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All right, everyone.
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So today's show, discipline also means a lot
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to us, right?
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Discipline is important which we're going to talk
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about but motivation will fill you and I
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want you to do this instead.
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That's right.
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It's discipline but we'll get into that.
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It's Series 5, show 37, episode number 3.
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Today is a Monday.
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It is September 7.
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Welcome to another amazing episode of the ever
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-popular inspirations for your life show.
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I'm John C.
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Morley.
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I'm a serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video
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producer, podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, passionate lifelong
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learner, graduate student at Montclair State University and
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so grateful now to be a published author.
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Our master topic this week is your next
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level will demand a different you.
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A different kind of you.
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Today, I'm talking about motivation, okay?
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And I want to challenge something many people
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have taught or have been taught, I should
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say, to believe.
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You do not need to feel motivated every
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day to make progress, okay?
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Motivation feels great when it's there.
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You wake up energized.
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You have an idea.
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You feel ready to attack the day.
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But what happens when that feeling just suddenly,
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well, it disappears?
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What do you do when that feeling disappears?
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I think that's a hard thing for a
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lot of people to, you know, to understand,
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right?
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If your progress requires motivation to show up
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first, eventually your progress disappears with it.
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What you need is something stronger.
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So let's get into those 30 points.
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Are you ready?
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I know you are.
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Number one, motivation comes and it goes.
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Motivation is an emotion and emotions change.
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Some mornings you'll feel unstoppable.
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Other mornings you won't even want to get
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started.
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That's normal.
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The mistake is building your entire plan around
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a feeling you cannot guarantee will arrive.
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Number two, stop requiring excitement before taking action.
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You don't need to be excited about every
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important thing you do.
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Some responsibilities simply need to get done.
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If you require excitement first, you're giving your
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feelings permission to decide whether you move forward.
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Number three, build systems that survive bad moods.
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A good system shouldn't collapse because you had
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a frustrating morning.
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That's important, guys.
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Create routines that still function when you're tired,
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distracted, disappointed, or simply just not feeling, well,
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your best.
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Number four, discipline carries you when enthusiasm disappears.
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Because ladies and gentlemen, discipline is going to
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always be there, but the motivation is going
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to wane.
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It's going to go back and forth, back
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and forth.
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And that's something that's just going to happen,
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guys.
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Something that is going to happen.
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So number four, discipline carries you when the
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enthusiasm disappears.
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Enthusiasm can get you started.
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Discipline helps carry you and continues all the
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way.
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So discipline says, I made a commitment and
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I'm going to honor it, even though today
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doesn't feel as exciting as yesterday or that
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I don't want to do it.
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Number five, make important actions predictable.
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If something matters, don't leave it to chance.
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Give it a place in your day or
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week.
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When important actions become predictable, you spend less
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time deciding whether you're going to do them.
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I think a lot of people, you know,
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they get stuck in that pattern.
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Like, why is this happening to me?
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Or, you know, what's going on?
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And I think that's an important piece that
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a lot of people, like, they just don't
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really understand that and what it means.
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But I think we have to digest it
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and understand that it's something that really can
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help us through our life and achieve some
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greatness.
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Number six, stop renegotiating your commitments.
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Every morning, if you already decided something matters,
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why debate it again every day?
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Constantly renegotiating gives you endless opportunities to talk
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yourself out of what you already decided to
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do.
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And I think that can be a problem
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for a lot of people because, you know,
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you're started, but then you, like, talk yourself
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out of what you planned on doing.
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And you didn't want to do that, guys,
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but somehow you did it.
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And I think that's a big problem, right?
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That's an important thing to understand, okay?
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Number seven, create routines that reduce decision fatigue.
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Every decision, let's face it, uses mental energy.
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That's a fact.
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Decide some things ahead of time.
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Know when you'll work, study, exercise, create, prepare,
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or handle important responsibilities.
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Save your thinking for decisions that actually require
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it.
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Yes, guys.
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Number 18.
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Number eight, excuse me, I'm jumping ahead of
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the show.
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Number eight, consistency beats occasional intensity.
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One extraordinary day followed by six days of
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nothing usually doesn't beat steady progress, okay?
