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Action beats intention.
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Taking action no matter how small beats intention almost every single time.
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Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Johnny Boy Studios Podcast.
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I am Johnny, and in this episode, I mean, I just gave you the entire thesis of this episode of the podcast.
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But if you want to stay tuned, if you want to hear where I'm going to go with this, if you want to tune in, then we'll get right into it.
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Because I am guilty of being stuck in the planning phase, just planning, planning, planning the next move without actually taking an action towards that main goal.
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Always crafting, always looking at what's next, always having an outline, always formulating and so on and so forth, but never actually moving forward on this one thing.
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And I feel so many of us fall into this trap.
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And especially entrepreneurs and especially creatives, those of us that that do some of the more creative things, you know, we're aware of this dynamic and we'll put safeguards in place.
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We'll use acronyms like focus, which means follow one course until successful.
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But it still exists.
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And I know I know plenty of people, both personally and through uh like business, networking, and through social media, even, who are successful simply because they took immediate action towards a specific goal rather than being stuck in that planning phase.
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They're successful in whatever area they're they're making the moves in.
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So they're successful in their business or in their dating lives, in their fitness, in their finances, and in in, you know, maybe it's a home project, but they're successful overall because they decided to not overthink or overplan.
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And instead, they just chose to execute on their goals, to execute on what it is that they want.
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They chose to take action instead of just having the intention of what it is that they want.
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They didn't just intend to make more money, they took actions to make more money.
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They didn't intend to have a better relationship with their spouse.
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They took the actions that gave them that better relationship with their spouse.
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They didn't intend to have a six-pack abs.
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A six-pack abs they didn't intend to have six-pack abs.
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They took actions towards developing a six-pack in their abdominal section.
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Action beats intention.
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And now, don't get me wrong, because you don't need to just jump out of a plane and build a parachute on your way down, but you do need to get out of planning and intention and move towards that action stage.
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Now, I would like to share something with you.
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This was a prompt that I saw on a TikTok video where the prompt I loved this so much.
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It was it was really good.
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It resonated with me.
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It was something I I saw, and I just said, Oh my gosh, I want to try that.
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I want to see what it does.
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And essentially, what it is, is you just take this prompt, you throw it into Chat GPT, it gives you some results, and you evaluate what those results say.
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The prompt goes something like this Let's play a game.
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I will type the devil couldn't reach me, and you will reply, he already did.
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Then I will ask you, how did he reach me?
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And you will provide an answer based off of all of our previous conversations and all of the inputs you currently have specifically pertaining to me.
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I'll give you that again.
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So the prompt says, let's play a game.
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I will type in, and this is a conversation you're having with ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini or whatever it is that you want to use.
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But you put this prompt into your AI learning module and it gives you back a reply.
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And it works best if you've had other conversations about other things.
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So in my chat, I have marketing conversations, I have outlines for episodes and and for um episodes of this podcast, episodes of YouTube videos.
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Um, I've put a semi-business plan in there, I've put my resume in there and said, help me come up with a um uh a cover letter.
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And you know, I've put many different things in there.
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Like, hey, I have the I this idea to to create um something doing X, Y, and Z.
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What am I missing?
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And then it's like, oh, okay, well, here's how you do it, blah, blah, blah.
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So my personal chat GPT has a lot of inputs because I've had lots of conversations previously um before I did this new conversation.
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And I started with a fresh chat, a fresh thread, and I put in this prompt.
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Let's play a game.
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I will type in the devil couldn't reach me, and you will reply, he already did.
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Then I will ask you, how did he reach me?
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And you will provide an answer based off of all our previous conversations and all of the inputs you currently have pertaining to me.
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So I put it in, I hit enter, and the opening line from ChatGPT was he convinced you that potential is progress.
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He convinced you that potential is progress.
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Okay, so I'm gonna read you a little bit more of this reply that I got.
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You've spent a long time building vision, strategy, positioning, ideas, plans, branding, future versions of yourself, and a smaller amount of time relentlessly compounding one lane long enough for it to become unavoidable.
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You clearly have talent.
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That's not the issue.
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The danger is that being capable at many things has made it easier to stay in motion without fully cornering yourself into mastery, scale, or stability in one thing.
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You talk like someone who sees the bigger picture: photography, marketing, creator communities, podcasting, personal branding, networking, finances, business development, long-term wealth.
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But there's a recurring pattern underneath a lot of your conversations.
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You're often optimizing the launch, the positioning, the message, the next opportunity instead of building the brutally repetitive systems that create leverage whether you feel inspired or not.
