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Momentum Over Motivation - NaPodPoMo 2025 #18 · Randy Unscripted

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  Randy Black: Randy Black.
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  Randy Black. Randy Black. Randy Black. Randy Black. Randy Black. Black. Black. Black. He's a troublemaker.
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  Welcome back to Randy Unscripted. I'm Randy Black, and this is another installment of my napod promo series,
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  national podcast post month. The goal is to release a new podcast every day for the month of November,
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  30 episodes
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  in thirty days.
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  This is episode number 18 in this twenty twenty five series.
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  Big goals
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  in life scare us.
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  Micro goals,
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  those change us.
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  Today, we're talking about the small challenges that that quietly build stronger, more confident people.
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  You know, when we talk about growth,
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  most people jump straight to the big stuff, the big commitments, the big life changes, the big transformations.
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  But the truth is most change actually starts with something
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  tiny.
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  Oftentimes, it's it's so tiny that you'd miss it if you weren't paying attention.
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  That's where microchallenges
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  come into play.
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  A microchallenge
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  is a it is simply a a small,
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  doable,
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  repeatable task, something that nudges you
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  just slightly outside of your comfort zone without overwhelming you.
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  It's the opposite of the all or nothing mindset that a lot of us bring when we're trying to improve our lives.
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  Think of things like
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  writing for three minutes
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  or
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  taking a two minute silent break,
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  straightening up one small area of your desk,
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  reaching out to one person you've lost touch with,
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  or or finally doing that one thing you've been putting off.
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  The power of micro challenges isn't in how big they are, but in how consistent
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  they make us.
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  Here's something I've noticed. We we often wait for motivation
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  before taking action,
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  but motivation is is is a 100% unreliable.
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  It's fragile.
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  It comes and it goes.
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  What is reliable,
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  though, is momentum,
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  and momentum usually starts with something that feels almost embarrassingly
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  small.
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  Micro challenges do a few things for us really well.
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  Number one, they build momentum.
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  Small wins stack up quickly. They make you feel like you're moving even when you're not tackling anything huge.
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  Number two, they shift your identity.
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  Every time that you complete a tiny task, you're casting a vote for the kind of person that you wanna be.
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  Not in a a self help book kind of way, but in a practical real life way. You start to trust yourself more.
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  Number three, they lower resistance.
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  Your brain doesn't freak out when you say, I'm only doing this for sixty seconds.
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  Once you get started,
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  you usually end up doing more anyway.
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  And number four, they create a compounding effect.
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  It's it's like saving spare change every day.
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  One day you open the jar and you think, oh, wow.
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  That really added up.
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  And if you prefer
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  a little scriptural framing for this, and, you know, I'm a Christian, so I kinda do,
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  it lines up pretty well with this. Luke chapter 16 verse 10.
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  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.
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  Again,
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  not about perfection,
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  just tiny acts of faithfulness.
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  Lately,
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  I've started really paying attention to those those little moments in my days.
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  The,
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  I I I should do that, but I don't really feel like it moments.
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  And then I noticed something.
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  When I shrink the task down to the smallest possible action,
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  I'm far more likely to actually do it.
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  Instead of clean the office,
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  I'd give myself a micro challenge, like put one thing away.
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  Instead of a, like, make a major make major progress on a specific project,
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  I tell myself,
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  work on this for three or four minutes.
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  Nine times out of 10, that three or four minutes turns into 10
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  or 20.
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  But even if it doesn't,
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  I still honored the challenge.
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  I still built the habit of action,
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  and that matters.
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  Microchallenges
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  make movement possible on the days when motivation
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  is missing in action.
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  So I wanna give you
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  a few small challenges to try out today. Pick one or try all of them throughout the week. The point isn't doing them perfectly.
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  It's noticing how they make you feel.
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  So challenge number one,
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  the two minute clarity pause.
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  Set quietly.
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  No phone, no music.
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  Just breathe
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  and see where your mind drifts to.
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  Two minutes.
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  Challenge number two is the one line journal. Write one sentence about your day,
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  a win, a frustration,
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  a question,
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  anything.
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  Challenge three, the thirty second reset.
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  Look around the room and fix one tiny thing.
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  Put something away.
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  Wipe off a counter.
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  Straighten something up.
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  Challenge number four, the encouragement challenge.
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  Tell one person something encouraging today.
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  It doesn't have to be something deep. It could be, hey, I appreciate how reliable you are. Tiny moments like that will make a big difference.
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  Challenge number five, the one step toward avoidance challenge.
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  Think of something you've been avoiding
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  and take just one step toward it. Not the whole thing, literally
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  one step.
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  These are intentionally small,
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  and that's the point.
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  Microchallenges
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  are designed to feel winnable.
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  Honestly, Daypod Pomo itself
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  feels like the perfect example of a microchallenge.
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  A daily podcast episode sounds huge when you think about the whole month,
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  but one episode per day,
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  one small act of showing up,
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  that's completely doable.
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  It builds the same kind of confidence and momentum we're talking about here.
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  So if you've been following the series this far,
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  you're already living the micro challenge life whether you realized it or not.
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  Micro challenges aren't about proving anything.
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  They're not about discipline for discipline's sake. They're small nudges,
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  tiny invitations
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  that move your life forward in real and noticeable ways.
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  And the more you practice them,
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  the more you start to trust your ability to simply show up.
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  And when you trust yourself, well,
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  you grow.
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  Thanks for listening to today's napod promo episode. Remember, national podcast post month.
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  30 episodes in thirty days in the month of November.
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  If you try one of these micro challenges,
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  I'd love to hear which one you picked and how it went for you.
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  I'll be back here tomorrow with another installment
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  of this daily series for napod pomo.
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  I'm Randy,
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  and this is Randy unscripted.