May 17, 2025 • 23 mins
Episode 76: Just Go For IT: Time is Going to Pass Anyway
In this episode of Conversations with Kimen, host Kimen Petersen delves into the importance of starting new ventures despite the time and effort they may require. Through personal anecdotes and powerful insights, Kimen encourages listeners to overcome procrastination, face challenges head-on, and make the most of their time. He emphasizes that the time will pass regardless and that it's better to spend it pursuing one's passions and goals. Tune in for inspiration to live a more meaningful, active, and fulfilled life.
00:00 Introduction to Conversations with Kimen
00:39 Overcoming Procrastination and Starting Now
03:41 Finding Solutions to Challenges
06:51 The Journey of Recovery and Perseverance
09:21 Making Time for What Matters
12:16 Health, Purpose, and Personal Growth
23:25 Conclusion and Call to Action
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. Conversations with Kimen is aboutinspiration, life lessons, and wisdom.
Your host, Kimen Petersen shareshis stories to inspire you to live
a more soulful and illuminated life.
The topics covered in this podcastare as personal opinions inspired by
life, experience, and conversationsshared with amazing people.
Kimen hopes to encourage you tobe guided by life in the flow.
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So the whole journey is moremanageable and joyful and fulfilling.
You may as well go for it now,because the time is gonna pass anyway.
Have you ever felt confronted by like adesire to start something new as well as
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the resistance because of how much timeit's going to take to get good at it,
and because of that, you put it offand you put it off and you put it off.
You know the scary thing isif you keep on putting it off,
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you may put it off forever,
and the truth is, it may take time, itmay be hard, and you may not even succeed,
but the time is gonna pass anyway.
You know, in life there's thistruth that I've learned as we
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rarely regret the things we did,
but we definitely spend a lotof time regretting the things
we didn't do or we didn't start.
And if you consider it this momentright now, in this present moment, this
is the youngest you'll ever be again.
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This is the most capable you'll ever beagain, and you actually probably have
the most time you'll ever have again.
So this is the time to start.
You can start now and thinkabout it like even if,
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even if you don't know howit's gonna work out or.
You're not sure how long it's gonna take
or even sure that you'regonna be capable of it.
I still say start now
because time is ticking.
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We have a certain amountof time in this world,
and that's what we got inthis body with this DNA.
The purpose we have in this life.
I mean, we could argue that there'smaybe, maybe there's other chances, maybe.
Maybe we come back again.
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But even if we do come back again, it'llbe a different body, a different DNA.
It'll be a different purpose.
So.
Honestly, the things that you reallydesire, the things that wake you up
at night, the things that wake youup in the morning, jumping outta
bed, the things that you love.
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These are the thingsthat you should go for,
and despite how long it's gonna take,
'cause every day you wait isanother day longer till you get
to the place you want to be.
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It is interesting.
It's like I spent a lot ofmy life not not doing things
'cause it's gonna be too hard.
I mean, I went from job to job tojob, even though I knew, I knew for
a fact that I wanted to do more.
I wanted to help people.
(04:01):
But
like the concerns around, youknow, I had this, uh, dyslexia.
So the thought of the process of how hardit's gonna be, the thought that I'd been
out, I hadn't been in school in 26 years,like there are so many things I rem I
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remember a, an athlete was telling me I.
He's, he was training and hewas having for a marathon.
He was having a kind of a toughtime like running after work.
'cause Yeah, it makes sense.
You know, pretty exhausted.
And his wife lies like, whydon't you run in the morning?
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And he was like, oh no.
Like what about like, you know, whatabout I'll be all sweaty and like,
what about like, bring my lunch?
And what about.
I will be tired for the day.
And she just said to him, those are allpro just problems that need a solution.
So they literally, they went outand they, they found a running vest
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that he could put a shirt in andbecause he worked at a hospital, he
could have a shower if he needed.
And you know, he was given permission tolike, buy lunch rather than bring lunch.
It's like, ooh, that's kind of cool.
And.
Over and over again.
He sorted this out and then he startedrunning and the interesting things he, he
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found out was as he's rolling into workafter this run, he looks around and see
how exhausted all his coworkers are, andthey're carrying a coffee and they're
tired and they don't know, like they lookexhausted and he's walking in energized.
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And ready to go.
And literally that changed his lifebecause after work, he runs home
and he doesn't have to think about likegetting out and doing, doing the training.
