February 8, 2023 • 15 mins
Let’s talk about starting new! It’s not the same as starting over and it doesn’t have to happen at the beginning of the year. Starting new happens when we begin our journey towards a new version of yourself. It also happens every time you recommit to that goal. You can start new today with new habits and new actions that get you closer to your goal of breaking into tech or leveling up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the You Are Techie podcast,
episode number 159.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the You Are Techie podcast, where it's
all about growing in your techso you can find the tech job of
your dreams.
And now your host technologylearning coach, Ellen Tomi.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey moms, are you trying to break into tech?
Are you wondering what skillsyou really need to get hired and
how those skills can be worth$45an hour instead of the$25 an
hour you thought when you firststarted thinking about going
back to work?
If so, then the your techymembership is for you.
Our combination of courses,coaching and community come with
(00:49):
the mentor support you need tokeep moving forward in your tech
career.
It's like no other membershipprogram available.
We have the exact skillsemployers are looking for.
You'll learn how to maximizeyour income with portfolio ready
skills that hiring managers areseeking.
Not to mention the steps you canskip so you don't find yourself
down that endless tech learningrabbit hole.
(01:09):
Join me as I walk you step bystep through the getting hired
process and tech signup@techie.com.
That's Y O U A R E T E C H y.com.
I can't wait to see you in ourmembership.
Welcome to the show.
Today we're talking aboutstarting new.
So this is a topic that a lot ofpeople like to discuss around
(01:33):
the new year, and I purposefullyput this episode not immediately
after the new year.
So this is originally beingreleased in the beginning of
February where a lot of our NewYear's resolutions are falling
off of the wayside.
And I wanna encourage you thatregardless of where you are with
your New Year's resolutions,that you resolve to achieve your
(01:56):
goals again and you'd start newagain.
So we're gonna be talking aboutstarting new and when that
happens and what it feels likeand what to do about it,.
So when you're starting new, asI just mentioned, a lot of times
we use the New Year's resolutionto start new, but I think it's
(02:17):
very helpful to having yourbrain that you are capable of
starting new at any time.
That's a really important thing.
And I wanna make a quick asidefor my teachers and moms out
there that another time we tendto wanna start new or feel like
we're starting new is the schoolyear.
I've made the joke that I often,Kevin and I will have to clarify
(02:40):
if we mean the calendar year orthe school year because I was
raised by two teachers.
I taught with five kids inschool.
We, we often move on theschool calendar, the school
year.
So maybe there are two timesJanuary and August or September
where you feel like you canstart new.
But I want to give youpermission and really encourage
(03:01):
you that you can start new atany time.
At any time.
And so starting new is reallyjust a commitment and oftentimes
it's a recommitment.
So I think that one of the bigchallenges with starting new is
that we don't recognize how muchconvincing our brain takes to
(03:23):
start new.
And even after a few months, wefeel like, well, I should know I
shouldn't really be starting newanymore.
But your brain doesn'tunderstand that.
Your brain needs to be remindedagain and again.
Your brain needs to be remindedof the goal.
Your brain needs to be remindedof the why of the goal.
And then your brain needs to bere reminded of the action steps
(03:47):
or Tony Robbins' massive actiontowards that goal.
And then all of that.
And I would say that's at leastweekly.
And then your brain needs to bereminded.
But hopefully daily, what is theone next right thing?
So what is the one next rightaction step?
And that's why I always talkabout breaking down, getting
hired into two very simpleconcepts, which is building your
(04:09):
community and building yourportfolio.
Because then you can look at itand you can say, am I building
my portfolio?
It gets really tricky becauseI'm watching this video on
Figma.
Am I building my portfolio?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
It really depends on the lensthat you are doing it with.
If you're like, well, this isjust helpful to know, the answer
is no.
If you're doing somethingtowards one of your projects and
(04:30):
you don't know how to do it andyou're watching the video so you
can know it and then you pauseit and then you go do it, then
the answer is yes, doesn'tmatter a perfect scenario.
But I like to be very clear withour actions, this action is
helping us.
This action is not when we allowwiggle room or gray space or
like kind of is this, or we'renot specific, that's when we can
(04:50):
kind of go down that techlearning rabbit hole.
That's when we can kind of veeroff.
Okay?
And then when it comes tobuilding our community array, we
have this process around go tomeetups, go to conferences, meet
people, follow up with them,move forward.
But ultimately you want to bebuilding a community where you
can ask someone, will you hireme?
