Jun 27, 2023
A lot of compromises can be a slippery slope. One compromise leads to another, then another, then next thing you know, shit can get out of control. It happens to all of us. The key is to keep an eye on it, and if you do fall off track, get that momentum going again. Even if you have to force it.
Find Bus on various platforms linked here:
https://bus.graffitimachine.com/
Full Transcript
0:00
I want to talk about something I'm dealing with right now. It's
like this fucking slippery slope. Like when you compromise on one
thing, how it kind of leads to more and more compromises. And I got
a bunch of shit written out here. But I want to start just kind of
defining what I mean by that. So like, let's just say, you're
trying to live a different kind of lifestyle than you normally do.
And this could apply apply to a lot of different things. I know I
talked about like health and fitness a lot. But this is where I'm
dealing with it right now. But a little later on. I'm also going to
talk about some other some other things where I've seen this happen
and other things, other examples where it might might apply. But in
actuality, it can apply to just about anything, but let me get into
it. Because I'm already rambling.
0:49
What I'm talking about here is like, like, for me, for example,
what's happening right now is, as I mentioned, I broke my toe, and
it kind of threw off my exercise. And then I think that was a
worthwhile thing to sort of, I don't even know if that would fall
under the category, but it was a worthwhile thing to sort of step
away from just temporarily until my my foot healed up, it was like,
but what I'm talking about are the times when you call something
off, when you know, you should, and you don't really have a good
reason to.
1:24
So for example, like, I like to be healthy. So that requires eating
healthy. And it requires exercise and moving around and shit. For
the most part, I don't necessarily enjoy all of those things, you
know, I, I do like the food that I eat, you know, I've been eating
healthy food for a long enough period of time to where I've found a
xqlot of recipes that I like, and I've learned how to cook in
season things in the way that you know, they really do taste just
as good as the shitty food. But there's still kind of like a draw
to like those sugary things or, you know, stuff with extra fat or
kind of like fast food type of shit, there's always that kind of
draw to want to eat that stuff.
2:06
So that's kind of what I'm talking about. So. So even though I want
to live that life, there's always like, times when I have to kind
of talk myself out of doing something that I'm not supposed to do,
and when it's when it comes to exercise. For most of the time, I
have to, I have to really talk myself into into doing that, because
it's not something I really enjoy doing. But and so like a good
example of a compromise would be, you know, I wake up in the
morning, I'm all tired. I do my kind of basic routines have a cup
of coffee drink, read, read my 10 pages. And then after I read my
10 pages and get a meditation session in, that's when I'm supposed
to work out. So a lot of times, when it gets to that point where
I'm supposed to work out, I really have to kind of tell myself,
Hey, man, it's time to get this done.
2:57
And so if I, if I choose not to do that, let's say, right now I'm
on a good kind of pattern, I guess you could say I'm working out
six days a week, not doing 75 hard right now, I'm just kind of like
working out six days a week and kind of doing everything else I'll
get back on 75 hard a little later. But right now I want to try
this thing I read this book called simple and sinister. It's worth
checking out. It's pretty cool. It's like this kind of kettlebell
workout. So I really wanted to try that. So that's what I'm doing
six days a week. And it's pretty easy to get myself to do that,
even after a few days in a row because you get a streak going. And
I'll talk about that a little bit later. But let's say you know,
I'm on a good path, and everything's going well. And then one day
I'm like, You know what I just really don't feel like working out.
And that's the kind of compromise I'm talking about.
3:50
So it's not the kind of compromise where I'm like, You know what, I
got some lower back pain, I think it probably be better to rest
today. So I can get after it tomorrow. That's not the same thing.
It's when you when you know you should do something, but you make a
conscious decision to not do it simply because you don't want to do
it and you let that sort of inner dialogue when that little battle
with yourself. And so anyway, back to like what what I'm dealing
with currently, like I'm back on the exercise, but over the time
while I was waiting for my, my foot to heal, and I was kind of
taking it easy. I sort of compromised a little bit too much on my
food.
