The Mindset of Momentum

All right, folks, we're almost one full month into the new year. How's it going so far? Let's talk about it this time on wiys's Thoughts Studios Production. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the program. Welcome to Wis's Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss. Thanks for joining us around the virtual campfire sit down today. And if you wanna catch more episodes of the program, why you can go over to Weiss's Thoughts dot com. Just make sure you spell my name right wy Weiss Thoughts dot com. There you can listen to each and every episode of the podcast, comment on the shows as well, and uh also why you are rooting around on the internet, don't forget this out by Purplepit Studios Purplepitt Studios dot com. Listen to all the podcasts we offer, and you can even know me as well at Terry at Weis's Thoughts dot com. You can check me out on X at Terry Weiss. And if you need voiceoverwork, audiobook, narration, video nariration, YouTube channels, podcast and all kinds of stuff, it's all at Weissproductions dot com wyc Wisproductions dot com. Let's get into the show. Hey, everybody, Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to Whys Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss, so glad you decided to spend some of your valuable time with me today. We're gonna keep it short, gonna keep it sweet, gonna keep it rolling along this time of the podcast as we uh just go headfirst into twenty twenty six, How are you? How are things going? Are you doing okay? So? I hope, so, I hope. You know, I guess there's this flu bug that's going around the United States here from whence the program cometh, and people are trying to avoid that. There's been some crazy weather across the eastern half of the United States, all up and down the coast. We just had a major winter storm blow through here in our area as well, but it pretty much covered the whole half of the eastern United States. But you know, one thing about that that kind of just makes me chuckle. It's especially in the northeastern half of the United States. It's like you get winter every year. Folks. All right, this ain't nothing new. It's been going on that way since probably time began, or the continent shifted, or the Good Lord made us, whatever you choose to aspire to. But this ain't nothing new. Okay, this is nothing new. We get winter. Hello, every year, we get winter now just because it's been mild the past few winners off and on mother Nature. You know, she's a vengeful. She's gonna come back sooner or later. How's that global warming working out for us? Huh? Anyhow? All right? I don't want to start any political crap or anything, but anyhow, I hope you're you're happy, healthy and safe. This topic of discussion on the podcast on this week's episode of the White Thoughts podcast is twenty twenty six. So far are you doing? Are you doing? Or is the italiancy? Are you doing? Are you doing? They say that in New York? Isn't it ay? How you doing? I don't know anyhow are you doing? How are you doing? Are you keeping? Did you make any resolutions and make any life changes? We talked about in the past podcast here leading up to the New year, about how to change your life a little bit, how to stay motivated, some things you can do to push yourself along. And I think what it is is a lot of folks and I've done it myself in the past, and sometimes I find myself slipping back into that old bad habit is. We want to do it all, we want to do it right now, and we go. We want to now step YOURVNT. I want to know. I want to lose twenty pounds. I want to gone, gone, gone. And you see this, believe it or not, in commercials on the from the media and from these drug companies and everything. Here, take this pill and start dropping weight. An average person lost seventy five pounds. However, I digress. There's new studies out that when these people stop certain drugs I won't name them, but when they stop these new miracle or touted miracle weight loss drugs, that they gain the weight back and then some. And you know, I don't know why. And this is a very simple answer. It's a real simple answer, because your mindset hasn't changed, your habit hasn't changed. Sure, you can cut off the feelings of hunger and trick your body and your nerves into having a sensation of fullness. Okay, but when that disappears, you have to be of strong enough. Will I guess, maybe for lack of a better term, that you're not going to go gorge yourself. Now. I know what some of you out there thinking you're saying Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry. Buddy, sir, there's some people that have medical issues where they have a real difficult time losing weight. I get that. I understand that. I'm not talking about that segment of the population. I'm talking about you, me and everyone I alse who just wants to gorge ourselves, you know, and at times has lack of self control in an unwillingness to change. And that's what it is. It's an unwillingness to change. Let's just let's be brutally honest with ourselves. It's an unwillingness to change. No, I want to do what I want my way, but I want the results I want. Well, you're not going to get different results in your life no matter what it is, and especially with things like weight loss and health, until you change your ways and adopt new and healthier habits. That's just the way it is, my friends, That's the way the universe works. You know. I was in the studio today. I was in back at the Purple Pit Studios and I was practicing bass guitar because it's something I've been learning over the past few years and I really