On Purpose with Jay Shetty - 10 Ways to Get Things Done Even When You Don't Feel Like It

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

Do you want to meditate daily with me? Go to go.calm.com/onpurpose to get 40% off a Calm Premium Membership. Experience the Daily Jay. Only on CalmThere are times when you’re full of energy that you... get to be productive and efficient throughout the day. There are also times when you feel drained, exhausted, and unproductive, you just want to scroll through your phone, do nothing at all, or just sleep it off. During days like this, how can you find the motivation to stand up and do something worthwhile and productive? How can you push through despite not feeling like it?In this episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty talks about the different principles we can practice when we’re too out of it but you still need to get moving and get things done.Want to be a Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach? Get the Digital Guide and Workbook from Jay Shetty https://jayshettypurpose.com/fb-getting-started-as-a-life-coach-podcast/Key Takeaways:00:00 Intro03:03 What’s the most important skill you have?06:18 Step #1: Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivators10:20 Step #2: Everything must be in your schedule12:21 Step #3: Plan for the voice in our head16:55 Step #4: Push through and measure how you feel after not before21:35 Step #5: See how it fits into the bigger picture22:36 Step #6: Create accountability23:18 Step #7: Give yourself a break24:37 Step #8: If you don’t feel like doing it, outsource it25:06 Step #9: Remind yourself what that was like, have gratitude26:16 Step #10: Create an external announcement that you’ll do somethingLike this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm Jay Shetty and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart, Louis Hamilton, and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real-life stories behind their journeys and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a difference in their lives so that they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with Jay Shetty on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the journey soon. What if you could tell the whole truth about your life, including all those tender and visible things we don't usually talk about?
Starting point is 00:00:37 I'm Megan Devine. Host of the podcast, it's okay that you're not okay. Look everyone's at least a little bit not okay these days, and all those things we don't usually talk about, maybe we should. This season, I'm joined by Stellar Gas like Abbermote, Rachel Cargol, and so many more. It's okay that you're not okay. New episodes each and every Monday, available on the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you listen to podcasts. The therapy for Black Girls podcast is your space to explore mental health, personal development, and all of the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
Starting point is 00:01:11 I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, and I can't wait for you to join the conversation every Wednesday. Listen to the Therapy for Black Girls podcast on the iHart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast Take good care. We don't plan for the voice in our head. We go, okay, I've made this commitment I've decided Jay that I'm gonna go to the gym tomorrow. I've decided that I'm going to work on my book for four hours I've decided I'm gonna start a podcast and We think when we make that decision I've decided I'm going to start a podcast and we think when we make that decision, there's going to be no
Starting point is 00:01:55 Opposition but every decision you make will have opposition in your head. You wake up early. The voice says go back to back Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose the number one health podcast in the world. Thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and grow. Now, we've been having an incredible number of listens right now. And that is thanks to each and every single one of you. It means the world to me. And I wanted to take a moment to read your reviews again. When you leave a review, please leave your name because I want to say it. I wanted to take a moment to read your reviews. Again, when you leave
Starting point is 00:02:25 a review, please leave your name because I want to say I want to shout you out. And then I want you to come up to me one day and be like, Jay, that was my review. And then I'll give you a big hug. And it'll just be amazing. This is from LG. Jay, you are such a young refreshing voice of wisdom. Thank you for your positive messages and teachings in such a way that I can pass along to my young adult kids. They love you too Thank you LG LG. I appreciate you and I'm so grateful for you. This is from Rachelle I try to listen every day. This is the best podcast I've ever come across Thank you Jay for all your thoughtfulness and attention to details
Starting point is 00:03:03 You have not only helped myself but also my husband. We typically listen to episodes separately and then discuss them together of what we learned. That is such a great idea by the way. I have your book and I'm reading it now. I take it with me through the day and even looking at the cover makes me stop and be a little more present. The meditations you've done on YouTube have been incredible. Thank you for making those.
