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217. Lessons in the rewind: Resistance · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: It's so interesting because I was talking to a friend about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some potential podcast topics, and one of the
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  Speaker 1: things they had asked about is change. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: something that everybody is going through right now in some
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  Speaker 1: form of capacity. And I think a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: change is dressed up or disguised in resistance. And it
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  Speaker 1: took me back to an episode I had recorded very
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  Speaker 1: early on I'm talking twenty twenty one, episode fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: it was all about resistance. I mean, that's the name
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast. And so this week I want to
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  Speaker 1: do a bit of a reflect and rewind to episode
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  Speaker 1: fifteen because I was kind of cooking back then. I
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  Speaker 1: have to admit, and it's so important that we embrace resistance.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's often where the growth is. The growth
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  Speaker 1: is hiding in the places that you avoid, and we
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  Speaker 1: often avoid those moments where there's some resistance. And there
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  Speaker 1: is a story of my experience at the gym. I've
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  Speaker 1: been at the gym for a while. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: reminded me a bit of how I've evolved and some
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  Speaker 1: of the early lessons I learned that I probably forgot,
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  Speaker 1: and resistance is certainly one of them. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to remind you to stop running from the challenges in life,
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  Speaker 1: because resistance brings challenge and that's good. Instead lean into it.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned that lesson over time, and I'm still applying
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  Speaker 1: the need to lean in because you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: survive the process you're going through. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: just simply walk through the process or have the experience
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  Speaker 1: of the process that you're going through. You want to
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  Speaker 1: have transformation. You want to be transformed through it, and
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  Speaker 1: that will require you to embrace the resistance. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoy this rewind of the episode Resistance. That's
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  Speaker 1: what a growth happens. Let's get this Hello, Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: week's episode of the Urine Resale podcast. It's been very
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  Speaker 1: convenient for me to have a gym right up the
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  Speaker 1: street from my house, It's about five minutes away. But
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  Speaker 1: about a month ago we were advised that the gym
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  Speaker 1: was under renovation and then we would be kind of
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  Speaker 1: out of commission for a period of a month. So
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  Speaker 1: that changed things quite a bit, especially my morning routine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shifting about a ten additional minutes for me
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  Speaker 1: to get to this other gym site. And naturally, when
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  Speaker 1: you go to a new site of a place that
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  Speaker 1: you frequent, say, for example, the grocery store, you go to,
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  Speaker 1: certain aisles don't look like the grocery store that you
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  Speaker 1: normally patronize. And such was the case with this gym.
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  Speaker 1: When I went in, things weren't in the place that
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  Speaker 1: I was used to it being at my other location.
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  Speaker 1: Rooms were set up differently, machines were in different spots,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Fast forward this week, I get to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the gym. So excited to go back back
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  Speaker 1: to my regularly scheduled routine. I walk in the gym,
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  Speaker 1: and naturally, again you gravitate towards the things. You know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a machine that I go to, and I think
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  Speaker 1: I've been going through this or visiting or using this
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  Speaker 1: machine for at least the last four to six months.
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  Speaker 1: So I get on a machine and I'm doing my thing,
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  Speaker 1: and while I'm at the gym, in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: directly in front of me are is a couple and
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  Speaker 1: they're working out right, and it looks to be the
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  Speaker 1: trainer and the trainee. And it just so happened that
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  Speaker 1: the machines that the machine I was on, they were
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  Speaker 1: actually going to be on those machines. So here comes
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  Speaker 1: the trainer on to the machine on my left, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess her trainee to the machine on my right.
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  Speaker 1: So the good news is social fitnessing, right. So there
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  Speaker 1: is her machine, a machine in between her and I.
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  Speaker 1: Then my machine and a machine between myself and the
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  Speaker 1: other person that's working out, which happens to be her trainee.
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  Speaker 1: And the trainer says to the trainee. Of course she's yelling.
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  Speaker 1: She's barking out these orders to the trainee, and she says, hey, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: turn up your resistance. When you get to three minutes,
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  Speaker 1: turn it up to forty five. And you know, Joe
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  Speaker 1: nods or whatever. I'm focused on what I'm doing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get my miles in. I typically try to
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  Speaker 1: get like two miles in on this machine. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an elliptical, it's not a steermaster, it's something in between. Right, So,
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  Speaker 1: anyway we're going, I'm hearing this trainer pant heavily in
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  Speaker 1: my ear, and every so often she'd make another command
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  Speaker 1: or she would yell something else to this trainee, and
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  Speaker 1: she say, hey, Joe, when you get to six minutes,
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  Speaker 1: turn it up to sixty on your resistance. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: so now I'm starting to pay attention, right, I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at my machine, a machine again. I have been on
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  Speaker 1: for the last four to six months, and I'll be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, I have never played with the resistance levels.
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  Speaker 1: I've always just worked the machine at the level it
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  Speaker 1: was at. I do a quick start and I go,
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  Speaker 1: I'd give it two miles and I'm done, and typically
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  Speaker 1: I try to work to get my calorie burn high.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thought to myself, well, what secret songs
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  Speaker 1: are they on at this time of the morning, because
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  Speaker 1: I do go to the gym very early in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: about five o'clock. And at five o'clock we're playing with
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  Speaker 1: resistance at sixty. So Joe's at it, I'm at it,
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  Speaker 1: She's at it, We're all at it. And I start
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  Speaker 1: to think, Okay, I need to up my resistance a bit.
