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Speaker 1: Welcome to another installment of the show. If it's your first,
Speaker 1: welcome where have you been? If it's your hundredth welcome back?
Speaker 1: If it's your eighteen hundredth, what's wrong with you? Just kidding?
Speaker 1: I love you? So today is going to be different.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure exactly as I start this. And
Speaker 1: this will be no surprise to you that know me
Speaker 1: well and understand how much I fly by the seat
Speaker 1: of my pants. But I was just sitting out in
Speaker 1: the garden, as old people do. I was sitting in
Speaker 1: the garden. I was thinking to myself, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: why don't we just do something different? I was thinking that,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, what am I going to What
Speaker 1: am I going to talk to you about today? And
Speaker 1: then this kind of idea dawned on me, and what
Speaker 1: if I don't What if it's not just another monologue.
Speaker 1: What if it's not a bunch of not another you know,
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of theory or and not that those things
Speaker 1: are bad, but as we know, knowing stuff as not
Speaker 1: doing staff theories, not action, you know, theories, not outcomes,
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. What if I, and so that
Speaker 1: took me down this rabbit hole of conceptualizing what I'm
Speaker 1: about to share with you. So I had an idea,
Speaker 1: And my idea is this, What if you and I,
Speaker 1: those of you who are interested, what if you and
Speaker 1: I do a little thing together, A little project together
Speaker 1: that goes for seven days, a little process, a little
Speaker 1: joint endeavor where you put up your hand and you go.
Speaker 1: You know what harps want to I want to get started.
Speaker 1: I want to create some physical or mental or emotional
Speaker 1: or behavioral momentum. I wouldn't mind doing seven days with
Speaker 1: you with a bit of structure, bit of accountability, bit
Speaker 1: of process, maybe a bit of information and inspiration and
Speaker 1: education at zero costs. So there is zero cost. There
Speaker 1: is no cost. There's probably a bit of physical and
Speaker 1: emotional cost. But there's no dough, and there's no dough,
Speaker 1: and there's no sales pitch at the end, and there's
Speaker 1: no there's no seguaey to something bigger. There's no on
Speaker 1: sell upsell, fucking no sell none, zero, there's no agenda,
Speaker 1: there's no hook, there's no catch. I just, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I just want to do something and I don't
Speaker 1: even I don't even know well, I know why because
Speaker 1: part of my mission, part of my purpose. And yes,
Speaker 1: I get paid well to do my job, and we
Speaker 1: get sponsored for the podcast, and I do corporate stuff
Speaker 1: that pays well, and I do other things that paid
Speaker 1: between you know, a little bit and a lot sometimes
Speaker 1: depending on what I'm doing and who I'm doing it for.
Speaker 1: But part of my at my age, at where I'm
Speaker 1: at with my career, at where I'm at with my life,
Speaker 1: part of what I'm about is doing some things where
Speaker 1: there's no thing in it for me, just because it's
Speaker 1: a good thing or it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: And so this is that, or this is me trying
Speaker 1: to do part of that. And so I thought, wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be good if we found a way to step
Speaker 1: out of the theory and to practically do something. I thought,
Speaker 1: seven days is short enough. It's short enough that it's
Speaker 1: not too daunting, it's not too horrifying or terrifying for people.
Speaker 1: But it's also long enough that we could have a
Speaker 1: little bit of fun and we could create a little
Speaker 1: bit of momentum. And I don't know, something else might
Speaker 1: come from it. And I don't mean an on sellar
Speaker 1: an upset we just might do another one, or we
Speaker 1: might I don't know what, but so I'm genuinely interested
Speaker 1: to see what happens when I open the door to
Speaker 1: my listeners. Now, don't get angry with me for what
Speaker 1: I'm about to say, but you know, we all come
Speaker 1: for essentially the same or similar ish reason, all most, most,
Speaker 1: and I think the reason for many people is we
Speaker 1: want to think better, do better, be better, make better choices,
Speaker 1: embrace better behaviors, settle down the overthinking and the anxiety
Speaker 1: and the fear, and be braver and more resilient and
Speaker 1: create good outcomes. The bottom line is, we want to grow,
Speaker 1: we want to improve, we want to do better, think better,
Speaker 1: be better, produce better outcomes. Right, so we're all here
Speaker 1: for that reason. Now I'm opening the door and saying,
Speaker 1: I'm going to coach you for seven days for free.
