Good a champions. Hope you're bloody terrific. Before I tell you what's going on today, we have got a seven day kickstart typ the U Project kickstarts kind of seven days of me mentoring, coaching, poking, prodding, supporting, educating whoever
wants to get involved. It's just seven days of committing to a process of trying new stuff, doing new stuff, getting a little tiny weenie just to fucking scaric, uncomfortable, putting on your big boy pants or your big girl pants, and finding a little bit of courage so that you might start and finish something. The good thing about this, other than the potential benefits of getting involved, is it's
free as fuck. It's free. There are no costs. There's no hook, there's no catch, there's no agenda, there's no on sell upsell, side cell, It's all just me. Go on. Hey, let's step out of theory for a minute, step into the doing. Let's step into the practical. Let's roll up our sleeves. Lets us as a community of like minded people get involved in doing something which for us collectively
but also for you individually, could be the beginning of something. Obviously, seven days is not it, but seven days of doing something might be a catalyst. It might give you a little bit of a cognitive or emotional or behavioral or physiological shift. It might be a bit of a shove with love. It might be the thing that you need to create that small bit of momentum that could turn into something bigger and better and longer lasting, which is
ultimately what we want. I love doing the theory. I love doing the I love doing the science of change and the psychology of change, and sharing thoughts and ideas and messages and hopefully some wisdom and insight and some research and all of that stuff. But ultimately, I know this is not a new message, but I'm going to keep saying it because it's never going to be different. Ultimately, success comes down to not what we know, but what
we do with what we know. Not how educated we are, but how proactive and brave and consistent and resilient we can be. And knowledge matters, and education matters, But what matters the most is our behavior, is our thinking, is our choosing, is our doing. So to get involved in that typ seven day kickstart, just go to the U project Facebook page. If you haven't already, just right in the comments section you'll find just scroll down, you'll see
the promo for the seven day Kickstart. If it's not near the top of the page, it'll be there somewhere. As I'm looking right now, there's over two hundred people that have already jumped in. Just go into the comments and write I'm in and that means you're in, and yeah, every day, I'm going to put a starting on Friday. We're starting Friday. I don't know if I mentioned that, but we're starting Friday. We're starting Friday because nobody fucking
starts on Friday. Everyone starts on Monday, and statistically, most people who start on Monday fail. So we're going to see if Friday works better. And of course I'm saying that tongue in cheek and I'm winking at you. We're going to start Friday just because we can, because we don't want to be typical. If you want to get involved,
do that now. The man who's just banged on, I'm going to tell you that I had a guest fall through today and for that reason, I thought I would re share with you something that has been shared once or twice over our six or seven year journey. This I can't remember if this is second or third time, but this is very brief. This is I think it's around ten eleven, twelve minutes what you're about to hear.
And I wrote this for basically a New Year's message, kind of like the coins New Year Message, but we'll call it Harps's New Year Message. Anyway, it is one of the things that I get the most feedback on. It is basically a little bit of a motivational kind of get your shit together, and it's probably nothing majorly new, but the way that this was put together. I wrote it and then I read it and shared it, which
I don't normally do. I've done that a few times, but rarely, maybe three or four times in six years i've actually read something that I wrote because I think that was the best option with that particular thing. But anyway, so if you need to reset, refocus, recommit, realign, and you need a little bit of inspiration or motivation or perhaps a kick in the metaphoric bottom, then I think you, well,
there's a chance that you'll really enjoy this. And also if you think, because it's so brief, you can cut out all this bullshit at the start with me waffling. If you want, and you can tell your friends just start listening at the eight minute mark or whatever it is. But if there's somebody on planet you that you think, oh, I reckon, they might benefit from listening to this particular twelve minutes or whatever it is of audio, then please
share it with them, alrighty, without any further ado. And also the other reason I'm not doing I was going to do. I was going to do a solo one, as in a new solo one, but I'm kind of a bit under the pump, which you wouldn't know by the way I'm waffling on, but lots on it the minute on planet me. So we're going to revisit this one that I did a few years ago, and I
think you'll enjoy it. See tomorrow, Dear friends, followers, newbies and strangers, You beautiful, flawed, weirdos and wonders wherever you are, whoever you are, Happy New Year, Love from me to you, and most importantly, I hope this finds you ready. And the reason I say ready is because all the love, support and well wishes from me mean fuck all to the quality of your life and the quality of your results.
