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How to Change Your Life with Three Steps | Part 3
This episode emphasizes the importance of taking action as the final step in the Staircase to Change framework. Focusing on practical strategies, relatable examples, and the significance of accountability, we motivate listeners to transform their aspirations into reality through actionable steps.
• Recap of previous steps: being present and getting direction
• Understanding the significance of taking action
• Real-life examples to illustrate the importance of responsibility and small tasks
• Role of accountability in fostering change
• The jump rope analogy for practice and perseverance
• Identifying the one routine behavior to drive change
• The concept of the domino effect in achieving larger goals
• Importance of setting realistic and actionable goals and routines
• Final thoughts on growth, self-awareness, and the courage to act
Are you ready to live an active lifestyle? Welcome to Behind the Bluff, where we believe every moment of your life is an opportunity to pursue wellness on your terms. Your life is an opportunity to pursue wellness on your terms. I'm your host, jeff Ford, and I am joined today once again with my fellow co-host.
Speaker 2:Kendra Till. Hey, listeners, you made it to part three of our three-part podcast series on Jeff's Staircase to Change framework. So if you weren't with us for the first two episodes, definitely go back and give them a listen, because today will make way more sense when you do so. Jeff, before we get into our final step today, is there anything you want to circle back on from step two, which was get direction?
Speaker 1:Absolutely Kendra, because getting direction can be so hard sometimes depending on what's happening in your life so hard, yeah.
Speaker 1:So last episode we had the opportunity to ask listeners to define what they want and how their life would be different when they achieve that want. What I would urge listeners to do is if they took the time to write down their vision, their mission, to look at it and see if their want is actually what they do want. Oftentimes we write things down that we feel like we should do, and the goal of step two is more about helping everyone have a clear vision and mission that is a target that they actually want to achieve. It's a bullseye that they're aiming at that is deep and centered to their heart. By having this target, I find that it becomes easier for folks to figure out what arrows they're gonna throw like what arrows they're gonna load into their bow and fire in our step three chat today. So what am I saying? Don't lose sight of your target today. Make sure the target is what you really want to be aiming for.
Speaker 2:I like it. That's great advice. I think we often set goals that don't lead us to where we really ultimately want to go. You know, we can be a little haphazard about it.
Speaker 1:And ending up in the wrong place isn't fun.
Speaker 2:That's not fun so get direction. So the first two steps of the staircase of change were again to be present and, as we just mentioned, the second one, which was get direction. So can you share with us what is this final step?
Speaker 1:Yes, of course. Final step of change is to take action.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty aggressive.
Speaker 2:It is aggressive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've got to start when you hear words like that.
Speaker 2:You actually got to get moving and do things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So in this context, what does it mean specifically to take action then? So can you give us a little bit more detail around that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does mean to do something, and it means to do something in response to the picture that you've written down. So it's one thing to take the time to be present and get direction and to work those two steps. It's another thing to then start moving towards the vision, the mission, the changes you want to make in your life. And I think in life it's easier to talk about what we want than it is to actually do what we want and to get to where we want to be. So we all want things in life, but we have to remember it's rare when we actually do something about it. That's the purpose of this series is to give everyone out there a reminder that we have storms going on in our world. We've got things happening. They come when we don't expect it and if we want to move our lives in a different direction, we've got to take action. It's rare to take action, but when you do and when you think of times in your life when you have taken action, usually beauty is on the horizon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like what you're saying, where it can be a lot easier to talk about it than to actually do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we see this in our work life. Oh yeah, I'm going to do that, especially here at Pullman of Bluff. I mean, we're always thinking of creative ways to change around our facilities, to switch up our programming, to do something different, these things that we're thinking about. We often don't take the time to create a plan so that we can actually do it. So taking action implies that you will move from that planning stage, which was step one and step two in my opinion to the actual doing stage.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, because I'm sure we all have good intentions when we talk about it, but I can imagine the taking action part is hardest. It's brutal yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we've mentioned I forget which part it was but this is where accountability and support comes in, and not only defining and clearly knowing where you're going, but then creating plans that are very deadline-based, behavior-based. We've heard the term smart goals, which we'll dig into even further on today, but that's where we do have to get specific on what are the smaller steps that we need to take in order for us to get where we're going. It's essentially assigning out the roads that we're going to drive on, the very specific smaller roads that take us to that end destination. A good example of some folks we talked about this before jumping on air drives. Both Kendra and I crazy. We believe everyone has the best intentions when they go to, say, sam's Club or Publix, but what you often see people do is they leave their cart like they push it onto grass. They leave it not in the cart corrals.