Starting point is 00:03:28 By the way, check out the ones on calmcom.com forward slash J. Thank you for being you, Rochelle. I really, really appreciate these amazing, amazing messages. Thank you so much. Gonna find one more. I'm literally scrolling through the app right now. This is Felicity. This is special. Being listening since
Starting point is 00:03:45 2019 when I was fresh out of college and didn't know my place in this world, you helped see a different perspective of life. I continue to listen and grow into a completely different person who's always trying to express love and compassion wherever I go. Thank you, Jay. Keep making this killer podcast and I will continue to thrive. Felicity, thank you so much. Those are just three of the incredible messages and reviews that I've seen recently. Please keep leaving them. I do read them myself. I do love sharing them. We're at 17,300 reviews. I would love to go to 20,000 this year. It helps podcasts so much. So I wanna dive straight into today's topic
Starting point is 00:04:28 because this came from a question and I've thought about this again and again and again, someone asked me recently, Che, what's the most important skill you have? Or what's the most important skill you think the people that you respect have? And I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I was like, is it meditation?
Starting point is 00:04:46 Is it knowing how to set goals? Is it being resilient? Is it having motivation? Like I was trying to figure out what it was. And the honest answer that keeps coming up again and again and again is that this skill is to get something done even when you don't feel like it. This is the number one skill to get something done, to do something, to make it happen even
Starting point is 00:05:19 when you don't feel like it. Because you're not always going to feel like it. People think when you do something you love, you always want to do it. We think that we should always want to feel like doing things. But our feelings are not always aligned with who we want to be or how we want to feel. I'll give you an example of what I mean by that.
Starting point is 00:05:44 Chances are that you don't always feel like doing the things that are good for you. Chances are you don't feel like doing the things you need to do. But we all know that when we do them, we feel better about ourselves. We know when we do them, we create a stronger sense of confidence and identity. I never felt like going to public speaking classes or drama classes that my parents forced
Starting point is 00:06:11 me to go to. Today I am so grateful to them. I never felt like doing my homework and learning in the evenings. But today I'm so grateful to my parents for making me do that. I don't think I have a felt like going to work, but by going to work, I was able to learn how to share meditation in those spaces. I don't think I have a felt like moving country or moving city or moving state, but when I did, it expanded my vision.
Starting point is 00:06:40 So many of the most amazing things, not just in my life, but in the lives of the people you admire, the most amazing things, not just in my life, but in the lives of the people you admire, the people you respect, the people you look up to, they did things they didn't feel like. So let's dive into what are the ways to get something done even when you don't feel like it because you have this idea that I should feel motivated. I get that question a lot. Jay, how do I feel motivated? It's like I want to feel motivated before I do something. I want to feel inspired before I do something. And the thing about motivation and inspiration is you can
Starting point is 00:07:16 keep filling your life with those to try and do something, but you're not always going to be motivated. I'll give you an example. comedians don't always want to tell jokes Therapists don't always want to listen Basketball players don't always want to play Everyone has to do their job even when they don't feel like it and that includes us But today I want to share with you the ways to make it powerful and potent in a way that will change your life. The first thing I want to talk to you about is intrinsic versus extrinsic motivators.
Starting point is 00:07:56 So extrinsic motivators are like, I'm doing this because it will help me by that house. I'm doing this because it will help me get that car. I'm doing this because it will help me get that car. I'm doing this because it helps me go on vacation every year. These are extrinsic motivators. It's tied to an external tangible thing that you want to get. And that's where motivation runs out. That's where inspiration runs out. That's where we stop wanting to feel like we want to do it because we go, well, maybe I don't need that. Maybe I don't want that. Now, studies show that intrinsic motivation leads to greater persistence. This study by Adam Grant talks about how pro-social motivation is essentially being motivated by a desire to protect or promote other people's well-being without seeking to gain any personal
Starting point is 00:08:47 benefits. When intrinsic motivation is high, does it have any impact on pro-social motivation and persistence as a result? Adam Grant's study, again another on-purpose guest we've had, suggests it does, by acting to strengthen the relationship between the two. In the research firefighters who reported high levels of both pro-social and intrinsic motivation then went on to demonstrate greater persistence by subsequently working considerably more over time hours per week over a two month period. The desire to help others had resulted in increased effort and increased levels of persistence. That's an intrinsic motivator. So I know that my podcast serves you. It helps you. So there are days or weeks when I'm tired, when I'm thinking I don't have that much time,
