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Day 16

Video transcription When you build a new practice in your life, you are as much building the practitioner, that is you, as you are building the practice. Let me explain. Earlier in the program I made the distinction between simple habits, and practices. A habit is...
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Day 15

Video transcription A practice brings something new into our life and involves a kind of stretch. Stretching is the process of making some longer or wider or simply bigger. And with a practice we are in a sense making our life bigger. So that it can fit in more of...
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Day 14

Video transcription So we’re on day 14 of 28 of the Smartstart program and I thought it was a good opportunity to briefly summarise some of the key points we’ve covered to date. 1. Building a habit is a journey A journey has a destination; something important to you...
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Day 13

Video transcription Yesterday I talked about how the beliefs of our own possibility are a reflection of a kind of fitness; our self-authoring fitness. The belief is an expectation, similar to how a weightlifter might anticipate whether they can lift a particular...
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Day 12

Video transcription In yesterday’s video I talked about how beliefs about ourself create an invisible “glass ceiling” on our expectations. Indeed that’s one of their purposes; to predict what is going to happen in a certain situation. They act as a useful shortcut to...
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Day 11

Video transcription Have you ever driven one of those go-karts at an amusement park? I think they’re lots of fun. And if you have an ounce of competitiveness, then you’ve probably wished yours could go faster. What’s not obvious is that these go-karts all have what is...