Andy NearyI help insurance professionals turn brand awareness into business growth.

When you look in the mirror do you like who you see? #happiness #successmindset #confidence

22 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Motivational YouTube monologue by Andy Neary (uploaded Aug 22, 2023) that encourages self-reflection and alignment between one’s self-image and daily actions. The speaker argues that health and fitness serve as a “business card” and daily reminder of personal integrity: if you claim goals but don’t act on them, you develop a poor reputation with yourself which then undermines performance in difficult tasks (e.g., sales calls, hard phone calls, networking). The passage urges starting with being proud of the person you see in the mirror.

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But your fitness and your health is also a business card and daily reminder to yourself. If these are either thoughts or words that come out of your mouth and then you look at yourself in the mirror and you aren't taking action on those things, that's going to equate into you having a poor reputation with yourself. Because there's something in your life that you know you should be doing and you're not taking action on it. So if every time that I see myself in the mirror, it's a reminder to myself that I am not the person that does the things that he says he's going to do, then when I'm presented with a difficult situation in life, maybe it's making the hard phone call to the client, maybe it's sitting down and doing a hundred sales calls, maybe it's reaching out and going to the networking thing. It begins to kind of operate underneath the hood and begins to really drive your day to day action. So I would say that's probably one of the biggest things is like your health is a daily reminder to you. If you are not proud of the person when you're naked looking back at you in the mirror, then brother, sister, who's ever listened to this, like that's where I would start.