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Ep.44 - Kickstart 2022 with a BANG! Make it YOUR year! | Further Your Lifestyle Podcast

January 09, 2022 Your Host: Chris Furlong Episode 44
Further Your Lifestyle
Ep.44 - Kickstart 2022 with a BANG! Make it YOUR year! | Further Your Lifestyle Podcast
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 ▬▬▬▬ IN SUMMARY ▬▬▬▬

  • What do you want from 2022?
  • Do you have any BIG GOALS or DREAMS for 2022?
  • What about beyond 2022?

Each year is the year we make it! I want this year to be your BEST. 

But I also want the best for you regardless if it is a new year, a new month or just a new day. 

Today I share with you how you can KICKSTART 2022 with a BANG! Actually any month you can apply this to! Make it your day, your month or your YEAR. 

Let’s get it! 

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▬▬▬▬ CHAPTERS ▬▬▬▬

  • 0:00 - Welcome to Episode 44
  • 1:32 - a big question for you 
  • 3:22 - reflecting on 2021
  • 4:05 - if you want change you have to be the change
  • 6:56 - the key for change is you and ACTION
  • 8:50 - what are the steps required for you?
  • 9:21 - be willing to show up, but with intent
  • 9:54 - the secret to success?
  • 10:58 - are you ready? My challenge…
  • 12:22 - share this with someone

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[00:00:00] Chris Furlong: Yo, yo yo, welcome back to the further your lifestyle podcast, conversations on lifestyle passions and hustles. My name's Chris Furlong I'm your host. And I'm super excited to be back here once again, having the conversation with you and we're episode 44 and we're back live and well here in 2022, I've had a couple of weeks off and it's been great to be able to just, um, rest reflect, um, and do some planning and just think ahead of what's to come for 22.

[00:00:26] Chris Furlong: Um, not just for this podcast, but just life in general. I hope you've all had a wonderful time. I hope you've had a great break and I hope you're all doing fine. Hope you're doing well. Uh, no matter where you are, what you're doing, who you are, and you might not even be listening to this at the start of the year.

[00:00:41] Chris Furlong: So anyway, I hope you are doing. I just want to first start off with a big, thank you. Um, you know, we're 44 episodes into this and I, I'm just overwhelmed with everything that's been happening and how things have been progressing. And I want to thank you all for the support because just wow. It's um, yeah, it's just it's it means the world to me, having people listen to this, so.

[00:01:05] Chris Furlong: Thank you so much. Now I want to just, I just want to dive straight into it because you know, I'm motivated. I'm always motivated at the start of every year. And look, I, I like to leverage that because it's an opportunity to meet. I guess a kind of a wave or a downhill experience because, and what I'm in my downhill is it means you can kind of catch that speed and, and run with it and, and hit the ground running really, really quick.

[00:01:28] Chris Furlong: I know that's not for everyone, but for me, that's how it works. And I don't want to dive in really with the question being, what do you want from this. You know, this year is exactly what you'll make it. It can be big, it can be small. It is exactly what you'll make it. Um, but I guess if we step away from taking this away from just a year perspective and really focus on what do you want in general?

[00:01:50] Chris Furlong: What, what do you want in life? What do you want? You can be as detailed as you like, or you can, um, you can not, but really what's the first thing that's popping into your mind. What's popping into your head right now, wherever you're doing. If you're listening in the car, if you're commuting, if you're out running, if you're just, you know, doing something in the background and you're listening to this, what's popping into your mind, is it freedom?

[00:02:10] Chris Furlong: Is it money? Is it time? Is it love? And I bet you, I can guarantee that it is probably something relevant to one of those points. But I really wanted you to think about it. Right. But regardless at the end of the day, I really just want to talk to you about making this year your best. And it really actually comes down to not even about necessarily this year.

