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Welcome to Rich Thoughts, Poor Jokes. A mostly-serious show where two mental health professionals work together to teach you about having security, freedom, and luxury, in EVERY area of your life. Dr Roxy Riefkohl-Cook and Dr.
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Why Do You Actually Want That? The Question That Changes Every Goal (opens the original)
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Most goals fail before the first obstacle because the reason behind them was never honest to begin with. The same principles that drive motivation work across every area of life, and this episode puts them to work on the ones people struggle with most: fitness, nutrition, money, career, and relationships. The domains are different. The psychology is not. There are also a few things worth hearing that people don't usually say out loud: overspending is not a character flaw, loneliness genuinely in
Actually Do Hard S*** – Goal Setting, Systems, and Getting Unstuck (opens the original)
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Motivation is not the thing that gets hard stuff done. A good system is. And there is a real difference between those two things. The goal needs to start with a why that actually holds up under pressure. Not a vague image of who you want to be, but something tied closely enough to your values that it can carry you through the parts where it stops feeling good. Most goals stall not because people are lazy but because the plan was never built to survive contact with real life. Willpower gets way t
It's Not Laziness: The Real Reasons You Keep Getting Stuck (opens the original)
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Feeling stuck is not the same as being unmotivated. Sometimes something specific is in the way, and until you name it, no mindset shift or productivity hack is going to move you. Anxiety keeps you from starting. Depression drains the energy the whole system runs on. ADHD scrambles the planning and self-supervision that getting hard things done actually requires. Burnout is different from all of those, and pushing harder when you are burnt out makes things worse, not better. Then there are the qu
Get Hard Stuff DONE: What Motivation Actually Is and How to Make It Work (opens the original)
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Feeling stuck is not a character flaw. It is usually a sign that something between your goal and your nervous system is not speaking the same language yet. Most people treat motivation, willpower, energy, and grit as the same thing. They are not, and mixing them up is one of the most common ways people undermine themselves without realizing it. There is also the vision board problem, which turns out to be a real one. Understanding the gap between what you automatically move toward and what you a
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