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LOST Your MOMENTUM? Here's How to Get It BACK! (S5) S41:E6 Thursday · Inspirations for Your Life

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All right, guys.
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So lost your momentum.
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Here's how we're going to get it back.
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Series five, show number 41, episode number six,
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and it is another great day.
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It's Thursday.
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So welcome, as I said, to another empowering
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episode of the ever popular inspirations for your
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life.
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So who am I?
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I'm John C.
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Morley.
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I'm a serial entrepreneur.
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I'm an engineer.
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I'm a marketing specialist, video producer, podcast host,
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coach, keynote speaker, passionate lifelong learner, a graduate
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student here at Montclair State University, and so
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grateful now to be a publisher.
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So I am on a live campus, so
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we never know what's going to happen.
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People are going to walk in front of
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me, behind me.
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Trucks are going to make noise.
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Different things are going to happen.
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One time we had somebody on campus literally
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reporting a theft of a bike just before
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we got there.
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So hopefully it's going to be quiet.
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I try to pick areas.
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I'm right by this diner here, but there's
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still people coming around, but hopefully they're not
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going to directly interfere with the show itself.
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So we know our weekly topic is momentum
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changes everything.
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So today we're discussing something that happens to
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almost every single person in the world.
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You were making progress.
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Things were moving.
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You had a routine, and then something suddenly
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just interrupted you out of the blue.
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You didn't plan for it.
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Maybe work became overwhelming.
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Maybe unexpected responsibilities appeared.
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Maybe you simply lost your rhythm, and suddenly
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days turned into weeks, right?
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And this is a problem for some people,
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and now you're wondering how to get moving
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again.
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I know a lot of people ask this
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question.
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So losing your momentum does not erase your
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previous progress.
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Let me be very, very clear about that,
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okay?
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Everything you've learned still matters.
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The experience you've gained hasn't disappeared.
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You aren't starting from nothing, guys.
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So let's talk about how to get your
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momentum back, and I think everybody wants to
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know how to do that.
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First, stop turning one interruption into a permanent
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ending of interruptions.
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Missing a day doesn't mean you failed.
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Neither does missing a week.
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Interruption is an event in your life, not
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a permanent identity.
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It's like a bump in the road.
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So get over it and move on.
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You decide what happens next, okay?
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Number two, restart sooner in your life.
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Then you're actually going to feel comfortable.
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So waiting until you feel completely ready can
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create even more delay.
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Sometimes readiness returns after you take action.
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Don't wait for confidence to give you permission.
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Number three, your comeback doesn't need to be
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dramatic.
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You don't need a huge announcement or an
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extraordinary plan.
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Quietly returning to something important can be more
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powerful than promising everyone a spectacular comeback.
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Number four, begin with the smallest useful action.
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Open the project, review your notes, write one
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paragraph, make one important call, right?
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Small actions reduce resistance and give you something
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real to build upon.
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Fifth, avoid punishing yourself for getting off track.
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I think a lot of people like, oh,
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I'm going to like, you know, not reward
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myself.
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I'm going to reprimand myself.
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Don't do that, right?
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Don't do that.
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Take responsibility and learn what happened and go
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and move forward.
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Number six, shame consumes energy you could use
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to restore.
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Every minute spent, well, can be challenging for
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some people.
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Replaying your disappointment is energy unavailable for progress
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that you can move forward.
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So replace I should have done better with
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what can I now do or what can
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I do now?
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Before I move to point number seven, I
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want to share with you a shout out
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to a local coffee place.
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And I'm actually going to pick one right
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here in Montclair, New Jersey, since I am
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in Montclair right now.
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The place I want to talk to is
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shouting out to is it's called 787 Coffee
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and they're open now.
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They close at 7 p.m. And their
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website says, hello, caffeinated human, which I think
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is kind of neat.
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So they have a shop to do catering.
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They have locations and yeah, they have single
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origin Puerto Rican coffee, freshly roasted specialty beans,
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rum infused coffee beans, whiskey infused coffee beans,
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tequila infused coffee beans.
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They've got a coffee called Love You and
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their prices range for their bags basically from
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40.
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And I see some prices.
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They go.
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I even see one bag here.
