30 Days to Transformation

Can you change your whole life in thirty days? That's what we're going to talk about this time on Wi's Thoughts. It's time for a virtual campfire sit down with Terry Weiss. Welcome to Weiss's Thoughts. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to our virtual campfires sit down. Welcome to Wife's Thoughts. I'm your host, Terry Weiss, and I am very very glad you took some time out of your busy day to join me. Before we get underway with the show today, just a couple quick things. Weiss'sthoughts dot com is my website, Wyceewis's thoughts dot com. There you can listen to each and every episode of the podcast. Also, you can leave a review, and I'd love it if you could leave a review, good batter. I'm always looking for feedback, and you know, I don't shy away from someone saying they may not like the program or a certain topic that I'm talking about. So you know, leave your comments there. All I ask is that you keep them respectful and you know, with proper language. 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But right now we're in the end of October twenty twenty four. A lot of things going on, got an election coming up here in a few short days here in the United States of America. From whence the program cometh, and there's a lot of angst. There's a lot of uncertainty. There's a little bit of unease I guess here in the USA for the election. I don't know, man, politics has gotten. I know it's always been a dirty business, you know. And it's such a cliche to say that politics is a dirty business. It is and always has been. Maybe just the hyperbole of this election cycle, it just seems like it's ramped up on all sides. But anyway, if you live in the United States of America and you are a voting age, you know, a United States citizen, I urge you to vote, no matter who you want to vote for, just get out and vote. You know, respect the Democratic Republic, you know, process and vote because many of our forefathers and four sisters have fought, died, and sacrificed so much that we are granted that power to give a voice to vote. So I urge everyone to get out and vote. Okay, there enough of that PSA. As we talked about in the beginning here in the teaser, and as I teased in the beginning of the podcast episode today, what if you could change your life in thirty days, would you do it? I mean, is there something that you really want to do. That's in your soul, deep ingrained in your heart of hearts, and you see, man, I wish I could do this. I really want to, you know, change my life. I really want to, I don't know, develop a better habit of getting up earlier and taking a walk, or I want to start a meditation practice, or I want to work on let's say, my temper or I want to work on my organizational skills. Or let's say you're in a job that you've been at maybe for a while, or in contrast, maybe even a short time, and you said, you know, I'm just not digging this place. Maybe it's not for me. I want to get a different job. Can you change your life in thirty days? Absolutely you can. There's scientific research for it. I'm not going to go into all the scientific studies that have been done. It's out there. Just do a Google search. You can find it. I'm here to tell you and to show you living proof you can change your life in thirty days, no matter what it is you're looking to tackle, to take on what challenge? And you know, if I may be candid here for a moment, and again, what I talk about on this podcast when we talk about topics such as this, I am not and I stress I am not standing here in a soapbox or on an altar saying look at me. I'm telling you what you should do, not at all. A lot of times these are self therapy sessions for myself and reminders for myself. Okay, and the idea that yes, you can change your life in thirty days. It's there's overwhelming scientific evidence out there, so this isn't just myself trying to be a self help guru. And you know, giving you that pep talk, Eah, you can do it. You can do it, you can do it. We all can do it. The main key is you have to want to do it, and it's going to be tough. I know. I'm in there with you. I'm right in the trenches with you, my friends. There's things I've been struggling with for years and one of the ways that I've failed. Just to give you a personal experience, I have been wanting to get under two hundred pounds for about four years now. I get close and then I to grab a euphemism, I fall off the wagon, I get down, I get close, And I've talked about this on many past episodes of Voice Thoughts here the podcast, I get real close and then I get comfortable, and I say, oh, I can have more food. I can be gluttonous here and eat half a bag of chips, or I can, you know, have a couple donuts and do this and that. Oh, I don't have to walk today, or I don't have to exercise, you know, tomorrow, because I exercised before and I've you know, shed you know, eight pounds in the past three weeks. And I get lazy, and I think, let's be honest with each other. Come on, you know as well as I do. We can all get into that mode. It's not hard to do. It's not hard to do at all. And that is one area that I really struggle in where following through. But that being said, however, what I've found that working is working for me lately, not just on my weight loss challenge, but in all areas of my life is Okay, you have this goal, this large goal, and you can you know, whatever the goal might be, you might and by large, I'm not saying it has to be something Oh my god, I got to lose fifty pounds and the next thing whatever, even if it's a large goal. What I'm about to say is going to be life changing for you, Okay. And when I stumbled upon it, it just I had one of those duh aha moments, you know, like duh I mean, why didn't I think of this years ago? And when I started looking around and listening to other people's conversations and just talking with other people about certain challenges in my life and they've shared with me, I found one or two common threads. We all start out with great intentions. We all start out with that New Year's type resolution mentality that yeah, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna write a book, I'm gonna, you know, start an exercise program. I'm going to get a different job. I'm going to increase my salary. I'm going to save more money. I'm going to cut out suites or reduce my suites. Or I'm going to learn this instrument or I'm going to I want to learn how to say or play the violin or the base or the drug whatever, whatever it may be. I'm going to become a more voracious reader. I'm going to expend my vocabulary again, whatever. I'm just throwing a bunch of stuff out there. But the commonality that I found in speaking with people was a lot of us, and I'm speaking yours truly included approach these goals from a all or nothing mindset, which is to say, we feel all of us again, myself included. If we don't make major