00:00:03Consistency and Creativity in Success
00:07:04Finding Consistency Through Creativity
00:10:57The Balance of Creativity and Discipline
00:24:20Forcing Change Through Environmental Shifts
00:32:49Finding Consistent Progress Through Change
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What if the secret to your success lies in striking the perfect balance between consistency and creativity? Join us in this episode as we explore how discipline lays the groundwork for achieving your goals, whether in fitness, content creation, or personal growth. We promise you'll discover how infusing your routines with innovation can transform your journey and keep you engaged. Our discussion spans everything from gamifying workouts to the transformative power of being "creatively consistent," helping you find joy and motivation in your daily life.
We dive into the art of maintaining enthusiasm, even in the face of burnout, by finding consistency through creativity. By drawing parallels between the challenges of running a business and pursuing fitness objectives, we reveal strategies for making your journey enjoyable and sustainable. Embrace the flexibility required to adapt, balance routine with fresh perspectives, and recognize when it's time to shake things up. Our insights will inspire you to stay the course while knowing when to introduce those necessary changes that lead to long-term success.
Environmental shifts can be powerful catalysts for personal development, and we delve into this concept to wrap up our conversation. Sharing personal anecdotes and examples from individuals like Brian Delaney, we illustrate how changing your surroundings can reignite passion and drive growth. Whether it's relocating, trying a new hobby, or altering your daily environment, these changes can lead to significant progress. We hope this episode inspires you to embrace change, recognize your path, and continue your journey toward consistent and fulfilling progress.
We dive into the art of maintaining enthusiasm, even in the face of burnout, by finding consistency through creativity. By drawing parallels between the challenges of running a business and pursuing fitness objectives, we reveal strategies for making your journey enjoyable and sustainable. Embrace the flexibility required to adapt, balance routine with fresh perspectives, and recognize when it's time to shake things up. Our insights will inspire you to stay the course while knowing when to introduce those necessary changes that lead to long-term success.
Environmental shifts can be powerful catalysts for personal development, and we delve into this concept to wrap up our conversation. Sharing personal anecdotes and examples from individuals like Brian Delaney, we illustrate how changing your surroundings can reignite passion and drive growth. Whether it's relocating, trying a new hobby, or altering your daily environment, these changes can lead to significant progress. We hope this episode inspires you to embrace change, recognize your path, and continue your journey toward consistent and fulfilling progress.
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that that made me think to the second point, because I said this started when we were talking about the monotony of it.
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Yeah, the other mindset, which really isn't another mindset, I think it's just.
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I think it's the next step.
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Right, because you have to to get going, you, and to make any progress, you have to figure out just being consistent first, which is the element of discipline, where it's going to take a certain amount of time that you don't know.
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Yes, maybe it's a month, maybe it's six months.
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Okay, it's going to be an unknown amount of time that you're going to have to really really rely on, you know, discipline and just showing up and putting your nose into the grindstone and doing it to allow yourself to organically find these new solutions and from there, as you start organically finding those things that help you do it better.
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I think that's where you come into being creatively consistent.
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Oh yeah.
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And this is where I find myself at now, because obviously I love working out, I love challenging myself, I love trying new things, so that, in and of itself, has come more naturally to me, just after a decade of being in fitness.
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You've had to get creative right, but you've had to get creative right.
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You've had to get creative but like.
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So I had a.
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I had a, a new client yesterday, a young client who has just got certified to be a trainer, has, um, getting ready to study exercise science, okay, who wanted to work with a trainer just to learn more yeah and what I found was that our session entailed much less of like a structured workout, because I didn't have to worry about him showing up tomorrow yeah, yeah
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like I knew he was gonna.
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I knew he was gonna show up.
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He's gonna do everything he needs to do on his own right, because he's already in love with it.
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Yeah, yeah, right.
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And so our session was much more of like a creative brainstorming session, where it's like how can we figure out how to make these things work better for you, right, so you feel more connected, so that you learn something new, so that you can take that wrong right?
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it was so much fun yeah, it's because you miss me in the gym.
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That's what's going on, because we used to do this.
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Oh, you're right, You're right.
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And if I need a variation of a workout.
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You are always like oh hey, check out this one.
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You know what I mean.
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Because you A know I'm going to switch to it, b I'm going to switch to it, b I'm going to show up to do it, and C I might need those modifications.
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But I think that creatively consistent, or consistently creative in that path gives you so much power Because as soon as you've organically found that thing that you're like, ah, I enjoy that.
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Yes, right, you can apply it to all these little different areas.
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So that couple I was telling you about that gamified just their workouts.
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They found a mode of working out that took place in a game and now it's circled back to the weightlifting where you know something they knew they would benefit from the most.
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They kind of liked, didn't love right but then they realized, hey, we can gamify this, we can compete with each other.
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Yeah, we can create our own game.
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Yes, with this.
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Yes, and then that boosts the consistency with it.
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Yes, because you figured out how to, how to enjoy it.
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And that has taken some creativity, but it also took a lot of discipline up front, right.
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And so, yeah, I think, I think, I think it's a positive feedback.
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Yeah, it's a way.
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It's a way for discipline and consistency to become a positive feedback loop.
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Right, and I, I've thought about this a lot, I've thought about how we can make consistency that positive feedback loop so you can keep taking evolutionary steps, and I think creativity might be that key Interesting.
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I like it Because we think about the things that mess up your consistency, or everybody's consistency Work, kids, schedules, stress, like things popping up in life and I think about what I've done personally over the years and you know the stage that I'm at right now, where a lot of the things and my goals revolve around stuff like this making more content, trying to build a bigger audience, help more people and reach out to more people and I had I came across.
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I'm a.
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I'm a YouTube guy.
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I spent a lot of time on YouTube watching videos.
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It's my preferred streaming platform.
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I feel like.
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I feel like every text is about well, yes, in the youtube is you did so and I've known for a long time.
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You know, pull back a little bit.
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From a business perspective, I've known since I was a kid that you can make money on youtube per the views views.
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Guys, we had a conversation.
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We had a conversation about this.
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I did- not, and so I'm the boomer here, which not really, but If you didn't know, influencers make a lot of money on YouTube, right.
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And it turns out you could have done this for a long time.
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There's businesses around it, right, like there's whole YouTube businesses, and so I'm not trying to get us sucked into a rabbit hole, I'm just saying that for a long time, I've known this, this could occur, and I haven't been consistent, yeah, with the making of content to try to grow something bigger than me, right, but I've had the desire yeah I've had the the want to do that and I'll have creativity.
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I'll have these sparks where I'm like, okay, cool, let's do it.
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And then the consistency lacks.
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Oh, okay.
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But what I'm realizing is that maybe the consistency needs to occur first the discipline into doing something, and then, as you do it, you'll figure it out.
