133 - Resolve

I got the guy's name wrong in the video, it's Jim Rohn. I saw a clip of his video that talked about resolve defined as keeping the promise to yourself to never quit. It got me thinking about a bunch of different things along these lines.

Episode Transcript

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Saw this video that I thoughtwas pretty cool. There's a guy I never heard of. His name is, I think it's Jim John. This, like, older dude, like, it looks like

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a like a preacher or something.But he was talking about this whole thing about, uh, the day that changes your life. I gotta watch the whole lecture. But
there was something in therethat was pretty interesting. He was talking about resolve, and he said the best explanation he ever heard was from a little
girl, and she said it's making apromise to yourself that you'll never give up. And I know I talked about this recently, like the idea of, like, knowing when

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to quit, when to pivot, or whento, you know, keep going. Because the idea, like, it's, I was talking about that meme, or, you know, a little illustration
where there's a guy digging fordiamonds, and then I think, like, the next slide, he's, he's walking away from the hole that he was digging, but the diamonds

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are, like, right on the otherside. So, like, he gave up too early. And there's all these, there's all these stories about giving up too early. And I, I
started thinking about it on thelevel of like, well, how do you know you're digging in the right spot? But with this idea of of, like, just thinking about
resolve, like, making a promiseto yourself that you'll never quit, I think, I think it all falls into the same shit. It's kind of like maybe, maybe you've

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got to switch where you'redigging and all that stuff. But it doesn't mean you're going to quit trying to achieve, whatever it is you're trying to achieve.
And so I was thinking aboutthat. And I was, like, evaluating myself. And like, how much resolve do I have in all areas of my life? And like, I

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found that, you know, maybe Ihave a lot for my business, you know, so every day I wake up and I just get to I get to work, and I do the stuff that I know needs
to be done, but at the sametime, you know, like everybody has good days and bad days, but, but every day, I do stuff to move forward in my business

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seven days a week, So I feellike I have the resolve to do that, but then I think about, like my physical health, like, that's the area that I feel like
I'm lacking. Like, I feel likeI'm shit, sorry. Should have waited. I feel like I, you know, I've gotten myself to a pretty, pretty good spot, but I know

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that I'm not where I want to be.And so what ends up happening for me is like, and I guess this ties into this idea of like, positive and negative momentum
is like, if let's see. How can Itie all this together? So let's stay on the resolve thing. I'll get into momentum so like I have the resolve to never give up on

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this business, you know, atleast for the foreseeable future. And so every day, I get up and I do what I feel like is needs to be done, and I see, you
know, it's paying off, like Imade a commitment to do this shit, and so over time, you start to see more and more benefits from it. So like

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posting more on social media,making more content, putting more effort into advertising and all that kind of stuff. And then I see, you know, sales are
getting better, and then you getsome momentum, and you're like, fuck. Okay, I got it. That kind of keeps pushing you forward, so, like, the resolve kind of
gets you going, and then it's,like, that flywheel effect, your resolve, of like, I'm never going to give up. So you keep pushing forward, and then you

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build some momentum. And then Iwas starting to think, like, how does that apply in all areas of my life? Like I got that with my business, but then I look at my
physical health, and it's like,I I told myself, I want to work out every day, or at least, like six days a week. I want to do seven days. But like, if I'm I

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feel like, you know, kind ofmessed up from the day before. Maybe I won't, but I don't know, either way I the the idea is, like, I want to get to where I'm
just working out every day.Like, I don't know if I want to get too far into it, but like, I have this idea for myself. Like, I know a lot of people say,
like, you could work out threedays a week and, you know, or something like that. But I feel like that's like, when you do that, like, you're gonna work

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out kind of a lot, you know,like, like a longer period. So I was like, maybe I could do it every day, but just do, like, shorter workouts, you know. And
I kind of like, put, put thelike. A plan together, and I figured it all out. I did a bunch of research, and I found that that's, like a strategy
that people use. And for me, itwas like, I need that consistency, and I need to build up those wins. So, like, if I get like, three, four days in a

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row, it starts kind of likebecoming a little easier. I stop, start building up momentum and but that's the thing that I fall off on the most. Like, I
don't fall too far off, but I,you know, I'll go a few days without working out. I'm like, fuck, I gotta get back into it. And then I got and then it's
kind of like starting themomentum back up. And so I'm like, why don't I have the same resolve for my physical health that I do for my business? And I

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don't really have the answer tothat, but it got me thinking, like, you know, you have a capacity for a lot of different things, so you may have a
limited capacity. I'm trying tothink of some stuff that I've heard it was like, there's a thing. Like, people talk about it. I don't know if it's real or
not, but they say, like,decision fatigue. So like, really high level CEOs that are, like, making all these decisions every day, they say, like,

