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228. Start Now, Adjust Later · Your Enriched Self

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friends from all across the globe, and welcome
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Speaker 1: to your Enriched Self podcast. I am your host, Mylee Noir.
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Speaker 1: I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach, and what
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Speaker 1: that means is I am looking out for you. I
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that you're spending time each and
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Speaker 1: every week managing your mindset. You know, your thoughts become things,
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Speaker 1: and those things are and become how you show up
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Speaker 1: in the world. And if you're listening to this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I know that you want to become more of your
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Speaker 1: enriched self. So it's going to start with that mindset
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Speaker 1: and making room and time each and every week to
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Speaker 1: manage those thoughts. So, if you're new here to this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I want to thank you and welcome you or being here,
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Speaker 1: I know that you were brought here on purpose, for
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Speaker 1: a purpose. If you are a repeat listener, I want
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Speaker 1: to thank you, thank you, thank you for being here
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Speaker 1: each and every week. We celebrated four year podcasting and
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Speaker 1: it is because of you. It is because you are
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Speaker 1: here with us each and every week, sharing this podcast, liking, commenting.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now, before we get
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Speaker 1: started with this week's episode, if you know you know
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Speaker 1: one of the things I do each and every week
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Speaker 1: is I make a deposit into the bank of you,
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Speaker 1: and I do that by way of affirmations. Affirmations are
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Speaker 1: a great way to start your day and to command
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Speaker 1: your morning. And this week's affirmation is I honor every
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Speaker 1: brave beginning. I honor every brave beginning. I honor every
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Speaker 1: brave beginning. Now let's get ready for this week's episode
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Speaker 1: of the Your Enriched Self podcast. I can't stress enough
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Speaker 1: the importance of journaling. You know, whether you're doing a
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Speaker 1: video journal, on audio journal, or you're writing it down.
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Speaker 1: I promise you that on your journey, you're going to
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Speaker 1: be taken down a path where you are going to
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Speaker 1: revisit the journal and you're going to find some truths
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Speaker 1: about your story. You're going to glean into where you
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Speaker 1: were meaning your mind, body, spirit, your presence in that
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Speaker 1: season of your life. Recently, I was on my social media.
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Speaker 1: I was on TikTok and I was looking at you
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Speaker 1: know how I've evolve, right, I think we all have
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Speaker 1: done that. And I went to the very first post
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Speaker 1: that I made on TikTok and it was about seventy
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Speaker 1: five hard and at that time when I made that.
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Speaker 1: This must have been twenty twenty one. I had completed
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Speaker 1: week one of seventy five hard. If you don't know
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Speaker 1: seventy five hard, it requires six commitments that you must
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Speaker 1: complete every day for seventy five days. Okay, you have
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Speaker 1: to complete two forty five minute workouts. One must be outside. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's that strict. You must adhere to a diet. You
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Speaker 1: pick a diet, but you can't cheat, so no cheat days.
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Speaker 1: You must read up to ten pages of a self
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Speaker 1: help book or an educational book, drink a gallon of water,
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Speaker 1: and take progress pictures. And although it sounds very appealing,
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Speaker 1: it's like I could definitely work out and drink water
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Speaker 1: and read and you know, take my pictures and all that. Listen,
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Speaker 1: you're doing it for seventy five days, and those two
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Speaker 1: workouts a day can be brutal, depending on your time
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Speaker 1: and your flexibility. And over the years, you know, people
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Speaker 1: have done versions of seventy five hard, like seventy five soft.
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Speaker 1: I've even heard of a mid now. There's so many
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Speaker 1: different versions because it is a very rigid approach to discipline.
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Speaker 1: And when I looked at my post, it was actually
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Speaker 1: a pretty decent post about my seventy five hard journey
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Speaker 1: in a one week snapshot, and what I learned from
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Speaker 1: that is well, I was reminded, first of all, I
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Speaker 1: did not complete this seventy five hard, seventy five day journey.
