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- 0:24Well, hello there everyone, it is John C.
- 0:27Morley here, serial entrepreneur, great to be with
- 0:29you today on Inspirations for Your Life.
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- 0:51We'll kick the show off in just a
- 0:53moment.
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- 0:56grab yourself something.
- 0:57I have my Aro water with some delicious
- 0:58lemon in it and it's very tasty.
- 1:02And ladies and gentlemen, I can't go forward
- 1:04without telling you about, yes, how proud I
- 1:07am that my first book came out on
- 1:10Friday that had the dedication.
- 1:11Incidentally, if you guys want to see the
- 1:13dedication ceremony, just go to BelieveMeAchieve.com and
- 1:16just click the link.
- 1:17It's one of the first two links there.
- 1:19There's also information about my book if you
- 1:20want to check that out.
- 1:21It's called Drained to Driven.
- 1:23I'm not going to tell you about the
- 1:24book that much, but I am going to
- 1:26let you know that it's about a very
- 1:27personal story and how it has inspired me.
- 1:30And I'm sure it will inspire you to
- 1:32make changes.
- 1:32It's about awareness.
- 1:34And in that breath, it's about being intentional
- 1:38with your life.
- 1:40All right, guys, let's kick this show off.
- 1:44This is Inspirations for Your Life.
- 1:47And again, I am so glad that you're
- 1:49all here with me.
- 1:52Why Environment Shapes Your Results, Series 5, Show
- 1:5517, Episode 2.
- 1:57That's our granular topic.
- 1:58The master topic for the week is how
- 2:01people actually take control of their life direction.
- 2:04Who am I?
- 2:05If you still don't know who I am
- 2:06now that I'm an author after this Friday,
- 2:08I'm John C.
- 2:09Morley.
- 2:10Serial entrepreneur.
- 2:10I'm an engineer, marketing specialist, video producer, podcast
- 2:14host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and a
- 2:18passionate lifelong learner.
- 2:20And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm very grateful
- 2:22for being a published author.
- 2:25Today, I'm talking about working harder, and we
- 2:29don't want to do that, OK?
- 2:30We want to do something else.
- 2:31We're talking about why working harder often doesn't
- 2:36work at all.
- 2:36It actually just, well, kind of like my
- 2:38book says.
- 2:39It kind of just burns you out, yeah,
- 2:42because most people think their results come from
- 2:45effort.
- 2:47But in reality, the results come from the
- 2:50environment to which they are in.
- 2:53And that's where everything just kind of begins
- 2:56to change for you, all right?
- 2:59Your environment is shaping your behavior, whether you
- 3:04realize it or not.
- 3:06It influences what you see, what you repeat,
- 3:10what you ignore, and what you become.
- 3:13You don't wake up every day and make
- 3:15fully independent decisions, guys, no.
- 3:18You respond to what's around you, and that
- 3:22response becomes your life.
- 3:26That's the truth, guys.
- 3:28Let's get right into the meat here with
- 3:29the first point being environment drives our behavior.
- 3:33You don't act randomly.
- 3:34You are constantly reacting to signals around you.
- 3:39Even if you're not fully aware of them,
- 3:41your subconscious is, not just making isolated choices.
- 3:44You're not living in a vacuum, in other
- 3:46words.
- 3:46You are part of a living, breathing society
- 3:49that actually can affect your success, all right,
- 3:55guys?
- 3:56Number two, you adapt to what surrounds you
- 4:01constantly over time.
- 4:02Your standards, habits, and expectations adjust to your
- 4:06environment.
- 4:07Now, they might not adjust on a dime,
- 4:09but they slowly pivot.
- 4:11They slowly augment to, well, the feedback that's
- 4:16received by you.
- 4:18Number three, guys, inputs control outputs.
- 4:21Every time what you take in mentally and
- 4:24physically will determine what you produce outwards.
- 4:28Number four, guys, exposure rewires thinking.
- 4:32Quietly, repeat exposure changes your beliefs without requiring
- 4:37conscious effort.
- 4:38You mirror your surroundings.