He's getting all histraining in, in a good way.
And he's, he went and ran hismarathon and it went well.
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So the interestingthing is like, you know.
We, another thing that keeps us fromtaking on big things is we can come
up with a million problems, right?
All these problems,like this is a problem.
Well, what about this?
What about that?
What about the next thing?
Or we can just like, we just findsolutions and just get started, right?
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It's like.
In November, when I ran a 10 K, I reallyhurt my hip and oh man, it was bad.
It was burning pain for two weeks.
Anytime I sat down, it burned.
It was achy.
It was, it was really tough.
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And it's like I kept on puttingoff a return to run because of the
pain and like, you know, maybe Ican wait longer and wait longer.
And I do know the, I do have anunderstanding of recovery, and one of the
ideas about recovery is you start very,very gentle, easy, slow, very low load.
Every couple days or so, youwatch for how it's changing,
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and I just kept on going, oh no.
But yeah, the weather's bad.
And like there was so many, I hadall these reasons and then one day
it's like, oh my god, you know?
Uh, the time's gonna pass anyway.
Let's just start and like, I'll setmy watch to force me to go so slow.
It's not funny
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and it felt insurmountable.
The amount of time to recover.
Like I remember when I finally got tolike 5K again, it was like, took me like
35 minutes and 40 seconds, which is like,I'm used to doing it in under 30 and it's
like, oh, this is gonna take forever.
And I remember going for a run, it'slike, is this ever gonna get any better?
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But like it kept on going andtrusting and watching for the change.
And things started changing.
It went from running, sucked.
Sucked every minute
to okay.
It didn't suck so much to, hmm.
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Actually doesn't suck to, whoa.
It started to feel good.
This is over like eight to 10, 12 weeks,and then suddenly it's like I'm waking
up at four in the morning, ready to gofor a run, like excited to go for a run.
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Like, wow.
So like that.
Eight to 12 weeks, it seems like forever.
Right?
But had, had I just sat around and waitedfor things to get better for eight to 12
weeks, I'd be, where would I be right now?
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You know, it, it's funny.
Um, one of the other excuses wehave for not taking on something
is, oh, I just don't have time.
Yeah.
And think about it.
If you really got honest, okay.
So I'm not being judgy here, but, andI'm not, I'm not boasting here, but I
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work six days a week, 12 hours a day.
I'm pretty much in the officeanywhere from six to 30 to seven 30
in the morning till seven at night.
Uh, except for Saturday, Iget an extra hour off because
they close the building early.
So I could honestly say I don't have time.
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But what I was thinking about when Istarted taking on things, like when I
started the podcast, people were like,how do you have time to do a podcast?
Well, you know, after my longrun on Sunday, I've got time
to bang off a couple episodes.
So during the week I can haveconversations and like kind of develop
what I want to talk about and look upstuff and create kind of bubble thing and.
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Yeah.
And then on Sunday after mylong run, I can come over to the
office and I can record a coupleepisodes, and then I can release
them one at a time during the week.
Because what I used to do on Sunday whenI'm just like, lay on the couch and die,
well not die, but you know, I'm so tired.
Oh, I'm so tired.
I'm just gonna watch TVand play on my phone.
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And then of course with runninglike, oh, it's really hard to run.
'cause like, you know, sometimesI actually, sometimes I kind
of book people in early,
like, how am I gonna have time to run?
I need my sleep.
It's so, you know, I can'tmake it through the day.
It was like just all theseproblems and excuses.
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And I, I really sat down and thoughtabout it and it's like I'm staying up
till like 10 30, sometimes 11 o'clock,and what am I doing with that time?
Nothing constructive.
I'm just like playing on my phone andI'm watching senseless TV programs
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and then I go to bed.
So I thought, well, you know,I can gain back some time.
So.
You know, if I was to go to bed inbetween say eight 30 and nine o'clock,
then I can get up early and run.
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See, like we do always have time.
It's like the time is passing anyway,but like how much of our time are we
wasting on mindless or pursuits that arenot doing anything I even believe, um.
I am ready for somethingelse to come into my life.
Like, I've got the podcast, I've got myrunning, you know, uh, on the weekends
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when there's races, I got my photography.
And of course with the podcast andeverything, there's a bunch of social
media stuff that I do, but I, I actuallyhave some more time, so I'm interested.
