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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2287: Moving For Good AND Goals Shape the Present, Not the Future by Derek Sivers on Personal Development

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Two posts from Derek Sivers on personal growth and goal setting. Episode 2287: Moving For Good AND Goals Shape the Present, Not the Future by Derek Sivers on Personal Development Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. The original posts are located here: https://sive.rs/mfg & https://sive.rs/goals Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've got to wrap up warm.

0:42.3

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap top is so warm but then

0:46.1

you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top and you're like, and then you

0:50.3

can see the breath, but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:54.9

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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2287, moving for good, and goals shape the present,

1:07.7

not the future, both by Derek Zivers of Sivers. And I'm just a malloc, the guy that reads

1:14.7

to you every single day of the year, including weekends and holidays, tell if you live

1:18.7

a more meaningful and positive life. Two posts today. So let's get right to them as we

1:24.1

optimize your life.

1:30.2

Moving for good by Derek Zivers of Sivers, that's s-i-v-e-dot-r-s.

1:37.3

You are the way you are because of what you've experienced. Your country, family, town,

1:43.5

random circumstances, and friends shaped the way you think. If you grew up on the other

1:48.2

side of the world, you would have a different set of values and thought patterns. But if

1:52.1

you keep experiencing the same things, your mind keeps its same patterns, same input,

1:58.0

same response. Your brain, which was once curious and growing, gets fixed into deep habits.

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