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#1646 A Brief Coaching Session - Harps · The You Project

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Speaker 1: I got our team. I hope you're bloody terrific. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to another installment of it's going to say your favorite podcast.
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Speaker 1: But that's very fucking presumptuous. You could be a first
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Speaker 1: timer and you're thinking, I'm not sure about this. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give it thirty seconds and then I'm out.
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Speaker 1: If so, you may already be out. If you're still here,
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Speaker 1: welcome if you're a newbie, if you're a first timer
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Speaker 1: or a second or third timer. If you're a stallwart.
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Speaker 1: What's a store wart? I think it's somebody who's been
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Speaker 1: around for a long time. If you're a typ stalwart,
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Speaker 1: hey appreciate you. So you will notice the last few
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Speaker 1: days have been a solo Greg Anthony Harper, who for
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Speaker 1: some strange reason is talking in the third person. And
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Speaker 1: so I'm going to give you the snapshot as to
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Speaker 1: why that is. So. What happens when you produce a
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Speaker 1: daily podcast a three hundred and sixty five days of
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Speaker 1: the year show, about three hundred and fifty five to
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Speaker 1: sixty of those, generally three hundred and sixty are ones
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Speaker 1: that I have recorded, like I'm recording right now today
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Speaker 1: Sunday for tomorrow Monday, A few times a year, we
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Speaker 1: might replace something that was very popular that's old because
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Speaker 1: for a range of reasons, we can't get a new podcast,
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Speaker 1: a brand new content podcast up. The practical reality you
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Speaker 1: don't need to know this. Some of you might be interested, though,
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Speaker 1: But the practical reality of my life is this full
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Speaker 1: time work, which is corporate speaking, which is corporate consulting,
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Speaker 1: which is a little bit of coaching that I don't
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Speaker 1: do much of anymore, which is a little bit of
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Speaker 1: what I would call unpaid helping people out stuff as well,
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Speaker 1: which is part of my purpose and mission. And on
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Speaker 1: top of that, as most of you know, full time
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Speaker 1: ish kind of fluctuating between part and full time research
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Speaker 1: PhD study. At the moments, maybe if you're interested, maybe
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Speaker 1: around six months away from submitting my thesis, handing that
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Speaker 1: in and in the middle of writing what's called a
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Speaker 1: systematic literature review, a couple of empirical papers and a thesis,
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Speaker 1: which is about an eighty thousand word kind of sixty
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Speaker 1: to eighty thousand word kind of story of your PhD journey.
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Speaker 1: So it's called a PhD project my projects, so that
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Speaker 1: will be the kind of the story from day one
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Speaker 1: November one, twenty nineteen to the end of this yearish,
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Speaker 1: early next yearish, and what research I've done, what studies
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Speaker 1: I've run, what participants I had, protocol, methodology, how we
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Speaker 1: did it, what we discovered, what we looked at, why
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Speaker 1: we looked at it, why the world needs his science,
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Speaker 1: and so on, and a couple of older parents and
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Speaker 1: trying to go to the gym every day, and so
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Speaker 1: that adds up to a very busy existence. And the
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Speaker 1: podcast is very important to me. And part of the
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Speaker 1: reality of our situation is that I'm always trying to
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Speaker 1: get good guests for you, and I probably receive emails
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Speaker 1: from I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but somewhere between
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Speaker 1: ten and fifty people a week who want to be
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Speaker 1: on the show, who for a range of reasons, probably
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Speaker 1: aren't great choices for the show. They don't want to
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Speaker 1: be you know, you can figure it out, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Anyway, And some people are great and
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Speaker 1: some people get through that way, but please don't send
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Speaker 1: me an email to be on the show at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, please, and thank you. Generally, I chase people
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Speaker 1: that I want to talk to, but also I guess
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Speaker 1: the practical reality of that is for every one hundred
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Speaker 1: people that we and when I say we generally Melissa
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Speaker 1: or Tiff, we send an email to to reach out
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Speaker 1: to to be on the show. Of the ninety the
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Speaker 1: one hundred emails that we send out, we maybe get
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Speaker 1: five to ten responses, so ninety five people don't respond,
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Speaker 1: and that we might get somewhere between one and five
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Speaker 1: people over the line to now, when you do seven
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Speaker 1: shows a week, every week of the year, that's just
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Speaker 1: a practical reality that's at times, you know, because this
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Speaker 1: is not my primary it's very important to me, but
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Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of moving parts on Planet Craig,
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Speaker 1: and so when we can't get like I could have
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Speaker 1: a different guest every single day of the year, I
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Speaker 1: could probably have three or four, but they wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: guests that I would be happy with. They wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: guests that would be of value to you. And yes,
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Speaker 1: that's a little bit presumptuous, but I've done this for
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Speaker 1: a fucking long time, and so I know, and they've
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Speaker 1: been a lot of not a lot, but they've been
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Speaker 1: quite a number of podcasts that none of you know
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Speaker 1: about that I recorded that just were not good enough
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Speaker 1: to they didn't meet the standard, and they were not
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Speaker 1: something that I would be happy to share anyway, my
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Speaker 1: long winded, fucking round about messages. So there are going
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Speaker 1: to be periodically there will be weeks where there might
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Speaker 1: be seven interviews and there will be weeks where there
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Speaker 1: might be two interviews and five solos from me. I
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Speaker 1: get different feedback about both. Some people really enjoy the
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Speaker 1: me and you coaching format where I'm just sharing essentially
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Speaker 1: I'm doing an education or a coaching session. Some people
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Speaker 1: enjoy that. Some people are like, Nah, not so much.