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And so it's taken me more time right to get that.
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But I look at the span of years that I haven't been doing it.
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Where had some consistency here?
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That's there.
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I've never fully just stuck with it.
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Right, you got my sound effects.
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I don't know if they heard that before.
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That's the sound effect for consistency, elias heard it, he moved and so then, the other week, I came across this channel, and it made me realize that I didn't have to do something in the way that I was thinking about, for my own standards, how I needed to do it, oh interesting.
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And I won't go into the details on it because it doesn't really matter.
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Yes.
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But the point was was that when I realized that, I was like oh, I don't have to do it that way.
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Yes.
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I can do it like this, and so I gave it a shot, yeah, and then I was like, wow, this is actually kind of fun and it was a lot easier to stomach.
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Kind of fun and it was a lot easier to stomach.
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Okay, yeah, it's a lot easier to stomach from the whole creation process because it it takes time right, got a business to run, right.
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You know, even though it might be a piece of the business, it's not going to move the needle forward greatly today or tomorrow, right, it's going to take time, right for that to make an impact for my goals so that's where that consistently creative comes in, huh.
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I think so Because you know, otherwise I just would have been banging my head against the wall.
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I would have tried something and been like, wow, that was really hard.
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Like I didn't get rewarded immediately, right.
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And then I would have got busy.
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I would have had other things come up, I would have had clients take care of, I would have all these other things that matter more, right.
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But then I always would have been left with that feeling you know, whether it was that day or next week or next month of, like man, I really still want to do this, but like, I haven't done it yet.
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Yeah, why?
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Like, why do I keep failing this?
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Right, and I think, right, and I think that's something that you know, maybe we haven't experienced as much in our fitness, but I think that's what people experience all the time in their fitness.
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It's like what my clients say is, when they finally come to me, they're like, yeah, like I've done this over the last five years and I'm just like I keep wanting it yeah and I'll do it for a little bit, and then I just get to where I want to be, and then life will get in the way and yeah it inhibits them.
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It's like they take a step and then they fall back down and they take a step and they fall back down.
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They take a step and they fall back down, and that is really demotivating.
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Yeah, versus like taking that step even if they're not, you know, taking that next step immediately.
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They're at least staying there right and then can take the next step.
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Yeah, can take the next step and I bet that is definitely what one girlfriend saying to the other girlfriend you know what I mean she was being able to be.
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Can chandler was saying to jacklyn just clarification here that you know she did that consistency and then she found that creative way of enjoying it and so she was trying to, I think, articulate that Now that we're talking about it, I'm like oh, this is what she was talking about, Even though none of us were actually saying those words that she was trying to motivate Jacqueline Because she even said.
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She said, hey, I have Peloton, I'll let you use my login, you can do any of the other workouts whatever you want.
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And Jacqueline's like oh, I use my mom's Beach Body On Demand or whatever, and I do those videos.
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It's just more about I'm just not consistent.
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Like I'll do it for a couple weeks and then I'll stop and that might.
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And now I'm going to go back and I'll be like hey, actually, maybe you should give that a try.
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Like, maybe that's the thing that you just need to change, maybe you need to get creative with it.
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It might be the thing that makes you stick to it for an extra week or consistently, you know, no matter what.
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And so I love that you've articulated, wrapping that around, of that conversation that we were all having this morning, where no real like specific words were being used to say, hey, this might be the thing you need.
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Right, right and that I think that's that swing and balance.
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So we've talked before about, you know, the person that needs to like notice the grindstone, just keep doing what you're doing, versus the person who needs to make the overhaul.
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Yes.
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And they're different places, right?
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I think it's the same thing, right?
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Like, if you're just starting, you can still have that creative spark.
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But as soon as you have that creative spark, as soon as that thing hits where you're like got feeling, maybe I should do this.
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Yes, stop thinking about it, do it, just stop thinking about it and be disciplined with doing it for as long as you possibly can.
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The longer the better, absolutely even right.
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Most of the time we don't do it long enough, right?
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Most time it's like a week max, like maybe a month.
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But if you're like, you know what, I've had enough.
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I've had this feeling that I need to, I need a good trainer.
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I've had this feeling.
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I mean, somebody's been telling me I need to get a massage.
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I haven't been doing it and I really I think I need to do it and saying you know what, I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it every week.
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I'm going to be consistent.
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I'm going to be consistent with it no matter what, and just detach from the outcome of it.
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Yeah that.
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Okay, we had that slight bit of creativity.
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Now we need to embrace the monotony, we need to move into just just grinding for a little while, because if you don't do it, you're never going to actually get the full force of that creativity.
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You're never going to you're going to reach the potential of that creativity right if you don't crank up the discipline, you crank up the monotony what's got to be a catalyst for you you might have it as a catalyst and that's fine.
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But as soon as you've had that gut feeling, it means it's meaningful like something you don't need to understand all of it.
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You don't need to understand science if you want to, is you want to dive into it, if you want to study it, if you absolutely.
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All that stuff is bonus, I think I just love that you said you know we got to pause here.
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I just love that.
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You said if you have that gut instinct, that is something meaningful.
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Guys, just think about that.
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If you have that gut instinct to do something and it's consistently like popping into your life, it's a meaningful thing, it's trying to create consistency.
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I mean, like I think about.
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I think about that's conviction right there, like I'm like I don't know if I should be listening to this episode I'm just like you know it.
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It makes sense because if it's consistently popping up in my mind, for whatever reason, yeah it.
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It means that it needs to take place in my life somehow.
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Yeah, um, it doesn't mean that I have to like, change everything about my life.
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It may just mean it's like it just means I need to make a few phone calls to some people I've been thinking about, right, right, that I haven't talked to them.
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Maybe I need to make a point to talk to them more frequently, right, yeah, but it's consistently coming up because it's trying to manifest its consistency in my life.
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Yeah, and so, if you know, if you find that like you have that gut feeling, you need to crank up the monotony in that, and that doesn't sound fun.
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It's not a sexy way to say it.
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No, I mean, you know, you ruined the whole episode by just letting us know and reminding us of hard work that we're about to have to put in.
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Who doesn't love just the creative part?
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Well, that's the tough part, right?
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It's because it's so easy to be creative if you have a bunch of ideas.
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That is the fun part.
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It's fun to dream, it's fun to do all those things, but nothing will ever come to fruition if you don't, like you said earlier, take action on it and then be willing to take that action over and over and over again without needing to see the fruits of that action.
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Not having to see that hill.
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Right, it's like.
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I mean it's the same.
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A fruit tree is the perfect.
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Another perfect example of something that, like you have to have the seed.
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Yep.
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Put in the ground and then watch it and wait and baby it and every day give it a little bit of water, make sure it's got plenty of sun, making sure.
