EP 038 Micro Habits for Macro Freedom: Mindset Habits That Unlock Success
Discover the contrarian approach to building your business that doesn't require quitting your job or working 80-hour weeks. This episode reveals the exact 15-minute daily system that transforms corporate employees into freedom-building entrepreneurs through micro-habits that compound into macro results. Learn why small, consistent actions beat massive disruption every time.
Episode Summary
Discover how adopting productive mindset habits and success mindset habits can help you build your entrepreneurial freedom without quitting your job. In this episode, host Ace Allan introduces the 15-Minute Freedom Framework—a set of practical, micro habits for success that transform short daily actions into significant productivity improvement. Learn why small, consistent habits trump massive disruption and how you can apply self improvement mindset techniques to your daily routine. Whether you're aiming for entrepreneurial success habits or simply wish to develop habits improvement strategies, this episode provides an actionable blueprint. From identity shifts to weekly habit evolution, start building your escape plan with productive habits that lead to authentic success.
Key Timestamps & Insights
00:00 - Opening
00:21 - Episode Overview
00:58 - The Corporate Conditioning Problem
02:14 - The Parking Lot Visualization Story
04:53 - The 15-Minute Freedom Framework
09:35 - Why This System Works (Psychology)
10:50 - Whiskered Wisdom & Action Steps
Be sure to check out the Dark Horse Entrepreneur AI Escape Plan Podcast - http://DarkHorseEntrepreneur.com
Strategies Shared
The 15-Minute Freedom Framework
- Identity Shift (5 minutes)
- Micro-Action (7 minutes)
- Compound Setup (3 minutes)
Weekly Evolution Pattern
- Week 1: Building the habit and rhythm
- Week 2: Small wins and growing confidence
- Week 3: Real progress others start noticing
- Week 4: Protecting time like your life depends on it
Resources Mentioned
- Unleashing Your Success DNA Newsletter - For aspiring entrepreneurs and 9-to-5 escapees
- YourSuccessDNA.com - Main website for resources and newsletter signup
- 15-Minute Freedom Framework - Complete system outlined in episode
Key Quotes
"The reason you're stuck is not because you don't have enough time. It's because you've been brainwashed into believing that meaningful change requires massive disruption."
"You don't need more motivation — you need fewer distractions."
"Your future self is built in 15-minute increments."
"The only difference between dreamers and builders is this: Builders start before they're ready."
"Perfect moments do not exist. Only present moments exist."
Action Steps to Take
Immediate Action (Right After Listening)
- Set a timer for 15 minutes
- Open a document and write "I am building..." and complete the sentence
- Spend remaining time taking one small action toward that identity
- Don't overthink - just start with the first idea that comes to mind
Daily Implementation
- Choose consistent 15-minute time block (lunch break, morning, evening)
- Follow the 3-phase framework daily
- Track completion, not perfection
- Protect this time like your freedom depends on it (because it does)
Weekly Review
- Assess progress and momentum
- Adjust actions based on what's working
- Celebrate small wins and completions
- Plan next week's focus area
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15 minutes.
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That's all it took to change everything.
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Not 15 hours, not 15 days, 15 minutes.
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And if you think this sounds way
too simple to work, you are about to
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discover why that's exactly the problem
you've been conditioned to believe.
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Freedom requires massive action.
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That's the lie that's keeping
you trapped your success.
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DNA podcast, your success.
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Is in your DNA.
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What is up?
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What is up?
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What the hell is up?
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My fellow success seekers, welcome back
to another episode of Your Success,
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DNA, the podcast for my aspiring
entrepreneurs and nine to five escapees.
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Anyone out there that's looking for some
mindset shifts, habit upgrades, and that
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little dose of rebellion all designed to
help you break free from the convention
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so that you can build not just a life,
but perhaps even a business aligned with.
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Your version of success.
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And if you know someone who dreams
about ditching the grind, but still
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makes a little time for that personal
development, a little sprinkle of
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self help in their life, then go ahead
and forward this episode to them.
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Alright, lemme break down what we're
gonna be talking about in today's episode.
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First, I wanna share with you the
exact moment that I discovered small,
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consistent actions compounded into
lifetime changing momentum faster than any
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grand gesture ever could or ever would.
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Then second, we're gonna break down
the specific 15 minute framework that
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turns your lunch break or any other
time you choose into your liberation
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strategy without burning you out and
without sacrificing your current income.
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And then third, finally, I'm gonna reveal
why this system works when everything
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else seems to fail, and I'm gonna give
you the precise action steps that you need
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to start your own 15 minute rebellion.
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As soon as you're done listening to this
podcast, that train today, okay, here's
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what no one tells you about building
your escape plan from whatever it is.
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It could be financial escape,
it could be relationship escape,
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it could be spiritual escape.
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The reason that you're stuck is not
because you don't have enough time.
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Mm-hmm.
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No, we all have the same amount of time.
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It's because you've been brainwashed
into believing that meaningful
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change requires massive disruption.