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You don't have to operate at maximum intensity
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constantly.
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You need to keep returning to the work
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that you've been doing.
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And when you do this, you're going to
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emphasize things in your life, things that maybe
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you didn't know existed but really will have
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a big difference in your life.
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Number nine, do the work when nobody is
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watching.
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I said this before.
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You know, everybody wants to do the work
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or do what you need to do when
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people are watching, when there's an audience.
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But the most important work that can be
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done is the stuff that you do when
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no one else is watching.
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Because see, what you do in private actually
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filters in public.
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It's easy to perform when people are cheering
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you on.
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Character develops when nobody knows whether you follow
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through.
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Those private decisions eventually become visible through the
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results that you exhibit.
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Number 10, guys.
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Number 10 is stop depending on inspiration alone.
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Inspiration is wonderful.
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Don't get it wrong.
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But it isn't a dependable schedule.
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If you create only when you're inspired, work
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only when you're energized, or learn only when
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you're curious, your progress becomes unpredictable.
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Learn to begin without waiting for the perfect
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feeling.
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That's important, guys.
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Number 11, make starting easier.
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Sometimes the hardest part is getting started.
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Reduce that friction.
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Prepare what you need beforehand.
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Open the document.
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Put your materials where you can reach them.
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Make the first step almost impossible to avoid.
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And I know that sounds like a lot
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to chew on.
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But you see, once you get going, once
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you take that first step, once you keep
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doing it, it's going to change who you
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really are.
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And I think that's an important thing that
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many people just don't understand.
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They don't understand how that works or how
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you make those changes.
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But I want to tell you, you make
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those changes by being you, by showing up
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for yourself every single time.
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Number 12, remove unnecessary choices.
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Too many choices can become, well, another reason
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to just delay or procrastinate.
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Simplify repetitive decisions.
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You don't need to redesign your entire process
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every time you sit down to work.
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Okay?
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Number 13, schedule what matters.
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If something is genuinely important to you, give
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it the time it deserves.
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A goal without time attached to it can
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remain a wish indefinitely.
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Your calendar reveals what is actually receiving your
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attention.
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I think it's important to look at your
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calendar and make sure the things that you
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want get your attention and the things that
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don't, don't get that much attention.
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Okay?
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That's important.
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That's a very important thing too.
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Number 14, protect your productive hours.
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Yeah.
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Learn when you do your strongest work and
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protect the time when possible.
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Don't automatically surrender your best hours to interruptions,
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distractions, or things that could have been handled
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later, right?
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Everybody says, well, you know, I'll do it
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later.
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I got time to do it.
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Right?
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Number 15, build minimum standards for difficult days.
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Not every day will be exceptional.
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Spoiler alert.
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Okay?
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Decide what the minimum acceptable action looks like
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for you.
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Maybe you can't do everything today, but you
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can do something.
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Your minimum keeps the chain alive, right?
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Just the minimum.
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This is why I always say to you
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when you're doing something, don't do more, like
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just do a certain amount every day and
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make sure it's able to be done.
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Now, if there are days when you can't
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even do anything, you got to be able
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to at least get the needle to move
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just a tiny bit.
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I think when that happens, you'll start to
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get more energy to want to do more,
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right?
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I think those are important things to understand.
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Number 16, don't let one bad day become
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a bad week.
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I know a lot of people do this.
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Everyone has days that don't go according to
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plan.
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Okay?
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The danger isn't always the bad day.
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It's the story you tell yourself afterward.
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One difficult day doesn't require seven more like
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it, right?
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Number 17, restart quickly when you slip.
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Now, you're going to slip sometimes.
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I mean, this is just part of life.
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You will slip, all right?
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Your ability to restart matters more than your
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ability to be perfect.
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When something goes wrong, return as quickly as
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possible.
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Don't waste three days punishing yourself for one
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missed day that you had.
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It's a missed day, right?
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Move on.
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That's important.
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When we harp on something like that, it
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precludes us from being able to go further,
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to achieve our goals.
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Number 18, stop demanding perfection from consistency, right?
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Consistency doesn't mean never missing.
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It means repeatedly returning.
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Perfection creates impossible standards.