[00:02:34] Chris Furlong: I just want to help you be your best and this year, each year in each day, um, we can just leverage this year to be a way to get you kickstarted, to get you motivated and to get things happening. But at the end of the day, I really want to help you regardless, whether it's, you know, today, tomorrow, each day, the next year and so on and so forth, you know, there's something that I've really been, I guess, turning on and thinking about for awhile.

[00:02:59] Chris Furlong: Um, and it's probably a bit of a. Cliche statement, but today's the best day to start working on a better you for tomorrow. Um, and it's done, it's kind of like the saying the best time to start investing was 20 years ago and the next best time was today or the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

[00:03:16] Chris Furlong: And the next best time is now or today. So it's playing along those same realms of thinking. But if we just have a little flashback to 2021, it was a lot of things. It was a year that we all expected. Things were going to be bigger and better. Which I think they were in some senses in, well, for me, it was, it was my best year yet, but that's why it comes really down to what we take from it and what we do.

[00:03:40] Chris Furlong: But I think the key thing. There's been so many learnings from 2021 and even the last couple of years. And I've been reflecting over the last couple of weeks. Um, you know what? I took away from it personally. Uh, but I think it's relevant for anyone that's listening and I hope it is, but in short it really has boiled down to a couple of key learnings.

[00:04:00] Chris Furlong: And that's what I want to go through today. And the first one is. Number one, the big key learning is, and takeaway, if you want change, you have to make the change. And what I mean by this, I want to talk about, you know, just the last year in a nutshell, and, and a bit of a story here is I took a chance on myself in 2021.

[00:04:19] Chris Furlong: It was 2020 where I originally had to build up to making this decision. It took me six months actually took me three months and then it took six months for it to actually happen. But, um, Stepping away from a nine to five gig at a very stable job, a very great job, a very blessing of a job. And I wanted to step away to really, at the end of the day, it was to start this podcast.

[00:04:38] Chris Furlong: I had always had this dream and it took me years to figure out what that was. And, you know, I started to really, you know, with everything going on, working from home and lockdowns, this is back in 2020 to make that decision. I had to really. Hard at myself, but also think about some of the more realistic points around, well, okay.

[00:04:57] Chris Furlong: If I take this chance and I step away from the nine to five, I'm not going to have an income. So the first thing I wanted to look at and naturally what we think about is how can I afford to do this? So I had to look at my savings. I had to really, you know, look at it from a worst case scenario and think, well, how long can I.

[00:05:12] Chris Furlong: If I don't make a single piece of coin, any money whatsoever one year, two years longer. And going through that, I guess that tough conversation with myself, but also understanding it. It meant I was ready to commit and, and give it a go because I understood what the expectations were. I understood what could work and what couldn't work and how long I could last them.

[00:05:32] Chris Furlong: You know, what were the limits? What were the boundaries? How long could I actually last to make this happen, but I also had to be realistic. And I think, you know, I'm not saying to go quit your jobs or to leave your jobs. And just for the record, I haven't quit my job. I'm actually on a leave of absence for up to two years, but I'm not saying to go, just quit and jump in and go all in, but you have to be realistic.

[00:05:50] Chris Furlong: And for me it meant, well, I don't want to have to dig into my savings. I want to be able to do this podcast, but I want to be able to make some money and, you know, do things that I want to do. So I had to really jump to the things that are. More, I guess, lean on the things in which I knew in the past I could make money from.

[00:06:06] Chris Furlong: And that was the quickest way to bring dollars into my, into my pocket. And that was reselling. And one year later and lots of hard work and learnings, we've done this podcast where, you know, we're, we're more than 40 episodes, more than 1500 downloads. And that's because of you. So thank you. But in the reselling world, I've been able to actually make some revenue.

[00:06:25] Chris Furlong: I've done $52,000 in revenue, and I've been at a profit around $30,000. And I mean, I had no idea that was going to happen. Um, I had the intent, I had the expectation. I had the dream. I had the goal to be able to support being able to make this podcast, um, But, you know, it's, now that it's all happening, it's a blur and it's just been crazy, but I don't even want to talk about me.

