June 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Episode 85: Creating a Purpose-Driven Routine
reating a Purpose-Driven Routine with Kimen Petersen
In this episode of Conversations with Kimen, host Kimen Petersen delves into his daily routine, sharing insights on how to build a purposeful and fulfilling life. He reveals the importance of structuring life around goals rather than trying to fit goals into an already busy schedule. Kimen discusses his rigorous daily schedule, which includes working a full-time job, managing a podcast, training for a half marathon, and maintaining a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting. He emphasizes the significance of having a strong 'why' for any pursuit, the role of discipline in initiating action, and how movement leads to motivation. Kimen also touches on his past experiences with weight loss and how these have shaped his approach to personal and professional growth. This episode offers valuable lessons on time management, goal-setting, and the power of routine in achieving long-term success.
00:00 Introduction to Conversations with Kimen
00:28 Balancing a Busy Life 03:29 Daily Routine Breakdown
10:47 Support System and Gratitude
15:39 The Journey to Health and Fitness
19:42 Building a Podcast and Setting Goals
24:56 Creating Routine and Consistency
34:06 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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Transcript
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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.
Creating routine
kind of seems easy, doesn't it?
But I feel like there'sa little bit more to it.
So just to put it into context,I work at a job I love and I am
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in my office six days a week.
In between say 11 and 12and a half hours a day.
I have this podcast,
which I promote on threesocial media channels.
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So I record a minimum of twofull episodes a week, release
them on two Tuesday and Saturday.
I also, uh, record or.
Two video, like 62nd videos, clips that Ialso put up on my social media platforms.
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And typically it's either talkingabout an episode that I'm releasing or
a quote that I've heard, or somethingthat some really incredible, um,
motivational person has said or.
Or just reiterating some of thethings I've come up with in my life.
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I'm also training for half marathon.
Um, so I'm running 50 kilometers a week.
Like this morning.
Today's a Sunday This morning,the longest long run workout
that I've ever done in my life.
Um, I was out for just over two hours.
It was T 20 kilometers.
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It's really hard, uh, but wow,does it feel good to succeed?
So I run five days a week andthen I do strength mobility
and stretching twice a week.
And it's, it's interesting 'causethere was a time in my life where I
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was working seven and a half hoursa day, five days a week, and, uh.
I didn't have a lot of otherthings going on, nor did I
feel like I had a lot of time.
And this is interesting, right?
Like anytime people come up against, um,something new they want to implement,
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probably the first thing that getsin the way is I don't have time.
And I think it's a misconception.
Um.
Honestly, I'm just toldyou what I do, right?
I'm, you know, 60 hours a week.
Oh, I'm sorry, about 70, 72 hours a week.
I'm in the office.
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Um, literally.
So let me run you through,uh, my normal routine.
Uh, I wake up, um, probablyaround four 30 in the morning.
I, I have my, I have a coffee.
It's interesting.
I used to, um, with running, I used toget up and kind of groggy, get out the
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door and try to wake up on my run, butI've realized that there's something
to be said for getting up a bit earlierand just easing into your morning and
like taking a few minutes allowingyourself to wake up, like I said, a
drink, a coffee, and a glass of water.
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And just giving yourself time,like to become present and to
wake up before you start your day.
There's, there's something aboutthat, that, that little shift
has really changed my life.
Like have a little bit of you timein the morning and if that means
you gotta get up earlier, like,so one of the things I was, I.
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One of the misconceptions I hadrecently, um, as I was coming back
into running is that I don't have time.
I just don't have enough time.
I just don't have enough time.
And so I started thinking aboutwhat I was doing 'cause I was
going to bed about 10 30 at night
and I realized thisinteresting fact for me.
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Um, my wife goes to beda little bit earlier.
Um, so in be, it was like in betweenlike eight 30 and 10 30, we went to bed.
All I was doing was scrolling throughmy phone with the TV off in the
background, not doing anything productive.
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And it's like, it, it was like junk time.
It was like junk hours.
Like there was nothing, nothing.
Seriously, I wasn't taking on anything.
And literally, and then I waswaking up in the morning a bit
later and I was tired and groggy.
Anyway, that's the other thing.
Somebody like, um, somebodywho heard about my life,
they're like, aren't you tired?
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I'm like, yeah, I'm always tired.
I'm always tired.
But you know what?
When I get up in the morning and givemyself that little space, uh, of me
time, that half hour to drink coffeeand water before I get out for my
run, and then I get out for my run.
I'm literally alert and tired andclear and tired, which is so much
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better than groggy and tired.
So, like I was saying, so Iget up in the morning around
four 30, depending on the day.
It's either going to be strengthand mobility is typically,
uh, Monday and Friday.
Um, Tuesday is easy.
Run around six k. Wednesdayis a hard workout.
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Thursday is easy.
Run around seven K Friday,strength of mobility Saturday,
seven or eight K, easy run.
Sunday's gonna be my long runworkout, and each of those days I'm
waking up, you know, around four 30.
First thing I do is Ipour coffee and I just.
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Relax and start my day on the right note.
'cause I've found that whenyou start your day, like go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
That's what your day is.
It's like, oh, go, go, go.
Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
So I, um, I get home, I, I comeback from the gyms in the building,
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which is really, really convenient.
The more you can create your lifethat there's not a lot of travel.
The better.
Um, I work, I live within a half a blockof work, so I come home, um, have a
shower, pour another coffee, drink water.
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Right now I'm doing a ketogenicdiet with intermittent fasting,
so I don't eat till about 11.
So last I eat after work at at7:00 PM The next time I eat is 11.
Uh, so.
Come home, have myshower, drink my coffee.
Now, depending on what time I'mstarting, 'cause like one of the
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things is I work with a lot of athletesand sometimes they need to get in.
So sometimes I'lltypically, I will start, um.