If you're not ready to do the work that's required to change your life for the better, whatever better means
to you. And when I say ready, I mean ready for the discomfort, the inconvenience, the lack of support, the unfairness, the rejection, the criticism, resistance, inequity, and all the bullshit that often comes with the human experience that comes with growth, that comes with breakthrough and transformation, with insight, with wisdom, with skill development, self awareness, resilience, and with developing mental toughness.
Of course, there's going to be great days too, But coasting down the metaphoric hill with the wind at your back is not where your challenges really lie, and not where your strength is built, not where your focus is sharpened, and not where your transformation happens. Sadly, most of us listening to this live in a world addicted to comfort, convenience, predictability,
instant gratification and positive affirmations. We love that stuff, and speaking of sad life, gives zero fucks about your or my physical comfort, emotional state, mental health, insecurity, insatiable ego, or sadness. Life is just life. It is the constant with which we perpetually dance. And life's not fair or unfair or good or bad. In fact, life's not even a thing. It's not a single thing anyway, but rather
a bunch of things. The word life is a term that we invented, a mental construct to describe and help us comprehend a multitude of intersecting and overlapping variables experiences, outcomes, relationships, events, illnesses, emotions, culture, value, standard life, love, hate, pain, pleasure, psychology, physiology, biology, spirituality, past, present, future, non unknown. All of it part of life. And it's in the middle of this multitude of variables that our
story about our life arises. In reality, how we personally experience life is more about our thinking, our self created stories, the way we individually process, label, and interpret the goings on of our external world, than it is the actual events taking place in that three dimensional place, Which is why someone in a bad situation can literally be having a great day that is their personal experience, while someone in a great situation, seemingly from the outside looking in,
can be having a truly horrible time. And if you don't believe me, I'll introduce you to a few people living with cancer who are consistently happier than most healthy people. And they're not deluded. They know exactly what's going on, but neither is their life experience determined by their situation or their illness. The mind is the ultimate reality creator,
even in the middle of the worst shit. Just ask Victor Frankel, and ask my mum, who's beaten cancer three times and complained about the disease, the pain, the chemo, all the horrible fucking side effects exactly zero times. And now, like many times before, you and I, we stand at
the precipice of another year, a new year. We've got no more hours in a day, no more potential than last year, no better genetics, and maybe, like many other years, you step up to the starting line with similar or identical even goals, aspirations, and dreams, hoping that somehow this year will be different. But it won't, not if hoping is your strategy anyway, And that's because hoping, wanting, wishing, finger crossing for a better year and a better life,
it's not a fucking strategy at all. It's not a commitment. It's not courage, it's not work. It's delusional responsibility, avoiding bullshit. It's weakness, or at the very least, it's laziness and it's you saying, I hope things work out. I hope I fall on my feet. I hope opportunity presents itself. I hope I get in shape, and I hope success comes my way this year. The truth is that statistically, very few people will achieve what they set out to
this year and maintain it over the long term. And that's not because they can't necessarily, but because creating a personal revolution, a genuine, inside out, permanent transformation, is hard as fuck. And while we fantasize about change, we're addicted to easy. And the only place that easy in transformation coexist is in sentences like this one. On another truth, Well, here's another one. I don't really like writing these messages at all. I know some people will resent it and
resent me for writing it. Don't blame them totally get it. Understand there were times in my life when this kind of message was the absolute last thing I wanted to read or hear, because I was still denying, deflecting, procrastinating, and justifying my own lack of commitment and work. I had a gift for making bullshit excuses sound like very logical reasons. Sometimes having away with words is not the advantage, it seems, But deep down I knew the issue was
me and the solution was me. I was the author of my own story, but at that time I was just scribbling shit on a page, and while I could dilute a few people, I was actually sabotaging myself, getting in my own way and telling myself stories to justify what I should have been doing. But wasn't sure. I could write a much more digestible, comfortable, and even popular message than this one. But I'd be lying. I'd be lying to you and me about what's actually required to