[00:06:47] Chris Furlong: This isn't what I want to talk about. I wanna, I wanna talk about you. I wanna focus a new and bring it back to what I was talking about. And, you know, we were talking about change and all that jazz. The key for change is you to take action to make the change. It really comes down to you. It is all you or me in this case.

[00:07:04] Chris Furlong: It was me. And that's why I wanted to share that story because none of this would have happened if I didn't make the change. If I didn't make the step to take the action. And that is number two, that's point number two is you need to take action. And this is very cliche. It's actually it's so it's so simple.

[00:07:22] Chris Furlong: It really is. You have to take action. You need to understand your intent, understand your goal, um, and understand what the better version of you looks like. Is that tomorrow, is that in a year's time, six months time? Is it in five years? But understanding also, how are you going to get there? Where, where does the road ahead look like?

[00:07:40] Chris Furlong: What does it even look like? How do you envision it? You know, you can start to work on re-engineering that, but we'll get to that shortly. You know, for, for me, when it meant starting this podcast, it meant setting a launch date. It meant setting a date in which I had to work towards making sure I was ready to go.

[00:07:59] Chris Furlong: Uh, so it meant scheduling guests. It meant coming up with episodes and content ideas. It also meant pressing record and actually doing something like this and getting comfortable with being uncomfortable because of. I mean at the start, you're not going to be comfortable. You're going to be uncomfortable, but the more you do it, you get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

[00:08:17] Chris Furlong: And it's the same with anything that you do. It was like when I started doing my reselling, it meant, and it took me six months to realize it that I had to do consistency. I had to put in work daily. I had to do steps in order for me to grow. And for me, 15 listings each day, every day. Um, it wasn't for the full 365 days, cause it took me six months to realize it, but this is what worked for me.

[00:08:41] Chris Furlong: And it enabled me to get, I guess, into a groove and enabled me to grow and, and find that growth. So bringing it back to actions is what, what are the steps required for you? And it's actually really easy to figure it out. It's just comes down to reverse engineering, right? If you want to run 2000 kilometers in 2020, Well, it's basically five and a half kilometers or almost six kilometers each day for every day or 166 kilometers a month, or maybe it's 38 kilometers a week.

[00:09:11] Chris Furlong: And to me, the 38 kilometers sounds a lot easier to do than doing five kilometers a day. It's different for everyone perspective changes things. And I think this also leads me to point number three, which is you have to be willing to show up and. You know, show up with intent to progress. You know, you need to have that progression intent.

[00:09:34] Chris Furlong: That's it. You just need to have a plan you need to having 10 and you need to show up. And obviously the plan is, you know, I got to do 5k today, or I've got to do two K today, or I need to list this many items, or I need to record this many things, or I need to, whatever it is, understand what those are.

[00:09:49] Chris Furlong: That's the plan. And then show up with intent and work towards making it happen. You want to know the secret to success? I mean, As corny as it may sound. It's something that I've been playing with over the last few weeks. And it is it's it's, I guess it's a quick win to success or a secret. And I know people say there's no secret to it all.

[00:10:08] Chris Furlong: There's no quick way. Well, it's not necessarily quick, but it's a quick answer. And. If you really, really want to have a successful year a successful, whatever it really comes down to this simple point is one show up two with intent three, with accountability and four with action or with taken action. So basically we need to do a sharp with intent, with some accountability and take action and boom, do this for 365 days.

[00:10:38] Chris Furlong: And I guarantee you with these small steps each day, the small bites, the digestible things, the manageable steps. You will make the progress of where you want to be, but of course you can't do this. If you don't know where you want to be. So it all starts with you and understanding what do you want from this year?

[00:10:55] Chris Furlong: It is exactly what you will make it. So you're ready. Um, I'm pumped, I'm super excited. Um, I'm super keen to see what we can do this year and to make it even more again. So we're in this together is, yeah, I've got my own ambitious goals for this year, too. And specifically, I guess, in, in this case, if we're talking about the podcast is I want to reach 10,000 downloads and I want to generate an income from this podcast.