Uh, my start times, depending on theday, like Monday's, usually 8:00 AM.
Tuesday's usually eight 30Wednesdays, eight 30 Thursdays,
eight 30, uh, Fridays either eightor eight 15 Saturdays eight 15.
That's my, my starting timewhen I get my first patient.
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And, but you know, sometimes athletesneed to get in my, I build my schedule
a year in advance, so I build in all thelong weekends with four day weekends.
Um,
and then I also build in my haircutsonce a month and I build in, uh,
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my own man therapy treatmentsonce, once a month for massage.
And then my physio only opensthe schedule every four months.
So I have to build that in later.
So I always leave space for that.
So, like I said, I'm eithercoming over for 7:00 AM or seven
30 depending on my start time.
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And I typically wanna beat work an hour before.
So in, in my practice, I, I feel likethe, the better you're set up for
the day, um, the better the day goes.
So I'll come in.
I'll set up the clinic, make sureeverything's clean, everything's stocked,
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and then I'll sit down and I'll gothrough all the charts of the day and
like take note of important things I gottaremember to check in on and see how people
are and like, so I can ask 'em what,what's been going on since last time.
I'll answer emails and bookpeople in or cancel appointments
depending on what needs to be done.
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And by the time.
The first person showsup, I'm ready to go.
So I'll see in between eight and ninepeople a day, and literally my last
appointment Monday through Friday isfive 30 to six 30, and there's 15 minutes
to half hour of cleanup, cleanup time.
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So literally, usually I'm home seven,seven o'clock or just afterwards.
As soon as I get home, ourpuppy, Bailey Huckleberry,
cutest little Berna you ever saw.
She just goes completely crazy.
It's like, you're home, you're home.
I, I thought you were never coming back.
So I give my wife a kiss.
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Uh, I go on the couch and sheheadbutts my ribs and I scratch
her bum and she lays down beside meand I cuddle her for a while until.
She's like, okay, I'm good.
She hops off the couch.
I go over, I have a shower.
Well, my wife is soawesome, so supportive.
'cause like there's, there'sbeen times where she's like,
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oh, I'm not as busy as you are.
I'm sorry I'm not.
I'm like, oh man.
She, she literally, she,she makes my coffee.
She's, she makes my breakfast andputs it in a container that I can
bring it, bring it over to work.
Um, she makes my salad and my,my dinner when I come home.
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Um, and I told her, I, I honestlydon't care how, how busy you are.
Um, I just really appreciate thesupport 'cause there's no way that I
could possibly do what I do withoutthe kind of support she gives me.
It's just, it would be impossible.
It's like I don't careabout the rest of us.
Like she creates a space where Ican actually do this incredible
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life that I have the way.
I love to do it.
Like I love my job.
I get to help people every day.
I have amazing conversations.
It's just, this is exactly whatI've dreamed of my whole life.
So anyway, I have a shower.
I eat, eat my food.
I go and I go and, uh, BaileyHuckleberry Huck on the couch.
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We cuddled for a bit.
Um.
Typically a puppy like this, um,they have a tendency to get infected
eyes and you gotta brush their teeth.
So we get some snacks and we brush theteeth and we wash their eyes, put on the
harness, and at 8:00 PM uh, I take her forthe last walk of the night, and then we
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come back and we sit on the couch again.
She really loves sitting onthe couch, cuddling, and then.
A lot.
My wife goes to bed about eight, uh8, 8 20, 8 30, and so about 10 or 15
minutes after we have cuddles on thecouch, Bailey goes down and sits on her
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favorite place on the floor and thenevent, eventually she stands up, she
walks, we have a crate in the bedroom.
She walks over to the bedroom door.
She stands and stares at the door, andthen she turns and looks at me and she
stares at the door and she looks at me.
I. Until I get up and I let her in, thenI stay up for a, a few more minutes until
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9:00 PM and I go to bed and I, I don'tset an alarm 'cause I don't need to.
Um, 'cause when I really got startedgetting into running as it started,
like getting like feeling betterand better and like I'm working
towards goals, it literally.
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It pulls me out of, uh,out of bed in the morning.
It's like, I'm ready to go, but firstI'm gonna have my coffee and I'm gonna
relax and I'm gonna get out there
and do my run.
So that is what my life looks like.
So if you think you don't havetime, I would, I would challenge
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you to take a look at my life andsay, do you really not have time?
Because I think if we get.
Really clear.
Oh, I guess I forgot, like I said, sowhen I get to work and I get everything
set up, then I edit and release, uh, one60 minute, uh, little social media post
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and put it on TikTok Instagram, and thenI also drop it on my YouTube shorts.
And if it's Tuesday morning, Ialso, uh, release a full episode
of conversations with Kimon orSaturday, like uh, or Saturday.
I also do it in the morning.
And then of course, right nowis Sunday, Sunday's long run.
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It's gonna be at least two hours.
We're gonna, next, next yearI'm gonna do a marathon.
So I'd be interesting tosee how long those runs are.
Um.
So I do my long run.
Then I meet, meet with a really goodfriend of mine for coffee and we have a
good chat and uh, I go and do a littlebit of shopping, have a bath and a shower,
and then I come over here and I recordtwo episodes and try to record 10 to 14
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shorts so I can make it through the week
and try to get home by two o'clock.
So Bailey Huckleberry andI can do a two hour walk.
Uh, Sunday's the day that we orderin, so we get some really good food
and it's a little bit more chill.
And of course I still do my 8:00 PM walk.
And then in the evening, um, inthe time before, right after Bailey
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Huckle go, Barry goes to bed, I'llalso release another 60, 62nd short.
So how did I create this light?
So you don't just jump in all this right?
I mean, one of the things I learned,um, way back in the day, my, my health
was really poor and I think I was, youknow, around 26, 26, 28 30, somewhere,
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uh, I literally was over 300 pounds.