progress right out the gate, we feel like a failure or we feel like we're failing. That's not the case. Each journey begins with a step. If you were to, let's say go outside, and let's say there's a corner store that's four blocks away from your house, Okay, you just don't open your front door, take a step, and you're right on the step of the grocery store. What does it take to get there? It takes steps. If you're going to walk it, you have to put one foot in front of the other, and eventually you get there. Now, you can walk fast or you can walk slow. But the key is each step gets you one step closer to your destination. So the point I'm trying to make here is that it's okay. It's okay to set lofty goals. You know, you've heard the stories before about musicians or actors that write themselves a check for one million dollars and put it, you know, in a glass case and hang it on their wall and say, I'm going to cash that someday. I'm going to cash that check from it. That's a big, lofty goal. Well, the next day they weren't given a role that they were paid ten million dollars to do. There's steps, there's progression and regression. They move forward, and they might have moved back. They might have moved laterally. They might have had some great auditions and not got a part, or had some great auditions and maybe got a smaller part. But the key, and what I'm trying to say here, folks, is steps. We each have to take a step as long as within that thirty day period you do one step a day to get you closer to your goal. And it doesn't have to be a monumental, large step. It can be something small. Let's say let's say you've never played guitar in your life, and you decided, and doesn't matter how old you are, I want to play the guitar. You've went out, you've purchased a guitar or something decent that you think is good for you and everything, and you've got a guitar and a case and a guitar stand, and a tuner and some picks and an extra set of strings, and you're ready to go. I want to play the guitar. Well, you're not going to become a virtuoso on that instrument overnight. It takes a long time. And in fact, I can speak from personal experience, playing the guitar is a lifetime of learning. You never and you will hear countless professionals from Eric Clapton, when you know Jimmy Page, you know all of the greats that play this instrument, Steve I, Neil Sean right on down the line, and those that have passed away, Jimmy Hendricks, and you know Stevie Ray Vaughan and so on and so forth, many of them that played the instrument and still play the instrument. BB King, all of them. They all have said this at one time or another in their life, that the guitar is a lifelong learning instrument. You will never master it. No one gets to the end. It's not like reading a book and you turn the last page and say, oh, that's it. I know everything there is to know. There's always especially with music and musical instruments, and especially the guitar. Something more to learn, something new, to learn from someone else, something you see in a video, a concert, playing with friends, discover on your own. But again, let me rain myself back in here, mister producer is waving at me. One step at a time, and within thirty days you can make major changes to your life. No matter what you're looking to change. Don't go into it with the attitude of man, I gotta do something major every day within the first thirty days, or it's never No. Every little step will get there. And like I was just speaking about with the guitar, you bought the guitar, you got everything, you're ready to go. Now the next step might be learning how to tune that guitar with your electronic tuner. So every day you pick up the guitar, for maybe the first couple of days, you tune it. Now, Odds are when you tune it, you're gonna want to strum a chord or something. So you can go up on the internet or from a friend, and let's say you want to learn a chord. Just learn one chord that day and play it over and over and over again, and you don't even have to do it for hours and hours. Take fifteen minutes that day and just strum that chord. Notice where your finger position is, make sure each string is ringing out clearly, and you're not getting any what are called dead notes, you know, and for those who play instruments, and you can look that up. But anyway, then the next day, let's say you pick up the guitar, you tune it, You spend the first five minutes with that chord you were playing yesterday, and then you take another chord and for fifteen minutes you play that other chord. So now you get twenty minutes. Okay, And I think everybody can find twenty minutes to a half hour out of their day. I'm sure they can. We all can. We all have the same twenty four hours unless they invent more time. We all have the same twenty four hours in a day. But what you do is you do that. Then on the thond day, you take your guitar, tune it, you play for the first ten minutes those first two chords that you learned the day before, and then you introduce for the last ten minutes or twenty minutes another chord. You see where I'm getting with this steps increments. And if you do that consistently, because it's not just a large goal that you just got to jump in, and I've got to make major progress each day or I'm not gonna I'm gonna feel like a failure. And that's where a lot of us get discouraged. And I've been there. I still get there sometimes, and certain things I want to learn, whether it's you know how to operate a piece of software or a piece of audio or video equipment, or an instrument or a chord, progression of song, what have you. If you break it down and take steps within thirty days, you will be farther along in any of your goals. I guarantee it. In fact, I'm going to challenge you each and every one of you out there listening to me, really think about this. Think of one thing, one thing you want to accomplish in thirty days. Okay, it could be anything. Write it down, put it at your desk, put it on your monitor for your computer, or write it on a you know, a little card, carry it in your wallet, something anyway, somewhere where you can look at it every day, and then whatever that goal may be, every day, just get up and say Okay, what's one thing I can do today to get me one step closer to achieving this goal that I set for myself that I want to accomplish within thirty days. And just take that one little step. I think you'll find if you do that, you're going to make a lot more progress. Now. Can I guarantee you that at the thirty day mark that you will have accomplished or obtained or made that change in your life or obtained that goal. No, No one can. Only you know if you can get there, because I don't know what your goal is, like you don't know what my goal is. However, you're going to be far closer to accomplishing that goal making that change in your life than you were just a month prior. I guarantee it.