Speaker 1: I'm going to spend every day. I'm going to set
Speaker 1: a bunch of challenges and or tasks that you can do. Obviously,
Speaker 1: everything's optional. You might do two days of this and
Speaker 1: go fuck him and fuck his silly idea. I'm out,
Speaker 1: Or you might do two days ago. This shit is amazing.
Speaker 1: Where has this been all my life? I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but I feel like a lot of people need a
Speaker 1: bit of momentum, a bit of structure, a bitility of accountability,
Speaker 1: a bit of community, a bit of connection, and the
Speaker 1: opportunity to, like in a short period of time, start
Speaker 1: something and finish something and hopefully the seven days will
Speaker 1: be a stepping stone something bigger and better and more.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course life's not seven days, And of
Speaker 1: course this is a micro in the middle of the macro,
Speaker 1: the macro being your life, the micro being this little
Speaker 1: thing that I'm offering you to get involved in. I'll
Speaker 1: just repeat there's no cost. There's never going to be
Speaker 1: a cost, and at the end, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try and sell you on something. Now I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I really don't know how many people are
Speaker 1: going to want to do this. My bet would be
Speaker 1: that if one hundred people do it, less than fifty
Speaker 1: will finish. That's not me being negative, that's me telling
Speaker 1: you how things like this tend to work. You know,
Speaker 1: the average active membership, which I've shared way too many times,
Speaker 1: but is somewhere around fifteen per cent. So for every
Speaker 1: hundred people that join a gym within a not too
Speaker 1: big a period of time, about eighty five of them
Speaker 1: don't go or they rarely go. So we know that
Speaker 1: people make decisions that they don't follow through on. So
Speaker 1: I would challenge you to challenge yourself and go, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do this seven days, and I'm maybe
Speaker 1: going to do some stuff that's a bit unme and
Speaker 1: I'm maybe going to get a little bit uncomfortable. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be overwhelming and to hijack
Speaker 1: your life, of course, so I'm going to set every day.
Speaker 1: I'm going to set some simple, maybe slightly uncomfortable, depends
Speaker 1: on where you're at and what you're up to, tasks
Speaker 1: or activities or whatever that you can do. And it's
Speaker 1: going to take somewhere between three minutes and twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: depending on what you do and the way that you
Speaker 1: do it, and that's up to you. Some of these
Speaker 1: challenges will be more in the physical space, nothing too hard,
Speaker 1: and again I will give you options, so realizing that
Speaker 1: some of you don't work out or are not fit,
Speaker 1: are not particularly super healthy, there'll be physical options. There'll
Speaker 1: be psychological or kind of more mind based challenges or
Speaker 1: emotion based challenges or tasks there'll be things that there
Speaker 1: will definitely be something that you can do. So you
Speaker 1: do not need to be a genius, you do not
Speaker 1: need to be fit, you do not need to have
Speaker 1: any particular skills. All you need to do and by
Speaker 1: the way, all you're going to do is you're going
Speaker 1: to do your best. So if I ask you to
Speaker 1: do something that you can't quite do, then you do
Speaker 1: what you can do and that's your outcome for the
Speaker 1: day and it's more that it's more than you would
Speaker 1: have done anyway. So the way that it works practically
Speaker 1: is I'm going to upload a video every day to
Speaker 1: the you Project Facebook page. So if you're not a member, again,
Speaker 1: no hooks, catches, agendas, cost nothing, no on sell, up sell,
Speaker 1: but go to the bloody Facebook page, sign up, become
Speaker 1: a member of the Facebook page, the you Project Facebook
Speaker 1: page if you are not, and find the relevant post