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there's people that like MarkZuckerberg, I think is one of the people they referenced. They're like, the reason that he wears the same shit every day is
so that that's one less decisionhe has to make. So it's like you only have a capacity to make a certain amount of decisions every day, and then you start
getting like, just decisionfatigue, and you start making less and less good decisions, I guess. I guess that's what that means. And so I was wondering,

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do you have a capacity formomentum like deep, like, if you build up a shitload of momentum in one part of your life, and then you try to build up
momentum in another part. Solike, for me, like with my business, I have all this momentum. I'm waking up every day. I'm doing all my work. I

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can't imagine, like, not nothaving a day like that, right where I get my work done and but, like, I have a hard time building that same level of
momentum with my my own, youknow, physical activity, you know, so like working out every day, tracking my food and doing all the things that I want to do

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to get myself to where I want tobe. Now it's starting to wonder if, like, there's some kind of level to, I don't know, can you only have so much momentum? Is
there, like a Is there, like acap to it? I don't know if that's that's a good way to look at it, but it got me thinking about it, because I know, like,

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I know that there's a certainpoint. Like, you know, there's people that say, like, Oh, you got to work like, 1415, hours a day, and, like, wake up at three
o'clock in the morning and doall this shit and work, work, work and grind and all that kind of stuff. But like, then there's people that talk about, like,
the diminishing returns, youknow, like, after a certain amount of time, your your productivity is not really, I don't know. It's diminishing

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returns. I don't know. I don'tknow how to explain it. It's like, like, the first four hours of your day you're working and getting like, X amount of shit
done per hour. And then the morehours you stack on top, you get less and less done because you're fatigued. Your mind gets kind of fried. And so there's a
there's a certain amount ofcapacity you have for that kind of shit. And you know, I was just reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield and said his

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name. He was talking about thesame thing. He's like, I get up, I do my he has, like, a morning routine. He does all of that shit, and then he gets to work
writing. And he said he knows,around the four hour mark he starts making mistakes, and you know, that's where his diminishing returns kicks in. So

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that's when he stops. And sothere's people that say, you know, you would get more done if you didn't work, you know, 14 hours a day, like if you really
just worked, like, a solid sevenhours and then rested the rest of the time. You know that seven hours that you would do coming in rested would be more

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productive than the 14 hours hadyou just did 14 hours every day. And so I've been trying to, like, incorporate that into my life, and like, taking a little
bit of a break and not justworking all the time, because I don't know that makes sense, but then I thought about it from the momentum perspective, and I'm

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like, is there a way to mayberig this so that, like,
maybe I could leave a littlemore capacity, so that I could have momentum and. Multiple areas of my life. Because for me, it seems like when I have
one thing, like, really movingforward, something else, kind of, something else, kind of, like, gets pulled back, a little bit like, like my capacity to to

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do all of these things is, Idon't know. You know, It's dawning on me, as I'm talking about this, that it's probably like, if I did gain momentum in
my physical activity and I gotlike, and I don't even know, because I'm in pretty good shape, I'm not like, I'm not like, overweight. I don't need

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like, shit, but like, I feellike if I were to dial it in a little bit more and get that momentum in that area, then that would carry over to my work.
Because, like, with healthy foodand like, like a fit your keep your body fit and all that kind of stuff, you have more mental clarity. You have more energy.

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So maybe, maybe that is theanswer. Maybe I need to, kind of, like, focus on, like, the stuff in my business that really moves the needle forward the
most, and get get the otherstuff off my plate, which I already know I am supposed to do that. But like, there's a lot of things that I'm doing that I
probably shouldn't be doing,that I should be delegating to someone else if I were to do just the stuff that I can do that moves the needle forward

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the most, like if it's done byme, and then everything else gets delegated. And then I put that extra energy into being more consistent with my
workouts, being more disciplinedwith my food and and all these kind of things. I bet that would make my work more productive, because I would be more my my

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mental health would be a lotbetter. Well, I don't know if it would be a lot better, because I'm already in pretty good shape so, but I don't you know, maybe,
maybe, maybe I'm like, right atthe cusp of like, if I just get to this level of physical fitness, or physical health, or whatever, it's gonna move me to
this whole nother level ofproductivity. So I don't know if that's if that's right or wrong, but like, what's the downside being in better shape? Like,

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there's no downside to that,that being in better health is makes everything in your life better. So I don't know. I'm going to try that. So thank you
for letting me talk this out.Hopefully you gained some value from it. I don't know. I appreciate you guys. I will see you next time you

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