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160. Microwave Mentality · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard the phrasing that we live in
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  Speaker 1: a microwave society. People want instant results. They want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to put it in and get a result
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  Speaker 1: instantly in less time than it would normally take. But
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  Speaker 1: the truth is, if you want success in the long run,
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  Speaker 1: you need to be willing to take the long run.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat that, if you want success in
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  Speaker 1: the long run, you need to be willing to take
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  Speaker 1: the long run. There are no shortcuts to any place
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  Speaker 1: worth going, because what happens when we try to take
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  Speaker 1: those shortcuts, what happens when we try to make it
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  Speaker 1: faster using this microwave mentality, is that we get cut short.
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  Speaker 1: You take the shortcuts only to get cut short. Look
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  Speaker 1: at how many people have tried to manipulate their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wanted the slim, trim body, and they wanted it quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and it was happening very quickly. I know a few
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  Speaker 1: people who are taking medicines like Manjaro or ozepic so
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  Speaker 1: that they can manage their diabetes and they're getting the
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  Speaker 1: benefits of weight loss. But there are a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Many celebrities admittedly said that they took these drugs or
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  Speaker 1: took this medication to achieve weight loss. Kelly Clarkson is
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  Speaker 1: one that comes to mind. I'm sure you could think
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  Speaker 1: of something that's happened in the culture where this was
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  Speaker 1: a quick way to get the result. People doing BBLS
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  Speaker 1: is another one that comes to mind right where you
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  Speaker 1: then learn about all of the hazards of BBLS. Years
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  Speaker 1: ago it was implants, breast implants, and the list goes
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  Speaker 1: on and on. There's so many of these microwave things
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  Speaker 1: that create this microwave mentality where we've lost the focus
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  Speaker 1: to stay with the plan. We've lost focus to keep
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  Speaker 1: working the plan. Yes, working, it's an action verb. It
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  Speaker 1: requires us to do something over a period of time consistently.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what I want to talk about today
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  Speaker 1: because I want to remind you to keep working your plan.
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  Speaker 1: It is August of twenty twenty four. We have a
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  Speaker 1: few months left in the year. We have plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time to do what it is is we set out
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  Speaker 1: to do. At the beginning of the year, I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are closing the suitcase, shutting down
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  Speaker 1: the shop, closing the mobile store, and saying I'm done
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  Speaker 1: for the year. I'm here to tell you keep working
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  Speaker 1: the plan, and I want to give you some good
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  Speaker 1: reasons for you to work this plan. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: this is your life and you are the common denominator
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  Speaker 1: of whatever it is that you believe for yourself, what
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  Speaker 1: you believe for your life, what you believe for your family,
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  Speaker 1: what you believe for period. So that belief remember we
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  Speaker 1: talk about this each and every week. Your mindset is
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  Speaker 1: fueled by your beliefs, and then those beliefs become the
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  Speaker 1: actions you take. So if you don't believe that you
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  Speaker 1: have enough time to make an impact on your life,
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  Speaker 1: then if you don't believe it, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: take the actions towards it. And if you don't take
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  Speaker 1: the actions, then you're not going to show up in
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  Speaker 1: the world as a version of yourself that you said
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to show up as. So the illness on
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  Speaker 1: this is on you. But it starts with getting back
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  Speaker 1: to the plan, getting back to the basics, and developing
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  Speaker 1: a process and a program that you can continue to manage,
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  Speaker 1: that you can continue to work because you owe you,
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  Speaker 1: plain and simple. The first thing you need to know
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  Speaker 1: is that when you keep working a plan, it breeds consistency,
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  Speaker 1: and consistency breeds results. If you keep working the plan,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to build consistency, and consistency breeds results.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about someone going on a journey for
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  Speaker 1: financial growth, or they want to improve their fitness levels,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the case might be, it all starts with
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  Speaker 1: a plan. In that plan, there's going to have to
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  Speaker 1: be some consistent activity. Consistency cannot be overstated because you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to follow through. This is how consistency works.
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  Speaker 1: This is what makes consistency very different from being motivated,
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  Speaker 1: because consistency is going to give you a plan so
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  Speaker 1: that you can follow through when the momentum of motivation
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  Speaker 1: is down. Motivation is a momentum kind of in a silo,
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  Speaker 1: like maybe you go to an event and you're so geeked.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you listen to a Ted Talk presenter and you're
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  Speaker 1: so excited and you're ready, you're geared up. They said
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  Speaker 1: some things that resonated with you, and that momentum is
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  Speaker 1: in that silo of that conversation. What happens is consistency
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  Speaker 1: is what you're going to need on the days when
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  Speaker 1: that motivation that happened two weeks ago at that amazing
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  Speaker 1: event has subsided the consistency. What happens with consistency is
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  Speaker 1: if you keep doing this, it is almost like putting
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  Speaker 1: one foot in front of the other, and eventually you
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  Speaker 1: start walking, you start marching, you start moving, then you
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  Speaker 1: start running. That's how it starts, and that momentum is
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  Speaker 1: what leads to the tangible results. That momentum is what
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  Speaker 1: breeds the results. So it starts with the simple steps,
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  Speaker 1: like really think about it as literally taking a step.
