Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou.

Mind, Body, Br, body, brute.

Hey there, this is Michael Cashew, and today I want to share with you a question that changed my life.

If you're into personal development or growth or you just want to be happier, have better relationships

and be more successful in general than this is for you as well. About two years ago, I was

planning to do a vision and goals exercise, kind of like a New Year's resolution thing, but I did

it in September because why not? And I was journaling the day

before and something came up for me. I just felt this sudden, something came up where this question

came into my mind and I felt like I had to answer it after I did my vision and goals exercise.

And that question was, where are you not taking responsibility in your life?

And so I wrote that down in my journal.

And for some reason, I just felt like I have to answer this question.

And so that I go through this whole vision and goals exercise, I'm feeling really inspired. And then I sit down with the question. And so that I go through this whole vision and goals exercise. I'm feeling

really inspired. And then I sit down with the question. And at first, I just sit there and I'm

thinking about every different area of my life. And at the time, I felt like everything was really

dialed in. I was very happy. I was in great shape. I was taking care of my exercise, my nutrition,

my relationship with the D was incredible. We were successful in business. And so nothing really

came up immediately. But I just sat with it and I sat with it. And then suddenly I realized that

I hadn't been taking responsibility for our financial life.

I had no idea what was coming in, what was going out, what our expenses were.

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