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What Holds You Together on the Days You Don't Want To · The Blow Your Mind Podcast

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  Welcome to the Blow Your Mind podcast.
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  If you're trying to figure out who you are, where headed, or
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  how to trust yourself in the middle of it all, this show is
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  for you. I'm Erica Sinner.
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  I grew up in a trailer park on food stamps and I went on to
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  build a multi 8 figure award-winning company without a
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  safety net and without pretending it was easy.
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  I'm now as CEOA best selling author and a philanthropist and
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  what I've learned is this real confidence isn't a feeling, it's
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  self trust built through evidence.
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  This is a place for real conversations.
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  You'll hear from me and occasionally my husband Chris as
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  we talk honestly about real life and the standards and decisions
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  that separate talk from results. Let's blow your mind.
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  It's 11:00 PM and the wheels have just touched down at Saint
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  Louis Lambert Airport, and I've just gotten home from a big trip
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  that is always amazing but exhausting.
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  I'm not going to get into my bed until probably after midnight
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  and actually get to sleep. And then tomorrow morning, that
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  alarm clock is going to go off at 5:45 in the morning and it's
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  6:00 AM. My trainer is going to be
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  knocking on the door ready for a workout, and it's going to feel
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  like torture. I complain the entire time I'm
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  working out, but I know that it matters.
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  I know it matters for my mental health that day, for the
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  meetings that I have stacked. I know that it matters for if
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  you've been listening to my episodes, the last one I shared,
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  going to those children's hospitals, being able to hold
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  those kids, those superheroes when they fall into my arms.
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  And I know it matters because I'm in my 40s and I got to get
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  strong bone health. Like, how often are we all
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  hearing about perimenopause? Can I get an Amen?
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  It matters and it matters in such a big way for so many parts
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  of my life, but the only way to make it happen is through
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  systems. And so that's what we're going
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  to talk about today. In the second part of my blow
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  your mind framework, I talk a lot about what does systems
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  actually mean? And all they are is practices,
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  habits, standards that reinforce who you've chosen to be.
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  If you haven't listened to the episode before this one that
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  talks about identity, I would push pause, go back and listen
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  to that to really decide who is it that you are becoming and who
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  have you been taught to be that isn't true.
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  So that by the time that you really sit down and
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  intentionally decide who you are becoming in this world and the
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  impact that you're going to make, well, now we're going to
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  talk about systems. Systems that actually help you
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  become that person. Systems that will carry you
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  through the moments that you don't want to because we're
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  human and motivation is not enough.
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  We, we all know it comes and goes.
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  And it's not even about perfection.
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  It's just about having systems that hold you a structure that
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  is strong enough to hold this new identity of who you're going
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  to be. When your belief wobbles, it's
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  because it will. Why?
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  Because we're human beings. Why?
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  Because we get tired, because life is life.
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  And these are the systems that are going to help carry you
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  through to not only just trust yourself, but I believe to blow
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  your own mind. And so when you think about what
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  our systems, it is the routine that you keep, it is any
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  standard that you choose to uphold.
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  It is the follow through on things that you are not
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  negotiating, you're just doing it right.
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  Like for me, I wasn't negotiating.
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  Am I going to work out tomorrow morning?
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  No, that doorbell is going to ring at 6:00 AM and I'm going to
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  get up and I'm going to do the thing because I told myself I
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  was going to. And it's this really cool thing
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  happens after I do a workout, even if I've complained the
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  whole time. I'm still sweating, I'm still
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  doing the squats, I'm still doing all the things afterwards.
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  I'm like, man, I did that like even when I didn't want, I want
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  to like I, I do things I say, I'm going to do, which then
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  reminds me how much I really can trust myself.
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  And that's such a big thing. I think in life, and especially
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  as women, where we might not trust our instincts, we might
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  not feel comfortable sharing what we're thinking or this,
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  this feeling that we have, this intuition that we have.
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  But the more that you put systems in place that you
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  actually follow through on, the more that you start to trust
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  yourself. Everything around you starts to
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  change. Your whole life starts to up
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  level and people around you start noticing it too.