I'm waiting to see what's next, right?
Because like literally all this time'sgonna pass anyway, and I feel like.
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Okay.
The only way to grow old in this lifeis to slow down and stop doing things.
If you stay really, really, really active,
you never grow old.
Or maybe what happens is you keep movingand you keep and learning and growing
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and keep sharp, and then one day yourbody gives up and you pass and maybe.
You're super active into your ninetiesor maybe right up to a hundred, and then
you know, there's a finite amount of timethis body can work on this planet, right?
Like that heart, the heart, thepump is incredible and it'll keep on
going as long as it possibly can, butthere comes a time when it's done.
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But
what if,
what if you have a desire to do something?
You know, it could be as easy as like,I love to learn to play the guitar.
No, that's not me.
My, my creativity comes intaking pictures and, and talking.
That's where I am right now.
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But if I had that desirein incredible way,
even though I know it would takea long time to get there, I'd
just find a way to fit it in.
And just keep on knocking it off andpracticing a little more and practicing,
because it's, if you think ofin life, it's, we spend so much
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time thinking about an outcome,
maybe we don't spend enough timethinking about the process, like
getting us on the way to the outcome
because in truth, the.
The act of getting moving.
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Uh, like I've said this before,it's really interesting.
It's like, so if you want to take onsomething new, first off, you're gonna go.
Time's gonna pass anyway.
Now, if it's a health change, a lot ofpeople avoid a health change because
they have this, this kind of fear, likeTony Robbins says this really well,
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that people will do more to avoid pain.
Than they will to achieve pleasure.
So literally, if you've hung more pain,and this is, this is me like, um, just
about like a year and a half ago, my, myblood pressure was 1 78 over 96, and I
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was sitting down with my doctor and theysaid, yeah, right now you're at a 25%
chance of a heart attack in the next.
Five years, and I'm like, whoa.
And before then I was trying tothink about like how to eat healthy,
how to like, like lose some weightbecause I was, I was, I think I was
about probably about 249 pounds.
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And so I asked the doctor if like,Hey, can I try to do this like
with exercise diet and try to likebring, bring my blood pressure down?
And I was able to get itdown quite significantly.
I think it was like around in themid one thirties, over like 80, 86.
And then we went on medication and uh,which was frustrating for me 'cause
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I thought I could accomplish this.
And it's kind of like a failure.
I brought it down that much.
I'm, I'm such a failure.
Um,
but then I don't know, on the pathI gained a little bit more weight,
uh, a little bit more of the weight.
I think I got up to, uh, uh, 2 39.
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Again, still not 10 point pounds,l lighter than I was before, but.
And my blood pressurestarted climbing again.
We had to raise up the medicationsand we were like, oh man.
And I really thought about the TonyRobbins quote, we'll do more to avoid
pain than we will to achieve pleasure.
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And I realized the pain of like, therewas something in the pain of like
watching what I eat and exercising andthat that was greater than the pain
of the change that I needed to make.
So I got really present with thefact that, you know, I started
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this podcast, there's a message Ireally want to get out in this life,
and the more I stay with a bloodpressure that high, the shorter this
life will be, the less time there willbe to develop and get this message out.
I just imagined like having a heartattack and realizing that there you go.
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Because the time's gonna pass anyway,
and now there's not enoughleft to get this message out.
It's like, I haven't quite lit myself onfire around this, but I'm working on it.
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So in the, in, since January 1st,I've, I've, I'm now under 200 pounds.
I training for a half marathon, tryingto be really careful 'cause I don't want
to, like, don't want to put myself inan injury state by not fueling properly.
But so far it's been pretty good.
Like I was fueling during my long runs
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because the time is gonna pass
and one day I will pass andI won't be here anymore.
So I may as well do it.
I may as well keep on working on thisphysical, mental, and emotional health and
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extending the time I can be on this planetin order to get my message out, to make
the biggest impact on this life I can.
'cause that's what I want to do.
And so, you know.
I am at the point now that I ambouncing outta bed at like four 20 in
the morning ready to go for my run.
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Never experienced this before, andthe truth is, had I not started that
eight or 10 weeks ago and sufferedthrough each of those runs is like.
Um, the other episode I'm recordingtoday, or I've recorded today is called
perseverance and I definitely was upagainst challenges in order to get
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to where I am, but now I'm coming onthe other side of those challenges.
