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All right, guys, welcome to this episode of Technically Short.

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And in this episode, I'm talking about habits, talking about good habits, talking about bad

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habits, and really talking about how good habits when they are intentionally sought

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after, how they contribute to your calling and a more fulfilled life.

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So get your pen out, get your pencil, get your whatever you write with in your paper

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and let's dive in.

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All right.

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All right, guys, let's dive into it.

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So in this episode, we're talking about reprogramming your mind with habits.

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We're talking about why habits are important and how they contribute to a whenever you

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really hone in on your habits, how they contribute to a better life overall.

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So first, if you haven't already, give this podcast a like review, a follow on whether

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I'd really appreciate it.

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So you know, last episode, we talked about how patience is only a virtue, but it's a

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necessity.

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It was actually our last point.

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If you missed it, you can go back and go back to that.

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Now we're reading that we're going on and we're talking about another necessity.

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Good habits.

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Now these are necessities are only a necessity if you really want to pursue your calling.

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So if you don't really want to pursue your calling, then maybe you don't necessarily

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need good habits.

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But I mean, I feel like the people are listening to this episode are people that want to pursue

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their calling.

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So let's keep going.

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So reprogramming your mind, what does it mean?

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It means to learn new beneficial habits and unlearning bad ones.

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That last part is pretty important, but we're mainly going to stick to good habits because

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I think the flip side of bad habits is kind of self-explanatory.

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Maybe we dive into a little bit, but we'll see.

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So talking about like, I want to like give you a little bit of insight of like why I'm

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bringing this up at all.

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Why are habits important to talk about and why are they important to me?

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And so like for a while I've talked to, I've said to people like I'm a creature of habit,

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I'm a creature of routine and really is what I would say, like I love my, I'm routine based.

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And the one thing I really was like not really thinking about too much was how everybody

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really is the same way in that respect.

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Like everybody is habitual person.

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Everybody is a creature of habit.

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And it's so like this, me talking about this isn't just something that I'm talking about

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to benefit myself.

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It's something that I let myself dive.

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I was able to dive into a little bit deeper so that I could make this episode.

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But also I know it will benefit everyone that's listening because we're all habitual people.

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So habits are literally what we like.

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They're our lives.

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So let's keep going.

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Before my current trial that I'm going through, my trial of pain, I was already kind of working

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on a foundation, which I didn't know was my foundation, but I was working on a foundation

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of habits.

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I was eating, I was working on eating healthy and working out, talking with friends, meeting

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up with people as often as I could.

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I didn't know that these habits were going to be my baseline, even though I felt like

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it was like really what I was meant to be.

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I was on a good path.

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I think they were just the baseline.

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But now when I'm in this current trial and I can't do all the things I could before,

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I'm so happy that I started when I did because now it makes it so much easier to prioritize

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my day to day because I don't have the same capacity that everybody does.

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I have the same time, the same 24 hours, but I don't have the same physical capacity.

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So the things I really want to do, the easiest way to make sure that they get done is by

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intentionally instantiating these habits.

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So I'm going to dive into some personal habits, some good habits I've instantiated, some good

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habits that I think help others as well.

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And then I'm going to talk about why good habits are important at all.

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And I feel like people are like going to think it's obvious that they're important, but not

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I don't think a lot of people have usually dive into why they're important.

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And I kind of so I want to kind of go and I deep dive with you.

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Then I have a little excerpt from my Maxwell leadership Bible that I have where he was

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talking from Achilles, Ecclesiastes to I practice saying that before this recording and it worked

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out pretty well.

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And we're going to dive into something from that.

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And then very, very briefly talk about the four laws of behavior change I learned about

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in the book, Atomic Habits.

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I say very briefly because I want to actually eventually do a full episode on that book.

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So let's dive into good habits.

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And the habit is beneficial to your calling.

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So some of the things I started before were things to do like whenever I want to clean

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the fish tank, I would leave the door open to the stand of the fish tank so that every

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time I entered the room where the fish tank was, I would be reminded on that that day

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I needed to clean the fish tank.

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So it's like those small little reminders.

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Like that was a habit I instantiated habit I created just so I would remember to do this

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and do something that needed to get done.

