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Today on Share the Struggle Podcast, we answer one crazy question Can social media actually increase productivity?
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A social media challenge thrown down by my loving, beautiful wife provides some surprising results.
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That is what's on tap today on episode 247 of Share the Struggle podcast.
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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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You have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be Back on time.
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We need to back off.
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The whole day gone.
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What in my heart?
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it is, what it hot, dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-dee.
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Good Lord, almighty, am I so excited to be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
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Did I use enough voice inflections to open today's show?
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Good Lord, man, blame it on the caffeine y'all.
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Today I'm enjoying a large, big old, big gulp ice coffee from the Dunkin' Donuts.
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This is what I'm going to tell you folks.
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I have scaled back my Dunkin' Donuts consumption.
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I know y'all have been worried about me.
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I traditionally have been a two ice coffee a day kind of lady over here and I've been scaling that back for a couple of reasons.
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First one financial and then second one fat Fat reasons.
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Right, I'm feeling rather fat.
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So there's that.
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Anyways, what was I talking about?
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Caffeine.
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So I have scaled back my Dunkin' habit.
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I've even scaled back my Duncan habit.
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I've even I can boldly say I have even gone a couple of days without going to Duncan, which is wild.
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Okay, honestly, this kind of piggybacks.
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My trip to Florida, because when we were confined to the campground and we were slinging merchandise all day and night we weren't able to get out, right, we were, the bus was our home, ponderosa, so that was set up.
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I was only able to get away from camp and the vendor space like a few days to actually enjoy a coffee.
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So that kind of sped up my process of scaling back caffeine.
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My mother and I have got together on making coffees during the week, so if we drink two cups a day, we are only purchasing one cup a day, but I'm going days in between without buying coffee as well.
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This is random, I know.
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Okay, but what I'm here to say today is I'm enjoying this large Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee, not because it's made perfectly.
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Enjoying this large Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee not because it's made perfectly, but because it was free.
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My wife texted me a little while ago Today's April Fool's Day, the day that I'm recording this and she asked me about my free coffee, which I assumed was an April Fool's joke.
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But there was a code that you needed to put into your Dunkin' app today that says this is not a joke and you get yourself a free coffee.
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So maybe, if I get done in time, I will do a video and post it so that your loyal listeners that follow along on our social media channels will get the ability to take advantage of a free coffee, just like I did.
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If a coffee is not made correct, but you didn't pay a damn thing for it, it's not that bad.
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You'll enjoy it.
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I've had some questionable coffees taste a hell of a lot better than the ones that I paid for, when the ones that I paid for were made even a little bit better.
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Isn't that the truth, folks?
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Perception is reality, right, we say it all the time.
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And here's another lesson on perception is reality, because when I perceive this coffee to be free, good Lord, almighty, does it taste delicious to me?
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Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
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Jiggling, ching, ching, ching.
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That's a cup of ice right there, folks, mm, oh yeah, mm, mm, mm.
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Oh, it's almost gone.
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It's almost gone.
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The downfall to recording a podcast and drinking a nice coffee is that it kind of gives you like a cotton mouth effect.
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So I'm going to turn my mic down, back up and try to do my best to not sound like a complete asshole.
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So that is what it is.
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Now.
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Here's the subject for today, folks Can social media actually be a productive avenue?
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Can social media be a way to ramp up production?
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Okay, that is a crazy thought.
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And we're connecting dots because I just told y'all, if you follow me on social media, I'm going to try to alert you to a free coffee.
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And we're connecting dots because I just told y'all, if you follow me on social media, I'm going to try to alert you to a free coffee.
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And here we are talking about the benefits of social media.
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Can it increase productivity?
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When, to be honest, I have assumed social media to be a bit of the antichrist.
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Okay, let's be honest, it is a time-sucking warp zone.
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That is also a mind-corrupting cesspool, right, we can say all those things.
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I have been on record saying that if it wasn't for Loud Proud American, our business, if it wasn't for Share the Struggle podcast, this beautiful, lovely, voluptuous podcast podcast, this beautiful, lovely, voluptuous podcast, I would give the old Daz boot to my social media because, number one, it's a drama filled fart fest.
