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We had a nice day yesterday.
I had a little fun I've been telling you all about my experiences with you know a few things whether that was politics or the community within the corridor some very unpivotal moments in my life, right and It uh, it brought me to a conversation that was that we was having last night and we wanted to do a deep dive into
Finish in what you start.
Finish in what you start, right?
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Deep dive today, y'all, into finishing what you start.
And before we get into that, you know, we're going to have a couple of things that we didn't get to talk about on The Lunge Break Show.
Well, I might say that for tomorrow, but it's a couple of one thing in particular I'd like to talk about that we didn't get to talk about.
You know, and just wanted to talk about the USS Lincoln sailor who jumped overboard.
And then it was a reporter who like.
Caught don't he's like what kind of weak soldiers are you so we gonna get
into
I should have said our brother Zita video.
That's uh, that's my fault I'm not being on top of my stuff But then we want to talk about finishing what you start Finishing what you start have you ever had an idea?
That you saw through
I'm talking about from the inception of you just having the thought.
And following through and seeing the finished product, the final result, whatever that is, a goal that you set.
A project that you wanted to start an idea app or business.
Have you ever saw it through?
All right.
So if you missed it, we talked about yesterday, my journey in wanting to go after the fourth automatic district or my journey in wanting to provide affordable housing for our communities in areas that are typically forgotten about.
And it just it just put me in the thought process of.
you know, a conversation we was having with some friends yesterday about topics and whatnot.
Have you ever saw something through from idea to finish to where it became reality?
And I just thought about like, man, I did the idea of running for office and then seeing that all the way through as scary as it was.
So many things along the way that
tried to derail me, tried to deter me, even friends, good friends that was like, man, don't do this.
Why are you doing this?
But being able to have the mental fortitude to stick something through when everybody is telling you, don't do it.
They defeated you before you even got your name on about you not gonna win You're not gonna get this project.
Nobody's gonna support this.
Nobody's gonna do people that just chop you down You won't be an artist you want to open a hair salon you want to start a nonprofit I'm sure you've had plenty people tell you
how much it's not gonna work and how many ways you shouldn't do it.
But what's rare is people that actually just jump in and be like, yo, let's do this.
This is how we gonna make it happen.
I got your back.
So yeah, that's our today's theme, man.
We talking about when was the last time you actually finished something, right?
Then once we get into that,
We want to talk about what actually kills the follow through things like distractions Family friends we just talked about it What kills our follow through what gets us off track what keeps us distracted
We wanna talk about distractions.
Then further in what actually kills followed, we wanna talk about the lack of discipline and motivation.
Discipline and motivation.
Then based off of discipline and motivation, I wanna get into something that really helped me.
become more disciplined and motivated in me on my journey and actually finishing things that I start.
And that thing I'm talking about is, I might save it.
I might save it till we actually get to it, but I got a secret.
Let's do that.
I got a secret I'm gonna share with y'all.
that helped me with my lack of discipline and motivation when times got hard to want to stay focused or something that helped me manage the distractions in life or try to get you off your square.
But I got a tool, a secret tool I want to share with y'all.
Some may know it some may use it some may not know But I I'm willing I'm willing to bet that by the time we get to what this secret is and the power that it possesses I Want to see what y'all think
We got Blake on the line.
Blake from Milwaukee, how you doing, man?
You live on the grapevine.
I'm good, man.
I just remember, now I can let you figure out who I am to you.
Okay.
Okay, the more you were running, and Simon was helping you.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
I'm Simon's brother.
I'm the one that came and got all the flyers from you.
So now I'm more of a picture of who I am to you.
Absolutely.
Fly because it hit
like that.
I'm like, that's that's
Yeah.
Yeah.
So so man, you, you, you try.
You know, that's all we could do aside.
We
best.
You know, man, man, I remember when I was worried, but it was a good one.
Absolutely.
But you were talking about handle inches and stuff like that.
Like my situation with me, I had
Okay.
Regained my senses, uh, giant composer and I didn't need a $5,000 lawyer to tell me how to stand in court, to be quiet, to get my custody of my children back.
That was taken from me.
How, how she did it.
I don't know.
But my, my, the fallout is like, I don't want to be mad in the house.
She faced in contempt in three years, but she lived in the city house and she just had another kid that they got into doing me.