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Speaker 1: I just want to listen to you talk to interesting people.
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Speaker 1: I completely get that either way, whatever your preferences, totally
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Speaker 1: get it. Just know that, Just know that I'm always
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Speaker 1: doing my best to give you something every day that
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Speaker 1: will be of value to you. And sometimes you know,
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Speaker 1: there are I can't say for obvious reasons, but sometimes
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Speaker 1: there are interviews that, even with some high profile people
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Speaker 1: I've done that just were what were the word A
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Speaker 1: fucking train wreck. I'll be honest, and I can't use it.
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Speaker 1: I can't use it, won't use it. It's not gonna
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Speaker 1: not going to do me or you any good. It's
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Speaker 1: not going to do that person any good, And so
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Speaker 1: we just figure it out. So today is you and me.
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Speaker 1: Today is And I know I didn't need to say
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Speaker 1: any of that, and clearly I just press the go
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Speaker 1: button and start recording and talk. And I think that
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Speaker 1: some of you like that organicness, that this is not scripted,
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Speaker 1: This is not Craig reading off anything. And like, I
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Speaker 1: know what I'm going to talk about today, but between
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Speaker 1: pressing the go button and getting to the stuff that
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Speaker 1: I'm actually going to talk about and share with you,
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Speaker 1: that space could sometimes that could be one minute of
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Speaker 1: a ramble or ten minutes of a ramble. But I
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Speaker 1: feel that it's important that I give you a peek
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Speaker 1: behind the door of what happens at the U Project
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Speaker 1: and in my world and the practical, real world reality
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Speaker 1: of trying to produce good content three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: five days of the year while not going insane, while
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Speaker 1: doing a PhD, while traveling around the country, while writing
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Speaker 1: a bunch of academic papers and a thesis, and all
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Speaker 1: of those things. And it's just no complaining or sooking
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Speaker 1: here at all. I'm very very privileged, I'm very blessed,
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Speaker 1: and I'm very very grateful for my life. However, it's
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Speaker 1: a lot. It's a lot, and so you know, so
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Speaker 1: every time I sit down to do this, it's one
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Speaker 1: it's an honor and a privilege, but also it's something
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Speaker 1: that I need to get myself in the right space
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Speaker 1: so that when I show up to do what I'm
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Speaker 1: about to do now, which is just a really the
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Speaker 1: actual content part of this is probably going to be
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Speaker 1: somewhere around fifteen to twenty minutes, but is really just
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Speaker 1: something of value to you. And it's just a brief
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Speaker 1: coaching session, all right, So here we go. So I'm
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Speaker 1: about to share with you some of the questions that
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Speaker 1: I use on a daily basis. I've covered some of
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Speaker 1: these before, but this is probably just a good little
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Speaker 1: what is this like, a good little kind of grouping
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Speaker 1: of them. That's not the right word. What am I
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Speaker 1: calling a good little list? A fucking hate list? But anyway,
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Speaker 1: it's a list, I guess of questions that I use
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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, if not almost daily basis. And
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Speaker 1: I've used these questions since the nineties, or some of
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Speaker 1: these questions since the nineties when I was a personal trainer,
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Speaker 1: conditioning coach, and more back in that space. But They
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Speaker 1: are the kind of questions that kind of transcend just
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Speaker 1: fitness and health and they can kind of spill into
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Speaker 1: every and any component of your existence. So here we go.