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Finally, when you get that little sprout out of the soil, you're like, oh my gosh, that's exciting.
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We ain't anywhere close to fruit yet.
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We got years not like that.
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You gotta protect it from other all, the outside all the thing is trying to pull the life away from it, right, so why wouldn't that exist also in us?
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yeah, but you know we have to give it that amount of time, and so maybe we think about this type of person because, as I was saying that, I was thinking, maybe the person that has so much going on in their life, so much monotony, that they can't have any, they don't have any time for creativity, right, right, maybe they, they got three kids, maybe they own a business I think about my clients who've had a hard time because they had so much other stuff and the only reason that they wake up to their health is because the doctor has finally said hey, you have to make a change.
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And I think, for you and me both, one of the reasons we make these are to help people not have to do that.
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Absolutely.
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You don't want to wake up at 50, 45, 50, 55 years old and be like shit.
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You know I got to make a change or I'm not going to make it to 65.
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Yeah, absolutely, you know.
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Yeah, so you know, I think it's easy for people in their 30s and early 40s especially, to get some busiest time of your life.
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You have so much going on and so you're just trying to make it by every day, right, and you lose some of that creativity life, right?
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You have so much going on and so you're just trying to make it by every day, right, and you lose some of that creativity that way well, you're just, you're fully stuck in the monotony of other stuff and not yourself, yeah, and so how would you break that?
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like, how would you get a person?
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Because we've talked about like fitness being the one selfish thing that you actually should put on, oh right, I don't know if did you listen to the one selfish thing that you actually should put on out?
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Right, I don't know if did you listen to the one with stewart walker?
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We had stewart stewart on that was one of the things that he talked about, that he discovered after having suffering from depression and in a person that was around fitness for a long time and he's got three awesome kids, but two of them have severe autism.
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That's a big thing to have to live with in your life.
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That's a major responsibility.
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You know, I'm definitely empathize with his feelings of.
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You know, I'm sure he had so many feelings of helplessness.
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There is depression.
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So how he overcame that was the conclusion of recognizing that like he had to put himself first physically right so that he could be the strongest father for his family and for his kids, right?
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And so how do you have any idea, like, how you didn't have somebody break that monotony of all the other stuff?
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It's very interesting that you asked me this question because I would definitely be that person that falls into this category, guys.
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He knows why he's asking.
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I'm that person that definitely could live that rigid, monotony life.
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I would also just say you know backstory here.
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I grew up in a very military household and so some of those things are just innately ingrained in me.
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And so good question For me and maybe for a lot of people unless you're not actively trying to be aware of this monotony that you've put yourself in or into the space of creativity because I would definitely say I'm more of an analytical, like realist, kind of mindset.
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I'm not that creative type sometimes.
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So if you're not actively seeking that or being aware of your monotony and just all the things, uh, a lot of times it's gonna be moments of big change, whether you want them or not.
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This, this being mine, guys um, where it really has forced me to have to look at some of these monotonous things that I do and also really discover that some of them don't serve me anymore and that's going to just be part of life in general, but definitely in health, wellness and fitness.
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Sometimes, eventually, something doesn't necessarily serve you, but you may still be in that monotonous habit of keeping it.
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Yeah, you know, and if, if you, if guys go listen to the, to the buckets, the gratitude buckets or the fuck buckets, however you want to call it fuck buckets.
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2024 baby well, if you listen to that you know that you're only gonna have so many buckets and and if my buckets are overloaded and I probably don't even need a couple of these buckets, and I wasn't using any kind of awareness and I was just living in that monotony and I wasn't even applying any kind of creativity to make some fluid changes for growth moments like this, these big things, have made me have to sit with myself Right and go oh, dude, like I'm stressed, because I'm carrying three buckets I don't need yeah I'm being monotonous with things that are not, uh, progressing my health, wellness and fitness.
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And, more importantly, if our goal is to benefit our future self, and my future self now has to look different for a little human being.
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I have to be flexible, I have to be creative, I have to start thinking who is ariel going to be now?
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You know, uh, who is she now?
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What she's got to do daily to make those changes, and then who's she going to be in the future for her son?
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yeah uh, and I love talking about myself in third person.
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People think it's where it does, it's okay, um, but I I really I love that you asked me that question, put me on the spot there, because it is something that I've I've been thinking about, and so I would really, uh, encourage people to kind of look at that and see, oh, my goodness, am I?
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Uh am I carrying some buckets?
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Am I being monotonous with some things that I otherwise should have already gotten rid of and moved on from?
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Yeah, because monotony.
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I think we're discovering here that monotony can be a really good thing in certain areas and a really bad thing in other areas, where it can keep your tunnel vision, and that in and of itself can be a great thing if tunnel vision on a priority right.
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Can be a bad thing if your tunnel vision on something, because it's just something you've always done, right, right I think that comes from, in my case, being in seasoned.
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We wouldn't say that somebody in the very beginning needs to be too worried about that.
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But but as you are consistent with things, you might lose that creative mindset, you might take a back seat and just become monotonous.
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After 10 years of doing something, I think part of that may also just be like getting older having more responsibilities.
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Yeah right, absolutely yeah, like all my buckets, all my strands, all my things, yeah but.
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But, like I said, I don't need a couple of them, and offloading them has actually allowed me to go oh, here's my buckets for him.
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You know what I mean whereas I was like, where do I put these buckets?
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yeah, he has to have his own buckets.
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I don't know what.
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You know what I mean.
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I was like how am I gonna carry all this?
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I was like man.
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I am not Mulan, I do not.
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I can't put the buckets on my back, and you know I can't do that, and so I think it's great that you asked me that.
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Well, I think you answered that in a perfect way, because and I think we talked about this before is that you know that change is usually scary, especially really big change.
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And if we can't learn how to embrace change, when change happens to us, inevitably it's even scarier because it's so unknown.
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And I think that's what people are so anxious about nowadays is because we want everything to be sunshine and rainbows and awesome all the time, and life isn't like that.
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There's a whole nother topic.
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But instead of thinking about it with that anxious mindset of saying like, oh my god, like I have this change that's coming, no matter what and I have no control over it, yes, it's happening, it's happening instead of saying you know, or maybe you know, maybe for a moment you felt that like where I'm?
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Am I going to put these buckets?
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Yeah.
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But instead of just saying, stuck there and frantic and trying to figure out how to place all these buckets in a way that you know it might look good on paper or it might seem doable on paper but inevitably would have failed or been so overwhelming that it might have broken you right you looked at it as an opportunity to say I'm in the next evolutionary step here.
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I need to shed these things, I need to get rid of these things.
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And that is an opportunistic mindset of saying it's not that I have to sacrifice these things, it's I have this opportunity to add all this wonderful new things and and just that some of them didn't serve me anymore.