Starting point is 00:09:40 but I know that I'm going to prepare, I'm going to research, I'm going to get my notes ready and I'm going to do this because I know you're waiting on the other side. I know that you're expecting this. Now, if I was really tired, I'd be honest with you and say, hey guys, I'm tired. I'm not sure, but I just want to be here with you, right? I just want to be present with you. I would always be honest with you. But I like showing up for that reason. There's a 2012 study from Chauin Perry that showed that intrinsic motives have three times the impact on employee engagement levels compared to extrinsic motives. The research found that intrinsic motivation was positively associated with employee satisfaction and unsurprisingly
Starting point is 00:10:27 was negatively associated with the intention to leave. Right? So, the idea of intrinsic motivation is shown across the board, no matter what area of life we're in. Now, they also linked intrinsic motivation to learning. One of the findings in Grand Valley State University identified that these kinds of external motivators can actually slow learning down and lead to students making more errors during the learning process. What really matters is the level of intrinsic motivation
Starting point is 00:10:59 and how much the student wants to learn. If the student's learning because it's fulfilling them and it's enjoyable, rather than because they're fixated on getting high grades. So I ask you this today, when you don't wanna do something, is it because the external reward is not good enough? And you may be one of those people,
Starting point is 00:11:19 I have a lot of people in my life who say, I'm not ambitious. I don't want more money, I don't want a bigger house, I'm happy with what I have. Sure. But we still have to get joy from what we do. We still have to experience it now. But how do we get things done when we don't feel like it? We've remind ourselves of that intrinsic motivator. Why are you doing it? What is the reason you're doing it? Why are you here right now? Why are you turning up?
Starting point is 00:11:47 Make it about that intrinsic motivation. The second way to get everything done, even when you don't feel like it, is everything must be in your schedule. If you don't have a plan, you don't have an approach, it's easy to miss the stuff you don't feel like. When I wake up and look at my schedule in the morning, it already has everything I have to do today. And when I look at everything I have to do today, I know that I will get it done because it's in my calendar, it's properly planned out. But if I didn't have it, then I might miss the stuff I don't feel like. And that's what we do. We avoid the stuff we don't feel like doing. It gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
Starting point is 00:12:25 It gets harder and harder and harder. And then by the time you get to it, you know you're saying to yourself, why did I do this to myself? Right? Why did I put myself in this position? Why did I start earlier? Schedule.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Put it in your calendar. Break it down. Stop putting things off because you don't feel like doing them because when you don't feel like doing something, it's going to feel a lot harder in the long run to actually do it. Make a plan, put it in your schedule, commit to it, and prepare everything the night before. I know the night before and I'm recording my podcast that my recorder and my microphone are already here on my desk. So I don't have to think, oh, I need to go and get it from some way. It's like, you know what it's like, it's like when you want to watch TV and
Starting point is 00:13:12 then the remote's on the other side of the room. And you're like, oh, it's all the way on the other side, right? Or my charger, oh, no, it's in the bedroom. I'm not going to get it. Make it easy for yourself. Make it simple for yourself. I leave a book in every room that I spend time in so that in a spare moment, instead of jumping on my phone, I'll jump to a book. I keep my workout clothes ready the night before so that when I wake up in the morning, it's not a long process to convince myself to put them on and go to the gym. I create the mic right on my desk right now where I am recording this because I want to make it easy for myself. Schedule it, plan it and make it really, really practical. This third one is probably a huge one. It's a big one actually. It's a really
Starting point is 00:13:55 important one for me because I spent a lot of my month life doing this. Plan for the voice in your head. We don't plan for the voice in our head. We go, okay, I've made this commitment. I've decided, Jay, that I'm going to go to the gym tomorrow. I've decided that I'm going to work on my book for four hours. I've decided I'm going to start a podcast. And we think when we make that decision, there's going to be no opposition. We think when we've made that decision, there'll be no resistance.
Starting point is 00:14:27 But every decision you make will have opposition in your head. You wake up early. The voice says, go back to bed. You're trying to eat healthy. The voice says, it's okay. A little bit won't hurt. You're trying to start something new, a new habit, a new focus. The voice says, just relax. Calm down. Who cares? And when we hear that voice, we either follow it or we resent it. We get mad at ourselves, we judge ourselves, we become critical of ourselves.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Why can't I just do this? What's wrong with me? Or we follow it and then we regret it. And we say, oh, I wish I didn't follow it. I knew I should have. Okay, let me go back. Never again. We're like, ever eat unhealthy food ever again.
