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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 59 - What To Tell People Who Are Stuck In Their Job: James Smith

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

James Smith is a bestselling author of Not A Life Coach and Not A Diet Book where he combines hard truths and empathy to his fans. He is also a personal trainer and fitness influencer with a unique philosophy that makes his message unlike any fitness advice you’ve ever heard before.

Here he talks about the way ‘out’. Whether that is the way out of a job, a relationship or a situation we are always so hesitant to follow through with our gut instincts. We are all here to live and time isn’t something we can friverously throw away. He mentions the phrase “you’re a long time dead”, and it's something he tells himself regularly. I hope this moment will give you that push to do the thing you’ve been wanting to do. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's going to be a ton of people listening to this now that are in that situation.

0:05.1

They're on their way to a job this morning that they don't particularly like.

0:10.4

But they're going to say, James, I've got a mortgage to pay and I've got a couple of kids.

0:13.8

You know, you'll get this a lot of time because I get it every day.

0:16.4

Got a couple of kids and it's easy for you guys to say because you're single and you've

0:20.4

got all this money now.

0:21.4

But I can't just leave this call center, James.

0:24.4

I've got Timmy that needs to go to school and I need to give you know, buys books for his

0:29.4

book bag and what do you say to those people that are feeling like they've kind of built

0:33.6

a wall too big to climb over?

0:35.0

It's a very difficult one and again, I can never say, I'll just do this because when

0:40.4

I'm talking now, I'm talking to James of 22.

0:43.7

Similarly to how you would talk to yourself 18, I can't talk to every age group listening

0:49.0

to this podcast so I try to talk to the one I know best.

0:51.4

Yeah.

0:52.4

You kind of ways out, there's one where some people do need to make a risk because they

0:58.8

may see no options now, but where are they going to be in five years?

1:02.9

A lot of the time and things get worse with time, not better in these situations, unfulfillment,

1:08.2

passionless existence.

1:09.2

One of these things get worse.

1:10.2

If your relationship is on the rocks, you don't just give it four years.

1:14.2

Something needs to be done.

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