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MENTAL MONDAY: HOW DISCOMFORT FUELS GROWTH & MOMENTUM!
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In this powerful episode, we explore the hidden dangers of getting too comfortable and how it can impact your motivation, productivity, mindset, and momentum. While comfort may feel safe, it often leads to stagnation and missed opportunities for growth.
We dive into why embracing discomfort is crucial for success and how stepping out of your comfort zone can ignite the drive and momentum needed to achieve your goals. Whether you're feeling stuck or simply looking for a push, this episode will inspire you to take action and create lasting change in your life.
Get ready to challenge yourself and start moving toward greatness.
Tune in now and start breaking free from comfort!
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Transcript
Introduction to Mental Mondays
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adampikefitness
Welcome back guys to mental Mondays. This is where we're going to dive into topics that can basically shape your life for the better. Now, I want to say I just went through a lot of moving. um We're into the new place.
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adampikefitness
My mom was home for two weeks, work got crazy busy, so I apologize for being MIA on uploading these podcasts, but we're all moved in, we're settled in, and I wanna just keep giving you guys the motivation that you frickin' need on a Monday. That's why I wanted to create this little bit of Monday motivation for you to listen to, maybe on the way to work,
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adampikefitness
at the gym, um really just just kickstart your
The Impact of Comfort on Motivation
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adampikefitness
week. So today's episode is all about a sneaky little thing that pretty much affects most of us getting comfortable, right? We're going to talk about how comfort actually impacts your motivation, your productivity, mindset, and even your momentum. Okay. So by the end of this episode, I really hope that I inspired you, the people that are listening to just
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adampikefitness
wanna be uncomfortable, right? Because that's it. When you're uncomfortable, that's when the growth is really gonna happen. But when you get comfortable, you're gonna just stay. Stay in this neutral position and that sucks, okay?
The Illusion and Danger of Comfort
00:01:35
adampikefitness
So let's just dive right into it, okay? We all wanna be comfortable, I get it.
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adampikefitness
We want to stay in that cozy bed. We want to hit snooze. We want to put the blankets up over us and we want to have a nice warm cozy coffee, right? That's what we want. And you could totally have that, but if you're just doing that all the time, I'm telling you, man, that's not it. So, so we all want to be comfortable. We all want life to be easy where everything falls into place. You know, we don't have to push too hard, but there's a problem with getting too comfortable.
00:02:09
adampikefitness
It leads to you being neutral, right? and being neutral, like that they will actually kill your momentum. So let me just ask you, have you ever started a project or a goal with tons of energy, motivation, excitement, only to find yourself slowing down, putting it off, or just forgetting about it altogether? You might tell yourself, oh, I'll get back to it tomorrow, but tomorrow never really comes, do it. So what's happening here? You've got comfortable
00:02:44
adampikefitness
Right? We've all done that. You've hit that sweet spot where, you know, you're not in pain, but you're also not growing. And while comfort feels good, it can also really be an enemy to your progress. You know? Getting comfortable, man. I'm telling you. it'll it It will kill your motivation. I promise you that. Like, comfort will actually Like when you get really comfortable, it's going to diminish your drive. You know, when things are, when things are too easy, you start to lose that fire, you know, like that fire that you really had when you started to get comfortable, it just puts out that fire. So why push harder when everything is is smooth? Why take the risks when there's really no urgency, you know, motivation, it thrives on a challenge.
00:03:43
adampikefitness
on the edge of discomfort. Just think about it. like When was the last time you were truly motivated? When you were in a place of you know ease and and relaxation? Or was it when you were in a situation where you were pushed and it required something of you? like Just to take a second to actually think about this. When you get comfortable,
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adampikefitness
your brain has no reason whatsoever to seek out solutions or take action.
Complacency and Productivity
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adampikefitness
You stop being proactive and you start reacting to things, waiting for life to happen rather than making things happen. Like that's a dangerous mindset if you really wanna make some progress, right? So like another thing, comfort leads to a lack of product product of the, I can't even talk this morning again. Last podcast, last podcast I was doing this, wasn't I? I couldn't even talk.
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adampikefitness
um Comfort leads to a lack of productivity. you know Comfort, can it it can breed a sense of complacency where you don't feel the need to really put in any extra effort. Your product your productivity is gonna drop because you stop challenging yourself. If you really think about times in your life where you were on fire, crushing your goals, hitting your milestones, those moments were probably when you were stretching yourself.