Speaker 1: for this particular episode so you'll see the promo for
Speaker 1: this episode. The promo is going to be all the
Speaker 1: episode's going to be called typ seven day Kickstarts, so
Speaker 1: you'll see the promo and under that, just go into
Speaker 1: the comments and go I'm in like a I'm in,
Speaker 1: and I'll know that you're going to do it, and
Speaker 1: you can write whatever else you want. Also, you can
Speaker 1: write more than I'm in, or you can just write
Speaker 1: I'm in. And then I've got an idea of how
Speaker 1: many people are going to commit and how many people
Speaker 1: want to get involved. And every day I'm going to
Speaker 1: post a video and there'll be a little bit of
Speaker 1: info and inspo, a little bit of information and inspiration,
Speaker 1: and there'll be there'll be a bit of a to
Speaker 1: do list, and out of that to do list, you
Speaker 1: can pick one thing. They'll be like I said, there'll
Speaker 1: be options. But what I think, what I think things
Speaker 1: like this can do is they can really help people
Speaker 1: who are stuck, who are fearful, who are apprehensive, who
Speaker 1: feel alone, who feel disconnected, who don't feel supported to
Speaker 1: belong to something. I will spend more time in the
Speaker 1: group over the seven days than I normally do. I will,
Speaker 1: within reason, my life is pretty busy, but I will. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I've got to record seven podcasts, seven podcasts, seven videos,
Speaker 1: and I will respond to as many comments and questions
Speaker 1: as I can. Also, what I would love to do
Speaker 1: with this is for seven days, create a little community
Speaker 1: of like minded people. I always want to do this
Speaker 1: stuff where when I see people that follow my work
Speaker 1: but also starting to who are also starting to connect
Speaker 1: with other people, it's so nice to have something online
Speaker 1: where people are not being horrible to each other. I
Speaker 1: love having something in the virtual space where we are
Speaker 1: with no hooks, catches, agendas, just supporting and encouraging and
Speaker 1: loving other people that we're never going to meet. And
Speaker 1: I think this is an opportunity for you to do
Speaker 1: something that is about you, but also something that is
Speaker 1: bigger than you. I know that when I have and
Speaker 1: I've said this many times, but it is just true,
Speaker 1: when I have a purpose that's bigger than me, life
Speaker 1: goes better for me. I'll say that again when I
Speaker 1: have a purpose or a meaning that's bigger than just
Speaker 1: Craig Harper being happy and Craig Harper getting what he
Speaker 1: needs and wants. When I have a purpose bigger than me,
Speaker 1: then things go better for the people in my world
Speaker 1: and the people that I interact and insect with, but
Speaker 1: also life on planet Craig is much better because I'm
Speaker 1: not coming from a selfish perspective. Now, also keep in
Speaker 1: mind that obviously this is not a personalized program. This
Speaker 1: is a thing that I'm just putting pushing out into
Speaker 1: the world so you will know. You will know better
Speaker 1: than me, because I don't know you or some of
Speaker 1: you I know. But whether or not this is appropriate
Speaker 1: or inappropriate for you, and again you can modify it
Speaker 1: as you need to if you have got some significant
Speaker 1: mental or emotional or physical health concerns. Not that there's
Speaker 1: going to be anything particularly adventurous in this I dare say.
Speaker 1: But and you feel like you need to get somebody's
Speaker 1: approval or permission from somebody clinically or professionally, then please
Speaker 1: do that. You know, I don't want anybody feeling, I
Speaker 1: don't know, out of their depth. I guess now you
Speaker 1: might think to yourself self, why the fuck is he
Speaker 1: running it from a Friday? Like, why does this shit
Speaker 1: start on a Friday. There's a couple of reasons. One
Speaker 1: because this podcast, I don't know when you're hearing it,
Speaker 1: but it's only going live on Sunday, Let's Day, Saturday.
