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 Welcome back to another episode of The Road to Life podcast with Meredith and Craig. Special episode. This is episode a hundred, 100, 100 weeks in a row without missing a single week, a hundred straight weeks. , That's a pretty cool accomplishment. I'm really proud of us. I am too. And that's the topic of the episode is we're gonna talk about consistency, discipline.

And what it's taken for us to get to a hundred episodes. 'cause I think it's something like, the top 1%, there's like 1% of podcasts get to a hundred episodes or something. Oh, I think it's even less than a hundred. We should have picked that up before. We definitely should have. We definitely should have done some homework.

Well look it up. We'll put it in the show notes. We didn't, but I think it's an interesting set of like 1% or 1% of the 1%, or it's a very small number of podcasts ever get to the hundredth episode. Yeah. So, so. Cheers. Kudos. A hundred episodes. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, and it's taken a lot, to be honest, like it's taken a some help because we've gone through some shit this year that we probably wouldn't have been able to get these podcasts out if it was just us.

So shout out to Timor for all his help, helping us get them edited and posted and all the good things. So yeah. Timor's been a huge help getting everything on the back end set up and, going for us post it. Because, so yeah, big thank you to him. When my dad died, we never would've got our podcast out for a couple weeks if it wasn't for him.

So thank you. Yeah. Thank you to all of you guys for listening. That makes, it way more fun that we're not just talking to ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you to you for sure. And thank you to us. That's right. For showing up. Every day. And that's really the topic of, the episode is, showing up every day and being able to just put in the work.

Yep. One step in front of the other. Even when it's boring. Even when you don't want to, even when it's hard. Like there have been times where I have not wanted to hit play. Hit record on the podcast. Mm-hmm. Not wanted to do it, but we said to ourselves. Like, let's just hit play. Let's just do it. Let's just record a podcast.

We didn't have a clue what we were doing. . It's almost two years. And it, we'll talk about this more in four episodes. Yeah. 104 will be two years. Exactly. But it's been almost two years. Mm-hmm. Of showing up every day and putting it out. Mm-hmm. And yeah, many a times I was like, Ugh, I don't, I don't feel it.

I don't feel it right now. , And that's why we started the episode with the celebration actually, because it's the celebrating. The constantly celebrating the small things like the pressing record, when you don't feel like pressing record, celebrating yourself , for the consistency, celebrating ourselves for doing it.

It's the celebrating that gets us in momentum so that when you run into an obstacle or when you run into a day where you don't feel motivated and you don't feel like doing it. Still do it because you've got momentum and you're not gonna stop now. And it's made it a lot easier. But going through this together mm-hmm.

So that when one of us is like I don't feel like, yeah, but we need to. Mm-hmm. We made promise to ourselves that accountability. We're gonna, we're gonna show up and we're gonna do it we're not gonna miss a week. We're gonna do it every, we're gonna launch an episode every single week without fail, without miss, and a hundred weeks in a row.

Here we are. Yep. So. We start with celebrating because it's so important to build momentum, and you'll never achieve the big goal if you don't celebrate all the small steps along the way. So starting with celebration. So that's one of the key ways to keep you in discipline, keep you in motivation to keep hitting record, to keep showing up,

getting to the gym every day to keep showing up and building the business to keep showing up and hitting record on the podcast. Mm-hmm. So what are some other ways that we've incorporated that have allowed us to be able to get to a hundred without fail , like consistently every week hitting that goal?

I think there's two big things. One is celebrating and two is discipline. Yeah. And we've been talking about discipline a little bit this week actually, just as it happened on something else. And we're pretty good at discipline. We weren't always. I would say we were not always, it's the muscle that , we've built, yes, , it's a skill.

It's a muscle that we've built over the last four or five years. We were not always so disciplined. We are more disciplined now, and we've done that through a series of different activities and, actions that we've taken to build the muscle of discipline. But one thing we've been talking about this week is why have we gotten good at discipline?

Like , what is it that we do that allows us to be disciplined? Because it comes up like some people, it came up specifically this week on a mastermind column. Yeah. Someone wanted to go to the gym and they weren't feeling motivated to get there. Yeah. I said, well, why do you wanna go to the gym? And the answer was kind of wishy-washy.

Yeah. It wasn't like, my reason for going to the gym is I wanna show up every day at the gym so that I can have a healthy, long life so that I can prolong my life, so that I can have extra time with you. Mm-hmm. And so when we ask this person, you know, what's your reason? What's your motivation for going to the gym?

I kind of would like to be more efficient at whatever it was. Mm-hmm. And it was just kind of a, eh, nice to have. Mm-hmm. Not a must. Mm. Yeah. And so I think really dialing in and figuring out what is the thing that you can think about when it's like, Ugh, I don't wanna do that. Yeah. But, but it's, if you do, this is where you're headed.

Yeah. This is what you're going for. It's in service of the thing you ultimately want. Yeah. It's in service of the big thing, the big life that you want. It's driving you towards the thing , the big thing that you want. It's interesting, and we've started talking about this this week, is. Living in the future versus living for the future.