So I don't want to end anger.
I don't want to develop my son's name house.
I got one at just time 17 and one at just time 14, but they do want to be with me and they talk to their brothers and sisters every day.
So I'm good with that.
But I just want to chime in and tell you that I'm closer to you than you know.
And all you got to do is let me know if you need me, G.
Definitely, definitely appreciate it, man.
And I will be reaching out, man.
Shout out to brother Blake, man.
That's crazy.
Sometimes you talk to people, you know, and you don't even realize, oh, you don't work with this person.
This person was in the field for you.
Shots out the Blake man Simon got in the field got down with us man and put a lot of work in So yeah y'all When we come back we gonna get into all of this and then I'ma leave y'all with a secret and then I got some books, right?
I got some books that could actually help with this
Some books that could actually help some books that I read I ain't gonna share with you some of these I didn't read yet, but majority of the books I've read All right When last have you saw something all the way through when last whether that's getting ourselves out of debt
The discipline that it takes to get yourself out of there.
I'm still trying.
I'm still trying on Kashi to get out of there.
But don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we will be diving into a lot of these things on your award-winning one-on-one, 7 of Truth.
This is Ray Nitty on The
Grapevine.
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So let's start this off, right?
Before we get into everything, something that's important that I wanted to share, right?
We wanted to talk about the USS Lincoln cellar.
Cellars are jumping overboard and complaining about their mental health.
Because of how long they've been at sea.
So what's actually happening on the USS Abraham Lincoln?
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been continuously at sea for more than 260 days.
A record length deployment for a U.S.
aircraft carrier supporting the ongoing U.S.
Israel war on Iran.
Its mission was originally supposed to end in May.
but has been repeatedly extended.
Families and sailors speaking to Navy Times, stars and stripes and CNN have described food shortages, excuse me, rationed to noodles, tuna and the occasional hot dog or corn dog.
Water contamination, plumbing failures and severely declining mental health and morale.
This is the reason why we want to talk about mental health and morale, right?
It all it all Weaves into everything we talking about today But on August 3rd one sailor went overboard wearing a life vest and was rescued within an hour The Navy classified it as a mental health episode not an accident Multiple family members separately told Navy times their husbands had attempted or considered jumping overboard
for relief during their deployment.
They just wanted to get away.
They just like, I'm jumping over.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Marine Corps Reserve veteran himself, formally demanded a Pentagon inquiry and a bipartisan congressional visit to the ship.
CENTCOM has pushed back hard, calling reports of multiple overboard incidents rampant,
misreporting.
And confirming only the one August 3rd incident with no deaths.
President Trump when asked about the reports dismissed them and said the deployment already the longest on record was not merely long enough.
So.
People that is fighting for our freedoms.
In a uncalled for war Unnecessary war Well some may feel But my point of my my opinion is unnecessary war Yeah, let's go into the video.
Let's go into the video
Really sailing circles in the ocean
waiting for something to happen.
Those warships, they're machines.
The people on them operate them or not.
It's one of the mightiest warships in the world.
But conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln are said to be so bad that some sailors have tried to end it all by jumping overboard.
5,000 men and women set sail back in November, arriving in the Middle East ahead of the Iran War.
President Trump had said it would be over in weeks, but months later they're still at sea.
They've now spent a record 250 days on the aircraft carrier.
In messages home to their families, sailors have told of being served rotten meat, tiny portions, the same meal 14 days in a row.
They've also reported moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks.
Long stretches with no hot water and no soap, deodorant or toothpaste.
So it's continuously groundhog day every day.
You rise and grind and you do it all over again.
During his time in the Navy, Dustin Eatson also served on board one of the nuclear powered vessels.
He told me what those on the Lincoln will be experiencing.
It's humid.
You're in the middle of the ocean, so there's no shade.
It smells like fuel and oil all the time.
It's noisy.
These men and women have gone 250 days without touching grass.
The military would argue that these men and women are trained for this, though.
That doesn't mean that they deserve neglect.
That's a failure of leadership.
But the Defense Secretary has dismissed the multiple reports of the declining conditions as fake news.
They're completely misrepresented.
Listen, we make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single
moment.
The administration's push back against growing congressional pressure over the warship's record-breaking length of deployment.