Speaker 2:They're scattered everywhere.
Speaker 1:Scattered everywhere and it's a great parallel for this conversation. Number one, if you're a listener and you do this, take action today and start putting your cart back in the corral. Correct, I also we'll do this.
Speaker 1:Kendra, we didn't touch on this, but I'm like the corral Correct, I also will do this, kendra, we didn't. We didn't touch on this. But I'm like the cart organizer at Sam's Club, because we have people who are serving us at these great establishments that, in my opinion, save us a lot of money when we use the rewards programs correctly.
Speaker 2:You do love Sam's.
Speaker 1:Club and we just don't put our carts back correctly. We abandon our carts not close to the corral at all. So if you see an abandoned shopping cart in a parking lot that you regularly go to, an example of taking action is you putting it back in the corral and making sure that they're all fitting in cleanly so when they bring that machine around they can easily pull out those shopping carts and get them back to the main destination.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's totally respectful to do that, I think for people like Jeff and I Because, yeah, you do, you can drive into a parking lot and just see them absolutely sprinkled everywhere and it's just chaos and it's such a simple thing and that's the reason I put it back.
Speaker 1:I use this as an example is like there's so many simple things in lives that we see that we don't take action on.
Speaker 1:Even um, you know, I was in Publix this weekend. If one of your values is to be generous and they ask you at the checkout line, you know, do you want to donate a few dollars to a special Olympics? If your value is to be generous, just donate a couple of dollars. So it's it's situations like that where we we talked about establishing our values in the get direction part. You're taking action when you uphold your values. You're you're actually taking action when you see these small instances in your everyday where you can align yourself with those values.
Speaker 2:So um, that's a good example.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it got us out of the weeds from you know the shopping cart corral example.
Speaker 2:I bet listeners will really think about this next time they go shopping. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'll totally share another example that's new for my life. Lindsay and I we've been bad about setting up date nights. So the first four years of Mia's life is an adjustment period. Like any parent, taking action in the sense of maintaining your relationships would be okay. You want to start date nights with your spouse, or you want to maybe see friends. It all starts with actually making the restaurant reservation. Another example is I want to play poker with my friends and just have guys nights. So it all starts with planning out. Okay, is this going to be a once a month thing? Whose house are we going to do it at? That's when you've actually taken action. You've made the reservation, you set the plans, you have a defined time where you're going to move forward, where you're going to be in that doing phase of what you want.
Speaker 2:Because you do, you go from. Okay, this is what I value. I value my friends, my relationships. I want to spend quality time with them and you talk about it.
Speaker 2:these ideas of how you can get there, quality time with them, and you talk about it, these ideas of how you can get there, but then again, that just simple step of taking action. It again can be so hard, but if you just stay focused, you, you, you'll do it. You'll do it because you know it's, it's a value to you and it means something to you and it's going in the direction, like you spoke about, where you want to head in your life.
Speaker 1:So yeah, cool, and I think listeners can start to pick up. Where we're getting at here is just being very diligent and focused on the daily stuff at this point in the staircase of change.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, definitely so, jeff. In your TEDx talk you pulled out a jump rope.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I was so nervous.
Speaker 2:Which we were all very excited about. We're like what is he about to do? Um but what was the purpose of that? Can you just share that with listeners?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So the staircase of change model, staircase to change this, this framework, it's been around for a while and over the years I've evolved it just with you know what makes more sense, I think, to the audience. The audience and I have always used the example of a domino effect, which we can jump into here in a second as well, because it's very similar. The jump rope, however, came to me in preparation of the speech that, wow, this is something that I personally struggled with learning for a long period of time in my life. So, for listeners who haven't seen the TED Talk, I pulled out the jump rope and I told the crowd that they were about to see what's called a double under, when a jump rope passes under the feet of the user twice in one single jump. And the reason I use the jump rope, more so than the domino effect, is because, hey, it was unexpected.
