Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I hope that everyone's ready for a little bit of

tough love today and you can't hate me for this. I guess you can hate me for this, but it's actually

tough love to myself. Like I wrote this as a bit of a pep talk, but it helped me and this kind of messaging

helps me and it's probably what

motivates me most. So I hope that it's helpful to some people. And, you know, if it's not

helpful, then I'm sorry about that. But I have decided to show myself a little bit more. And I also realize not everyone's going to like that. So that's also

fine. Anyway, fact, average efforts will get you average results. And this is the question I like to

ask myself to kind of call myself out. Are you actually putting in

enough effort to get the outcome that you're expecting? And then the follow-ups that is kind of my

favorite thing of like, don't expect or don't get upset about the results that you didn't get

from the work that you didn't do. And this quote from Shane Parrish, which I love,

exceptional outcomes are almost always achieved by people with higher than average standards. Right.

So what are the standards that you hold of yourself? Now, if you've just signed up to commit to six,

we will have set you minimum non-negotiables. I see these as the

standards that you hold of yourself. So like a minimum non-negotiable might be for me to get

8,000 steps. In fact, realistically it's 10,000. But that's the standard that I hold on myself.

Now, good example of this. Last week, we had some horrendous storm here so i just ended up like walking around

the flat a little bit to get my steps in and like made sure that i did it anyway even though it was

like i mean i guess i could have gone outside but it was pretty horrible but that's a hard

standard that i hold of myself now normally, normally I'm way above that.

This is the point of like minimum standards, minimum non-negotiables, but you won't let yourself

drop below that. And back to that quote, because I freaking love it. Exceptional outcomes are

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