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And the same thing can apply to a book that I want to read, leaving it in the same spot

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and reading in the same spot every day.

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So that, and that's still something I'm working on, just to be honest with you guys, I'm not

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perfect at it and it's something I really want to get back into.

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So that's something reading a book for growing wisdom and growing knowledge is really what

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I'm talking about.

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So why are good habits important?

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So in my life and hopefully in your life too, if you haven't instantiated the habits, good

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habits as well, in my life, they've contributed to healthier living, learning my limits, increasing

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my productivity, building a stronger relationship with God, and honestly just making me a happy,

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making me happier and less stressed and it allows me to have a higher expectation on

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my life or expectation on myself, I should say.

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So with like healthier living and it's like vacuuming the same time every day, which helps

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me same time every week, which helps me live in a healthier environment.

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Working out the same time every day helps me manage my physical health.

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Eating healthy whole foods and cooking most of my meals helps me to make sure my body

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is fueled with the right things.

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Like things like learning my limits, like you know, I talked about in the last episode,

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my physical limits mean I can only work on a certain tasks for so long each day, which

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helps me prioritize my tasks and my habits.

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And without really knowing that, like I would know without habit, without really knowing

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about my habits, I would know that I have physical limits, but I wouldn't be thinking

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about how I can be prioritizing my time in my capacity in a way that really, really utilizes

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it to the highest benefit that I can get out of it.

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And then increase, and I want to actually stop real quick, that learning like your own

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limits is important too.

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And like my physical limits, you may have your physical limits too, not just like through

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strength, but maybe you're like me, you have a physical health condition.

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Like that's the important thing to think about, but also if you just have general limits,

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like we talked about in the last episode, like it limits in your understanding, limits

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in the time that everybody has.

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Like everybody has a limit of time.

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So like how can you instantiate habits to work within those constraints that we have?

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So then the next one was increasing my productivity, which I kind of touched on before in learning

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your limits.

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Like when you know where your time is going, it's a lot easier to tell where, sorry, this

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is something from a note.

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So when you know where your time is going, it's a lot easier to tell it where else to

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go and where to tell it where not to go.

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You want to stop watching TV for so long and start working on your side gig more?

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Well then you can, like, this is a very high level, it's not as easy as just doing this,

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but like you can, you know, you just remove the time that you're spending on watching

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TV and spend it on working on your side gig.

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Or spend it working out or spend it reading the book you want to read.

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And you just figure out what your priorities are when it comes to your calling.

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What are the things that are going to benefit you pursuing your calling the most?

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And if you don't know, whenever I talk about calling, I'm really telling you about that

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divine purpose that is on your life.

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Like what is your, like, whenever you're really thinking about the things that you want to

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be doing, like really ask yourself, why am I doing this thing?

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Why?

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That's a question I should have later on in this, in my notes, but it's like really asking

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yourself why am I doing the things that I'm doing?

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Why am I prioritizing the things I'm prioritizing?

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Whether the things I'm prioritizing aren't beneficial to me at all, or as beneficial

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as some other things could be that I could be prioritizing higher.

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And then the next thing I've really learned through habits is building a stronger relationship

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with my God.

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Getting into the word the same time every morning, it grows my understanding.

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It helps me line myself up for the have a great day.

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I really understand, like whenever I started reading, I've been reading it for like the

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same time every day for the last year, at least the last year, last two years.

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And I'm working through a full read of the Bible right now.

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And I am fully confident I'm going to get there because I know I'm going to read the

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Bible every day, even if it's just one chapter a day sometimes, on a day sometimes, because

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I know I want to get to work and start my work for my job the same time every day.

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So I can do that job, my job with excellence.

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I know that I'm going to finish.

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I know I can be expectant.

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I'm going to finish the Bible and read it from cover to cover because I sit down the

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same time every day and I read it and I just do it and I learn and I grow and I love it.

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And that's another thing about habits.

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I don't even have it in my notes, but it's a pretty obvious thing to bring up is that

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habits like it's something that you do consistently and almost like it gets to the point where

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if you don't do this thing, it feels wrong.

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And that's why like breaking a bad habit is so hard.

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It's because whenever you're not doing that thing, it feels so wrong not to do it.

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Even if it's watching TV.