Like the scale I hadwent up to 290 pounds.
And you know how the pin's like two.
Like two or three inches past the two90, it's one of those old style ones.
And that pin would go all the way overto this stop pin and start bending on it.
So I don't even know how much I weighed,but I was incredibly big and I realized
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I needed to do something about that.
So I talked to a close friendof mine and said like, I want
to do something about this.
It was January.
I wanna do hot yoga.
And I went, went and found a hot yogaclass, and I went down for my first class.
And I came in the door and I waslike, oh, so how much does it cost?
And I'm like, well, if you want to doone class, it's like $16, but like,
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or you could do like $20 for a fullweek, or if you're really crazy,
we just started a 30 day challengeand you could sign up for that.
And I'm like, can I think about it andmake a decision at the end of the class?
And I'm like, yeah, sure.
I went through this class and Irealized that I needed to do something.
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So I signed up for a 30 day challenge,which turned up into a 90 day, 96 days.
And then I took a day off and 126 days.
And I, I brought all this stuffinto my life and it's, it's really
interesting 'cause like I was tryingto figure out how am I gonna fit
this hot yoga class into my life?
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So I would, I would work, and therewere three different shifts I worked.
It was either, I think it was.
Six to three, seven totwo, or three to 11.
Those were the shifts.
And back then I realized that youcannot fit anything into your life.
You actually have to structureyour life around a goal.
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Like something like this.
'cause I was gonna do it every day.
So I realized, so ifI'm working the six to.
Six to two or seven to three,I need to take transit all the
way downtown to this hot yoga.
That was like after work, I go straightto yoga and when I'm working the later
shift, I have to get up earlier andI have to get my yoga in every day.
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'cause like literally if you, I don't knowanybody in my life that has all this space
that they can put things here and there.
Maybe it's just the people I'm surroundedby, but everybody's really busy.
So if you want to, if you want to addsomething into your life, you're gonna
have to build your life around it.
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So.
Point in case is my running right?
It's like I was, I was running now andthen, and I realized that I need to
do this consistently, consistently,but like, oh man, I'm so tired.
I need all this sleep.
And I just looked at mylife and I went, Hmm.
So I was this two hour period everynight, scrolling on my phone watching tv.
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What if I cut that back to ancut that back to a half hour
and then I get up earlier?
And the transition wasn't that tough.
So now, rather than getting up at,you know, like six, I get up at four
30 and I chill and I get my run outrunning and it's, wow, it really works.
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So I just kind of, I didn'tfit that into my life.
I built my life around it.
I changed.
W how late I'm up in order tocreate more time in the morning so
I can do what I wanted to do so Icould be successful in my dream.
See, if you, if you think about it,if you start, if you wanna bring
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something new into your life, yougotta build your life around it.
So then, you know, I was considering,you know, about a year and a half ago
I was considering, I wanna do this.
A podcast and like, so I just wentout and I bought a microphone.
'cause like you gotta start where you are.
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You gotta do what you can andyou gotta keep on doing that
over and over and over again.
And do I think I'm great at this?
I not, not yet, but I'm working on itand I'm committed to like really, really
working on this because it's awesome.
You know, the, the other thing aboutlike creating new things in your life,
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you really want to create routineand you want to create process.
You also have to understandwhy you want to do it.
Right.
For running, it was simple.
I was, I was heavy.
Again, not as heavy as I'd been,but I was probably, I think back
in January was about 239, I thinkNovember before I was 249 pounds.
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And like in January two at 2 39,my, my, uh, my blood pressure was
way too high and I had to go on medsand I, I was thinking about like,
I am just starting to getinto this incredible life and
there's stuff I want to do.
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Um.
I want to do big things with this andlike literally I need to, you know, I'm
57 years old, so I need as much time asI possibly can to get my message out.
So I need to do everything I can tomake sure that I'm gonna be here.
So my, why do I get up and exercise?
Why am I on a ketogenic diet andreducing my body fat content well?
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Reduce my body fat content.
If you're above 26% body fat, you'reat risk of, as a man of my age,
you're at risk of a whole bunch of,um, pretty serious health conditions.
But if you're under 26%, you're notat risk of of them as much anymore.
So this is why I am watching whatI eat and the whole thing, and this
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is also why I'm exercising and.
Literally, no matter what you'vedone in your life, you can slowly
build and you can create, uh, healthAgain, you can recreate your health.
And the reason I wanna recreatethis health is because I. I
wanna be here for as long.
I wanna stretch out.
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I feel like probably every run,all the health I'm creating is
adding days and days and days anddays and days and days to my life.
And what I'm trying to dohere is not easy stuff.
And the only ti way you getbetter at something is repetition,
repetition, repetition, working at it.
Keep on going, keep ongoing, keep on going.
Fall down.
Get back up.
Just keep on going.
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And that is what drags me out to runwhat creates the eating properly.
That's my why and my, thatwhy is connected to my big
why, and that's my podcast.
And my podcast is like, I've always knownthat I had something to say and wanted
to make a difference in people's lives.
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Like not just like one person at a time.
I wanna make a difference in the world.
And the only way I can do thatis to refine this message.
So all these other whys areconnected to my big why.
'cause the more days I have on thisplanet to refine my message and work at
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it, the more possibility that it willbecome big enough to help the world.
And yeah.
Is that an outrageous goal?
And probably impossible.
Sure.
But if you sit in this place wheresomething's impossible and you'll
never get there, so why even botherstarting like I recorded today?
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If not now when?
So I look at it this way, set amassive goal and give your life to it.
Like you believe you can achieve it.
And even if it's impossible, it doesn'tmatter because the person you say,
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if you stayed the person you wereand never started working to that
goal, and you were stagnant there,and then there's this other person,
you decided, I'm going for the goal.
