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Forget Motivation, Just Do These 8 Borin...

Rob Dial
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What if the reason you haven’t changed your life has nothing to do with motivation? Motivation is an emotion and emotions are unreliable. In this episode, I break down why motivation fails and what actually works: a boring, repeatable system that works even when you don’t feel like it. 
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