Starting point is 00:15:15 How do we get things done even when we don't feel like it? We plan for the voice in our head because it's the voice that doesn't feel like it. It's not us. We know it's important. You know it's important to read more, to work out more, to eat healthier. You know it's important to serve more, to help people.
Starting point is 00:15:32 You know it's important to overcome your ego. You know it's important to not fight over little things, but then why does the voice in our head mislead us? Not too long ago, in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, this explorer stumbled upon something that would change his life. I saw it and I saw, oh wow, this is a very unusual situation. It was cacao. The tree that gives us chocolate. But this cacao was unlike anything experts had seen, or tasted.
Starting point is 00:16:01 I've never wanted us to have a gun bite. I mean, you saw this stacks of cash in her office. Chocolate sort of forms this vortex. It sucks you in. It's like I can be the queen of wild chocolate. You're all lost. It was madness. It was a game changer.
Starting point is 00:16:15 People quit their jobs. They left their lives behind, so they could search for more of this stuff. I wanted to tell their stories, so I followed them deep into the jungle, and it wasn't always pretty. Basically, this like disgruntled guy and his family surrounded the building armed with machetes. And we've heard all sorts of things that, you know, somebody got shot over this. Sometimes I think, oh, all these for a damn bar of chocolate. Listen to obsessions, wild chocolate, on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. [♪ Music playing in background, we heard from Eileen Charlotte,
Starting point is 00:17:05 who was loved by the Tinder swindler. The worst part is that he can only be guilty for stealing the money from me, but he cannot be guilty for the mental part he did. And that's even way worse than the money he took. But I am here to help. As a licensed psychologist and survivor of narcissistic abuse myself,
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Starting point is 00:17:53 is to talk to the people that live there. There's just this sexy vibe in Montreal, this pulse, this energy. What was seen as a very snotty city, people call it Bos Angeles. New Orleans is a town that never forgets its pay. A great way to get to know a place is to get invited to a dinner party. Hi, I'm Brendan Francis Newton and not lost as my new travel podcast where a friend and I go places, see the sights, and try to finagle our way into a dinner party.
Starting point is 00:18:20 We're kind of trying to get invited to a dinner party. It doesn't always work out. I would love that, but I have like a Cholala who is aggressive towards strangers. I love the dogs. We learn about the places we're visiting, yes, but we also learn about ourselves. I don't spend as much time thinking about how I'm gonna die alone when I'm traveling,
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Starting point is 00:18:52 or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's why, because we don't create an alternative script to communicate and conversate with that voice. When that voice becomes strong, our voice becomes weak. When the volume on that voice turns loud, the volume on our voice goes weak because we don't have a script. So one thing I did when I lived as a monk is that for every emotion I felt, which was something I didn't want to feel like the idea of pride or ego or the idea of arrogance, I created a script when the voice in my head would start saying, don't wake up for today's meditation. You are
Starting point is 00:19:39 okay to have a big ego. I would create a script that I would not only write out, but that I would practice. I would even role play so that when that voice came up in my head, I actually had a script to combat it with. So when my mind says, you don't need to go to the gym. So how do I get something done when I don't feel like it? I don't feel like going to the gym. That's the voice in my head. But my script says, you always feel amazing when you leave. My script says you want to be fit and healthy to serve. My script says if you don't work out today, you'll regret it tomorrow. My script says you deeply enjoy being a healthy, focused individual. My script says you're able to do better mental work when you've done a physical workout.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Notice how if you have all those arguments ready, it's almost like planning for a debate. If you deeply understand your weaknesses, you can create strength in your debate. And now when you hear that voice, you already know how to talk to yourself so you don't just listen to it. So how do you get things done even when you don't feel like it? You have a script to talk to that voice that doesn't feel like it because it's not you that doesn't feel like it, it's that voice
Starting point is 00:20:53 and that voice has been built on conditioning and patterns. And the human laziness and complacency to say, of course, I'd rather sit around all day. But if I just sit in bed all day because I don't feel like getting up, chances are I don't feel better later on. That's the interesting thing, right? The mind tricks us, the voice tricks us. It says, oh, don't get out of bed. You don't feel great. But then if you spend your whole day in bed, you don't feel great either. So we have to learn not always to trust how we feel in an instance, right?