Speaker 1:I think great talks have something unexpected in them and I really just wanted to do something different. And the jump rope example can be looked at in two ways Taking action. And the jump rope is physical. It's a physical representation of action, how we have to go about change. You can't just think it, you can't just keep it in the back of your brain. You have to physically do something. And a double under if you've ever seen one, it's pretty loud and it's pretty intense and a lot of folks have never done them themselves or knew this was a thing. But the second piece was the learning piece In my double under career was the learning piece In my double under career. It took me a ton of time to figure it out, so everyone at my local gym sometimes picked them up pretty quickly as I was struggling to get them down and it took me a good length of time to finally learn them. And so it was this example of.
Speaker 1:In life we tend to give up too quickly. We give up too quickly on skills we're trying to learn. We forget that things take time and we want to live a certain way, but we just don't practice enough to get there. I think this comes up a lot with healthy living. You know we're in the middle of dry January, right? So individuals create these impossible actions to actually keep Like what I would say are a little bit over the top, for maybe where they're coming from. Where we overpractice, we get very restrictive, we get overly disciplined, to the point that after two or three weeks we shut down and that action that we took never becomes a routine. So the message with the jump rope is a reminder that no matter what you are working on, you're going to have to practice to make it a new habit. I use the famous Andre Agassi quote and he's a famous tennis player for those who do not know him, but he has this memorable quote and it's quite simple If you don't practice, you do not deserve to win.
Speaker 2:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:And practice simply makes us better. It's another way of looking at it, so if we're trying to create change in our life, the only way you're going to get better is by honestly flip, flicking your wrists in the case of the jumper. That's right, yeah, being consistent with it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm sure you were consistent with those habits and you got to where you were, that you could successfully achieve it. I mean, I'm not going to lie. When you got on stage and said that you were going to do that, I was. My palms were a little sweaty because I was like, is he going to do this?
Speaker 1:You know it's funny, you did, I did and I didn't trip up, and I was sort of prepared if I did trip up to put a swing on it. I'm so glad I didn't, because it wasn't exactly planned to the level. The other comments were in the talk.
Speaker 1:I legit heard someone laugh after I was done with the jump rope too, but there was mostly a big holler and like a lot of claps because it was unfamiliar territory for a lot of people. And I think that's another angle to this is probably the best actions that any of us can take are going to be unfamiliar territory.
Speaker 1:They're going to be outside of your comfort zone. So keep that in mind as you get into the planning phase. To not set goals too hard, but to set them to the point where you know you're going to need to work at it. You know you're going to need to practice.
Speaker 2:Definitely Well. I'm glad you successfully did it on stage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, for sure Grateful.
Speaker 2:And then we also we did mention, obviously, that this is the hardest step, though I just want to reiterate that this is definitely the hardest step, and you mentioned that the practice and reiteration of just keeping in that direction and doing it is going to make a huge difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this third step of change taking action is not only the hardest, but it is the most important. And why that's the case is if you don't put in the effort and practice, if you don't take action, you won't get to your destination that you created in step two, right Like. In order to get up the staircase of change, you got to take every single step.
Speaker 2:You can't skip them.
Speaker 1:Yeah and uh, I, I, I love a line that came from the development of the talk where, even if you take a step back, it might just be so that you can be a little bit more present again, so that you can then take a couple, couple steps forward.
Speaker 1:I like that and that's a that's a reminder for all of us is we get hard on ourselves. We, especially when we're outside that comfort zone, when we're trying to do something different in our life and we fail, we have this tendency to to give up. And so the message is not only do you have to put in the effort and the practice, but it's okay to take a step back sometimes, it's okay to regroup and honestly recreate the routine that's gonna work for you, because more often than not, I think people fail at change because they either set the wrong initial vision and mission for themselves or they just weren't diligent enough with the planning phase of this. I have this acronym that I've used from time to time, and it's all about the four Ps Plan prepare, piece plan prepare, pause and then proceed. And that pause is important. If you listen to these episodes and you fill out the template that we do have available for you.