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Speaker 1: So question one is Question one is what specifically do
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Speaker 1: you want to change? So everyone that comes to me
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Speaker 1: for a consult, everyone that came to me over the
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Speaker 1: years as a potential client or member or whatever scenario
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Speaker 1: I was in. Every person comes to me because there's
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Speaker 1: something about their life, their situation, their habits, their body,
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Speaker 1: their relationships, their mindset, their outcomes, the real world results,
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Speaker 1: their operating system, their habits, their internal dialogue. There's something
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Speaker 1: that isn't working, There's something that needs to change. And
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Speaker 1: so when I sit down with somebody, I want to
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Speaker 1: really dig into what that is that needs to change.
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Speaker 1: So tell me what you want to change, and I
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Speaker 1: need as much detail as possible. The more detail we have,
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Speaker 1: the more clarity we have, the more focus we have,
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Speaker 1: the more ment, the more momentum we create, the better
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Speaker 1: the results we create over the long term. So when
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Speaker 1: someone says to me something like, you know, I just
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Speaker 1: want to I just want to be healthier. Cool? What
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Speaker 1: does that mean though? Does that mean you want to
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Speaker 1: be able to run five kilometers. Does that mean you
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Speaker 1: want a lower resting heart rate? Does that mean you
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Speaker 1: want less back pain? Does that mean you want lower
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Speaker 1: blood pressure? Does that mean you want to change your
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Speaker 1: body composition? You want more muscle and less fat? Does
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Speaker 1: that mean that you want to change the way that
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Speaker 1: you eat? Do you want to sleep better? Do you
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Speaker 1: want to have more do you want to have more energy?
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Speaker 1: And So when we have something which is really broad
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Speaker 1: and vague and gray and not black and white, not clear,
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Speaker 1: not specific, one, it's very hard to create a plan
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Speaker 1: and execute a plan around that because the target is
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Speaker 1: so fucking vague and two, the less likely we are
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Speaker 1: to actually change anything over the long term. For me,
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Speaker 1: I've always found both personally for me but also with
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Speaker 1: my clients and the people that I work with, the
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Speaker 1: more clarity, the more specificity, the the greater the focus
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Speaker 1: on the individual thing or things, then the more likely
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Speaker 1: we are to build an operating system around that that's
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Speaker 1: actually going to work. So number one is what do
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Speaker 1: you want to change specifically? Number two is not going
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Speaker 1: to be a shocker, and that is why that's going
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Speaker 1: to be why why do you want to do it?
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Speaker 1: So in goals, we always talk about the what. That's
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Speaker 1: the thing I want. The goal is the thing I want.
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Speaker 1: It's my what. But the driver, the reason, the motivation,
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Speaker 1: the underlying catalyst, like what actually because the why is
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Speaker 1: the real motivator. That's the thing that you really want.
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Speaker 1: There's the thing that I say I want. For example,
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Speaker 1: i want a job where i earn two hundred grand
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Speaker 1: a year and I'm in a different place with a
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Speaker 1: better boss. So I'm earning more money, I'm in a
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Speaker 1: new new environment, and I've got a better boss. That's
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Speaker 1: my goal. That's my what. But it's not totally about
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Speaker 1: the new environment or the new boss, or the new
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Speaker 1: money or the increased wage. It's about what I think
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Speaker 1: all that stuff will do for me. What I think
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Speaker 1: it'll do for me. It's the reason behind that particular target.
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Speaker 1: So I think I have a belief that if, for example,
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Speaker 1: in this theoretical example, if I'm making more dough, if
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Speaker 1: I've got a better boss, if I'm in a new environment,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be happier. I'm going to be more content,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to sleep better, I'm going to enjoy going
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Speaker 1: to work. I'm not going to have the same level
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Speaker 1: of stress and overthinking and anxiety and all of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Life will be better. I will be better bibberdy Bobby boot.
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Speaker 1: And so what I think is my belief is that
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Speaker 1: if I number one, if I get my what, which
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Speaker 1: is new job, news, new environment, then my why will
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Speaker 1: also be met. That is, when I create that external
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Speaker 1: shift new boss, new situation, new wage, then my internal
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Speaker 1: situation happiness, joy less anxiety, less stress, more purpose, more contentment,
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah, then that that will be fixed or
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Speaker 1: that will be resolved, Those internal issues will be resolved
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Speaker 1: because I'm going to create some kind of external shift.
