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What is up guys?

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Welcome back to the homework assignment podcast.

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I'm your host RJ Petino and here we are yet again with an awesome episode prepared for

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you today.

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So I'm hoping everybody's having a great first couple of weeks of 2024.

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Our last episode we talked a little bit about goal setting and accomplishing those goals

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and the effort and dedication that it takes to actually make things happen in your life.

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So to go along with that and some of you may be experiencing this as we speak, the world

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or I guess the way the world works is people, what's that?

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What's that saying?

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Misery loves company.

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I think that's what it is, right?

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Misery loves company.

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So people tend to, without even knowing it, begin to try to get people to back down, to

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stop, to reroute them, if you will, on the path that they're currently on.

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And it's very important that you, somebody who's trying to improve their life, change

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their lifestyle, change their regimen, it's very important for you to understand and recognize

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that as you begin to move up the ladder.

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The hardest part about this, which I've talked about this a little bit, is that sometimes

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it's the people closest to you.

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And a lot of times people will have advice for you, you know, loved ones, friends, and

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that advice may be like, hey, you know what, don't take that risk.

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That may not turn out very well and I care about you.

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I just want the best for you.

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I just don't think that's what you should do.

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Or hey, you need to be careful.

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You need to slow down a little bit.

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Hey, you're going to the gym every day and you just started.

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That's probably not the best idea.

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You could really hurt yourself.

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Things like that, although maybe coming from a loving state of mind, is all there to hold

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you back.

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It's to keep you from getting to where you want to go.

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And a lot of times this happens because people don't want to see you do stuff that you, or

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they know that they should be doing or that they have wanted to do and were not able to

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accomplish.

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I'm talking about this again because as it's the new year and as we have all these goals,

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there's going to be all these things that are going to be transpiring and happening

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in your life.

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There's going to be advice given.

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There's going to be groups of friends that are saying, hey, come hang out.

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No, don't go do that.

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You can do that another day.

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Come do this.

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And I want to bring that to life again in your guys' minds as it needs to be in all

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of our minds to be made aware of because that is the easiest thing to succumb to and allow

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yourself to justify not reaching your goals.

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Right?

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Right now, the gym is pretty packed.

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Time is packed.

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You got to wait turns to get the next machine that I'm going to, at least.

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And it's going to start dying off.

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Talked about this a couple of weeks back.

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It's going to start dying off.

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And those people are the people that you want to make sure that you don't surround yourself

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by.

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If you've got friends, if you've got family, if you've got coworkers that you can already

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tell they're starting to decline on these massive goals they set or on their goals that they're

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transpiring to accomplish, whether it's short-term, long-term, you kind of want to create a little

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bit of a distance.

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And that's crucial in the beginning because right now, if you haven't already had a momentum

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and you're just creating a momentum, it's even more important because it's that much

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easier for them to take you down with them.

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So try to recognize that.

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Try to identify.

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Keep your eyes open for, you know, on your surroundings.

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The groups of people you're hanging out with.

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Listen for the context of advice that's being given, the way they're saying it, how their

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body language is.

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And try to eliminate all negativity.

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Get negativity out of there.

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It's already hard enough to stay on track.

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It's already hard enough to stay motivated.

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It's already hard enough to keep your goals on top of mind.

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The last thing that you need is for people that you're surrounding yourself by, the settings

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that you're putting yourself in to be on a complete opposite scale of what you're trying

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to achieve.

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So with that being said, goals, we're two weeks in 2024.

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Everybody should have goals.

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Everybody's trying to reach them.

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Everything may be good.

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Your setting, your surrounding may be good.

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Maybe noticing some people dropping off.

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Make sure you stay alert.

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Make sure you stay aware.

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Get through this first quarter.

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It takes time to build a habit.

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Okay.

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Stick it out.

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Keep on going.

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If you've already failed, do not give up.

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Get back up.

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Keep on pushing and accomplish what you're shooting.

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You've set your mind to.

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You're going to be able to do it.

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Okay.

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Go find groups of people that are doing what you're doing.

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And most importantly, make sure that you guys are keeping track of what it is you're doing,

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your plan and all that fun stuff on a daily basis.

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Again, I'm reiterating a lot of stuff from the episode a couple weeks ago that we did

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for New Year's.

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And I may even reiterate more stuff when we have some of our guest speakers come aboard

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because we want to drill these things into our head and remind ourselves constantly of

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what to look out for, what to be aware of, and remind ourselves what we should be focused

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on because it's really easy to get off track.

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There's tons of distractions.

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And there's going to be even more coming as the New Year carries on.

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So stay focused.

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Don't be distracted.

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So a little short episode just to give us a reminder of what it means, what 2024 means

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to us, what our goals are, whether it's personal, financial, professional.

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And this is a year for everybody to improve their lives.

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This is a year for us to make a better life for ourselves, for our family, for our friends.

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And it's all up to you.

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Sound up to anybody else.

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It's up to you.

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If you don't do it, nobody will.

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So keep that in mind, guys.

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Again, we got a couple of guests.

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We're going to be featuring Brad Levitt with AFT.

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I believe on our next episode or the one after that, but it'll be in this January.

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So we're really excited for that.

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So announcements, we are going to be doing some awesome events or some awesome charity

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for some awesome foundations.

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You can find some information on our website to support us, support the foundations.

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We're going to be doing a school drive this year, which is going to be absolutely fantastic.

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So if you guys want to support, if you want to follow, if you want to aid us in giving

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back and helping solve or fight back against so many of the issues that are going on in

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this world, please go to our website, check out what we're doing.

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Follow all of our social medias.

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Go to YouTube, hit that bell.

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Make sure you subscribe and really keep track of what's going on because this year is going

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to be absolutely mind blowing.

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It's going to be fun and it's going to be exciting and we're going to make a huge difference

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in the world and we're going to change some lives.

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So tag along for the ride and thanks for joining.