dedicated myself here, and I made myself a promise to get a lot better at it this year especially. Do have a little bit of extra time in between all my various functions, And I said, you know what, I got all these basses, and I've got a couple of amps, and I got this equipment, et cetera, et cetera. What am I doing Besides you know, i'd pick it up here and there. I made an obligation and a dedication to every day pick it up and practice something, whether it's a song, a scale, just exercising, you know, for flexibility, and lo and behold, I'm starting to improve. In fact, I was playing a song today and I'd been working on it for a little while, maybe about three or four weeks, and lo and behold, I started playing it and I just got into the music. And guess what, this is something that really blew me away. I shut my eyes and I was able to play the song basically the second half of it with my eyes closed. How about that? Huh? You know? I always used to wonder about these guitarists on stage that they don't even look at their front board, or these bass players, they don't even look at the front board and they're just staring out at the audience or you know, and jumping around to it. I'm like, how the hell do they do that? Because when I first started playing guitar and especially the bass too as well, I had to look down. And when I'm learning something new, you got to look down at you know, at the front board and say, okay, you fingers go here there, here's that scale, or here's this you know, chord progression, or here's this this note progression for this scale or solo. But I'm starting to realize now this thing called muscle memory. Once you dedicate yourself and you practice, okay, and you know, I can get in patience. So I get it. You know, I have times where I'm like, I want to know it, and I want to know it right now. I want the results and I want them right now. Patience, my friends, we have to learn as a society, as a race, to learn some patience. Good things sometimes do take time. Now, there is instant gratification, but you know what, I think a lot of the media, especially and advertisers, push instant gratification on us. Instant gratification. Take this vacation here and it'll change your life. Well it might, but then again it might not. It might just leave you poor, your bank account a little leaner. There's certain things we have to learn selective patients for we do. It's just and I'm learning as I gain in years that Yep, we gotta do it. We have to do it. And I'm like, ah, you know, how about you? Have you made any promises to yourself. I'm not even going to call them new, these resolutions anymore. I'm going to call them promises to yourself to change things, change your life, change your eating habits, change your health, change your relationships, change your attitude. What have you learn a new instrument, learn a new skill, learn a new language, whatever it was, And it could be one or a plethora of things that you want to do. We all start out with good intentions. You know, there's an old expression and I can't recall who said it before. I'm trying to think of it, but I can't. Mister producer, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, I guess we could apply it here. We all start out with the best of intentions. On January on or about January first, every year, I'm gonna get healthier I'm gonna exercise. I'm gonna walk a mile a day. I'm gonna give up sweets. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna be nice. I'm not gonna be a jerk. I'm gonna whatever, read, volunteer more, change my job, whatever it is. There's I guess if there's one thing that I'm learning as I'm gaining years, I won't seem mature. Because you asked missus, w I still act like a twelve year old A lot of the times. She just looks at me and goes, what is wrong with you? I said, Hey, you married me. You must have liked something. So I said, it's obviously my ravishing good looks and my sparkling personality. But where was I going with this? Oh? Oh yeah, as I gain in years. Okay, one thing I'm realizing, folks, this is it's your life, man, it is your life. You get one that I know of, unless you believe in reincarnation, but who knows. But you get one go around in this realm, this reality, this point in time in the universe, until we move on to other things, whether it's heaven, hell, blimbo, a different spiritual plane, a different I don't know dimensions. There's lots of things out there, and I'm kind of exploring that too, as I, you know, move along on life's highway here. But I'm if you're younger, if you're under forty and listening to this podcast today, I'm going to tell you something. Man, sixty comes quick. Okay, I'm staring down the barrel of almost being sixty years old, and it comes quick. And it seems like once your twenties, my twenties, man were like a blur. But I loved him. Oh I partied. I you know, I traveled. I did a lot of stuff in my twenties and I loved it. Thirties was like okay, you know still you know, social butterfly, traveling, doing a lot of things. And then I hit my forties, I started slowing down. And now in my fifties, I mean, you know, I know to TM, I Terry as a youngster saying my kids and grandkids say TM my dad, TM, my grandpa. But the thing is is that the ride it can go by really quick. I mean, what's that famous movie Ferris Bueller. Life moves pretty fast and if you don't slow down, you just might miss it. I'm paraphrasing, but I think it was in that movie. You know, don't be so caught up. You know, it's good to have a career, and it's good to be dependable in your profession, job, what have you. But