The Good, Better, Best Framework: A Framework to Level Up Your Habits and Your Leadership

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the best level that we're always trying to get
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to in everything is not just about finding the
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best thing to do, but instead also shifting the
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background of the things you do and why you do
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them. And you'll notice this starts to create
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kind of a cohesive pattern of what you do, why
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you do it, and weave together all of these things
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that you're becoming. Welcome to the Optimizing
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Beyond podcast. I'm Josh Negron, and this show
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is all about sharing lessons, ideas, and strategies
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that sharpen your thinking, strengthen your habits,
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and push you to grow beyond comfort zones. Let's
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dive in. Welcome back to the show. Today, I'd
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like to cover my good, better, best framework.
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Now, for high achievers and for recovering or
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current perfectionists, sometimes doing just
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something that's good feels like underachieving.
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We all want to do what's best, and yet sometimes
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best is the exact thing that can lead to paralysis,
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procrastination, and failing to follow through,
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especially long -term. We're going to look at
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the framework from two separate angles. First,
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we're going to use it as a hierarchy to evaluate
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your daily habits, what you are currently doing
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or what you'd like to do. And second, more in
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a professional context, in a way to evaluate
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your decision -making and your leadership decisions.
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So let's dive in. So why is it a challenge of
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doing something that's just good versus doing
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what's best? In other words... Good sometimes
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feels like we're settling versus chasing after
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what we know is best. Why would you waste any
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effort doing anything less? And trust me, I hear
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you. But as I was preparing for this episode,
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I couldn't help but think of the tale of the
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tortoise in the hare. We all know the story,
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and it's almost eye -rolling to bring it up at
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this point, but think about it for just a second.
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It sends a similar message, that doing something
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daily, even if it's not the best thing, could
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very well potentially outpace something that
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is the best thing, but it is not executed consistently.
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Now, I know this is already getting your mind
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stirring. Think about it from the fitness space.
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These examples are always, I feel like, the easiest.
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But if you're tweaking your diet and eating slightly
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better than you currently do, but implement that
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every single day, are you going to see better
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results than someone who makes drastic changes
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once a week? Most likely. Or in the previous
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episodes, we discussed James Clear's classroom
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assignment example, where he talks about When
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students are split into two groups and one group
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has to do one perfect execution of whatever it
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is and the other class gets multiple examples
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to do as many iterations as possible, it always
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ends up being that the half of the class that
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gets the most reps is the one that executes at
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the highest level. And this is the same idea.
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So I always say I run into this often when people
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ask for fitness or nutrition advice. They want
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to go all in. They want to change absolutely
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everything. And I've seen it fail so much. many
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times. And so my message is always like, hey,
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chill out. Let's find the top one, two, maybe
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three things depending on your current discipline
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level, and let's introduce those in an intentional
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way to ensure your long -term success. Because
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at the end of the day, long -term longevity is
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what we're after, not just fads and a diet you're
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going to quit next week. So this is the same
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idea. It's about locking in mechanical security
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so that we have a foundation and a baseline to
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then build off. The whole idea is to find something
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that you can do consistently, preferably daily,
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and then layer and optimize on top of that. So
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again, doing the best thing inconsistently is
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always going to be eventually outpaced by someone
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doing something good every single day. So just
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because an action is heavily optimized doesn't
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mean it's always the best fit for where you are
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right now. Again, we've talked about in previous
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episodes, some people have their professional
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life fully dialed in and they're realizing all
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of the successes. But on the personal side, their
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marriage may be in shambles and they may be 50
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pounds overweight and they've got some work to
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do from a beginner level. They can be a CEO in
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the workplace, but they can absolutely be a beginner
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in other areas of their life. So you need to
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have the humility to be able to look and to recognize
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where you are and what foundation that you already
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have, if any, and look to see what needs to be
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built. So for me personally, I remember I want
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to say around six years ago is when gratitude
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really started making its impact on me from a
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lot of different directions. And I realized that,
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yes, it was probably something that I needed
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to do on a daily basis. And most of the numbers
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that I heard was do 10 every single day. And
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at that time, I'll just be honest, it just was
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not something that I wanted to do. And so I thought
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to myself, is it better to continue to ignore
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this habit? And I didn't think that was a good
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idea. And so I decided, okay, what if I'm not
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willing to do 10, let's be solution focused on
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this. What am I willing to do? And that number
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was three gratitudes a day. And listen, it might
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sound lame to you, but it is legitimately what
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got me to do the habit. So I started three every
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single day, about the last 24 hours. And initially,
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always, it's pretty shallow, and you're might
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be just checking off a box. But over time, I
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grew to really enjoy finding things to be thankful
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for, even especially the days that were really
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hard. And I realized sometimes on the days that
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were particularly hard, it was actually a good
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exercise to find more than three things in that
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day to be thankful for. So I built that habit.