00:05:19
adampikefitness
You know what I'm saying? Like if you're if you're not really growing, what are you doing? Sitting around, just waiting for everything to happen? Like it's true, like staying comfortable keeps you in a state of neutral where nothing really changes. When you push into discomfort, productivity spikes, why?
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adampikefitness
why does Why does it happen? Because you're focused, you're driven. Your mind is engaged in solving problems, moving forward, taking action.
Embracing Discomfort for Growth
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adampikefitness
Now let me ask you another question. Why are you avoiding right now? Maybe it's the side project that you've been thinking about. That work e that you've been skipping. The difficult conversation that you fucking know that you should have. We all we all avoid those.
00:06:10
adampikefitness
those difficult conversations, even me sometimes. um You know, when you lead into discomfort, productivity actually becomes natural. It's not easy, but that's where the freaking growth happens now, doesn't it? Right? Now, discomfort weakens your mindset as well, if you really think about it. Like the mindset we need is one that embraces the challenge.
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adampikefitness
that, that sees discomfort, not as a threat, but like actual opportunity, because here's the truth. Okay. Life is all about going through challenges. You know, but when you get comfortable, you start avoiding those challenges. You start to believe that you are not capable of handling them. And over time, this self, this self doubt, like this just becomes your fricking reality. And you know, that is true. You know, that's true.
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adampikefitness
So like what if I told you that your mindset is the key of getting out of your comfort
Manifesting Opportunities
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adampikefitness
zone? What if you flipped the script and started you know seeing discomfort as a signal that you're on the right path? Because I know myself. When I get comfortable, I stop doing all the things that really lit the fire right up in my ass. Because I know when I fucking wake up and I start the journal and I start the cold plunge and I start the sauna and ah you know I get that morning done. And then then i'm I'm feeling fresh, I'm feeling good. I lock in on the gym. My workouts start getting better. I lock in on my food. When I start doing this shit, momentum, I'm telling you,
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adampikefitness
it it It goes crazy. But it's when I start to get really comfortable. that That is when, that is when, you know, everything slowly starts to go to shit, right? You know, like the best athletes, the most successful entrepreneurs, the most, the people who are really truly achieving, they don't they don't wait for comfort.
00:08:24
adampikefitness
You know, they they they literally create discomfort. They seek it out. Why? but Why would we do that? Well, it's what I what i just said. it's Discomfort is is where you're gonna get your most growth.
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adampikefitness
when When you do the hard things and you step outside of the discomfort or the being comfortable, that's when you're really gonna work on yourself, work on your mindset, work on you. Things are gonna start flowing. Things are starting to get better. Life starts, yours is gonna get better. I literally just wrote in my freaking journal this morning. I'm like, man, life has been really good. Everything has been going perfectly. Everything that I want, I'm getting.
Avoiding Complacency When Things Are Good
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adampikefitness
I like, I don't know how many times over the last couple of years, I got to tell you about this, bank over the last couple of years, you know, I, I, well, I obviously left my job. The amount of times I wrote in my fucking journal, I got to work really hard.
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adampikefitness
you know I would love to have more more work come my way. I would like to make money in multiple different different places. um i would I wish I could get more partnerships. that it ah um i wish i could the like like it's it's not that It's not that I'm wishing for more money. I'm wishing for more opportunities. And when I keep putting that in my fucking head,
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adampikefitness
I am getting like the last, but not last week, ah when my mom was home for two weeks, it was insane. It was the most busy I've ever been in my entire life. And I sat down, not not my entire life, like ever since i've I've dove into just online creating and stuff like that. And i I sat back and I was like, man, like it's all coming to me.
00:10:13
adampikefitness
And I feel like I just kept writing it, kept writing it, kept writing it, kept writing it. And the more I just kept writing this down and like putting things to action and actually taking taking action and doing something and working on myself and putting myself out there, all these freaking opportunities started coming to me.
00:10:36
adampikefitness
So like i know I know people say stuff people think that like you know manifesting is bullshit. Some people might think it's a real thing. I think it's a real thing, because the amount of times I wrote in my frickin' journal about things that I've wanted in my life and the areas I wanted to improve in my life and all these other things, I sat down this morning and I wrote down, everything is great.