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Consistency gives you room to be human while
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still moving in the right direction, right?
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And I think that's important, that we take
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the small consistent steps every day.
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You know, I'm not saying you have to
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climb a mountain tomorrow, but I am saying
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you've got to take a few steps.
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Meaningful steps.
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Number 19, measure what you actually complete and
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know what you complete.
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Intentions do feel productive, but completion tells the
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real truth.
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Look at what you're actually finishing.
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Measurement isn't about criticizing yourself.
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It's about replacing assumptions with useful information.
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That's important, guys.
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Take the assumptions and replace it with useful
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information.
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Number 20, make progress visible.
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When you can see progress, it's easier to
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understand that your effort matters.
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Track the completed tasks, milestones, practice sessions, pages,
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workouts, projects, or whatever measuring item you're using
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so it makes sense for your goal.
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And you see, when you see that you're
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making a little bit of progress, doesn't have
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to be a lot, you're inclined to want
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to do more.
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That's important.
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You need to make the progress visible, okay?
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Number 20, when you can see progress, it's
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easier to understand that your effort matters.
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Track the completed tasks.
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As I said, this is important and I
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want to make sure you know this, all
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right?
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I just want to review that.
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Number 21, reward follow-through, not intention.
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Intention's good.
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Intention doesn't really get you to your goal.
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Don't give yourself the same emotional reward for
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planning something that you would for actually doing
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it.
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Planning has value, but execution deserves recognition.
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Train yourself to value completion.
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Intention is good, don't get me wrong, but
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it doesn't get the goal accomplished.
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Number 22, learn to build discipline gradually.
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You don't need to transform overnight.
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Discipline can be strengthened like any other ability.
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Start with manageable commitments, keep them consistently, and
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then expand what you expect from yourself.
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And as you do that, you're going to
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start to notice a subtle change in you.
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And that subtle change is like, wow, I
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didn't realize I could do this.
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And you can actually do it, guys.
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You actually can do it.
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Number 23, keep promises you make to yourself.
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Every time, okay, you make a promise to
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yourself and keep it.
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You're building trust.
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Every time you casually abandon one, well, you're
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teaching yourself that your own commitments are negotiable.
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Make fewer promises if necessary, but honor them.
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I think that's a real important thing.
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We have to learn to honor them.
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If we don't honor them, then it's be
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like, well, like, why am I even doing
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this anyway?
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What's the point?
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Why am I doing it?
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Number 24, guys, become predictable in the right
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ways.
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Imagine knowing that when you say you're going
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to do something, there's an extremely high probability
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you're actually going to do it, right?
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That's a powerful form of personal reliability.
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And I think a lot of people don't
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really understand that power until it clicks.
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You might do this 5, 6, 7, 10,
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12, or even more times.
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Then suddenly, a light bulb is going to
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go off your head.
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And a pithy one's like, wait a minute,
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I can do this.
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Number 25, stop asking whether you feel like
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it.
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This question gives your mood too much authority.
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And I think that's a problem.
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A lot of people decide whether they're going
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to work based on how they feel.
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Of course, there will be days, as I
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told you, you don't feel like doing something.
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Ask a better question.
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Is this still important to me?
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If the answer is yes, then you've got
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to take the next step, right?
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Even if you can't take the full step,
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take a step.
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Take as much of a step as you
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can.
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Number 26, action can create motivation.
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How does that happen?
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Well, it's a good question.
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We often think motivation has to come first.
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But sometimes the sequence works in reverse.
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You begin, you make a little bit of
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progress, you see a little bit of movement,
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and then motivation appears.
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Action can generate the feeling you were waiting
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for.
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And it can prime the pump over and
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over again.
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But if we're only acting on motivation, we
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may not feel like doing something.
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If we're disciplined, the motivation is going to
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come, okay?
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That's going to cycle through.
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But use your discipline, okay?
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That's important, guys, okay?
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You see the movement, you see what appears,
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and now you want to do something.
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You want to change your life.
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You want to change everybody else's life.
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But this doesn't just happen like you wake
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in the morning, and suddenly you want to
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do this.
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Number 27, your system should work when you're
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tired.
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Anybody can follow a complicated routine on a
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perfect day, right?