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That's corporate condition talking to you.
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I'm just gonna call it like I see it.
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They want you to think
that it's all or nothing.
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You could quit your job
or you can stay forever.
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You can hustle eight hours a week,
or you can accept mediocrity.
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All of that is designed to do one
thing and that's to keep you paralyzed.
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Okay?
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So here's what I want you to do.
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I want you to go ahead and
close your eyes for a moment.
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Now, it only if that's a safe thing
to do right now, but either way, I
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want you to picture something with me.
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It's 6 47 on a Tuesday.
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You're sitting in your car, maybe
it's in the company parking lot,
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and you got your coffee in hand
and it's slowly getting cold.
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You have 13 minutes before you have to
walk back through those doors and pretend
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you give a shit about the morning meeting.
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But today, today feels a little
different for some reason.
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Today instead of scrolling through social
media or checking your emails, the ones
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that really don't even matter, you open
up your phone and you pull up a simple
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note app and you write one sentence.
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I am building my path to freedom.
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Go ahead, feel that for a second.
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Notice how those words seem to land
a little differently than I want to
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escape, or I hope things can change.
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You're not wishing
anymore, you're building.
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Now picture yourself typing
the first small step.
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Maybe it's research, three people
in my industry who went solo.
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Maybe it's write down what
I'd charge for the skill.
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I already have something small,
something totally doable in 15 minutes
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in the next day, and then set a timer.
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For 12 more minutes.
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Yeah, you know what I'm gonna tell you?
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And then just do it
right there in your car.
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While your coworkers are rushing
past your window, stressed out about
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maybe being two minutes late, but
you're not stressed, you're building.
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Now here's what I want you to, don't you
to fast forward three weeks, same parking
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lot, same time, same coffee, getting cold.
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But now you are not just writing
ideas anymore, you're messaging
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maybe your first potential client.
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Your hands are, you know, a little
shaky as you hit that sand button,
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but you hit it anyway because
somewhere in those 15 minute sessions,
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something inside you shifted.
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You stop being someone who just dreams
about freedom and you start being
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someone who builds that freedom.
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Okay, let's fast forward one more time.
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Just picture yourself six months ahead.
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You're still in that same parking
lot, but this time you're on a
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call with maybe your third client.
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As the conversation ends, you
sit there for a minute and you
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realize something profound.
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You have just made more in that 15 minute
call than you made in a full day at
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the job that you're about to walk into.
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But here's what really changed.
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It's not just the money.
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It's who you became in those parking lot.
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15 minute moments, you became
someone who follows through.
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You became someone who builds instead
of just consumes and you became someone
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who creates their own opportunities
instead of waiting for permission
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from someone that can't even give you
permission in the first damn place.
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The person that you became
was always inside you.
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The 15 minutes that you
spent each of those days just
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gave them space to breathe.
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Yeah, so.
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Let's break this down into a system for
that 15 minutes that you can start today.
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I'm gonna call this the 15
Minute Freedom Framework.
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Duh.
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It seems simple and it has three phases.
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Phase one is gonna be your identity shift.
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This is about one to five minutes.
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This isn't about productivity,
ladies and gentlemen.
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This is about psychology.
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For the first five minutes, you are
not working on your side hustle.
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You're becoming an entrepreneur.
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Or whatever it is you're trying to become.
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Okay, here's what I want you to do.
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Open a doc.
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You can open it on your laptop.
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You can open it up on your
iPad, on your phone, whatever.
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And write one sentence that starts with,
I am building, and you finish a sentence.
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Don't write.
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I want to build, don't write.
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I hope to build.
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I want you to write present tense.
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I am building a consulting practice.
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I am building an amazing podcast.
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I am building a fantastic relationship.
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I am building a content business.
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Yeah, I am building my freedom.
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Whatever it is you wanna
write, just write it.
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Then spend the next four minutes
writing why that matters to you.
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I don't want you to write down your goals.
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I want you to write down your reasons.
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We've heard about that.
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You need to know your why.
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And here's inside of that, you need
to know that that why aligns with who
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you are and who you want to become.
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And the deeper you go, the better.
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Because if you can't write your
why, it's not gonna happen.
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And if you write something
about your why, that who you are
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doesn't align with, guess what?
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It's not gonna happen.
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So you need to align these things up.
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Phase number two, this is micro action.
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You're gonna spend minutes
six through 12 on this.
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Now what I want you to do is take
one tiny action, one specific action
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towards that identity you just
wrote down, and I mean, hi, TINY.
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It needs to be even
smaller than the word tiny.
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Maybe it's research one potential client.
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Write one paragraph of content outline,
one service that you would offer.
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Maybe you send one
networking message, right?
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One thing you can do to build
that amazing relationship.
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Maybe you learn one new skill.
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For seven minutes.
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The key here is completion execution.
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You must finish something
in those six minutes.
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Your brain needs to
experience that dopamine.
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Hit of closure, not excitement,
not intrigue, not interest,
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closure, and completion.
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Okay, now here's phase three.