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Speaker 1: I just did not for many of the reasons I
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Speaker 1: mentioned right, super rigid, the flexibility isn't there. But I
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Speaker 1: was able to walk away from that experience. Although I
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Speaker 1: didn't finish the seventy five days, it got me in
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Speaker 1: a cycle of starting this but being able to adjust
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Speaker 1: down the road. Now, a few years after that, I
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Speaker 1: found myself starting to this journey of walking. I developed
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Speaker 1: a habit of walking, a daily habit of walking, and
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Speaker 1: that then led to me joining a gym, getting in
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Speaker 1: a boot camp and I've been in that boot camp
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Speaker 1: now for the last two years. And so I really
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Speaker 1: want to encourage the person out there today that has
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Speaker 1: tried a seventy five hart. Maybe you tried it for
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Speaker 1: a day, a week, whatever, and you just couldn't stick
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Speaker 1: to it. I encourage you if you are on that
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Speaker 1: journey now, or on a journey that you're trying to
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Speaker 1: get back into your routine, or you've been on a
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Speaker 1: journey like that and you feel like you've failed. I
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Speaker 1: want you to know something that you need to embrace
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Speaker 1: the movement and the mission of movement that's innately inside
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Speaker 1: of you. But understand that if you start something, you
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Speaker 1: can always adjust later. And for me, although seventy five
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Speaker 1: hard some would call it a failure, for me, it
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Speaker 1: helped to kick start my willingness to try. And so
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Speaker 1: you didn't fail seventy five hard. I didn't fail seventy
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Speaker 1: five hard. I was training the identity of me being
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Speaker 1: able to do hard things right. So seventy five hard,
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Speaker 1: I will say, as I mentioned, there's not a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of flexibility, but it taught me how to show
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Speaker 1: up when it's inconvenient. And it is, like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's inconvenient to drink all that water and read those
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Speaker 1: chapters ten chapters before you start your day, and all
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Speaker 1: of the things that you need to do. And even
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Speaker 1: though I didn't finish, and you might not have finished
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Speaker 1: a program, maybe it wasn't seventy five hard. It might
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Speaker 1: have been something else that you started that you didn't finish.
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Speaker 1: You became the person who started, who was willing to try,
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Speaker 1: and someone who stretched yourself outside of your comfort zone
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Speaker 1: and really, That's the message I want to drive home
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Speaker 1: is that although it didn't quite hit all all of
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Speaker 1: the checkpoints, those six checkpoints for seventy five hard, there
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Speaker 1: were some behaviors that you walked away from as a
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Speaker 1: result of starting the process, as a result of trying,
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Speaker 1: as a result of putting yourself in a space of inconvenience.
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Speaker 1: The real win, honestly, is that you built a muscle
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Speaker 1: of starting. I will tell you this, starting is the
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Speaker 1: real flex I've talked about day one matters. I think
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Speaker 1: I say it quite honestly almost every week on this
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Speaker 1: podcast because I want you to understand the importance of
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Speaker 1: a start. It is literally the genesis of your change.
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Speaker 1: It is what's going to usher you from where you
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Speaker 1: are now to where you're going. And it is essentially
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Speaker 1: what my story is. Again, seventy didn't end on day
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Speaker 1: seventy five for me. It ended on day seven or
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Speaker 1: something along those lines. I can't even remember, because I
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Speaker 1: know I didn't go the distance, but I went And
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Speaker 1: a lot of times you're sitting there feeling guilty because
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Speaker 1: you didn't finish. Finishing is going to build your story.
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Speaker 1: It's going to help you share that testimony. But let
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Speaker 1: me tell you what starting bills you as a person.
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Speaker 1: So think about starting, and even though it's not going
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Speaker 1: to and it has not ended the way you had planned,
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Speaker 1: you have definitely trained that start muscle to get up
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Speaker 1: and get moving. The other thing I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about when it comes to the start is sometimes the
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Speaker 1: first version isn't the final version. The first version of
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Speaker 1: me doing this was a bridge essentially for me to
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Speaker 1: start my walk journey, which then became a bridge for
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Speaker 1: me to join this gym. And now I'm on these
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Speaker 1: continual bridges of a six week boot camp that leads
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Speaker 1: to a six week boot camp that leads to a
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Speaker 1: six week boot camp, and now I'm two years into
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Speaker 1: this gym world. I'm two years into this fitness journey.