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  Speaker 1: So I take my resistance up to ten. And let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you, I started to feel a difference in
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  Speaker 1: my workout. The pedals start going a little slower. I
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  Speaker 1: start moving a lot slower. I'm watching my calorie burn
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  Speaker 1: start to increase, and I'm thinking, what is happening here?
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  Speaker 1: So then another command comes flying across the room, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: when you get to nine minutes, take it up to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred. Guys, I'm only at ten, so I decide,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to go up to twenty five. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: before it was all said and done, I had taken
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  Speaker 1: my resistance up to fifty. Now I went from zero
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  Speaker 1: to fifty. It was more out of qure. I wondered
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  Speaker 1: what was the gain from all this resistance talk. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I had never played with the resistance levels up until
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  Speaker 1: that point, up until hearing this trainer yell out to
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  Speaker 1: Joe many, many times with many commands, very specific commands
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  Speaker 1: of increasing the resistance levels. When I got done with
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  Speaker 1: my workout, I will say it was one of the
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  Speaker 1: best workouts I've ever had. If you are not playing
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  Speaker 1: with resistance, you are missing out on the goodness of
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  Speaker 1: your workout time. Listen, our time is valuable and if
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  Speaker 1: you have that workout time, you want to get the
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  Speaker 1: best burn, you want to get the best gains from
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  Speaker 1: that workout, you need to start turning up your resistance.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what today's topic is all about. It's
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  Speaker 1: about resistance. Honestly, I feel like resistance is an assistance
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  Speaker 1: for us. It assisted me. I had in a short
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  Speaker 1: period of time, I had burned more calories than I
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  Speaker 1: would have had. I kept my resistance at zero at
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  Speaker 1: net zero and worked out for probably another twenty to
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  Speaker 1: thirty more minutes. So, in this strange way, at five
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, Joe and her trainer had reminded
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  Speaker 1: me the importance of resistance and having had such an
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  Speaker 1: amazing workout. I realized that I had been missing out
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  Speaker 1: on getting this calorie burn. One of the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: resistance in training is not just the calorie burn, but
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  Speaker 1: also to get and gain muscle strength, and I was
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  Speaker 1: missing both of those benefits because I had simply just
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  Speaker 1: kind of put it to the side. And I think
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes with resistance, we tend to put it off if
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  Speaker 1: we can, or sometimes we don't even think about it.
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  Speaker 1: We're so used to business as usual that we don't
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  Speaker 1: think about the other ingredients that are necessary for our change.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was grateful in that moment that I
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  Speaker 1: had learned this lesson or was reminded of the importance
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  Speaker 1: of this, and I realized that resistance is truly an assistance.
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  Speaker 1: Resistance can assist us in leveling up to the next step,
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  Speaker 1: the next opportunity, in this case, strength and a calorie
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  Speaker 1: burn that I hadn't achieved or would not achieved. If
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  Speaker 1: I had gone for another ten to fifteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes at the standard or business as usual resistance, I
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  Speaker 1: would not have achieved and attained the level of workout
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  Speaker 1: and the type of calorie burn that I experienced on
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  Speaker 1: that day. So I want to challenge you to turn
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  Speaker 1: up your resistance a bit. Acan totally has a quote,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist persist.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand from that experience going to the gym
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  Speaker 1: on that morning, that my resistance to change my routine
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  Speaker 1: kept me in the same routine. It just persisted. Think
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  Speaker 1: about it like this, if you have an emotion that
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  Speaker 1: you are resisting because you are in discomfort, it will persist.
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  Speaker 1: And so I, quite literally on that morning embraced resistance.
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  Speaker 1: I was turning it up a notch. I was turning
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  Speaker 1: it up a couple notches. And when you embrace resistance,
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  Speaker 1: you put yourself in readiness for transformation. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we all want to get out of this thing called life.
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  Speaker 1: Out of this experience is the opportunity to change, to
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  Speaker 1: become the best version of ourselves, to become your enrich self.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to challenge you today. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what what resistance is near or around you, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe that resistance can be something we voluntarily or involuntarily prevent,
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  Speaker 1: because that's essentially what resistance is doing. It's the attempt
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  Speaker 1: to prevent something by an action or perhaps an inaction.
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  Speaker 1: So take inventory of your life, your lifestyle. What are
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  Speaker 1: you resisting? You see my other revelation on that day
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  Speaker 1: at the gym was I was so focused on the
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  Speaker 1: distance that I didn't see the value in the resistance.
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  Speaker 1: What is your focal point? What is the thing you're
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  Speaker 1: so focused on that you don't realize that the resistance
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  Speaker 1: that you have, or the opportunity to take it on again,
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  Speaker 1: embrace it. Maybe just what you need to get to
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  Speaker 1: that next level, just what you need to expand your horizon.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us what you need to tackle that opportunity and
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  Speaker 1: do it victoriously. I'll tell you this, My workouts since
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  Speaker 1: that day has changed forever. I will always add resistance
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  Speaker 1: to my workouts. Now I may not go at the
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  Speaker 1: level of Joe right off the riff, but over time
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  Speaker 1: I can take that on. But that's a choice we
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  Speaker 1: get to choose every single day, and that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: here for. That's why you're on this podcast because you
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  Speaker 1: understand the value of daily choices, intentional thinking and actions.
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  Speaker 1: So take stock, take inventory. What are you resisting? What
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  Speaker 1: can you do today to add resistance on purpose so
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  Speaker 1: you get the assistance you need to take your life
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  Speaker 1: to take your business, to take your finances, to take
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is you want to tackle to the next level.
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