[00:11:21] Chris Furlong: I feel like with the 10,000 downloads, it starts to just talk a bit more. I mean, I did, I expect to get 1500 downloads in 2021. I had no idea. I just leave the goal for last year was to start the podcast. The goal was to have 11 guests and the goal was to do episodes each week. And I did that. I had 22 guests, uh, and we did enough, um, episodes each week.

[00:11:45] Chris Furlong: I started on the 20th of February. So it was a little late to the game, but we got it done. And I want to see if I can do this for this year. And I'm putting it out there 10,000 days. Can we do it or more or more, um, but we'll do it together. Let's see, let's see what we can do together. Right. And I want to hear from you.

[00:12:03] Chris Furlong: I want you to share with me, you know, what's your journey, what's your goals. What's your intent. And what are your actions after 2022 or whenever you're listening to. Uh, let's, let's be accountable together. Let's, let's start this journey. Let's go on this roller coaster ride and let's do this together. Um, and if you want to share that with me, what you can do is message me on Instagram at further your lifestyle, or hit me up on Twitter at, for the.

[00:12:29] Chris Furlong: You can leave me a comment on if you're listening to this on the YouTube experience, or you can drop me an email@helloatfurtheryourlifestyle.com. However, it is just get in contact, right? I mean, there's plenty of ways you can get in contact, just make it happen, reach out and let's chat. Let's continue the conversation.

[00:12:45] Chris Furlong: Let's share ideas. And let's, uh, let's work together on making this happen and the best you yet, each for the, both of us for 2022, I'm excited, I'm pumped. And I really do appreciate you listening. If you enjoyed this, you know, share it with someone else. Maybe, maybe you've already got your year kind of figured out and you're ready to rock and roll.

[00:13:03] Chris Furlong: Um, and maybe you didn't need to hear it in. Form. And maybe you didn't need this additional motivation, but if you think there is someone else that maybe needs to hear this, or maybe just needs a little bit of a pep talk or a little bit of a boost, or just someone to come on the ride with them, send them this podcast.

[00:13:20] Chris Furlong: I've got my hand up. If you're watching on the YouTube, um, I want wanna, I want to come along for the ride with them and I want to help them. And I want to see what we can do. So share this episode with them. You don't have to share the whole podcast. If you think there's someone out there that could benefit from this, I would really appreciate it, of course.

[00:13:37] Chris Furlong: And that's going to help me get closer to that 10,000 downloads too. But now honestly, I really do want to help. And that's what it's all about is seeing how we can do these things that we want to achieve, but do them together and surrounding yourself with each other that are of positive nature and, um, have the same intent or have the same goals or the same mindset.

[00:13:56] Chris Furlong: It's going to help you move forwards onwards and upwards and get you closer to where you want to be. Probably a little bit. So my name is Chris Furlong. It's been an absolute honor. Absolute pleasure to be able to have this conversation with you. I really do appreciate you hanging out and just listening.

[00:14:11] Chris Furlong: Um, yeah, that's it. Welcome to 2022. Let's get it. Let's make it happen. And, um, yeah, you have a wonderful day. Cheers. Now, if you didn't know, we do have the podcast merge and this is we have a key focus. And enamel pins. Now, if you haven't checked these out, make sure you do because the intent of these are really just to be a small token and reminder for you to charge on, to push on and to further your lifestyle, uh, whether it is a gift for someone else to encourage them or maybe to inspire them, or maybe it's a way to motivate yourself, or you can simply just make a purchase to simply support the podcast, which would be greatly appreciated.

[00:14:46] Chris Furlong: We do also have some sweaters and some long tees, so make sure you check it out, link in the description and in the show. I really do appreciate it. Cheers.



Welcome to Episode 44
a big question for you
reflecting on 2021
if you want change you have to be the change
the key for change is you and ACTION
what are the steps required for you?
be willing to show up, but with intent
the secret to success?
are you ready? My challenge…
share this with someone