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Noah Kagan Presents

100 Miles

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

What do YOU do when no one is watching? If no one is watching, you can quit without anyone judging you. Or even noticing. Today, I’m going to share a story about self-commitment I made — and what self-commitment means in your personal life and business.

Full show notes at https://okdork.com/podcast/96

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0:00.0

What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy Rob I can't lose aka Noah Kagan. In this entrepreneur

0:06.6

appetizer I'm going to talk to you about a hundred miles. Yeah a hundred miles.

0:11.9

So this year me and my good friend Anton decided one of our yearly

0:15.8

bucketless goals was to ride across America. It's 3,000 miles. So not actually right

0:20.8

across America, but do over 3,000 miles of bike riding this year.

0:24.0

And you can follow me on Strava at Noah Kagan if you want to check out my progress.

0:28.0

So I wanted to tell you about a specific day that I was doing the 100 miles,

0:32.0

because 3,000 miles, 50 weeks, it's about 60 miles a day.

0:35.0

I've been lagging because I got a little discouraged from bike riding in February so I'm catching up.

0:39.0

So a few weekends ago I told myself, I planned my week and I told myself in the beginning of the week I'm

0:45.0

going to do a hundred miles this week so I committed to it and I emailed my good buddy

0:48.7

Adam and I was like well I got to do my hundred miles. Monday happened, Tuesday happened, Wednesday happened,

0:54.5

did a little bit of biking, Friday started drinking, Saturday started drinking, and then

0:58.9

Sunday was here. And so come Sunday I was at about 60 miles and I woke up hung over.

1:05.0

I just started negotiating with myself.

1:09.0

I'm like, no, you know, you wrote 60, 60 is great man.

1:11.5

You did great this week.

1:12.2

I'm proud of you.

1:13.5

And then you start negotiating yourself out of what you've committed to.

1:18.1

And I was like, ah, it's raining, I hung over, I want to stay in, 60s a lot, it's good enough,

1:22.2

I'll pick it up next week.

1:23.2

You guys know what I'm talking about? That moment where you just start saying no

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