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Speaker 1: I'm two years into consistent movement. I'm two years into
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Speaker 1: being uncomfortable. I'm two years into trying new things. And
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Speaker 1: that's the bridge. So it's not the final version. It's
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Speaker 1: the bridge that helps me go from one thing to
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Speaker 1: the next thing. So it's really a rhythm that I
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Speaker 1: got into. And seventy five hard if you've done it,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you're bridging to another seventy five hard or
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Speaker 1: you're doing something else, such as myself doing these boot camps,
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Speaker 1: these six week boot camps. Is that the seventy five
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Speaker 1: hard or whatever may not be the rhythm that you
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Speaker 1: dance to or you move to forever, but it definitely
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Speaker 1: disrupted my pattern. My pattern was that I did the
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Speaker 1: exact same things and I wasn't getting the results. I
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Speaker 1: was doing the basic things. I can't even remember what
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Speaker 1: I was doing at the time, but nothing would stick.
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Speaker 1: And I think for many of you who attempt to
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Speaker 1: do something like seventy five hard or or you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe a high rocks program, there's so many different like
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Speaker 1: challenging plans and programs you can go do out there.
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Speaker 1: And I think the reason why people want to do
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Speaker 1: that is they want to interrupt the pattern of their lives.
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Speaker 1: And if I think back to that season, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to interrupt the pattern of my life. I had been
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Speaker 1: kind of on this pattern of you know, working out
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Speaker 1: a little bit and then quitting, and I decided to
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Speaker 1: do something hard, you know, and it didn't quote unquote
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Speaker 1: work out, but it was the bridge that I need.
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Speaker 1: It helped me to break the pattern that I have
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Speaker 1: and show up in a new way that showed me
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Speaker 1: what was possible for me, and I want you to
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Speaker 1: see whatever journey you're on now. Maybe you're trying to
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Speaker 1: start saving money again or paying off your credit cards
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Speaker 1: or whatever it is that you're trying to do that.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you tried it a season ago and it didn't work,
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Speaker 1: or you didn't go the distance, but you learned something,
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Speaker 1: You started something, you created a discipline about something, you
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Speaker 1: built a muscle around something that you didn't have before,
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Speaker 1: and that is helping you to discover what a new
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Speaker 1: normal for you can be like that actually fits your life,
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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, seventy five hard
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Speaker 1: is not a shoe everybody can wear. And I think
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Speaker 1: when you look around in culture, this is a danger
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Speaker 1: of running into those fads and running into what's popularized.
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Speaker 1: Is that you might walk into something that doesn't fit you.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't fit you for the lifestyle you live, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't fit for the experience that you have. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: fit because it's too rigid, whatever the reason is. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying quit, I'm just saying recognize that it may
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Speaker 1: not fit your life, and in fact, it may be
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Speaker 1: the bridge that you need to walk over to something different.
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Speaker 1: It's an opportunity to wake up right. It woke me up.
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Speaker 1: And like I said, although I didn't keep that rhythm going,
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Speaker 1: I created new rhythms. So I like to say I
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Speaker 1: didn't quit. I didn't quit seventy five Hard. I graduated
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Speaker 1: into something made more sense for me, made more sense
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Speaker 1: for my life. Seventy five Hard. Although it didn't work
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Speaker 1: out for me, and it wasn't meant for me to
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Speaker 1: take residence into this program or residence into this plan,
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Speaker 1: this seventy five day journey, but it definitely helped to
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Speaker 1: lead me in a direction that was more sensible for me.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, when I first looked back, I
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Speaker 1: was kind of grimacing and laughing at myself or you know,
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Speaker 1: posting this video about my seventy five Hard Journey week one,
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Speaker 1: but I never completed it. But I'm excited to share
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Speaker 1: with you today that my attempt at seventy five hard
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Speaker 1: again a challenge for me. I started, I didn't finish,
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Speaker 1: but it change me. It helped me to see me differently,
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Speaker 1: and now I am committed to my fitness and my
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Speaker 1: health journey in a way I hadn't before. So it
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Speaker 1: was a nice way to be the catalyst to that
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Speaker 1: journey to be that again bridge to getting me from
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Speaker 1: you know, breaking through and learning to start and learning
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Speaker 1: to show up and doing the hard things before I
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Speaker 1: get to the point of consistency where today I can
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Speaker 1: get up at four o'clock in the morning, get myself together,
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Speaker 1: and be at the gym at five each and every day.
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Speaker 1: So wherever you are on your journey today, I want
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Speaker 1: to encourage you not to be discouraged for not completing something.
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Speaker 1: I want you to reframe the progress and realize that
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