Will you hire me?
No.
(05:11):
Okay, why not?
You're not hiring.
Okay, you don't think I have theskills?
Okay, what skills am I missing?
Okay, can you introduce me tosomeone who can hire me and love
saying this because my studentsand I laugh, like that's so easy
for me to say, oh, you just askthem for a job.
And it's so filled with theemotion and fear and terror,
right?
When it breaks down to it,that's really what you're doing.
(05:32):
Now, not every person in yourcommunity, I don't want you to
be scoping them up for like,well, I'm not gonna talk to you
if you can't offer me a job.
That's not like a common problemthat I go across.
Oh, so most of the time peopleare building their communities
and they love the part where Iteach on serving them so much
that they wonder why you'rehelping them.
And so I think when you give topeople and you just give
(05:55):
authentically from your heart,that's a part of your
day-to-day.
That's great, that's fantastic.
That's what you should be doing.
And you can be thinking, willthis person hire me?
When will this person hire me?
How can this person hire me?
Am I building the right skillsfor this person to hire me?
But notice that I didn't say, amI done with my portfolio?
So a lot of times I know peoplewho get hired before their
(06:17):
portfolio is quote unquote done.
And the reason for that isbecause building your portfolio
is usually enough.
Doing the work of the portfoliois usually enough.
And usually the risk is that youspend too much time on your
portfolio.
And that doesn't mean that Ithink it should be junky or it I
should be great.
But there's a saying in startupthat if you are not embarrassed
(06:40):
of your M V P, like of yourfirst release, then you've
released too late.
And that's a real problem inbuilding a company.
And that's a real problem ingetting hired that you can
overdo your portfolio and just,I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
No, it's much better to have asection that's, you know,
missing or coming soon or to befilled in, but you are applying
(07:02):
for jobs and talking to peopleand letting them know you're
ready and just updating yourportfolio along the way.
It's more important that you'redoing the work is my point.
And you don't wanna spend somuch time on your portfolio that
you aren't actually doing, youaren't actually designing or
developing that.
That's a real fear and a realproblem.
And so, okay, kind of backingthis up to starting new.
(07:24):
When we're starting new, thevery, very important thing is to
remind our brain what we'redoing.
We are not into the habit yet.
We don't quite know what ourroutine is, what it means to
build our community, what itmeans to build our portfolio.
And I just touched on a fewthings, but what's the one next
(07:45):
right step?
You have to think about thatevery day.
And I use a planner, a print off, I tweaked it a little bit.
It's adapted from BrendanBouchard's High Performance
Academy.
What I love about something thatBrendan once said that was
really meaningful to me is likethey said, what would people be
surprised about you?
(08:05):
And he said, they'd be surprisedhow much time I spend planning
what I will do and thinkingabout what I will do.
And I thought that was reallyimpactful.
And then I remember they askedhim how long, and I forget if it
was two or four hours, and Idon't remember if that was per
week or per day.
But the point is that most of usare not spending that much time
thinking about exactly what wewill do.
And this only gets exacerbatedwhen we're talking about
(08:27):
starting new.
One of the reasons that we quitis that we haven't given
ourselves the time to remindourselves exactly what we should
be doing.
And then at the end of the day,if we don't quite get it done or
do it or do exactly what wesaid, then we're like mad at
ourselves.
And then that leaves us withthoughts that we're not really
committed.
And so really, if you justremind yourself every day, okay,
(08:49):
think deeply about what I shouldbe working on, and then do that
work to the best of yourability, regardless of if that's
eight hours or one hour, or twohours or 25 minutes, whatever
the time is that you have, thatyou're pushing forward and
making progress.
And then at the end of that timeperiod, just taking a minute and
saying, I showed up for myself.
I showed up to build this newhabit.
(09:10):
Look at what I did.
This is, this is so essential tostarting new.
And a main reason why people donot continue is that they're
always starting something new.
It's not going the way theythought.
Well, in the beginning it'salways very tricky to even know
the right steps to take.
So reminding yourself what theyare is very important.
(09:31):
We can start new.
Anytime you can recommit tosomething that you've started,
it does not matter how long.
I know that it feels like maybeyou've tried other things, it
didn't quite work, but yourjourney is your journey and you
will need as much time as youneed to continue to build those
(09:52):
habits and build the righthabits in the right way.
And so why not enjoy that?
Why beat yourself up along theway?
That's really ineffective way todo it.