00:11:01
adampikefitness
Relationships great, mindset's great, mental health is great, work's been great, everything's just been fucking great. Now, I also wrote down, this is why I'm making this freaking podcast, I also wrote down, but you can't get comfortable. Because everything is great, you can't get comfortable. You gotta work harder now, because your life could still get better. It's when we, it's when we,
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think everything is amazing.
The Importance of Maintaining Momentum
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adampikefitness
And we think that, oh, well, my mental health is good now. Oh, you know what? I did a month of yoga. That problem in my hip, it's good. I don't need to go to yoga anymore. And then we just keep saying, ah, I got abs now. I'm going to eat that extra cookie.
00:11:51
adampikefitness
I fucking love cookies. I don't care. I'm going to eat those cookies. so but You get what I'm saying here. It's when we start to get comfortable and you start to just slack off a little bit.
00:12:02
adampikefitness
You know, that's that's when I find that things are not great. They slowly stop being so great, you know? So, I just gotta keep my foot under the gas, and that's why I'm here talking to you guys, because it's so important about just staying hungry for it, putting yourself in discomfort, and not letting comfort take over your life. I wanna say too, comfort actually disrupts your momentum, you know? like The momentum is is really like the secret freaking sauce to achieve in anything because when you lose momentum in life, it sucks. But when you got that momentum and the foot's on the gas, like it's a force that really carries you forward. It makes everything a little bit easier as you go.
00:12:52
adampikefitness
like a Rolling Stone gather gathering, you know? The momentum needs to be a consistently fed. I didn't even, what am I talking, need a momentum, I can't even talk this early.
00:13:07
adampikefitness
Momentum needs to be consistently fed, right? So like you need to continue to do all the things in your life to to keep that momentum rolling. Because if I stop the cold plunge, if I stop the sun, if I stop the journaling, if I stop working out, and you know I sleep in a little bit longer. i my My body don't feel as good. My mental health is not as good, right? So like you really need to keep feeding the momentum, right?
00:13:37
adampikefitness
you know the moment you The moment you get too comfortable, that's that's when you really stop like moving and just making shit happen. you know like Just think about this for a second. If if you if you're running up a hill, it's tough, right? like Hill sprints, they suck, but you're pushing hard. you know and and and every And every single step you take, you're getting closer and closer, there's no. Now imagine and you stop halfway.
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adampikefitness
What happens? You lose momentum. You start to slow down. It becomes harder and harder to keep going. Now in life, right? It's the same thing. Like the the moment you stop challenging yourself, you start you you really stop making progress. You lose momentum. And um once you fucking lose that momentum, it can be so difficult to get back on the momentum train.
00:14:36
adampikefitness
And we know that for a fact, like think about, think about when, you know, you stop working out. I think about when you stop working out. Maybe, maybe you go a couple of days, week, two weeks. It's like, oh, do I really want to go back? It's like, and you, you, you just keep prolonging it and prolonging it. And you're like, I don't want to do this, you know? But when you're in the gym and you're crushing it, the workouts are getting better and better and better. And you start seeing results. You're like, fuck yeah.
00:15:06
adampikefitness
That momentum train just keeps freakin' going. And
Practical Steps to Leave Comfort Zones
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adampikefitness
we need to keep that momentum train going. So like, listen, the moment you embrace discomfort, that's when momentum starts to build again. The more you take action, and all the easy to easier it's gonna get. You build a snowball effect. you all this it's just but like This positive cycle is just gonna propel you forward.
00:15:33
adampikefitness
right and that's that's where momentum becomes your best friend that's where meant meant momentum is going to help you in all areas of your life because you are on the momentum train and it's going to take you to all these different opportunities in life you're gonna you're gonna you know you're just gonna crush your freaking goals i promise you that but when you are comfortable and lazy and not doing anything and not applying extra life and not trying to make your life better and you know hitting snooze staying cozy you know we all want to be cozy we all don't want to be cold
00:16:13
adampikefitness
I get it. Like it's like maybe you're really, you know, someone might be listening to this, maybe really fucking successful and you're just cozy all the time. Good on you. That's great. but That is great. But like people like myself, and I feel like there's a lot of people like myself, when I when i get comfortable, I just like my mental health starts to get shit. And when my mental health starts to get shit,
00:16:35
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all areas of my life starts to get shit. But like when I am the best at them, when I'm happy, when I'm fun, mental health's great, that's when I can really show up and do my best work, you know? And and and like and it doesn't matter what job you've got, like if you're happy, mental health's great, you are going to show up to your work It's just a whole different person than when you're just like moping around, tired, don't want to be there, grumbling, not happy, mental health shit. You don't want to be around anybody.
