Second Cup: What does ‘Done’ look like?

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Motivate yourself with a vivid picture of the outcome

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0:00.0	13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction
0:05.3	podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.
0:08.2	If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.
0:11.3	Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.
0:14.9	Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.
0:18.4	How do you know? I'm innocent.
0:20.3	Are any of us truly innocent?
0:22.3	Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.
0:25.2	Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.8	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:41.5	Good morning. This is Laura.
0:45.1	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:48.1	Today's tip is to create a very clear picture of what done looks like.
0:54.6	You'll be more motivated to achieve your goals if you can see vividly what the outcome will be.
1:02.4	Today's tip, like another this week, comes from Greg McEwan's new book,
1:06.8	Effortless. This book looks at ways to make important actions automatic, or at least easy.
1:15.6	Greg points out that we often set very vague goals. You know the sort.
1:21.0	Lose weight. Read more books. The problem is that we have no idea what done looks like.
1:28.6	And so it's hard to feel a motivating sense of progress and accomplishment.
1:34.5	So he suggests creating a vivid image of what done would look like for you.
1:40.0	For instance, someone trying to lose weight might picture done as I look down at the weighing
1:45.2	scale and see the number 177 staring back at me.
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