So when you are starting new,how it will feel is overwhelmed
a lot of overwhelm, which is whyreminding yourself exactly what
you're working on.
And in that Brennan Bashard andthere's, it's, you can search
for it.
I'm sure it's a productivityplanner, like it's a free
(10:14):
download in that there are twomajor things.
So there's room for other spots,but there are two major things
that you do.
And I have a lot of otherplanner.
I feel like I like embed that inlike four systems because I
think it's really important toknow what the bigger picture is.
And I love starting new, I lovestarting new, but really there's
a harm in starting new.
(10:35):
There's a harm that if you'realways starting something
different new, then you're notgonna make any progress.
And so I wanna encourage you tostart your goals new again, the
same goals, not changing yourgoals.
So if you're listening to this,I'm hoping that's, you know,
breaking into tech.
And so if you're breaking intotech and you're thinking, yeah,
but I tried that, I've done it.
I, you know, I went to abootcamp or I've been working on
(10:58):
it for a year, or I've tried toleave teaching and it just
didn't work.
I tried to do this over thesummer.
Listen, you don't know when it'sgonna take.
You don't know exactly when thetransition's gonna be.
And the more and more energy youput towards it, the better and
better your prospects ofachieving that goal are.
So I wanna remind you thatstarting something new can be
exciting, but then it can alsobe overwhelming and that's
(11:22):
normal.
And recommitting yourself tothat goal, that same goal, and
just again, committing to it andresolving yourself to the fact
that you will have that outcomeis part of the process.
Because your brain is going tofight you on this.
It's going to say, no, you can'tdo that.
No, you're not gonna be a goodmom.
(11:43):
No, your family can't handle it.
Whatever.
What if my kid gets sick?
And just in case you'rewondering if your kid gets sick,
then you go take care of yourchild.
That is what happens.
So or you work from homethat day, that's just the way it
works.
Or you take them to the doctor.
So people who are working taketheir kids to the doctor all the
(12:04):
time.
And I only laugh a little bitbecause I had the exact same
thoughts, like, what do I do ifmy children need me?
What if they need me in themiddle of the day?
Can I tell you how many times inthe middle of the day my
children have needed me?
It is like very rare.
And if they do, okay, then youleave a meeting.
But if you are showing up everyday and you are doing the work
(12:25):
you are supposed to do, thenyour child needing you once a
quarter or every other month isjust not that big of a deal,
right?
Even if you have five.
So the focus here on startingnew, I just wanna remind you
that you can choose the samegoals and just start a new way
of doing it.
Start a way of doing it whereyour brain, you are reassuring
(12:46):
your brain every day.
Like, Hey, hey, this is whatwe're doing.
Everything's okay, everything'sokay.
When you are away from yourwork, do not be surprised if
your brain goes into freak outmode and is naming all of the
fear and all of the ways thatthis will not work.
And so that's a very normalthing to have happen, but you
(13:06):
don't have to indulge in thoseemotions and thoughts.
Just stay, remind your brainwhat you're doing.
It'll be okay.
And when your brain's like, ohyeah, how?
Then we'll figure it out andthen sit down and actually do
the work.
That is actually a calming thingfor your brain to help your
brain say, you know what?
We are committed to this.
(13:27):
Look, we are making progress.
And remember that it's notreally how much time you put in
it in a given day.
It's more important that you'reputting in consistent time every
day and showing up every day.
And some of you have differentschedules.
You say, well, it's a three daya week thing for me, no problem.
But I do feel like theconsistency of showing up is the
(13:49):
important thing.
So for most of you doing thatfive days a week is a great
idea.
And if you are transitioningfrom staying at home, you likely
will need a weekend coffee shop,work session, or an evening,
take an evening away frombedtime and go to the coffee
shop and do that.
And I say, go to the coffeeshop.
Because one final point onstarting new, changing your
(14:14):
environment, even subtly, likeby leaving the house and going
to a coffee shop is reallypowerful for your brain to say,
whoa, she means business.
She means this is for real.
So I know that sometimes it'sjust easier to just open your
laptop at home and you'rethinking, I'm, or you work all
(14:35):
day, or like Ellen been gone allday.
I understand.
And you know, maybe the changeof environment for you is at
home.
But I do think that getting awayfrom all of the distractions,
like some of you are really intocleaning what is wrong with you?
But you know, getting away fromthe laundry in the dishes and
just being in an environmentwhere it's not your job to take
(14:57):
care of any of that.