00:17:10
adampikefitness
don I'm telling you, the person that you are, that's the people that you're gonna attract. And if you're just Debbie Downer and sad and whatever, then yeah, so. But anyways, you need, like, we just, sometimes, sometimes we just, we need to be aware. We need to just break, break out of our comfort zone.
00:17:33
adampikefitness
like how How do we even get uncomfortable? like How do we step out of the easy, the safe zone? How do we step out of that comfort how would we step into that comfort zone? Well, one, you need to identify your comfort zone. First, like you need to be honest with yourself. What is your comfort zone? Is you know is is it is it the job that you hate going to?
00:18:00
adampikefitness
the routine that you have grown, the relationship that no longer serves you. you know Identify the areas where you've really been avoiding growth. Set goals. You don't need to make these like big goals where it's just impossible. you know But set some that you know tomorrow, I'm getting up at 6.30 instead of 8.
00:18:29
adampikefitness
And I'm fucking, I'm getting after it today. You know, maybe you got a day off. I'll get it. You want to sleep in whatever you want to sit around, drink coffee and and watch shows. And that's great. We all fricking need that, you know, but I'm telling you.
00:18:46
adampikefitness
When you go to sleep a little earlier, like trust me, I i love, I'm gonna be honest with you, I love staying up watching shows. I love staying up watching shows. I love sleeping in. I love it. I love snacks. I'm human. But I do know, I do know, when I go to bed a little earlier,
00:19:05
adampikefitness
And I say, you know what, I'm just gonna go to bed. Just gonna go to bed. I get up earlier. And when you get up earlier, you got so much more time in your frickin' day to do shit. I'm at the gym earlier.
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adampikefitness
you know um
Mindset Shift Towards Discomfort
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adampikefitness
So yeah, just that little goal. The bigger the goal, the more uncomfortable the journey's gonna be. and that's that like I know I just said that you know you don't wanna see these big goals, but like sometimes you do need a big goal. like you Sometimes you need to have something that you are working on. Because if like for me, if I don't have something in front of me that I'm working on, like what am I doing?
00:19:46
adampikefitness
You know, even if even if you got a full time job, I get it. You're busy at that job. You need something outside of that job that that, you know, you're you're pushing towards. Maybe it's just a fitness goal. Maybe you want to run five kilometers. I don't know. Maybe you want to start a f freaking podcast, but like you got to have something that you're really pushing towards. Right. Like goals that are just at a reach is going to is going to force you to really step outside of your comfort zone. And like you yeah You need to take action. If you don't take action, then life just, it's not gonna happen for you. Like big changes don't, don't happen overnight. But when you do the small actions and you stay consistent, this is what's gonna build momentum. And the key to start this is just do something every day that takes you at us out of your comfort zone.
00:20:39
adampikefitness
It could even be as simple as just picking up the phone and calling someone, you know, start a little project with that one thing that's been on your mind for so fucking long. And you you keep saying like, man, I could do that. I want to do that. I'm going to do that. But you don't do that, do you? You don't. You just start that, you know, like each little step forward. That's what's going to help you build momentum. And this is this is tough, but like,
00:21:10
adampikefitness
You got to look at discomfort. Like at any time we feel any sort of discomfort, we we just turn turn away from it. We don't want to deal with that shit. But when you welcome this as a friend, you know, ah like that's when you don't understand that discomfort is a sign of growth. It means you're on the right path. Every time you feel the urge to retreat back to into the the comfort, you know, remember that
00:21:33
adampikefitness
That's the exact moment that you should really push harder, right? You need to lean into the discomfort. I do not want to, you know, go out in cold water this morning. I don't have it set up. Normally I would already already have it done, but it's starting to get really cold and the water is getting colder. I don't wake up and be like, fuck, I can't wait to get in the cold one this morning. That's great. Oh, but I do it.