And at the end of the life you lookback and see where you would've stopped.
When you see the distance you've comeand the ripples you've created and
the difference you've made in life, itdoesn't matter if you achieve the goal.
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No matter what goal you take on, ifyou take it on with all your heart
and soul, doesn't matter if youachieve because the person you become
in the pursuit of thatgoal will be so much more.
Then the person you wouldwould've been if you didn't,
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you know, one of the other things,like I said, so I took on, bought a
microphone, and I started recording.
I said I was gonna start, um,that year and I think it was 2020.
Was it 20?
It was probably Christmas, 2023.
And I've been recording through the whole2024 and through this half of 20, 25.
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And this is the other thing, if youwanna do something big and you have human
beings around you that will hold you toit and believe in your possibility, you
share your goals and dreams with them.
Now, if they're people whowill, oh, you can't do that.
Don't share it with those people.
I remember one of my athletes onetime, I was like, I was saying, yeah,
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I, I, I, I don't think I'm gonnatry running a marathon until I know
I can do it in this amount of time.
And they're like, Kim,in, what do you tell us?
I'm like, holy, thank you.
Thank you for calling me on that.
I'm gonna correct that.
I'm gonna do a marathon.
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Share your dreams withthe people around you.
See if you have these goals and dreamsand these things you want to do and
you're keeping them in your head,that's not a great place to keep 'em.
I mean, you can up that one by bywriting them down and it's like by
putting things on a schedule that'sgonna help you create routine.
But if you have people that can holdyou to account who can like call you.
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On it.
If you're not going forit, share it with them
and especially the motivationalpeople that like, you got this?
Come on.
Like, yeah, you said you were doing it.
Come on, let's go.
I wanna see that.
Like, let me know whenyou succeeded in that.
To create routine, you, itneeds to live outside of you.
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It needs to live.
On your calendar, on your goal sheets,on your vision board, all around you.
And the last thought, which is along thought I'm gonna leave you
with, and this is, this is probablythe key, and this is a key for me.
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It's like even, even with myrunning, I was like, I was
waiting to feel motivated to run.
At one point I. And I think,
I think a lot of us are convinced thatwe, we need to feel motivated to start,
but, uh, motivation doesn't, that'snot the, that's not where it starts.
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It never does.
It never starts with motivation.
Or maybe on the rare instance itcould, but I'm saying it really doesn't
start with motivation, honestly.
It starts when you decidewhat you're gonna do.
You put it on your calendar, you share itwith the people around you, and then you
got all these people holding you to it.
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And it all starts with discipline.
And discipline means you dowhat you say you're gonna do
when you say you're gonna do it.
So you get up in the rainand you run, and it sucks.
Cardiovascular.
It sucks the body, it sucks.
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It's just no fun.
It's wet, it's cold, and you just do it.
The interesting thing that I've found,especially in my running journey and
probably in everything I've, I'veactually succeeded, creating routine at
is disciplined.
When you, when you hold yourselfto it, it causes movement.
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Especially in my running or inanything you're doing, it causes
you to get out and get moving, getstarting in the direction of your,
of your goals.
Now, movement is interestingbecause as you're moving, as you
continuously, you're continuing tomove and you're getting some progress.
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That's when motivation comes in.
It doesn't come in first.
It comes in after you start movingand after you see the tiniest glimpse
of progress, like, oh my God, thatdidn't suck as much as it sucks.
That was my running thought one day.
Now
the, the, so now you've, you'vegot this motivation, right?
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So now you're motivated.
'cause you've seen a glimmer of hope.
You've seen a glimmer of progress,and that's what, like, that's what
really, really causes routine.
When you're motivated and you've seen someprogress, like, and like you're, you're
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going to, you've got it on the calendar.
You, you're starting to see some progress.
You're, you're getting it done.
Um, you're checking, checking the book.
Like when I was doing the hot yogaclasses every day I had this little
book of stickers and I had thiscalendar, and every day I put a
gold sticker when I did my class.
Yay.
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Uh, and that was routine.
Now the thing about routine is if youare routinely doing something, it's on,
on the calendar, you're checking it off.
That's, that's what startscreating consistency.
'cause like, you know, um,oh, why are you running?
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It's, it's my routine, I gotta do it.
And as you get really consistent andliterally there's this scientific idea
that it takes 21 days to create a habit.
Literally, like that's not that long.
Right.
But it's true.
If you do something consistentlyfor 21 days, you now have a habit.
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Now, at that point, if you chooseto stop doing it, that's a choice.
That's breaking your habit.
But now you have a habit.
And habit is where the magic comesin and where I'm I'm, I'm existing
in my running 'cause I took on acoach and the whole bit I wake up.
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Between four and 4 24.
4 26 every morning, and I'm up.
Am I tired?
Yes, but it, my runningpulls me outta bed.
My routine pulls me outta bed.
I'm pulled towards andI want to get out there.
Yeah.
Am I tired?
Yeah, sure.
But I, I wake up, I drinkmy coffee, I drink my water.
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I have this routine where I getdressed and I put on my music and
I crank it up and I go outside
and I run
and this is it.
This is like creating a routine is not asdifficult as it as it seems, but you gotta
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understand that you need to build yourlife around the things you want to do.
You need to.
Create them externally.
They can't just be in your head.
They have to be on a calendar on the wall.
You gotta figure outwhy you wanna do this.
Why do you wanna include this in life?
Is there a Do you have a powerful enough?
Why?
'cause literally, if you have apowerful A enough why it will, it will
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displace anyhow, and you'll just do it.
You walk through the discipline movement.
Motivation, routine, consistency,habit to get to the poll
and you realize you, you havemore time than you think.
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Like, trust me in the office,six days a week, run or hit
the gym seven days a week,
create.