4:31
And so I'm never ever going back to where I was. And that was
quite, I mean, I was never like massively overweight, but I was
probably I'd probably say like 60 pounds overweight was like the
heaviest I ever got, which is just, you know, it's not healthy and
I don't I don't ever want to go back to that. But that being said,
I did compromise quite a bit over these last few weeks. And I
really see the the effects of it, you know, so now I add these
workout shorts that I wear all the time. And they're, they don't
fit, they don't fit as good as they used to, they're kind of tight,
and there's certain shirts I can't wear right now. I mean, I'll get
it back together pretty quickly, with, with clean food and
exercise, I didn't go that far off the rails.
5:19
But the fact is, is this is what I wanted to talk about, it's a
slippery slope. And, and the further down the slope you get, the
easier while I would say the harder it is to get back on track. So
like I said, it starts with like, one compromise, right. And maybe
that was like, me deciding not to work out. Because I had broke my
big toe, I probably could have worked out. So I don't know if I
should or, or shouldn't have, and I talked about that already. So
I'm not gonna get too far into it. Maybe I could have and maybe
that was the compromises started leading down the path.
5:23
And so. So what's interesting about the slippery slope is like, not
only when you compromise in one area, it starts making it easier to
compromise in other areas. So the not working out anymore, sort of
gave my brain a little bit of a free pass, so to speak, to
compromise on my food a little bit more. And then, you know, I'm
kind of, in sort of a mental rut a little bit with work and the
things that I'm supposed to be doing with work, like I'm working
all the time, but like, I'm not being as productive as I should be.
I think that's also kind of tying in, in a way, like, compromising
in one area, allows compromises in other areas.
6:39
So, you know, when you compromise, also, it could kind of impact
like your perceived failure, so to speak. So like, let's say,
you're on a diet or your, you've decided, I don't really like that
idea of, of a diet, like the temporary sort of, like, I'm gonna eat
like this for this amount of time and lose this much weight. Like
I, I never really did well with that stuff. But for me, it was
always like, I need to make a lifestyle change and, and do
something like when I was young, I was in high school, and I
started working out. And I was, remember, I was working out three
days a week, my dad had bought some weight set or some shit. And he
was like, hey, you know, that's good. You're working out. And he's
like, You got to do this for the rest of your life. I was like, Oh,
shit, like, I never thought about it like that. I was pretty young.
And so I was doing really well. I guess this is the first time I
can remember this happening. So I was doing really well. Had I had
I stuck with it, I would, I would have a lot better habits. Well,
maybe I don't know, maybe my body be all jacked up or something.
Who knows. But the what ended up happening back then was I was
doing really well. And I think I was working out steady for free a
few weeks or something. And then I got the flu real bad. And I
think it knocked me out of commission for a few days. And then I
never really got back into it.
8:00
And so it's almost like, I don't know, it's, I guess that's not
really a good example. But like, when you when you say you know,
I'm going to skip this workout, because I just don't feel like
doing it. That is, in my opinion, that's kind of a failure. That's
when you and maybe that's a strong word. That's that's the way I
look at it. I'm not saying you failed, I'm saying that for me, I
failed. If I know I should do something. And the only reason I'm
not doing it is because I want don't want to I see that as a
failure. So what I think it happens psychologically, is your
perception of that failure may lead to, you know, oh, well, I
already fucked up that. And so I might as well just stay off track.
In fact, I heard I had already wrote this all out. And I was
listening to Alex Hermozi podcast episode this morning. And he was
talking about something like this, where he was saying, if you're
on a diet and you, you eat fucked up, a lot of people will say
something like, Alright, I'm off my diet, because you fucked up
that one time. Whereas the better way to go is to course correct.
And get back on track.
9:12
So one example that he said, is like, let's say you're counting
calories and you went 100 calories over, it doesn't mean you're
gonna give yourself a free pass to eat 15 pizzas because you're
like, Oh, I missed my calorie point. I might as well just Just fuck
off this whole thing. He was saying, you know, just do 100 calories
less the next day, and then you're maintaining your goal. And those
are the kinds of things I think I don't consciously think about
that stuff. But I think that's sort of how it leads in the
direction of, you know, the slippery slope, like where I'm at right
now. Like, I'm pretty disappointed in myself. That my shorts don't
fit me right now. I'm pretty fucking disappointed that I have
shirts that I don't want to wear because they don't fit All right,
so I want to get back to that as quick as possible,
10:04
I'm also going to be 50 and three months, and I'm like, man I got,
I really gotta get, I gotta get, I want to enter my 50s in the best
shape I've ever gotten. So I got three months to get my shit
together. And I kind of wish I didn't compromise as much leading up
to now. So if I had been starting this three months where I was
before, I don't know, maybe a couple months back, you know, I'd be
enduring 50 Probably a lot better, but we'll see. I'm gonna get it
together. But it's very important. Like I was saying what Alex
Hermozi said, to recognize these little slips as a temporary thing.
