30 Days to Transformation

[00:00:00] Can you change your whole life in 30 days? That's what we're going to talk about this time on Wyce Thoughts.

[00:00:10] It's time for a virtual campfire sit-down with Terry Wyce. Welcome to Wyce Thoughts.

[00:00:24] Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to our virtual campfire sit-down.

[00:00:29] Welcome to Wyce Thoughts. I'm your host, Terry Wyce, and I am very, very glad you took some time out of your busy day to join me.

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[00:01:59] So there we go.

[00:02:01] We've got all that stuff out of the way.

[00:02:02] How are you?

[00:02:03] I hope everyone is well.

[00:02:05] I hope you're well as we head on into the fall season here in the year 2024.

[00:02:09] 2024, depending on when you're listening to this episode of the podcast.

[00:02:13] This might be current now or it might be in the future, and so we're reflecting back,

[00:02:19] and you're reflecting back as you listen to this episode, so it would be in your past.

[00:02:23] But right now, we're in the end of October 2024.

[00:02:29] A lot of things going on.

[00:02:31] Got an election coming up here in a few short days here in the United States of America

[00:02:35] from whence the program cometh.

[00:02:39] And there's a lot of angst.

[00:02:41] There's a lot of uncertainty.

[00:02:43] There's a little bit of unease, I guess, here in the USA for the election.

[00:02:48] I don't know, man.

[00:02:50] Politics has gotten—I know it's always been a dirty business, you know,

[00:02:53] and it's such a cliche to say that.

[00:02:56] Politics is a dirty business.

[00:02:59] It is and always has been.

[00:03:02] Maybe just the hyperbole of this election cycle.

[00:03:07] It just seems like it's ramped up.

[00:03:09] On all sides.

[00:03:10] But anyway, if you live in the United States of America and you are a voting age,

[00:03:15] you know, an United States citizen, I urge you to vote.

[00:03:18] No matter who you want to vote for, just get out and vote.

[00:03:22] You know, respect the Democratic Republic, you know, process and vote,

[00:03:28] 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.

[00:03:41] So I urge everyone to get out and vote, okay?

[00:03:44] There, enough of that PSA.

[00:03:47] As we talked about in the beginning here on the teaser and as I teased in the beginning of the podcast episode today,

[00:03:54] what if you could change your life in 30 days?

[00:03:56] Would you do it?

[00:03:57] I mean, is there something that you really want to do that's in your soul, deep ingrained in your heart of hearts,

[00:04:05] and you say, man, I wish I could do this.

[00:04:09] I really want to, you know, change my life.

[00:04:12] I really want to, I don't know, develop a better habit of getting up earlier and taking a walk.

[00:04:20] Or I want to start a meditation practice.

[00:04:25] Or I want to work on, let's say, my temper.

[00:04:28] Or I want to work on my organizational skills.

[00:04:32] Or let's say you're in a job that you've been at maybe for a while,

[00:04:37] or, in contrast, maybe even a short time and you said, you know, I'm just not digging this place.

[00:04:43] Maybe it's not for me.

[00:04:44] I want to get a different job.

[00:04:47] Can you change your life in 30 days?

[00:04:50] Absolutely you can.

[00:04:51] There's scientific research for it.

[00:04:53] I'm not going to go into all the scientific studies that have been done.

[00:04:56] It's out there.

[00:04:57] Just do a Google search.

[00:04:59] You can find it.

[00:05:01] I'm here to tell you and to show you living proof you can change your life in 30 days.

[00:05:07] No matter what it is you're looking to tackle, to take on, what challenge.

[00:05:15] And, you know, if I may be candid here for a moment.

[00:05:19] And, again, what I talk about on this podcast when we talk about topics such as this,

[00:05:25] I am not, and I stress, I am not standing here on a soapbox or on an altar saying,

[00:05:32] look at me.

[00:05:34] I'm telling you what you should do.

[00:05:36] Not at all.

[00:05:37] A lot of times these are self-therapy sessions for myself and reminders for myself.

[00:05:42] Okay?

[00:05:45] And the idea that, yes, you can change your life in 30 days,

[00:05:51] there's overwhelming scientific evidence out there.

[00:05:54] So this isn't just myself trying to be a self-help guru

[00:06:00] and, you know, giving you that pep talk.

[00:06:02] Yeah, you can do it.

[00:06:03] You can do it.

[00:06:04] You can do it.

[00:06:05] We all can do it.

[00:06:07] The main key is you have to want to do it.

[00:06:11] And it's going to be tough.

[00:06:12] I know.

[00:06:13] I'm in there with you.

[00:06:14] I'm right in the trenches with you, my friends.

[00:06:17] There's things I've been struggling with for years.

[00:06:21] And one of the ways that I've failed, just to give you a personal experience,

[00:06:28] I have been wanting to get under 200 pounds for about four years now.