At least two episodes.
Three this week, by the way.
And now I've gotta record,uh, 1460 second clips.
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And I did a two hour long run today
and I got my social mediaposts in this morning.
And I will get more into tomorrow.
You can do it and you know.
It, it takes, it takes a little work,but just create a big enough why?
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'cause you're worth it.
Hey, thanks for listening.
Again, I know this one was a little bitlonger than normal, but uh, this was
requested by somebody I know who was like,really would love to hear how I create
routine or how you can create routine.
So I hope this helps you.
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So the whole journey is moremanageable and joyful and fulfilling.
Creating routine
kind of seems easy, doesn't it?
But I feel like there'sa little bit more to it.
So just to put it into context,I work at a job I love and I am
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in my office six days a week.
In between say 11 and 12and a half hours a day.
I have this podcast,
which I promote on threesocial media channels.
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So I record a minimum of twofull episodes a week, release
them on two Tuesday and Saturday.
I also, uh, record or.
Two video, like 62nd videos, clips that Ialso put up on my social media platforms.
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And typically it's either talkingabout an episode that I'm releasing or
a quote that I've heard, or somethingthat some really incredible, um,
motivational person has said or.
Or just reiterating some of thethings I've come up with in my life.
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I'm also training for half marathon.
Um, so I'm running 50 kilometers a week.
Like this morning.
Today's a Sunday This morning,the longest long run workout
that I've ever done in my life.
Um, I was out for just over two hours.
It was T 20 kilometers.
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It's really hard, uh, but wow,does it feel good to succeed?
So I run five days a week andthen I do strength mobility
and stretching twice a week.
And it's, it's interesting 'causethere was a time in my life where I
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was working seven and a half hoursa day, five days a week, and, uh.
I didn't have a lot of otherthings going on, nor did I
feel like I had a lot of time.
And this is interesting, right?
Like anytime people come up against, um,something new they want to implement,
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probably the first thing that getsin the way is I don't have time.
And I think it's a misconception.
Um.
Honestly, I'm just toldyou what I do, right?
I'm, you know, 60 hours a week.
Oh, I'm sorry, about 70, 72 hours a week.
I'm in the office.
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Um, literally.
So let me run you through,uh, my normal routine.
Uh, I wake up, um, probablyaround four 30 in the morning.
I, I have my, I have a coffee.
It's interesting.
I used to, um, with running, I used toget up and kind of groggy, get out the
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door and try to wake up on my run, butI've realized that there's something
to be said for getting up a bit earlierand just easing into your morning and
like taking a few minutes allowingyourself to wake up, like I said, a
drink, a coffee, and a glass of water.
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And just giving yourself time,like to become present and to
wake up before you start your day.
There's, there's something aboutthat, that, that little shift
has really changed my life.
Like have a little bit of you timein the morning and if that means
you gotta get up earlier, like,so one of the things I was, I.
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One of the misconceptions I hadrecently, um, as I was coming back
into running is that I don't have time.
I just don't have enough time.
I just don't have enough time.
And so I started thinking aboutwhat I was doing 'cause I was
going to bed about 10 30 at night
and I realized thisinteresting fact for me.
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Um, my wife goes to beda little bit earlier.
Um, so in be, it was like in betweenlike eight 30 and 10 30, we went to bed.
All I was doing was scrolling throughmy phone with the TV off in the
background, not doing anything productive.
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And it's like, it, it was like junk time.
It was like junk hours.
Like there was nothing, nothing.
Seriously, I wasn't taking on anything.
And literally, and then I waswaking up in the morning a bit
later and I was tired and groggy.
Anyway, that's the other thing.
Somebody like, um, somebodywho heard about my life,
they're like, aren't you tired?
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I'm like, yeah, I'm always tired.
I'm always tired.
But you know what?
When I get up in the morning and givemyself that little space, uh, of me
time, that half hour to drink coffeeand water before I get out for my
run, and then I get out for my run.
I'm literally alert and tired andclear and tired, which is so much
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better than groggy and tired.
So, like I was saying, so Iget up in the morning around
four 30, depending on the day.
It's either going to be strengthand mobility is typically,
uh, Monday and Friday.
Um, Tuesday is easy.
Run around six k. Wednesdayis a hard workout.
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Thursday is easy.
Run around seven K Friday,strength of mobility Saturday,
seven or eight K, easy run.
Sunday's gonna be my long runworkout, and each of those days I'm
waking up, you know, around four 30.
First thing I do is Ipour coffee and I just.
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Relax and start my day on the right note.
'cause I've found that whenyou start your day, like go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
That's what your day is.
It's like, oh, go, go, go.
Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
So I, um, I get home, I, I comeback from the gyms in the building,
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which is really, really convenient.
The more you can create your lifethat there's not a lot of travel.
The better.
Um, I work, I live within a half a blockof work, so I come home, um, have a
shower, pour another coffee, drink water.
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Right now I'm doing a ketogenicdiet with intermittent fasting,
so I don't eat till about 11.
So last I eat after work at at7:00 PM The next time I eat is 11.
Uh, so.
Come home, have myshower, drink my coffee.
Now, depending on what time I'mstarting, 'cause like one of the
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things is I work with a lot of athletesand sometimes they need to get in.
So sometimes I'lltypically, I will start, um.
Uh, my start times, depending on theday, like Monday's, usually 8:00 AM.
Tuesday's usually eight 30Wednesdays, eight 30 Thursdays,
eight 30, uh, Fridays either eightor eight 15 Saturdays eight 15.
That's my, my starting timewhen I get my first patient.
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And, but you know, sometimes athletesneed to get in my, I build my schedule
a year in advance, so I build in all thelong weekends with four day weekends.
Um,
and then I also build in my haircutsonce a month and I build in, uh,
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my own man therapy treatmentsonce, once a month for massage.
