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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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What if disappearing for 30 days felt like a rocket ship toward the goals you’ve been thinking about… the habits you’ve wanted to build, the changes you’ve wanted to make. In this episode, I’m showing you how to hit pause on your normal life, go all in on what actually moves the needle, and come out with results that would’ve taken years.. or never happened at all.
This episode is about changing up your routine and getting quiet for a certain period of time so that you can be laser focused on doing things differently.
It will mean passing up things you normally do and even things you enjoy doing - for a short period of time.
This Intentional imbalance is a growth strategy. Rather than tinkering away at something- you charge it, get great at it, get it into your consistent routine then emerge.
You don’t live in this cave forever and the amount of time that you hibernate depends on how big of the goal and how focused you can be. You just need to hibernate long enough to get some major headway going in the direction that you want.
Here’s the truth, when you come out of this phase, you won’t be the same person you were when you went in.
You’ll walk differently. Think differently. Speak with more certainty.
Why? Because you’ve done something most people won’t do, you intentionally pressed pause on the noise, the distractions, the social expectations… and you chose to go all in.
You tell yourself…
“For this short season, I’m putting blinders on. I’m not doing everything for everyone else. I’m focused. I’m building. I’m growing.”
And here’s the beautiful part, it’s temporary.
This isn’t about grinding forever. It’s about locking in for a short, intentional window… and using that window to create momentum that would’ve taken years otherwise, or maybe wouldn’t have happened at all.
You didn’t try to squeeze this goal into the cracks of your chaotic schedule, you restructured your life around it. That’s why it sticks.
It’s like being in a workout class and your legs are burning and your mind is screaming “I can’t do one more rep,” and then the instructor says…
“You only have 10 left.”
You find something extra.
You push harder because the finish line is in sight.
That’s the magic of this phase, you know it has an end.
You know the sacrifice is short-term.
And because of that, you stay consistent. You don’t flake. You show up.
And on the other side?
You’ve finished the reps.
You’ve built the habit.
You’ve launched the thing, or changed your body, or created a whole new standard for your life.
And most importantly, you’ve built confidence.
Not from hype. Not from external validation. But from evidence.
Proof that you can be the kind of person who gets things done when it matters most.
So if life’s felt stuck or uninspired lately…
This is your sign to reset.
Go inward. Go hard. Hibernate for a little while.
Then come back and dominate... with momentum, with confidence, and with proof that you are exactly who you say you are and way more awesome!
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0:00.0 | What if disappearing for 30 days felt like a rocket ship towards the goals you've been thinking about, |
0:07.4 | the habits you've wanted to build, the changes you've wanted to make. In this episode, I'm showing |
0:12.6 | you how to hit pause on your normal life, go all in on what actually moves the needle, |
0:17.6 | and come out with results that would have taken years or never happened at all. |
0:22.0 | This episode is about changing up your routine and getting quiet for a certain period of time |
0:26.4 | so that you can be laser focused on doing things differently. It will mean passing up things |
0:32.3 | you normally do and even things you enjoy doing for a short period of time. This intentional imbalance is a growth |
0:39.9 | strategy. Rather than tinkering away at something, you charge at it, get great at it, get into your |
0:46.5 | consistent routine, then emerge. You don't live in this cave forever, and the amount of time that |
0:51.7 | you hibernate depends on how big of the goal is and how |
0:54.2 | focus you can be. You just need to hibernate long enough to get some major headway going in the |
0:59.7 | direction that you want. Let's go. You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, |
1:05.5 | where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur |
1:12.2 | and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
1:18.7 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting |
1:23.0 | to give to her kids one day, and now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be |
1:28.7 | awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay. Welcome back to the podcast today. You are going to |
1:37.6 | love this strategy that we're talking about today. I've used it at different points in my life. |
1:44.0 | And I swear it's one of the |
1:45.6 | strategies that gets me just like the most leverage and the most momentum of anything else. |
1:52.0 | Now, full transparency, this hibernation that I just went through was kind of forced. It was like |
1:57.5 | a little bit forced, but then I leaned into it and maximized it. And I was reminded |
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