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THE COMMITMENT BUSINESS · The Karen Kenney Show

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Karen Kenney: Hey you guys, welcome to the Karen Kenney
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show. I'm super duper excited to be here with you today, and I'm
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just going to dive right into this suck up. So you know, one
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of the things that happens a lot in my life is that I'll be
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talking with my sweetie about something, something that's
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going on with me or the world, or a thought that I'm having or
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whatever. You know, he's the person that I tend to like
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bounce a lot of things off of first and foremost, number one,
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because he lives with me. It's kind of, he's kind of stuck with
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me. But we were having a conversation the other day about
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my business, and I added something out loud, and I
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thought, Oh, this is, this would be great for me to talk about on
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the show. So here we are. That's where the that's where this idea
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came from today. So I'm going to call this sucker, I think,
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something like the commitment business, the commitment
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business, because that's basically what I said to him.
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And before we dive into the story, let's just kind of break
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down this word commitment we I think we all have some
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experience with this word, whether it's positive, negative,
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whatever. Maybe you dated somebody who wouldn't, quote,
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unquote, commit. Maybe you find yourself overly committed these
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days, but like, let's get into it. So when we look at the word
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commitment as a noun, here's some of the several meanings of
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this word. Number one, it's an agreement or a pledge to do
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something in the future, okay? So a commitment may be to
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improve working conditions or a commitment to your favorite
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football team, okay? It could be an engagement to assume, also a
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financial obligation at a future date, right? Making a financial
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commitment. There's also pledging something, something
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that you pledge, you know, a commitment to support the troops
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or whatever. All right, I'm just making these up. A commitment
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to, this is the next meeting, a promise to be loyal to someone
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or something. We're going to get into that one as well. And then
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the last one we'll use for today is the attitude of someone who
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works
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Unknown: had to do or to support something.
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Karen Kenney: And I love this idea of commitment. I talk about
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it a lot, especially with my clients. And sometimes, when I'm
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talking about having a daily spiritual practice, I always
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talk about the 5d of a DSP a daily spiritual practice, and I
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tend to use D words, right, dedication, determination,
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discipline and devotion, which are very similar to this idea of
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commitment. And I think this show today is important because
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my my aim is, my hope is, is that by the end of it, you're
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going to get a little more clarity, like I did about what
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you're actually committing to these days. Some other words
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though real quick, because, you know, I'm kind of a word geek,
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that are similar synonyms to commitment are things like
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dedication, loyalty, allegiance, devotion, fidelity,
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faithfulness, steadfastness, which is one of my favorite
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words, faith, constancy, consistency. Okay, these are all
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really important things. So here's the story. Piece of this.
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I was talking to my sweetie because we were planning a
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couple of classes together, and we were planning, like, live
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music and yoga classes, and I had been asked to teach a yoga
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class at a location here in New Hampshire. And I have my own
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little space, my own little studio where I teach my classes.
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But this was like, in addition to and when I was talking with
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the people who were hosting the class, who were hosting me, we
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were talking about like, Hey, do we want to make this a
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commitment based class, or do we want to just do it as a drop in?
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Meaning, people can do whatever they want to do, show up, not
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show up, so they're not committed until they go in the
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room and, like, pay the money. And I basically was saying to
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them, Well, look, I'm in the commitment business. That's how
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I run my business. So this is like, you know, hosted at your
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place, so we can do it however you want to do it. I tend to be
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like, again, like I said, like helping people to commit
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upfront. And there's a reason why I do that, which I'm going
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to get into in a minute. But when you look at the way that I
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work, if I work with somebody in one to one spiritual mentoring,
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right, they have to commit to a certain amount of time. It's not
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like, oh, let's just do one month and then see how it goes.
