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Make a list! w/ co-founder Adam Moreau (Ep. 80) · The Layback Podcast

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  Hey everyone, welcome back to the Laid Back Podcast.
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  If you are joining me visually, you can see I'm in a new
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  location. This is the wall of my house.
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  I'm sitting on my back porch just trying to get some fresh
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  air, some daylight, some sunlight because at this point,
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  I don't really know what day it is when this comes out.
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  Don't really know when that will be.
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  At the time of the recording, it is September 10th.
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  My daughter is 17 days old. 18 days old.
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  My daughter is 18 days old At this point.
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  I think I did that math right. No 17 was correct and she is
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  currently sitting on my lap right here while I record.
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  While I was sitting here, I was scrambling to figure out how I'm
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  going to put another episode together, what that's actually
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  going to look like, how am I going to find the time to get
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  this done and keep producing content.
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  Naturally, I could take a step back.
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  It's super important for me to spend time with my daughter and
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  be there for my wife. For those of you that listen to
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  the Matt Swilley podcast that some of the best advice that
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  I've heard so far is remember to be a husband first.
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  Take care of my wife. That will ensure that my
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  daughter will always be taken care of.
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  So I I've tried to take that to heart, but what has occurred to
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  me and what I really wanted to get out is ways to feel
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  productive when you're stuck in an environment where you really
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  feel like you can't get a ton complete.
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  This is not the same as having surgery and being stuck.
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  Just kind of feeling, I don't know, incomplete, kind of like a
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  waste. I know those are aggressive
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  words, but that's certainly how I felt when I was hurt.
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  I wouldn't say I feel incomplete or like a waste of space right
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  now as a father, but I definitely feel that way when it
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  comes to supporting Gavin, John, Daryl, and the other members of
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  the Flexpro Grip team. I I just hate that I haven't
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  been able to be there as much. It's great that I've been able
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  to be there for my wife and my daughter, but I do want to be
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  there for all the players in the Flexpro Grip community, all the
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  guys that I I work to serve every single day.
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  It's forced me to figure out how can I finish each day knowing
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  that I still provided something for others, enabling me to feel
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  like I did enough. I do think, as I mentioned
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  earlier, this is semi synonymous with what you can go through
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  when you're injured or when you're rehabbing or when you're
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  really at a place where you don't know where to go.
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  The big thing I want to hit home on is just making a list.
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  It's crazy. You probably don't want to hear
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  this from me, but I think there's so much value in
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  creating a list because from there you can actually
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  understand what needs to be accomplished, what can be
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  accomplished, and I can pretty much guarantee you are doing way
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  more everyday than you think you are.
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  Now this experiment might be a little bit of a kick in the butt
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  for some of you. Where you feel like you're
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  really stuck on your ass. But for the grand majority of
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  you that might be tuning in here or guys who are rehabbing, I
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  encourage you to cut yourself some slack and write down
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  everything that you want to accomplish in a given day.
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  And once you write that down, I guarantee you will feel so much
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  better at the end of the day instead of just a waste of space
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  or like you wasted a day. And they can be really simple
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  things. Making your bed is a great way
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  to start showering is huge. It's crazy.
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  Now in parenthood, I'm early to it.
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  This is probably the stuff that anybody, anybody could have told
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  me. Like just make sure you take
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  care of yourself. But truthfully, like getting the
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  shower, getting a shave, trying to keep this bald head clean.
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  Those are little things that each and every day make me feel
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  better. And it's the same thing in
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  rehab. If you can feel like yourself
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  just by getting the grocery or I don't know, listening to a
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  podcast, whether it's this one or another one, going for a
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  walk, getting out of the house, breathing fresh air, touching
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  grass, making food, calling someone, expressing gratitude.
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  I know these aren't the things that you're normally coming to
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  the Lay Back podcast for, but I, I just felt it so valuable to
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  share. I know there's lots of other
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  things that we could get into or I could get into, but that I was
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  the big one that I really wanted to hit on.
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  Make a list, focus on it, check things off and I promise you at
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  the end of the day, you will feel more productive, you will
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  feel better, you will feel like you accomplished something.
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  And going back to my story now, yes, I feel great that I'm able
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  to take care of my wife and take care of my daughter and spend
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  time with them both. But you guys know those that
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  follow the Lay Back podcast, those who use Flex Pro Grip, So
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  much of what we strive to do is create a community and celebrate
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  those who are a part of what we do, share their stories, help
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  them out program, adjust things daily.
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  We're playing with guys careers here and I hate leaving anyone
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  out to dry. And unfortunately, there's been
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  times so far where I haven't been able to get back to people
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  or it's taken me a few days to get back to guys.
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  I had a guy text me on Friday, whatever day of the week that
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  was. Shoot, now I'm looking at my
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  calendar here. I don't even know what day that
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  was. Maybe that was the 4th or 5th,
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  something like that. And I didn't respond to him
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  until yesterday. I feel awful about that.
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  But that's, that's where communication becomes so
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  important. That's where honesty becomes so
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  important. And if I make my list, if I know
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  who I have to communicate to, maybe that's not going to
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  happen. Or maybe I can offload that task
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  to someone else around me. So not only is making a list
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  going to help you feel better about what you are
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  accomplishing, maybe it's going to improve your processes as a
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  whole. Maybe it's going to enable you
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  to find those who can help, whether that is a family member
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  or if that is a coach that you work with.
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  Going back to the rehab process now, separating from my story,
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  maybe if you communicate the things that you are struggling
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  with or the things that you maybe feel like you can't get
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  done on a daily basis to the support staff you have around
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  you, they can probably help. That's why we do this podcast.
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  There's probably someone out there that's experienced
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  something that you are going through.
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  So reach out, open your mouth. close mouths don't get fed.
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  I guarantee somebody around you can either help you directly or
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  point you in the right direction.
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  It's crazy to say, but I do think all of this starts from
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  just making a list. Whether it's A to do list,
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  whether it's goals, whatever you want to title it, I promise you,
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  writing down what you want to accomplish, whether it's daily,
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  whether it's weekly, monthly. In the future.
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  Right now I want to focus on daily.
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  Writing things down is going to make a difference when you feel
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  like things are not within your control.
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  So grab it by the horns. Take control of what you can
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  control. Putting it on paper is
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  definitely going to help with that process.
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  Short 1 today guys. Hopefully this helps.
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  If this resonates with someone out there, I'll be ecstatic.
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  This might have just been an experiment for me to vent and
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  remind myself what is important and what I can do to be the best
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  father, husband, Co worker, coach, whatever.
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  At this point I think selfishly a lot of this was for me, but
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  again, hopefully someone out there got value from this.
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  Everyone, thanks for tuning in for this short episode, and
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  thanks for laying back with us.