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Anybody can do that.
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The real test is whether your system still
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helps you when your energy is lower.
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Make it simple enough to survive real life,
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right?
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Well, as I said, when the conditions are
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perfect, anybody can exist in the perfect situation.
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But we need to exist when the situation
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may not be so perfect.
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And that takes stamina.
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It takes discipline.
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Discipline is what's going to get you to
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get out of bed to do your exercises
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or to get out of bed early so
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you can get up early, so you can
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get a jump start on your day, right?
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Does it feel great?
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No.
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Get out of bed, go have a glass
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of orange juice, and you're up, and now
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you feel great.
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Especially when you go exercise, right?
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You may not want to exercise right away,
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but after you exercise, you're like, oh my
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gosh, this feels so great, right?
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Number 27, your system should work when you're
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tired.
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What do you mean?
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Well, I mean that it should allow your
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body to move forward even if you're tired.
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Because if you're tired, what you do should
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push you forward.
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Anybody can follow a complicated routine on a
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perfect day, as I told you, right?
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The real test is when your system still
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helps you when your energy is lower.
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Make it simple enough so you can survive
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real life.
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Real life.
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You know, when people are learning to do
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things, they're learning in the most perfect conditions.
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But in life, not always the perfect way.
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I'll give an example.
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When I was younger, I was learning to
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swim.
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I love swimming.
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And I didn't know how to swim very
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well when I was really young.
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So I learned how to swim, but I
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learned how to swim in perfect conditions.
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Later on, I started swimming in conditions that
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were not perfect.
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So for example, perfect conditions are the water
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temperatures exactly where you want it to be,
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right?
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As I got older and I had to
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do laps for summer camp that I went
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to, one of the big parts of summer
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camp was we had to go swimming.
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That was like a requirement.
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So you had to jump in.
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And I remember when I got to the,
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let's say, later on in the program, not
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just the first couple of years, I had
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to not just go in one part of
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the bay and just, you know, wade around
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the water.
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When I got older, I had to jump
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off the dock, okay?
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I had to swim out to the float,
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had to go to shore.
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So dock, float, shore.
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I think I had to do...
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I'm guessing how many they had us do.
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I'm guessing it was probably...
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I think it might've been like five or
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six.
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In the beginning, it was four.
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So you had to jump in the water.
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Sometimes the water was cold as you know
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what.
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Swim over to the float, get up there
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for just a second, dive in again, then
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swim back to the shore, then run, okay,
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on the beach, back all the way up
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to the dock again and keep doing that
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and not stopping.
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So the first time I did it, it
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was like, okay, the water's cold.
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But you know what?
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The cold water wasn't gonna get me to
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get my laps done any sooner.
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And before I could go to arts and
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crafts, I had to finish my laps.
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That was like required.
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Even if the class was done, I was
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not permitted to leave the dock in the
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swimming area until I finished my laps and
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I could join, you know, everybody else in
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arts and crafts.
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Once I finished, even if I was late,
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and if I was too late, I would
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have to skip arts and crafts, but I
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had to do my laps.
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And I learned that I'm not gonna get
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out of doing my laps.
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So why don't I just do it and
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stop complaining about it, right?
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So number 28, guys, consistency creates evidence.
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Every repeated action becomes evidence.
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You begin proving to yourself that you can
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show up, you can follow through, you can
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restart, you can learn and you can continue.
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So the evidence changes how you see yourself.
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The first time when I jumped in the
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water, I was like, oh my gosh, I
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know how to swim, but do I really
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wanna swim five laps?
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Not really.
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But the, I should say the discipline that
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was being instilled upon me, because I was
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not having the discipline at that age.
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So my counselors were instilling, you're gonna swim,
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right?
23:24
It doesn't matter, you're gonna swim.
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And even if the weather was like not
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great, as long as it was not lightning
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or thundering, we were in the water, okay?
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That was just a given, right?
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Because a lot of times, oh, it'll feel
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like jumping in the water, it's cold.
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Well, talk, you know, you still gotta do
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your laps.
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So consistency creates the evidence, okay?
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That's important.
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And when you can prove that to yourself,
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that changes it, right?
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Number 29, evidence creates confidence.