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Right? Whenever you're working with me, whether it's in a day
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long, like a hot to hot day, which is just a day of coaching
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over Voxer. So you don't even have to get on, you don't even
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have to commit to getting on a call, right? You can just commit
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to using the Voxer app so you can do voice messaging and text
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messaging or whatever. And that's really great for some
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people, because they don't want to commit. They don't want to
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commit to like having to be on screen and be seen and sit their
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ass down for this specific amount of time right day of
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voxing. I. A day of Voxer coaching. For some people works
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great because what you're committing to is either, like a
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three hour chunk of time or a six hour chunk of time, but it
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allows a little bit more freedom in your day, but they're still
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committing to that three hour chunk or that six hour chunk. If
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somebody works with me in one to one spiritual mentoring for the
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quest, which is like a four month commitment. They're
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committing to that, that four months we're committing that
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we're working together. When people sign up for my yoga
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class, the ones that I lead from my own space, right? I'm like an
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old school Kripalu Yoga teacher. So the way that we do it is you
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commit to an eight week chunk of classes. So it's not and the
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reason why I do that, and this is kind of getting to the
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heartbeat of this episode, is that I know humans. I know human
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nature. I know what it's like to be a person when you're just
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tired at the end of the day and you just don't feel like going.
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And one of the things that I know to be true is and people
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will often say, Oh, well, you get them to commit? Because that
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helps you as a business? Yes, because I'm not an idiot, right?
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What I mean is, like I've done this long enough to understand
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that the psychology of how people behave. So what I have
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found is, not only does it help me, because people are
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committing and paying upfront for that chunk of classes,
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right? It also helps them, right? And that I'm in the
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business of commitment, but I'm also in the business of helping
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people keep their word to themselves, helping people
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commit to their own change and transformation. And I just know
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that when people have, you know, committed, you know, and said,
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I'm going to show up. If they commit upfront, then they will
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usually do much better at showing up each week. If you
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just say to people, right? Like, for example, if you've ever
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belonged to a yoga studio, there are, you know, they'll say,
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Okay, here's a 10 class pass. Well, a 10 class pass that has a
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year to expire, people will often be incredibly sporadic,
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because they're like, Oh, I've got a I've got a year to use
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these that's not even one class a month. I'll just go when I
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feel like it to me that is not commitment. Do you know what I
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mean? The only thing, and I've said this before to a client,
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oh, the only thing you've committed so far is your money.
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And for some people, it's very easy to commit money and have no
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follow through, which we're going to get into in a minute.
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Okay, if you say, Hey, you have a monthly membership, and it's,
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I'm making this up. It's 150 bucks, right? But you can just
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come whenever you want to. Again, most people, a lot of the
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times, will just commit the money. They won't actually do
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the action. So the way that I've learned over the years is to
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help people keep their word to themselves, to their own
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intention, their own habit formation, that they're trying
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to create a new identity. They're trying to create that
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the change that they want to experience is to help them to
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commit. So I am in the business of commitment. You can't work
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with me like sporadically or wishy washy, right? I one of the
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things I often say to people is the universe cannot get behind
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wishy washy. You have to commit. And I'm going to share with you
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one of my favorite quotes on commitment after this, after
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we're done talking. And one of the other reasons why I wanted
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to talk about this today is my own show. You know how I often
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say you guys, that
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I do this podcast from my ears first, meaning, a lot of times I
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yeah, I'm talking to, quote, unquote you, but I'm also
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talking to myself, because I need to hear right from that
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smarty pants part of myself, the divine intelligence that is in
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me and moves through me, and we all have it. I'm not special,
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right? It's often like message to self first and foremost. So
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this is for me just as much as it is for you. So I'm in the
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business of commitment and helping people to show up for
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themselves, because if you don't show up, you don't actually
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change. And I kind of just want to talk about the way that we
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sabotage this idea of commitment. And one of the
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perfect examples I can give you is Planet Fitness. If you have
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ever been a member to Planet Fitness, the gym, right? Their
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model is a very low buy in rate. So it used to be $10 a month,
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and then there's, like, usually a little annual fee. Now they
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finally bumped it after years and years and years. And I used
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to work for Planet Fitness way back in like 1998 or 1999 like
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way back in the day, I was a personal trainer for them, and I
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taught yoga, like on the side there. But what they. Model does
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is they're so smart. Let me break it down for you. So what
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they know is that people will often be willing to commit a
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certain amount of money. They may not follow up with any
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action, but Planet Fitness doesn't care. I'm not saying the
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trainers who work there and stuff don't care. But as a
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corporation, as a larger entity, they're banking on you
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committing your $15 a month, or your 2499 black card, whatever,
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a month, and then probably not showing up, which is great for
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them, because it's less wear and tear, right on the equipment, on
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the locker rooms, on the paper products, on the cleaning
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products, right? Less bodies in the space, less maintenance,
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less work that they have to do. You sometimes like less people.