Right. It's a, very big distinction mm-hmm. That we wanna make very, very clearly right now is like living for the future is showing up today so that you have the thing that you want tomorrow. Mm-hmm. It's living in service of those big goals. Yes. It's doing the thing.

, It's having your eye on the prize, the North Star. Yeah. What is that thing? Even when you don't feel like it? Yeah. You do the thing to get you there. Exactly. 'cause that's the thing that you're, building towards. That's living for living for the future. We don't, that's discipline. We don't wanna be living.

In the future and then not being present in our every day, right? And being aware of what's going on around us and, and living in the moment. We still wanna do that with the idea of what we're building towards in the future, right? Because living in the future breeds anxiety. If you're constantly future pacing and living in the future, you're always worried about what's going to happen.

So you're missing the moments right now. So you don't wanna be living in the future and living in anxiety. You wanna be living in the present. 'cause that's where happiness and joy exist. It's the only place they exist. So living in the present allows you to live happier, but when you live for the present.

You're living for instant gratification, instant satisfaction. You're doing what you feel like doing right now in this moment, not necessarily what will get you where you want to go. , You'll choose the short-term comfort. Mm-hmm. Instead of choosing short-term discomfort, which is where the growth happens, so that you can get to the ultimate prize, which is long-term comfort, long-term.

I get the thing that I want at the end of the day. Right? So , , it's making that decision in the moment of, am I gonna choose comfort or discomfort and choosing comfort. You're living for the now, right. Versus living for the future. And so when you live for the future, you have discipline. When you live in the future, you have anxiety.

When you live in the present, you have happiness. And when you live for the present, you stay stuck where you are. You never actually grow and progress and get the things that you actually wanna achieve in life. And so to your point, you're trading the thing you ultimately want, like the big dream, the big things that you want in your life for the instant gratification.

The thing that you feel like doing right now. You're trading that thing you ultimately want for the thing you just feel like having in the moment. That's how we applied this concept to basically the podcast, is we know that in service of our main goal, which is to have a huge impact and help a ton of people with their relationships, we have to hit record.

Mm-hmm. We have to hit play. We have to show up every day, every week to have that impact. Mm-hmm. Even though in the moment sometimes it's like, yeah, but I don't want to, I am. I don't feel like it. I'm comfortable sitting right here, not doing that. Yeah. That would be living in the now versus it would be living.

Living for the present. For the present instead of living for the future. Yeah,

so discipline was a big part of how we got here, a hundred episodes in not missing a week. And like I said, discipline was not something that we used to be good at in our corporate lives. We were not as good as discipline. I was not as good at discipline as I am now. I certainly lived a lot more for the present than I lived for the future.

Then, and so that's been a shift and something I've learned how to do and , it comes easier now than it did because I've practiced it. Yeah. Old me definitely lived the opposite. Living for the present. Yeah. And in the future for sure. Versus in the present for, for the future. Correct. Yeah. It's, a 180 switch and.

Do you feel happier now that you live in the present and for the future? Yeah. Yeah, me too. A hundred percent. Like it's not even close. Yeah. It's night and day different. Yeah. Yeah. Like the anxieties dial down. , and I'll tell you the, anxiety's down, but the amount of things that would normally cause anxiety is way up.

Yeah. Being an entrepreneur is hard entrepreneurship's not for the faint of heart. No. It comes with its stresses and all the anxieties and all the things. Mm-hmm. But being able to live in the moment and just understand that this is a process and we're working through some stuff. Mm-hmm. It has helped dramatically allow me to live in the present and for the future.

Yeah. Yeah. 'cause if I was still living the way I used to live, like, like you said before, if I was still living in the future for the present, I would not be sleeping. , The panic button would've been hit many a times. Yeah. Yeah. , I think that's actually the secret code.

. That's the secret skill that's gonna get you anything you want in your life, whether it's in your business, in your health, in your marriage. The big life you want comes from living for the future and still living in the present.

I used to think that discipline was like basically handcuffs. Like , it was the opposite of what I was looking for in life. I wanted freedom and I thought discipline was basically telling me what to do, when to do it. And what I realized is that discipline is actually the opposite.

, It is what gets you to freedom. , It's. Showing up every day, doing the little things that you don't necessarily want to do in the moment that help you build the life that allows you to do all the things that you want, when you want to do them with who you want to do them wherever you want to do them.

It is the ultimate path to freedom, and I never really understood that before. , I always took that for granted, that it felt like discipline was me handcuffing myself and not allowing me to do the things I want when in actual fact. The path to get exactly everything I want. Mm-hmm. That's such a good point.

So thank you for celebrating with us in this episode, and thank you for following along on our journey on this podcast. And now, question for you. What's one area of your life where you could introduce more discipline? Or what's one, thing you're gonna take from this episode? And execute in your life 'cause we love having a chitchat with you.

But information is only useful if you actually put it into action. So , what's one thing you're gonna do differently this week based on our little chitchat here? And on that note, we will see you next week in episode 101, one for every dalmatian. Bye bye.

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