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Quit Moving the Starting Line
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Released:
Oct 26, 2020
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You want to know day it is? It's Monday and you know what we're gonna talk about today? Not moving the starting line. No matter when you're listening to this, I'm going to give you some energy through osmosis, energy to begin energy to start, energy,to play the game. You cannot. I repeat, you cannot win a game that you never start playing. You cannot win a race before you start running it. You need to be able to start the race, to win it or play the game to have a chance to win. And all too often, it's easy to get sucked up into the distraction of perfection. I have to do it this way, but what about this? And what about this? And I didn't think about this. And I do that and Instagram said this and Facebook said this and this book said this and all this bullshit.There will forever be an unlimited amount of excuses reasons or distractions to not start. It's the enemy of progress. There's a reason that we iterate. There is a reason that products are updated. There's a reason that we make adjustments. There's a reason that we change things. It's we put something into motion. We start and then we adjust as needed to make it successful. The example I always give, if I said, Hey, you're listening to this right now, or you're watching this right now. I'm going to give you a brand new iPhone. I'm gonna give you a brand new iPhone. And you're like, yeah, cool. I'm like, cool, you got two choices. You get the new iPhone 12 or you get iPhone 1, which one do you want? And if you're like most people, cause the one smart ass would take the iPhone 1 but the other 99 would take the iPhone 12. You take the iPhone 12, but the iPhone 12 would not exist if iPhone one was never created, it was created. It was large, low battery life, janky software, no tech compared to what it is now. And then it improved and it improved and it improved and it improved. And then the company hits a trillion dollars of cash or something stupid like that because they started the race.And so today, as you think about it, think about your life. Think about your business. Think about your fitness. Think about your health. Think about your sleep. Think about anything. And what does that one thing. What's that one starting line that you've moved. What is that one starting line that no matter how many times you say it, declare it or talk about it only ever gets talked about and never actually crossed.So you can't get to a destination unless you start. And you have to start. So today is about starting. I want you to start. I want you to pick something. You want to lose weight, you haven't worked out in six months today. Go on a five minute walk. You want to wake up tomorrow morning. You want to get up early at 5:00 AM. The alarm goes off, sit up, get up because you're going to put your alarm on the other side of the room. And I don't even care if you go back to bed, but make sure you're up for at least 10 minutes and you make progress. You have to start somewhere and you have to play the game. You can only win the race. If you actually start. Running it.And so I have a couple of tips for you. I found this awesome article on this website called productive club. Number one is, do not emphasize on future specific dates. I'll start this Monday. I'll start this Saturday. I'll do this next month. No, do it now. Or don't do it. Do it now. Or don't do it. Don't fool yourself or trick yourself or let your brain trick you out of doing it by making it into the future. You only have right now, do it right now.Number two, use David Goggins cookie jar method. Goggins says you make a mental note of all your triumphs and victories in advance. Literally things you haven't accomplished. I'm going to run a hundred mile race. Great. Put it in a cookie jar, like a sticky note in a jar. And when you're getting down or you don't have that fleeting thought that everyone says you should have motivation because motivation doesn't exist commitment does. You grab it out of the cookie jar and you read i
Released:
Oct 26, 2020
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