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I'm not sure why it's a lot.
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One's 44.
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And then I see one here for 250.
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Oh, it's a five pound mocha infused decaf.
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So they have different bags.
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So the ones that start out freshly origin.
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But if you go to like one of
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their smaller bags, you know, they can be
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they can be less might even have and
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they have an eco Puerto Rican ostrich cost
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a sticker.
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They have a sticker.
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It's ten dollars.
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So they have different things.
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They have catering, they have location.
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So like I said, we are on a
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live campus.
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We've got trucks, we've got noises.
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We never know who's going to be around
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us, what's going to go on.
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So, again, I do apologize for the interruption,
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but that's kind of fun of broadcasting live
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in environment.
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We never know what's going to happen.
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So shout out to 787, Puerto Rico's finest
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coffee company.
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And again, they are located right here in
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Montclair, New Jersey.
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They're at 706 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey.
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And I'm shouting out to them because I
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want to invite them to come to Jason
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Academy dot com.
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Click on the contact us button.
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And then, ladies, gentlemen, I would like them
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to request us to be at their place
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so that they can host us so we
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can do a live show there and we
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can do an author talk, an author Q
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&A and author signing.
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So, again, give my friends at 787 Coffee
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a try and let me know.
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So number seven, getting back here to our
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list, identity is important, but we need to
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identify what interrupted your momentum so you can
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get back on track.
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Was it poor scheduling?
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Was it exhaustion?
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Was it unexpected responsibilities?
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Too many commitments?
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Understanding the cause helps prevent the same interruption
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from happening repeatedly day in and day out.
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Number eight, guys, learn from the interruption instead
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of merely regretting it.
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Regret looks backwards, doesn't it?
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Learning helps you move forward.
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Ask what the experience revealed about your priorities,
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routines or limitations.
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Number nine, modify the system that failed you.
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If your old routines were unrealistic and unreliable,
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don't rebuild the exact same problem.
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Improve your schedule, simplify your progress and make
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sure that your process is in line so
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you can establish better boundaries.
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Number 10, remove one barrier before you restart
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the process again.
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Maybe your workspace needs reorganizing.
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Maybe you need to change where your workspace
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is, right?
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Maybe unnecessary commitments are consuming your attention.
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Remove one obstacle and make action easier.
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OK, I think that's an important one.
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Number 11, make the return easier than the
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original beginning.
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You already have experience.
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OK, so just go ahead and use it.
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Revisit what worked before.
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Don't create unnecessary complexity when a familiar or
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effective process can actually help you restart.
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Don't be scared of that.
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Number 12, don't demand your previous pace immediately.
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If you were working at full speed before
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an interruption, expecting that same intensity on your
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first day back can create a lot of
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frustration and confusion.
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So rebuild gradually.
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OK, number 13, guys, rebuild your rhythm before
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the intensity.
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You know, when you're learning a sport, OK,
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and maybe when you've never played before, you've
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got to get your rhythm into things, right?
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How you throw the ball, how you swing
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the bat.
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One person told me a long time ago,
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regardless of what it is, sports or anything
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you're doing, academics, you have to get the
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rhythm down first.
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Then you could speed up.
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Right.
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That happens in music.
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That happens in academics.
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Although rhythm is different.
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Right.
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It's more of a like learning some background
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information.
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In sports, it's more like getting used to
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a certain slower momentum and then you can
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speed it up.
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Right.
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So that's important to understand.
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OK, so consistency matters more than an impressive
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first day.
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Establish a manual team that you can repeat
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speed increase once the rhythm becomes dependable.
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Don't try to take the engine up to
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like, you know, thousand revolutions per minute when
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you haven't first brought it up slowly.
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Engines always like to come up slowly.
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Right.
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Their warm up process.
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Number 14, one productive hour can result in
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basically restarting a stalled week.
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Think about that for just a moment.
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One focused hour can help you organize your
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priorities, complete a meaningful task and restore the
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feeling that you're moving again.
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Yeah.
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15, one good day can change the direction
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of a difficult month.
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A difficult month doesn't have to finish the
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way it began.
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One positive day can help you regain clarity
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and create a better direction for actually tomorrow.
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16, please stop waiting for Monday.