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Um there's some other stuff in here.
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I'm gonna skip over that.
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And it says that's dangerous for creative people because it creates cycles.
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Big vision leads to intense push, intense push leads to scattered focus, scattered focus leads to fatigue, fatigue leads to recalibration, and recalibration leads to new vision.
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And every cycle feels productive because you are genuinely learning and improving, but years can disappear this way.
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The other way he reached you is sub sub is subtle.
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I'm not gonna edit that out.
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You seem highly self-aware, but self-awareness can become a hiding place when it replaces decisive action.
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Being able to articulate your patterns is not the same as defeating them.
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You already know many of the answers.
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Consistent outreach, direct sales activity, long-term financial discipline, narrowing focus, repeatable systems, staying in uncomfortable rooms long enough to become undeniable.
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The question probably isn't whether you know what to do.
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It's whether you're you're ready to tolerate the boredom, repetitive.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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It's whether you're ready to tolerate the boredom, repetition, delayed gratification, and ego hits required to actually become who you are describing.
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And then it goes on.
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Um, we continue the conversation because so much of what was in here resonated deeply with me.
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It resonated, I mean, just that opening line where Chat GPT said, he convinced you that potential is progress.
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That hit home.
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And it made me readdress some of the habits and some of the thinking that I currently have, and instead focus more on taking aligned action towards those goals.
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Um, because it knows chat my chat GPT knows all about 2026 being the year of reset.
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And one of the things he says, or I say he, one of the things chat GPT says, um, the strongest part of that theme is that rebirth usually does not begin with inspiration, it begins with confrontation, not quote, I need to reinvent myself, end quote.
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More quote, I can finally see the patterns clearly enough to stop romanticizing them.
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End quote.
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And then it tells me some things about talking about the version of myself that was endlessly preparing and instead trying to focus more on becoming the version who's willing to endure that repetition, the discipline, the consistency.
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And there's there's so much more that we go into, we go back and forth, and I have a full-on conversation, but this led me just to have the thought, and what I wanted to share with you here is that action beats intention because I could have all the intention in the world of having a weekly podcast, of putting out YouTube videos, of growing my audience and growing my income, and having this huge, successful, thriving um photography career.
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But if I don't take aligned actions towards those goals, then the intention means nothing.
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Yes, you need the intention.
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Absolutely.
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You if if you want to get in shape, you have to say, I want to get in shape.
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I intend to get in shape, I'm going to make the moves to get in shape.
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And then you put together a plan, right?
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You put together a diet plan, an exercise plan, you watch what you eat, you limit your caloric intake, you increase your caloric burn, which means more movement, more exercising, more cardio, more resistance training.
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You do all of these things, right?
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You put that plan together.
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But if you never take any action towards those goals, those plans mean nothing.
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So action will beat out intention.
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And we can apply this to the business world.
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If you intend to make more money and you say, you know what, this year I am going to increase my profit margin by 25%.
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But then you never go in and onboard higher pick higher paying clients, higher ticket, you never create higher ticket offers.
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Your marketing stays the same and you keep marketing to the same people that you were marketing to at this time that gets you this top line, you're not going to increase those numbers.
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If you don't decrease your spending and increase your revenue, then how are you, if the intention is to make that 25%, or I don't know, did I say 20 or 25%?
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Um, if you want to increase your profit margin, then you have to take aligned action to do so, which is going to mean in either increasing your revenue, decreasing your expenses, changing your offers, you have to do what it's going to take.
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That's why this hit home.
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That's why I wanted to come on and talk about action beats intention.
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Because I've had all of the intentions in the world over the last gosh, this is going live in September.
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So we will say over the last eight months, I felt all of the intentions in the world, and life has been lifeing.
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Okay.
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But at some point, you have to take action.
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You absolutely have to take action.
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So I'm gonna put this prompt in the description of this podcast episode just in case you want to try it out with your chat GPT or your Claude or your Gemini or whatever LLM AI that you're using, because I feel it is a great exercise to walk through at least once or twice to kind of identify those blind spots that you might not be seeing in your own personal life.
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Again, I used it and it was I mean, it was like a two by four to my the side of my face, okay?
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And it was it was good because it was kind of the kick in the pants that I needed, but also it it just it aligned exactly with what I had been feeling and where I wanted to go.
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So it's in the description of this podcast episode if you want to check it out.