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I built that foundation over time. And honestly,
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because it was something that was so simple and
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so easy, I mean, three things every single day
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wasn't that hard. It could have been something
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that I could have rolled my eyes at and thought
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was really dumb because it wasn't really the
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best version of gratitudes, if you will. But
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on the other hand. I was doing them every single
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day. And over time, I built that foundation enough
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that I had plenty of days where I started doing
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more and more. And that led me to realizing that
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it was time to move on from good to maybe better.
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And you may ask yourself, how do I know when
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I'm ready to move on to the next phase of a habit
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or to build on top of my foundation? I mean,
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a lot of you guys are going to be naturally iterating
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and seeing what you could change and adjust over
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time. So some of that's gonna be self -evident
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to you, but there is so much research around
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habits and you can hear all sorts of different
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theories, like is it 21 days to build a habit,
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67, 62, I've even heard 93, which is three of
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the 21 day cycles. And while there's a lot of
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research that spans this exact question, there
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is a study from 2009 from University College
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London that found that the average day span to
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build a habit was 66 days. So my friend Glenn
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Lundy, goes with 67. Because that's when he says
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that on average, a habit is easier to do than
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to not do. And that area of lessened friction
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to allow you to do the habit is a really critical
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moment. And so if you really don't know when
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to move on to the next step, that could be a
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good rubric when you've been doing them for just
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a little over two months, then reflecting back
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over that habit. Is it one that you want to keep
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doing? Because sometimes habits aren't worth
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doing beyond a certain static point. So if it
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is something that you're willing to keep doing,
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Is it something that you can shift or that you
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can grow like the gratitudes where I went from
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3 to 10 and then to the full -blown 4G journal
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every single day now for many, many years? Now
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when you've hung out in the better stage, you
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start to realize that this is something that
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you've been doing for a hot minute now, and you
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could start running into what I've called in
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previous episodes is evaluating your fuel source
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for that habit. Like I said before, I'm not entirely
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opposed to habits being fueled by what I call
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unclean sources, where you're doing a good thing
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for not the best reasons. Sometimes that's necessary
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to get a habit going, but eventually... We wanna
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get to a point where we've done the habit long
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enough to where it's more automatic than anything.
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You've gotten past that. It's, you know, like
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Glenn says, it's easier to do than to not do.
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You're not spending a ton of mental energy to
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execute on the habit to begin with. Once you
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get to that point, you can really start to dig
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into the habit itself, find out what's fueling
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that habit, why you're doing it, why you're passionate
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about it. Again, if it's something that you wanna
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continue doing, if the answer is yes, then let's
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start looking at some of those fuel sources and
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asking ourselves if, they're linked to things
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like performance, pride, ego, or even something
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as simple as the obsession with the streak itself.
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You know, you've had no zero days for two years.
