Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators,

to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what

motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and

inspire so I hope that the power hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Hey everyone, it's Adrienne here.

Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, I hope you are really well and I hope you're

having a great week.

So we are halfway through 2021.

There are only six months left of this year, which is kind of mad and it feels like it

was only weeks ago that it was the start of the year and, is kind of mad, and it feels like it was only weeks ago that

it was the start of the year. And, you know, I was delivering talks about the year ahead,

planning, motivation, goal setting. And here we are, six months through the year and six months

left. So I work with mentees. I'm a mentor and this week I was speaking to my mentees about

creating a roadmap for the rest of the year to look at, you know, personal goals, professional

goals, what do they want to achieve in the next six months before this year ends? And what does

that roadmap look like? What do they really need to do to make it happen?

And I shared a, you know, that really got me thinking. And then I shared a post online that said,

hard work is never, ever wasted. And that is kind of a reminder to myself right now, because I think

that when you're starting something, whether it's a new project, whether it's the start of the year,

you have this energy and this motivation to start. You know, you can see the vision and you're keen to get going. But six months into something, it's more difficult. You know, that

motivation is gone and you kind of feel like keeping that energy and that momentum can be really

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