It's not, that's, that's where I think a lot of people fuck up is
like, you know, when you when you start sliding down that slope,
and you're like, Well fuck it, you know, and you start saying, fuck
it to too many different things.
10:53
What's more healthy is if you fuck up. And the next day, maybe
you're disappointed, and you're like, you know what, I totally
fucked up. Instead of like, thinking, Well fuck it, I'm just going
to do whatever, the better way to go is, is to course correct. And
maybe go a little harder that next day make up for it, I don't
know, whatever it is you have to do to get back on track. So it
sort of comes down to creating this sort of personal rules for
yourself. So for me, they're not really written down. But it's
like, things that I've sort of developed over time. There's certain
things that I do, like I eat healthy, I exercise I meditate, you
know, I make sure I'm not getting complacent in my relationship and
things like that. So I don't know, maybe I should write these
things down. And maybe that would be a healthy thing, healthy thing
to do. But if you have these rules, you can always go back on. So
if you do fuck up, you're like, you know what this isn't.
11:46
This is just, you know, I fucked up this day, and I'm going to get
back on track. You know, it's interesting, too, because if you
think about failure, and kind of overcoming the failure, you're
still, you're still benefiting from, from that if you bounce back
from it, because you're building up mental toughness, you're
building up resilience and all that kind of shit. So that might be
another mindset shift, to where when you fuck up. Instead of
beating yourself up about it, you might think of it as an
opportunity. And this isn't like giving your self a pass to fuck up
to keep trying to build up this mental toughness.
12:20
But let's say you, let's say you fuck up on on whatever it is that
you're doing. And I'll give some other examples. I know, I'm kind
of talking about diet and shit. But this is sort of where I'm at
right now. But if you fuck up, and you, you recognize that you
fucked up, and then you course correct, and you get back on track,
you've kind of made a deposit in your sort of mental toughness bank
account and your resiliency bank account, if you want to think of
it like that. So every time you overcome a failure, you get a
little bit stronger. So that's not it's not all bad. When you slip
off track, I mean, you actually have a little bit of an opportunity
to kind of build up a little bit of a little bit of that was
something that I was doing a little research on this
topic.
13:03
And something that I I came across that I thought was pretty
interesting that I might try to do is, is create, you might have
heard of it. It's like an if then planning type of thing. I think
it's like, it's also in like a programming language. Like, if this
happens, then do this, if this happens, then do that. So what have
you kind of created sort of an if if then system for yourself, for
the things that you want to stay on track with? So if you're a
graphic writer, and you want to say paint, once a week, or maybe
more, I don't know, X amount of times a week? Let's say if you fall
off, then what are you going to do? So let's say you fuck up, and
you skip a week, then what? Okay, so then next week, I have to make
up for it, I got to do two or three things, or whatever that is,
your goal is if you if you fuck up on your exercise, then what? I'm
gonna do my normal workout Plus, I'm gonna walk for 45 minutes,
something like that, like what have you created a system for
yourself? So that you're already sort of ready with, with a
response, you have like a sort of a pre programmed response, for
course, correcting yourself.
14:15
I did, I wanted to kind of give some other examples of things that
I've kind of noticed this slippery slope happened, just so that so
that it's not just about this diet and exercise, obviously, that
that's the one that I'm talking about right now. And like I just
mentioned with graffiti, this is something that happens to me all
the time. And a lot of graffiti writers can probably relate to
this, especially the older ones. You know, when you when you have
momentum, and I'm going to get more on, talk more about that in a
little in a little bit. But have you noticed that like, let's say
you're you're sort of off your game and you haven't painted for a
little while, and then you go paint and then you just want to go
paint again the next day, and you know, it kind of fires you up.
but a little bit. So that happens to me all the time. And, you
know, in the 90s, I was I was all about painting, that's all I
thought about that I went to college. And that sort of put some
distance between me and the scene.