[00:06:33] I get close.

[00:06:35] And then I, to grab a euphemism, I fall off the wagon.

[00:06:41] I get down.

[00:06:42] I get close.

[00:06:42] And I've talked about this on many past episodes of Voice Thoughts here at the podcast.

[00:06:47] I get real close.

[00:06:49] And then I get comfortable.

[00:06:52] And I say, oh, I can have more food.

[00:06:55] I can be gluttonous here and eat half a bag of chips.

[00:06:57] Or I can, you know, have a couple donuts and do this and that.

[00:07:01] But, oh, I don't have to walk today or I don't have to exercise, you know, tomorrow because

[00:07:05] I exercised before and I've, you know, shed, you know, eight pounds in the past three weeks.

[00:07:10] And I get lazy.

[00:07:12] And I think, let's be honest with each other.

[00:07:15] Come on.

[00:07:16] You know as well as I do, we can all get into that mode.

[00:07:20] It's not hard to do.

[00:07:22] It's not hard to do at all.

[00:07:25] And that is one area that I really struggle in where following through.

[00:07:30] True.

[00:07:31] But that being said, however, what I have found that working is working for me lately, not just on my weight loss challenge,

[00:07:44] but in all areas of my life, is, okay, you have this goal, this large goal.

[00:07:51] And you can, you know, whatever the goal might be.

[00:07:52] And by large, I'm not saying it has to be something, oh, my God, I got to lose 50 pounds in the next thing.

[00:07:57] Whatever.

[00:07:58] Even if it's a large goal, what I'm about to say is going to be life-changing for you.

[00:08:03] Okay.

[00:08:05] And when I stumbled upon it, it just, I had one of those duh, aha moments, you know, like, duh.

[00:08:13] I mean, why didn't I think of this years ago?

[00:08:17] 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,

[00:08:29] I found one or two common threads.

[00:08:33] We all start out with great intentions.

[00:08:36] We all start out with that New Year's type resolution mentality that, yeah, I'm going to do it.

[00:08:43] I'm going to write a book.

[00:08:44] I'm going to, you know, start an exercise program.

[00:08:47] I'm going to get a different job.

[00:08:49] I'm going to increase my salary.

[00:08:51] I'm going to save more money.

[00:08:53] I'm going to cut out sweets or reduce my sweets, or I'm going to learn this instrument, or I'm going to, I want to learn how to sing or play the violin or the bass or the drum, whatever, whatever it may be.

[00:09:03] I'm going to become a more voracious reader.

[00:09:06] I'm going to expend my vocabulary.

[00:09:08] Again, whatever.

[00:09:09] I'm just throwing a bunch of stuff out there.

[00:09:10] 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,

[00:09:26] 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.

[00:09:41] That's not the case.

[00:09:43] Each journey begins with a step.

[00:09:47] 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?

[00:09:55] You just don't open your front door, take a step, and boom, you're right on the step of the grocery store.

[00:10:02] What does it take to get there?

[00:10:04] It takes steps if you're going to walk it.

[00:10:08] You have to put one foot in front of the other, and eventually you get there.

[00:10:13] Now, you can walk fast or you can walk slow, but the key is each step gets you one step closer to your destination.

[00:10:27] So the point I'm trying to make here is that it's okay.

[00:10:32] It's okay to set lofty goals.

[00:10:36] You know, you've heard the stories before about musicians or actors that write themselves a check for $1 million and put it, you know, in a glass case and hang it on their wall and say, I'm going to cash that someday.

[00:10:48] I'm going to cash that check for my—that's a big lofty goal.

[00:10:52] Well, the next day they weren't given a role that they were paid $10 million to do.

[00:10:58] There's steps.

[00:11:00] There's progression and regression.

[00:11:01] They move forward, and they might have moved back.

[00:11:03] They might have moved laterally.

[00:11:04] They might have had some great auditions and not got a part or had some great auditions and maybe got a smaller part.

[00:11:10] But the key, and what I'm trying to say here, folks, is steps.

[00:11:16] We each have to take a step as long as within that 30-day period you do one step a day to get you closer to your goal.

[00:11:27] And it doesn't have to be a monumental, large step.

[00:11:32] It can be something small.

[00:11:36] Let's say you've never played guitar in your life, and you decided—and it doesn't matter how old you are—I want to play the guitar.

[00:11:45] You've went out, you've purchased a guitar, something decent that you think is good for you and everything.

[00:11:50] And you 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.

[00:11:57] I want to play the guitar.

[00:11:59] Well, you're not going to become a virtuoso on that instrument overnight.

[00:12:03] It takes a long time.

[00:12:05] And in fact, I can speak from personal experience.

[00:12:07] Playing the guitar is a lifetime of learning.