Speaker 1:We've had one person email.
Speaker 2:I think there's more out there Um it, it.
Speaker 1:It will be constantly corrected and tweaked so that you can keep moving in the path you want to go.
Speaker 2:I like that and I guess that's probably why you chose a staircase, because you can go up and down the stairs.
Speaker 1:Yeah. You can go down the stairs to go back to be present, like you said, and reset and unless you live in a ranch-style home, there will always be stairs in your house to go up and down.
Speaker 2:This is true.
Speaker 1:So we'll figure out a different model for those ranch homeowners. No doubt it's coming soon, folks.
Speaker 2:So, jeff, how can someone take action in their life today, like what are some of the steps and tools and strategies that they can follow?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's get into how to do it. So taking action starts by asking what I would refer to as the magic question, and this is where we can dive into that domino effect that I alluded to earlier. Taking action is asking yourself what is the one routine behavior, that routine that, if it becomes a skill, habit these are synonyms here If it becomes a habit, leads you to the life you want to live. So let me say it again what is the one routine that, if it becomes a skill, leads you to the life you want to live? That's powerful, very deep too. So be careful with this question, because what you're going to want to do, be careful with this question, because what you're going to want to do is apply it to each of your Fs.
Speaker 1:We were very present in step one to ask ourselves which life account was off. Now it's going back to not only step one, seeing how you evaluated yourself, but also referring to step two and where you're trying to go, like what's the most important domino to set up first? What's the most important domino to create a routine around so that you can then knock the rest of your dominoes over Gotcha? And so, since I've obviously referred to it a few times already, in our our chat.
Speaker 1:The domino effect is super cool. There's this book called the one thing. It's written by a couple authors, so coauthors uh, jay papazon and gary keller, and I read this book early in my career and I was like blown away by this effect because I didn't know how powerful dominoes were. So here's how it works when you set up one domino and then you set up the second domino, once that first domino falls over and hits the other domino, that second domino actually has 50% more energy than the first domino. So if you've ever set up dominoes with your kids or when you were growing up I don't think as many kids play with dominoes these days you would see them speed up as they go further and further down the line, and that's the domino effect. You start to create momentum the more dominoes that you set up, and that's actually where healthy momentum was inspired from.
Speaker 2:That's awesome yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's YouTube videos online that anyone could go check out after today, where people set up a small domino. Then they set up a slightly bigger domino than another one, all the way to the point where you have a domino the size of a door.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:And the energy created actually knocks down the domino. That's the size of the door I did not know that yeah. So I think, if we can reflect in that reality, that's how life works. Yeah, I think we can all see that when people create these foundations of these, these skills, these habits, these routines, they lead to better and bigger routines, and that's what we want for you.
Speaker 2:Love that. Now I've seen domino set up that they actually make like cool patterns and like flowers and you know pictures, but I've never seen them knock down a door.
Speaker 1:That's a new one. Yeah, so cool. To your point about flowers and cool pictures, well that's, that's a nice analogy, for that's that person's vision. Totally, they're trying to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is awesome, that is really cool. Um, so, from a tangible perspective, what else does?
Speaker 1:the third step involve then. So you talked about, you know, taking action and being reflective and asking this magic question, yeah, this big magic question which, like you know, taking action and being reflective and asking this magic question, yeah, this big magic question which, like you said, is really deep, and taking that question and asking it with the Fs, yeah.
Speaker 2:So what are some you know other? What else does this third step involve for taking action?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you're not only going to ask that question to each of the Fs, but you want to start with your current routines.
