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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
So when I hear people say, oh, I just travel when I travel.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
No, like when I go home, like I'm taking my kids – well, my son drives himself, but my daughter, I'm still taking her to school.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
I'm picking them up from practices.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
I'm engaged as I possibly can be, engaged with my wife, doing day dates, doing the things that we can because I think people live to their excuses and think they can't have –
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
loving their life and love with their kids and time with their kids and run a successful business.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
And once again, it goes back to the self-talk.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
And so I encourage people, if you're not leaning into doing the things that take care of you, you'll never understand what your highest level of peak performance is.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
I'm still working on it.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
I have been to enough therapists, you could probably call me doctor.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
But for sure, I mean, with self-talk, it's the same as you, right?
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
Limiting beliefs.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
And then at some point in time, you wake up and you say, man, I'm sick and tired of this.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
If I choose to believe that, I'm going to choose to act a certain way.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
If I choose to believe something else, then I'm going to choose to act differently.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
And it's like I said, what we say comes out of our mouth, goes in our ears, and that's what drives the action.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
So finally, I got tired of the self-talk.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
Doesn't mean that I now am perfect and I don't have self-talk.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
But the conversations I have with myself, they don't last very long and they're met with extreme levels of discipline.
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
Both parents?
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Ben Newman: The 2x Daily Habit That Transformed Microsoft’s Team Culture | DSH #1594
Parents married?