[00:12:10] You never—and you will hear countless professionals from Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, all of the greats that play this instrument.

[00:12:23] Steve Vai, Neil Sean, right on down the line.

[00:12:27] And those that have passed away, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan and so on and so forth.

[00:12:34] Many of them that played the instrument and still play the instrument.

[00:12:38] B.B. King, all of them.

[00:12:40] They all said this at one time or another in their life that the guitar is a lifelong learning instrument.

[00:12:45] You will never master it.

[00:12:47] No one gets to the end.

[00:12:48] It's not like reading a book and you turn the last page and say, oh, that's it.

[00:12:51] I know everything there is to know.

[00:12:52] There's always, especially with music and musical instruments and especially the guitar, something more to learn, something new to learn from someone else.

[00:13:01] Something you see in a video, a concert, playing with friends, discover on your own.

[00:13:07] But again, let me rein myself back in here.

[00:13:10] Mr. Producer is waving at me.

[00:13:13] One step at a time.

[00:13:16] And within 30 days, you can make major changes to your life.

[00:13:20] No matter what you're looking to change.

[00:13:25] Don't go into it with the attitude of, man, I got to do something major every day within the first 30 days or it's never.

[00:13:34] No, every little step will get there.

[00:13:37] And like I was just speaking about with the guitar, you bought the guitar, you got everything, you're ready to go.

[00:13:44] Now, the next step might be learning how to tune that guitar with your electronic tuner.

[00:13:50] So every day you pick up the guitar for maybe the first couple days, you tune it.

[00:13:55] Now, odds are when you tune it, you're going to want to strum a chord or something.

[00:13:58] So you can go up on the internet or from a friend and let's say you want to learn a chord.

[00:14:03] Just learn one chord that day and play it over and over and over again.

[00:14:07] And you don't even have to do it for hours and hours.

[00:14:10] Take 15 minutes that day and just strum that chord.

[00:14:15] Notice where your finger position is.

[00:14:17] Make sure each string is ringing out clearly and you're not getting any what are called dead notes, you know.

[00:14:22] And for those who play instruments and you can look that up.

[00:14:25] But anyway, then the next day, let's say you pick up the guitar, you tune it.

[00:14:30] And you spend the first five minutes with that chord you were playing yesterday.

[00:14:35] And then you take another chord.

[00:14:37] And for 15 minutes, you play that other chord.

[00:14:40] So now you get 20 minutes.

[00:14:42] Okay, I think everybody can find 20 minutes to a half hour out of their day.

[00:14:45] I'm sure they can.

[00:14:46] We all can.

[00:14:47] We all have the same 24 hours.

[00:14:50] Unless they invent more time.

[00:14:51] We all have the same 24 hours in a day.

[00:14:55] But what you do is you do that.

[00:14:59] Then on the third day, you take your guitar, tune it.

[00:15:03] You play for the first 10 minutes those first two chords that you learned the day before.

[00:15:08] And then you introduce for the last 10 minutes or 20 minutes another chord.

[00:15:15] You see where I'm getting with this?

[00:15:17] Steps.

[00:15:19] Increments.

[00:15:20] 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 going to feel like a failure.

[00:15:32] And that's where a lot of us get discouraged.

[00:15:34] And I've been there.

[00:15:35] I still get there sometimes in certain things I want to learn.

[00:15:38] Whether it's how to operate a piece of software or a piece of audio or video equipment or an instrument or a chord progression, a song, what have you.

[00:15:47] If you break it down and take steps, within 30 days, you will be farther along in any of your goals.

[00:15:56] I guarantee it.

[00:15:57] In fact, I'm going to challenge you.

[00:15:59] Each and every one of you out there listening to me.

[00:16:03] Really think about this.

[00:16:06] Think of one thing.

[00:16:07] One thing you want to accomplish in 30 days.

[00:16:11] Okay?

[00:16:12] It could be anything.

[00:16:13] Write it down.

[00:16:15] Put it at your desk.

[00:16:16] Put it on your monitor for your computer.

[00:16:19] Or write it on a little card.

[00:16:22] Carry it in your wallet.

[00:16:23] Something.

[00:16:23] Somewhere where you can look at it every day.

[00:16:26] 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 30 days?

[00:16:44] And just take that one little step.

[00:16:47] I think you'll find if you do that, you're going to make a lot more progress.

[00:16:52] Now, can I guarantee you that at the 30-day mark that you will have accomplished or obtained or made that change in your life or obtained that goal?

[00:17:00] No.

[00:17:01] No one can.

[00:17:02] Only you know if you can get there.

[00:17:05] Because I don't know what your goal is.

[00:17:06] Like, you don't know what my goal is.

[00:17:07] 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.

[00:17:22] I guarantee it.

[00:17:23] I guarantee it.