It's just your job to focus onyour work and what you're doing
is calming and reassuring foryour brain and helps your brain
as you're starting new, whetheryou've had this goal for a long
time and your habits arestarting new, or you are brand
new to this goal and you arebuilding those habits.
(15:17):
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I'll see you next time.
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I'll see you next time.
You are listening to the You Are Techie podcast,
episode number 159.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the You Are Techie podcast, where it's
all about growing in your techso you can find the tech job of
your dreams.
And now your host technologylearning coach, Ellen Tomi.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey moms, are you trying to break into tech?
Are you wondering what skillsyou really need to get hired and
how those skills can be worth$45an hour instead of the$25 an
hour you thought when you firststarted thinking about going
back to work?
If so, then the your techymembership is for you.
Our combination of courses,coaching and community come with
(00:49):
the mentor support you need tokeep moving forward in your tech
career.
It's like no other membershipprogram available.
We have the exact skillsemployers are looking for.
You'll learn how to maximizeyour income with portfolio ready
skills that hiring managers areseeking.
Not to mention the steps you canskip so you don't find yourself
down that endless tech learningrabbit hole.
(01:09):
Join me as I walk you step bystep through the getting hired
process and tech signup@techie.com.
That's Y O U A R E T E C H y.com.
I can't wait to see you in ourmembership.
Welcome to the show.
Today we're talking aboutstarting new.
So this is a topic that a lot ofpeople like to discuss around
(01:33):
the new year, and I purposefullyput this episode not immediately
after the new year.
So this is originally beingreleased in the beginning of
February where a lot of our NewYear's resolutions are falling
off of the wayside.
And I wanna encourage you thatregardless of where you are with
your New Year's resolutions,that you resolve to achieve your
(01:56):
goals again and you'd start newagain.
So we're gonna be talking aboutstarting new and when that
happens and what it feels likeand what to do about it,
So when you're starting new, asI just mentioned, a lot of times
we use the New Year's resolutionto start new, but I think it's
(02:17):
very helpful to having yourbrain that you are capable of
starting new at any time.
That's a really important thing.
And I wanna make a quick asidefor my teachers and moms out
there that another time we tendto wanna start new or feel like
we're starting new is the schoolyear.
I've made the joke that I often,Kevin and I will have to clarify
(02:40):
if we mean the calendar year orthe school year because I was
raised by two teachers.
I taught with five kids inschool.
We
year.
So maybe there are two timesJanuary and August or September
where you feel like you canstart new.
But I want to give youpermission and really encourage
(03:01):
you that you can start new atany time.
At any time.
And so starting new is reallyjust a commitment and oftentimes
it's a recommitment.
So I think that one of the bigchallenges with starting new is
that we don't recognize how muchconvincing our brain takes to
(03:23):
start new.
And even after a few months, wefeel like, well, I should know I
shouldn't really be starting newanymore.
But your brain doesn'tunderstand that.
Your brain needs to be remindedagain and again.
Your brain needs to be remindedof the goal.
Your brain needs to be remindedof the why of the goal.
And then your brain needs to bere reminded of the action steps
(03:47):
or Tony Robbins' massive actiontowards that goal.
And then all of that.
And I would say that's at leastweekly.
And then your brain needs to bereminded.
But hopefully daily, what is theone next right thing?
So what is the one next rightaction step?
And that's why I always talkabout breaking down, getting
hired into two very simpleconcepts, which is building your
(04:09):
community and building yourportfolio.
Because then you can look at itand you can say, am I building
my portfolio?
It gets really tricky becauseI'm watching this video on
Figma.
Am I building my portfolio?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
It really depends on the lensthat you are doing it with.
If you're like, well, this isjust helpful to know, the answer
is no.
If you're doing somethingtowards one of your projects and
(04:30):
you don't know how to do it andyou're watching the video so you
can know it and then you pauseit and then you go do it, then
the answer is yes, doesn'tmatter a perfect scenario.
But I like to be very clear withour actions, this action is
helping us.
This action is not when we allowwiggle room or gray space or
like kind of is this, or we'renot specific, that's when we can
(04:50):
kind of go down that techlearning rabbit hole.
That's when we can kind of veeroff.
Okay?
And then when it comes tobuilding our community array, we
have this process around go tomeetups, go to conferences, meet
people, follow up with them,move forward.
But ultimately you want to bebuilding a community where you
can ask someone, will you hireme?
Will you hire me?
No.
(05:11):
Okay, why not?
You're not hiring.
