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So I've been thinking a lot about goals and trying to achieve my goals. And I have all these different things that I want to do. I want to build
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machine into this big thing. I have this big these big plans of all this stuff, you know, create careers for my for my team and whoever is going to be on the
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team in the future. Create this cool thing for the graph community. Like, I want to do all of this kind of stuff. You know, I want to rescue a whole
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bunch of dogs. I want to get in much better shape. I want to do all these things. And it's hard to focus on all of those goals. I mean, you can't really focus
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on all of them at once, but you can kind of switch focus. But what I really wanted to talk about is something that Alex hermosi said, and it's like,
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instead of focusing on the goals, focus on the things you got to do every day, or becoming the person that does those things. I don't remember exactly
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how he worded it, so it might not be exactly right, but the way I'm looking at it is that it's like, it's, it's a little, there's, there's a lot of moving
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parts in the business, things. But with the the health and fitness and all that shit, it's a pretty we all know what we're supposed to do. You know, you
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got to eat healthy and exercise in some way. And, you know, obviously there's a lot of different things. Like, if you want to be a bodybuilder,
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there's different shit you got to do and all this kind of stuff. And I'm not going to get into any of that. But if you just want to get in better
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shape, or if you want to lose weight, let's say, let's say, if I was like, I want to lose 20 pounds, you know, if, let's say I was starting right now, and,
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you know, I say, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna eat healthy every day. I'm gonna exercise. It could take quite a while before I start to see any
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results from that. So I could, I could exercise, eat healthy, and then the next day I get on the scale, you're not going to see any difference. You might not
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even see any difference for like, six weeks. Sometimes, depending on what you're trying to do it, it's one of those things, or all of these, like
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goals that you want to accomplish, like things that are things that are really meaningful. They often are like that. They take a long time. Not
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only that, do they take a long time to achieve, but it's like the results come slow, you know? So it's easy to get discouraged. Let's say for like, three weeks,
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you're exercising, you're doing all the shit you know you're supposed to do, you're drinking water, you're doing all these things you're getting on the
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scale every day, you're looking in the mirror and you're not seeing any changes. That's kind of where a lot of people fall off, because they're like, Man,
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I'm not seeing any changes. I get discouraged. You're super focused on that end thing. You're like, I want to be in this shape. I want a six pack,
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or I want whatever. And that's where your focus is. But the way that Alex was talking about it, and what I like about it, is like, if you set the goal to
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become the person that does the shit that they need to do in order to get you to be the person that you want to be, then you can achieve that right now.
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You can achieve that today, right now, you can start doing the shit that you know need, you need to do. So instead of, like, focusing on that thing that's
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way out in the future, if you're focusing on that shit every single day, you're gonna get there, and it's less discouraging, because, like, at
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the end of the day, if you did the shit that you said you were gonna do, and that's your goal. Your goal is to, you know, I don't know, for me, it would be
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something like walk for 20 minutes in the morning, followed by like, 15 to 20 minutes of intense workouts, like fucking kettlebells or some shit. And,
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you know, eating healthier, staying below a certain calorie, with this much protein, whatever. I don't want to get into this. I'm not super you
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know, it's, it's not important. But if you have all these goals and these things that you I'm sorry, if you have all these daily tasks and that's your
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goal, then that's something you can achieve right now, and you'll get that instant gratification. And then I was reading this book recently while
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I was listening to audio of it. It's called the 5am club. I don't know if I'd recommend it or not, but, you know, listen to a free sample and see but, but
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anyway, they did say something that I was thinking about, and I they said that, um, that if you stick with something for 66 days, like so if you say in
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their thing, they have this, like, morning routine. I'm, I'm just getting to that part. So it's not really top of mind, but 20, it's, it's mainly like 20
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minutes, if I remember right? It's 20 minutes of exercise, then 20 minutes of like reflection or something like that. So it could be meditation
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or all these kind of things, and then 20 minutes of like learning or growth, so you could read or all you know, whatever, listen to a you know, educational
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content or. Something like that. So those are the 320 things. And so what they're talking about is, like, it's going to take 66 days before that's, like,
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solidified as a habit. I've heard other I've heard other other numbers, like, I heard 21 at one point. But 66 is an interesting number because I
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don't know. It's like, popped up a bunch of times, like, a lot of times when I'm doing running numbers for like, sticker shit, like the number 66 comes up kind
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of regularly. So I don't know. Maybe there's something to that. I'm not sure. But let's say you take that. Let's say you believe that. Okay, I'm gonna set the
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goal to be to do the things that the person I want to be would do. So I want to be in better shape. So I'm going to set the goal to do this kind of
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exercise. I'm going to eat this style, however it is that you want to do. That's my goal. As long as I accomplish accomplish that every day, then I know I'm
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moving towards that goal. So like at the end of the end of the day, you're going to get that instant gratification, because every day you get to
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win, and you're not super hyper focused on this end result. That's going to take a while before you see things. And I have a feeling the time will go
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by faster if you're if all you're focused on is winning each day. That's what I like about the power list. But the other thing I like about the 66
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days thing is, like, when you think about your life, like, 66 days is not really that much time you know you're it'll be gone before you know it. So,
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like, let's say you you set up a set up a thing that you want to do, and you're like, I'm going to commit to doing this for 66 days. By the time you're you're
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that far into it. At day 66 you're gonna be like, that's gonna be part of your life, you know, like, you already have shit that you were doing in that
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time. Like, a lot of people wake up and the first thing they do is they start scrolling on social media and shit like that. Like, so you already have those
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habits. I mean, you may not have that habit, but you already have things that you do every day. Like, I get up every day and I I drink a cup of coffee, and now,
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like, as soon as I get up, like, I don't even think about it, I just head right over, I scoop out the coffee, I start just making it. It's not even a
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decision anymore. And what if, after 66 days, the first thing I do when I get up is work out, by the time 66 days is up, I'm not going to be like, that'll be so
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solidified into my life that, like, there's no way I'm going to stop doing it. So anyway, probably took longer than it needed to say this, but if you,
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if you make the the action that you have to do every day, the goal, I think it's gonna be a lot easier than if you're sitting here focused on
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something that's way out in the future. Anyway, hope that's helpful, and I'll see you next time.
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All right, appreciate each and every one of you guys who are supporting the cause and continue to spread the love and yeah, stay up.