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Speaker 1: Now that might happen, that might not happen, But it's
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Speaker 1: always good to to put that initial goal, that initial what,
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Speaker 1: under the spotlights so that we can really unpack it
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Speaker 1: to see if we've set our sights on the right target,
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Speaker 1: on the right goal. So, for example, when I was
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Speaker 1: morbidly obese, my what was my what was lose thirty kilos?
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Speaker 1: That was my what? My why was? I want to
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Speaker 1: be more attractive to someone. I want to be included socially.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be isolated. I want someone to
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Speaker 1: pay attention to me. I want better self esteem. I
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Speaker 1: want to be emotionally less broken all of these things
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Speaker 1: that all of these internal things that I thought that
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Speaker 1: external weight loss would change. It certainly didn't hurt, but
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Speaker 1: at the same time, it didn't resolve all of those
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Speaker 1: emotional and or psychological and sociological issues. So one is
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Speaker 1: what do you want too? Is why do you want it?
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Speaker 1: Number three is what happened last time? So last time
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Speaker 1: that you tried to do this or do a version
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Speaker 1: of this, what happened? Because if we basically just press
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Speaker 1: the reset button and do the same thing the same
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Speaker 1: way with the same mindset or pretty close to the
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Speaker 1: same thing the same way with the same mindset, guess
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Speaker 1: what kind of outcome we're going to produce. So the
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Speaker 1: question is what did I learn last time? What happened
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Speaker 1: last time? What did I do well? And what did
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Speaker 1: I not do well? And what will I do this
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Speaker 1: time that is different to last time which will produce
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Speaker 1: or hopefully help me produce a different outcome. So number
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Speaker 1: one is what do I want? Number two is why
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Speaker 1: do I want it? Number three is what did I
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Speaker 1: do last time or what happened last time? And what
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Speaker 1: do I need to do differently this time? Because I'm guessing.
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Speaker 1: For a lot of you, the goal that you are
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Speaker 1: thinking of or the thing that you want to change.
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Speaker 1: If you're in the majority, then you've tried to change this,
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Speaker 1: or you've tried to do something like this or achieve
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Speaker 1: this goal or a goal like this previously. Yet here
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Speaker 1: we are thinking about I better hit the reset button.
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Speaker 1: So we need to learn from our previous experiences, good
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Speaker 1: or bad. Number four is how uncomfortable will you get?
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Speaker 1: And I probably speak about getting uncomfortable every second, third,
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Speaker 1: or fourth podcast, and some of you are probably so
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Speaker 1: sick of that. But you know, the truth is this
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Speaker 1: that the majority of people are somewhat addicted to, or
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Speaker 1: enamored with, or in pursuit of comfort and convenience and
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Speaker 1: certainty and predictability, and none of those things are empowering
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Speaker 1: on an emotional and a psychological level in terms of
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Speaker 1: your growth. Where we tend to learn, grow, adapt, evolve,
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Speaker 1: become a better version of us is when we are
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Speaker 1: in mess, in the mayhem, in the discomfort, in the uncertain,
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Speaker 1: in the unknown. And that doesn't mean life spin got
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Speaker 1: to be an ongoing shitfest. It just means that sometimes
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Speaker 1: we need to lean into the pain a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Some short term pain for some long term gain, so
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Speaker 1: that not only do we create the outcome that we
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Speaker 1: want to create because we're doing the hard things. So
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Speaker 1: there's the practical measurable outcome, which is a reward in itself.
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Speaker 1: But the other reward is who we become in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the mess. Who you become when you push back,
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Speaker 1: Who you become when you choose to do the thing
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Speaker 1: that scares you, when you choose courage, when you choose inconvenience,
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Speaker 1: when you choose to delay gratification and not push that
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Speaker 1: dopamine button or the dopamine mutton. When you push the
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Speaker 1: dopamine button repeatedly while you're giving yourself some short term pleasure,
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Speaker 1: you're disadvantaging yourself in terms of your own growth and
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Speaker 1: your own capacity to build resilience and competence under pressure.