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Believe me, I know I used to watch like five hours at TV every day, which is, you know,

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no, you're probably just like some people might just scoffed.

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They, but like all that time though, I took that most of that time and put it towards

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things that are now benefiting me because I understand, I realized that like what I was

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doing wasn't helping me.

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And like I had a guy whenever I was really first diving into my business, really whenever

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I was doing like freelance design, freelance web development, I had this guy, what is his

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name?

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Man, one second.

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His name is Ryan.

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His name is Ryan.

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I keep trying to remember his last name, but Cole, Ryan Cole, he told me he's like flat

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out, like, Hey, just stop watching TV.

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Stop watching Netflix.

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No more Netflix.

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I couldn't do it at the time.

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But then eventually it took me a while for that.

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Like that thought kept drilling into my mind.

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And eventually I was like, yeah, you know what?

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I deleted my Netflix account and like that time then was removed.

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I or that habit was removed forcibly from my life.

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Then I had to put that time towards something else because I no longer had Netflix as an

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option.

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Like how you break bad habits, you make them harder to do.

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So I know I'm kind of jumping around, but that's just really something that we really

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think about.

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And then so like, I don't know what, like, I want to say, like, whenever you get good

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habits into your life, you honestly just make yourself happier and less stressed because

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when you have your habits honed in, you know where your time is going, you know, and you're

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telling it where to go and where not to go.

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Like, you know, when, what things are going to get done and when they're going to get

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done.

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Like, you know, that every, I know every day I'm going to sit down and read my Bible.

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I read my Bible.

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I know I'm going to get, I'm going to get to the point where I'm going to sit down every

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day and know at what time I'm going to sit down and read the book I'm reading for reading

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for growth.

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And like, that's a really good feeling.

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If you haven't experienced that yet, I'm just going to say you should give it a try.

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You should give it, you should give it a little try.

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And like, it also allows, allows me whenever I have these, like my, I'm honed in on these

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goals, honed in on these habits.

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Like it allows me to have higher expectations on myself.

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Like when I know my limits, I have increased my productivity.

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I'm happier and less stressed.

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I can start to do more things that stretch me and contribute to my calling.

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Like, isn't that like, that's a really awesome feeling because we talked about in the last

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episode that you know your limits.

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So you can give some things off to other people.

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You can then create habits to, you know, to check in with these people, to make sure that

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they're on task.

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But then while they're working on what they're working on, they have the habits that they

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have instantiated, then your habits now can be a contribute, now can be attributed to

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a different part of your calling.

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So like it's, there's a, it's a whole, this whole system is meant to work in a very, I

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believe these systems are meant to work in a very particular way.

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Instantiate good habits, good things happen.

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So one of the things like with this podcast, there's like this whole, like having a podcast

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in itself is something that you have to have habits around.

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Like when do you, when I reach out to people, when I reach out to guests or people that

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could be guests, usually I reach out to people after, after work.

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Sometimes the habit is when I, how many times there is a habit of like, Oh, I just remembered

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that I want to reach out to this person.

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So I'm just going to do it right now.

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Like that's a habit in itself.

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Like I had the thought, I'm not going to write down.

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I'm just going to do it.

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That's a habit in itself.

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It takes two seconds in that respect.

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When I, when I prep for episodes, when do I, when am I taking my notes?

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When am I doing research and looking in, looking into stuff I've learned in the past, like

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that, that's something that can be prioritized and prioritized and scheduled into my, into

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a day.

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Then when, when do I make Instagram reels?

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Like that's something that I'm not great at, but it's a habit that can be instantiated

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and shameless plug.

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Like I did in the last episode, if you know somebody, you are that somebody, I really

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would love to have somebody managing my social media.

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That would be fantastic.

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And then when I record the intro segment for the episode, like the great part of that habit

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is that I do it right after the episode is over, right after I'm done recording the episode,

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like right after I'm done recording this, I'm going to record the intro for this episode.

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And then I, and then it's done.

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And then like I do it right afterwards.

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So then I know, I know when that's going to happen.

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Those are just some personal examples.

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I know I'm talking about myself a lot, but I feel like I feel like a really good way

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to share that, like you at least know a little bit about what you're talking about is to

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share that you actually utilize like these things.