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Okay, I would.
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I wanted to swear right there, I really did.
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I wanted to drop an F bomb so hard right there because it would have just had such more of an impact.
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But I'm a leaf to um, scaling back my profanity as a girl dad.
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But not, I'm not writing promises right now.
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Okay, I'm not issuing permission slips and hall passes and I'm not signing guarantees, but I'm just saying I'm a little more conscious of my vocab.
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So I just turned an F-bomb into a fart, which I guess isn't all that polite for a little lady either.
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But you see, I'm making progress.
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Life's about progress.
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It's about taking steps, making progress.
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Here I am All right, I'm making progress.
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Social media can be just this drama-filled fart fest that can just rob you of your positive way of thinking.
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How many of you have been on social media?
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And as you're just scrolling along, it goes from woe is me, debbie Downer?
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To the next person is I hate you because you voted for this?
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Who voted for this?
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Who voted for that?
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Who are you?
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Why are you here?
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Get the hell out of here.
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Right, all these things, this nonsense, time-sucking, just negative hailstorm of ridiculousness.
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That's what our social media timelines have become right.
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Media timelines have become right and I've kind of tried to organize my social media avenues off of like, let's call them buckets, okay.
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So I have a few different layers of social media and this is going to kind of open up the can of worms.
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Here we're going to start to peel back the onion.
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I have Facebook, right, and I have Facebook, three accounts of Facebook.
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I have Facebook for this here podcast, which I do not post enough, and we're going to get into some of the reasons why here shortly.
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I have a social media Facebook page for this podcast.
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It automatically now drops new episodes, which is the biggest reason why we have it, and I'm trying to find other avenues to grow this positive tribe.
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I also have Facebook, my personal account on Facebook, which, in that section, I am following friends, family, stuff like that, right, more so friends than family, and friends that become family because my real family not quite as much.
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Let's be honest, if I go back a few pesos here, my podcast page really follows inspirational stuff and other podcasts.
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Now the third page for Facebook is the Loud Proud American page, which that one gets the most activity.
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Even with that said, it probably doesn't get enough activity.
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Right, I should be posting on social media as a business owner way more than I do.
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I have such a backlog of posts that I should have put out that I'm just not doing.
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I need to get my Cabela's catalog right now, put my left hand on it, place my beady little eyes to the sky and put on a full frontal confessional that says I need to get better at being more active on social media, and I'm going to do my best at that.
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But when I say getting better at being active, I'm not talking about endless scrolling on social media, which is something that I tend to fall victim to.
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So those are my three accounts on Facebook.
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The podcast website, or podcast Facebook page, gets used the least, followed by my personal page, which I would put the podcast one above it because it has automatic posting.
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My personal one, you'll notice I don't post very often whatsoever.
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And then the business one is obviously the most active.
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We do live sales and we try to announce a lot of things that we're doing, and then that one follows other businesses and inspirational stuff right Now if we flip on over to Instagram my Instagram for Loud Proud American kind of doubles, as my personal as well.
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Instagram for Loud Proud American kind of doubles, as my personal as well.
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So it's a business Instagram page.
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It reflects all of our business.
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You know what to do and who to do and all the things that we're doing.
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It posts rather similar to what our Facebook one actually posts, but occasionally I'll have some personal things I get dropped in there.
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Then I also have a share the struggle podcast Instagram page, which at one point I was really dedicated to putting you know 30 second clips on there, and that has fallen right off the map.
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So you're seeing a trend here.
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Folks, I'm not utilizing social media like I should.
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I have a Snapchat.
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I don't know the last time I turned my Snapchat on.
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I used to only use Snapchat for the funny filters and make stupid clips of myself.
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That was it.
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I don't really use it.
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I should probably get rid of it.
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Tiktok I have a TikTok page that I have utilized more so for making funny videos.
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We had one video on there that you would say almost went viral.
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It nearly touched a million views, which I don't know what the landmark is for a viral video, but we're pretty damn close to a million views on there.
