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aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio.

The topic I want to share with you today is something called the first rule of ruts.

And just the word rut, when you're in one, it just kind of sounds like that.

I think this word typifies what it feels like when you're actually in it.

And if you look at the definition of rut, it really kind of says it all.

A fixed, dull, unpromising course of life. Just saying that out loud, it just makes you tired. It just feels like you're not going

into where there's zero energy in that definition. And, you know, when you get into that situation, it could be in a variety of different areas in your life.

You could be in a rut with your health, relationships.

It could be finances.

It could certainly be on the job.

If you're an athlete, it could be with your game.

You just feel like you're

not getting anywhere. It could be spiritually. And there are other areas as well. And so,

first of all, we have to understand a couple of things. And I'll get to the first rule here at a

moment. But let's say you're in one right now. Okay. You didn't do something yesterday that put you there. When you find yourself

in a rut, it's not the result of something you did last night. It is a series of, let's just call them not so great decisions, a series of failed disciplines, sown over time that eventually caught

up with you, all right?

You got by with it for a while.

The grace period is over.

The clock strikes midnight.

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