- 4:40Whether you want to or not, your environment
- 4:43becomes a reflection of your behavior over time,
- 4:47that is.
- 4:48And you don't rise above your environment.
- 4:53Consistently, you align with it.
- 4:55That's what you need to do to have
- 4:56success.
- 4:58Context defines decisions, not just logic.
- 5:02The same person makes different decisions in different
- 5:06environments and lights.
- 5:08Number seven, guys, setup controls action more than
- 5:12motivation.
- 5:13If it's easy, you do it.
- 5:15If it's hard, you delay it.
- 5:16I think that's something that all humans seem
- 5:19to fall back on is that principle.
- 5:22And I think that's an important thing for
- 5:23us all, and I'm going to say this
- 5:25word again, to be aware of, to be
- 5:27aware of.
- 5:29That's a very, very important thing, guys, a
- 5:32very, very important thing.
- 5:35Very, very important.
- 5:36Number eight, guys, systems beat willpower.
- 5:40Every time structure outperforms intention when it comes
- 5:45to consistency.
- 5:46That's key, guys.
- 5:48That's key.
- 5:48So we don't just get up and say,
- 5:51oh, gee, this is going to happen.
- 5:52We have to have a little bit of
- 5:54a plan, okay?
- 5:56And I think that's an important thing to
- 5:58understand.
- 6:02And it's something that a lot of people,
- 6:04like, they don't get.
- 6:06They don't understand.
- 6:07But it's something that you need to realize
- 6:10and be, let's say, part of, okay?
- 6:15These are important things to note in life,
- 6:18right?
- 6:19They're very important to note.
- 6:20Number nine, structure creates consistency, not motivation.
- 6:26What is built into your day gets repeated.
- 6:31Let me say that again.
- 6:32What gets baked in your day gets repeated.
- 6:35Number 10, guys, noise kills clarity.
- 6:39Time for a sip of RO here.
- 6:42Great RO water with some lemon.
- 6:45Noise kills clarity, and clarity drives action.
- 6:49Distraction reduces.
- 6:52So we don't want to, you know, get
- 6:55that removed from our agenda.
- 6:58If your environment is chaotic, your thinking will
- 7:01be too.
- 7:02So we've got to be mindful of that
- 7:04situation.
- 7:05Number 11, are you ready for number 11?
- 7:08I know you are.
- 7:08Clarity improves action.
- 7:11Instantly, when you see clarity, you move faster.
- 7:18When you see clarity, you move faster.
- 7:22Design affects discipline more than people admit.
- 7:25Good design removes the need for constant effort.
- 7:32Number 13, guys, better setups create better outcomes.
- 7:37Without extra work, you don't need more effort.
- 7:40You need better structure.
- 7:41You need better planning.
- 7:42I've said this before.
- 7:43If you fail to plan, you have inevitably
- 7:46planned to fail.
- 7:48So if you have failed to plan, you
- 7:50have planned to fail.
- 7:53Unfortunately, but that is the honest truth.
- 7:57And your structure is important.
- 7:59It doesn't have to be that rigid, but
- 8:00it has to be consistent.
- 8:04Number 14, guys, habits follow the environment.
- 8:11If you mess the environment, that might mean
- 8:13that you're not able to do what you
- 8:14need to do because your environment is new.
- 8:18So habits follow the environment to which we're
- 8:20in, not just intention.
- 8:24What's easy becomes routine.
- 8:27What's easy becomes routine.
- 8:30So sometimes we need to push the net
- 8:34up a little bit, okay?
- 8:35So we can get a little bit further.
- 8:39Friction controls behavior.
- 8:44Always, the easier something is, the more often
- 8:47it happens.
- 8:50Make the right things easy and the wrong
- 8:54things hard.
- 8:58I know everybody wants to do things that
- 9:00are so easy and so simple.
- 9:01You know why they do that?
- 9:02Because they don't want discomfort.
- 9:04And I've said this to you guys before
- 9:06a million times.
- 9:07Discomfort is where success lives.
- 9:11It lives there, guys.
- 9:13It's not an easy street right away.