And then my physio only opensthe schedule every four months.
So I have to build that in later.
So I always leave space for that.
So, like I said, I'm eithercoming over for 7:00 AM or seven
30 depending on my start time.
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And I typically wanna beat work an hour before.
So in, in my practice, I, I feel likethe, the better you're set up for
the day, um, the better the day goes.
So I'll come in.
I'll set up the clinic, make sureeverything's clean, everything's stocked,
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and then I'll sit down and I'll gothrough all the charts of the day and
like take note of important things I gottaremember to check in on and see how people
are and like, so I can ask 'em what,what's been going on since last time.
I'll answer emails and bookpeople in or cancel appointments
depending on what needs to be done.
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And by the time.
The first person showsup, I'm ready to go.
So I'll see in between eight and ninepeople a day, and literally my last
appointment Monday through Friday isfive 30 to six 30, and there's 15 minutes
to half hour of cleanup, cleanup time.
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So literally, usually I'm home seven,seven o'clock or just afterwards.
As soon as I get home, ourpuppy, Bailey Huckleberry,
cutest little Berna you ever saw.
She just goes completely crazy.
It's like, you're home, you're home.
I, I thought you were never coming back.
So I give my wife a kiss.
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Uh, I go on the couch and sheheadbutts my ribs and I scratch
her bum and she lays down beside meand I cuddle her for a while until.
She's like, okay, I'm good.
She hops off the couch.
I go over, I have a shower.
Well, my wife is soawesome, so supportive.
'cause like there's, there'sbeen times where she's like,
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oh, I'm not as busy as you are.
I'm sorry I'm not.
I'm like, oh man.
She, she literally, she,she makes my coffee.
She's, she makes my breakfast andputs it in a container that I can
bring it, bring it over to work.
Um, she makes my salad and my,my dinner when I come home.
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Um, and I told her, I, I honestlydon't care how, how busy you are.
Um, I just really appreciate thesupport 'cause there's no way that I
could possibly do what I do withoutthe kind of support she gives me.
It's just, it would be impossible.
It's like I don't careabout the rest of us.
Like she creates a space where Ican actually do this incredible
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life that I have the way.
I love to do it.
Like I love my job.
I get to help people every day.
I have amazing conversations.
It's just, this is exactly whatI've dreamed of my whole life.
So anyway, I have a shower.
I eat, eat my food.
I go and I go and, uh, BaileyHuckleberry Huck on the couch.
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We cuddled for a bit.
Um.
Typically a puppy like this, um,they have a tendency to get infected
eyes and you gotta brush their teeth.
So we get some snacks and we brush theteeth and we wash their eyes, put on the
harness, and at 8:00 PM uh, I take her forthe last walk of the night, and then we
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come back and we sit on the couch again.
She really loves sitting onthe couch, cuddling, and then.
A lot.
My wife goes to bed about eight, uh8, 8 20, 8 30, and so about 10 or 15
minutes after we have cuddles on thecouch, Bailey goes down and sits on her
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favorite place on the floor and thenevent, eventually she stands up, she
walks, we have a crate in the bedroom.
She walks over to the bedroom door.
She stands and stares at the door, andthen she turns and looks at me and she
stares at the door and she looks at me.
I. Until I get up and I let her in, thenI stay up for a, a few more minutes until
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9:00 PM and I go to bed and I, I don'tset an alarm 'cause I don't need to.
Um, 'cause when I really got startedgetting into running as it started,
like getting like feeling betterand better and like I'm working
towards goals, it literally.
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It pulls me out of, uh,out of bed in the morning.
It's like, I'm ready to go, but firstI'm gonna have my coffee and I'm gonna
relax and I'm gonna get out there
and do my run.
So that is what my life looks like.
So if you think you don't havetime, I would, I would challenge
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you to take a look at my life andsay, do you really not have time?
Because I think if we get.
Really clear.
Oh, I guess I forgot, like I said, sowhen I get to work and I get everything
set up, then I edit and release, uh, one60 minute, uh, little social media post
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and put it on TikTok Instagram, and thenI also drop it on my YouTube shorts.
And if it's Tuesday morning, Ialso, uh, release a full episode
of conversations with Kimon orSaturday, like uh, or Saturday.
I also do it in the morning.
And then of course, right nowis Sunday, Sunday's long run.
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It's gonna be at least two hours.
We're gonna, next, next yearI'm gonna do a marathon.
So I'd be interesting tosee how long those runs are.
Um.
So I do my long run.
Then I meet, meet with a really goodfriend of mine for coffee and we have a
good chat and uh, I go and do a littlebit of shopping, have a bath and a shower,
and then I come over here and I recordtwo episodes and try to record 10 to 14
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shorts so I can make it through the week
and try to get home by two o'clock.
So Bailey Huckleberry andI can do a two hour walk.
Uh, Sunday's the day that we orderin, so we get some really good food
and it's a little bit more chill.
And of course I still do my 8:00 PM walk.
And then in the evening, um, inthe time before, right after Bailey
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Huckle go, Barry goes to bed, I'llalso release another 60, 62nd short.
So how did I create this light?
So you don't just jump in all this right?
I mean, one of the things I learned,um, way back in the day, my, my health
was really poor and I think I was, youknow, around 26, 26, 28 30, somewhere,
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uh, I literally was over 300 pounds.
Like the scale I hadwent up to 290 pounds.
And you know how the pin's like two.
Like two or three inches past the two90, it's one of those old style ones.
And that pin would go all the way overto this stop pin and start bending on it.
So I don't even know how much I weighed,but I was incredibly big and I realized
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I needed to do something about that.
So I talked to a close friendof mine and said like, I want
to do something about this.
It was January.
I wanna do hot yoga.
And I went, went and found a hot yogaclass, and I went down for my first class.