15:12
And then I took another few years off, so I was off for quite a
while, maybe eight years, or I think it was like six years, because
I still painted a little while I was in college. But I think the
break between the 90s and the 2000s was about six, six years from
well, not the 90s Fuck, it was like 2000 to 2006 I think I didn't
paint at all. And then when I got into it, like I like, pretty
quickly got momentum going. But that only lasted a few years. And
then I remember the last time I painted something, something kind
of frustrating happened with another crew. And just it was kind of
a kind of a weird situation and kind of, I don't know, politics now
with my current crew, but just some some other shit. So then I
didn't feel like painting, you know, after that, and I was painting
every weekend, pretty much. Maybe not every weekend, but I was
painting, when the weekends would come around, I would, the plan
was to paint, you know, so. But after, after I, I sort of
compromised and I was like, am I gonna go this weekend, next
weekend came around as sort of ideas sort of popping in my head,
like, ah, you know, I don't want to drive all the way down
there.
16:24
And maybe it's like, it's hot. And I don't want to be out there all
sweaty, and just all these kind of like, you know, that shit that
goes on inside your mind that sort of talks you out of doing
something you think you should do. And for me, it was important
that I maintained my sort of, I don't know what you would call it,
like, I wanted to maintain my skills. And I wanted to sort of,
after that time off, I wanted to make sure I maintain my name and
the scene and all that stuff. So. So the more I compromised, the
easier, the easier it became to talk myself out of it until I
wasn't even thinking about painting anymore. And I took another few
years off. So between like 2010 to 2014, I don't think I painted at
all, maybe 2013. I don't know what it was, but it's the same shit.
Like I just kind of talked myself out of it. And the further you
get away from it, the easier it is to stay away from it.
17:20
And so I'm kind of in that mode right now. Like, I don't remember
the I think the last time I painted was at that MSK thing. And that
was, I don't even know, like, couple months ago already, it's times
flying by and I still haven't even done anything. And that same
fucking dialogue goes on in my head. Every time I think about
painting. I'm like, Man, I don't want to drive all the way down
there. It's starting to get hot again. Gonna get all sweaty and
like, what colors am I going to use and just letting myself like,
it's not like it used to be for me, you know, it's like, I didn't
think about shit like that. When I was younger man, I just I was
looking at some old photos. And it was like, some of the color
schemes like we're just so fucking out there. Like, it's almost
like, I wasn't even, like, I just put the cans together and like,
ah, yeah, that'll that'll work.
18:09
You know, there's pieces, I just looked at a piece that was like
outline is outlined in white, the highlights were read. The fucking
background was was brown fucking Krylon Leather Brown. And the
inside of the Fill was like a color scheme that I would just never
come up with. Now it was like a beige. And like a hunter green and
there was some fucking gold in there, like literal, metallic gold,
you know, it was just like some, it was obvious. I just like
painted with what I had. And I think I need to get back. Like, I
need to get back on that. Like, that's probably one of the things
that's kind of, you know, it's like, what colors are we gonna use
when I go and stand in front of like, because, I mean, I have a
graph shop. So there's like, so many fucking colors, so hundreds of
cans, it's like, it's not like it was before where you open your
bag, and you're like, Ah, I'll make this work.
19:06
You know, so I don't know, kind of getting off track. But it's,
it's, it's applicable, it's relevant to what I'm talking about.
Because it's one of those things that allows me to talk myself out
of going and painting and that's what's really important to me. So
it's like, your hobbies are important. You got to think of them.
Or, I mean, not so much hobbies, but like things that make you
happy. Like you got to do that stuff. Like if you put off that
stuff. I think it's just as bad as like putting off work and
putting off anything else. Like if that's where your happiness is
and like I don't like painting as much as I used to, but like, I
love having that shit in existence, if that makes sense. Like it's
not so much the process anymore. For me, it's the when it's done
and it's up there and it's out there in the fucking scene like that
brings me happiness, so I should be doing that. But I fucking talk
my myself out of it, and I'm so far down on the slippery slope with
putting off graffiti that it's, it's going to be challenging to try
to get myself onto a schedule, but I really need to do
that.