Now there's still challengesbecause I'm nowhere near the pace.
Well, I don't know actually.
I don't know how to quantifythat, but I'm not at the pace.
I want to be over 21.1to achieve my a goal.
But that's why I created a Be goalbecause like if, if I'm on the day,
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if I'm feeling great, then I'llprobably knock it outta the park.
And if that's just not my day, thenI will achieve my BE goal, which
is complete and have fun doing it.
Honestly, whatever it is, whateverthat thing is that you want to do.
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I take an example from me, a guy whoworks 12 hours a day, six days a week.
Started out with photography, gotinto running, running races, started a
podcast to get my message out, puttingit all over social media to try to
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get it out to a larger audience andready and willing to take on more.
Because I, I just don'twanna waste any more time.
I really don't.
I've wasted too much time in this life,and a lot of that was like in order to
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get to where I am now, I had to changemy beliefs on like what I was capable
of and to let go of this idea that Ihad nothing to say that was valuable
for human, for the human beings andthat I interact with, or hopefully.
Maybe it's for the generalpopulation of the world.
Maybe there's something I havethat's gonna help them too.
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I mean, that's my biggest dream.
If I could actually, what was itlike I, a long time ago I heard of,
um, this, this thought process of apassive form of income where you could
be making money while you're asleep.
And I'm like, oh, what if I could createa passive form of making a difference?
Like, I could be sleeping and somebodyin the, in the world would be either
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reading something or listeningto something I said, and they're
like, that's it, that's the thing.
I was listening.
That's what, that's what I needed.
That's the thing that'll change my life.
Wow.
That'd be really cool.
And I, I, I'm not, I don't know if whatI'm doing here is having a real impact.
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Yeah, but I know for sure if I don'tdo it, I'm definitely not gonna have
an impact if I don't actually get outthere and do this over and over again.
If I don't do it now and daily andweekly, then I'll never have an impact.
Just like that one thing, whateverit is that you really want to do,
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that you're slightly avoiding.
That one thing, or maybe more thanone thing that you're not doing.
'cause it's too, it's gonna be toohard or it's gonna take too long,
or you don't have time or whatever.
Just get started.
You're never in this entireexistence on this planet.
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You're never gonna be younger thanyou are right now, ever again.
You're never gonna bemore capable ever again.
You're never gonna have more energy.
Ever again, and you'll never be closer toaccomplishing it than you are right now.
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Go for it.
The time's gonna pass anyway.
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and benefit from this content.
. Conversations with Kimen is aboutinspiration, life lessons, and wisdom.
Your host, Kimen Petersen shareshis stories to inspire you to live
a more soulful and illuminated life.
The topics covered in this podcastare as personal opinions inspired by
life, experience, and conversationsshared with amazing people.
Kimen hopes to encourage you tobe guided by life in the flow.
(00:23):
So the whole journey is moremanageable and joyful and fulfilling.
You may as well go for it now,because the time is gonna pass anyway.
Have you ever felt confronted by like adesire to start something new as well as
(00:46):
the resistance because of how much timeit's going to take to get good at it,
and because of that, you put it offand you put it off and you put it off.
You know the scary thing isif you keep on putting it off,
(01:06):
you may put it off forever,
and the truth is, it may take time, itmay be hard, and you may not even succeed,
but the time is gonna pass anyway.
You know, in life there's thistruth that I've learned as we
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rarely regret the things we did,
but we definitely spend a lotof time regretting the things
we didn't do or we didn't start.
And if you consider it this momentright now, in this present moment, this
is the youngest you'll ever be again.
(01:53):
This is the most capable you'll ever beagain, and you actually probably have
the most time you'll ever have again.
So this is the time to start.
You can start now and thinkabout it like even if,
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even if you don't know howit's gonna work out or.
You're not sure how long it's gonna take
or even sure that you'regonna be capable of it.
I still say start now
because time is ticking.
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We have a certain amountof time in this world,
and that's what we got inthis body with this DNA.
The purpose we have in this life.
I mean, we could argue that there'smaybe, maybe there's other chances, maybe.
Maybe we come back again.
(03:01):
But even if we do come back again, it'llbe a different body, a different DNA.
It'll be a different purpose.
So.
Honestly, the things that you reallydesire, the things that wake you up
at night, the things that wake youup in the morning, jumping outta
bed, the things that you love.
