If I start comparing myself, it is the best trigger that I have to like, nope, water your own grass.

Water your own grass?

Because right now if you're sitting here looking at someone else's life,

looking at someone else's work, and feeling like,

oh, I'm jealous of that thing or I want that thing,

or I wish I had that thing, if I'm doing that, I'm not actually doing the thing that I'm saying I want to have.

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Hi guys, welcome to my dining room table.

So I have this episode of the show that I've been wanting to record for a while,

and my intention today was to record this episode for you guys.

But then, at a very human moment that then inspired me to change the conversation that I'm going

to have with you today because I had some tools that I could reach

for to deal with this very human moment and then I was able to talk myself back around and I thought, oh, I bet you guys would

maybe glean some ideas from this encounter as well.

I was having my coffee, I gave myself a countdown just like I do for my five-year-old.

I don't know if you all have to do this, but I have to give myself a countdown because otherwise I'll just sit and have

coffee for way longer than I should because I just love my morning routine and I love my coffee and the

last bit of the routine was I'm going to go get my workout in I'm going to get this done.

So I said, okay, Rach, at 830, you're wrapping this train up and you're going to go out to the gym and you're going to do what you need to do.

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