you can accomplish a lot running from pain. But once you've created enough distance from that pain,

you slow down or fizzle out. Unless you shift from a pain driven pursuit to a purpose driven

pursuit, you will not continue to move forward. Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast. I'm your host, Coda McBroom. I'm a father, husband, coach, and entrepreneur, and the founder of tailored coaching method, a world-renowned online fitness and nutrition coaching company, helping average people achieve above-average physiques and live above-average lives. Today, we are going to dive into five lessons from the first five months of

26. I think I've done an episode similar to this one. Let me make sure I'm recording.

I've done an episode similar to this, I think, this year. So it might not be the first time

I talked about just what I've learned. But I usually try to do these

every month, if not at least every quarter, where I use the podcast as a way to document and share

what I'm going through, both the struggles, the good, the bad, the challenges, the lessons,

everything I'm learning because I think that at the other day, like I just, I got a lot going on and I love it. And there's, there's highs and lows and there's a lot of people listening this that I know are in the same boat. I'm a parent. There's a lot of parents listen to this. I'm somebody who's actively trying to stay in great shape and look better week to week. I know there's a lot of people listening this that want to do that too. I run a business that has many moving parts and I know there's many entrepreneurs I listen to. I'm a coach. I know there's a lot of people listen to this that want to do that too. I run a business that has many moving parts. And I know there's many entrepreneurs that listen to. I'm a coach. I know there's a lot of coaches and leaders and people who, whether you were a teacher or you're a manager or you're a GM or you're the owner of a company or you're a coach literally or you're a leading other people. And these lessons apply to you. There's just a lot. There's a lot going on. And it's

2026. The world's crazy. I'm a little crazy, but the world is insane. If you know that song,

you know what I'm talking about. So I wanted to share some of those. So I got five things that

have been on my mind. And I just kind of,

I journal every single day. Shout out to the tailored or the, the choose hard 90 day journal. I always have one. I actually have two. One's propped up next to me. And I always got another one. You can see how pens in it because I'm always journaling with this. But I'm constantly writing down lessons I'm learning as I'm going through stuff. And so I wanted to share some of those today.

And I think this will be a very one of the heavier podcast, but hopefully it really hits home and it helps you shift some things in your life. Before we get into the podcast, a couple quick shoutouts to some of our sponsors, a few of which are literally my companies. And I that in in on purpose. So the first one real

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