Speaker 1:So, for example, I'll just use a personal example to help out listeners here, and let me use fitness, because obviously that is an area of my life that is quite dialed in. Frankly, due to my profession, I started working out when I was 15 years old, so I'd not only go to hockey practice, I would go to hockey practice early in the morning and then I'd go to the gym in the afternoon. So I'd not only go to hockey practice, I would go to hockey practice early in the morning and then I'd go to the gym in the afternoon, and I literally had a journal with all the exercises that I was doing and I did that like four days a week on top of uh playing hockey, which was also a physical routine. And uh, I never got bigger. I uh was drinking as much protein shakes as I could, um, doing some NO explode uh different creatine options out there and uh still weighing like 148 pounds soaking wet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I use that as a example in my life, though, because fitness was fitness and taking care of my physical activity was a skill from a very early age. You know, flash forward. 20 years later, I'm still refining that skill. So, for example, last year I ran three days a week, imperfectly consistent right. I strength trained three days per week, imperfectly consistent, and I walked 10,000 steps a day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So for my planning purposes for the fitness account this year I'm just staying on the physical.
Speaker 2:So right as an example.
Speaker 1:as an example you might have a nutrition one in here, you might have a self-care one in here. So go back to the first episode to to really define fitness for you. Um, but this year I'm just going to upscale it. So, with my fitness account, this year I'm actually I actually have a mental health goal and it's to attend one therapy session every single month.
Speaker 2:Cool.
Speaker 1:And so that's something that I've never had as a regular practice. I've gone to therapy, you know when needed, right, but that's the new goal For this life account. I wrote down the stuff that I felt really good about that. I wanted to keep doing nutrition. I don't have a specific goal written in there. Uh, however, I am very diligent with my nutrition and, uh, it's not something that I was necessarily looking to change this year. Uh, alcohol consumption is really clear two days two days a week in my case. Alcohol consumption is really clear two days a week in my case.
Speaker 1:And so you can just see that in each life account, you're going to have actions that you keep doing. You're going to have routines on your template that continue to be your foundation, and then, each year, all we're asking you to do from a practical perspective is think about the new routine that's going to serve you that much further. Define a small goal for each of your Fs. This is where I don't want listeners to get lost, so just know that there's no parameter around how many new goals you set, and I'd often tell folks that if you're new at this process, this is a new framework for you. You don't want to set too many new goals right out of the gates. I would definitely start by defining out all the routines in each of your Fs that serve you and then think about two or three goals in the most important Fs the ones that you rated lower that you might set this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you're probably saying that, just so it is. It is more tangible, it's it's not overwhelming not overwhelming digestible.
Speaker 1:Um, that, that's. The hard part here is we want to create change, so we tend to throw a lot more than just spaghetti at the walls. We throw all sorts of things at the walls, and then we never end up achieving anything Right.
Speaker 2:And I like what you said earlier when we were talking about. It's okay to change. You can go back and be reflective on maybe there is a particular goal that you need to shift a little bit.
Speaker 1:So you go back and. Yeah, a goal that you want to do a little differently. Differently yeah, a goal that's Approach. Differently. Yeah, a routine that's serving you but you want to tweak it a little bit. That's a great way of looking at it.
Speaker 1:I'd also add that these routines and new goals have to be very deadline and date focused. So let me use another example from a family perspective. I don't have specific dates on these routines, but I do know that there's, there's going to, it's going to happen at a certain cadence. So in Lindsay's Lindsay and I's case my spouse monthly date, I'm in charge of scheduling it. Second quarterly day or trip with my daughter, I started that last year Super fun you went to Charleston in.
Speaker 1:November. Yeah, yeah and uh, I was under the weather and carrying a almost five-year-old is a lot different than carrying a three-year-old. I swear I had to have walked like 20,000 steps on that overnight holding. I should have brought the stroller. It was super fun, though, like such a vivid memory in my head and a new routine that that we're sticking to, and then a third one. That's pretty straightforward. I don't. I don't think a lot of people do this, but I a weekly call with my parents.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1:I would say many people out there call their parents and their close immediate family every day. Sometimes, um, but those are are like the three routines. That gives you more clarity on, like, when they're happening. Yeah, that's the type of detail that we're looking for here in step three.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and, like you said, you go from talking about it. You know you've got these ideas of how you can get there, but to action it, to put these specific dates and timelines really helps you to get there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're walking yourself through the how. Yeah, we do a great job of this in our department when we set our annual goals for the year.
