This is the Home Studio Hustle Podcast number 6 - Taking advantage of Moments of Strength.

Hello Hustlers and welcome to the show I’m Mike Brown and today we’re going to be talking about how to take advantage of your moments of strength.  This episode is going to be short and sweet because I don’t want to dilute the message. It’s a message for every hustler out there- not just the ones in the home studio.

Everyone has heard of moments of weakness.  Most have experienced them.

That time you cheated on your diet because you drove past a taco bell and nobody would know. 

When you decided to cancel on your friends because Netflix and the couch just felt too good.
Or what about the time you pushed off doing your podcast until the last minute because there were a ton of other fun things to do this week?

Wait… was that last one just me? Sorry.

Moments of weakness can define your success and failure  - But so can moments of strength.

A moment of strength is when you feel the desire and the drive to get something done, so you either do it, or take steps to make sure it gets done.

Here’s a personal story about how I took advantage of a moment of strength recently.

I’ve been trying to run 5 times a week. Those who know me know that I’ve struggled with exercise, but running is one that I enjoy… even though I fall off the horse every once in a while.

When I sat down to record this podcast, I recorded a few lines- while in the back of my head thinking, “As soon as I’m done recording, I have to go for my run for the day.”

Now, I could have kept going, and maybe I would have done for that run- but it’s massively possible that I would have decided it was too late or that I had too much work to do still.

So instead of allowing myself to push it off, I stopped recording, drove to the high school, and ran.

In that moment I was feeling strong.

That’s just one way you can take advantage of a moment of strength.  Another way is this:
Setting yourself up for success.  We can also look at this as mitigating opportunity for moments of weakness.

I have some friends who smoke cigarettes, and a lot of them want to quit.  I remember a conversation with one of them.

He said, “I’m quitting as soon as I’m done with this pack. I won’t buy any more, but it’s a waste of money if I quit now.”

Well… those weren’t his exact words- I believe he said something like “That’s just bad economics.”  But you get my point.

People do this all the time with diets as well.  I’ve been guilty myself.

“Starting tomorrow, no snacks- only 3 meals a day.”

Tomorrow? How do you know you’re going to have the strength to start tomorrow?  You have it right now- DO IT!

So how can you use moments of strength to fix the scenarios I just talked about?

Well, the smoking one is easy. Throw away the pack right now!  I don’t care if you have one or 19 left. You’re strong now and you don’t know if you will be later.

What about the snacking one? Start right now. Stop snacking right now and toss your junk food in the trash.


Now- I know it seems like I’m standing up here on my soapbox, and to a certain extent I am! Nobody is immune to moments of weakness. But I just wanted to share with you the idea of turning around that emotional space in times of strength.  It has served me very well, even though I don’t always see them when they’re in front of me.

I’d love to hear what you have to say on this topic. If you want to add your voice to the conversation, come to homestudiohustle.com/podcast, find this episode and leave a comment. OR if you’d like to have a more private dialogue, email me at [email protected].

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Thank you, and keep hustlin’.