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5 Minute Friday - The Hidden Cost of Low Standards

Jordan Edwards Season 6 Episode 281

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Your momentum isn’t dying because you’re lazy; it’s leaking away through low standards that drain energy and crush self-belief. We unpack how messy environments, weak boundaries, and daily self-negotiations quietly tax your attention, slow your decisions, and keep your goals out of reach. Then we introduce STAND, a simple, powerful framework to upgrade your energy and rebuild trust in your word.

We start by naming the most common leaks: clutter that steals focus, yeses that crowd your calendar, and inner bargains that talk you out of the hard, important actions. From there, we walk through STAND step by step. See leaks by tracking when your energy dips and why. Take responsibility so you stop outsourcing outcomes to luck or others. Act fast to compress timelines and beat hesitation. Negotiate never so your promises don’t get traded for comfort. Defend daily by locking in rituals that protect what matters.

Throughout the conversation, you’ll hear practical examples you can apply today: how to reset a workspace in minutes, how to give a clean no without guilt, and how to reduce decision fatigue with simple rules. You’ll also get a weekend challenge designed to raise one standard in a small, specific way that produces outsized returns. The goal isn’t to hustle harder; it’s to plug the holes that waste your willpower and to let consistent action rebuild belief.

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This is Five Minute Friday with the hitting cost of low standards. I'm Jordan and this is we're going to deliver the info in five minutes or less. So you don't lose momentum because you're lazy. You lose it because you're leaking energy. When your energy and time go down, you start to lose self-belief in yourself, especially when you have low standards. So low standards are affecting everything in your life. Because the truth is that when you want to go for your goals, when you want to have big ambitions, when you want to have big dreams, you got to have that self-belief in yourself. And the big things that can hold us back are messy environments where we don't know where things are, we're constantly disoriented. It could be weak boundaries where we're saying yes to everything, even if it's not supporting our dreams and our visions and the life we're looking to create. And it's the third part is we're having self-negotiations, meaning, if I do this, like you've done a really good job today. You don't have to make those extra phone calls. Just go to bed. Like that's not what we got to do. We have to do an energy upgrade. And I have an acronym for this, and it's called STAND. The STAND acronym is I want you to S for seeing leaks. I want you to start becoming aware of where is your energy leaking throughout the day. When is it dropping? Is it dropping at lunchtime? Is it dropping at breakfast? Is it dropping at dinner? Like, when's that drop off for you? Two is take responsibility, which is the T. I want you to take full ownership of your life. Whether you like it or not, it's your fault. Everything is your fault. So I want you to take that responsibility. The third thing is I want you to act fast. When you see an opportunity or when you see something good or a league comes in, call them right away. Take action on your goals so that you will get much closer to them in a much more compressed time. The fourth part is end. I want you to negotiate never. Don't negotiate with yourself. Commit to what you said you were going to do and follow through on that because that will change things for you. And your fifth and the final part is defend daily. When you defend your goals, you will start to have self-belief in yourself that you never believed possible. So the energy upgrade I want you to do is stand. I want you to see leaks. I want you to take responsibility. I want you to act fast, negotiate never, and defend daily because this is what will change you on this Friday. So I want you to take some inventory of yourself and find out one thing this weekend on where you can raise your standard. Find one place where you can start to raise your standard and updo a little bit more, regardless if it's super small, it will make a big difference and you will start to have better belief in yourself. This is Five Minute Friday. Thank you.