What's going on, Beaches? Welcome to the Daily Soul Podcast, episode 3138, Sunday, December the 8th.

Today's swelosophy is don't cheat yourself. Now, we think of the term cheat. We think of

cheating on a partner, cheating in a relationship. This is about integrity, cheating yourself.

Now, this can come in many different forms. It can come to lying

to yourself, justifying your bad behavior, justifying your bad habits. And we see those questions

all the time here on the podcast. People telling that, well, I did X, Y, and Z. I ate like shit,

but I'm getting right back on my nutrition. I'm getting back on my programming. You're lying to

yourself. You're cheating

yourself out of progress. You are justifying bad behaviors. And the only person that can really,

I shouldn't say the only person that can cheat you is yourself because other people can cheat you,

but you can't control what other people do. You can filter people better. You can surround

yourself better people so that you're less likely to get

scammed or, you know, worse. But cheating yourself is so controllable. And it really starts with

lying. It really, it's really that integrity. It's really about being truthful and authentic

with yourself. And the story you tell yourself about your life, how you don't have time, how it's

busy, oh, I can never look like that. I have so much going on. These are all excuses. And the problem is

the conversation you have in your head, that's forging the story about your life. And by doing that,

you are just, you're putting yourself in a corner.

And you're guaranteeing that you'll never get out of this position. But it's a lie. You're cheating

yourself out of progress. You're cheating yourself out of improvement. And that's why your self-talk is

so important. That's why the way you think about yourself,

the way you think about your actions and your potential, that's why it's so important to

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