Hey everyone, I hope you're having a great start to the week. I want to share a message with you

all this week about encouragement, getting out of your comfort zone, taking on a challenge,

and remembering that you can do hard things. Now, for regular listeners of the show,

if you've listened to this podcast for a long time

or if you've read the Power Hour book,

then you probably are familiar with my motto,

you can do hard things.

Now, the reason I say you can do hard things

is because often when I deliver talks,

there's always a Q&A section,

and often when I'm asked about motivation or about

mindset and my approach to taking on any challenge in my life, personal or professional, I always come

back to this idea of you can do hard things because often what I find is that people are,

they're asking me to give them guidance or advice or some

top tip or sometimes a hack or a shortcut to make something easier. You know, we always want

things to be easy. Of course we do. Whether that's a physical challenge like a race or whether

that's a mental challenge or something that requires discipline and something that we

find difficult, we always want to make it easier for ourselves. Of course we do. So if there's a hack or a

shortcut, the temptation is to think, great, I'm going to do that. But I think sometimes when we

acknowledge the fact that some things are just hard and they're always going to be hard. It doesn't matter how long

you've been doing it or how much time you put in. You know, I think we're sometimes told a lie that,

you know, practice makes perfect or that the more times you do something, you're just going to

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