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Stretching and thinking. It takes a year of intention and focused to change your mindset

12 Oct 2025 · 3 min

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In this spoken monologue, the speaker examines how easy it is to set a routine on paper but how emotional resistance, negative self‑talk, and the shame‑guilt loop sabotage daily execution. They argue that without intentional self‑care, the brain creates stories of failure that keep us stuck. To counter this, the speaker proposes treating oneself as a job and carving out at least one hour each day—whether split, early, or late—for purposeful activities such as movement, stretching, puzzles, or reading. This intentional hour is presented as the key to personal growth, improved mindset, and sustained success.

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Morning thought that needs some exploration. It's easy to write down a routine and create one on a piece of paper. It's not so difficult to choose what you want to do. The intention is there, but every day that something turns you off emotionally or you struggle transitioning into another routine or being accountable, your self-talk takes you so far away from what you were doing. Your brain starts to tell you, oh, you didn't do it, you'll do it tomorrow. It goes through a whole story. Yeah. You, um, goes through a whole story that doesn't do you any justice, right? When you go through that whole story of negativity, you just put your body into another realm of that shame and guilt cycle. 2, 3. Shame and guilt will take us down every time. Rejection, not enough, those negativities— what do we need those for? They only hurt us. Chances are we're doing the best we can. We could do a little better every day, but that takes A lot of work. And how do you put in work to yourself when you're already so busy putting in work to the rest of your life? I think the answer is, and something we all need to start focusing on, is making ourselves part of our schedule, part of our job. We are a job. Building our own personality requires as much attention Building our routines requires at least an hour a day for yourself. At least. You can split it up, you can take it in one shot, you can get up early or go to bed later, but 1 hour a day for yourself. And that hour would be so much better if it had intention. A little bit of movement, a little bit of stretching, maybe a puzzle. Or reading. Those things push you forward and help you achieve the success you're looking for. If we don't find time to do them, we're not going to have time to grow. So let's see what that takes— where that takes us. Setting intention to what we want to do.