And I came in the door and I waslike, oh, so how much does it cost?
And I'm like, well, if you want to doone class, it's like $16, but like,
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or you could do like $20 for a fullweek, or if you're really crazy,
we just started a 30 day challengeand you could sign up for that.
And I'm like, can I think about it andmake a decision at the end of the class?
And I'm like, yeah, sure.
I went through this class and Irealized that I needed to do something.
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So I signed up for a 30 day challenge,which turned up into a 90 day, 96 days.
And then I took a day off and 126 days.
And I, I brought all this stuffinto my life and it's, it's really
interesting 'cause like I was tryingto figure out how am I gonna fit
this hot yoga class into my life?
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So I would, I would work, and therewere three different shifts I worked.
It was either, I think it was.
Six to three, seven totwo, or three to 11.
Those were the shifts.
And back then I realized that youcannot fit anything into your life.
You actually have to structureyour life around a goal.
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Like something like this.
'cause I was gonna do it every day.
So I realized, so ifI'm working the six to.
Six to two or seven to three,I need to take transit all the
way downtown to this hot yoga.
That was like after work, I go straightto yoga and when I'm working the later
shift, I have to get up earlier andI have to get my yoga in every day.
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'cause like literally if you, I don't knowanybody in my life that has all this space
that they can put things here and there.
Maybe it's just the people I'm surroundedby, but everybody's really busy.
So if you want to, if you want to addsomething into your life, you're gonna
have to build your life around it.
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So.
Point in case is my running right?
It's like I was, I was running now andthen, and I realized that I need to
do this consistently, consistently,but like, oh man, I'm so tired.
I need all this sleep.
And I just looked at mylife and I went, Hmm.
So I was this two hour period everynight, scrolling on my phone watching tv.
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What if I cut that back to ancut that back to a half hour
and then I get up earlier?
And the transition wasn't that tough.
So now, rather than getting up at,you know, like six, I get up at four
30 and I chill and I get my run outrunning and it's, wow, it really works.
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So I just kind of, I didn'tfit that into my life.
I built my life around it.
I changed.
W how late I'm up in order tocreate more time in the morning so
I can do what I wanted to do so Icould be successful in my dream.
See, if you, if you think about it,if you start, if you wanna bring
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something new into your life, yougotta build your life around it.
So then, you know, I was considering,you know, about a year and a half ago
I was considering, I wanna do this.
A podcast and like, so I just wentout and I bought a microphone.
'cause like you gotta start where you are.
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You gotta do what you can andyou gotta keep on doing that
over and over and over again.
And do I think I'm great at this?
I not, not yet, but I'm working on itand I'm committed to like really, really
working on this because it's awesome.
You know, the, the other thing aboutlike creating new things in your life,
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you really want to create routineand you want to create process.
You also have to understandwhy you want to do it.
Right.
For running, it was simple.
I was, I was heavy.
Again, not as heavy as I'd been,but I was probably, I think back
in January was about 239, I thinkNovember before I was 249 pounds.
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And like in January two at 2 39,my, my, uh, my blood pressure was
way too high and I had to go on medsand I, I was thinking about like,
I am just starting to getinto this incredible life and
there's stuff I want to do.
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Um.
I want to do big things with this andlike literally I need to, you know, I'm
57 years old, so I need as much time asI possibly can to get my message out.
So I need to do everything I can tomake sure that I'm gonna be here.
So my, why do I get up and exercise?
Why am I on a ketogenic diet andreducing my body fat content well?
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Reduce my body fat content.
If you're above 26% body fat, you'reat risk of, as a man of my age,
you're at risk of a whole bunch of,um, pretty serious health conditions.
But if you're under 26%, you're notat risk of of them as much anymore.
So this is why I am watching whatI eat and the whole thing, and this
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is also why I'm exercising and.
Literally, no matter what you'vedone in your life, you can slowly
build and you can create, uh, healthAgain, you can recreate your health.
And the reason I wanna recreatethis health is because I. I
wanna be here for as long.
I wanna stretch out.
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I feel like probably every run,all the health I'm creating is
adding days and days and days anddays and days and days to my life.
And what I'm trying to dohere is not easy stuff.
And the only ti way you getbetter at something is repetition,
repetition, repetition, working at it.
Keep on going, keep ongoing, keep on going.
Fall down.
Get back up.
Just keep on going.
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And that is what drags me out to runwhat creates the eating properly.
That's my why and my, thatwhy is connected to my big
why, and that's my podcast.
And my podcast is like, I've always knownthat I had something to say and wanted
to make a difference in people's lives.
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Like not just like one person at a time.
I wanna make a difference in the world.
And the only way I can do thatis to refine this message.
So all these other whys areconnected to my big why.
'cause the more days I have on thisplanet to refine my message and work at
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it, the more possibility that it willbecome big enough to help the world.
And yeah.
Is that an outrageous goal?
And probably impossible.
Sure.
But if you sit in this place wheresomething's impossible and you'll
never get there, so why even botherstarting like I recorded today?
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If not now when?
So I look at it this way, set amassive goal and give your life to it.
Like you believe you can achieve it.
And even if it's impossible, it doesn'tmatter because the person you say,
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if you stayed the person you wereand never started working to that
goal, and you were stagnant there,and then there's this other person,
you decided, I'm going for the goal.
And at the end of the life you lookback and see where you would've stopped.
When you see the distance you've comeand the ripples you've created and
the difference you've made in life, itdoesn't matter if you achieve the goal.
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No matter what goal you take on, ifyou take it on with all your heart
and soul, doesn't matter if youachieve because the person you become
in the pursuit of thatgoal will be so much more.
Then the person you wouldwould've been if you didn't,
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you know, one of the other things,like I said, so I took on, bought a
microphone, and I started recording.