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So I would consider that the closest thing that we had to viral.
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But nothing of that was making me famous.
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Nothing of that was generating a profit or putting awareness on our business, even though it has our business name.
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I would try to wear our apparel and then make dumb videos at the same time and kind of hope they worked together and I also at one point had a TikTok shop on there, but that and my website stopped communicating.
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So, with all that said, I would go on there and try to make little videos to sell products around the holidays, and they would always flop Me making a ridiculous comment or doing something totally silly to myself, but get all these views, but the moment I tried to peddle anything it didn't go anywhere.
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So I've really stopped using it.
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I've placed maybe one video or two videos in all of 2024 on my TikTok and I don't think I had placed a new video on there at all in 2025.
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My last avenue for social media is my Twitter page, my X page, which this might surprise some of you I'm the most active on there.
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I'm not really posting on there, but this is where I find myself doing more endless scrolling, because there's a lot of reading and I follow a lot of different things on there my ex page, my Twitter page.
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I don't think I really follow anybody that I know personally.
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I follow news outlets.
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I follow sports teams, sports reporters, athletes, inspirational stuff and political stuff, and that's where I get a lot of my news.
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I get a ton of my news off of X, thanks to Elon Musk for filtering through the nonsense and providing some genuine, legit insight and news.
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Filtering through the nonsense and providing some genuine, legit insight and news, so I use that to stay informed on sports, on politics, on things like that.
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Now, if I'm going on there, I'm reading, looking at things, I'm watching videos, whatever.
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That will destroy a bunch of my productivity.
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If I go on Instagram to make a post for the business, I might waste an hour just watching Instagram reels and kind of just endlessly scrolling around looking at funny videos or watching sports things.
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Now on Facebook I've kind of gotten to the point where I don't really scroll on Facebook that much anymore.
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I might do a quick peruse to see locally what's happening, keep up to date on any of you listeners out there that we're friends and family and and I see you kind of pop up on my timeline.
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That's kind of how I'm utilizing social media.
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But this is what's happened.
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I have reached a time in my life where I'm having a hard time being productive and knocking things out of the park and you guys have heard me have these conversations before.
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But you know my schedule and I don't want to dig into the whole scenario and hoopla on my schedule all over again, because if you've been listening, you know how it works.
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But Tuesdays and Thursdays is me and baby day.
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I get up at five in the morning, bring my mom to work, wifey goes to work, it's me and baby.
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Till about one o'clock go pick up Mima and then baby goes with Mima from like three o'clock to four, 35 o'clock when the wifey gets home.
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I'm trying to work during those those few hours Monday, wednesday, friday, you know, get up, do chores, get the baby ready, get her settled in at Mima's house.
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I'm allowed to go to work around 10 or 11 and work till the wife gets home.
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Weekends is kind of when I'm really, you know, putting things in as far as, as far as you know, trying to work but you're also trying to divide up time with the family.
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So my schedule is a real, just conundrum.
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It's a real man.
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I'm trying to say a bunch of bad words but I really want to say twat waffle.
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Can I say that my schedule is a real twat waffle?
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Okay, minus the syrup.
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I mean, put the syrup on.
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I'm a little overweight.
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Syrup has a lot to do with me being overweight.
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The point I'm making here, folks, is I've realized that I've fallen victim to needing dopamine hits.
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I've fallen victim to being a dopamine addict, and that's not a dope addict.
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We're talking about dopamine, that artificial shot of energy, that instant gratification, that instant satisfaction, and I find myself just scrolling and wasting time.
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I find myself having a real FOMO over sports.
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I will endlessly go back and forth to look for information like, wow, it's been 20 minutes.
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What do I need to know about my sports team with free agency.
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What the draft?
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What's going on with the president?
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What's going on with Musk?
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I've developed a FOMO over this fear of missing out, where I'm always checking in on things, and if you're checking in on those things on social media, then that's an avenue to just scroll and lose a bunch more time.
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So when you don't have a lot of time to be productive, and then you have this FOMO and you're craving dopamine, have this FOMO and you're craving dopamine.
