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5 Minute Friday: The Real Reason You Break Promises

Jordan Edwards Season 6 Episode 276

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If “I’ll start tomorrow” keeps turning into next week, this fast, punchy guide will help you start today. We break down the five silent saboteurs that derail momentum—comfort voice, perfection trap, invisible audience, dopamine dealer, and excuse expert—and show how to beat each one with small, decisive moves that take less than five minutes.

We open by naming the patterns that sound helpful but stall progress. The comfort voice tells you to rest when you need to move, so we swap vague intentions for 120-second starts and simple setups that make action easy. Perfection pretends to protect quality, but it blocks reps, so we lean on constraints, quick deadlines, and the rule of one: one draft, one take, shipped. If you fear judgment, the invisible audience is smaller than you think; use low visibility as a training ground and publish to learn, not to impress.

Next, we tackle the dopamine dealer that lives in your phone. Ten minutes of scrolling stretches into an hour without a plan, so we budget attention with timers, notification silencing, and out-of-reach devices. Urges fade when you don’t feed them, and active recovery beats passive grazing. Finally, we confront the excuse expert. Time isn’t found, it’s assigned, so we anchor priorities with one non-negotiable before noon and the smallest possible version of your habit to protect identity and momentum.

By the end, you’ll have a clear checklist to move now: choose a tiny first step, add a constraint, make distractions costly, and ship something imperfect. No pep talk, just proof through action. If this helped you take even one step today, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a push, and leave a quick review so more people can turn intention into progress.

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This is Five Minute Friday with Jordan Edwards. Have you ever told yourself you're gonna start tomorrow and actually believe it? The truth is we all do it, but we don't. We never start tomorrow. And what why is that? It's because of the five silent saboteurs behind our daily promises. And this five minute Friday, you're gonna get the info in less than five minutes. So there's five different saboteurs that we all have to deal with. The first one is the comfort voice. This is the one that tells us that you don't have to do it. You've worked hard, you're good. And when you start to feel these, you have to get into action immediately. The point of this podcast is to raise awareness that we're all carrying these. So we have one, the comfort voice. We have two, the perfection trap. This is the person who sits there, shoots their clips. This is the person who's waiting for the perfect time to call, the perfect time to do the sales pitch, the perfect time to do everything. And they never take action. So I want you to start to become aware of this because this is gonna be very detrimental to you. Instead, you should take imperfect action so you'll get closer to your goals much quicker. The third one is a big one for a lot of us in the social media space. It's the invisible audience. What we're talking about here is what are people gonna think of me if I post something like this? It would be crazy to think people are gonna judge us because the funny thing that we don't realize is that most of the time we post and it's terrible, no one sees it, even your parents. Nobody will see the content. So you have to get into action and start shooting that content as you would, because that will make a big difference for you. The fourth one is the dopamine dealer, which is when you go, let me, I have 10 minutes, let me look at my phone instead of taking action on the things you want to get done. So I want you guys, the whole point of this podcast is to get you into action because when you're not in action, it's gonna hold you back. And then the fifth and final saboteur, the excuse expert. This is the one where you make excuses. I'm too busy, I don't have enough time. How many people have said that? And you start to realize that it's not good for us because the truth is you do have enough time. You're just not prioritizing your time correctly. So these are the five saboteurs. We have the comfort voice, the perfection trap, the invisible audience, the dopamine dealer, and the excuse expert. And I want you to realize and become aware of what each of these is. And when you see them, I want you to jump into action. I want you to do the thing that you've been pushing off today because as you take action, this will completely change everything for you. So hope you have an amazing Friday and we'll talk very soon.