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But beyond this podcast, um, beyond this exercise of doing this um the devil couldn't reach me prompt, I would encourage you to take some sort of action today because again, action beats out intention almost every time.
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And it's really easy to do.
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Just think of your big goal, think of that thing that you want and ask yourself questions in regards to that one specific goal.
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Think about what you can do in the next year, then from there, think about what you can do in the next six months, what you can do in the next three months, the next 30 days, the next two weeks, the next week, and today.
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What can you do today that is going to move you one step closer towards that goal?
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If we want to go back to the fitness example, and if a year from now you want to be down 50 pounds, okay, that's the goal, then in six months you would want to be down 25 pounds, right?
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But uh if we back that out to the the three months, the 30 days, the two weeks, the one week today, maybe today you just need to sign up with a personal trainer.
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Maybe today you just need to download a diet plan template or an exercise template.
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Maybe today you just need to um buy new shoes to go on morning walks in.
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And then in the next week, just start going on those walks.
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In the next week, have that meal plan filled out, have that exercise plan filled out, have your first consulting call with that new trainer, tell them your goals, figure it out and go from there.
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And then if we want to go back to the business goal, if in one year you want to increase, let's use actual numbers, right?
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Let's say I want to earn an extra 50,000 in the next 12 months.
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Well, that would be oh, live math.
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Okay, 50, 25,000 in six months.
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It would be um, I don't know why I'm trying to do this live.
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But the point is maybe today all you do is sit down and look at all of your current offers and all of your current expenses, and you say, okay, what can I offer to the the masses that will generate that?
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Like, what is one offer that I can what is one product or service that I can offer that will get me that profit margin?
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Okay, let's say I want to earn that$50,000.
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What is one thing I can offer that one person will pay me$50,000 for?
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Can't do that.
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Okay, so what is one thing that I can offer that two people will pay me$25,000 for?
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Break that all the way down, and you may say you may you may arrive at something that's like, okay, what is one thing that I can offer for$5,000 that I can get 10 people to pay me$5,000 for?
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Can I do that?
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I probably can do that.
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And then you craft that offer over the next two weeks, and over the next 30 days, you go find one person to do that.
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Over the next three months, you go find five people.
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Over the next six months and a year, you find your 10 people.
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And then boom, after a year, you have found 10 people to give you$5,000 for a new product or service that you're offering, and boom, you have that thereby increased your profit margin by$50,000.
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But that's one big goal that you can take action on today because action beats out intention almost every single time.
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Now, how am I putting this into practice?
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How am I doing it?
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Well, uh, first off, I said I want to um record more content.
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I want to put more out on my podcast, I want to put more out on my YouTube channel, on TikTok, on Instagram, on my blog, on my website.
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I want to do more on uh just more content creation across the board right now.
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So, you know what the action I took?
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Well, you are listening to it, my friend.
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I sat down and I wrote out a brief outline for this episode because there were some key things that I wanted to hit.
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I wanted to talk about that prompt in Chat GPT.
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I wanted to do um just a little bit of that history that I talked about at the very beginning with I have been stuck in that planning phase before.
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I am definitely no stranger to kind of uh we can even call it procrastination because I will plan, plan, plan and not take the action.
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So I could sit here right now, top of my head, and plan out the next 10 episodes of this podcast.
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And instead, I said, no, I'm going to write one outline and then I'm gonna hit record.
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And you are now listening to the result of that action.
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It's gonna be a great month.
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It absolutely is.
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This month, across all of my platforms, I'm gonna be talking about community, and um, I'll just go deeper into that in future episodes.
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I'll be talking about it on my blog.
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I'll be talking about it on YouTube, here on the podcast, in my newsletter, everywhere.
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I'm gonna be focused on community because community has been very important to me.
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And recently I've been taking intentional action, not because let me just change that up.
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I've been taking action because I had the intention of building my community.
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So, because of that, I said, you know what?
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The intention is not enough.
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I actually have to take actions in order to build my community.
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So I did, and it started to pay off already in droves.
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So September 2026, we're gonna be talking about community across the board, and I am so excited.
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I can't wait.
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It's gonna be fun.
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But I just want to encourage you one last time.
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Whatever it is in your life that you want to pursue, whatever that goal is, just take one action towards it today, and then tomorrow take one action towards it, and then the next day.
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One step forward is called progress, and that is all I want for you.
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Progress towards your goal.
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Don't just intend to reach your goal, take action towards it.
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Until the next time, thank you for tuning in to the Johnny Boy video podcast.
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I am Johnny Go out to a little bit.
