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Using everyday life to help you increaseyour confidence in your self esteem and generally
just be more very motivated to getout there and get on with it.
I don't know if I like theacoustics in this room. It's quite echoe.
Of just come to two of myboy's bedroom. Are you the twins
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who share a room? And Ialways thought it was quite a busy,
cluttered room with all their toys andstuff, But it sounds a bit echoe.
Anyway, let me know what youthink or not not really fast.
It's not gonna make a difference tothis episode recording it anyway. And I
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was thinking, I was thinking aboutconfidence and self esteem, and nothing spun
to mind in the last I don'tknow four minutes and I got to record
something and I just thought, well, let's talk about motivation. And I
think you, yes, you areincredible, and you would feel even better
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about yourself once you do this activity. Motivation comes from in right, and
you possess the strength and determination toovercome any obstacle. I know it.
I know it. You might not. You might not realize that, but
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trust in me. It's true.Motivation thrives when we take action. We
know that it's why we set outour hhffwc's. I'm not going to go
in that to that today, butif you don't know what that is,
go back through a few episodes andlisten. I'm sure it's probably come up
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in the last six or seven weeks. I'm going to give you a challenge
today. It's something practical that youcan implement in the next twenty minutes.
Because motivation comes from within. Youmay not be feel motivated now, but
I guarantee you once you get onand do this, you will feel more
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motivated afterwards. Do yourself a favor. Don't do this challenge lasting before you
go to bed, because that's theend of your day. The chance to
kick on to the next activity islimited. Do it earlier on in the
day so you have time afterwards tosay, I'm feeling good, I'm feeling
vibrant, I'm in the groove,I'm gett again on and get on with
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my next challenge and get motivated enoughto achieve my next goal. So within
the next twenty minutes, how abouta mini decluttering session. Choose a small
area of your house, maybe aspare room or your desk, or a
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draw and tidy it up, clearaway any any unnecessary items, organize the
remaining ones, remove it all,give it a wipe over to make it
clean and smell a bit nicer,remove all the dust, make it a
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focused space. A d clutter environmentcan do wonders for your productivity and productive
Could I talk any more like arobot? Can? You know? It
can do amazing things for your productivityand mental mental health and mental sort of
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clarity. And it allows you tobe in a place when if you're doing
it within the next ten or fifteenminutes and it takes you ten minutes,
it's it's a concept called what Irefer to as microblocking, where you just
say, I'm going to spend let'sget it over and done with. Start
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it now, boom, get itover and done with. Just get like
ten minutes nothing more. You're notspending the next eight hours doing this.
You're just spending ten minutes doing thatactivity, setting a line on your phone.
And then quite what often happens isafter that ten minutes, you're nearly
finished, and then you well,while I'm here, I just you know,
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finish it off, and then thatends up being twelve minutes or fifteen
minutes and then quite often you thenare in the groove to kick on and
continue with your motivation. While I'mdoing this, I might as well do
that. Before you know it,you've had a really productive day. And
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we know productivity leads to higher motivation, and higher motivation leads to greater productivity.
What's your excuse, you don't haveone. Make it happen today,
make it no, don't make ithappen today. Make it happen in the
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next twenty minutes. What are yougoing to do? What part of your
house or your car are you goingto declutter and tidy in the next twenty
minutes? Only for ten minutes,but you're going to do a proper job.
You're just not going to move thingsaround. You're going to take it
away. You're gonna wipe it.You're gonna make it clean, you're gonna
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make it smell fresh. You're goingto get rid of the bits that you
haven't used in the last couple ofweeks or months. You're going to tidy
up what you got and put itback. Do it. What are you
waiting for? Let me know howyou get on. Bye bye,