Speaker 1: It's only going live on Sunday, Feb nine, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: And I want people. I want more than you know.
Speaker 1: This podcast that you're listening to will we listened to
Speaker 1: by thousands of people over quite a few days. Not
Speaker 1: everybody listens to it on the day that it comes out,
Speaker 1: So I want to give the most people possible a
Speaker 1: chance to get involved. That's one and two. Those of
Speaker 1: you who know me, well, you know exactly why I'm
Speaker 1: starting it on a Friday. You know why I'm starting
Speaker 1: it on a Friday, and that is because everyone starts
Speaker 1: on a fucking Monday, and it's bullshit, and everyone takes
Speaker 1: their foot off the gas by Wednesday or Thursday, and
Speaker 1: so I want to do something that's atypical. So for
Speaker 1: those of you HOURU who are already figuring out why
Speaker 1: Friday is not a good day for you to start
Speaker 1: something that takes as little as three minutes a day
Speaker 1: when we have fourteen hundred and forty minutes, then this
Speaker 1: is definitely not for you. I believe that for some
Speaker 1: of you, it could be two people, it could be
Speaker 1: two hundred people, it could be two thousand people. But
Speaker 1: I genuinely believe that for some of you just doing
Speaker 1: something little like this, and not because of the You project,
Speaker 1: and not because of Craig Harper, and not because it's
Speaker 1: going to be anything fucking magic or mesmerizing, but because
Speaker 1: you go oh fuck it. I'm just going to do it.
Speaker 1: Not I'm going to see how I go. Not I'm
Speaker 1: going to cross my fingers and hope I get through this.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. So whatever it is that
Speaker 1: I need to do three to twenty minutes a day,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get a bit uncomfortable. I'm going to
Speaker 1: do something unfamiliar. I'm going to jump in this group.
Speaker 1: I'm going to comment I'm in. I'm going to support
Speaker 1: other people. I'm going to encourage other people. I'm going
Speaker 1: to have a purpose bigger than me. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to fucking do it. I've listened to this bloke talk
Speaker 1: for so long now, I'm going to roll up my
Speaker 1: sleeves and I'm going to do something that's un me.
Speaker 1: I believe that, and by unme, I'm meaning something perhaps
Speaker 1: some of you don't typically do. It's in these moments
Speaker 1: when we do the thing that's not you know, what's
Speaker 1: not convenient? Fucking Friday, good, good, great, let's do the
Speaker 1: inconvenient thing. Let's start the day before most of us,
Speaker 1: or not most of us, but some of us make
Speaker 1: bad decisions over the weekend and do shit that we
Speaker 1: feel we've got to then undo the following Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 1: What if we don't do that? What if we what
Speaker 1: if we break with tradition? What if we stop looking
Speaker 1: for a reason to not start. What if we stop
Speaker 1: rationalizing and justifying and explain to ourselves let's be honest,
Speaker 1: bullshitting ourselves, and what if we go? Fuck? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just doing it. So that's why I'm starting on
Speaker 1: a Friday. That plus obviously the fact that this is
Speaker 1: a podcast is only going live Sunday. But then I
Speaker 1: was thinking about starting potentially a following Monday, and I
Speaker 1: went no. I went, no, let's start when most people
Speaker 1: never start. Let's start the program on the day. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there have been, but I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen any new program start on a Friday. So let's
Speaker 1: be that program. Let's get that kickstart doing something that
Speaker 1: is some that is somewhat atypical, unfamiliar, and something that
Speaker 1: is perhaps new for all of us, me included. All Right,
Speaker 1: So recap every day seven days, You're going to go
Speaker 1: to the group. You're going to go to the Facebook group,
Speaker 1: the new Project Facebook group. You're going to see the video.
Speaker 1: Every day I'm going to put up a video. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what I'm going to say in these videos.
