Good Ar'm Sam Wood, and welcome to your motivational moment for this week. It is time for our mid year check in. It's nearly the half way point of twenty twenty three. So rather than me sit here and say have you done your taxes as in the financial year sales on if, we're not going to do that, but what we are going to do is have a six month check in. And I love that we're doing this because I feel I feel it would be remissive me.
You're responsible of me, wouldn't be doing my job properly if I fired you all up for your Newears resolutions like I think we did, but then didn't check up on you. No, we had our last little check up at the three month mark of twenty twenty three, so it is time to check in again because I think sometimes the best way to move forward is to really have a good hard look at ourselves and our routine and our habits in the mirror and be honest with ourselfs.
Because if we don't do that, if we don't sometimes stop and assess, it's impossible to put a plan together that's going to help us move forward. So there's three things that I want.
You to do.
Number one, reflect look back at what you've done over the last six months. And a lot of people focus on the negative when they reflect. It's a bit of it can be quite a negative experience. We tend to almost subconsciously do it. We're very hard on ourselves. We look at all the things we're not doing, all the things we should be doing better. We compare ourselves with that person or that person, and we're never really happy with what we've done. We're not going to do that.
We're going to do the opposite. We're going to reflect on the last six months and you're going to look at the things that you have done or you are consistently doing well. You're going to look at yourself in the mirror and you're not even going to give a second thought to what you could have done better or what you're not doing well. You're going to really reflect on what you have done well or you're continually doing well on a consistent basis, and you're going to double
down on that. You're going to write that thing down, you're going to put it up in lights, and you're going to give yourself some damn recognition and a little bit of gratitude. You're actually going to have a moment where you say, I'm proud of myself and I'm grateful that I'm taking care of myself in this way. Number Two, you're going to set a goal. We've reflected to what we've done well over the last six months, but we also need to look forward. What are we going to achieve?
And this is where I think belief becomes really important. I listen really carefully to people's word choice, and I watch their body language often drop their heads if they don't actually believe that what they're setting themselves to do that they can achieve. It's oh yeah, by the end of the year, I'm going to be doing it. No normal, come on, say it like you mean it. And it's
the word choice. Often if you don't think you're going to be able to do it, you say, I guess over the next six months, I hope to dot dot dot dot. No. No, no, we're going to scrap that. In the next six months, I will finish that sentence. Not I hope to not. It's not a wishy washy time frame. By Christmas Day of twenty twenty three, I will achieve boom. Fill in the gap that's what you have to do. That's goal setting then, and most importantly, what is your plan? No point having the goal without
the plan. How do I deconstruct the Shepherd's Pie? If I want the perfect shepherds by by Christmas and who eat Shepherd's Pie for Christmas with the in Australia worst analogy of all time. But I'm leaving it. I'm not going back. I could go back and record something else that would be better, but I'm not. It could be a Christmas pudding that would have been better, but I'm not. We're sticking with Shepherd's Pie. How do I deconstruct the
Shepherd's Pie? What are the key ingredients of my plan that will ultimately lead to the success for production or creation of my Shepherd's buy. So might be my sleep, it might be my exercise. It might be my nutrition. It might be my consistency. It might be ius bars,
It might be what a consumption. It doesn't matter. But you need to have some parameters, some rules, some boundaries around your movement, around your meals, around your motivation and mindfulness in some capacity so that when you look at it, you're not leaving things to chance. Put the health parameters in a holistic way, so you're not just focusing on fitness, you're not just focusing on food. There's a holistic outlook. Put those parameters in there your plan. They're leading towards
the goal. But before you do that, give yourself a nice pat on the back for what you've already done.
In twenty twenty three.
So you listen to task and you know what's coming, or work backwards. What's your what are those parameters in each of those holistic parts of proper fitness, proper wellness? What's your goal? And do they make sense? Do they talk to each other, do they align with each other? And before you do any of those things, let's stop, let's smell the roses, and let's give ourselves a well deserved pat on the back forward. Already done well in twenty twenty three,