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Now, today's Thursday, but stop waiting for Monday
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or if it's Monday, don't wait for the
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next Monday.
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How many times have you said to yourself,
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I'll start again next Monday, I'll start again
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next month, I'll start again next quarter, I'll
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start again the first of the year.
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Why?
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If you can take one useful action today,
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there's no reason to procrastinate and stall to
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wait for a calendar like that just seems
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like ridiculous.
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17, stop waiting for a new month.
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Right.
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Similar to what I'm saying to you, isn't
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it?
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So a new month might feel like a
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fresh beginning, even a new year.
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But the date itself doesn't create progress, creates
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an illusion.
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Your decisions and actions do.
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So why don't you actually get off your
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back side, actually do something, get off the
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couch and do something.
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18, stop waiting for a symbolic fresh start.
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I think that's a real important one.
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You don't need a birthday, a holiday, a
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new year or some dramatic milestone.
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Those occasions can be meaningful, but they aren't
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requirements for change.
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So why don't we accept that, acknowledge it?
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Because if we do, we'll be able to
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move forward in a lot better way.
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So I think that's important for a lot
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of us here to actually understand.
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So 19, the next moment can become your
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reset.
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Maybe it's right after the show.
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Maybe it's later today.
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Maybe it's after lunch.
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Maybe it's after dinner, after breakfast tomorrow, whatever.
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You can choose to restart without waiting for
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a circumstance, right?
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Maybe it's after your class.
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Maybe it's after you get home from work,
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right?
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Maybe it's after your exercise, right?
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Number 20, reconnect with what still matters in
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your life.
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Sometimes losing momentum gives you an opportunity to
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reconsider your priorities.
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Which goals still reflect the person you want
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to become?
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Focus your energy there, guys.
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That's the key.
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Number 21, drop goals that no longer deserve
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your energy.
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I think a lot of people, you know,
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they keep goals.
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They keep files on their computer that they
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no longer need.
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Get rid of them.
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You know, when you have things consuming space,
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it's going to take away space, take away
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resources.
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Same thing with us.
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When we have things on our plate, in
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our mind, it takes away our resources to
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allow us to do something we want to
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do.
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Not every old commitment needs to continue.
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Some goals become outdated.
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Others stop serving your priorities.
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Releasing them can create room for meaningful progress.
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22, renew commitments that still matter.
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Intentional ones.
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Once you've identified what's important, make a fresh
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decision to pursue it.
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Don't rely on old promise alone.
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Choose that commitment again today.
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23, give yourself a clear next step.
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So a lot of people have vague intentions.
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They create hesitation.
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Instead of saying, I need to get organized,
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identify one specific action.
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Clarity makes restarting easier.
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24, make your first comeback when measurable.
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Complete one page.
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Finish one tasks.
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Spend 20 focused minutes.
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Give yourself evidence that you've returned to action.
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Yeah.
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But you don't have to make it public
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to the world.
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You can just do it.
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Do it quietly.
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25, protect your restart from unnecessary distractions.
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Your first steps back can be fragile.
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Set aside focused time, reduce interruptions where possible.
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Give your renewed commitment enough attention to develop.
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I think that's something a lot of people
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miss because they think that if they keep
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pushing, keep pushing, keep pushing, even though it's
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not right, they just keep pushing at it
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and they don't really look at it, right?
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You ever done a puzzle before and you
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like just kind of push the pieces, but
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you don't really look, wait a minute, wait,
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wait, I got to look at how these
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pieces align, don't just try to connect things
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like really become in the moment to what
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you're building.
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26, expect momentum to feel awkward at first.
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It's going to, right?
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Remember the first time you walked or the
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first time you rode a bike, it felt
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like you were going to fall.
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I remember the first time I rode a
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bike training wheels, that wasn't so hard.
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But once we took the training walls off,
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then I fell a few times.
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First time, you know, um, a bloody knee.
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Second time, a knee, not quite bloody, but
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the scab was almost broken.
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Third time, a little scrape and the fourth
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time, a minor escape.
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But each time I did it, I kept
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coming back.
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I might need a little break.
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I might need the sandwich.
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I needed to eat a drink, but I
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kept coming back.
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So returning to a routine can feel uncomfortable.