Speaker 1: I've got a bit of time to get my head
Speaker 1: around it. I'm going to set some tasks or some
Speaker 1: activities that are going to be somewhere between easy and
Speaker 1: little bit challenging. Some are going to be more in
Speaker 1: the mind space, some are going to be more in
Speaker 1: the cognitive space. And if you're thinking, like what it
Speaker 1: might just be today I'm going to read fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: of something that I've never read before. It could be
Speaker 1: I'm going to try a one kilometer run. It could
Speaker 1: be I'm going to have a hard it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: hard conversation. I'm not sure. But there are going to
Speaker 1: be things that I want you to pick the thing
Speaker 1: that you know you probably can do but might be
Speaker 1: a bit uncomfortable. And of the options that I give,
Speaker 1: which are probably going to be somewhere between three and
Speaker 1: nine options, I want you to pick the one that
Speaker 1: is truly going to be for you the most valuable.
Speaker 1: So you're going to go to the typ Facebook page
Speaker 1: every day. You are going to have look at the video.
Speaker 1: After you've done it, you're going to go back to
Speaker 1: the page and say I'm done. Or you might say
Speaker 1: what you've done or how you felt or what you're learning,
Speaker 1: and other people are going to do the same, and
Speaker 1: hopefully you're going to jump in on the back of
Speaker 1: their comments and say, well done, Donna, you're fucking amazing,
Speaker 1: Well done, Bryant, you big start, look at you go,
Speaker 1: fuck you're a gun something like that. Because we can,
Speaker 1: because we can. So we're kicking off Friday fourteen. There
Speaker 1: may be other people that don't listen to this that
Speaker 1: you want to get involved. You might get people in
Speaker 1: your work involved, at your work involved, you might get
Speaker 1: some of your family involved. You might get some of
Speaker 1: your social group involved. I don't care. There's no hook
Speaker 1: or catch at the end. Like I said, there's just
Speaker 1: some discipline, some structures, some accountability, some community. There's some connection.
Speaker 1: There's some info and inspo from Fatty Harps, and there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to get involved in something, to
Speaker 1: who build some momentum, to start something and finish something
Speaker 1: and to have a sense of accomplishment. And after we've
Speaker 1: done that, we will debrief and we may even I
Speaker 1: don't know I'm thinking about clearly, I haven't thought this through,
Speaker 1: but we may even do a zoom call, you know what.
Speaker 1: But the people who actually do all seven days, we
Speaker 1: may do a live zoom call, and we may even
Speaker 1: do a like a thirty minute coaching session free live
Speaker 1: interactive with you know who. Anyway, that's it. So that's
Speaker 1: my idea typ seven day kickstart. Have I forgotten anything?
Speaker 1: I'm looking through my terrible notes here. Umm, look, I
Speaker 1: guess I did write down here this is which I
Speaker 1: didn't share with you. I'll just say it because I
Speaker 1: think this is important. The real challenge is your ability
Speaker 1: to commit to something and complete something that you don't
Speaker 1: have to do there's no gun to your head, and
Speaker 1: also to do that when nobody's looking, and maybe when
Speaker 1: no one's giving a shit, but just for you to go.
Speaker 1: You know what. This won't be necessarily fun, quick, easy,
Speaker 1: or painless. It might be fun, who knows. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I'm going to dive in and I'm going to do
Speaker 1: it anyway. That's what we're doing. Love your collective guts
Speaker 1: is we kick off this coming Friday. Depending on when
Speaker 1: you listen to this February fourteen, twenty twenty five through
Speaker 1: to Thursday, February twentieth inclusive. That is seven days if
Speaker 1: you've missed this one, send me a message if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this after these dates, and we we may
Speaker 1: do another one. We may never do anything like this
Speaker 1: ever again, because it could be a fucking dud. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but I'm in, I'm keen of will, and if you're
Speaker 1: the same, let's make this motherfucker happen.