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This is the compound setup.
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This will be that last couple of
minutes you got in there, 13 to 15.
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This is where most people
are gonna stumble and bumble
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and fall and face plant.
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They take action, but then they won't
take the time to set up tomorrow's action.
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Use those final two or three minutes
to decide exactly what you will be
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doing in tomorrow's 15 minute session.
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Write it down.
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Be specific.
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Tomorrow I'm gonna spend 15
minutes writing the outline
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for my first blog post.
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Not work on content.
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No work on content is not specific.
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I'm gonna spend tomorrow and
then finish that sentence.
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Okay.
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And here's the weekly of
evolution that's gonna come on,
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on how this is gonna compound.
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Week one, you're going
to figure out the rhythm.
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The building of the habit that
you're trying to create, of
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who you're trying to become.
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Week two, you're gonna start seeing
those small wins and those small wins.
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They're gonna start gaining and
improving your confidence in week three.
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You're gonna be making real progress
that others are gonna start noticing
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and by week four you're gonna be
protecting that 15 minute time block.
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Like your life depends on it.
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And guess what?
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Your knew life absolutely
does depend on it.
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Okay, so.
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Speaking of guarding things,
building action plans.
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If you're serious about this type of
transformation, then you need to come
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on over and join the community of people
who are actually doing it and sign up for
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the Unleash Your Success DNA newsletter.
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It's specifically designed for my
aspiring entrepreneurs and nine
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to five escapees just like you.
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Each week we get into more
mindset shifts and habit upgrades,
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and more doses of rebellion.
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All that help you break free from
the convention to build not just a
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business, but again, a life aligned
with your version of success.
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More of the kind of
things that we talk about.
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Here we go a little deeper quite often.
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This isn't just another
generic business newsletter.
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This is your weekly reminder
that you weren't born to
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play by someone else's rules.
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All right?
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And to sign up, you'll see the link down
in the show notes, or you can go to your
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success d.com and sign right up there.
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Okay, so let's.
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Let's zoom out for a moment, shall we?
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Why does this 15 minute system
work when everything else
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you've tried seems to fail?
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And here's why I think it is, it's
because it's designed around a
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fundamental truth about your psychology,
about human psychology in general.
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We do not resist small changes.
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We resist the story we tell ourselves
about big, huge mo ginormous changes.
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Yeah.
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It's like the, the frog that
you toss into the water and then
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turn the heat up under the water.
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I don't want you to boil yourself to
death, but you get what I'm saying when
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you say I'm gonna start a business.
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Your brain instantly goes into
calculation mode, right, and starts
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calculating all the risks, reminding
you of all the unknowns, all the ways
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that everything you don't know could go
wrong, and that's why you procrastinate.
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However, when you say, I'm gonna
spend 15 minutes thinking like
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an entrepreneur, your brain says,
okay, I can handle 15 minutes.
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What could go wrong in 15 minutes?
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So you see this is
bigger than productivity.
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This is about identity architecture.
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You are not just building a
business, you're building a version
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of yourself who runs a business.
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Or maybe you're not building a business.
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Maybe you're trying to
improve your relationship.
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So you're not building
a better relationship.
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You are building a version of
yourself who has, who executes
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on a better relationship.
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And here's the real paradigm shift.
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Freedom is not a destination
that you are going to arrive
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at and go, ta-da, I'm here.
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It's a muscle that you
develop 15 minutes at a time.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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All that said, here's your
Whiskered wisdom for this week.
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Your future self is built
in 15 minute increments.
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There it is.
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Wisdom dropped every day that
you choose to spend 15 minutes
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building instead of consuming.
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You're voting for the person that
you want to become every day.
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You don't.
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You're voting for who
you are to stay the same.
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There it is.
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The person you'll be in one year is
determined by what it is you do in
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the next 15 minutes, every single day.
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You're a specific action for today.
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Set a timer for 15 minutes.
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As soon as this episode is done, open
the document and write that sentence.
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I am building.
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Complete that sentence.
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Then spend the remaining time taking one
small action towards that identity, that
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person that you need to become, to create
whatever it is that you're building.
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Don't overthink it.
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Don't plan it to death.
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Don't break it down into
minutia, little steps.
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No, just start.
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Whatever that first idea, first step
that popped into your head, do it
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because the only difference between
the dreamers and the builders is this.
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Builders start before they are ready.
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Listen, you've been preparing
long enough, you've been thinking
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about this for freaking ever.
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You've been planning for it and you've
been waiting for that perfect moment.
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But here's the thing.
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Perfect moments do not exist.
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Only present moments exist.
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Your 15 minute rebellion, it starts right
now, not tomorrow, not Monday, NOW Now.
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I don't want you to keep
waiting for permission to
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become who you were meant to be.
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Who's gonna give you
that permission anyway?
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The world doesn't need another
person out there playing it safe.
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It needs you unedited, unafraid,
and completely unstoppable.
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And with that, I'm gonna leave
you as I always do, think
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successfully and take action.