Chris Collins and Chris Jones help a caller struggling with Adderall dependence and habit maintenance. They recommend starting tiny, building systems you can't skip like paying a trainer upfront, and using external accountability to trick yourself into consistency. Varying your routine prevents boredom from killing progress.
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I'm Chris Collins and this is Chris Jones, better known as Puppy Chulo.
Hello everyone.
Question today is a good one.
It's a good one. There's a lot of. It's kind of a longer question, but there's a lot of really sweet things coming out of this one. Let's have a listen.
I remember a couple of years ago you made a video on how important it is to keep your mind and body clean. And obviously you can't move forward. How can you keep track of your customers if you can't keep track of yourself? I also found a very interesting video that you posted a couple of months ago about now. Waking up at 3, 4 o' clock in the morning, reading a book, et cetera. Man, my biggest problem is that as a service advisor I was prescribed Adderall and it's very difficult for me to get off of that. I feel like my performance is completely down from that, but I want to get off of it. And I wanted to see if you had any pointers on how to keep your mind and body clean.
So I think that one of the things that I don't think I'm going to step on what you're going to say here, but one of the things I think that you naturally do, that we could help to teach others, is that I feel like the second that you start to get comfortable with your system, you change it. You've talked in the past about reinvention and stuff like that. And I think that on the daily habit, like this thing is, is that you're always trying to mix it up a little bit and not do the same thing day after day after day. Like, the thing that kind of sticks out in my head is you talk pretty regularly about take a different road to work or get up at 4:30 instead of 5 or 4 instead of 4:30 or whatever it is, but like kind of mixing it up a little bit so it's never the same thing. So you always want to train your brain to be ready for a change. Um, also with the workout thing, I was going to share this too, is one book, if you're interested in reading one that kind of really got me kind of going down the path of really making it easy to get myself to work out is the book Atomic Habits. Um, so if I had to pick one that makes it kind of breaks down how our brains process these habits. That was a good one.
What. What was your biggest takeaway from the book?
Start small.
Start with a small thing that you can attain, give yourself a win, and then it kind of starts to the same manufacture results.
Yeah, Yeah.
I. I think. I think there's two parts to this from, from my point of view. One is it's okay, like, we need winners and losers. We need successful middle tier, unsuccessful. Like, we need it all. And so you're basically kind of.
Saying where you want to be by your actions. Right. So.
You'Re kind of picking that lane.
And it's usually lined up with how you feel about yourself.
Well, I think what he was saying is that he is. So he's performing really well at the work level. Right. So saying. So he went from like last to first kind of in the district, but now it sounded like he's having a little bit of, like, he's not seeing himself perform as well as he is professionally on the personal level. So he might be ready for the next level.
Yeah.
Still to my point, though, you have the winners and you have the losers, and you got a big bunch of people in the middle and.
That. That's just how it is.
Right.
So when somebody's saying like, hey, how do I. How do I get motivated to do this or that or whatever, Oftentimes those things never cross my mind. It's just a thing that I need to do to get to where I want to go. And not doing it isn't an option.
Yeah. Don't you see the middle as the enemy too?
I see average is the enemy.
Yeah.
For sure. Yeah.
So you're so motivated by not wanting to be in the. Be average.
Yeah. I think maybe the part that might be interesting is the amount of.
Manipulation on myself that I do in the sense that I'm paying a trainer. So if I'm paying a trainer, I gotta show up.
That's right.
And so I'm tricking myself into those sort of things, knowing that if I have somebody there waiting, I will go.
Yeah.
Because now you're responsible for their livelihood, too.
That's really smart in the money. Right. So you're spending money, so you don't want to waste it, so you're gonna go. Because if you cancel the morning of, you lose that money.
Not to mention then there's continuity in that. Because the way that you feel about your trainers, you're really attached to them, so you even stick with them because you're also not wanting to Let them down from that thing. Like you're tricking yourself in five different places.
One thing that is interesting though, like my two trainers. Well, three, I guess. I'm three.
You have three.
Two and a half. Three.
We'll call it two and a half.
They do comment that of all their clients and we're talking about trainers that train some pretty famous people.
Yeah.
They will comment that I'm the most consistent. Like I never cancel the morning hours. I never.
It would be way town.
I'm going.
Yeah. It would be way more common for them to cancel than you would be my guess.
Yeah. Although they do. Yeah. They usually don't.
They're. They're professionals too.
Yeah. But I always think that's interesting because I always assume that people.
In that demographic are more consistent. But it isn't true.
No. It's inertia. There's so many lessons you can learn from that about people. Like what happens in January versus March. It's crazy.
So I guess the, the answer there, part of the answer is to build a system that doesn't allow for you to leave it to your feelings or your will.
Yeah. Don't. Don't be afraid. Yeah. Don't be afraid to trick yourself is another. Really? Really.
It never crosses my mind not to go.
Yeah.
It's just.
Even if I'm really tired, I'm like, I'm going. Like I'm going no matter what.
Yeah.
Like this morning I had a little project I wanted to finish, so I got up at 4. I worked on it for an hour and a half. Then I went to the gym, I came back and I finished it and then came to work. And on Mondays I got to be into work early because we have a early meeting, like a weekly meeting. So I just got up earlier. Just was what it was. But I didn't skip the gym.
No. You didn't reduce the amount of things you were going to get done? No.
So it's not even an. I guess after a while it doesn't even become an option. It's just a habit.
Yeah.
Maybe that's in that fancy book, Atomic Habits. I don't know.
Oh, it is that.
It becomes a habit.
Yeah.
It's in the title.
Yeah. There's a lot of letter, little literalness in that.
So design it. Design it for the outcome you want and get obsessed. Stick to it. That's my advice.
Trick yourself, trick yourself and trick yourself.
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