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Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

Ted Talk 78: Motivation isn't Enough. Environment Literally Shapes Your Life

Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

Ted Ryce

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8848 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

"Just do it"….. this Nike mantra has been a motivational quote for a lot of us. The truth is that getting motivated every day can be very tricky and elusive. You might not realize it, but your environment literally shapes your life. Listen to this Ted Talk episode, where Ted explains how your environment impacts your life and reveals a step-by-step guide on creating an environment where you can thrive and achieve your goals this year! Listen now!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What this is about, this talk today is about, is starting to be aware, starting to be

0:17.0

mindful of how your environment either adds to your ability to achieve your goals or

0:24.5

how it takes away from it.

0:25.8

And I want you to think about this, and I want you to think a bit deeply.

0:29.6

You can even take notes here.

0:31.4

Think about the things that you experience in your day.

0:34.8

Think about, you know, we can bring success down mathematically.

0:40.6

Is your environment helping you to achieve your goals or is it putting up unnecessary

0:47.6

obstacles?

0:48.6

That's going to be the topic of conversation for today, and we're going to talk about

0:53.7

what you can do to make things more easier.

0:57.0

So often, especially if you are an American or you have that American mindset, you're

1:03.7

all about hard work, and you're all about willpower, and you've got to force yourself

1:07.5

to do things in force, and it's hard, but you've got to keep going, and you know, we drive

1:12.9

ourselves to stress, to burn out, to not enjoying life, because we feel like we've got

1:18.8

to work so hard and push so hard, but the reality is that we want to flow with success.

1:25.8

We don't want to have that sycephysian, if I'm saying that right, the experience where

1:32.0

sycephys was the, I guess, Greek, that story about the Greek man who had to push a boulder

1:38.6

up the hill every day, sounds terrible.

1:41.2

Sounds like a good workout though, but after a while, that's going to get too tough.

1:47.0

So we're going to talk about that, and I'm going to share what I've been going through

1:50.4

personally here.

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