speaker 1: group over the seven days than I normally do. I will,
- 9:39Speaker 1: within reason, my life is pretty busy, but I will. Obviously,
- 9:42Speaker 1: I've got to record seven podcasts, seven podcasts, seven videos,
- 9:47Speaker 1: and I will respond to as many comments and questions
- 9:51Speaker 1: as I can. Also, what I would love to do
- 9:53Speaker 1: with this is for seven days, create a little community
- 9:56Speaker 1: of like minded people. I always want to do this
- 9:58Speaker 1: stuff where when I see people that follow my work
- 10:03Speaker 1: but also starting to who are also starting to connect
- 10:07Speaker 1: with other people, it's so nice to have something online
- 10:11Speaker 1: where people are not being horrible to each other. I
- 10:15Speaker 1: love having something in the virtual space where we are
- 10:19Speaker 1: with no hooks, catches, agendas, just supporting and encouraging and
- 10:23Speaker 1: loving other people that we're never going to meet. And
- 10:27Speaker 1: I think this is an opportunity for you to do
- 10:31Speaker 1: something that is about you, but also something that is
- 10:34Speaker 1: bigger than you. I know that when I have and
- 10:38Speaker 1: I've said this many times, but it is just true,
- 10:40Speaker 1: when I have a purpose that's bigger than me, life
- 10:42Speaker 1: goes better for me. I'll say that again when I
- 10:46Speaker 1: have a purpose or a meaning that's bigger than just
- 10:50Speaker 1: Craig Harper being happy and Craig Harper getting what he
- 10:52Speaker 1: needs and wants. When I have a purpose bigger than me,
- 10:56Speaker 1: then things go better for the people in my world
- 10:59Speaker 1: and the people that I interact and insect with, but
- 11:02Speaker 1: also life on planet Craig is much better because I'm
- 11:06Speaker 1: not coming from a selfish perspective. Now, also keep in
- 11:14Speaker 1: mind that obviously this is not a personalized program. This
- 11:18Speaker 1: is a thing that I'm just putting pushing out into
- 11:20Speaker 1: the world so you will know. You will know better
- 11:24Speaker 1: than me, because I don't know you or some of
- 11:26Speaker 1: you I know. But whether or not this is appropriate
- 11:28Speaker 1: or inappropriate for you, and again you can modify it
- 11:31Speaker 1: as you need to if you have got some significant
- 11:35Speaker 1: mental or emotional or physical health concerns. Not that there's
- 11:40Speaker 1: going to be anything particularly adventurous in this I dare say.
- 11:43Speaker 1: But and you feel like you need to get somebody's
- 11:46Speaker 1: approval or permission from somebody clinically or professionally, then please
- 11:53Speaker 1: do that. You know, I don't want anybody feeling, I
- 11:57Speaker 1: don't know, out of their depth. I guess now you
- 12:01Speaker 1: might think to yourself self, why the fuck is he
- 12:05Speaker 1: running it from a Friday? Like, why does this shit
- 12:10Speaker 1: start on a Friday. There's a couple of reasons. One
- 12:15Speaker 1: because this podcast, I don't know when you're hearing it,
- 12:18Speaker 1: but it's only going live on Sunday, Let's Day, Saturday.
- 12:23Speaker 1: It's only going live on Sunday, Feb nine, twenty twenty five.
- 12:30Speaker 1: And I want people. I want more than you know.
- 12:33Speaker 1: This podcast that you're listening to will we listened to
- 12:35Speaker 1: by thousands of people over quite a few days. Not
- 12:39Speaker 1: everybody listens to it on the day that it comes out,
- 12:41Speaker 1: So I want to give the most people possible a
- 12:44Speaker 1: chance to get involved. That's one and two. Those of
- 12:48Speaker 1: you who know me, well, you know exactly why I'm
- 12:51Speaker 1: starting it on a Friday. You know why I'm starting
- 12:53Speaker 1: it on a Friday, and that is because everyone starts
- 12:56Speaker 1: on a fucking Monday, and it's bullshit, and everyone takes
- 12:59Speaker 1: their foot off the gas by Wednesday or Thursday, and
- 13:02Speaker 1: so I want to do something that's atypical. So for
- 13:05Speaker 1: those of you HOURU who are already figuring out why
- 13:10Speaker 1: Friday is not a good day for you to start
- 13:13Speaker 1: something that takes as little as three minutes a day
- 13:15Speaker 1: when we have fourteen hundred and forty minutes, then this
- 13:18Speaker 1: is definitely not for you. I believe that for some
- 13:24Speaker 1: of you, it could be two people, it could be
- 13:26Speaker 1: two hundred people, it could be two thousand people. But
- 13:28Speaker 1: I genuinely believe that for some of you just doing
- 13:32Speaker 1: something little like this, and not because of the You project,
- 13:35Speaker 1: and not because of Craig Harper, and not because it's
- 13:37Speaker 1: going to be anything fucking magic or mesmerizing, but because
- 13:41Speaker 1: you go oh fuck it. I'm just going to do it.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Not I'm going to see how I go. Not I'm
- 13:47Speaker 1: going to cross my fingers and hope I get through this.
