Transitionary Periods

The speaker discusses the importance of taking inventory during transitionary periods in life. They emphasize the need to maintain a sense of normalcy and balance while working towards new goals. They share personal examples of managing finances and setting fitness goals. The speaker highlights the danger of becoming complacent once a certain level of success is achieved and stresses the importance of continuously setting new goals or maintaining consistency. They acknowledge setbacks and encourage listeners to keep track of their progress and continue planning for the future. Hey, hey, what's going on everybody? It's your boy TJ and welcome back to Letters to You. Man, I just want to talk about like transitionary periods, you know, either entering a new, you know, era in your life. You know, obviously that means you're coming out of an old one, but a lot of times when you're coming out of an old one, you're just trying to maintain, you know, a sense of, you know, normalcy or a sense of balance in your life and you're not really going anywhere new in particular. But I think, man, the biggest thing is just like, is to take inventory of what you have done to get, you know, to lead yourself out of an old situation and into a new, you know, transitionary or a new era into your life, you know. So like, I think a lot of times like when, like I'm starting to do like, trying to get things changing in my financial life. And so like I've picked up personal training again. I only have one client right now, which is more than I can handle, to be honest, at the moment. And I picked up some side hustles so I can get out of debt, which isn't much debt, but like it's, I want to be done with it and not have to carry it on for all of next year. And so like the inventory, I'm taking inventory of my spending habits and my triggers that make me want to, you know, spend maybe erratically or do things irresponsibly, you know, or maybe not even consciously doing them irresponsibly, but just not really taking full account of how this is going to affect me in the long run with my purchasing and things of that nature. And so all those things kind of come into play, like who you loan money to, like, et cetera, et cetera. And so I think a lot of times what we do is we think that we're into a good area, a comfortable area, and then we get lax. Like we're not as diligent, not as consistent, not as aggressive towards our goals once we hit, you know, whatever plateau point that we hit. You know, I told you I trained somebody currently, but in my own personal workouts, like I go through the same thing. Like I gain the amount of weight that I think I just look amazing, feel amazing, and then I just slack off for whatever reason just because I think I've arrived. And I think the one thing that we realize, we should realize, is that once that goal, unless that goal is crossed off or is no longer a goal anymore, then you haven't arrived. And I think that's a lesson that I'm learning now is that in so many areas of my life where I have gotten a lot better, you know, I think, you know, with my own mental, you know, health and my physical health and I'm trying to get there spiritually as well, like there is at no point can I really believe that I have arrived. I either have to set a new goal or I have to maintain some consistency that will allow me to keep being active in those areas of my life. So I think that's the word of the day. Like, you know, I've had a couple setbacks lately and I think the cool thing about that, I mean, it's not cool. It sucks. It feels bad. It feels, you know, pretty bad sometimes like to have these goals and to have these, I won't say expectations, but to have this standard of where you would like to be, you know, in your life and to come up short, you know, repeatedly or to come up short or to be close to your goal and then have a major setback, you know, I think it can really jar you sometimes like and really, you know, set you back, you know, motivation-wise. But I would encourage you just, man, take inventory, you know, maybe that would be the title of today's message, I guess. Take inventory, like, you know, keep track of where you've come from so that you can keep planning towards where you're going, you know. And I really hope, I hope this helped. I feel like it's kind of vague, but I think, you know, it can be pretty helpful as well, you know. So, like I said, you know, like 50 million times. But until next time, I'll holler at you guys later. Deuces.