20:12
So another thing Another example might be relatable to you as a,
like I used to play bass when I was younger. I don't know if
anybody's familiar with this, but I used to play in hardcore bands
and sometimes people are really surprised like, I used to play
guitar for this band called stripe, I was in there for like a year
and a half or something like that. Did some tours with them. And it
was, it was all a good time, I didn't really contribute to that
band. I was mainly just like, they put me in as a guitarist when
they needed a guitarist. But then after that, I started a band
called eyelid and I played bass and I was that band and graffiti
was like my whole fucking existence for several years. Well
graffiti for much longer, but I think I was in that band from like,
maybe 94 to 98 or something like that. And it was like everything
to me, you know, playing bass and all that shit. And then after the
band broke up, I just didn't play bass anymore. Like, almost never
like for fucking 20 years. Like it just didn't even I didn't even
pick it up. Like I still sit in here like I got pieces and shit.
And so I I bought a bass like the Slayer fucking signature. It's
the Tom Araya signature bass. So I'm like, I'm gonna buy that if I
can. That seems cool. So I bought it thinking that it was gonna get
me all hyped up to play again. And it fucking it didn't like I
needed. I needed a mindset shift for that.
21:40
Then my girlfriend was always asking me Hey, when are you gonna
play bass again? And it got me thinking I'm like, Yeah, all right,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna commit to doing this. So I I started playing
bass again. And I committed to being a being able to play this one
classical fucking song because like, playing a classical song, I
think it's the, I don't know, when I was younger, I learned how to
play the prelude on the Bach, Prelude, I don't know how you say it.
On the base, it was so fucking hard to do. I was like, I'm
committed by the end of the year, I'm gonna, I'm going to learn how
to play this again. And I was on this like, good momentum, you
know, I had a good streak going, and then all of a sudden, I
compromised. And then I just fucking never picked it back up again.
So I'm back on that, again, like I just I haven't played bass. And
I don't know, like a year now.
22:31
So the other thing I do, as I've talked about in previous episodes,
it's a thing called the power list, you write down five critical
tasks that you need to get done. Super powerful, it's very highly
recommended, I would, if you want to look into that a little
further, I don't want to take up too much time talking about it.
But it's, it's basically just breaking down these five critical
tasks that are going to move your life forward. So it could be
anything from fitness to business, a lot of minor business. But if
I start to compromise on the power list, and I start to get too
many losses. For context, if you finish all your five critical
tasks, then it's considered that you won that day. If you don't,
then you lost that day. So the more losses I start putting
together, the easier it has to be like if I could I'll just take a
loss for today.
23:22
Probably the biggest one for me, the biggest realization was
reading. Like I was on this path of reading 10 pages every single
day. Like it was tied into another morning habit. As soon as I
would start making coffee, I'd grab my Kindle. And I thought that
habit was so locked in that it was unbreakable. Until I decided not
to read one day. And it was it wasn't because like anything
happened or like my schedule was all fucked up. And I had to wake
up and just go somewhere, and I wasn't able to do that. I just
didn't feel like it. So I didn't do it. And then that made it
easier and easier to not read again. I mean, like I haven't been on
like a no reading. But I definitely compromised that one time, and
started slipping down the slope. And to where I still haven't quite
got it completely back. So like now I still read every day. But
sometimes, like I'll be on like, oh, like my goal is to read 10
pages every day for my whole life. And so right now like even
though I'm still reading every day, like a lot of times, I'll be
like alright, that's six pages. That's good enough. And it's all it
all started from that one compromise. It's so crazy. Like you would
think that after like having something so solidified as a habit
that you'll you'll never have to really use willpower to get
yourself to do it again, but I'm finding that that's where I'm at
now.