- 13:50Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. So whatever it is that
- 13:52Speaker 1: I need to do three to twenty minutes a day,
- 13:55Speaker 1: I'm going to get a bit uncomfortable. I'm going to
- 13:57Speaker 1: do something unfamiliar. I'm going to jump in this group.
- 13:59Speaker 1: I'm going to comment I'm in. I'm going to support
- 14:02Speaker 1: other people. I'm going to encourage other people. I'm going
- 14:04Speaker 1: to have a purpose bigger than me. I'm just going
- 14:06Speaker 1: to fucking do it. I've listened to this bloke talk
- 14:08Speaker 1: for so long now, I'm going to roll up my
- 14:10Speaker 1: sleeves and I'm going to do something that's un me.
- 14:13Speaker 1: I believe that, and by unme, I'm meaning something perhaps
- 14:17Speaker 1: some of you don't typically do. It's in these moments
- 14:22Speaker 1: when we do the thing that's not you know, what's
- 14:25Speaker 1: not convenient? Fucking Friday, good, good, great, let's do the
- 14:30Speaker 1: inconvenient thing. Let's start the day before most of us,
- 14:36Speaker 1: or not most of us, but some of us make
- 14:39Speaker 1: bad decisions over the weekend and do shit that we
- 14:42Speaker 1: feel we've got to then undo the following Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
- 14:46Speaker 1: What if we don't do that? What if we what
- 14:50Speaker 1: if we break with tradition? What if we stop looking
- 14:54Speaker 1: for a reason to not start. What if we stop
- 14:57Speaker 1: rationalizing and justifying and explain to ourselves let's be honest,
- 15:01Speaker 1: bullshitting ourselves, and what if we go? Fuck? I mean,
- 15:03Speaker 1: I'm just doing it. So that's why I'm starting on
- 15:06Speaker 1: a Friday. That plus obviously the fact that this is
- 15:10Speaker 1: a podcast is only going live Sunday. But then I
- 15:14Speaker 1: was thinking about starting potentially a following Monday, and I
- 15:17Speaker 1: went no. I went, no, let's start when most people
- 15:21Speaker 1: never start. Let's start the program on the day. I'm
- 15:28Speaker 1: sure there have been, but I don't think I've ever
- 15:30Speaker 1: seen any new program start on a Friday. So let's
- 15:35Speaker 1: be that program. Let's get that kickstart doing something that
- 15:39Speaker 1: is some that is somewhat atypical, unfamiliar, and something that
- 15:45Speaker 1: is perhaps new for all of us, me included. All Right,
- 15:50Speaker 1: So recap every day seven days, You're going to go
- 15:53Speaker 1: to the group. You're going to go to the Facebook group,
- 15:56Speaker 1: the new Project Facebook group. You're going to see the video.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Every day I'm going to put up a video. I
- 16:02Speaker 1: don't even know what I'm going to say in these videos.
- 16:04Speaker 1: I've got a bit of time to get my head
- 16:06Speaker 1: around it. I'm going to set some tasks or some
- 16:08Speaker 1: activities that are going to be somewhere between easy and
- 16:11Speaker 1: little bit challenging. Some are going to be more in
- 16:13Speaker 1: the mind space, some are going to be more in
- 16:15Speaker 1: the cognitive space. And if you're thinking, like what it
- 16:18Speaker 1: might just be today I'm going to read fifteen minutes
- 16:21Speaker 1: of something that I've never read before. It could be
- 16:25Speaker 1: I'm going to try a one kilometer run. It could
- 16:27Speaker 1: be I'm going to have a hard it doesn't matter,
- 16:29Speaker 1: hard conversation. I'm not sure. But there are going to
- 16:32Speaker 1: be things that I want you to pick the thing
- 16:34Speaker 1: that you know you probably can do but might be
- 16:37Speaker 1: a bit uncomfortable. And of the options that I give,
- 16:40Speaker 1: which are probably going to be somewhere between three and
- 16:42Speaker 1: nine options, I want you to pick the one that
- 16:45Speaker 1: is truly going to be for you the most valuable.