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These are the thingsthat you should go for,
and despite how long it's gonna take,
'cause every day you wait isanother day longer till you get
to the place you want to be.
(03:41):
It is interesting.
It's like I spent a lot ofmy life not not doing things
'cause it's gonna be too hard.
I mean, I went from job to job tojob, even though I knew, I knew for
a fact that I wanted to do more.
I wanted to help people.
(04:01):
But
like the concerns around, youknow, I had this, uh, dyslexia.
So the thought of the process of how hardit's gonna be, the thought that I'd been
out, I hadn't been in school in 26 years,like there are so many things I rem I
(04:25):
remember a, an athlete was telling me I.
He's, he was training and hewas having for a marathon.
He was having a kind of a toughtime like running after work.
'cause Yeah, it makes sense.
You know, pretty exhausted.
And his wife lies like, whydon't you run in the morning?
(04:48):
And he was like, oh no.
Like what about like, you know, whatabout I'll be all sweaty and like,
what about like, bring my lunch?
And what about.
I will be tired for the day.
And she just said to him, those are allpro just problems that need a solution.
So they literally, they went outand they, they found a running vest
(05:12):
that he could put a shirt in andbecause he worked at a hospital, he
could have a shower if he needed.
And you know, he was given permission tolike, buy lunch rather than bring lunch.
It's like, ooh, that's kind of cool.
And.
Over and over again.
He sorted this out and then he startedrunning and the interesting things he, he
(05:36):
found out was as he's rolling into workafter this run, he looks around and see
how exhausted all his coworkers are, andthey're carrying a coffee and they're
tired and they don't know, like they lookexhausted and he's walking in energized.
(05:57):
And ready to go.
And literally that changed his lifebecause after work, he runs home
and he doesn't have to think about likegetting out and doing, doing the training.
He's getting all histraining in, in a good way.
And he's, he went and ran hismarathon and it went well.
(06:22):
So the interestingthing is like, you know.
We, another thing that keeps us fromtaking on big things is we can come
up with a million problems, right?
All these problems,like this is a problem.
Well, what about this?
What about that?
What about the next thing?
Or we can just like, we just findsolutions and just get started, right?
(06:49):
It's like.
In November, when I ran a 10 K, I reallyhurt my hip and oh man, it was bad.
It was burning pain for two weeks.
Anytime I sat down, it burned.
It was achy.
It was, it was really tough.
(07:09):
And it's like I kept on puttingoff a return to run because of the
pain and like, you know, maybe Ican wait longer and wait longer.
And I do know the, I do have anunderstanding of recovery, and one of the
ideas about recovery is you start very,very gentle, easy, slow, very low load.
Every couple days or so, youwatch for how it's changing,
(07:34):
and I just kept on going, oh no.
But yeah, the weather's bad.
And like there was so many, I hadall these reasons and then one day
it's like, oh my god, you know?
Uh, the time's gonna pass anyway.
Let's just start and like, I'll setmy watch to force me to go so slow.
It's not funny
(07:54):
and it felt insurmountable.
The amount of time to recover.
Like I remember when I finally got tolike 5K again, it was like, took me like
35 minutes and 40 seconds, which is like,I'm used to doing it in under 30 and it's
like, oh, this is gonna take forever.
And I remember going for a run, it'slike, is this ever gonna get any better?
(08:17):
But like it kept on going andtrusting and watching for the change.
And things started changing.
It went from running, sucked.
Sucked every minute
to okay.
It didn't suck so much to, hmm.
(08:37):
Actually doesn't suck to, whoa.
It started to feel good.
This is over like eight to 10, 12 weeks,and then suddenly it's like I'm waking
up at four in the morning, ready to gofor a run, like excited to go for a run.
(08:58):
Like, wow.
So like that.
Eight to 12 weeks, it seems like forever.
Right?
But had, had I just sat around and waitedfor things to get better for eight to 12
weeks, I'd be, where would I be right now?
(09:19):
You know, it, it's funny.
Um, one of the other excuses wehave for not taking on something
is, oh, I just don't have time.
Yeah.
And think about it.
If you really got honest, okay.
So I'm not being judgy here, but, andI'm not, I'm not boasting here, but I
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work six days a week, 12 hours a day.
I'm pretty much in the officeanywhere from six to 30 to seven 30
in the morning till seven at night.
Uh, except for Saturday, Iget an extra hour off because
they close the building early.