be the exception, not the rule. Of course, I'd love to share some feel good, warm, fuzzy, let's hug it out type messages where the universe provides intensions are enough. Being a good person always equal success, Change is easy, and things always work out. But in four decades of working at the cold face of change with tens of thousands of humans who wanted to create physical, mental, emotional, and practical change, I've come to realize that message it's
just not true. In fact, it's often part of the problem. There's no magic or mystery to success. There's you, and then there's the work. There's the effort and the outcome. There's the plan, and then there's the execution of the plan. There's what's required to change, learn, grow and succeed, and
then there's what an individual will actually fucking do. Some people have almost been changing their life for years, decades, and all the self help memes, the positive affirmations, the motivational videos, the cheer squads, and even the fucking transformation die maries in the world amount to fuck all if they're not used in conjunction with consistent effort, self control, discipline, and courage. Not sexy, those things, are they It's not
about the tool, it's about the tradesperson. And on this project, you the trade are building your optimum life. If right now you know that I'm talking about you, then you have a bunch of choices. But here are five that come to mind for me. One self delusion, Pretend that I'm not talking about you and just carry on. Two get mad at me for being an out of touch, in sensitive prick who doesn't understand you or your situation. That's not an unpopular choice that one. Three self loathing.
Tell yourself you're a worthless piece of shit. Done that a few times myself. Four self awareness and ownership, no self loathing, no overthinking, no self pity, just awareness, acknowledgment, and humility. And five fully commit, fully commit like you never ever have before in your life, to changing whatever needs to be changed on planet you from the inside out. Throw away the safety in it, remove the escape clause, ditch the get out of jail card, and immerse yourself
in the project. Do you project? See what I did there? Obviously I recommend options four and five, but to be honest, I've given them all a run over the years. So some of you might be reading this and thinking, yeah, harps, I get it, and yeah, I want to change my life or part of my life. But I'm not a hard ass. I'm not a savage. I'm not an elite athlete. I'm not indestructible, not gifted, not fearless, not You don't need to be me, by the way, that's no high watermark.
And I'm definitely not young. And I'm going to say to you, cool, great, Okay, that's awesome. You don't need to be any of those things. You just need to be willing to start where you are with what you have and what you can do. The only person and you're competing and comparing yourself with on this journey, on this project, is you past you, current you? Future you? If the furthest you can walk, for example, it's twenty feet, then walk twenty feet. Well done, Awesome. That's your genesis.
That's you creating momentum, that's you starting, that's you taking action. And if the thought of you talking to a stranger, for example, terrifies you, then don't maybe start with a smile and graduate over a week or two or ten to a hello. Whoever you are, whatever the goal, whatever your age, genetics, potential resources, we all start where we
are mentally, emotionally, physically, financially, academically, professionally, and personally. I've trained people who have gained amazing strength, function, fitness, confidence, and health in their eighties eighties. I've coached people to change careers in their sixties and people to undertake study in their seventies. All they needed to be was willing, and they were. They started, and they did it. The good news is that, in my experience, most of us
haven't begun to scrape the surface of our potential. Most of us underestimate what's actually possible for us when we have to do something as opposed to want to do something. We've got untapped reserves. I've seen it time and time again. When our mindset switches, and I mean really fucking transforms on the deepest level from I kind of want to do better this year to absolutely have to change my fucking life. Then a new door of likely outcomes opens.
We move in that moment, we move from no chance to some chance. Now, some of you might be somewhat inspired or motivated when you hear this or not. Either way, I really don't care. I give zero fucks because your motivation and inspiration will pass. But I do care about you really, and more importantly, I care about what you do.
And the motivation and inspiration evaporate when the majority would abandon ship, when no one's watching, when the cheer squad has disappeared, when a week has passed and then a month. When it's painful, and when it's more painful, when people resent you for succeeding, when your focus bothers them, when you realize that your friend is a frenemy, when you can't remember what the fuck I even said here, and when you start to rationalize why it might be time
to give up just like the other times. That's what I care about. I honestly don't know if you'll change your life this year, but I know you can. All the best, love, Harps