24:55
It's pretty crazy and like even with that, even with that idea that
like I've started to slip down the slope, I even noticed, like my
reading comprehension kind of slipped a little bit. Because if I'm
using willpower to, you know, like, like on times where I'm like,
You know what I just don't feel like reading, but I'll grab the
Kindle anyway, I'm like, I just got to do it. Like, I gotta make
sure I do this. I think it's because I've, I've had to pull some
willpower and kind of force myself to do it. I'm not quite as into
it. And whereas when it was like a complete habit, and it was like,
this is just what's going to happen. Like, everything just was
fine. It was like flowing reading, everything's cool. Like,
obviously, I'm not like me, retaining every single thing I read.
That's not really how it works. But it was like, I was still in the
flow of reading. And a lot of times, like, I'm like, Oh, shit,
that's 12 pages. I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop now. Like, I'm having to
build that habit back up. And it's just interesting, that it all
started with one compromise. Like, it's just so weird how that
works.
25:59
So another thing, and I really only have one action step. Before I
get into that, I want to talk about another thing that I that
relates to this that that I came across in my research, it's a
phrase called ego depletion, I should have wrote the guide that
guy's name down, but I'm sure if you searched ego depletion, you
probably could probably find some information on it. But the
concept is that your willpower is like a limited resource. So the
more you have to like, convince yourself to get something done. So
in the case of any of the stuff that I talked about, the more I
have to say, sit there and try to go to battle with that voice in
my head, like when I when I need to get my workout done. And I
don't want to and my brain is telling me, oh, you know, you could
take a day off, it's not a big deal, you know, fucking whatever all
the shit that goes on in your mind.
26:55
So the amount of self control and willpower that it takes to talk
yourself out of that inner voice, this concept, kind of talks about
how that's a limited resource. So the more you have to force
yourself to do something, the more you're sort of depleting that
resource. So what happens is, and how it relates to this is, so
let's say, let's say you're on a good path, and you've created a
good habit of doing whatever it is, every day, let's say you're on
a habit of, of playing whatever musical instrument every day, or
eating healthy food every day, whatever that is for you, it starts,
it becomes easier and easier to stay on it, the more you're on it.
But then when you start to make those compromises, then all of a
sudden, you have to start, you have to start pulling into that
resource to get yourself to do it. Because like, if you eat some
shitty food, when you've been on a good path of eating healthy,
maybe not the one time you eat the shitty food, but like if you
kind of let yourself slip off track, then you really have to, like
next time the opportunity comes to, to eat something that you know
you shouldn't eat, you really have to kind of draw on that, that
willpower in order to keep yourself from doing it.
28:11
Whereas when you're on a streak, and you're you're on a habit, you
kind of don't even really think about that stuff, you're like, Ah,
now I'm not going to eat that I'm going to eat the shit that I've
been eating, you know, you don't even really think about it, it
doesn't doesn't require any willpower. So it's kind of an
interesting thing to think about if your willpower is a limited
resource. And so the only real action step that I have is, is in
order to avoid this in order to overcome this, if you slip off of
it, is to build and maintain momentum. So I'm probably going to
redo this re revisit this subject, but I did. I did do a whole
episode on this a while back. But I think it's due to, to kind of
revisit because I probably have some new shit that I'm thinking
about. But here's the thing. We've all experienced this when you
when you have that momentum, you don't actually need your
willpower.
29:07
So your willpower is in there on reserve. And what I mean by that
is like let's say, let's say you solidified something into habit.
Every day you get up, and you don't have to talk yourself into
doing that anymore. Every day you get up or whatever it is, every
day, you know, this is going to happen. It's not even a question.
That's momentum. That's, that's, that's how you get out of this
shit. That's how you avoid this shit. And once you have the
momentum, that's where it's sort of critical to maintain it in some
way. The thing is, like there's always going to be some reason to
get off track. But if you have momentum, it's very important to try
not to get off track in order to maintain it. Because as you've
noticed, when you're in that state, it's just so easy to stay on
track. Like it's whenever I'm doing 75 hard once I'm in it Once I'm
a few days in, I got all the momentum in the world, there's nothing
outside of something completely out of my control that's going to
stop me from doing those tasks. There's not even a question of
whether or not I'm going to do both workouts whether or not I'm
going to read 10 pages, it's not a question at all. So I'm not
pulling on that resource. So you're I don't even know, I don't
know, I'll probably read more about it.