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Speaker 1: Number five is what's your plan? Number five is the
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Speaker 1: how how will you get this done? Sure, you're motivated, now,
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Speaker 1: you know what you want, You've got some clarity, you've
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Speaker 1: acknowledged what happened last time, You've learned through that you're
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Speaker 1: going to do something different, and you put up your
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Speaker 1: hand and said, yep, it won't be fun, quick, easy,
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Speaker 1: or painless. I'm okay with that. I'm going to do
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Speaker 1: the work. What is the work? What does the work
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Speaker 1: look like? How will you get the job done? The
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Speaker 1: emotion of motivation and excitement and inspiration is really good,
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Speaker 1: but it's also short term. So I want you to
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Speaker 1: acknowledge the emotion, lean into the motivation and the inspiration,
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Speaker 1: but also be logical and strategic. What is your plan?
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Speaker 1: What is your timeline? What is your structure? How will
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Speaker 1: you stay accountable? What is your process? What is the
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Speaker 1: protocol that will work for you? Not the other bloke,
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Speaker 1: not the other girl, not the dude across the road,
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Speaker 1: not the online guy that you saw. What will work
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Speaker 1: for you? Because different things work, even to create the
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Speaker 1: same outcome, Different things work for different people. So you're
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what is optimal for Craig Harper
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Speaker 1: because you ain't me and I ain't you, But what
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Speaker 1: is optimal for you? So what's your plan? And when
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Speaker 1: you're not motivated, when you're not inspired, and when you've
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Speaker 1: forgotten all of these words, which is just a matter
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Speaker 1: of time, how will you stay doing the thing that
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Speaker 1: you need to do? Number six on my little list
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Speaker 1: is what are your barriers. What are your practical, mental
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Speaker 1: and or emotional barriers? What are the things that might
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Speaker 1: get in the way, What are the things that got
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Speaker 1: in the way last time? What historically have you struggled with,
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Speaker 1: what's been a hurdle, what's been a mental and or
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Speaker 1: emotional or practical issue for you? Will tie this in
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Speaker 1: with number seven, and what's your plan to navigate that?
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Speaker 1: What's your plan to overcome that stuff or at least
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Speaker 1: be able to recognize it and coexist with it. So,
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Speaker 1: for example, one of my barriers has been historically I'm
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Speaker 1: a little better these days, but self doubt, overthinking, underdoing,
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Speaker 1: and so I have learned to navigate situations, circumstances, environments, challenges,
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Speaker 1: phases of growth. I've learned to navigate all of those things,
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Speaker 1: being able to coexist with my own insecurity and self doubt.
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Speaker 1: I know that I can't just switch it off. I
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Speaker 1: know that, And it's much better these days. And it's
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Speaker 1: a one or two out of ten mostly a not
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Speaker 1: a kind of paralyzing nine out of ten self doubt.
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Speaker 1: But we need to be able to recognize what in
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Speaker 1: the past has been a limitation, a hurdle, be that mental, emotional, practical.
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Speaker 1: But what has been a thing that is typical? Has
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Speaker 1: it just been the fact that you always get two, three,
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Speaker 1: four weeks in and you lose focus, you lose motivation. Cool,
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Speaker 1: then that's all about, as I said in my previous point,
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Speaker 1: that is all about creating some kind of accountability system
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Speaker 1: so that next time when you lose focus and motivation
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Speaker 1: and inspiration, which is just part of the human experience
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Speaker 1: and very normal, doesn't make you bad or weak or
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Speaker 1: flawed or broken. It makes you kind of like me,
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Speaker 1: makes you kind of like a lot of other people.
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Speaker 1: But you need to recognize and realize that I have
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Speaker 1: a history of starting things that I don't finish. Why
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Speaker 1: are the reasons or the reason? What is the reason
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Speaker 1: or reas that I don't finish? And how do I
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Speaker 1: plan for that? Now? How do I plan for that? Now?
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Speaker 1: Let me do two more so? Is your end game
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Speaker 1: is your ultimate? When we go through the what and
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Speaker 1: the why, and then we dig even deeper, is the intention?
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Speaker 1: Is the goal? Is the hope? Is the aspiration? Happiness?
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Speaker 1: Is that the end game for you? And if not?
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Speaker 1: Then what? So? I think that we have this? This
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Speaker 1: is just me thinking out loud. This is not formal research.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like we have this misunderstanding of happiness
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Speaker 1: and the practical reality of happiness, and like that we
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Speaker 1: will do some things, will create some outcomes, we'll set
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Speaker 1: some goals, we'll tick some boxes, and then we And
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you don't think this, because
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Speaker 1: you're quite advanced on your personal growth journey. But there
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Speaker 1: are a percentage of people who think that happiness is
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Speaker 1: a state that we can just get in and stay in.