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Anyways, in the beginning I was overwhelmed thinking that they still did.
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And you know, when you take a look at it and you're like, oh, but this, this doesn't correlate with who my future self is even going to be Right.
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Or this daily thing that I'm doing is only adding busyness to my day.
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It's not purposeful, it's not intentional, it's not necessary, it doesn't serve me.
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And again, it just feels like you're doing something.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and I think I think again.
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For me, I had to have a moment of big change, but I would really encourage people not to wait till that moment.
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I would encourage you to kind of spit time where you evaluate yourself, even if it's every couple of months going OK.
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Am I falling into that trap of that monotony?
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Am I that person that needs to get a little more creative?
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Do I need to shed some of my buckets?
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Do I need to pick up some new buckets, and and what that's going to look like moving forward.
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Yeah, I'm the same way.
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I wouldn't say necessarily wait around, but I do my best work on my backs against the wall, like when I'm forced into big change, right.
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And so I've learned for myself that I need to bring that on myself.
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Yeah, I need to seek forcing change.
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Yeah, instead of trying to, you know, I make small adjustments, I would say, like on the weekly of, like priority-wise, like just like logistically.
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I don't think that's the same thing as what we're talking about here.
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I think that you know, for big stuff, right, you know, I, I, if I find the idea, and I'm really that convicted about this thing, at that point I'm gonna force the change to happen.
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And then we're gonna, we're gonna see what happens.
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Yeah, right, and it doesn't always work out for me, but hey, like for me, I found that I have to force it to happen, because if I sit there and teeter and think about it more and more and more and more and try to like squeeze it in it, it's never enough.
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I've never committed enough to the change and inevitably I just go back to the comfortable self that I was right and you fall back into those, like those you know busy work, the things that you know, make you feel like, hey, I'm, I'm doing something, but you're not really doing anything.
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You know, yeah, um, so maybe that's how people do it, maybe that's how they, if they find themselves in the monotony of it is like force yourself into making a big change.
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I don't know if there's a recommendation right of what we could say I mean, for I think it's gonna look different for everybody, totally, totally.
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But like health, health, fitness wise, like what could a big change be?
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Would that be like?
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I mean some people doing something you've never done right something you've never done changing your environment completely, making that massive big change, forcing yourself to be uncomfortable.
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Changing your environment, changing your environment.
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We've had people.
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Brian Delaney is a good example.
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He literally had to move states.
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That's a great podcast.
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Great podcast.
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Go listen to him, guys and his journey in cycling.
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But what did he do?
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He literally was unhappy, depressed, depressed married man that was like I have to move states.
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Yeah, this man moved states.
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I mean, that's a big environmental change.
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He pushed himself up against the wall.
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He made those massive changes.
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And stay tuned for part two because, uh, she has big news we're gonna get them back on and we're gonna get him back on and it's so.
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Talk about the evolution of change.
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That was his big thing that he needed to do, and even after his injury, it's amazing what he's his story, that he's continuing to get to share it well so, yeah, I think I like that a lot.
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I found, um, in regards to changing your environment, you know that could could be joining gym, could be getting a coach, whether that's in a gym or to come to you like the people in your environment as well, yeah, like you could change the environment itself.
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You could change the people, yeah.
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So I'll give you an example of something I've done recently that I didn't even realize was happening, but now I am fruiting the enjoyment of it, and so the enjoyment and I think I'm fruiting that reward so early, just because I know that change is good for me in certain ways, it also helps that I just like physical activity, but I've taken a pickleball is good for me in certain ways it also helps that I just like physical activity, right, but I I've taken a pickleball, and so I've been if you.
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I know you've taken a pickleball I'm playing with brian uh, but I I've been a big ultimate player since I was in high school.
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I fell in love with it and for a long that has been my cardio outlet.
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It's been my competitive outlet.
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It's been a huge piece of my life that I use for multiple different reasons, especially since I moved to Northwest Arkansas and didn't know as many people for that period of time.
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But I stuck with it and it's not that I dislike it now, right, I just found myself in a season where I haven't been utilizing it as much, right, and it kind of sucks.
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But I also kind of don't really want to do it for right now, whether it's just it's hot outside, like it doesn't work great with my schedule, and so there's these reasons that I'm sort of resisting it yeah and part of that's just the season.
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Yeah, the actual like hot as hell yes, I don't want to be outside in season and when we play it, just it just doesn't coincide with that.
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And so, you know, for a while I hear about people playing pickleball.
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I was was kind of like, oh, it's kind of goofy, it's like, you know, is it really like, is it really that intense, like, is it really going to be that fun?
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And so finally I was like, screw it, I'm going to do it, yeah, I'm going to get in.
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I ordered the paddles and the way I did it actually was a client asked me to play, asked me to play, and I was like, sure, yeah, I'll go play with you.
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Now I have even more of a reason to push myself into this environmental change.
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Of course I, I love it, it's fun, it's awesome, right, and this is not a ad for pickleball.
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I'm just saying, yeah, like I get, I'm getting all this benefit from a new sport, a new game, a new competition, something that with new people new people, new people themselves.
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Yeah, also like going from heavy team sport to a more single person sport, or just maybe one other person.
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Yeah, um, I'm finding it really rewarding and really fun for reasons other than why I play ultimate yeah, that's beautiful and that's taken just kind of forcing myself into, yeah, that environmental shift well, I think.
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I think you continue to say that because you know yourself well enough that you need to sometimes force change in yourself back up and install.
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I would say mine looked a little different because once again, I had to have a big event happen in my life for me to stop focus on running, and that was the inability to run.
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And then, all of a sudden, I invested even more energy into bodybuilding.
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And how much I loved bodybuilding, you know, or I really actually found a love for.
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I know this sounds crazy.
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There are workout classes, guys.
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They are workout classes for pole dancing and if you have upper body strength.
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Are they workout classes there?
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No, they are.
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They are, and if you have upper body strength and mobility because you should be a gymnast, I just excel at it.
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Naturally I wasn't sure, I was a little hesitant, not really my environment choice, because you are allowed to wear just kind of skimpy environment clothes in this environment, but also they serve a purpose.
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You need your skin on the pole.
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There's like a lot of it's a very vulnerable setting it really much is, and so I was a little worried.
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But then I took to it naturally, and I never really thought that I would enjoy something as much as I enjoyed running, but it fulfilled something in me a physical activity that I could do and made me feel confident and made me feel strong that I was able to do these things.
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And so, again, I had to be placed in a position where I had to remove an activity from my life because of inability to do it.
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But I definitely would encourage people to be more aware and not wait till the moments like I've had to have in life Sounds like I'm very stubborn at this point.
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In that case, guys, I think we're wrapping.
