The host opens the session with morning greetings and asks viewers to share what they did better last week and what they plan to do this week. This sets up the interactive tone and focus on small improvements.
The host opens the session with morning greetings and asks viewers to share what they did better last week and what they plan to do this week. This sets up the interactive tone and focus on small improvements.
The speaker introduces the theme of momentum (mojo), illustrating how small events can shift a game's direction with examples from football and baseball. He connects this idea to life and invokes the saying about objects in motion to frame the discussion.
Through an author friend's suggestion, the host explains how writing for just two or five minutes can overcome inertia and lead to sustained flow. This concrete tip shows how tiny, manageable actions create momentum.
The host shares a major career-change example and reflections about following gut feelings, then emphasizes that even small first steps matter. He also cites Jim Kwik and explains how physical activity (like working out or playing pickleball) helps activate the brain and sustain momentum.
The host invites listeners to identify small steps toward their goals and to share progress for mutual inspiration, praising a participant's life change as motivating. He closes with well-wishes for the week and a reminder that small actions build lasting momentum.
Good morning cadre. Alright, how are you Monday? It's a great time of the week for me. It's a great fresh start of the week. It's a great time to look back on last week and plan out and think about all the possibilities for the week. So welcome if you're joining me live, please I'm going to invite you on every episode or every live stream of the 1% Better podcast. Good morning, Jules, to share what you reflected on last week. What did you do better? In what way were you better as a person or did you move towards being a better you?
Or and what are you planning to do today or this week to do something just a little bit better? Good morning. So with that, the theme of today is around momentum, sometimes referred to as mojo. We see this in a lot of sporting events and games where a team gets up early or there's two teams that are sort of struggling and all of a sudden one little thing happens. In football, it could be a fumble, an interception, a sack, or a big play. And all of a sudden, that team gets energy. That team gets things rolling.
And pretty soon, the game is headed in an entirely different direction. It's like it's almost a different team. It happens in baseball. It could be a double play. It happens in virtually every single sport. But it also happens in life. And so with Mojo, there's a saying that you've probably all heard that says an object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest. And I think that is a great saying. Not that we don't need to all rest because we do. Rest is incredibly important and actually is a way to-- resting is a way of reflecting and a way of improvement all on its own.
However, When you want to move towards something, getting just a little bit of movement, that little bit of momentum going is absolutely critical. So a friend of mine who I interviewed on my podcast once, he's an author and he's authored hundreds of books, authored, co-authored, and coached hundreds and hundreds of books. And one of the biggest sort of topics in book writing is this idea of writer's block. And so His suggestion with somebody who has writer's block, just doesn't have that idea, does not in the zone is just to write for two minutes or five minutes.
Something really short, something that you go, I can knock this out of the park easily. And all of a sudden you start writing for two minutes or five minutes, all of a sudden before you know it, you're an hour in to writing, you're in the flow. and things are moving. And again, get that momentum going. Jules, I did a career change after working in law enforcement for 24 years. 20 years at this agency. Wow. Now that's not just a little change or low momentum. That's a major change. And so that is awesome.
That is excellent to hear and did some reflecting this weekend. Isn't it nice to know that when you reflect and you make decisions that there's a feeling in your heart, in your gut, sometimes people say, but you just know something's the right decision. That's a great feeling, but sometimes we don't allow ourselves to get there because of comfort and other reasons. So back to momentum, there's so many examples of that. Another saying that I love is often on a journey, wherever you're going, no matter how big the goal is, or just wherever you're going, often the most important step is the first step.
And I think it goes to the same idea. It's just once you take that first step, you now have movement. You now have momentum, as little and as subtle as it is. 00 AM where I am. And so I'm going to go work out. I'm going to go play pickleball. And one of the reasons I love to do that is because it just gets my momentum going for the day, for the week. I learned something from a gentleman by the name of Jim Quick. He's kind of a brain guru, a memory guru. And he says, if you get your body in motion, you get your brain in motion.
And I think there's also a lot of truth to that. It gets all the fluids and the systems not to get too scientific or a biology lesson. It goes back to just movement and it activates the brain. And so I love to do that because it absolutely does that for me. So I would throw out there for for any of you who are listening live or maybe listen to this later is think about what are your goals? where are you headed, whether it be a health goal, a business goal, a personal goal, professional, relationship, whatever that goal is, where you want to go.
How can you just take little steps? How can you just get a little bit of momentum going? And I think you'll find that it's a great way to get started and it's a great way to keep things moving. So that's it for today. If anyone else Again, please share. I love the lifetime sharing of what you've learned, what you've done to improve, what you plan to do to improve. Sometimes getting ideas or seeing what other people are doing is inspiring, and that creates movement and momentum, not just in yourself, but in other people as you share those things.
I know I'm very excited and energized by Jewels. that she's headed in a whole different direction in her life and obviously feels good about that in her heart but probably has some anxiousness and some uncertainty and some excitement in terms of not knowing exactly how things are going to play out and getting out of old routines. So that's a wonderful thing. So I hope you all have a great week and look forward to talking to you soon. Have a great day.