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They have to hire whatever, but they're banking on the human
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behavior of I will commit my money, but not my action. And a
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lot of times, people are way more committed to an idea of
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doing something than actually doing it, like so many people
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are committed to the idea of change. And they'll say, oh,
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yeah, I want things to change, but when you ask them what
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they're doing to participate in the change actually happening.
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They often just stare at you with a blank face. People often
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want the change without doing the work. Not everybody. I'm
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just saying, a lot of people. You may have even experienced
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this with yourself. You might say like, oh, I want to do X, Y
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and Z. And you get all jazzed up, and you're like, I'm going
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to do the thing, da, da, da. But when it actually comes to
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putting that action into place, whether that's actually creating
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a plan, laying your clothes out the night before, prepping your
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meals, like setting up the appointment, like whatever the
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thing is, we're more enamored and committed to the idea than
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to actually taking the action. And, you know, it was
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interesting, because when I was talking to my sweetie, he was
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talking about how, you know, as a professional musician, people
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often come up to him at his gigs or events or whatever afterwards
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to talk to him, whether it's about his guitar, or to tell him
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that they are either also a musician. But one of the biggest
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things he gets is that people will come up to him and say to
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him, I've always wanted to learn how to play guitar. And he will
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always look at them and he'll say, well, he doesn't say, in my
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mind, I hear I'm like this. Well, you're not dead yet,
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right? If you're alive and you're nimble and you have a
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guitar, you have access to an instrument, you can learn, you
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know, and he'll say to them, well, you can still learn. But
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what it means is you actually have to practice. So, you know,
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we laugh, because a lot of times when we watch a TV show, or you
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see somebody on a zoom call or whatever. A lot of times I will
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see instruments in the background. And we often laugh
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about how the cool guy always has, like the guitar on the wall
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in the background, right? And whenever we see that, like in
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real life, he says, You know, I wonder, how many people actually
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play them, right? They're there, but do they actually pick them
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up and play them? And he said to me, you know, he's like, it's
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interesting, like, there are certain gigs that he does, or
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whatever, and the same people will, like, come to that gig,
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and even if it's a once a year gig, the same people will come
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up to him, because, like, the first time, they'll say to him,
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I really want to learn how to play guitar. And he'll say,
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okay, like, this is just, you just got to pick it up, man,
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learn a few chords, like, data, right? Like, he supports them,
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and he's very, very encouraging. And then he'll see them the
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following year at the same event, and he'll say, How's it
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going, like, how's it going, like, with, with the, with the,
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you know, learning the guitar. And they'll say, oh, yeah, I
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haven't really started yet. And he's like, you know, this
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happens year after year after year. People will have the
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guitar just sitting there collecting dust, and that's a
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really good example of like you're committed what you're
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committed to, what all your commitment level, you were
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committed enough to buy a guitar, maybe, but that was it.
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And the sneaky thing about this, right? The sneaky thing about
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this with the brain is you get that little dopamine hit, right?
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Like, you get that little that sense of satisfaction of
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checking something off the list, right? Like, there are people
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who are like, I'm going to start working out, or I'm going to
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start coming to yoga, and they'll buy some yoga pants,
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they'll get their yoga mat, they'll get their props, but
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then they never do it, because you get that little hit. You get
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that little rush from just doing that part of it, right? You
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committed just enough, but not enough to be effective, not
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enough to actually, like, create change. So it's a really humans.
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You know, we're so interesting, and I'm not trying to be mean to
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everybody. The reason why I'm talking. About this today is I
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want to put forth, because this is the question I just had to
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ask myself, right in 2026, in this span of months, or
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whatever, you know, in this made up time right? This made up time
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frame, or whatever, like, what am I committed to this year? And
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that is often paired with the same question I asked a couple
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of podcasts ago, which is, like, how much bandwidth do you
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actually have? Like, how much capacity, like, resources, time,
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money, attention, energy, whatever do you actually have?
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So we have to be really selective. We have to be really,
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like, wicked clear, wicked clear about what actually matters to
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us, and if we're wasting a lot of time doing shit that at the
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end of the day, like, I literally think Memento Mori,
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right? Like I'm very aware of my own mortality and the fact that
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I'm going to die, so I'm always like, okay with the amount of
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time that I have left, what do I want to spend my time doing and
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who do I want to do it with? Where am I pouring my vital
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resources into? You can't get time back. You know what I mean.