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It's a bad recipe for sending yourselves down a rabbit hole of depression and unproductivity.
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Right?
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Is that even a word?
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I don't think that is a word.
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You're an idiot.
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Lay off the coffee.
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What I'm saying here, folks, is it's a game of catch-22.
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It's chasing your tail.
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You try to talk yourself into being so productive, but you're so easily distracted that you basically just end up screwing yourself.
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If you wake up with a list of things that you need to get done and today is your daddy daycare day you will, in the back of your mind, feel guilty about the things you're not getting done, but you're trying to erase that so that you can be present and enjoy the time with your baby.
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So then, when mom gets home, when the wifey gets home and when me ma's around, and then you drift off to work.
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Now your FOMO kicks in on a whole different level because now you feel like I'm missing out on you, feel like I'm missing out on family time, I'm missing out on quality time.
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So you have that vicious cycle.
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But then if you find yourself with a free couple of hours, you can get too easily distracted and find yourself on social media.
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Now, I'm not saying this is my world every single day, but I'm trying to pave the road, to paint the picture, to set the scene so y'all can understand that we have all these distractions in our lives.
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My world is currently filled with a bunch of distractions and I have found myself being extremely dopamine dependent.
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I need that instant gratification, that instant satisfaction.
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The reason why I get two large iced coffees a day.
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Part of it is the caffeine kick, part of it is the task of going to get a coffee, to breaking up the routine, to doing something new.
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So for me, curbing some of that habit is regaining some of my confidence, and I know that sounds strange, but it's you building willpower to say no, I don't need that cup of coffee.
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No, I don't need that Red Bull?
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No, I don't need a cold beer, whatever that is right.
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These vices all come to us in different ways shapes, forms and devices, right, whether it's your cell phone, whether it's a coffee, whether it's booze, whatever the hell it is, there's these different vices and devices that come to us and they rob of us our attention, they take away our productivity and they rob away our natural ability to handle, process and function with dopamine.
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So I've become this dopamine addict that always needs satisfaction, always needs gratification, right?
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So I've identified myself being in this struggle and I know some of the ways out of it.
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Right, start to gain some willpower.
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Remove some things from your life.
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Start making better choices.
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Start eating better.
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Get back to the gym making better choices.
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Start eating better.
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Get back to the gym.
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All these things Now.
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For me, some of them don't feel all that possible.
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I'm short on time and low on patience, so going to the gym seems rather impossible right now for me to do.
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But I need to find a way to start regaining willpower.
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I need to find a way to start removing distractions and get back to being the wholesome, present person that I need to be.
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My trip to Florida was a great step in doing that.
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It helped me to eliminate distractions, focus on the task at hand and try to seek and destroy as much money as I could because I was away from my family.
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I needed to make the best of it.
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It was a great factory reset and I've come home and tried to stay on that production train to get things done.
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But you also run into the vicious cycle of if you're listening along and you know the whole business model here we're in a tight spot financially when it comes to cash flow for the business.
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We're in between events.
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We're low on opportunities when it comes to either events or custom stuff.
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So I'm out there trying to cultivate what I can and you're robbing Peter to pay Paul to navigate things.
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So all of that just that ball of stress in in itself that weighs on you as well and can prevent you from being productive.
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So here I am fighting the good fight of production, fighting the good fight to try to remain productive, to be positive, to get things done, while fighting the fact that you don't have the money to buy the product to be productive.
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You don't have the money to apply and get into and accepted to the events that you want to be involved in.
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So you're trying to be creative to find the funds to do those things.
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So that takes a lot of time, energy and willpower and just real, clear, positive thinking to overcome those things.
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But when you sprinkle in this whole dopamine, you know ridiculousness.
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That I've been on it makes it really difficult.
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Have I done an adequate job of painting for you this ass douching scenario?
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Have I done it at all?
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Have we described anything that hits home for you?
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Anybody listening right now?
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Are you victim to any of the things that?
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I am right.
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Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling on social media?
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Are you watching TikToks?