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So this is number 29.
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Real confidence doesn't have to come from telling
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yourself you're capable.
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It can come from looking backward and seeing
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proof.
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Well, look, I did four laps the other
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day.
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I can do a fifth lap, I can
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do a sixth lap.
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I kept going, you keep going.
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You handled difficult days before, right?
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You completed things.
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Now you know you can rely on yourself.
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How many of you guys know I wrote
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a book?
24:26
I wrote, Drain the Driven.
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And the book talks about how to avoid
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burnout because I went through it and how
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I broke my 10 and fifth and how
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I wasn't looking for a pity party.
24:36
I wasn't looking for people to pat me
24:37
on the back.
24:38
I was just looking to get through this
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and to change my life and learn.
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And that was the hardest thing to do.
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But now that I did it, I'm glad
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that I've done it.
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When you do things that are hard, the
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rest of your life, that area will become
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easier.
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That's the thing that's important.
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So evidence creates the confidence, right?
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And you know you can rely on yourself.
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When you know you can rely on yourself,
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that's when it's like, wait a minute, I
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can do this, right?
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It's not enough to just say it.
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Number 30, build habits strong enough to carry
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you when motivation cannot even come close.
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Okay, this is where everything comes together, guys.
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Motivation isn't the enemy.
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I love motivation too, okay?
25:21
Motivation can ignite an idea.
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It can give you energy.
25:25
It can make you excited about what's possible.
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But motivation was never designed to carry everything
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for you.
25:32
Think about how dangerous it would be if
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every important area of your life depended entirely
25:37
on whether you felt inspired that morning.
25:40
If your heart said, well, gee, you know,
25:41
I really don't feel like beating this morning,
25:43
so I'm not gonna beat, like, really?
25:45
Would you only show up for people when
25:47
you felt motivated?
25:48
Would you only honor responsibilities when you were
25:51
excited?
25:52
Would you only work toward your future when
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everything felt easy and simple?
25:57
Of course not.
25:58
That's why your next level needs something more
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dependable.
26:02
You need systems, you need routines, you need
26:06
to establish standards, you need discipline.
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When I was younger, I didn't have discipline,
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so I was slowly learning about how discipline
26:14
was being placed on me, and that's something
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I need to learn how to do later
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on in life.
26:20
Most importantly, you need the ability to keep
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going without requiring every day to feel extraordinary.
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There are going to be mornings when you
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wake up ready to take on the world.
26:30
Use them, right, to your advantage.
26:32
Take advantage of that energy.
26:33
But there are also going to be mornings
26:35
when you wake up tired.
26:37
There'll be days when something goes wrong.
26:39
There'll be weeks when life gets busy.
26:41
There'll be moments when the excitement you had
26:44
when you started a goal feels, well, very
26:47
far away.
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That's when a discovery happens of whether you
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build a wish or a system.
26:55
A wish says, I'll do this when I
26:57
feel ready.
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Yeah, that's going nowhere.
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A system says, this is what I'm going
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to do every single day.
27:03
And I want you to notice something important,
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guys.
27:06
This isn't about becoming rigid.
27:08
It isn't about pretending you never need rest.
27:10
It isn't about pushing yourself endlessly until you're
27:12
exhausted.
27:13
Discipline also means knowing when to recover.
27:15
The goal is to stop allowing every temporary
27:19
emotion to rewrite your long-term direction and
27:22
give you excuses to procrastinate.
27:24
If today is difficult, maybe you don't operate
27:27
at 100%, right?
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Fine.
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What's your minimum going to be?
27:31
What's the action that keeps you connected to
27:33
the direction you're building?
27:34
Maybe you normally spend an hour on something,
27:36
and today you can give it 20 minutes.
27:38
Maybe the entire project can't be completed today,
27:42
but maybe you can just do one section.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
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Morley.
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I'm a serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video
27:51
producer, and so much more.
27:52
I thank you so much for tuning in
27:54
today.
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And remember, when motivation fails, you have discipline.
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Discipline should always be your theme.
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Check out BelieveMeTV.com for more of my
28:02
amazing, inspiring creations.
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I'll see you real soon, everyone.
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Be well.
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Bye.