Starting point is 00:21:27 I'm not telling you to not trust your feelings, but you can't trust how you feel in a millisecond of a moment and expand that feeling out. Number four is push through and measure how you feel after not before. Focus on the feelings after. Now, this is a memory thing. The mind holds on to negative memories and negative experiences stronger than positive ones. This is why it's so important to take a mental picture, a physical picture, and journal about positive experiences.
Starting point is 00:22:01 So when I come back from the gym, I will write out why it was an amazing decision. I may tell my friend that I went, I may tell Radi to remind me that I loved it, like I'll come home and say, Radi, tell me that I love the gym. Journal, journal, journal. When you have a positive experience, look how long your journal entries are. And when you have a negative experience or a challenge, look how long your journal entries are. I promise you your journal when you negative experience are longer than when you have a positive one. It's fascinating, isn't it? That we do that to ourselves. So what I encourage you to do is journal about positive experiences, take pictures, take mental
Starting point is 00:22:44 pictures, honor them, share them, talk about them. Imagine you missed a flight last week, you'll tell everyone about it. But if the flight was on time, you wouldn't tell anyone about it. If last week, you unfortunately got caught in an accident, you tell everyone about it. But if you had a beautiful drive, you don't tell that many people about it. Why is it that we tell people about things when they go wrong versus when they go right? Studies from very well-mine show that as humans, we tend to remember traumatic experience better than positive ones, recall insults better than praise. We think about negative things more frequently than positive things, right? Now, research says that negativity bias
Starting point is 00:23:27 starts to emerge in infancy. Very young infants tend to pay greater attention to positive facial expression and tone of voice, but this begins to shift as they near one year of age. Brain studies indicate that around this time babies begin to experience greater brain responses to negative stimuli. This suggests that the brain's negative bias emerges during the latter half of a child's first year of life. There is some evidence that the bias may actually start even earlier in development. One study found that infants as young as three months old show signs
Starting point is 00:24:06 of negativity bias when making social evaluations of others. So what we have to do is we have to make our positive experiences more powerfully memorable. Or we have to create stories through the challenging experiences of what we learned from that scenario or at least learn to laugh at. So those are two ways of overcoming this area. How do you get things done when you don't feel like it? Well, you push through because you remind yourself of how things felt after you did them because you deepen your understanding of it being beneficial for you. But we have to make that memory imprint stronger because our negativity bias is so high. I want to share with you the biggest news of the year. How many of you want to share with you the biggest news of the year. How many of you want to meditate?
Starting point is 00:25:08 I can see your heads nodding, I can see you raising your hands, I can see you saying yes Jay, I really want to learn to meditate. How many of you would like to learn to meditate with me every single day? Now I already know what the answer is because I know how many messages, DMs, reviews, notes that I get saying, J, I'd love to meditate with you. Last year, we took meditation to Instagram and I meditated for around 40 days, live, and 20 million of you tuned in. Now, I am taking that same focus, that same presence, to calm.
Starting point is 00:25:44 I've potted up with calm to release a new series called The Daily J, where you can meditate with me every single day for seven minutes to make it a real habit. I would love for you to come and join me and take part in building a really powerful meditation practice and guess what, we're going to do it together. Head over right now to calm.com forward slash J to get 40% off a premium membership that's calm.com forward slash J. Now step number five is see how it fits
Starting point is 00:26:19 into the bigger picture, constantly zoom out, right? When you look at the thing for what it is, when you zoom in, you may not feel like it, but when you zoom out, you realize, oh, I totally get it. There are so many times when I get asked to do something last minute, or I have to work late, or I have to work a weekend. And if you ask me, do I want to work a weekend? The truth is, I don't want to. I don't feel like it. But when I zoom out and I think, wait a minute, disconnects perfectly with what I'm trying to I think, wait a minute, disconnects perfectly with what I'm trying to do next month.
Starting point is 00:26:47 And actually, this is gonna be so synergistic. Oh, this is amazing. I should definitely do it. Right, so when you zoom out, you get to check in with perspective. Now, if you zoom out and there's nothing there either, that's fine. I'm not telling you to only do things in life that you don't feel like what I'm saying is that sometimes your feelings mislead you,
Starting point is 00:27:06 sometimes your feelings distract you from what you really want and who you want to be. Because if you follow your feelings, you may never learn any of the lessons that are useful. Now, the next step is create accountability, do it with someone as a pier or head in your journey. I find this to be the biggest, easiest one that I think we're missing out on.