30:24
But according to this ego depletion thing, if you have momentum and
all the areas that you want to have momentum in, and you're moving
forward, you have all that willpower on reserve for if something
goes wrong. So imagine if, if you're sitting there just cruising
along, you're doing all the shit you're supposed to do, and
everything's kind of working out. And then all of a sudden,
something happens, you have to do some emergency trip, or you break
your toe or some shit like that, you have all that willpower sort
of stocked up and just sort of waiting for you, you know, because
you're not having to use it. So let's say you do fall off track,
like what happened to me, I fell off track. So now I got to build
up the momentum. Again, I'm on my way there. But I'm still needing
to, to pull on that willpower reserve, you know, so I'm not quite
out of the woods yet. But I'm on my way out. So for me, just
knowing this whole thing, like, once I get once I get to the point
where I'm on a streak and I have momentum, it's going to be so much
easier, like right now is so much harder, because I have to kind of
talk myself into these behaviors again, once I once I don't have to
do that anymore. Everything's easy. It's easy to work out every
day, when you're on a streak. It's just it. That's just what it
is.
31:44
And when I tell people when they say something like, Well, I can't
do that, because I like to put sugar in such and such. And I'm
like, Well, that's what you like now, but you can train yourself to
not like that, like an example, that people say all the time is
like, I can't do I can't do 75 hard or I can't do this, whatever it
is, because I really like to have a lot of cream and sugar in my
coffee. And yeah, I used to that's when I used to drink coffee
early on. That's all I would have it like like this creamy,
disgusting, sugary shit. That's gross for me now to think about,
like, I can't even drink that shit anymore. But like, I couldn't
imagine drinking black coffee at that time. But at one point, I
made a decision. And I was like, Look, I'm gonna learn to like
black coffee, like it's tastes disgusting. But that's all I'm gonna
allow myself to have. Because I gotta get off of this fucking
sugary cream bullshit. Like, I gotta be done with this. And so now
it's the other way around. Now, I prefer to not have anything in my
coffee. That's a weird example. But it's it makes sense.
32:51
The further away I get away from that sugary shit, the more I sort
of get trained to crave the other, you know, so like, the more I
stay away from unhealthy foods and stick to only healthy foods,
that's what I crave. That's what I want to eat, I want to eat the
healthy food when I'm on. And I've talked about it a bunch how I
hate working out but like, that's only when I'm when I'm off track.
When I'm on track. Like I don't necessarily love it, but it's like,
it just happens. It's just, this is what I do so. So that's pretty
much the only action step, build and maintain momentum, you can use
streaks to do that, like so, try to set yourself up with like, you
know, track how many days in a row, you did the thing that you're
supposed to do, let's say for my, for my shit. Like if I wanted to
start doing graph once a week, I could start tracking that and say,
I'm going to do a piece every single week and five weeks and I got
a good streak going six weeks, and I got a streak going by the end
of the year. If I've painted 52 times, that's quite a big, it's
quite a serious streak for me that I don't want to break. I mean, I
know just so many young people it's like oh shit, only 52 pieces a
year. That's nothing I understand a mold. So give me a break, you
know.
34:13
But in the same thing with like any any other thing you want to you
want to play a musical instrument, you want to practice 20 minutes
a day, you get a good streak going, it becomes harder and harder to
get yourself to not to it becomes easier and easier to stay on
track. And it actually becomes harder to that that little voice in
your head kind of goes away. So build that momentum. Maintain it
when you have it. That's pretty much all I got. One thing I wanted
to ask if you don't mind if you're getting anything out of this
show, you don't mind sharing it trying to grow this thing. Really
appreciate it. You can throw it up on your Instagram or go leave me
a review on whatever platform you're listening on. It'd be very
helpful. We also still have that discord community so if you're
getting any anything out of this and you want to have conversations
with like minded people send me a message at bus 166 on Instagram.
And as I mentioned before, I've been fucking with Twitter. I've
been enjoying it over there. So if you want to follow me on
Twitter, bus 166 MSK over there. Alright, appreciate you guys and I
will see you soon
35:27
all right. appreciate each and every one of you guys who are
supporting the cause and continue to spread the love and yeah, stay
up