A short motivational monologue by Dr. Nneka Unachukwu advising listeners to prioritize consistent, daily action and strategy over being overly patient with themselves about results. The speaker contrasts self-pacifying excuses (bad days, fear, lack of motivation) with a discipline-focused mindset where the daily question is whether one is executing the necessary actions.
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I've had many people I would talk with, and they're so frustrated because they're not hitting their goal. They're so frustrated, but they're not clear on what they need to do to get there. And if they're clear on what they need to do to get there, they're so patient with themselves, like, oh, you didn't feel like working today. Oh, so you didn't work, and that's okay. Oh, this other day, you were having a bad day, so you decided not to work. This day, you were scared of talking to that referral source, so you didn't talk to the referral source. They're very patient with themselves, and they're impatient with the results. And. And I'm like, that's backwards. What you want to do is go all in on the strategy, taking action on the strategy. You show up every day not to say, oh, so how much do we have? Have we hit our goal? No, the first thing you do is the thing that needs to be done to pull off the goal. Am I doing it? Am I doing it? Am I doing it? That's what you're looking at every day. That becomes your goal.