Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast. My name is Chris Terrell.

Happy Friday. Well, I don't know if it's Friday when you're listening to this. It's Friday when I record it, but happy Friday if you are indeed listening to it on the day it goes live.

You know, we're, summer's drawing to a close.

Wow, isn't it crazy how fast time flies when you're looking backwards and how slow it seems

to go when you're looking forwards?

Isn't that interesting?

I always love it when somebody likes to belly ache about,

oh, I'm going to have to spend a year. I'm going to spend two years losing weight. That's going

to take forever. Look, some of y'all have invested 10 years in a show. Some of y'all are

still watching Survivor. Some of y'all are still watching The Voice. Aren't they on season

365 or something?

Like, really, you will invest years and years and years into a show. Why can't you invest years and

years and years into personally bettering yourself? Why not? Why not? Huh? I mean, just a little

bit at a time each week, just keep chipping away.

Keep chipping away.

The problem with being a human is that far too often we confuse our perceptions as factual.

Now, let's be honest, every situation, every scenario, has both facts and perception.

Unfortunately, perception often becomes reality.

It's so crucial that you recognize when you're letting your perceptions become reality because if you're doing that you're going to be

able to change your reality by changing your perceptions so if you perceive the notion of losing weight

over two years as long and terrible you're're wrong. It's only that way because

you chose to believe that. There's no right or wrong. That is a perception. That is a matter of

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