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Yeah, I think we're wrapping up.
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You know, I think you've learned all you need to know today.
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Well, you know, and I think because we started the episode, we started our first like official video episode actually talking about our podcast and the steps that we need to take, and we're kind of ending it thinking that you know how the environments change and change how you do certain things and how that can affect your ability to be consistent and hopefully for the better, right Right, your ability to be consistent and hopefully for for the better, right right, so that you can continue to find those next little evolutionary steps, so you can continue to climb your mountain and actually make progress and the things that you want to make progress, and especially in regards to your health and wellness.
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And like I think about it and we've gone from y'all haven't seen it, but recording in a little tiny conference room with a curtain up, yes, uh, yes you know, antagonistically trying to win over an argument with each other, to sitting in this really awesome lounge yeah just having a really good conversation about how we can all be better and do better and feel better in our lives, and, you know, I think that that's in and of itself.
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Us being in here is a beautiful thing and wonderful yeah it's very rewarding.
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So go find your rewards, guys.
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Hopefully this podcast has helped you kind of sit with yourself, figure out the evolution of change and where your life has been, where it's at, and where it's headed.
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Thanks for joining us.
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We'll see you in the next one.
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that that made me think to the second point, because I said this started when we were talking about the monotony of it.
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Yeah, the other mindset, which really isn't another mindset, I think it's just.
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I think it's the next step.
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Right, because you have to to get going, you, and to make any progress, you have to figure out just being consistent first, which is the element of discipline, where it's going to take a certain amount of time that you don't know.
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Yes, maybe it's a month, maybe it's six months.
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Okay, it's going to be an unknown amount of time that you're going to have to really really rely on, you know, discipline and just showing up and putting your nose into the grindstone and doing it to allow yourself to organically find these new solutions and from there, as you start organically finding those things that help you do it better.
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I think that's where you come into being creatively consistent.
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Oh yeah.
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And this is where I find myself at now, because obviously I love working out, I love challenging myself, I love trying new things, so that, in and of itself, has come more naturally to me, just after a decade of being in fitness.
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You've had to get creative right, but you've had to get creative right.
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You've had to get creative but like.
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So I had a.
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I had a, a new client yesterday, a young client who has just got certified to be a trainer, has, um, getting ready to study exercise science, okay, who wanted to work with a trainer just to learn more yeah and what I found was that our session entailed much less of like a structured workout, because I didn't have to worry about him showing up tomorrow yeah, yeah
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like I knew he was gonna.
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I knew he was gonna show up.
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He's gonna do everything he needs to do on his own right, because he's already in love with it.
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Yeah, yeah, right.
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And so our session was much more of like a creative brainstorming session, where it's like how can we figure out how to make these things work better for you, right, so you feel more connected, so that you learn something new, so that you can take that wrong right?
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it was so much fun yeah, it's because you miss me in the gym.
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That's what's going on, because we used to do this.
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Oh, you're right, You're right.
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And if I need a variation of a workout.
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You are always like oh hey, check out this one.
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You know what I mean.
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Because you A know I'm going to switch to it, b I'm going to switch to it, b I'm going to show up to do it, and C I might need those modifications.
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But I think that creatively consistent, or consistently creative in that path gives you so much power Because as soon as you've organically found that thing that you're like, ah, I enjoy that.
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Yes, right, you can apply it to all these little different areas.
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So that couple I was telling you about that gamified just their workouts.
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They found a mode of working out that took place in a game and now it's circled back to the weightlifting where you know something they knew they would benefit from the most.
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They kind of liked, didn't love right but then they realized, hey, we can gamify this, we can compete with each other.
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Yeah, we can create our own game.
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Yes, with this.
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Yes, and then that boosts the consistency with it.
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Yes, because you figured out how to, how to enjoy it.
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And that has taken some creativity, but it also took a lot of discipline up front, right.
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And so, yeah, I think, I think, I think it's a positive feedback.
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Yeah, it's a way.
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It's a way for discipline and consistency to become a positive feedback loop.
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Right, and I, I've thought about this a lot, I've thought about how we can make consistency that positive feedback loop so you can keep taking evolutionary steps, and I think creativity might be that key Interesting.
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I like it Because we think about the things that mess up your consistency, or everybody's consistency Work, kids, schedules, stress, like things popping up in life and I think about what I've done personally over the years and you know the stage that I'm at right now, where a lot of the things and my goals revolve around stuff like this making more content, trying to build a bigger audience, help more people and reach out to more people and I had I came across.
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I'm a.
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I'm a YouTube guy.
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I spent a lot of time on YouTube watching videos.
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It's my preferred streaming platform.
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I feel like.
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I feel like every text is about well, yes, in the youtube is you did so and I've known for a long time.
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You know, pull back a little bit.
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From a business perspective, I've known since I was a kid that you can make money on youtube per the views views.
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Guys, we had a conversation.
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We had a conversation about this.
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I did- not, and so I'm the boomer here, which not really, but If you didn't know, influencers make a lot of money on YouTube, right.
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And it turns out you could have done this for a long time.
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There's businesses around it, right, like there's whole YouTube businesses, and so I'm not trying to get us sucked into a rabbit hole, I'm just saying that for a long time, I've known this, this could occur, and I haven't been consistent, yeah, with the making of content to try to grow something bigger than me, right, but I've had the desire yeah I've had the the want to do that and I'll have creativity.
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I'll have these sparks where I'm like, okay, cool, let's do it.
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And then the consistency lacks.
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Oh, okay.
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But what I'm realizing is that maybe the consistency needs to occur first the discipline into doing something, and then, as you do it, you'll figure it out.
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And so it's taken me more time right to get that.
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But I look at the span of years that I haven't been doing it.
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Where had some consistency here?
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That's there.
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I've never fully just stuck with it.
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Right, you got my sound effects.
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I don't know if they heard that before.
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That's the sound effect for consistency, elias heard it, he moved and so then, the other week, I came across this channel, and it made me realize that I didn't have to do something in the way that I was thinking about, for my own standards, how I needed to do it, oh interesting.
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And I won't go into the details on it because it doesn't really matter.
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Yes.
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But the point was was that when I realized that, I was like oh, I don't have to do it that way.
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Yes.
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I can do it like this, and so I gave it a shot, yeah, and then I was like, wow, this is actually kind of fun and it was a lot easier to stomach.
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Kind of fun and it was a lot easier to stomach.
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Okay, yeah, it's a lot easier to stomach from the whole creation process because it it takes time right, got a business to run, right.
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You know, even though it might be a piece of the business, it's not going to move the needle forward greatly today or tomorrow, right, it's going to take time, right for that to make an impact for my goals so that's where that consistently creative comes in, huh.
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I think so Because you know, otherwise I just would have been banging my head against the wall.