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  And it's a really cool like ripple effect that happens
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  because it almost like gives them permission to start doing
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  it too. And it's all based on a decision
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  of identity of like who you want to be.
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  Because truly like those consistent, those small
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  disciplined actions turn into consistency.
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  And as you start to be consistent with yourself, you
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  start to build momentum. And when you start to build
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  momentum and you start to see how far you've come, everything
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  can change for you. And it doesn't just have to be
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  about working out. I think working out is probably
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  the easiest one to talk about. But I do so many things that I
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  call rituals in my morning routine from my Transcendental
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  Meditation where I truly get 20 minutes by myself before the
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  world gets loud. And that was hard.
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  That was a hard system to put in place because you were so used
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  to just being on her phone or talking to other people or
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  scrolling through Instagram or being on like watching the TV or
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  working and to just be by yourself for 20 minutes.
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  But now it has just been super game changing for me.
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  I do my morning face immersions. It's just these practices and
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  habits that like remind you who you are, remind you of the
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  identity that you set forth as an intention that you want to
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  become. And every single time you do it,
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  you feel really proud of yourself.
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  And they don't have to be hard like and working out might not
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  be the thing for you. For me, I do 2 times strength
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  training a week and then I do hot yoga once a week.
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  But I also know for myself, hey, I need to increase that.
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  I need to walk more. I need to be on my walking pad
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  or I have my little lymphatic drainage, that little vibration
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  pad, which I don't know if it works or not, but I do it
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  because it makes me feel good. And it's also again, back to
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  these habits of it's, it's an actionable thing that you have
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  done that proves to your body and to yourself that you really
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  are moving in the direction of the identity that you set forth.
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  Because I really believe that future you needs a structure
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  that passed you never built. It really needs a structure that
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  is going to be foundational and it's going to be your safety
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  net, especially on the days that you don't want to do the thing.
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  And that, that, that could be that you every morning get up
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  and go for a walk, or maybe not even a walk.
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  Just go outside and sit in this like the sunlight, breathe the
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  air for 5 minutes and then come back inside.
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  Maybe it's drinking your coffee slower in the morning.
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  Maybe it's after a day's work that you take a walk then or
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  that you read a book 1 chapter. Even if you have kids, if you
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  have lots of things happening right, you have got to build in
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  time within your schedule, within your calendar that is
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  protected just for you. And those are not just practices
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  and habits, but those become standards.
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  I even call them like sacred lines that can't be crossed for
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  myself. I picked that up from Jessica's
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  WAG instead of boundaries, they're sacred lines that are
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  just for you. And they're little gifts for
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  yourself that you can have. And the more you start to do
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  them, the more you realize you are becoming the identity that
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  you set forth to be. And you start to realize, wow,
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  like I can change my life and I am changing my life.
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  And I like who I'm becoming. And I like these standards that
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  I'm upholding. And the people around you, you
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  know, some people might be like, why do you do that?
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  That's so weird. But I like it for me.
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  And I like being weird. Like we're all different.
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  Like, I kind of like being a nerd.
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  I don't know, Like, I'm like, can we all just be more
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  ourselves? I think life is more interesting
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  that way when we're not all trying to be the same person.
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  And So what I want you to think about is what are systems that
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  you could put in place that are going to get you to the identity
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  that you have decided that you're going to be.
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  So again, if you haven't listened to the episode before
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  this, please go listen to that and really take the time to
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  decide who you want to be because then when you start to
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  build the systems that are going to be the safety Nets for you,
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  you're going to get there. I'm living proof that you can
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  get there. I am a girl who grew up in a
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  trailer park on food stamps who my mom didn't teach me how to
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  cook. I didn't know how to take care
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  of myself. I didn't know nutrition was so
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  important. Literally when we had mashed
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  potatoes, we had those potatoes that were in a box that you add
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  water to them. So they weren't even the real
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  potatoes. And it wasn't until like I was
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  in my 20s where I was like, oh, you actually buy the real
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  potatoes and you peel them and then you mash them and like,
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  wow, mashed potatoes are really good.
