{"id":4196,"date":"2024-09-01T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2024-09-01T19:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T02:18:26","slug":"opportunity-hope-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/opportunity-hope-is-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity : Hope is power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have a certain body shape that I’d like to attain by Sept 1. I don’t think it will happen at this point, yet I’m still trying… a little bit. I think with dedication to it this month, I could have gotten much closer by now. My main things are that I wanted to lose weight. The healthy rate of weightloss is 2lbs per week. That’s 8lbs in August. I think i started in July. That’s 16lbs. Probably more than enough to have a fun % bodyfat. I also wanted to build up muscle so that my posture looks strong and my step is springy. Running regularly and doing some strength training would have done that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If i truly believed it was possible, I woulda done it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I waited because of hope<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My biggest daunting factor was hope. In July, it would have been really helpful if I <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Clearly set what I wanted my body to look like (instead I said “athlete’s body”)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Believed it was nearly inevitable<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    If I had hope that I would get my sept 1st body every day by sticking to my shit, it would have been easy to do planks and burpees and treadmill. It would have been cake to eat less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hope is solid and valuable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Sometimes, when I’m talking to a friend, I might spend the whole conversation listening and giving them hope and the way my brain works, that can feel like I wasted their time. I can walk away saying “Why didn’t I give them this advice…” Then, they text me and say, “man! You gave me great advice and it turned everything around!” i gave them no advice. I just gave them positivity and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sometimes when I give hope to someone who I want to hire me, it feels manipulative until I 100% deliver on that hope. In that case, it was just giving them reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hope to motivate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    When we’re trying to motivate ourselves or others to do something good and big, that person needs hope. Lot’s of hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In a gig proposal, that hope may look like giving them a way that someone else has achieved the same thing they’re trying to achieve. It might look like showing them a special collision of opportunities that allows for a new solution. It might take showing someone the capital they’ve built up that is ready to be mobilized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Take action : swing for the fences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Think of a prospective client. write out how confident you are that you are a perfect solution to their needs. Write out the opportunity that’s in front of them because they know you. Maybe send that to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I have a certain body shape that I’d like to attain by Sept 1. I don’t think it will happen at this point, yet I’m still trying… a little bit. I think with dedication to it this month, I could have gotten much closer by now. 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