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Do it anyway.
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You got to renew things you forgotten.
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That's normal.
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That's what you got to do.
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You got to keep practicing.
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I'm never going to tell you that success
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is easy.
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27 guys.
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Consistency will make movement feel natural again.
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Repeated actions, reduce resistance.
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What feels difficult during your first few attempts
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can become familiar as you build your routine.
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28 you've restarted before and you can restart
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again and again.
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And again, it's this perception of your mind
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that's keeping you from starting.
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That's really what it's coming down to.
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Think about another time.
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Life interrupted your plans.
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You found a way forward.
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Maybe you're upset.
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Maybe you're annoyed, but you got through it.
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You learned a lesson.
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You're probably not going to do that again.
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Um, you basically were able to move forward
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and that experience is evidence that you're capable
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of rebuilding and you're capable of learning.
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And when we learn, we change the way
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we do things, right?
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Einstein said before, doing the same thing over
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and over again, expecting different results.
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That's a sanity.
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So when we learn, like, wait a minute,
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maybe I shouldn't do it this way.
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Maybe I shouldn't swing as high.
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Maybe my hand should be lower on the
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back.
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Maybe I actually need to keep my head
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up so I can watch what's going on.
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I think those are important things and many
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people miss them.
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You know, um, when I think about all
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the people today, you know, walking around campus
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and if I just look around, you know,
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there's some people walking around, but I will
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tell you nine out of 10 people walking
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on campus.
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Don't walk intentionally.
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What do I mean by that?
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They're just going through the moments.
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They're not enjoying the moment they're on.
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And I think that's what separates the joy
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of living and loving life from, oh my
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gosh, it's another day.
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And I know a lot of you out
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there saying, oh, John, this is like, you
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know, I, I just go through my days
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and they fade, right?
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You're not becoming intentional about what's there.
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Are you enjoying the weather?
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Like today, the sun is out.
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It's like 60, 62 degrees here in Montclair.
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Uh, are you enjoying the scenery?
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Like right behind me is university hall.
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There's the clock building over to my right
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is actually student center.
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There's a truck right now backing up.
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You can hear that even though it's a
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little bit annoying, I'm aware of it.
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I noticed the sounds I'm under this beautiful
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red umbrella next to a diner.
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It's funny, no matter where I pick on
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campus here, there's always noise.
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There's always distractions.
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Um, that's what happens when you're on a
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live campus, but I still love shooting on
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it because it's fun, but again, you do
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get interruptions, uh, hopefully some that actually don't
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interfere with the direct show.
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So when you think about being interrupted, right,
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maybe it's somebody giving you a phone call.
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Maybe it's a brother or sister.
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Maybe it's, um, a friend, maybe it's a
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boyfriend, girlfriend.
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Um, ask you to do something.
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Maybe it's your wife, your husband, maybe something
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like that.
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But maybe it's the fact that what's coming
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up is coming up because you didn't pay
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attention to it.
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So there's two ways in life.
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We talk about being proactive and we talk
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about being reactive.
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All right.
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So what's the difference?
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Let's kind of do a refresh.
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I've talked about this a lot of times.
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So proactive, I like to use the analogy
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of, um, of, uh, basically, um, smoke detectors.
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Now the national fire safety says you should
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be changing your smoke detectors.
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Uh, batteries basically every time we set the
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clocks back, you know, twice a year.
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But now, um, you can actually use smoke
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detectors where the batteries can last five or
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10 years.
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Right.
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You still should check them.
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Right.
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But I think that's an important thing is
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that when something has to be done, like,
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oh my gosh, I didn't do it.
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Like the perfect example I can give you
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as a lot of students, they don't study.
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Now, one of the things I pride myself
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in, in being a grad student for a
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while is that I enjoy, and I love
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studying and I love learning.
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I love putting more tools into my belt,
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right?
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My mind belt.
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And so when I appreciate doing something, I
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do it more.
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Sometimes you could do things like gamify things
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to make it fun.
20:37
And I do that with a lot of
20:38
my studies, but when it comes time for
20:42
the exam, like, oh, gee, I didn't study.
20:46
You don't cram the night before.
20:48
First of all, you might not do very
20:49
well.