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I would have tried something and been like, wow, that was really hard.
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Like I didn't get rewarded immediately, right.
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And then I would have got busy.
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I would have had other things come up, I would have had clients take care of, I would have all these other things that matter more, right.
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But then I always would have been left with that feeling you know, whether it was that day or next week or next month of, like man, I really still want to do this, but like, I haven't done it yet.
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Yeah, why?
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Like, why do I keep failing this?
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Right, and I think, right, and I think that's something that you know, maybe we haven't experienced as much in our fitness, but I think that's what people experience all the time in their fitness.
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It's like what my clients say is, when they finally come to me, they're like, yeah, like I've done this over the last five years and I'm just like I keep wanting it yeah and I'll do it for a little bit, and then I just get to where I want to be, and then life will get in the way and yeah it inhibits them.
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It's like they take a step and then they fall back down and they take a step and they fall back down.
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They take a step and they fall back down, and that is really demotivating.
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Yeah, versus like taking that step even if they're not, you know, taking that next step immediately.
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They're at least staying there right and then can take the next step.
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Yeah, can take the next step and I bet that is definitely what one girlfriend saying to the other girlfriend you know what I mean she was being able to be.
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Can chandler was saying to jacklyn just clarification here that you know she did that consistency and then she found that creative way of enjoying it and so she was trying to, I think, articulate that Now that we're talking about it, I'm like oh, this is what she was talking about, Even though none of us were actually saying those words that she was trying to motivate Jacqueline Because she even said.
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She said, hey, I have Peloton, I'll let you use my login, you can do any of the other workouts whatever you want.
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And Jacqueline's like oh, I use my mom's Beach Body On Demand or whatever, and I do those videos.
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It's just more about I'm just not consistent.
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Like I'll do it for a couple weeks and then I'll stop and that might.
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And now I'm going to go back and I'll be like hey, actually, maybe you should give that a try.
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Like, maybe that's the thing that you just need to change, maybe you need to get creative with it.
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It might be the thing that makes you stick to it for an extra week or consistently, you know, no matter what.
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And so I love that you've articulated, wrapping that around, of that conversation that we were all having this morning, where no real like specific words were being used to say, hey, this might be the thing you need.
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Right, right and that I think that's that swing and balance.
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So we've talked before about, you know, the person that needs to like notice the grindstone, just keep doing what you're doing, versus the person who needs to make the overhaul.
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Yes.
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And they're different places, right?
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I think it's the same thing, right?
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Like, if you're just starting, you can still have that creative spark.
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But as soon as you have that creative spark, as soon as that thing hits where you're like got feeling, maybe I should do this.
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Yes, stop thinking about it, do it, just stop thinking about it and be disciplined with doing it for as long as you possibly can.
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The longer the better, absolutely even right.
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Most of the time we don't do it long enough, right?
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Most time it's like a week max, like maybe a month.
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But if you're like, you know what, I've had enough.
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I've had this feeling that I need to, I need a good trainer.
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I've had this feeling.
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I mean, somebody's been telling me I need to get a massage.
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I haven't been doing it and I really I think I need to do it and saying you know what, I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it every week.
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I'm going to be consistent.
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I'm going to be consistent with it no matter what, and just detach from the outcome of it.
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Yeah that.
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Okay, we had that slight bit of creativity.
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Now we need to embrace the monotony, we need to move into just just grinding for a little while, because if you don't do it, you're never going to actually get the full force of that creativity.
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You're never going to you're going to reach the potential of that creativity right if you don't crank up the discipline, you crank up the monotony what's got to be a catalyst for you you might have it as a catalyst and that's fine.
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But as soon as you've had that gut feeling, it means it's meaningful like something you don't need to understand all of it.
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You don't need to understand science if you want to, is you want to dive into it, if you want to study it, if you absolutely.
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All that stuff is bonus, I think I just love that you said you know we got to pause here.
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I just love that.
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You said if you have that gut instinct, that is something meaningful.
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Guys, just think about that.
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If you have that gut instinct to do something and it's consistently like popping into your life, it's a meaningful thing, it's trying to create consistency.
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I mean, like I think about.
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I think about that's conviction right there, like I'm like I don't know if I should be listening to this episode I'm just like you know it.
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It makes sense because if it's consistently popping up in my mind, for whatever reason, yeah it.
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It means that it needs to take place in my life somehow.
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Yeah, um, it doesn't mean that I have to like, change everything about my life.
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It may just mean it's like it just means I need to make a few phone calls to some people I've been thinking about, right, right, that I haven't talked to them.
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Maybe I need to make a point to talk to them more frequently, right, yeah, but it's consistently coming up because it's trying to manifest its consistency in my life.
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Yeah, and so, if you know, if you find that like you have that gut feeling, you need to crank up the monotony in that, and that doesn't sound fun.
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It's not a sexy way to say it.
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No, I mean, you know, you ruined the whole episode by just letting us know and reminding us of hard work that we're about to have to put in.
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Who doesn't love just the creative part?
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Well, that's the tough part, right?
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It's because it's so easy to be creative if you have a bunch of ideas.
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That is the fun part.
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It's fun to dream, it's fun to do all those things, but nothing will ever come to fruition if you don't, like you said earlier, take action on it and then be willing to take that action over and over and over again without needing to see the fruits of that action.
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Not having to see that hill.
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Right, it's like.
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I mean it's the same.
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A fruit tree is the perfect.
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Another perfect example of something that, like you have to have the seed.
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Yep.
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Put in the ground and then watch it and wait and baby it and every day give it a little bit of water, make sure it's got plenty of sun, making sure.
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Finally, when you get that little sprout out of the soil, you're like, oh my gosh, that's exciting.
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We ain't anywhere close to fruit yet.
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We got years not like that.
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You gotta protect it from other all, the outside all the thing is trying to pull the life away from it, right, so why wouldn't that exist also in us?
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yeah, but you know we have to give it that amount of time, and so maybe we think about this type of person because, as I was saying that, I was thinking, maybe the person that has so much going on in their life, so much monotony, that they can't have any, they don't have any time for creativity, right, right, maybe they, they got three kids, maybe they own a business I think about my clients who've had a hard time because they had so much other stuff and the only reason that they wake up to their health is because the doctor has finally said hey, you have to make a change.
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And I think, for you and me both, one of the reasons we make these are to help people not have to do that.
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Absolutely.
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You don't want to wake up at 50, 45, 50, 55 years old and be like shit.
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You know I got to make a change or I'm not going to make it to 65.
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Yeah, absolutely, you know.
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Yeah, so you know, I think it's easy for people in their 30s and early 40s especially, to get some busiest time of your life.
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You have so much going on and so you're just trying to make it by every day, right, and you lose some of that creativity life, right?