Speaker 1:They're almost so detailed, to the point, that you would have trouble understanding them just because they have dates, they have people assigned to them, and that's the same thing here is get as detailed as you can, uh, and and and. Make sure that you walk yourself through how it's going to actually happen, because this is, this is not only the most important step, but it's the hardest, because people don't do that, because they don't walk themselves through or write out how it's going to actually happen, uh, they, they tend to not create the momentum that they're looking for.
Speaker 2:Definitely, and I think again I know we spoke about this just earlier but having that sense of accountability, so sharing this with your loved ones and um getting them involved in the process too, to help with an accountability perspective. But it also probably makes it more fun, you know.
Speaker 1:Super fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Obviously I check in with Lindsay on where we want to go the next month for date night. And then what's cool is it is kind of like a partnership where she gets the babysitter, I set up the plans and you, uh, you know we're in the early stages of of making sure this happens, but I think you can use this template with coworkers. I think you can use this with people in your life who, um want to get better.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I find that the more you create routines and goals and you share them with people who are also like-minded, who want to move forward in their life, it revs you up to do better too. So that's a that's a great angle, Kendra.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this would make for a good gift for someone. This little template.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the goal is to have like a cool journal someday. Uh, I haven't taken action on that though. Um yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's up there.
Speaker 2:It's still. You know, I'm still in the get direction phase. Yeah well, this is really powerful stuff, jeff, and I really enjoyed, you know, running through this in further detail, obviously having been at your TEDx talk and because how long was that?
Speaker 1:Like the actual talk. Yeah, how long was it? It was 12 minutes, just over 12 minutes.
Speaker 2:It's not. You know that's not a long time, but you covered so much during that talk. But now it's so nice to go even deeper into these steps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to elaborate on the actual process of how the steps occur Definitely.
Speaker 2:And, like I said, listeners, definitely, if you get a chance, go check out Jeff's TEDx talk. It's really cool. It's really really cool. But thank you so much, Jeff, for again just taking us through this journey. I've certainly learned a lot and was super inspired, so thank you so much for just sharing your passion on this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're very welcome, Kendra. Appreciate your support and helping us get clarity through this.
Speaker 2:Heck yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, listeners, make sure you stay around to gain some healthy momentum for the rest of your week. Growth is a progression from one state to another state, and growth is what makes our lives so exciting. As human beings, at the most basic level, we rely on three needs in order to grow Water to support our metabolic processes, food to supply us with energy. And sunlight to regulate our biological clock. You see, without water, food or sunlight, human growth wouldn't be possible. Life wouldn't exist. Now let's take this another direction. Growth is also the process of increasing in size over time, and growth is what makes communities so exciting. In 1987, the town of Bluffton, very close downtown from Palmetto Bluff, was only one square mile in size. Flash forward to today, bluffton's land area now expands 54 square miles and Bluffton's population is estimated to be 37,544 people, which is an increase of 32.5% just from 2020, only four years ago. Without planned developments like Palmetto Bluff and Bluffton's investment in preserving historic buildings, homes and landmarks, economic growth wouldn't be possible. Our local economy wouldn't exist.
Speaker 1:So what does this mean for you from a personal perspective? Growth, it's the journey of becoming more than what you were before. Growth is the journey of becoming more than what we were before, and it only happens when we are self-aware, consistent and resilient. Growth starts with recognizing the need or desire for change. That's the self-awareness piece. Growth starts when small, repeated efforts compound, when we practice. That's consistency. And growth sustains when we overcome challenges and adapt to our circumstances. That's resiliency.
Speaker 1:Growth is a progression from one state to another state. Growth is the process of increasing in size over time. And growth, most importantly, is the journey of becoming more than what we were before. Remember without growth, life wouldn't exist. That brings us to the end of our time together today. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen. If you enjoyed our three-part podcast series on how to change your life with three steps, we would love to hear from you and a reminder. The template is available. If you want to work through this on your own, we'd love to send that your way. Until next week, remember to actively participate in life on your terms. Thanks everyone, thank you.