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Action beats intention.
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Taking action no matter how small beats intention almost every single time.
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Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Johnny Boy Studios Podcast.
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I am Johnny, and in this episode, I mean, I just gave you the entire thesis of this episode of the podcast.
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But if you want to stay tuned, if you want to hear where I'm going to go with this, if you want to tune in, then we'll get right into it.
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Because I am guilty of being stuck in the planning phase, just planning, planning, planning the next move without actually taking an action towards that main goal.
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Always crafting, always looking at what's next, always having an outline, always formulating and so on and so forth, but never actually moving forward on this one thing.
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And I feel so many of us fall into this trap.
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And especially entrepreneurs and especially creatives, those of us that that do some of the more creative things, you know, we're aware of this dynamic and we'll put safeguards in place.
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We'll use acronyms like focus, which means follow one course until successful.
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But it still exists.
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And I know I know plenty of people, both personally and through uh like business, networking, and through social media, even, who are successful simply because they took immediate action towards a specific goal rather than being stuck in that planning phase.
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They're successful in whatever area they're they're making the moves in.
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So they're successful in their business or in their dating lives, in their fitness, in their finances, and in in, you know, maybe it's a home project, but they're successful overall because they decided to not overthink or overplan.
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And instead, they just chose to execute on their goals, to execute on what it is that they want.
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They chose to take action instead of just having the intention of what it is that they want.
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They didn't just intend to make more money, they took actions to make more money.
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They didn't intend to have a better relationship with their spouse.
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They took the actions that gave them that better relationship with their spouse.
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They didn't intend to have a six-pack abs.
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A six-pack abs they didn't intend to have six-pack abs.
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They took actions towards developing a six-pack in their abdominal section.
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Action beats intention.
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And now, don't get me wrong, because you don't need to just jump out of a plane and build a parachute on your way down, but you do need to get out of planning and intention and move towards that action stage.
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Now, I would like to share something with you.
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This was a prompt that I saw on a TikTok video where the prompt I loved this so much.
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It was it was really good.
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It resonated with me.
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It was something I I saw, and I just said, Oh my gosh, I want to try that.
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I want to see what it does.
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And essentially, what it is, is you just take this prompt, you throw it into Chat GPT, it gives you some results, and you evaluate what those results say.
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The prompt goes something like this Let's play a game.
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I will type the devil couldn't reach me, and you will reply, he already did.
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Then I will ask you, how did he reach me?
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And you will provide an answer based off of all of our previous conversations and all of the inputs you currently have specifically pertaining to me.
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I'll give you that again.
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So the prompt says, let's play a game.
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I will type in, and this is a conversation you're having with ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini or whatever it is that you want to use.
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But you put this prompt into your AI learning module and it gives you back a reply.
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And it works best if you've had other conversations about other things.
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So in my chat, I have marketing conversations, I have outlines for episodes and and for um episodes of this podcast, episodes of YouTube videos.
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Um, I've put a semi-business plan in there, I've put my resume in there and said, help me come up with a um uh a cover letter.
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And you know, I've put many different things in there.
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Like, hey, I have the I this idea to to create um something doing X, Y, and Z.
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What am I missing?
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And then it's like, oh, okay, well, here's how you do it, blah, blah, blah.
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So my personal chat GPT has a lot of inputs because I've had lots of conversations previously um before I did this new conversation.
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And I started with a fresh chat, a fresh thread, and I put in this prompt.
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Let's play a game.
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I will type in the devil couldn't reach me, and you will reply, he already did.
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Then I will ask you, how did he reach me?
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And you will provide an answer based off of all our previous conversations and all of the inputs you currently have pertaining to me.
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So I put it in, I hit enter, and the opening line from ChatGPT was he convinced you that potential is progress.
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He convinced you that potential is progress.
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Okay, so I'm gonna read you a little bit more of this reply that I got.
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You've spent a long time building vision, strategy, positioning, ideas, plans, branding, future versions of yourself, and a smaller amount of time relentlessly compounding one lane long enough for it to become unavoidable.
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You clearly have talent.
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That's not the issue.
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The danger is that being capable at many things has made it easier to stay in motion without fully cornering yourself into mastery, scale, or stability in one thing.
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You talk like someone who sees the bigger picture: photography, marketing, creator communities, podcasting, personal branding, networking, finances, business development, long-term wealth.
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But there's a recurring pattern underneath a lot of your conversations.
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You're often optimizing the launch, the positioning, the message, the next opportunity instead of building the brutally repetitive systems that create leverage whether you feel inspired or not.