- 9:15We have to kind of experience some challenges
- 9:18a little bit.
- 9:19Not pain, but a little bit of discomfort.
- 9:21And so I want to say something really
- 9:23important here, and that is remove friction to
- 9:27move faster.
- 9:29You know, sometimes we need to have friction
- 9:31so we can move.
- 9:32Like if we didn't have friction, we couldn't
- 9:34walk.
- 9:35But we can't have so much friction that
- 9:36we couldn't walk, right?
- 9:38So we have some friction so we can
- 9:39walk, but if there's too much, we wouldn't
- 9:41be able to.
- 9:43Simplify action.
- 9:44Reduce barriers to doing what matters.
- 9:50Do you just waste your time or do
- 9:51you do the things that actually matter?
- 9:54Number 17, guys, add friction to stop bad
- 9:58habits.
- 10:01So in order for something to move, it
- 10:02needs to have friction.
- 10:04If we don't have friction, guys, then we
- 10:07don't get anywhere.
- 10:11We don't get anywhere.
- 10:12And I think that's a real important one.
- 10:19Add friction to stop bad habits.
- 10:23Create resistance.
- 10:26Make negative behavior harder to repeat.
- 10:30When we install systems, one might be very
- 10:35simple, losing weight, right?
- 10:38Maybe you're a person that loves dessert.
- 10:40So you can learn ways to crave that.
- 10:43One way is to have Jell-O before
- 10:44you have your dessert.
- 10:46Another way is when you're eating your meal
- 10:47to make sure you put the fork down,
- 10:49you put the spoon down between bites, between
- 10:51sips.
- 10:54Number 18, guys, attention follows exposure.
- 11:00Focus is not random, folks.
- 11:02What you see often becomes what you think
- 11:05about.
- 11:05I've said before, what we think about, we
- 11:08bring about.
- 11:09And wherever we focus our energy, that's where
- 11:12things are gonna change.
- 11:14So where we focus our thoughts, that's where
- 11:16the energy is going to flow.
- 11:19What we think about, we bring about.
- 11:22What we focus on is where the energy
- 11:24will be attracted to.
- 11:26Number 19, guys, digital environment matters more.
- 11:31More than ever, your phone is shaping your
- 11:33attention daily.
- 11:34Did you know that?
- 11:35Maybe you're not aware of it, but it's
- 11:37shaping your world daily.
- 11:39And that could be a huge problem for
- 11:41some people because if their phone has got
- 11:44all garbage and all things that are bad
- 11:46for them, then those are the kinds of
- 11:48things you're gonna continue to attract in your
- 11:49life.
- 11:50And I think nobody wants that in their
- 11:51life.
- 11:52But yet my question is why do people
- 11:54keep doing it?
- 11:55It's simple.
- 11:56Once you get into a habit, a bad
- 11:58habit, a good habit, it just sticks.
- 12:01It just sticks.
- 12:04And if something just sticks, then maybe you'll
- 12:07understand what I'm saying and why things are
- 12:10different for you.
- 12:13Because we get in this loop, all right?
- 12:16Loops can be good, they can be bad.
- 12:17We can have a good habit, we can
- 12:19have a bad habit.
- 12:21That's a very, very important thing to understand.
- 12:26A very, very important thing.
- 12:29And I know that you're probably saying to
- 12:32me, John, this does not make sense, all
- 12:35right?
- 12:36And the reason I tell you it doesn't
- 12:38make sense is because you're wondering why you're
- 12:41not closer to your goal, and I can
- 12:45tell you why.
- 12:46It's because you're either intentionally or subconsciously following
- 12:52the things that you don't want in your
- 12:53life.
- 12:54What we think about, what we focus on,
- 12:56or even what our subconscious focus on, we
- 12:58bring about.
- 13:00So we need to do a mental detox
- 13:02on these things.
- 13:04Number 20, guys, you repeat what you see.
- 13:12Consistently, repetition leads to imitation, okay?
- 13:18What you scroll becomes what you think.
- 13:23Number 21, guys, input shape identity, not just
- 13:27outcomes.