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Awesome. What's it going to do to your mental
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state if you miss one day? If it's going to be
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Armageddon, we need to look at that because if
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you're that fragile, I'd like to ask you what
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fears or potential doubts might be attached to
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missing that one day. That's likely a thread
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that might be interesting to pull. Now let me
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be clear, there are plenty of fuels that may
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not be the purest ones, but they can lead to
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doing great things. But at some point, it is
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worth some evaluation. Because at some point,
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the fuel could render itself ineffective, or...
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you're going to realize in order to get to the
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next level, you're going to want to dig to find
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a fuel that is way more purposeful than the ones
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you may have been using. Because a lot of times
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you'll realize that no matter how much effort
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you try to put in, sometimes getting from better
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to best is unrelated to effort entirely. This
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is where it may require something that's a deeper
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anchor. And that's where the word purpose really
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comes in. Like, what is your purpose? What is
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your mission? How does this tie into who you
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are? And that's where a lot of this mental work
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really can yield some powerful results. If you
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know who you are and what you've come from and
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what you overcome, then you already have a lot
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of answers to those questions. If you don't,
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and those things are still a little unclear and
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foggy, then you may be stuck until you identify
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and clarify those things. And by the way, those
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things aren't always static throughout one's
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life. So if you did have them figured out at
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one point and you have major shifts or changes
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in your life, it's always good to take an inventory
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and see if anything's changed. If you're a person
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of faith, that's going to also involve your faith
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as well. For example, what is God trying to tell
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you? Are you open to that? You even stopped enough
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to ask the question. Now you may think, dude,
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not every habit ties that deeply into who I am
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and my identity. And I would say maybe, but maybe
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not. Because we've talked before about how much
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more powerful habits can be. If you tie your
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identity to them, things like, I'm the type of
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person that works out, right? Or I'm the type
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of person that doesn't eat or drink this. Or
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even, I'm the type of person that no longer smokes.
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I'm not a smoker anymore. Those kinds of things.
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And those kinds of purposeful statements can
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completely supercharge a habit. And if you've
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spent any time with a therapist that asks you
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about your past and about your wounds and potential
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trauma that may have affected your unwanted behaviors
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or thought patterns, then you understand very
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clearly the inverse and how those things, those
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self -beliefs, and that identity can feed negative
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things in the same way. Why wouldn't it be able
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to do that for positive things? You're just leveraging
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the inverse. And that can be a very, very powerful
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thing. So I would say the best level... that
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we're always trying to get to in everything is
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not just about finding the best thing to do but
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instead also shifting the background of the things
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you do and why you do them. And you'll notice
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this starts to create kind of a cohesive pattern
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of what you do, why you do it, and weave together
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all of these things that you're becoming. Now,
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the fun, unexpected thing of this framework is
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that it's not just effective at evaluating habits
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and the things that you want to do. It can also
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be a very effective shorthand in trying to evaluate
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decisions for yourself among others. And if you
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share this rubric with others, it can help you
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make decisions in a boardroom and in collaborating
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with others on deciding what to do on certain
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things personally and professionally. So this
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can be a really awesome tool to filter decisions
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and guide conversations. when you're trying to
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find solutions, when it pertains to an idea,
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people, culture, and so much more. Because sometimes
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when you're working on something, someone can
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find a solution that works. And the impulse at
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that point is to go, all right, we just stated
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the problem, we brainstormed, we found a solution,
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let's go. But I will tell you, it's interesting
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when you can ask the question, okay, so good,
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better, best, is this the best option? That's
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a absolutely. fun question. We've used it a lot
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in multiple contexts in my professional life,
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and it's been interesting to stir people's minds
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into thinking, into giving them an opportunity
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to challenge that idea, or to give them another
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opportunity to voice an alternative that may
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be better, or maybe even the best. But you won't
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know that if a good idea was stated, a significant
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portion of the room agrees that it's something
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that could solve the problem. Okay, we've got
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it. Why waste any more time? Everyone's time
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is valuable. Let's proceed. When instead, you
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can ask the question, good, better, best, is
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this the best idea? Sometimes the answer is yes,
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in which case, let's move on. Take seconds to
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ask the question. However, there have been plenty
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of times where the answer's been, well, what
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about this? And it's a better idea. Sometimes,
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so obvious, the person who said the original
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good idea is like, yup, that's what was so much
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better. Yeah, let's go with that. But even if
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it's something not that crystal clear, it still
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gives some great opportunities to continue thinking
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to make sure that there isn't a better option.