Okay, you don't think I have theskills?
Okay, what skills am I missing?
Okay, can you introduce me tosomeone who can hire me and love
saying this because my studentsand I laugh, like that's so easy
for me to say, oh, you just askthem for a job.
And it's so filled with theemotion and fear and terror,
right?
When it breaks down to it,that's really what you're doing.
(05:32):
Now, not every person in yourcommunity, I don't want you to
be scoping them up for like,well, I'm not gonna talk to you
if you can't offer me a job.
That's not like a common problemthat I go across.
Oh, so most of the time peopleare building their communities
and they love the part where Iteach on serving them so much
that they wonder why you'rehelping them.
And so I think when you give topeople and you just give
(05:55):
authentically from your heart,that's a part of your
day-to-day.
That's great, that's fantastic.
That's what you should be doing.
And you can be thinking, willthis person hire me?
When will this person hire me?
How can this person hire me?
Am I building the right skillsfor this person to hire me?
But notice that I didn't say, amI done with my portfolio?
So a lot of times I know peoplewho get hired before their
(06:17):
portfolio is quote unquote done.
And the reason for that isbecause building your portfolio
is usually enough.
Doing the work of the portfoliois usually enough.
And usually the risk is that youspend too much time on your
portfolio.
And that doesn't mean that Ithink it should be junky or it I
should be great.
But there's a saying in startupthat if you are not embarrassed
(06:40):
of your M V P, like of yourfirst release, then you've
released too late.
And that's a real problem inbuilding a company.
And that's a real problem ingetting hired that you can
overdo your portfolio and just,I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
No, it's much better to have asection that's, you know,
missing or coming soon or to befilled in, but you are applying
(07:02):
for jobs and talking to peopleand letting them know you're
ready and just updating yourportfolio along the way.
It's more important that you'redoing the work is my point.
And you don't wanna spend somuch time on your portfolio that
you aren't actually doing, youaren't actually designing or
developing that.
That's a real fear and a realproblem.
And so, okay, kind of backingthis up to starting new.
(07:24):
When we're starting new, thevery, very important thing is to
remind our brain what we'redoing.
We are not into the habit yet.
We don't quite know what ourroutine is, what it means to
build our community, what itmeans to build our portfolio.
And I just touched on a fewthings, but what's the one next
(07:45):
right step?
You have to think about thatevery day.
And I use a planner, a print off, I tweaked it a little bit.
It's adapted from BrendanBouchard's High Performance
Academy.
What I love about something thatBrendan once said that was
really meaningful to me is likethey said, what would people be
surprised about you?
(08:05):
And he said, they'd be surprisedhow much time I spend planning
what I will do and thinkingabout what I will do.
And I thought that was reallyimpactful.
And then I remember they askedhim how long, and I forget if it
was two or four hours, and Idon't remember if that was per
week or per day.
But the point is that most of usare not spending that much time
thinking about exactly what wewill do.
And this only gets exacerbatedwhen we're talking about
(08:27):
starting new.
One of the reasons that we quitis that we haven't given
ourselves the time to remindourselves exactly what we should
be doing.
And then at the end of the day,if we don't quite get it done or
do it or do exactly what wesaid, then we're like mad at
ourselves.
And then that leaves us withthoughts that we're not really
committed.
And so really, if you justremind yourself every day, okay,
(08:49):
think deeply about what I shouldbe working on, and then do that
work to the best of yourability, regardless of if that's
eight hours or one hour, or twohours or 25 minutes, whatever
the time is that you have, thatyou're pushing forward and
making progress.
And then at the end of that timeperiod, just taking a minute and
saying, I showed up for myself.
I showed up to build this newhabit.
(09:10):
Look at what I did.
This is, this is so essential tostarting new.
And a main reason why people donot continue is that they're
always starting something new.
It's not going the way theythought.
Well, in the beginning it'salways very tricky to even know
the right steps to take.
So reminding yourself what theyare is very important.
(09:31):
We can start new.
Anytime you can recommit tosomething that you've started,
it does not matter how long.
I know that it feels like maybeyou've tried other things, it
didn't quite work, but yourjourney is your journey and you
will need as much time as youneed to continue to build those
(09:52):
habits and build the righthabits in the right way.
And so why not enjoy that?
Why beat yourself up along theway?
That's really ineffective way todo it.
So when you are starting new,how it will feel is overwhelmed
a lot of overwhelm, which is whyreminding yourself exactly what
you're working on.