Images from the USS Lincoln have made headlines at a time when the president is trying to project an image of strength.
Privately, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his frustration at the ongoing war in Iran.
all this amidst mounting political pressure ahead of the midterms.
Pro-Iranian YouTube channels have been quick to capitalize on the headlines.
Here mocking news that the president hid in a catering truck to secretly switch planes in response to an Iranian threat.
Iran watches this very carefully and they seem to have hardened their position partly because they
see what they think is weakness on the American side.
Mark Kansyan is a retired Marine Corps colonel.
He now works for a think tank which has been tracking munitions stockpiles and says the president's strategy in Iran.
But once again, if you're just joining us, we're talking about sailor that jumped off the USS Abraham Lincoln.
who's been at sea for over 250 days.
And, you know, you had soldiers, people that are putting their lives on the line, living through these conditions.
Then you have other folks reporting that, oh, it's not that bad.
It's not even that bad.
It's misreporting and so forth.
So much so, you even had a Fox News host, Johnny Joey Jones.
You know Marine Corp veteran who lost both legs above the knee and an IED in Afghanistan in 2010 went on a nearly three minute air on air rent on the big weekend show August 15th after watching a CNN clip of an anonymous seller describing low morale and food shortages
So if you just joining us run over to YouTube our YouTube 101.7 FM so you could see this video of How Fox news host Johnny Joey Jones who's an ex cleaning
about
sorry
You volunteered to serve your country.
You can come back and get out of the military and do like all of these Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to and come up with a new way of doing things.
How weak are you on TV complaining about tuna and noodle?
That's what he said.
How weak are you complaining about tuna and noodles?
Mm hmm.
He said, I'm sorry, you volunteered to serve your country.
This is X Marine Corps.
I'm sorry you volunteered to serve your country.
You can come back, get out of the military and do like these other Democrat veterans who complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to.
To be a sellout if you want to.
And maybe people are accepting this because he's an ex marine.
MPT.
Fought in the Afghan war.
But are these people weak?
We put so much stigma on people.
Screaming out for mental health support.
We call that's a problem.
We call these type of people weak, who's struggling with mental issues, mental morale.
Morale is down because of the conditions that their country has put them in.
Let's start with that.
He continued to compare his own deployment experience directly.
I ate ramen noodles.
That's what I ate.
And I was happy to have it.
And close by saying if this sailor represents today's military, we're just Rome sitting here waiting to burn.
This is what this is what they say.
I'm just saying.
Asking people to keep the strong mental fortitude in poor conditions and defend your country.
With little to no morale.
And then you have your other comrades calling you weak.
I don't think people understand how strong the mind really is.
And how much it controls you, how much it gets you to do all these other things.
We gonna get into that when we come back from these messages.
But I want y'all to think about this.
I want y'all to think about this.
When's the last time you actually finished something?
They're calling these people weak for serving their country and jumping overboard because of low morale and mental health issues.
But when was the last time you actually stuck something through
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It's your boy Ray Nitty We on the grapevine y'all We got something to squeeze something out of man.
I Want us to really extract All the juices from this one All right
We wanna talk about when was the last time you actually finished something?
When was the last time you had an idea, a business, a degree, a book, a fitness goal?
I know we talk about my fitness goals all the time.
I'm starting over again tomorrow.
My relationship repair and saw it all the way through to the end.
And I ain't talking about just like, you know, we started strong, you know, we put a good amount of effort into it.
I'm talking about really saw it all the way through.
It's easy.
Most people can name what they started.
It's easy.
It's easy.
Can we name what we actually finished?
We can name a million things that we started, y'all.
How many of those things can we actually say we finished?
I know it's harder.
For me as well.
I could tell you a million things I started.
I could probably tell you 999,000 things I didn't finish.
I finished a lot of things.
I probably started way more stuff than I finished.
We don't want the easy answers here, y'all.
My own story.
Where we started.
Let's just go with Ivy League entertainment or fly gangs, couple things that I started.
Entertainment companies.
Pushing a lot of the music and stuff that we did back in the day.
It was amazing.
We started it.
We had strong starts bow came out of it.
Ray needy Ivy League.
A lot of people still think I say Ray needy.
I believe in the beginning about I'm saying Ray needy Ivy League.
That's my daughter's first name Ivy Rose.
Ivy League was named after my daughter.