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  So I say that to you not to say like, oh, I've had such tough
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  childhood and like, here I am. I say it to you to say it's
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  really possible to just get to decide who you want to be and
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  then figure out what are the systems that you need to put in
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  place to get you there. And we all have access to so
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  much information now. YouTube, TikTok, Google, the
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  Internet, ChatGPT, whatever it is to help you put those systems
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  in place to think through what are the ones that you want to
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  have And then just start small. What is it for you?
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  Is it the walk? Is it calling your girlfriend on
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  a Saturday? Is it going for a coffee date?
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  Is it taking your partner for an actual date?
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  Is it of morning face immersion? Is it working out?
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  What is it for you that is going to get you there?
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  That is going to prove to yourself on a consistent basis
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  through small disciplined actions that you are someone who
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  does what they say they're going to do and you are someone who is
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  becoming the person that you decided you're going to be.
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  It is possible. That is my mind blowing moment
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  today is it truly is not waiting for permission.
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  It's not waiting to be inspired by somebody else.
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  It's not trying to up level your life to be like that person that
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  you want to be like. It's really truly just deciding
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  like right now, today, who do you want to be and what are the
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  systems that you need to get you there.
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  So that's the challenge is take time for yourself.
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  I mean, I when I decided my systems and I still decide them
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  and I tweak them, they're not set forever, set in stone.
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  But when I really first sat down with my framework and decided,
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  OK, what are the systems that are going to get me there, it
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  took me about an hour and I looked at my calendar.
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  I color code my calendar and all of my systems are color-coded in
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  this beautiful green, which for me is like plants and like life
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  and thriving. But it also reminds me of money
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  and success. And by doing these things that
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  allows me to show up better at work, it allows me to build
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  bigger, stronger companies. It allows me to generate dollars
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  that go to my nonprofit that help change the life of kids.
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  So green for me is super important, but I took the time
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  to save, OK, like, OK, these are the amount of times I want to
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  work out. This is what I'm going to be
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  doing my NAD injections. This is what I'm going to be
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  doing my morning face immersions.
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  I want to do Transcendental Meditation five times a week.
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  What does that look like? And building it into my calendar
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  as it is, as if it is a non negotiable.
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  And again, it's because I really believe that future you, that
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  person you're trying to be, really needs a strong
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  foundational system placed for you to actually get there so
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  that you don't get discouraged when you're like, how am I not
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  there yet? You're proving to yourself every
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  single day how you're getting there.
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  So that's my challenge for you. So today you've gotten to learn
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  all about my systems and I've shared with you a couple of
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  different ones, but I'm excited for you to come up with your own
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  systems. And maybe you take some of mine
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  in action, but you come up also with your own.
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  I want to be inspired by all of you and I truly believe in my
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  framework, deciding who I am and then putting the systems in
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  place to get me to who I am today and who I'm still
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  becoming. I truly just believe in this
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  framework and I want to see it in action in the world.
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  I'm excited to see all of the systems that you all put in
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  place and I can't wait to watch you all blow your own minds with
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  all of the small discipline action that you do that are
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  going to get you to become the person that you've decided that
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  you want to be. So please DM me, reach out, tag
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  me, especially if you do one of my systems.
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  I want to. I've been I get a lot, a lot of
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  tags on the face immersion one because it's it's so easy, but
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  it's also guys, it's so good. And so let me know what your
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  systems are slide into my DM, send me an e-mail, tag me in the
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  things, comment on my stories. I'll comment back on yours.
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  I can't wait to cheer you on as you're doing them.
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  Thank you for being here. Thank you for being a part of
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  the show. Please share it with anyone else
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  you think might want to be in a system with you, right?
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  Create some systems that you might do with others and get
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  accountability partners, but you also don't need them.
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  Like you can do this for you. You can keep these promises to
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  yourself. These are commitments for you.
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  So thank you for being here. I can't wait to see you.
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  Till next time, thanks for listening to the Blow Your Mind
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  podcast. If something you heard today
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  stayed with you, that's your cue.
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  Apply one idea, keep one promise to yourself this week because
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  that's how you blow your mind. If this helped you build proof,
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  find this work and blow their minds too.
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  I'll see you next time.