- 13:30What you consume becomes part of who you
- 13:32are, all right?
- 13:35Number 22, guys, environment limits or expands growth.
- 13:41Directly, weak environments restrict potential.
- 13:46So my question for all of you, in
- 13:49a weak environment, why are you still in
- 13:51it?
- 13:53Why do you continue to persist with something
- 13:58that's not helping you get any better?
- 14:01It's actually making you worse.
- 14:04Just because something is going a certain way
- 14:07does not mean this is something that you're
- 14:09meant to do your entire life, okay?
- 14:13I think that's an important point for a
- 14:16lot of people to understand.
- 14:18If something's not working for you, then you
- 14:20need to do what's right.
- 14:23And you need to, well, you need to
- 14:25do a detox.
- 14:26You need to do a detox on that
- 14:28because those are the kinds of things, guys,
- 14:30that will change your life.
- 14:32Those are the things that say, hey, guys,
- 14:33you know what?
- 14:33This is amazing.
- 14:35This is what's going on.
- 14:36And I think when we can understand these
- 14:38kinds of things, that can make a very,
- 14:43very big difference for lots of people.
- 14:46Now, I know you might be saying, John,
- 14:47this doesn't make a lot of sense for
- 14:49me.
- 14:49I know you're probably saying that, but what
- 14:52I wanna tell you is that your life
- 14:56changes and your life changes by the thoughts,
- 15:01by the inputs.
- 15:02I'm gonna give you an example.
- 15:04Maybe some of you have gone to the
- 15:05gas station.
- 15:06Maybe you've fueled up with different gas.
- 15:08You know, when you put different gas in
- 15:10your car, you know what happens?
- 15:11Your engine actually moves differently.
- 15:14It operates differently, right?
- 15:17And I wanna tell you that when you
- 15:19put better gas in, your car works better,
- 15:22right?
- 15:23So the inputs control the outputs.
- 15:27The inputs control the outputs.
- 15:33That's pretty amazing.
- 15:37So if you change the input once, does
- 15:40it mean the output's gonna change?
- 15:42Well, it will start to change, okay?
- 15:47It will start to change.
- 15:51And again, just because you don't get what
- 15:54you want tomorrow doesn't mean that you should
- 15:56stop doing what you're doing.
- 16:01It doesn't mean you should be stopping it
- 16:03because if you stop it, then you're not
- 16:07gonna actually be getting anywhere.
- 16:10I said, what we think about, we bring
- 16:12about.
- 16:12Remember I've said that before?
- 16:14What we think about, we bring about.
- 16:18And if we understand that, then I know
- 16:22that your life is definitely important to understand.
- 16:29And I think that's a real important thing
- 16:32for everybody to know.
- 16:35And that thing is that you can make
- 16:38changes in your life every single day, but
- 16:41are you making the right changes in your
- 16:43life?
- 16:43That's really the question that I have.
- 16:45Are you making the right changes in your
- 16:48life?
- 16:48Or are you just going down this pathway
- 16:52of nowhere, right?
- 16:54I mean, that could be happening to you.
- 16:56Are you going down the right pathway, right?
- 17:03And that right pathway might be some of
- 17:06you saying, oh, you know what, John, this
- 17:07is kind of cool, but I don't know
- 17:09if this is gonna be right for me.
- 17:13And no one's saying it has to be
- 17:15perfect, guys.
- 17:17You can keep changing, you can keep altering
- 17:19things, okay?
- 17:23You can keep altering things all that you
- 17:26want.
- 17:32And I think that's a very, I think
- 17:35that's a very important thing for you to
- 17:37realize and for people around you to realize,
- 17:41is that the way you connect, the way
- 17:47you show up in the world impacts what
- 17:50you do and what other people do, okay?
- 17:54And you might be saying, John, that doesn't
- 17:56make sense.
- 17:57I'm here to tell you, yes, it does
- 17:59make sense.
- 18:01But you've gotta think about it.
- 18:04You've gotta think about what it means to
- 18:05you and your life and how that can
- 18:08actually make a difference for you, okay?
