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Episode 12.

How to make hard exercise ridiculously easy.

I know the two don't go together, exercising easy, but there's a secret thanks to my wife, Dr. Deborah.

The secret is not about doing more, but it's about doing less and honoring your own commitment.

It's a gift that you give yourself.

And now, Dr. Deborah.

Hello, hello, hello.

How are you today? Well, today is episode 12 and we are going to talk about the dreaded eight-letter word called exercise. But what I want to do is I want to turn it into a three-letter word called joy and add it to a four-letter word called play.

Now, when children exercise, it's called play.

For some reason, we call it exercise and the meaning of what many of us put behind it causes a feeling of great dread.

And this podcast is going to change all that for you.

So stay tuned to making exercise ridiculously easy.

Yes, that's my goal for you today is to make exercise ridiculously easy. Yes, that's my goal for you today, is to make exercise ridiculously

easy. Here's what I want to talk about with exercise. I think, like I've been saying to you for a long

time, is that I think most of us are very hard on ourselves. And I think sometimes our expectations are too high.

And the things that we expect out of ourselves, I don't think we would do it to anybody else.

And I think this is the same type of thing that happens when we exercise is if we're not

exercising, what we think we need to be doing is a lot more than what we've

done or ever done. And we think that it's the only way things are going to get done and it's the

only way we're going to get in shape is to be really hard on ourselves. I want to ask you this,

how is that working for you? I've got clients that come in and say, well, I know I should be

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