you have to remember there's more to life than punching in and punching out at a job. Okay, there's more to life than having the biggest house, the biggest plot of land. It's about connections, it's about relationships, it's about being being present. And there's a lot of noise. Actually, in twenty twenty six, there's so I have seen in the past decade or so, the just the ramping up, just by social media advertising. It's all around you just go, go, go, go, go, go. Hurry up. You gotta get this, gotta get that, hurry up, you gotta get it. Oh you better. Oh you're not working sixty hours a week. What's wrong with you? Go go no. There's a time for deadlines, there is time for a sense of urgency, but there's also a time to chill the hell out and enjoy look around, Breathe in the air, soak up the sunshine, enjoy the scenery, and enjoy those around you. And you know I've said it on past episodes of The Whites Thoughts podcast here. Enjoy the good, the bad, and the ugly. You know, you're gonna have times in your life where it's gonna be great. Everything's I mean, you couldn't do no wrong. You could step in crap and come out smelling like roses. And then there's gonna be times where you do everything right. You're putting in the work, whether it's your career, your personal life and your personal growth and you know, and that, and just it doesn't seem like anything's happening. That's where you've got to just power through it. Just keep doing it, keep doing it over and over and over. Uh, you know, especially you know, being a voice actor and an audiobook nariator narator. Yes, I can speak an audiobook narrator. It's funny you think i'd speak for a living, right. There's times where I have so much work on my desk and in the studio here that I'm like, oh my god, how am I going to get this done? Good Lord? But you stay up the late nights, you do it, you get it done. And then there's there's I've gone weeks weeks where you're auditioning for roles and you know, doing the outreach and that and keeping in contact with folks, and it's crickets. It just it's ebbs and tides, you know it, ebb and flows, you know, highs and lows, as they say, so, I guess, you know, check in in here as we get ready to wind down the first month of twenty twenty six here January, just checking in on you, maybe mentally checking on yourself. Just take you know, some time and write down, Okay, here's the things I wanted to accomplish this year. Am I off to a decent start. And it's okay if you're not. If you're not as far along as you wanted to be, or you're like, oh man, you know I should have done this, that and the other, don't beat yourself up over it. Just get off your ass and start moving forward. That's all. Just rededicate and plow ahead. You know, I've talked about, you know, my significant weight loss here since last October November. You know, I'm down to around two I'm fluctuating between two o seven and two oh nine. I want to get under two hundred. I'm close. This is the closest I've ever been, and I've lost, you know, a significant amount of weight. I've lost over almost twenty five pounds to twenty five pounds here in the past couple of months or so, two and a half three three months. I think it was. It wasn't easy in the beginning, you know. Look on the White Thoughts website or access it through Purplepitstudios dot com. Look for the episode on We're talking about health and weight loss. Talk about what I used, intermittent fasting sixteen to eight fasting. You know, I talk about that a lot on that program and that episode of the podcast. Check that out if you're interested in something like that, I go over my experience with it. But anything worth achieving, typically you've got to You've got to do the reps, you got to put in the work, you got to put in the hours. It's I mean, once in a while you'll get something handed to you. But the predominant thought process by certain segments of the population, and especially here in the United States, is that everything should be handed to you. That's not life, my friends, that's not life. I don't care what your social economic status is. You could have all the money in the world. Does having a lot of money make things easier. But yeah, you don't have to worry about paying bills, this, that and the other thing. But think about this for a moment. How many millionaires are people that we've considered very well off that you look at them and say, Wow, that family doesn't have to worry about money. How many things happen to that family. They have tragedies just like everyday people do, or they screw it up, they get hooked on drugs, or they commit crimes, or you know, put themselves in situations and get themselves hurt or others hurt. That's what I'm talking about. There's no guarantees in life. But again, we're just checking in. I wanted to check in with you, see how you're doing, see how things are going okay, and just take a mental pause, all of us take a nice, deep, collective breath. Hold it, let's let it out there we go. Just chill out and keep going forward. As long as you're making progress, some progress, no matter how small and minute it may be. As long as you're making some type of progress, you're on the right path. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. I truly appreciate each and every one of you out there, and remember to see a change in the world, you have to be the change in the world you want to see. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others. If you want to tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Terry Weiss. 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