- 18:18I know that you're probably saying to me,
- 18:20John, this makes no sense, but trust me,
- 18:22it does.
- 18:23Let's jump to number 23.
- 18:25Your weak setups are creating weak results.
- 18:28Every time, poor structure leads to inconsistency.
- 18:31Don't get lazy on the setup.
- 18:33Make sure you spend the time to do
- 18:36the right things daily.
- 18:37I think that is probably one of the
- 18:40most important things that I can tell you.
- 18:44If you don't do that, you're gonna find
- 18:46yourself in a place that you're not very
- 18:49happy with, all right?
- 18:52A place you're not happy with, and you're
- 18:54gonna say to me, oh, my life changes.
- 18:56How do I get from point A to
- 18:58point B?
- 18:58How do I move in that way?
- 19:00How do I do it?
- 19:02And I think that's probably something that a
- 19:04lot of people, they wrestle with, okay?
- 19:15I think that's a problem for a lot
- 19:17of people.
- 19:20Number 24, control your environment to control the
- 19:23outcomes.
- 19:24This is leverage.
- 19:25You gain power when you control your inputs,
- 19:27which you do have more power over than
- 19:30you think when you're aware of what's happening
- 19:32to you consciously and unconsciously.
- 19:38Number 25, most people underestimate this, and they
- 19:41stay stuck their entire life.
- 19:43They try harder.
- 19:44Instead of setting up better, they just push,
- 19:46push, push, push, push.
- 19:47Stop trying harder and start setting up smarter.
- 19:52That's what I'm asking you to do.
- 19:53Don't work harder.
- 19:56There's no need for you to work harder.
- 19:59Absolutely no reason for it.
- 20:03You've got so much potential, guys, and that
- 20:08potential can literally take you to an entirely
- 20:11new trajectory.
- 20:13A new trajectory that could change your life
- 20:21and other people's lives too.
- 20:26That's important, guys.
- 20:28Number 26, external change creates internal shift.
- 20:33Naturally change what surrounds you and your mindset
- 20:36will follow.
- 20:39It will follow.
- 20:41Even if you think it's not gonna happen,
- 20:44if you go through the motions and you
- 20:45get the body believing it, you will change.
- 20:49Number 27, structure removes guesswork, reduces hesitation.
- 20:54You don't waste time deciding what to do.
- 20:57So many people I know waste time.
- 20:58They're like, oh my gosh, what am I
- 20:59supposed to do?
- 20:59What am I supposed to do?
- 21:00What am I supposed to do?
- 21:01Well, one thing is stop doing that.
- 21:03Stop figuring out that it's not about the
- 21:07fact that you can't do something, okay?
- 21:10That's the thing that puts so many people
- 21:12in this pickle.
- 21:14And they're like, I don't know what to
- 21:16do.
- 21:17I don't know what to do or why
- 21:21to do things, okay?
- 21:27I think that happens a lot.
- 21:32I think that happens an awful lot.
- 21:36Something that maybe you weren't quite sure of
- 21:41or saying to me, John, this isn't the
- 21:43way I wanna do this.
- 21:45Because maybe you've been going down a pathway
- 21:48because somebody else steered you down that pathway.
- 21:53Maybe, right?
- 21:54Maybe that happened to you, right?
- 21:58But if you're still wondering why things are
- 22:01not working for you, you're putting in the
- 22:07same input.
- 22:07You're not changing, right?
- 22:09Einstein said, the definition of insanity is doing
- 22:12the same thing over and over again and
- 22:14expecting different results.
- 22:18Expecting different results.
- 22:22That's a very interesting thing, guys.
- 22:26Very interesting thing.
- 22:28Something that I think a lot of people
- 22:29miss in life.
- 22:30They miss the fact that they can do
- 22:32these things.
- 22:33They miss the fact that they have this
- 22:35kind of power.
- 22:42And that's the real truth, guys.
- 22:46That is the dog harness truth.
- 22:50It is about what you do in your
- 22:53life, every single.