We had amazing start.
Not so strong of a finish.
Music carried on bow carried on but what we started to house all of these things and and promote all of these things I Didn't I didn't have That strong as a finish and I could tell you why and we'll get into it And we'll get into it But why is it so easy what up Looney
What up, Jazz?
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When was the last time you actually finished something?
We're talking about that right now.
It's way easier to name a bunch of things that we started.
But how many things can we name that we actually finished?
Okay?
I started a lot at the Sharp Creatives.
Good noise.
My run for the order community within the corridor policies for artists and creatives Helped Arthur some some policies around City-owned houses and putting them in the hands of creatives and turning them into incubators and businesses And so much so like I've seen so many people be able to
benefit off of those things that I started that I've yet to even be able to participate in and not because of anything else other than my own.
My own reasons, me getting in my own way.
A bunch of excuses, right?
And then you start to make yourself believe, like, it's OK.
This wasn't about me.
It was about all the other creators, which is could be true.
But you did it because you wanted to participate in something as well.
And yeah, you could find peace in seeing a bunch of people benefit off of the idea and that it could be fulfilling.
But we didn't finish.
We didn't finish.
What actually kills the follow-through?
We'll talk about distractions Talk about distractions for a second, right?
So many distractions kill our Momentum our focus
our drive.
The average person is interrupted by a notification message or meeting invite roughly every two minutes during the work hours day.
Let's think about that.
Let's think about that again.
The average worker slash human is interrupted by a notification, a message.
or a meeting invite roughly every two minutes during core work or business hours.
So about two hundred and seventy five separate interruptions in a single day.
We're talking about the phone calls.
Emails.
You just picking up your phone going on Facebook.
Scrolling.
Hmm?
It's so easy, right?
Looking at them chicks on Instagram.
The silhouette challenge was a good one.
There was a lot of distracted people around
there.
More people probably were trying to figure out how to turn the filter off than actually figuring out how to finish this thing I started.
Let me see if I can unfilter this person's silhouette challenge.
It was people actually doing that.
That's what we use our time on.
People was actually trying to figure out how to reverse filter the silhouette challenge.
But once again, the silhouette wasn't enough.
The silhouette wasn't enough.
Now we needed to see that the cut.
Turn the lights on.
I need to see.
I need to see if there's really a human.
That's how they was doing.
But just to say it again.
The average person is interrupted by a notification message or meeting invite roughly every two minutes during the core work hours of a day.
So about 275 separate interruptions in a single day.
How do you stay focused?
How do you stop being distracted?
40% of the knowledge people never get
even one 30 minute stretch of uninterrupted distraction free work in an entire work day.
And that's, I can prove that right now.
I'm willing to bet I'll get a notification within this, but probably before we go to commercial break.
We got about two minutes before commercial break.
Let's see.
if I get a distraction or a notification.
I'm going to turn my phones on too, so you all hear it just in case.
Let's let's see if this is right.
It says 40 percent of knowledge workers never get even one 30 minute stretch of uninterrupted distractions.
Free.
work in an entire work day.
The average U.S.
adult checks their phones roughly 186 times a day.
About once every five minutes of waking life and spend around five hours a day on their phones per 2005 reviews.
.org survey.
We was just talking about this.
How much data we consume.
And I guarantee you that number is low.
It says five hours a day.
What's your screen time?
Apple tells you how much screen time you got.
What's your screen time?
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
Oh, there it is.
That was my notification.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
We'll be right back on the award-winning 1017, The Truth.
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Helping you take the next step toward building a better future Mindset I Like that word mindset We talking about when's the last time you actually followed something through all the way And we talking about what actually kills follow through right now.
We're talking about the distractions
And we say that 40% of knowledge workers never get even one 30 minute stretch of uninterrupted distractions, free work in an entire work day.
You don't get one day of a 30 minute stretch.
You don't get one 30 minute stretch of uninterrupted distraction free.
Each interruption doesn't just cost the moment.
UCI Irving researcher, Gloria Marks, widely cited research found it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to fully regain deep focus after being pulled away from a task.
It takes almost as long to get back focus as how much time you don't even get.
An uninterrupted 30 minute session.
So imagine finally getting close to a 30 minute session and that was going to take you 23 minutes because you got interrupted to get back in your groove again.