20:50
Second, everything you crammed, I can almost guarantee
20:53
you're probably going to forget at least 85
20:56
or 90% of it.
21:00
So why do people do it?
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They say they get busy.
21:03
They say that they have no time.
21:06
It's not that they have no time.
21:08
It's that they waste time.
21:09
They don't take the time to be intentional
21:12
of life.
21:13
You guys know, I get a lot of
21:14
stuff done.
21:15
Video production, going to school, um, writing articles.
21:20
I'm intentional about what I do.
21:23
Writing, uh, being an author, right.
21:25
Working on my next book, which is, uh,
21:28
um, basically about AI, what the world will
21:34
never tell you about AI.
21:36
What the world, the truth, the world's never
21:38
going to tell you about AI.
21:39
AI.
21:39
That's probably gonna be the title of my
21:40
book.
21:41
But I think when we become intentional of
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even things like, you know, sitting on this
21:44
chair, feeling the temperature against my skin, um,
21:48
you know, being aware, noticing trucks passing, um,
21:51
noticing people walking actually, uh, behind the camera
21:55
in front of me, but actually behind the
21:56
camera, we call it.
21:57
Uh, I'm looking at the beautiful car parking,
21:59
which I think I've showed you guys before
22:01
the garage that I park in.
22:02
I'm looking at some of the, the village,
22:04
uh, apartments here.
22:05
I'm looking at the old diner here to
22:07
my right that is closed and just noticing
22:10
things around, looking around.
22:12
There's a sun coming over, which is a
22:13
perfect backdrop for this setting.
22:15
Uh, I see a truck coming right now.
22:17
There's another truck coming here.
22:18
Uh, van coming by and just being aware
22:21
of different things, being aware of the leaves
22:25
that are currently blowing ever so slightly, uh,
22:28
being aware of even there's like, uh, there's,
22:30
um, a radio communications tower here to my
22:33
left and being aware of every single light
22:37
on that tower.
22:38
And there's several like there's one, let's see,
22:41
one, two, one.
22:43
There's two, two lights, one at a lower
22:45
level and one, a higher level.
22:47
Why?
22:47
So planes don't hit it.
22:49
And then being aware of the other little
22:51
nuances of the tower.
22:52
There's a little, uh, arms of the tower
22:53
for different things like cell phone, uh, you
22:57
know, antennas that they put up there and
22:58
just noticing the tower.
23:00
It's got a very bright red to it.
23:01
Then it's got a white and noticing that
23:03
noticing the wires, the high lines, uh, above
23:06
us and noticing the color of the green
23:08
grass.
23:09
So whatever your surrounding is, you can become
23:12
aware.
23:12
And when you become more aware, you start
23:16
to realize things.
23:16
So when I talked about the fire thing,
23:18
if you are proactive, you know, that every
23:22
so much time, if you had a manual
23:24
smoke detector, you had to change the battery,
23:26
I'm going to say manual, meaning you had
23:27
to change the battery.
23:28
It wasn't one that lasts like five or
23:29
10 years.
23:30
You were proactive.
23:31
You put it on your calendar.
23:33
Right.
23:34
And then when that part came up, we
23:35
set an alert on your iPhone or your
23:37
Android or on your Google account and say,
23:39
Hey, it's time to change the batteries.
23:41
Right.
23:41
So maybe you put a note the day
23:43
before, make sure I have the batteries.
23:44
The next day you actually change the batteries.
23:46
So that's kind of how it works.
23:48
If you were reactive, you'd be like, Oh,
23:50
and you probably say a few, uh, superlative
23:52
four letter words that we're not going to
23:54
use.
23:54
I don't use, uh, those words are your
23:57
frustrations.
23:58
I better do this now.
23:59
Cause the smoke detector, you know, I haven't
24:02
changed it.
24:02
And what's going to happen if the batteries
24:04
are dead.
24:04
Right.
24:04
So you're reactive.
24:06
So let's think of this in a fire,
24:07
right?
24:08
If you do the drills, you practice things
24:11
like making sure you have the right things.
24:13
If you have to leave, God forbid in
24:14
the fire, uh, you planned at least two
24:17
escape routes from your home.