- 16:48Speaker 1: So you're going to go to the typ Facebook page
- 16:52Speaker 1: every day. You are going to have look at the video.
- 16:55Speaker 1: After you've done it, you're going to go back to
- 16:58Speaker 1: the page and say I'm done. Or you might say
- 17:02Speaker 1: what you've done or how you felt or what you're learning,
- 17:05Speaker 1: and other people are going to do the same, and
- 17:07Speaker 1: hopefully you're going to jump in on the back of
- 17:09Speaker 1: their comments and say, well done, Donna, you're fucking amazing,
- 17:13Speaker 1: Well done, Bryant, you big start, look at you go,
- 17:16Speaker 1: fuck you're a gun something like that. Because we can,
- 17:20Speaker 1: because we can. So we're kicking off Friday fourteen. There
- 17:25Speaker 1: may be other people that don't listen to this that
- 17:30Speaker 1: you want to get involved. You might get people in
- 17:33Speaker 1: your work involved, at your work involved, you might get
- 17:37Speaker 1: some of your family involved. You might get some of
- 17:39Speaker 1: your social group involved. I don't care. There's no hook
- 17:44Speaker 1: or catch at the end. Like I said, there's just
- 17:46Speaker 1: some discipline, some structures, some accountability, some community. There's some connection.
- 17:52Speaker 1: There's some info and inspo from Fatty Harps, and there's
- 17:56Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to get involved in something, to
- 18:00Speaker 1: who build some momentum, to start something and finish something
- 18:03Speaker 1: and to have a sense of accomplishment. And after we've
- 18:06Speaker 1: done that, we will debrief and we may even I
- 18:11Speaker 1: don't know I'm thinking about clearly, I haven't thought this through,
- 18:13Speaker 1: but we may even do a zoom call, you know what.
- 18:18Speaker 1: But the people who actually do all seven days, we
- 18:20Speaker 1: may do a live zoom call, and we may even
- 18:24Speaker 1: do a like a thirty minute coaching session free live
- 18:28Speaker 1: interactive with you know who. Anyway, that's it. So that's
- 18:34Speaker 1: my idea typ seven day kickstart. Have I forgotten anything?
- 18:42Speaker 1: I'm looking through my terrible notes here. Umm, look, I
- 18:48Speaker 1: guess I did write down here this is which I
- 18:51Speaker 1: didn't share with you. I'll just say it because I
- 18:53Speaker 1: think this is important. The real challenge is your ability
- 18:58Speaker 1: to commit to something and complete something that you don't
- 19:04Speaker 1: have to do there's no gun to your head, and
- 19:08Speaker 1: also to do that when nobody's looking, and maybe when
- 19:12Speaker 1: no one's giving a shit, but just for you to go.
- 19:16Speaker 1: You know what. This won't be necessarily fun, quick, easy,
- 19:19Speaker 1: or painless. It might be fun, who knows. But nonetheless,
- 19:22Speaker 1: I'm going to dive in and I'm going to do
- 19:23Speaker 1: it anyway. That's what we're doing. Love your collective guts
- 19:27Speaker 1: is we kick off this coming Friday. Depending on when
- 19:31Speaker 1: you listen to this February fourteen, twenty twenty five through
- 19:35Speaker 1: to Thursday, February twentieth inclusive. That is seven days if
- 19:40Speaker 1: you've missed this one, send me a message if you're
- 19:44Speaker 1: listening to this after these dates, and we we may
- 19:49Speaker 1: do another one. We may never do anything like this
- 19:52Speaker 1: ever again, because it could be a fucking dud. Who knows,
- 19:56Speaker 1: but I'm in, I'm keen of will, and if you're
- 20:01Speaker 1: the same, let's make this motherfucker happen.