Starting point is 00:27:28 Accountability partners are everything. Finding someone to do something with, finding a coach, a mentor, someone slightly ahead on the journey to commit to having a commitment to show up. I would cancel going to the gym every day if I was doing it on my own, but because I'm doing it with my trainer, I have to turn up. Because you're doing it with a friend, you have to turn up.
Starting point is 00:27:48 This is the simplest fix to anyone who's saying, I don't want to do something, find someone to do it with and commit to them. And ideally, someone who's a little ahead on the journey than you. Number seven, give yourself a reward. Mine is always a break. I find my favorite reward for working hard is taking a break. That break could mean going to a spa, it could be going on a walk, it could be being outdoors in nature, it could be doing nothing, it could be taking myself out for brunch. It could be just being with myself is my reward to myself for doing things even when I don't feel like it. If I've had a whole week of doing a lot of things, even when I don't feel like it, I'll
Starting point is 00:28:31 give myself a full break that weekend. And that reward for me is so motivating that by Monday, I'm ready to go at it again. What I'm trying to help you understand here is that even I have days where I do things even when I don't feel like it. That doesn't mean I don't love what I do. It doesn't mean that I don't deeply appreciate what I do and I'll get to that. What it means is that you're not going to be able to control how you feel every day. But you can control what you focus on so that you feel better at the end of every day.
Starting point is 00:29:04 If you follow your feelings at the beginning of your day, you may not actually feel better, you will probably feel worse. But if you ignore your feelings at the beginning of the day, you might actually do the things that bring you great joy. Number eight is obviously, if you're trying to get something done constantly and you never feel like it,
Starting point is 00:29:24 sure outsource it, right? and you never feel like it, sure outsource it. If you never feel like doing something, usually in our life what it is is, sometimes we feel like and sometimes we don't. It's rarely that it's completely extreme. But if you don't feel like doing something ever, yes, we should get rid of that in our life, right? If you never, ever feel like doing something, we should remove that from our lives if we can. Now, the last two principles, number nine,
Starting point is 00:29:48 remember how it was when you couldn't do this or didn't have the opportunity. Remind yourself what that was like, have gratitude. This one is huge for me. Today, there are so many opportunities come my way that I would have begged for in the past. And it's so easy to get complacent. It's so easy to think, I don't want to do this anymore, but gratitude, gratitude, gratitude.
Starting point is 00:30:12 I promise you some of the stuff you don't feel like doing today, that job you don't feel like going to, the person you don't feel like connecting with, there was a time when that was really important to you. And that doesn't mean that you have to stay there, but it doesn't mean we have to have a sense of gratitude because if we can't be grateful for a dream we used to have, we won't be grateful when we reach the next dream. That's what we don't realize. If you're not grateful for the dream you used to have
Starting point is 00:30:35 that you have now, this next dream won't satisfy you either. So practice gratitude. How do you get something done even when you don't feel like it? You feel grateful for the opportunity. You feel grateful that you even get to do that. You feel grateful that that has even come across your way. Gratitude is huge in this area.
Starting point is 00:30:57 And number 10, one of my personal favorites, create an announcement, an external announcement you're going to do something. I'm going to write a book and launch you by this date. I'm going to record and upload one episode of my podcast every day, announce it on social media, tell people they're expecting it. I'm going to post once a day every day and every day in the post I'm going to put day one of 100 day two of 100 day three of 100 taking an announcement, making a moment out of it, creates a commitment, and that commitment drives you because you have promised people something.
Starting point is 00:31:32 Create a promise to your community, your audience, your friends, and show up for them. I want to thank you all for listening to this episode. I'm so grateful that you made time for this. And remember that having bad thoughts is not bad. Having bad feelings is not bad. Nothing is bad, but what's better and what's healthy is that you find a way to get things done even when you don't feel like it because when they're done, you'll feel better for it. Thank you for listening. I'll see you next week. I'm so grateful you're joining me today. And thank you for listening. I'll see you next week. I'm so grateful you joined me today.
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Starting point is 00:33:27 You always have the chance to begin again and feed the best of yourself. The trap is the person often thinks they'll act once they feel better. It's actually the other way around. I have had over 500 conversations with world-renowned experts and yet I'm still striving to be better.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Join me on this journey. Listen to the one you feed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II, an opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover, and a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, haven't comment. They're all real women who were left out of your history books.
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