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Speaker 1: I'm drained.

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Speaker 2: As a signal from your body to the mind, from

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Speaker 2: your mind to your heart, your body and mind are

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Speaker 2: trying to tell you something. Pain makes you pay attention,

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Speaker 2: but that attention needs to be followed by action.

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Speaker 1: The number one health and wellness podcast.

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Speaker 2: Jay set Jay Sety Yet Hey, everyone, welcome back to

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Speaker 2: On Purpose, the number one health podcast.

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Speaker 1: In the world.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to each and every one of you that come

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Speaker 2: back every week to listen, learn, and grow. I want

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Speaker 2: to take a moment to thank you all, whether you

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Speaker 2: joined the on Purpose community yesterday or whether you joined

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Speaker 2: us five years ago when we first started. I want

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Speaker 2: to say a big thank you to you for your support.

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Speaker 2: I love the fact that you're making Instagram reels. I

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Speaker 2: love seeing the tiktoks you all share, I love seeing

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Speaker 2: your stories. Thank you for making this such a highly

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Speaker 2: recommended podcast to your friends, your family. It means the

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Speaker 2: world to me, and I can't wait to keep bringing

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Speaker 2: you incredible conversations and content. Now this episode feels like

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Speaker 2: a really, really important one because I can't believe that

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Speaker 2: we're already this far into the year and it's natural

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Speaker 2: that a lot of people are starting to feel drained.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you have some time off.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you haven't had the chance to have some time off,

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Speaker 2: but maybe you've been working really hard this year. Maybe

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Speaker 2: you've been pursuing your goals health and wellness related and

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Speaker 2: also professional. How many of you, honestly are feeling drained,

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Speaker 2: how many of you are feeling exhausted, and how many

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Speaker 2: of you are feeling like you need some practical tips

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Speaker 2: and practical methods to actually find a way through this

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Speaker 2: busy time. Nearly half forty eight percent of eighteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty nine year olds said they feel drained, compared with

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Speaker 2: forty percent of their peers, AIDS thirteen up, while women

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Speaker 2: for six percent reported higher levels of burnout than men

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Speaker 2: at thirty seven percent. So this is a problem that

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Speaker 2: a lot of us are dealing with. We're not alone,

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Speaker 2: and we're highly challenged by it. And look, the podcast

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Speaker 2: is full of great advice from experts on how much

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Speaker 2: water intake, you need, sleep, and exercise. You can find

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Speaker 2: that here. But what I wanted to share with you

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Speaker 2: in this episode is what do you do when you

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Speaker 2: can't do all of those things right now? When you

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Speaker 2: feel like you've tried but you're failing, and now you're

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Speaker 2: starting to do nothing What are these small incremental shifts.

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Speaker 2: What are the little steps that you can take right

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Speaker 2: now to transform how you feel to stop feeling drained. So,

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Speaker 2: if you've been feeling drained lately, this episode is for you.

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Speaker 2: If you've been feeling exhausted, this episode is for you.

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Speaker 2: And if you're on the verge of burnout, please please

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Speaker 2: please listen to this. And if you have someone in

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Speaker 2: your life that you know is headed down that road,

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Speaker 2: send them there so they can actually keep it together,

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Speaker 2: keep the energy enough to get to their next break

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Speaker 2: and their next pit stop. I want to start off

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Speaker 2: with a really important principle. I've said this statistic before.

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Speaker 2: Study show we have sixty to eighty thousand thoughts per day,

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Speaker 2: and eighty percent of those are negative and eighty percent

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Speaker 2: of those are repetitive. Let me give you an example.

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Speaker 2: How many of you have ever started your day with

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Speaker 2: the words I'm feeling really drained. Now, think about how

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Speaker 2: many times you've said that in one day, in every conversation,

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Speaker 2: every meeting, talking to a friend or a family member. Now,

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Speaker 2: think about how many times you've said that over a week. Now,

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Speaker 2: And how many times have you said that. Over a year,

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Speaker 2: we keep repeating the same thought, the same feeling, oh

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Speaker 2: to have our own intervention in our mind. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to give you the triple A formula. Write this down,

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Speaker 2: Triple A accept and action. Usually we don't accept how

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Speaker 2: we feel. We're told to be toxically positive. Instead of

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Speaker 2: saying I'm tired, we say I'm energized, I'm feeling good.

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Speaker 2: Affirmations like that don't work. That isn't even an affirmation.

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Speaker 2: That's just telling yourself a lie and hoping you'll believe it. Now,

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Speaker 2: biology will reject that. You won't believe it. You won't

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Speaker 2: The acceptance has to be followed up by an action.

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Speaker 2: So for example, I'm really drained and so I'll go

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Speaker 2: that's often what we don't find we see the signal.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like you're driving your car. You see one

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Speaker 2: avoiding it. You go, I don't really know what it is.

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Speaker 2: many times have you done that? Mentally?

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Speaker 2: repetitive emotions. They're repeating for a reason. They want you

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Speaker 2: things I find that has really helped me, and I

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Speaker 2: have you ever gone to an event, you've gone to work,

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Speaker 2: I'll give an example. I was at a dinner recently

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Speaker 2: Being able to vocalize that, being able to communicate that

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Speaker 2: And what does that look like in communicating that? Now,

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Speaker 2: What can I do to do what I want to do?

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Speaker 2: Is that actually more plausible than possible? Step number three,

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Speaker 2: It's actually so much better if you cancel it in advance,

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Speaker 2: if you give someone notice, if you let someone know, hey,

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Speaker 2: then we're bitter it or we're upset about it. It's

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Speaker 2: so important to just get that RSVP out the way,

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Speaker 2: Things will go on. Yes you'll experience fomo, Yes you

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Speaker 2: is not worth it. Exhaustion is not worth it, Feeling

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Speaker 2: that usually in social settings it's overwhelming thinking you've got

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Speaker 2: I'm forever in your corner. If you love this episode,

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Speaker 2: how to hack your brain, change any habit effortlessly, and

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Speaker 2: the secret to making better decisions.

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Speaker 1: Look, am I hesitating on this because I'm scared of

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Speaker 1: making the choice because I'm scared of doing the work,

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Speaker 1: Or am I sitting with this because it just doesn't

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Speaker 1: feel right yet