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that we just haven't dug for you. And it's funny
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because in this context, you're kind of pushing
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to not settle, which is a little different than
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earlier when we talked about you're lowering
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the threshold of completion, obviously depending
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on where you're at. If you're needing to start
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the habit from scratch, then feeling like you're
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settling for good. is not a bad thing. However,
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in this case, when you're using it for a decision
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-making rubric, I want to contextualize it slightly
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differently because in this case, you're pushing
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for, can we put in a little bit more thought
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and a little bit more effort and close this loop
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and look at it from a slightly different facet
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and close this loop to see if maybe there is
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a better or best option out there so that we're
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not settling. And oftentimes in these kinds of
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decisions, you don't want to find the path of
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least resistance, especially with things like
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employees and culture. These types of things
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are so crucial. So if you're the type of person
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that listens to this kind of content, you're
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not going to want to settle or take the path
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of least resistance with stuff like this. And
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this rubric really helps you to ensure that you're
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not doing that. So this week. How do we apply
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this? How do we apply what we learned today?
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I'd like to challenge you in three ways to use
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this framework this week. The first one is I
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want you to start a good habit. I want you to
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find something that you've been wanting to do
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and just haven't done yet, and I want you to
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take it to its simplest form. What is going to
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get you to finally execute it, especially if
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it's something that you've been waiting to do
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the perfect version of? Instead, what's a good
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version that you can just ship and you can start
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doing today? What's your equivalent of my three
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gratitudes that you can start right now. So hopefully
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something popped in your mind just now, and let's
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figure out the purest form of that that you can
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start doing. Remember, you can always adjust,
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you can always add layers to it later, but what
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is that one thing that you can start doing today
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that you know you should, that would have a really
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good impact on you moving forward? The second
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thing is I want you to take an inventory and
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audit an existing habit. So what's one that you
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have been doing for a hot minute, maybe beyond
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67 days, and is it time to tweak it, to change
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it? What can you add? What can you take away?
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What can you do to refine the habit and make
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it better? And again, you can brainstorm that
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with just a pen and paper, with a good friend,
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or with AI. Just have a conversation. This is
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a habit that I'm doing. What are different ways
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that I can do the habit? How can I be more efficient?
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Ask me questions about how I do the habit so
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you can better understand and better answer the
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questions and better answer this idea. How do
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other people do it? If you're someone that doesn't
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like the mundane, you can be like, hey, I'm getting
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kind of bored of doing this. What are some other
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creative ways that I can do it to introduce some
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novelty into it and make it exciting again? All
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sorts of different things that you can do. So
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take an inventory of something you're currently
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doing and find out a way that you can refine
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it from good to better or better to best. And
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lastly, I'd like you to use the framework to
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filter one major decision this week, whether
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that be personal, professional, by yourself,
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or with a team, and ask that question. Good,
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better, best? Is this the best choice? Is this
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the best decision? Or are we doing the best thing?
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Some version of that question to make sure that
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you're not just taking the easy path, the easy
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decision, before implementing your decision,
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taking that intentionality and focusing on it
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to make sure that there isn't something better
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out there for you or your team to do. Best of
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luck this week. I think this framework can be
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really helpful in helping you refine your life.
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And as always, thanks for listening to the Optimizing
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Beyond podcast. Remember, growth happens when
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you take action. So subscribe, share this with
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a friend, and most importantly, put what you
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learned into practice. Until next time, keep
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moving forward because daily anything changes
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everything.