So I could honestly say I don't have time.
(10:05):
But what I was thinking about when Istarted taking on things, like when I
started the podcast, people were like,how do you have time to do a podcast?
Well, you know, after my longrun on Sunday, I've got time
to bang off a couple episodes.
So during the week I can haveconversations and like kind of develop
what I want to talk about and look upstuff and create kind of bubble thing and.
(10:30):
Yeah.
And then on Sunday after mylong run, I can come over to the
office and I can record a coupleepisodes, and then I can release
them one at a time during the week.
Because what I used to do on Sunday whenI'm just like, lay on the couch and die,
well not die, but you know, I'm so tired.
Oh, I'm so tired.
I'm just gonna watch TVand play on my phone.
(10:55):
And then of course with runninglike, oh, it's really hard to run.
'cause like, you know, sometimesI actually, sometimes I kind
of book people in early,
like, how am I gonna have time to run?
I need my sleep.
It's so, you know, I can'tmake it through the day.
It was like just all theseproblems and excuses.
(11:17):
And I, I really sat down and thoughtabout it and it's like I'm staying up
till like 10 30, sometimes 11 o'clock,and what am I doing with that time?
Nothing constructive.
I'm just like playing on my phone andI'm watching senseless TV programs
(11:37):
and then I go to bed.
So I thought, well, you know,I can gain back some time.
So.
You know, if I was to go to bed inbetween say eight 30 and nine o'clock,
then I can get up early and run.
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See, like we do always have time.
It's like the time is passing anyway,but like how much of our time are we
wasting on mindless or pursuits that arenot doing anything I even believe, um.
I am ready for somethingelse to come into my life.
Like, I've got the podcast, I've got myrunning, you know, uh, on the weekends
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when there's races, I got my photography.
And of course with the podcast andeverything, there's a bunch of social
media stuff that I do, but I, I actuallyhave some more time, so I'm interested.
I'm waiting to see what's next, right?
Because like literally all this time'sgonna pass anyway, and I feel like.
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Okay.
The only way to grow old in this lifeis to slow down and stop doing things.
If you stay really, really, really active,
you never grow old.
Or maybe what happens is you keep movingand you keep and learning and growing
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and keep sharp, and then one day yourbody gives up and you pass and maybe.
You're super active into your ninetiesor maybe right up to a hundred, and then
you know, there's a finite amount of timethis body can work on this planet, right?
Like that heart, the heart, thepump is incredible and it'll keep on
going as long as it possibly can, butthere comes a time when it's done.
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But
what if,
what if you have a desire to do something?
You know, it could be as easy as like,I love to learn to play the guitar.
No, that's not me.
My, my creativity comes intaking pictures and, and talking.
That's where I am right now.
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But if I had that desirein incredible way,
even though I know it would takea long time to get there, I'd
just find a way to fit it in.
And just keep on knocking it off andpracticing a little more and practicing,
because it's, if you think ofin life, it's, we spend so much
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time thinking about an outcome,
maybe we don't spend enough timethinking about the process, like
getting us on the way to the outcome
because in truth, the.
The act of getting moving.
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Uh, like I've said this before,it's really interesting.
It's like, so if you want to take onsomething new, first off, you're gonna go.
Time's gonna pass anyway.
Now, if it's a health change, a lot ofpeople avoid a health change because
they have this, this kind of fear, likeTony Robbins says this really well,
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that people will do more to avoid pain.
Than they will to achieve pleasure.
So literally, if you've hung more pain,and this is, this is me like, um, just
about like a year and a half ago, my, myblood pressure was 1 78 over 96, and I
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was sitting down with my doctor and theysaid, yeah, right now you're at a 25%
chance of a heart attack in the next.
Five years, and I'm like, whoa.
And before then I was trying tothink about like how to eat healthy,
how to like, like lose some weightbecause I was, I was, I think I was
about probably about 249 pounds.
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And so I asked the doctor if like,Hey, can I try to do this like
with exercise diet and try to likebring, bring my blood pressure down?
And I was able to get itdown quite significantly.
I think it was like around in themid one thirties, over like 80, 86.
And then we went on medication and uh,which was frustrating for me 'cause
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I thought I could accomplish this.
And it's kind of like a failure.
I brought it down that much.
I'm, I'm such a failure.