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You have so much going on and so you're just trying to make it by every day, right, and you lose some of that creativity that way well, you're just, you're fully stuck in the monotony of other stuff and not yourself, yeah, and so how would you break that?
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like, how would you get a person?
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Because we've talked about like fitness being the one selfish thing that you actually should put on, oh right, I don't know if did you listen to the one selfish thing that you actually should put on out?
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Right, I don't know if did you listen to the one with stewart walker?
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We had stewart stewart on that was one of the things that he talked about, that he discovered after having suffering from depression and in a person that was around fitness for a long time and he's got three awesome kids, but two of them have severe autism.
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That's a big thing to have to live with in your life.
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That's a major responsibility.
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You know, I'm definitely empathize with his feelings of.
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You know, I'm sure he had so many feelings of helplessness.
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There is depression.
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So how he overcame that was the conclusion of recognizing that like he had to put himself first physically right so that he could be the strongest father for his family and for his kids, right?
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And so how do you have any idea, like, how you didn't have somebody break that monotony of all the other stuff?
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It's very interesting that you asked me this question because I would definitely be that person that falls into this category, guys.
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He knows why he's asking.
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I'm that person that definitely could live that rigid, monotony life.
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I would also just say you know backstory here.
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I grew up in a very military household and so some of those things are just innately ingrained in me.
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And so good question For me and maybe for a lot of people unless you're not actively trying to be aware of this monotony that you've put yourself in or into the space of creativity because I would definitely say I'm more of an analytical, like realist, kind of mindset.
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I'm not that creative type sometimes.
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So if you're not actively seeking that or being aware of your monotony and just all the things, uh, a lot of times it's gonna be moments of big change, whether you want them or not.
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This, this being mine, guys um, where it really has forced me to have to look at some of these monotonous things that I do and also really discover that some of them don't serve me anymore and that's going to just be part of life in general, but definitely in health, wellness and fitness.
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Sometimes, eventually, something doesn't necessarily serve you, but you may still be in that monotonous habit of keeping it.
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Yeah, you know, and if, if you, if guys go listen to the, to the buckets, the gratitude buckets or the fuck buckets, however you want to call it fuck buckets.
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2024 baby well, if you listen to that you know that you're only gonna have so many buckets and and if my buckets are overloaded and I probably don't even need a couple of these buckets, and I wasn't using any kind of awareness and I was just living in that monotony and I wasn't even applying any kind of creativity to make some fluid changes for growth moments like this, these big things, have made me have to sit with myself Right and go oh, dude, like I'm stressed, because I'm carrying three buckets I don't need yeah I'm being monotonous with things that are not, uh, progressing my health, wellness and fitness.
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And, more importantly, if our goal is to benefit our future self, and my future self now has to look different for a little human being.
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I have to be flexible, I have to be creative, I have to start thinking who is ariel going to be now?
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You know, uh, who is she now?
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What she's got to do daily to make those changes, and then who's she going to be in the future for her son?
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yeah uh, and I love talking about myself in third person.
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People think it's where it does, it's okay, um, but I I really I love that you asked me that question, put me on the spot there, because it is something that I've I've been thinking about, and so I would really, uh, encourage people to kind of look at that and see, oh, my goodness, am I?
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Uh am I carrying some buckets?
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Am I being monotonous with some things that I otherwise should have already gotten rid of and moved on from?
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Yeah, because monotony.
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I think we're discovering here that monotony can be a really good thing in certain areas and a really bad thing in other areas, where it can keep your tunnel vision, and that in and of itself can be a great thing if tunnel vision on a priority right.
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Can be a bad thing if your tunnel vision on something, because it's just something you've always done, right, right I think that comes from, in my case, being in seasoned.
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We wouldn't say that somebody in the very beginning needs to be too worried about that.
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But but as you are consistent with things, you might lose that creative mindset, you might take a back seat and just become monotonous.
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After 10 years of doing something, I think part of that may also just be like getting older having more responsibilities.
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Yeah right, absolutely yeah, like all my buckets, all my strands, all my things, yeah but.
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But, like I said, I don't need a couple of them, and offloading them has actually allowed me to go oh, here's my buckets for him.
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You know what I mean whereas I was like, where do I put these buckets?
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yeah, he has to have his own buckets.
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I don't know what.
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You know what I mean.
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I was like how am I gonna carry all this?
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I was like man.
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I am not Mulan, I do not.
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I can't put the buckets on my back, and you know I can't do that, and so I think it's great that you asked me that.
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Well, I think you answered that in a perfect way, because and I think we talked about this before is that you know that change is usually scary, especially really big change.
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And if we can't learn how to embrace change, when change happens to us, inevitably it's even scarier because it's so unknown.
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And I think that's what people are so anxious about nowadays is because we want everything to be sunshine and rainbows and awesome all the time, and life isn't like that.
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There's a whole nother topic.
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But instead of thinking about it with that anxious mindset of saying like, oh my god, like I have this change that's coming, no matter what and I have no control over it, yes, it's happening, it's happening instead of saying you know, or maybe you know, maybe for a moment you felt that like where I'm?
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Am I going to put these buckets?
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Yeah.
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But instead of just saying, stuck there and frantic and trying to figure out how to place all these buckets in a way that you know it might look good on paper or it might seem doable on paper but inevitably would have failed or been so overwhelming that it might have broken you right you looked at it as an opportunity to say I'm in the next evolutionary step here.
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I need to shed these things, I need to get rid of these things.
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And that is an opportunistic mindset of saying it's not that I have to sacrifice these things, it's I have this opportunity to add all this wonderful new things and and just that some of them didn't serve me anymore.
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Anyways, in the beginning I was overwhelmed thinking that they still did.
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And you know, when you take a look at it and you're like, oh, but this, this doesn't correlate with who my future self is even going to be Right.
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Or this daily thing that I'm doing is only adding busyness to my day.
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It's not purposeful, it's not intentional, it's not necessary, it doesn't serve me.
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And again, it just feels like you're doing something.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and I think I think again.
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For me, I had to have a moment of big change, but I would really encourage people not to wait till that moment.
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I would encourage you to kind of spit time where you evaluate yourself, even if it's every couple of months going OK.
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Am I falling into that trap of that monotony?
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Am I that person that needs to get a little more creative?
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Do I need to shed some of my buckets?
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Do I need to pick up some new buckets, and and what that's going to look like moving forward.
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Yeah, I'm the same way.
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I wouldn't say necessarily wait around, but I do my best work on my backs against the wall, like when I'm forced into big change, right.
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And so I've learned for myself that I need to bring that on myself.
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Yeah, I need to seek forcing change.
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Yeah, instead of trying to, you know, I make small adjustments, I would say, like on the weekly of, like priority-wise, like just like logistically.