It's like an hour.
As we stated, the average U.S.
adult checks their phones roughly 186 times a day.
I know that's low.
I know it's low.
I phone stand our hands.
It's in our hands right now.
That's about once every five minutes of waking life.
And spends around five hours a day on a phone.
That's part of 20 25 reviews or survey.
Among college students specifically research link smartphones slash social media use directly to academic procrastination, not just correlation, but a documented chain.
More phone distraction predicts more procrastination, which predicts more academic anxiety.
Finishing what you start isn't purely a willpower problem.
It's not just willpower.
We don't got the willpower to do it.
It's happening inside an environment engineered on purpose to fragment our intention.
Every couple of minutes.
But that ain't an excuse for not following through though.
But it does explain why it feels so much harder to finish things today than it used to.
We didn't have all these distractions.
We didn't have that.
We didn't hide at your.
Facebook messages.
Ever like almost every lasting God stoppers ever never ending reels.
The everlasting everlasting God stopper of reels they never end People sharing reels now you in a rabbit hole How do we break these distractions y'all
How do we break these distractions?
It's something else that kills our follow-through that keeps us distracted.
And it's the lack of discipline and motivation.
That's something else that's actually killing our follow-through.
The lack of discipline and motivation.
OK.
And we're going to get into that a lot more as well.
Discipline and motivation.
You got so many distractions coming at you.
You can't stay disciplined to put your phone down.
Then your motivation is down because you see in so many other people.
Live out their quote unquote dreams because they showing you the highlight reels on IG and now you think I should be here I should be further along and now your Mind is playing these games on you where you starting to doubt yourself and doubt what you started Discipline and motivation
What actually causes us to lack discipline and motivation?
And when we come back, we're going to get into that a little more.
Because I got a few stats that I want to share.
But if you just joining us, we talking about when was the last time have you saw something all the way through?
And what actually kills our follow through?
We talked about distractions.
And when we come back after these breaks, we're going to talk about the discipline and motivation.
And the lack of rather.
That kills follow through.
Don't go anywhere.
Y'all, this is the award winning.
One on one, seven, the truth.
833-212-1017 is the number to die.
I'm sorry.
I ain't going nowhere.
I'm early.
So I got some time.
I got some time.
I apologize.
So I'll share this.
Only about 8%, we're talking about the discipline aspect now, right?
We talked about distractions.
Only about 8% of people who said a New Year's resolution actually achieved it.
Yeah, everybody, everybody said a resolution on December 31st.
Right before they slam the drinks This is gonna be my last drink next year.
I ain't drinking wake up drunk on the first Hmm the Jim be full The Jim be full January 1st Give it two weeks Give it two weeks
Discipline and motivation.
We got Key on the line.
Key, how you doing?
You live on the grapevine.
What's up, my boy?
How you
Yeah, I didn't know.
I didn't know.
I was, man, that's an interesting question, but I'm always thinking about the black community.
Man, I would have to say a lot of us don't really, I forget the name of the poem, but it's like...
your greatest fear, not that you were inadequate, but you got your greatest beyond belief or I forget the quote-unquote exactly what it is, but I will say something that we're dealing with in the black community is not having something to shoot towards, like a vision, a goal, and kind of just falling into
Everyday life, you know, like instead of getting stuff done we'll go smoke a smoke a beezy or like it's just kind of like life, you know, it's just like You know, I don't know nobody's ever been a millionaire and even try, you know, so it's
it's
fear of being great But also like just our culture or like the kind of what we grow up around and and I just Yeah, I think it takes
Kind of the inner Motivation so that's kind of my piece
Yes,
Yes, sir Yeah, man E dot right on YouTube said I had to go on a social media fast to reset my focus
This allowed me to finish my children books.
Resetting our focus.
We got to reset our focus.
It's going to take discipline and motivation in a world that throws 285 distractions at us.
In a single day.
About 275 separate interruptions at us in a single day.
We gonna get deeper into what kills the follow through.
Discipline and motivation, the lack of rather.
But it's your boy Ray Nitty.
We live on the grapevine on the award winning one on one, seven to truth when we come back.
We're gonna get into some more data and details about how discipline, the lack of discipline and motivation is keeping us from getting to that end goal.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
This is Grave Vine with your boy Ray Nitty.