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And it's like if you're wasting your time hanging out with
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people you don't like, who is who are doing shit you don't
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really want to do, like we have to check ourselves if we're
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putting more time into and I'm just making these up, right?
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Like sitting on our ass when we said I want to run a 5k this
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year, or I want to get stronger, because the doctor told me that
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my bone density isn't great, but yet you're not lifting weights
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or, like, and I'm used, I use physical stuff because that's
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just like, easier. Sometimes it could be, I want to commit to
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not smoking. I want to commit to spending more time with my kids.
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I want to commit to for me, right? Because I'm just going to
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say this, like finishing your book, writing your book, that is
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one of my commitments this year. I've talked about it in the
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past. And look, the reality of it is, when you're an
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entrepreneur, there's 1000 ways to get distracted. There's 1000
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ways to be like, Oh, but I have to focus on keeping a roof over
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my head, making money, X, Y and Z. But at the end of the day, at
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the end of my life, I'm not going to regret not having more
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yoga classes, right? I will regret not finishing this book.
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So that's one of my commitments to myself, and that's the key
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there, the commitment to yourself. And I'm hitting my
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chest when I do this. This is why we really have to know
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ourselves, understand ourselves, understand who we are, what we
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really want, and understand how we self sabotage about the
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things that we say we really want, because it's really easy
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to do lip service and to say, Well, I'm committed to this
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thing when you're really not. You know, in my sweetie said to
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me, you know, some people just actually have he goes, some
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people have no commitment. And I said to him, I disagree, and
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he's like, What do you mean? And I said, I think everybody has
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commitment, but I just think some people are committed to not
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committing. I'll say that again. I think some people are
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committed to not committing, right? And I just think like to
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not commit is really easy. It's another way that we kind of get
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out of
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how to what's the word I'm looking for, let me say it this
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way. It's another way that we actually try to protect
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ourselves. And maybe you've done this yourself. I know I did it
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when I was younger, for sure, which is, you're too afraid to
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fail, so you do it half ass, and then if you do fail, nobody can
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make fun of you or make you feel bad or stupid or whatever,
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because you can just shrug it off and say to yourself, yeah,
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but I didn't really try that hard anyways, because we're
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afraid of our own capacity to actually do a thing. And, you
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know, there's certain things you just have to go full boring.
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Like, I would just not be interested in being married to
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somebody who was, like, half committed. You know what I mean,
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like, I don't want a business partner who's like, yeah, kind
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of gives a shit. You know what I mean, it's like, I really geek
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out on people who are really consistent and committed. And
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yes, that does something, of course, selfishly to my nervous
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system. When people are really wishy washy, right? That's not
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that soothing to be around. When you're like, I don't know, do
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they even really give a shit about me or this person or this
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project or this thing, like, I can't rely on them because
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they're so wishy washy, right? It's really nice to be in the
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presence of people who are committed to their word and to
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their work and to doing their best to commit. If they say,
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like, hey, you know that's why, like, I don't make promises in
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my business. You know, people will like, well, if I spend this
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money and I work with you, are you guaranteeing? Are you
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promising that I'm going to have this change? And I said, No, I
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can't promise that. You know why? Because I can't promise
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your level of commitment. I can only promise you I'm like,
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here's what I can promise you, I'm going to fucking show up.
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I'm going to show up 110% I'm going to be here, and I'm going
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to support you and guide as much as I can, and cheerlead and try
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to extract from you and show you your own brilliance and your own
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genius. And I'm also probably going to point out a little bit
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of your own bullshit, right in a kind way, in a loving but firm
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way. We can laugh about it. I can't, though, guarantee your
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level of commitment again, because sometimes people will
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just commit their money, but they won't actually, oh, they'll
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commit with their word, whatever, but they don't
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actually commit to doing the action, to taking the action.
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And if you find that you're a person who is more committed to
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the idea of a thing like, you get really excited, you know, in
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this, this shows up, perhaps in your life. And we've all done
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this, right? I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, but if
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you're a person who tends to stat a lot of things but doesn't
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finish them right, you'll see like, oh, I wasn't committed to
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seeing this through. You might just be committed to getting
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that first dopamine rush, or maybe you just got bored of it.