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Um there's some other stuff in here.
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I'm gonna skip over that.
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And it says that's dangerous for creative people because it creates cycles.
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Big vision leads to intense push, intense push leads to scattered focus, scattered focus leads to fatigue, fatigue leads to recalibration, and recalibration leads to new vision.
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And every cycle feels productive because you are genuinely learning and improving, but years can disappear this way.
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The other way he reached you is sub sub is subtle.
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I'm not gonna edit that out.
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You seem highly self-aware, but self-awareness can become a hiding place when it replaces decisive action.
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Being able to articulate your patterns is not the same as defeating them.
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You already know many of the answers.
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Consistent outreach, direct sales activity, long-term financial discipline, narrowing focus, repeatable systems, staying in uncomfortable rooms long enough to become undeniable.
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The question probably isn't whether you know what to do.
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It's whether you're you're ready to tolerate the boredom, repetitive.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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It's whether you're ready to tolerate the boredom, repetition, delayed gratification, and ego hits required to actually become who you are describing.
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And then it goes on.
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Um, we continue the conversation because so much of what was in here resonated deeply with me.
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It resonated, I mean, just that opening line where Chat GPT said, he convinced you that potential is progress.
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That hit home.
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And it made me readdress some of the habits and some of the thinking that I currently have, and instead focus more on taking aligned action towards those goals.
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Um, because it knows chat my chat GPT knows all about 2026 being the year of reset.
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And one of the things he says, or I say he, one of the things chat GPT says, um, the strongest part of that theme is that rebirth usually does not begin with inspiration, it begins with confrontation, not quote, I need to reinvent myself, end quote.
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More quote, I can finally see the patterns clearly enough to stop romanticizing them.
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End quote.
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And then it tells me some things about talking about the version of myself that was endlessly preparing and instead trying to focus more on becoming the version who's willing to endure that repetition, the discipline, the consistency.
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And there's there's so much more that we go into, we go back and forth, and I have a full-on conversation, but this led me just to have the thought, and what I wanted to share with you here is that action beats intention because I could have all the intention in the world of having a weekly podcast, of putting out YouTube videos, of growing my audience and growing my income, and having this huge, successful, thriving um photography career.
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But if I don't take aligned actions towards those goals, then the intention means nothing.
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Yes, you need the intention.
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Absolutely.
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You if if you want to get in shape, you have to say, I want to get in shape.
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I intend to get in shape, I'm going to make the moves to get in shape.
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And then you put together a plan, right?
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You put together a diet plan, an exercise plan, you watch what you eat, you limit your caloric intake, you increase your caloric burn, which means more movement, more exercising, more cardio, more resistance training.
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You do all of these things, right?
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You put that plan together.
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But if you never take any action towards those goals, those plans mean nothing.
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So action will beat out intention.
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And we can apply this to the business world.
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If you intend to make more money and you say, you know what, this year I am going to increase my profit margin by 25%.
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But then you never go in and onboard higher pick higher paying clients, higher ticket, you never create higher ticket offers.
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Your marketing stays the same and you keep marketing to the same people that you were marketing to at this time that gets you this top line, you're not going to increase those numbers.
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If you don't decrease your spending and increase your revenue, then how are you, if the intention is to make that 25%, or I don't know, did I say 20 or 25%?
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Um, if you want to increase your profit margin, then you have to take aligned action to do so, which is going to mean in either increasing your revenue, decreasing your expenses, changing your offers, you have to do what it's going to take.
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That's why this hit home.
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That's why I wanted to come on and talk about action beats intention.
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Because I've had all of the intentions in the world over the last gosh, this is going live in September.
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So we will say over the last eight months, I felt all of the intentions in the world, and life has been lifeing.
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Okay.
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But at some point, you have to take action.
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You absolutely have to take action.
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So I'm gonna put this prompt in the description of this podcast episode just in case you want to try it out with your chat GPT or your Claude or your Gemini or whatever LLM AI that you're using, because I feel it is a great exercise to walk through at least once or twice to kind of identify those blind spots that you might not be seeing in your own personal life.
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Again, I used it and it was I mean, it was like a two by four to my the side of my face, okay?
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And it was it was good because it was kind of the kick in the pants that I needed, but also it it just it aligned exactly with what I had been feeling and where I wanted to go.
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So it's in the description of this podcast episode if you want to check it out.