24:18
You practice them maybe once or twice a
24:22
year.
24:23
Um, you understand, stop, drop and roll, you
24:27
know, to feel the door, you, you know,
24:28
a little bit about fire, right?
24:30
You understand that if you cannot put the
24:33
fire out in a few seconds with your
24:34
home, uh, fire, um, thing, and it gets
24:37
bigger, you don't try to put it out
24:39
anymore.
24:39
You call nine one one and you get
24:41
the fire department there.
24:42
Right.
24:43
I think a lot of people want to
24:44
be heroes.
24:45
There's nothing wrong with that.
24:45
But I think life is about being collaborative
24:49
and working with other people that that's the
24:51
most important thing you could find ways, but
24:53
let's be more proactive and less reactive.
24:57
And I think we'll have a more intentional
24:58
life.
24:58
We'll have a life that goes a little
25:00
slower.
25:02
29 momentum.
25:03
Isn't something you find.
25:04
It's something you rebuild guys.
25:07
This is the most important lesson for today.
25:10
You rebuild it over time and time again,
25:13
but I think a lot of people, um,
25:16
you know, they, they don't necessarily, they don't
25:18
necessarily realize that.
25:19
And I know what you're saying to me,
25:21
I know you're saying, John, like, you know,
25:22
this, this doesn't make sense.
25:23
Right.
25:24
And I can tell you that a lot
25:26
of times, uh, people don't quite get things
25:30
in their life.
25:31
Right.
25:32
And I think the reason they don't get
25:33
things is because of, you know, what's happening
25:36
in their actual life.
25:38
Uh, I think that's a, I think that's
25:40
a big challenge for a lot of people.
25:42
They don't get what's happening in their own
25:44
life.
25:45
So, you know, when we think about being
25:47
proactive, it's not just because you have to,
25:49
you should do it because you want to
25:52
pay, you should do it because you want
25:53
to, again, not because you have to.
25:57
And again, I know you're probably saying I
25:59
got enough on my mind.
26:00
Right.
26:01
Um, you know, you know, what's going on
26:04
in your life.
26:04
Right.
26:06
And that's important.
26:07
As I said, the most important thing today
26:09
is momentum doesn't magically appear because you wait
26:12
long enough.
26:13
It's never going to happen like that.
26:14
Right.
26:15
It develops when you take action, you don't
26:17
have to take big actions.
26:18
You've got to take consistent, small actions every
26:20
day.
26:20
Then repeat that action.
26:22
Then build upon what you accomplished.
26:24
You don't need to recover every lost day.
26:27
You don't need to become the person you
26:29
were before the interruption.
26:31
You need to decide right here and now
26:34
who you're becoming.
26:35
And here's my challenge for all of you.
26:38
Identify one important goal.
26:40
You've allowed to just sit unfinished.
26:44
Ask yourself three questions.
26:46
What interrupted my progress?
26:48
What can I change to make restarting easier
26:51
right now?
26:52
And what is one useful action I could
26:54
take today?
26:55
Then take the action.
26:57
Not next Monday, not next month, actually today.
27:01
Remember this, ladies, gentlemen, our weekly topic is
27:04
momentum changes everything.
27:07
We've learned that starting creates energy.
27:09
Hesitation costs opportunities.
27:12
Small wins build confidence and progress doesn't require
27:15
perfect conditions.
27:16
Yesterday, we explored why continuing matters, even when
27:20
results seem invisible.
27:22
Today, we've discovered something equally powerful.
27:25
Your progress isn't erased.
27:27
Your future isn't canceled.
27:29
And your next meaningful action.
27:33
It's still available.
27:34
You can take it right now.
27:36
Ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
27:38
Morley, serial entrepreneur.
27:40
This has been another powerful episode of Inspirations
27:42
for Your Life.
27:43
And I thank you from the bottom of
27:44
my heart for choosing to join me.
27:46
And I ask you, please, to keep learning,
27:49
to keep improving, OK, to.
27:54
Keep moving forward.
27:57
I remember this.
27:58
You don't have to find your momentum today.
28:02
It's something you will gain through the process.
28:05
And don't forget to check out BelieveMeChief.com
28:07
and I'll see you real soon.
28:08
Be well, everyone.