And in that Brennan Bashard andthere's, it's, you can search
for it.
I'm sure it's a productivityplanner, like it's a free
(10:14):
download in that there are twomajor things.
So there's room for other spots,but there are two major things
that you do.
And I have a lot of otherplanner
I feel like I like embed that inlike four systems because I
think it's really important toknow what the bigger picture is.
And I love starting new, I lovestarting new, but really there's
a harm in starting new.
(10:35):
There's a harm that if you'realways starting something
different new, then you're notgonna make any progress.
And so I wanna encourage you tostart your goals new again, the
same goals, not changing yourgoals.
So if you're listening to this,I'm hoping that's, you know,
breaking into tech.
And so if you're breaking intotech and you're thinking, yeah,
but I tried that, I've done it.
I, you know, I went to abootcamp or I've been working on
(10:58):
it for a year, or I've tried toleave teaching and it just
didn't work.
I tried to do this over thesummer.
Listen, you don't know when it'sgonna take.
You don't know exactly when thetransition's gonna be.
And the more and more energy youput towards it, the better and
better your prospects ofachieving that goal are.
So I wanna remind you thatstarting something new can be
exciting, but then it can alsobe overwhelming and that's
(11:22):
normal.
And recommitting yourself tothat goal, that same goal, and
just again, committing to it andresolving yourself to the fact
that you will have that outcomeis part of the process.
Because your brain is going tofight you on this.
It's going to say, no, you can'tdo that.
No, you're not gonna be a goodmom.
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No, your family can't handle it.
Whatever.
What if my kid gets sick?
And just in case you'rewondering if your kid gets sick,
then you go take care of yourchild.
That is what happens.
So
works.
Or you take them to the doctor.
So people who are working taketheir kids to the doctor all the
(12:04):
time.
And I only laugh a little bitbecause I had the exact same
thoughts, like, what do I do ifmy children need me?
What if they need me in themiddle of the day?
Can I tell you how many times inthe middle of the day my
children have needed me?
It is like very rare.
And if they do, okay, then youleave a meeting.
But if you are showing up everyday and you are doing the work
(12:25):
you are supposed to do, thenyour child needing you once a
quarter or every other month isjust not that big of a deal,
right?
Even if you have five.
So the focus here on startingnew, I just wanna remind you
that you can choose the samegoals and just start a new way
of doing it.
Start a way of doing it whereyour brain, you are reassuring
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your brain every day.
Like, Hey, hey, this is whatwe're doing.
Everything's okay, everything'sokay.
When you are away from yourwork, do not be surprised if
your brain goes into freak outmode and is naming all of the
fear and all of the ways thatthis will not work.
And so that's a very normalthing to have happen, but you
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don't have to indulge in thoseemotions and thoughts.
Just stay, remind your brainwhat you're doing.
It'll be okay.
And when your brain's like, ohyeah, how?
Then we'll figure it out andthen sit down and actually do
the work.
That is actually a calming thingfor your brain to help your
brain say, you know what?
We are committed to this.
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Look, we are making progress.
And remember that it's notreally how much time you put in
it in a given day.
It's more important that you'reputting in consistent time every
day and showing up every day.
And some of you have differentschedules.
You say, well, it's a three daya week thing for me, no problem.
But I do feel like theconsistency of showing up is the
(13:49):
important thing.
So for most of you doing thatfive days a week is a great
idea.
And if you are transitioningfrom staying at home, you likely
will need a weekend coffee shop,work session, or an evening,
take an evening away frombedtime and go to the coffee
shop and do that.
And I say, go to the coffeeshop.
Because one final point onstarting new, changing your
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environment, even subtly, likeby leaving the house and going
to a coffee shop is reallypowerful for your brain to say,
whoa, she means business.
She means this is for real.
So I know that sometimes it'sjust easier to just open your
laptop at home and you'rethinking, I'm, or you work all
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day, or like Ellen been gone allday.
I understand.
And you know, maybe the changeof environment for you is at
home.
But I do think that getting awayfrom all of the distractions,
like some of you are really intocleaning what is wrong with you?
But you know, getting away fromthe laundry in the dishes and
just being in an environmentwhere it's not your job to take
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care of any of that.
It's just your job to focus onyour work and what you're doing
is calming and reassuring foryour brain and helps your brain
as you're starting new, whetheryou've had this goal for a long
time and your habits arestarting new, or you are brand
new to this goal and you arebuilding those habits.
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I'll see you next time.
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