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I don't think that's the same thing as what we're talking about here.
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I think that you know, for big stuff, right, you know, I, I, if I find the idea, and I'm really that convicted about this thing, at that point I'm gonna force the change to happen.
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And then we're gonna, we're gonna see what happens.
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Yeah, right, and it doesn't always work out for me, but hey, like for me, I found that I have to force it to happen, because if I sit there and teeter and think about it more and more and more and more and try to like squeeze it in it, it's never enough.
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I've never committed enough to the change and inevitably I just go back to the comfortable self that I was right and you fall back into those, like those you know busy work, the things that you know, make you feel like, hey, I'm, I'm doing something, but you're not really doing anything.
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You know, yeah, um, so maybe that's how people do it, maybe that's how they, if they find themselves in the monotony of it is like force yourself into making a big change.
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I don't know if there's a recommendation right of what we could say I mean, for I think it's gonna look different for everybody, totally, totally.
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But like health, health, fitness wise, like what could a big change be?
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Would that be like?
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I mean some people doing something you've never done right something you've never done changing your environment completely, making that massive big change, forcing yourself to be uncomfortable.
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Changing your environment, changing your environment.
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We've had people.
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Brian Delaney is a good example.
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He literally had to move states.
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That's a great podcast.
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Great podcast.
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Go listen to him, guys and his journey in cycling.
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But what did he do?
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He literally was unhappy, depressed, depressed married man that was like I have to move states.
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Yeah, this man moved states.
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I mean, that's a big environmental change.
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He pushed himself up against the wall.
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He made those massive changes.
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And stay tuned for part two because, uh, she has big news we're gonna get them back on and we're gonna get him back on and it's so.
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Talk about the evolution of change.
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That was his big thing that he needed to do, and even after his injury, it's amazing what he's his story, that he's continuing to get to share it well so, yeah, I think I like that a lot.
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I found, um, in regards to changing your environment, you know that could could be joining gym, could be getting a coach, whether that's in a gym or to come to you like the people in your environment as well, yeah, like you could change the environment itself.
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You could change the people, yeah.
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So I'll give you an example of something I've done recently that I didn't even realize was happening, but now I am fruiting the enjoyment of it, and so the enjoyment and I think I'm fruiting that reward so early, just because I know that change is good for me in certain ways, it also helps that I just like physical activity, but I've taken a pickleball is good for me in certain ways it also helps that I just like physical activity, right, but I I've taken a pickleball, and so I've been if you.
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I know you've taken a pickleball I'm playing with brian uh, but I I've been a big ultimate player since I was in high school.
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I fell in love with it and for a long that has been my cardio outlet.
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It's been my competitive outlet.
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It's been a huge piece of my life that I use for multiple different reasons, especially since I moved to Northwest Arkansas and didn't know as many people for that period of time.
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But I stuck with it and it's not that I dislike it now, right, I just found myself in a season where I haven't been utilizing it as much, right, and it kind of sucks.
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But I also kind of don't really want to do it for right now, whether it's just it's hot outside, like it doesn't work great with my schedule, and so there's these reasons that I'm sort of resisting it yeah and part of that's just the season.
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Yeah, the actual like hot as hell yes, I don't want to be outside in season and when we play it, just it just doesn't coincide with that.
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And so, you know, for a while I hear about people playing pickleball.
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I was was kind of like, oh, it's kind of goofy, it's like, you know, is it really like, is it really that intense, like, is it really going to be that fun?
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And so finally I was like, screw it, I'm going to do it, yeah, I'm going to get in.
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I ordered the paddles and the way I did it actually was a client asked me to play, asked me to play, and I was like, sure, yeah, I'll go play with you.
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Now I have even more of a reason to push myself into this environmental change.
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Of course I, I love it, it's fun, it's awesome, right, and this is not a ad for pickleball.
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I'm just saying, yeah, like I get, I'm getting all this benefit from a new sport, a new game, a new competition, something that with new people new people, new people themselves.
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Yeah, also like going from heavy team sport to a more single person sport, or just maybe one other person.
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Yeah, um, I'm finding it really rewarding and really fun for reasons other than why I play ultimate yeah, that's beautiful and that's taken just kind of forcing myself into, yeah, that environmental shift well, I think.
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I think you continue to say that because you know yourself well enough that you need to sometimes force change in yourself back up and install.
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I would say mine looked a little different because once again, I had to have a big event happen in my life for me to stop focus on running, and that was the inability to run.
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And then, all of a sudden, I invested even more energy into bodybuilding.
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And how much I loved bodybuilding, you know, or I really actually found a love for.
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I know this sounds crazy.
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There are workout classes, guys.
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They are workout classes for pole dancing and if you have upper body strength.
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Are they workout classes there?
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No, they are.
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They are, and if you have upper body strength and mobility because you should be a gymnast, I just excel at it.
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Naturally I wasn't sure, I was a little hesitant, not really my environment choice, because you are allowed to wear just kind of skimpy environment clothes in this environment, but also they serve a purpose.
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You need your skin on the pole.
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There's like a lot of it's a very vulnerable setting it really much is, and so I was a little worried.
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But then I took to it naturally, and I never really thought that I would enjoy something as much as I enjoyed running, but it fulfilled something in me a physical activity that I could do and made me feel confident and made me feel strong that I was able to do these things.
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And so, again, I had to be placed in a position where I had to remove an activity from my life because of inability to do it.
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But I definitely would encourage people to be more aware and not wait till the moments like I've had to have in life Sounds like I'm very stubborn at this point.
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In that case, guys, I think we're wrapping.
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Yeah, I think we're wrapping up.
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You know, I think you've learned all you need to know today.
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Well, you know, and I think because we started the episode, we started our first like official video episode actually talking about our podcast and the steps that we need to take, and we're kind of ending it thinking that you know how the environments change and change how you do certain things and how that can affect your ability to be consistent and hopefully for the better, right Right, your ability to be consistent and hopefully for for the better, right right, so that you can continue to find those next little evolutionary steps, so you can continue to climb your mountain and actually make progress and the things that you want to make progress, and especially in regards to your health and wellness.
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And like I think about it and we've gone from y'all haven't seen it, but recording in a little tiny conference room with a curtain up, yes, uh, yes you know, antagonistically trying to win over an argument with each other, to sitting in this really awesome lounge yeah just having a really good conversation about how we can all be better and do better and feel better in our lives, and, you know, I think that that's in and of itself.
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Us being in here is a beautiful thing and wonderful yeah it's very rewarding.
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So go find your rewards, guys.
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Hopefully this podcast has helped you kind of sit with yourself, figure out the evolution of change and where your life has been, where it's at, and where it's headed.
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Thanks for joining us.
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We'll see you in the next one.
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