Um,
but then I don't know, on the pathI gained a little bit more weight,
uh, a little bit more of the weight.
I think I got up to, uh, uh, 2 39.
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Again, still not 10 point pounds,l lighter than I was before, but.
And my blood pressurestarted climbing again.
We had to raise up the medicationsand we were like, oh man.
And I really thought about the TonyRobbins quote, we'll do more to avoid
pain than we will to achieve pleasure.
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And I realized the pain of like, therewas something in the pain of like
watching what I eat and exercising andthat that was greater than the pain
of the change that I needed to make.
So I got really present with thefact that, you know, I started
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this podcast, there's a message Ireally want to get out in this life,
and the more I stay with a bloodpressure that high, the shorter this
life will be, the less time there willbe to develop and get this message out.
I just imagined like having a heartattack and realizing that there you go.
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Because the time's gonna pass anyway,
and now there's not enoughleft to get this message out.
It's like, I haven't quite lit myself onfire around this, but I'm working on it.
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So in the, in, since January 1st,I've, I've, I'm now under 200 pounds.
I training for a half marathon, tryingto be really careful 'cause I don't want
to, like, don't want to put myself inan injury state by not fueling properly.
But so far it's been pretty good.
Like I was fueling during my long runs
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because the time is gonna pass
and one day I will pass andI won't be here anymore.
So I may as well do it.
I may as well keep on working on thisphysical, mental, and emotional health and
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extending the time I can be on this planetin order to get my message out, to make
the biggest impact on this life I can.
'cause that's what I want to do.
And so, you know.
I am at the point now that I ambouncing outta bed at like four 20 in
the morning ready to go for my run.
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Never experienced this before, andthe truth is, had I not started that
eight or 10 weeks ago and sufferedthrough each of those runs is like.
Um, the other episode I'm recordingtoday, or I've recorded today is called
perseverance and I definitely was upagainst challenges in order to get
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to where I am, but now I'm coming onthe other side of those challenges.
Now there's still challengesbecause I'm nowhere near the pace.
Well, I don't know actually.
I don't know how to quantifythat, but I'm not at the pace.
I want to be over 21.1to achieve my a goal.
But that's why I created a Be goalbecause like if, if I'm on the day,
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if I'm feeling great, then I'llprobably knock it outta the park.
And if that's just not my day, thenI will achieve my BE goal, which
is complete and have fun doing it.
Honestly, whatever it is, whateverthat thing is that you want to do.
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I take an example from me, a guy whoworks 12 hours a day, six days a week.
Started out with photography, gotinto running, running races, started a
podcast to get my message out, puttingit all over social media to try to
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get it out to a larger audience andready and willing to take on more.
Because I, I just don'twanna waste any more time.
I really don't.
I've wasted too much time in this life,and a lot of that was like in order to
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get to where I am now, I had to changemy beliefs on like what I was capable
of and to let go of this idea that Ihad nothing to say that was valuable
for human, for the human beings andthat I interact with, or hopefully.
Maybe it's for the generalpopulation of the world.
Maybe there's something I havethat's gonna help them too.
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I mean, that's my biggest dream.
If I could actually, what was itlike I, a long time ago I heard of,
um, this, this thought process of apassive form of income where you could
be making money while you're asleep.
And I'm like, oh, what if I could createa passive form of making a difference?
Like, I could be sleeping and somebodyin the, in the world would be either
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reading something or listeningto something I said, and they're
like, that's it, that's the thing.
I was listening.
That's what, that's what I needed.
That's the thing that'll change my life.
Wow.
That'd be really cool.
And I, I, I'm not, I don't know if whatI'm doing here is having a real impact.
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Yeah, but I know for sure if I don'tdo it, I'm definitely not gonna have
an impact if I don't actually get outthere and do this over and over again.
If I don't do it now and daily andweekly, then I'll never have an impact.
Just like that one thing, whateverit is that you really want to do,
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that you're slightly avoiding.
That one thing, or maybe more thanone thing that you're not doing.
'cause it's too, it's gonna be toohard or it's gonna take too long,
or you don't have time or whatever.
Just get started.
You're never in this entireexistence on this planet.
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You're never gonna be younger thanyou are right now, ever again.
You're never gonna bemore capable ever again.
You're never gonna have more energy.
Ever again, and you'll never be closer toaccomplishing it than you are right now.
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Go for it.
The time's gonna pass anyway.
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