00:22:01
adampikefitness
because it makes me feel good, makes my body feel good, makes my muscles feel good, you know? And that's like when you really just overcome your mindset, that's when the real breakthroughs happen, right?
Balancing Comfort and Growth
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adampikefitness
So to wrap all this up,
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adampikefitness
Getting comfortable is dangerous, man. It's not your friend. you know Even though it feels good in the short time, you know it's it's it's just gonna limit you from reaching your full potential. So you gotta leave comfort. and i I'm not gonna say you gotta leave comfort behind because we all deserve a little bit of fucking comfort every now and then. you know We all deserve that.
00:22:40
adampikefitness
We all deserve that comfort food. We all deserve that that extra cookie. you know But yeah you can't stay in the comfort zone forever. you know like What happens in relationships? I wanna add this. cause like a lot A lot of people say, oh, got in the comfort zone, put on a little extra weight. But when you're single, you're out there fucking crushing it. You want to look good. You they want to look sexy. So you're just fucking going crazy. You get into a relationship. You guys put on 20, 30 pounds. Oh, I got in the comfort zone. That's fucking bullshit. That's bullshit. Stay hungry. Just because your relationship don't mean you just get to put the feet up and just be like,
00:23:23
adampikefitness
Oh, I made it. No, no, man. Like fuck that shit. You gotta, to you gotta to stay, you gotta to stay hungry, man. You know? So just remember, you know, growth is never going to happen when you're in neutral, you know? it Like the momentum is built when, you know, you really take action. Like you apply those small steps every single day. So listen, guys, I challenge you.
00:23:51
adampikefitness
I have to freaking challenge you today. Whoever listens to this, I challenge you to just do something uncomfortable, push yourself, take the risk. you know you might It might be hard, you might wanna stop, you might you might you know you might feel that resistance of not wanting it, but listen, just do it. Just think about this podcast, just go out and And I'm telling you, that's where the magic happens. So like, you got this.
00:24:21
adampikefitness
um at the comfort Don't let the comfort hold you back from the greatness that's waiting for you.
Personal Growth Through Risks
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adampikefitness
Because if if I just sat around and I just waited for things to happen, I'd still be working at Long Harbor.
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and i let ludson Listen, some things happened in my life that pushed me in that direction and and a lot of a lot of stars aligned for me to be where I am right now. I'm not going to say that it like, oh, it's i I did it all myself. you know A lot of things happened in my life for me to get where I am right now. But I started just taking the action action. I took a chance of myself. I said, fuck it. Let's do it.
00:25:00
adampikefitness
Here we are three years three years later, sitting down on a Monday morning doing a podcast, a podcast that I was frightened of that to do. I thought it was nobody's going to listen to it, you know, but you got to just fucking do it. You got to do it.
00:25:16
adampikefitness
This is episode, I think it's episode one, 54 or something like that. I was terrified to start. So you just got to do shit, man. You just got to do shit. And as as Colin Hollit always say shout out to Colin Hollit. If you're listening to this, we did a podcast together and he actually shared my my podcast the other day. Um, thank you for that. But, um,
00:25:39
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meet When we did the podcast together, he's like, man, you just gotta to be deadly. That's it. Just be deadly in life. Be deadly human. The good shit will happen to you. I'm like, man, that's the best shit anyone has ever said to me.
Conclusion and Call to Action
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adampikefitness
So shut up, Carl. Anyways, guys, thank you for tuning in to this episode. Another Mental Monday.
00:26:00
adampikefitness
I really hope you enjoyed this one. And listen, if you found this episode helpful at all, don't forget to subscribe. you know Rate this podcast. because it really like The more that you rate this show, the more that like the platforms are really gonna push this podcast, the more it's gonna help me out. more You know, it's just going to help me out in the long run. So if you like this, if you think somebody needs to hear this today, share it with a friend, share it with somebody. And you know, you could actually leave a comment on this. If you listen to it on Spotify, um, shit on your Instagram stores, tag me. I would love to see it. I would really appreciate it. And listen, guys, go out.
00:26:40
adampikefitness
Get out of your comfort zone and you got this. Until next time, keep pushing forward. I'll see you guys later. Peace.