What is up guys?
Welcome back to the homework assignment podcast.
I'm your host RJ Petino and here we are yet again with an awesome episode prepared for
you today.
So I'm hoping everybody's having a great first couple of weeks of 2024.
Our last episode we talked a little bit about goal setting and accomplishing those goals
and the effort and dedication that it takes to actually make things happen in your life.
So to go along with that and some of you may be experiencing this as we speak, the world
or I guess the way the world works is people, what's that?
What's that saying?
Misery loves company.
I think that's what it is, right?
Misery loves company.
So people tend to, without even knowing it, begin to try to get people to back down, to
stop, to reroute them, if you will, on the path that they're currently on.
And it's very important that you, somebody who's trying to improve their life, change
their lifestyle, change their regimen, it's very important for you to understand and recognize
that as you begin to move up the ladder.
The hardest part about this, which I've talked about this a little bit, is that sometimes
it's the people closest to you.
And a lot of times people will have advice for you, you know, loved ones, friends, and
that advice may be like, hey, you know what, don't take that risk.
That may not turn out very well and I care about you.
I just want the best for you.
I just don't think that's what you should do.
Or hey, you need to be careful.
You need to slow down a little bit.
Hey, you're going to the gym every day and you just started.
That's probably not the best idea.
You could really hurt yourself.
Things like that, although maybe coming from a loving state of mind, is all there to hold
you back.
It's to keep you from getting to where you want to go.
And a lot of times this happens because people don't want to see you do stuff that you, or
they know that they should be doing or that they have wanted to do and were not able to
accomplish.
I'm talking about this again because as it's the new year and as we have all these goals,
there's going to be all these things that are going to be transpiring and happening
in your life.
There's going to be advice given.
There's going to be groups of friends that are saying, hey, come hang out.
No, don't go do that.
You can do that another day.
Come do this.
And I want to bring that to life again in your guys' minds as it needs to be in all
of our minds to be made aware of because that is the easiest thing to succumb to and allow
yourself to justify not reaching your goals.
Right?
Right now, the gym is pretty packed.
Time is packed.
You got to wait turns to get the next machine that I'm going to, at least.
And it's going to start dying off.
Talked about this a couple of weeks back.
It's going to start dying off.
And those people are the people that you want to make sure that you don't surround yourself
by.
If you've got friends, if you've got family, if you've got coworkers that you can already
tell they're starting to decline on these massive goals they set or on their goals that they're
transpiring to accomplish, whether it's short-term, long-term, you kind of want to create a little
bit of a distance.
And that's crucial in the beginning because right now, if you haven't already had a momentum
and you're just creating a momentum, it's even more important because it's that much
easier for them to take you down with them.
So try to recognize that.
Try to identify.
Keep your eyes open for, you know, on your surroundings.
The groups of people you're hanging out with.
Listen for the context of advice that's being given, the way they're saying it, how their
body language is.
And try to eliminate all negativity.
Get negativity out of there.
It's already hard enough to stay on track.
It's already hard enough to stay motivated.
It's already hard enough to keep your goals on top of mind.
The last thing that you need is for people that you're surrounding yourself by, the settings
that you're putting yourself in to be on a complete opposite scale of what you're trying
to achieve.
So with that being said, goals, we're two weeks in 2024.
Everybody should have goals.
Everybody's trying to reach them.
Everything may be good.
Your setting, your surrounding may be good.
Maybe noticing some people dropping off.
Make sure you stay alert.
Make sure you stay aware.
Okay.
Get through this first quarter.
It takes time to build a habit.
Okay.
Stick it out.
Keep on going.
If you've already failed, do not give up.
Get back up.
Keep on pushing and accomplish what you're shooting.
You've set your mind to.
You're going to be able to do it.
Okay.
Go find groups of people that are doing what you're doing.
And most importantly, make sure that you guys are keeping track of what it is you're doing,
your plan and all that fun stuff on a daily basis.
Again, I'm reiterating a lot of stuff from the episode a couple weeks ago that we did
for New Year's.
And I may even reiterate more stuff when we have some of our guest speakers come aboard
because we want to drill these things into our head and remind ourselves constantly of
what to look out for, what to be aware of, and remind ourselves what we should be focused
on because it's really easy to get off track.
There's tons of distractions.
And there's going to be even more coming as the New Year carries on.
So stay focused.
Don't be distracted.
So a little short episode just to give us a reminder of what it means, what 2024 means
to us, what our goals are, whether it's personal, financial, professional.
And this is a year for everybody to improve their lives.
This is a year for us to make a better life for ourselves, for our family, for our friends.
And it's all up to you.
Sound up to anybody else.
It's up to you.
If you don't do it, nobody will.
So keep that in mind, guys.
Again, we got a couple of guests.
We're going to be featuring Brad Levitt with AFT.
I believe on our next episode or the one after that, but it'll be in this January.
So we're really excited for that.
So announcements, we are going to be doing some awesome events or some awesome charity
for some awesome foundations.
You can find some information on our website to support us, support the foundations.
We're going to be doing a school drive this year, which is going to be absolutely fantastic.
So if you guys want to support, if you want to follow, if you want to aid us in giving
back and helping solve or fight back against so many of the issues that are going on in
this world, please go to our website, check out what we're doing.
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Make sure you subscribe and really keep track of what's going on because this year is going
to be absolutely mind blowing.
It's going to be fun and it's going to be exciting and we're going to make a huge difference
in the world and we're going to change some lives.
So tag along for the ride and thanks for joining.