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Speaker 1: And while that seems really good, I see virtually no
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Speaker 1: evidence for that. Even some of the happiest people that
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Speaker 1: I know still battle self doubt, good days, bad days,
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Speaker 1: peaks and troughs, occasional anxiety, occasional stress, occasional sadness, occasional
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Speaker 1: emotional distress. Even some of the happier people, and I
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Speaker 1: would say that I am typically I don't know. See,
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Speaker 1: even the definition of happiness is a funny thing because
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Speaker 1: and this is one of the subjective realities of emotions.
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Speaker 1: Like what I might call contentment, somebody else might be
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Speaker 1: experiencing the exact same thing. How would we know, though,
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Speaker 1: But they could call that calm. Somebody else could be
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Speaker 1: experiencing the exact same thing, And they don't call it
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Speaker 1: contentment or calm. They call it joy. Somebody else calls
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Speaker 1: it happiness. Anyway, the bottom line is, I guess we
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Speaker 1: can all agree that we want to be in a
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Speaker 1: good place psychologically and emotionally. Now, whatever label we give
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Speaker 1: that good place, that state, that state of joy or
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Speaker 1: calm or contentment or happiness or periodic euphoria, we might
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Speaker 1: even call that. You know. One of the interesting things
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Speaker 1: is I've spoken with many people and over the time,
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Speaker 1: when we get through all of the smoke and mirrors
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Speaker 1: and all the stuff, they don't want specifically. What they
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Speaker 1: do want is they just want less anxiety because their
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Speaker 1: constant state, or their semi permanent ste or their regular
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Speaker 1: somewhat regular state is one of existing in that anxiety.
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Speaker 1: That is, you know, soul destroying, isn't it. So when
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Speaker 1: you think about the stuff that you want to do,
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Speaker 1: be create change, and you go want to own that
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Speaker 1: or earn that, or weigh that or do that, and
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Speaker 1: then your why as well, I want that because that
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Speaker 1: will change this and I'll feel that and that when
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Speaker 1: we get through all of that, what's the end goal
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Speaker 1: for you? What is it? What is it that you
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Speaker 1: really want for me if you say, well, harps, I
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Speaker 1: don't really know what you're talking about for you, So
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Speaker 1: I guess I for me that contentment, and I guess
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Speaker 1: satisfaction and confidence that I know that I'm doing the
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Speaker 1: right thing. And this sounds a bit nap and cheesy,
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Speaker 1: so feel free to believe me or not believe me.
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Speaker 1: But I've tried, as I've said before, or I've tried selfishness,
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Speaker 1: I've tried focusing on me, me being the center of
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Speaker 1: my universe. I know that if I don't have somewhat
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Speaker 1: transcendent thinking, that is, I don't have bigger than me thinking,
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Speaker 1: I don't have a purpose bigger than me, an objective
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Speaker 1: bigger than me, and that involves serving and helping and
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Speaker 1: loving others. That for me, I never get close to
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Speaker 1: that date or that space of being where I feel
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Speaker 1: like I am emotionally, mentally and spiritually in the right place.
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Speaker 1: And I guess my last question is will you start today?
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Speaker 1: Will you start today? And if you won't start today,
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Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to leverage you or emotionally blackmail you,
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Speaker 1: but think about why that is now? When I say
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Speaker 1: will you start today, I'm not talking about life upside
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Speaker 1: down on making massive decisions or you know, creating a
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Speaker 1: new protocol. By lunchtime, I'm just talking about will you
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Speaker 1: do something today? It could be a really small thing,
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Speaker 1: but it could be it could be something that opens
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Speaker 1: a door, that creates some momentum that is the beginning
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Speaker 1: of that little thing might be the beginning of something bigger. Anyway, Team,
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Speaker 1: I hope you got something out of that. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I might have waffled a little bit. That's one
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Speaker 1: of the challenges of talking to yourself in a room.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's funny is it's five thirty three now,
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Speaker 1: and when I started, it was bright in this room,
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Speaker 1: and now it's getting dark, and now I'm squinting at
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Speaker 1: the fucking screen. Ah hallelujah. All right, Team, enough from me.
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Speaker 1: You have a great week. See you soon.