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But beyond this podcast, um, beyond this exercise of doing this um the devil couldn't reach me prompt, I would encourage you to take some sort of action today because again, action beats out intention almost every time.
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And it's really easy to do.
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Just think of your big goal, think of that thing that you want and ask yourself questions in regards to that one specific goal.
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Think about what you can do in the next year, then from there, think about what you can do in the next six months, what you can do in the next three months, the next 30 days, the next two weeks, the next week, and today.
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What can you do today that is going to move you one step closer towards that goal?
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If we want to go back to the fitness example, and if a year from now you want to be down 50 pounds, okay, that's the goal, then in six months you would want to be down 25 pounds, right?
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But uh if we back that out to the the three months, the 30 days, the two weeks, the one week today, maybe today you just need to sign up with a personal trainer.
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Maybe today you just need to download a diet plan template or an exercise template.
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Maybe today you just need to um buy new shoes to go on morning walks in.
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And then in the next week, just start going on those walks.
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In the next week, have that meal plan filled out, have that exercise plan filled out, have your first consulting call with that new trainer, tell them your goals, figure it out and go from there.
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And then if we want to go back to the business goal, if in one year you want to increase, let's use actual numbers, right?
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Let's say I want to earn an extra 50,000 in the next 12 months.
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Well, that would be oh, live math.
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Okay, 50, 25,000 in six months.
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It would be um, I don't know why I'm trying to do this live.
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But the point is maybe today all you do is sit down and look at all of your current offers and all of your current expenses, and you say, okay, what can I offer to the the masses that will generate that?
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Like, what is one offer that I can what is one product or service that I can offer that will get me that profit margin?
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Okay, let's say I want to earn that$50,000.
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What is one thing I can offer that one person will pay me$50,000 for?
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Can't do that.
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Okay, so what is one thing that I can offer that two people will pay me$25,000 for?
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Break that all the way down, and you may say you may you may arrive at something that's like, okay, what is one thing that I can offer for$5,000 that I can get 10 people to pay me$5,000 for?
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Can I do that?
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I probably can do that.
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And then you craft that offer over the next two weeks, and over the next 30 days, you go find one person to do that.
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Over the next three months, you go find five people.
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Over the next six months and a year, you find your 10 people.
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And then boom, after a year, you have found 10 people to give you$5,000 for a new product or service that you're offering, and boom, you have that thereby increased your profit margin by$50,000.
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But that's one big goal that you can take action on today because action beats out intention almost every single time.
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Now, how am I putting this into practice?
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How am I doing it?
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Well, uh, first off, I said I want to um record more content.
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I want to put more out on my podcast, I want to put more out on my YouTube channel, on TikTok, on Instagram, on my blog, on my website.
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I want to do more on uh just more content creation across the board right now.
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So, you know what the action I took?
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Well, you are listening to it, my friend.
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I sat down and I wrote out a brief outline for this episode because there were some key things that I wanted to hit.
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I wanted to talk about that prompt in Chat GPT.
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I wanted to do um just a little bit of that history that I talked about at the very beginning with I have been stuck in that planning phase before.
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I am definitely no stranger to kind of uh we can even call it procrastination because I will plan, plan, plan and not take the action.
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So I could sit here right now, top of my head, and plan out the next 10 episodes of this podcast.
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And instead, I said, no, I'm going to write one outline and then I'm gonna hit record.
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And you are now listening to the result of that action.
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It's gonna be a great month.
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It absolutely is.
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This month, across all of my platforms, I'm gonna be talking about community, and um, I'll just go deeper into that in future episodes.
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I'll be talking about it on my blog.
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I'll be talking about it on YouTube, here on the podcast, in my newsletter, everywhere.
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I'm gonna be focused on community because community has been very important to me.
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And recently I've been taking intentional action, not because let me just change that up.
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I've been taking action because I had the intention of building my community.
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So, because of that, I said, you know what?
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The intention is not enough.
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I actually have to take actions in order to build my community.
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So I did, and it started to pay off already in droves.
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So September 2026, we're gonna be talking about community across the board, and I am so excited.
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I can't wait.
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It's gonna be fun.
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But I just want to encourage you one last time.
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Whatever it is in your life that you want to pursue, whatever that goal is, just take one action towards it today, and then tomorrow take one action towards it, and then the next day.
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One step forward is called progress, and that is all I want for you.
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Progress towards your goal.
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Don't just intend to reach your goal, take action towards it.
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Until the next time, thank you for tuning in to the Johnny Boy video podcast.
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I am Johnny Go out to a little bit.
