Episode 272: Why You Need to Stop Focusing on The Now

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

4.5 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Do you let the feeling of “not feeling like it” get in the way of your goals? In this solo episode of the Habits and Hustle podcast, I chat about the importance of focusing on how you will feel in the future, after you do something that you know you should do, instead of focusing on how you feel in the moment. Whether it be working out or drinking, it’s important to think of how you feel now and how it may make you feel after you do the “thing”. What I discuss: 00:43: Where should you put your focus? 05:16: Why do people enjoy alcohol? 08:01: How should you think of what to focus on? Thank you to our sponsor: KETONE IQ: Go to hvmn.com/jen and get 30% off your first subscription Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements

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0:00.0	Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
0:09.0	And here we are. Solo episode. We're just, I don't know, just shooting this shit over here with Shawnee.
0:15.0	And I'm like literally the most mundane, like unimportant shit my hair. And if it's darker or lighter than it used to be. So what do you guys think? Yeah, so what do you think? And I got a little bit of a trim. That's basically the big conversation topic. Are you going to tune out and just move on to the next thing? No, I'm joking. Okay. Let's move on. Let's talk about something that I was thinking about last night,
0:39.5	which is this idea of what you focus on.
0:43.2	I think this is actually really interesting
0:44.7	because I like to focus on things that I think about not how I feel before I do something,
0:50.8	but how I will feel after I do something, right? So I don't allow how I feel before
0:58.1	to shape and decide what I'm going to do. Because a lot of times the things that you are like that
1:06.6	you feel bad about later are the things that you were going to, you felt good about before.
1:11.9	And the things that you kind of like feel like you don't want to do actually make you feel
1:16.6	better after. So focus on how you feel after something, not how you feel before something,
1:22.6	like exercise, right? No one would ever say they felt worse after working out. But they would say they felt
1:30.6	worse after drinking, you know, a leader of tequila. But at the time they decided to do it,
1:37.1	they were super psyched and excited and happy and they felt really good about it and it was
1:42.3	going to be a good time. And then they do it and they felt like shit after.
1:48.0	So think about those things because if you focus on health versus happiness,
1:54.6	you know, health leads you to happiness as opposed to like focusing on being happy,
1:58.8	being happy, but not doing any of the right steps and making
2:01.6	the right choices and doing the right decisions to get you to that place. I love that.
2:07.6	Wait, that's so great. This idea of I think so many people are waiting to feel good before they
2:12.1	pursue a lot of these things. Yeah, they're waiting to. Not thinking that pursuing these things will lead
2:15.8	you to feeling good. Right. That's the whole thing.
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