- 22:58If you are not doing that, then you're
- 23:03on the wrong pathway.
- 23:07All right?
- 23:10Number 28, design drives behavior.
- 23:14Whether intentional or not, everything around you is
- 23:18influencing you.
- 23:19That's the people, that's the energy, that's the
- 23:21setup, that's everything around you, guys.
- 23:25Everything around you.
- 23:27Everything around you.
- 23:29I'm not just saying one little thing.
- 23:30You might say, John, well, this doesn't matter.
- 23:32Well, maybe that doesn't seem to matter to
- 23:34you, but I gotta tell you something.
- 23:36It does matter.
- 23:36When you break things down, it does matter.
- 23:41Okay?
- 23:42And it matters because your subconscious is reading
- 23:45this and saying, oh my gosh, this is
- 23:47what I should be doing.
- 23:48This is what I should be doing, right?
- 23:50That's the problem.
- 23:57That's a trip, guys.
- 23:58That is the real trip.
- 24:01Do you know what's going on?
- 24:05And I will tell you guys, you probably
- 24:09don't.
- 24:10And there's no crime in that, but you
- 24:12need to learn.
- 24:14Environment is leverage, and leverage changes everything.
- 24:16You don't need more effort when you have
- 24:19alignment.
- 24:21You could do so many things, guys, but
- 24:23if there's alignment, there's so much more you
- 24:27can do, so much more you can do.
- 24:31And I think that's a very important thing
- 24:34that I'm sharing with you, is that that,
- 24:38guys, can make the entire thing magical for
- 24:42you.
- 24:45It can make the entire thing magical for
- 24:47you.
- 24:48That's important, guys.
- 24:51It's very, very important.
- 24:53And I say it's important to you because
- 24:58this one thing could change your entire life.
- 25:06It could change your entire life.
- 25:10One thing could change your entire life.
- 25:16One thing, one thing could change your entire
- 25:22life.
- 25:29That's a very interesting statement, but it's truthful.
- 25:35All right, number 30, guys.
- 25:37Change environment, change your life.
- 25:40It's that simple.
- 25:41Change your environment, change your life.
- 25:44Direction shifts when your surroundings shift.
- 25:49Stop fooling yourself.
- 25:51Like I said, Einstein said the definition of
- 25:53insanity is doing the same things over and
- 25:55over again in the same way and expecting
- 25:57different results.
- 25:58We're not insane.
- 25:59Change what you're doing.
- 26:02Change what's around you.
- 26:04And you change what's within you.
- 26:05Let me say that again.
- 26:06Change what's around you.
- 26:09People, places, things, thoughts.
- 26:11And you change what's within you.
- 26:15That's powerful, guys.
- 26:17That's a major, major shift.
- 26:21A shift that I think a lot of
- 26:23you don't realize.
- 26:27A shift that maybe will put you into
- 26:30an entirely different bracket.
- 26:33Financially, socially.
- 26:35Because you have the power to do these
- 26:38things, guys.
- 26:42You have the power.
- 26:44The only reason it's not happening for you
- 26:47is because you're still looking down the path
- 26:51that it's never gonna happen for you.
- 26:55That's the real truth, real true.
- 26:58So here's the shift, guys.
- 27:00You don't need more motivation.
- 27:02You need better alignment.
- 27:05Because motivation fades in time.
- 27:09Environments stay.
- 27:11So instead of asking, how do I try
- 27:14harder?
- 27:15Start asking a different question.
- 27:17What is currently shaping me right now?
- 27:21What do I see every day?
- 27:23What do I respect without thinking?
- 27:25What is easy for me to do?
- 27:28What is hard for me to do?
- 27:30Because those answers are your results.
- 27:34Your life is not just built by what
- 27:39you want.
- 27:40It's built by what your environment allows.
- 27:44And once you understand that fact, you stop
- 27:47forcing change and you start designing it and
- 27:51making it part of your natural life.
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- 28:00moment your environment supports it.
- 28:03What are you waiting for, guys?
- 28:05Change your environment now and you'll start changing
- 28:07your life.
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- 28:13Be well.