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And I don't think we should see every single thing in our life
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through. There are times when you have to realize halfway. Oh,
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the most committed thing, the thing I can be most committed
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here to here, is the integrity of realizing I made a mistake
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and I shouldn't. I shouldn't follow through on this, right?
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Like, we got to be willing to say, like, Ooh, yeah, I
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committing. Like, quitting. This would be the best commitment I
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could make right now. So, yeah, so this is really just an
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invitation to look at the different buckets in your life,
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and to look at maybe your financial life. Like, maybe you
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said I'm committed to saving money this year, but you haven't
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really been doing that. You didn't set up an automatic
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deposit, or you didn't set up a jar at home where you put some
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extra cash in or whatever the thing is. So look at the areas
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of like finance. Look at the areas of relationships, right?
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Look at the areas of your work, your mental health, your well
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being, your physical being. So just look at those four buckets
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of like, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, and
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say, like, how committed am I? And then just getting really
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clear about what you have, the time, the energy, the resources,
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whatever, to commit to it, because there's only so much
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bandwidth. There's so many hours in a day, and we don't want to
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be wasting our time, man, like we're at an age where it's like,
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again, I come back to this thing where I say, the universe can't
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get behind wishy washy. So getting some clarity. Like, get
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out some colored pens or something. I'm holding these up.
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Get yourself a notebook. You know what I mean? Holding that
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up and, like, write some shit down. Just get really clear.
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It's only February, right? So maybe you started January with
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this idea of, like, this is what I'm going to commit to, this is
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what I'm going to do. And here you are in February, and you're
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realizing, like, Oh, that's not quite it. Great. Tweak it. You
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get to change your mind. That's awesome. There's a difference
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between changing your mind, right, and being what I mean,
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fickle, right? Just being like, I don't feel like it. You know
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what I mean? There are plenty of days where I'm like, I don't
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feel like lifting these weights right now. And I love to lift, I
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love the strength train. But there are just days I am not in
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the mood. I don't feel like it. You know what I say to myself,
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it doesn't matter that you don't feel like it. And it's one of
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the things that I often to say to people like about the gym or
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yoga or hiking or moving your body, going for a run, whatever
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the thing is, right? I often say, I never regret coming to
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yoga afterwards. I never regret going to the gym afterwards. I
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never regret I mean, unless I hurt myself or something, you
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know, that would be another thing, but it is so rare. I have
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almost never regretted moving my body. You know that some of the
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things, though, because we're talking about these actions,
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that I think need to be on the list though, is, what is your
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commitment to justice? What is your commitment to inclusion?
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What is your commitment to kindness. What is your
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commitment to compassion? What is your commitment to being a
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good neighbor? What is your commitment to voting? What is
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your commitment to these things that really, really matter, and
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they matter? Sorry, I'm getting blinded by the sun coming in all
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over you. What really matters in this world beyond just us?
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Because it's so easy to get focused on the Me, me, me, me.
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But our levels of commitment also affect our loved ones, our
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family, our neighbors, our community, our city, our
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country, you know what I mean? So also looking at that like, am
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I committed? You know, as a kid who is. Raised like I laugh and
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I think about this, you know, so many of us who are Gen X people
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like we were raised partially by the television our friends did
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it like we all raised each other because we were all feral. We
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all kind of raised each other. But we also were raised by like,
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you know, Bob Ross and Steve Irwin and Fred Rogers, and they
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had commitment. You know, they had commitment to us, and they
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taught us so many things, but those things don't mean anything
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if we don't apply them and put them into action. Now, look,
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those might not be your guys. You might not resonate with
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them. Maybe for you it was like the electric company or Sesame
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Street or some other like books you read whatever like for me
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too, right? There are certain characters in certain books,
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like, I love a book any kind, whether it's Stephen King the
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doc Tower series to the Harry Bosch series by Michael Conley.