I said I was gonna start, um,that year and I think it was 2020.
Was it 20?
It was probably Christmas, 2023.
And I've been recording through the whole2024 and through this half of 20, 25.
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And this is the other thing, if youwanna do something big and you have human
beings around you that will hold you toit and believe in your possibility, you
share your goals and dreams with them.
Now, if they're people whowill, oh, you can't do that.
Don't share it with those people.
I remember one of my athletes onetime, I was like, I was saying, yeah,
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I, I, I, I don't think I'm gonnatry running a marathon until I know
I can do it in this amount of time.
And they're like, Kim,in, what do you tell us?
I'm like, holy, thank you.
Thank you for calling me on that.
I'm gonna correct that.
I'm gonna do a marathon.
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Share your dreams withthe people around you.
See if you have these goals and dreamsand these things you want to do and
you're keeping them in your head,that's not a great place to keep 'em.
I mean, you can up that one by bywriting them down and it's like by
putting things on a schedule that'sgonna help you create routine.
But if you have people that can holdyou to account who can like call you.
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On it.
If you're not going forit, share it with them
and especially the motivationalpeople that like, you got this?
Come on.
Like, yeah, you said you were doing it.
Come on, let's go.
I wanna see that.
Like, let me know whenyou succeeded in that.
To create routine, you, itneeds to live outside of you.
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It needs to live.
On your calendar, on your goal sheets,on your vision board, all around you.
And the last thought, which is along thought I'm gonna leave you
with, and this is, this is probablythe key, and this is a key for me.
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It's like even, even with myrunning, I was like, I was
waiting to feel motivated to run.
At one point I. And I think,
I think a lot of us are convinced thatwe, we need to feel motivated to start,
but, uh, motivation doesn't, that'snot the, that's not where it starts.
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It never does.
It never starts with motivation.
Or maybe on the rare instance itcould, but I'm saying it really doesn't
start with motivation, honestly.
It starts when you decidewhat you're gonna do.
You put it on your calendar, you share itwith the people around you, and then you
got all these people holding you to it.
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And it all starts with discipline.
And discipline means you dowhat you say you're gonna do
when you say you're gonna do it.
So you get up in the rainand you run, and it sucks.
Cardiovascular.
It sucks the body, it sucks.
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It's just no fun.
It's wet, it's cold, and you just do it.
The interesting thing that I've found,especially in my running journey and
probably in everything I've, I'veactually succeeded, creating routine at
is disciplined.
When you, when you hold yourselfto it, it causes movement.
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Especially in my running or inanything you're doing, it causes
you to get out and get moving, getstarting in the direction of your,
of your goals.
Now, movement is interestingbecause as you're moving, as you
continuously, you're continuing tomove and you're getting some progress.
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That's when motivation comes in.
It doesn't come in first.
It comes in after you start movingand after you see the tiniest glimpse
of progress, like, oh my God, thatdidn't suck as much as it sucks.
That was my running thought one day.
Now
the, the, so now you've, you'vegot this motivation, right?
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So now you're motivated.
'cause you've seen a glimmer of hope.
You've seen a glimmer of progress,and that's what, like, that's what
really, really causes routine.
When you're motivated and you've seen someprogress, like, and like you're, you're
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going to, you've got it on the calendar.
You, you're starting to see some progress.
You're, you're getting it done.
Um, you're checking, checking the book.
Like when I was doing the hot yogaclasses every day I had this little
book of stickers and I had thiscalendar, and every day I put a
gold sticker when I did my class.
Yay.
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Uh, and that was routine.
Now the thing about routine is if youare routinely doing something, it's on,
on the calendar, you're checking it off.
That's, that's what startscreating consistency.
'cause like, you know, um,oh, why are you running?
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It's, it's my routine, I gotta do it.
And as you get really consistent andliterally there's this scientific idea
that it takes 21 days to create a habit.
Literally, like that's not that long.
Right.
But it's true.
If you do something consistentlyfor 21 days, you now have a habit.
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Now, at that point, if you chooseto stop doing it, that's a choice.
That's breaking your habit.
But now you have a habit.
And habit is where the magic comesin and where I'm I'm, I'm existing
in my running 'cause I took on acoach and the whole bit I wake up.
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Between four and 4 24.
4 26 every morning, and I'm up.
Am I tired?
Yes, but it, my runningpulls me outta bed.
My routine pulls me outta bed.
I'm pulled towards andI want to get out there.
Yeah.
Am I tired?
Yeah, sure.
But I, I wake up, I drinkmy coffee, I drink my water.
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I have this routine where I getdressed and I put on my music and
I crank it up and I go outside
and I run
and this is it.
This is like creating a routine is not asdifficult as it as it seems, but you gotta
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understand that you need to build yourlife around the things you want to do.
You need to.
Create them externally.
They can't just be in your head.
They have to be on a calendar on the wall.
You gotta figure outwhy you wanna do this.
Why do you wanna include this in life?
Is there a Do you have a powerful enough?
Why?
'cause literally, if you have apowerful A enough why it will, it will
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displace anyhow, and you'll just do it.
You walk through the discipline movement.
Motivation, routine, consistency,habit to get to the poll
and you realize you, you havemore time than you think.
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Like, trust me in the office,six days a week, run or hit
the gym seven days a week,
create.
At least two episodes.
Three this week, by the way.
And now I've gotta record,uh, 1460 second clips.
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And I did a two hour long run today
and I got my social mediaposts in this morning.
And I will get more into tomorrow.
You can do it and you know.
It, it takes, it takes a little work,but just create a big enough why?
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'cause you're worth it.
Hey, thanks for listening.
Again, I know this one was a little bitlonger than normal, but uh, this was
requested by somebody I know who was like,really would love to hear how I create
routine or how you can create routine.
So I hope this helps you.
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Have a great day.
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