A podcast monologue about creating sustainable personal change by altering your physical environment. The speaker recounts advice from a mentor (Matt Fury) and references the book 'Willpower Doesn't Work,' arguing that changing rooms, desks, or larger environments makes desired habits easier and supports productivity and energy shifts.
Welcome back to the Marketing Seekers podcast. I'm not gonna lie. Today came in and I was just frustrated at a lot of things. I was like, you know what I need? I need a new view of the world. One of my first mentors, Matt Fury, when I was getting into this game, I started studying some other marketing. And then, you know, lo and behold, he was sneaky and started slipping in all this personal development stuff, which was so good for me. I'm probably gonna say this wrongly. This is back on an old CD that I bought from him way back in the day. So this is like, I couldn't even refine this if I wanted to. And I remember talking about, like, you know, any room, there' energy, right? There's energy in a room. He's like, if you want to change the energy, change the room, right? Like, if you're not feeling the vibe you want or thing, you know, the energy you need to be able to produce or to work or to think or whatever, it's like literally just change your desk. Like, move a. Move a plant, like, it physically changes the energy of the room. Like move a picture, move your monitor, move your desk, like, just shift things up. I just change things, and it'll change the energy of the room and how you produce and how you do everything. So he, in the Willpower doesn't Work, he talked about how, like, you know, look at how people change things in life. They try to change, you know, quit smoking, start making more money, all these things, right? They have willpower. If I just do these things for 30 days, they'll create a habit or whatever. They're trying to, like, force things through willpower. And I remember the premise of the book Doesn't Matter is basically, it didn't matter how much willpower you had. You always would relapse back. It said the only thing that caused sustainable change in people over time was can you guess a change of environment. You change the environment, which then makes the habits all easy, right? And that was the secret, right? Like, literally moving, physically shifting your body or your environment, like, changing things around you. So, I mean, that can be used at a big scale where you're like, I'm going to move to a different city. Like, that's going to change things, right? If you're around bad group people and it's easy to keep falling your bad habits, if you literally physically move to some other state or different place, that could cause the. The shift in the energy that you need to make the. The change, right? Or if you're, you know, like me sitting in office where you just, like, need something. Like, physically shifting things will change the environment, which now makes it easier to have willpower and, you know, have the things you need to be able to be successful. I'm hoping for me, just have more energy. I've tried for the last, like, four days to get this project done. I keep coming in. I just can't get it done. I'm like. I think it's because I'm just stuck in this rut of, you know, that I'm just not happy. I'm like, I need to shift everything. And so I literally came in and I started ripping things off my desk, moving monitors, shifting things around, moving my computers, move my desk. Like, just getting a whole new perspective on the world. I'm about halfway through, and now my whole office is a nightmare. It was really clean a few minutes ago, but now it's a nightmare. So I want you to think about it for yourself right now. Coming back to what I was talking about before is for you start thinking about, like, in your personal life, in your business and your work, work environment, in your family and your house and your, like, wherever. Like, if things are stuck or stagnant, can you just, like, radically shift things around? Like, what would happen if you did that? Like, what would it look like? What would you change? What would you move? And what would be the outcome you hoping for? Right? I'm hoping for me just have more energy. I've tried for the last, like, four days to get this project done. I keep coming in. I just can't get done. I'm like. I think it's because I'm just stuck in this rut of, you know, that I. That I'm just not happy. I'm like, I need to shift everything. So we shift everything. And now. Well, I'll find out on the. Later on today if I'm able to, like, be in a state where I can get work done. The energy is different, the feeling's different. Now I can start running. And so that's kind of my. My game.