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I love people with a code. I'm really into that, right? I love
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stories of characters that have a code because that's their
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level of commitment. They are committed to an idea like Harry
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Bosch's commitment was, everybody matters or nobody
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matters. So he didn't care the color of your skin, if you were
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a junkie, if you were a rich white person, if you were like a
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prostitute. If you were work like a little kid, an old
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person, whatever. He didn't care the victim was the victim, and
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he was going to work just as hard on behalf of solving the
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crime, the murder, whatever, regardless of their history,
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their background, their whatever. And he was committed
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to that commitment is a very sexy thing. You know what I'm
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saying, like when people put a stake in the ground and they
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say, I'm committed to working this out, I'm committed to
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solving this problem with you. I'm committed to not walking
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away. I'm committed to putting in the time, the hours. I'm
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committed to beyond the idea. I'm committed to the living,
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breathing entity of this commitment that is a powerful,
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powerful thing. And I want to kind of leave you with one of my
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favorite quotes, and it's supposedly from a climber, a
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mountaineer, William Hutchinson Murray on the Scottish Himalayan
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expedition. And I'll read the full quote to you until one is
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committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always
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in effectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation,
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there is one elementary truth, The ignorance of which kills
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countless ideas and splendid plans that the moment one
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definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves two.
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Let me say that part again, because it's so powerful, okay,
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the ignorance of this will kill countless ideas and splendid
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plans, meaning not knowing this truth that I'm about to say will
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kill all your ideas. So it's important. So this is the part
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to lean in. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then
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Providence moves to all sorts of things occur to help one that
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would never otherwise have occurred, a whole stream of
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events, issues from that decision, raising in one's favor
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all manner of unforeseen incidents, meanings and material
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assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his
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way. I have learned a deep respect for one of goat's
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couplets. Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it.
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Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. And
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that is speaking to that action portion of the commitment until
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one's committed. He's saying, there's this hesitancy, there's
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this ability for us to, like, you know, shuffle our feet and
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get wishy washy and draw back, and that always leads to
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ineffectiveness. Nothing gets done that way. He's saying,
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like, concerning whenever you have an idea, concerning when
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you have an active initiative or an opportunity to do something
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or create something. This one elementary truth, if you don't
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know this, it will kill your ideas, countless ideas. It will
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kill all your splendid plans. The moment you commit yourself,
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Providence will move too and all these resources, the people, the
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places, the money, the meetings, like everything that would never
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have otherwise occurred until you committed all of a sudden, a
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whole stream of events will show up things that you couldn't even
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dream of. And I remember when listening to Oprah talk that
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time when I met her and she said, You know, God dreams, a
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dream. Dream for me bigger than the one I can dream for myself.
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I'm paraphrasing, right? The divine, the universe that,
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whatever you want to call it, you know, the divine
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intelligence, your higher power, your highest self, right? There
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is something that dreams a dream for ourselves big enough, bigger
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than ever we could imagine. But we have to commit, and then once
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we commit, Providence will move too. How exciting is that? So
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remember, the universe can't get behind wishy washy. We have to
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commit. So again, this is just an invitation, enthusiastic
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invitation to encourage you to get serious about your life. We
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can get serious in a fun way, like sit down, like I said, get
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your colored pens, get out your highlighters, get your markers,
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start to dream into existence, right? And then follow it up
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with action. I'm in the business of commitment, right? If you're
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somebody who is also, like, into being committed, and you're
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like, Hey, I'm committed to, like, wanting to change some
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things, to transform some things I'm committed to getting to
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really know and understand and love and trust myself more.
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That's the business I'm in. So you can always reach me. Just go
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to my website, Karen kenney.com, k, e n, n, e y.com, and there's
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a tab. I mean, there's lots of ways to work with me, yoga,
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Thai, yoga, body work, coaching, etc, writing workshops, which I
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hope to be doing some more of, or salons and stuff this year.
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Okay, but remember, I'm in the commitment business. This is a
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great opportunity to ask you. Ask yourself, right? What am I
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committed to this year? And I always love to hear from you. So
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if you want to throw me a note and let me know what you're
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committed to this year, I'd love to hear about it. Okay, wrapping
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it up. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you're new here,
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welcome. I'm so happy you're here. If you're a loyal
31:47
listener, you know how much I love and appreciate you. So
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thank you for being here and tuning in wherever you go,
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right? May you leave yourself in the animals and the people in
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the planet better than how you found it wherever you go. May
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you and your energy and your presence and your love and your
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commitment be a blessing. Bye, you.