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So if you, if, if, yeah, yeah, I just think that, but, um, and I didn't mention before,

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so I'm going to actually mention, um, one thing from that, what I said about the leadership

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Bible, I wanted to go down there for a second and, uh, in Ecclesiastes two, well, it wasn't

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actually in Ecclesiastes two.

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It's more the concepts that were in it and how, and John Maxwell was talking about how

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the author was, or I guess in this case it was, uh, King Solomon, I believe.

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And he was focusing on too many pursuits.

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That's what was being written about.

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And so it was trying to go after everything that caught his eye, anything that was pleasurable.

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He was trying, he was like trying to pursue that thing because to try and figure out what

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this hap, what happiness was, what made, what made things happen, what made him feel content.

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And when making one thing I have written here is when making a decision on whether to do

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something or when questioning why you're already doing something, you can ask yourself like

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these couple of questions.

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You're like, is this consistent with my priorities and do I actually have the time to do it?

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So what did that have to do with the make, like with like multiple pursuits?

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Uh, it's really asking you, it's really asking you like, is, are these things that I'm pursuing,

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are they, uh, consistent with the priorities or in this case that we're talking about?

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Like in this context of the calling, are they consistent with my calling?

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And again, do I have the actual time to do it?

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I think that's important.

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You can't, uh, you can't do more than what you're capable of doing.

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And this whole, I know this, um, episode is called reprogramming your mind and the, what

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I was talking about before about good habits, really that is about programming it.

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Your reprogramming part comes in is whenever you're also removing the bad habits from your

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life.

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And so while I was breathing, I talked about good habits is, it's honestly because be able

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to be able to get those good habits in, you do have to start removing the bad habits too.

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And a lot of it is kind of the flip side and how you start habits.

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This is going to be a little bit of a shorter episode, but, but I really wanted to just

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say real quick about the, like I talked, mentioned about how I wanted to say something about atomic

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habits.

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So there are a couple of, like in the, in the topic habits, uh, James clear talks about

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the four laws of behavior change.

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And those are real quick.

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It's that he says, make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying.

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And I talked about kind of like inadvertently talked about those already previously, but

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the flip side of like these laws is to like, or it's like, whenever you want to apply them

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to bad habits or apply them to removing bad habits, you can say, make it obscure, make

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it unattractive, make it hard and make it dissatisfying.

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And the one I really want to get at is actually make it hard.

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Like if you want to, like if you want to start doing something, you make it easy.

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It leaves a book where you want to leave it.

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You want, you leave the book where you want to read it and you read this, read in the

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same place every single day so that you know every day where you're going to read your

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programming your mind to read in that spot every day.

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And that when you sit in that chair, when you, when you're in that area, you're, you

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essentially can shift it to a mode that is ready to read for instance, but to make it

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hard.

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If you're like, if you want to, like, this is a, uh, example of maybe you want to stop

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drinking, you make it hard.

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You get rid of, you start by getting rid of the alcohol in the house.

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You can't drink if there's, you can't drink alcohol, if there's no alcohol to drink.

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And or by why, like I did with Netflix, I didn't, I wanted to stop watching as much

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TV.

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So I just made it really hard to do that by removing the, by removing that as a possibility.

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So it's really identifying what the bad habits are and, and like this main, this law really

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says then remove the source.

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And that allows you then to fill that time in, fill that effort and that capacity in

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with something that will better utilize that time.

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So I do eventually want to dive into all of these deeper, but that again, I want to do

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a full episode on each one of these.

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So guys, I know this has been a bit of a shorter episode, but, uh, this is also the third take.

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So I, uh, it was, it was a, it was a bit of a struggle to make sure that I, for me to

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make sure I was providing good content for you guys.

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So if you guys liked this episode, let me know, give me a message on Instagram, leave

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a review if you haven't already, and follow on a Spotify or Apple podcasts.

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And honestly, those, those like word reviews on Apple podcasts are really helpful.

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And to like, to really tell people, honestly, the word reviews on Spotify are helpful too.

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Like this is to let people know how you feel.

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Like it is benefiting you.

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Like if you can leave that five star review, that would be amazing.

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So guys, thank you for listening.

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And I guess, yeah, I'll see you next time.

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See ya.