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  Speaker 1: I always say it's like taking the step to your
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  Speaker 1: day one versus having the mind of one day. At
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  Speaker 1: some point you're gonna have to take a step into
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  Speaker 1: your day one. You can't keep thinking about the one day.
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  Speaker 1: One day I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna start walking.
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  Speaker 1: One day I'm going to get up and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the gym. One day I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do this. It has to be Today is that day.
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  Speaker 1: Today is my day one. And even though you started small,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tall order to the future state. It's a
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  Speaker 1: tall order of results that you are building from that
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  Speaker 1: first day. That's all it takes because before you know it,
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  Speaker 1: over time, the consistency, the effort turns into real results,
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  Speaker 1: real progress. I know we've heard the terminology of overnight success. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like an overnight success, but the reality is
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  Speaker 1: there was some discipline action underneath. That that person was
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  Speaker 1: head down for a period of time, that person took
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  Speaker 1: themselves off social media. There's a multitude of things people
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  Speaker 1: do so that they can get themselves in a place
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  Speaker 1: to be consistent for a season, so that they can
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  Speaker 1: get the long run benefits right, They're going to take
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  Speaker 1: that long path because in the long run they're going
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  Speaker 1: to benefit from it. That's the first reason why I'm
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  Speaker 1: encouraging you to keep working your plan. Reason number two
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  Speaker 1: reality check, friends, you will have setbacks. The good news
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  Speaker 1: is you can overcome setbacks. Every plan you have will
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  Speaker 1: face a challenge period. Every plan you have will have
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  Speaker 1: an obstacle, will have a setback, will have some type
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  Speaker 1: of unexpected change, something occurring that was not planned. But
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  Speaker 1: the key is to keep working the plan because if
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  Speaker 1: you work the plan through your tough times, you're building resilience.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why you must keep working a plan. You're
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  Speaker 1: building your resilient muscles, and you're gonna need that muscle
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  Speaker 1: because this is not gonna be the only plan you work.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be working plans probably for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: your life, because you want to grow, you want to learn,
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  Speaker 1: you wanna be and become more of the best version
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. And in doing so, you're gonna have plans
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  Speaker 1: for this, and you're gonna have plans for that. And
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  Speaker 1: while you're doing that, while you're executing that, while you're
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  Speaker 1: on this cycle of momentum, something is going to come
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  Speaker 1: on that pathway and stop you, delay you, deny you
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  Speaker 1: of where you were headed. It's up to you in
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  Speaker 1: that moment to use that as exercise as practice. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what. I have a run goal for myself
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  Speaker 1: right now and I've been trying a couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: And keep in mind, I just started trying these things
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  Speaker 1: about two weeks ago, and I tested out my run
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  Speaker 1: legs and I didn't get the results I wanted, and
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you it felt. It was deflating. It
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  Speaker 1: was definitely deflating to have tried a new methodology and
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  Speaker 1: not see it work. And although I haven't gotten the
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  Speaker 1: results yet, I truly do believe that I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: season of building my resilience because there are a few
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  Speaker 1: things that I'm trying to work out right now that
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  Speaker 1: aren't quite working out the way I want them to
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  Speaker 1: work out, But that adversity is going to help me
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  Speaker 1: in the long run. And that's how you need to
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  Speaker 1: start thinking about this. Don't look at the setback as
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  Speaker 1: a situation that happened now and it's a terrible thing. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel good, but it's an emotion right now.
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  Speaker 1: But in a long run, you're gonna use that same
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  Speaker 1: experience to look adversity in the face and say, I
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  Speaker 1: got this. I know exactly how to do this because
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  Speaker 1: I dealt with it a few months, a few years
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  Speaker 1: down the road, and I was able to overcome it.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what I did. Stick to your plan despite
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  Speaker 1: the challenges. Don't let the challenges run you off the course.
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  Speaker 1: You created this plan, You manage the course. This is
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  Speaker 1: the course of your life. And when you are faced
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  Speaker 1: with these challenges, your mindset has to be stronger than
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  Speaker 1: the current set. Your mindset has to be focused on
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  Speaker 1: the future set. That future set is going to serve
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  Speaker 1: you with the things you're going to do in the
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  Speaker 1: long run. Again, we're thinking long game here, friends, We're
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  Speaker 1: not looking at what it looks like today because that's
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  Speaker 1: going to change. That's the one thing about life. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to have death and change. We can be sure
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  Speaker 1: of those things too happen. That's a solid reason why
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  Speaker 1: you need to stick to the plan. Yes, you will
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  Speaker 1: overcome the setbacks. You're gonna do that by building resistance.
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  Speaker 1: And the final thing is, guess what vision vision requires patients.
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  Speaker 1: Your vision requires patients. I don't know. Maybe you were
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  Speaker 1: planning a trip and you had this whole trip, the itinerary,
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  Speaker 1: what you were gonna wear, the whole thing played out,
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  Speaker 1: planned out, thought out, and it didn't happen overnight. It
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  Speaker 1: took you months. For some people, it takes years to
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  Speaker 1: make it all happen. Maybe it's building your financial empire.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's building your business. I've watched entrepreneurs talk about
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  Speaker 1: where they started, show where they started and where they
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  Speaker 1: are now. There's one person I follow on social media
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  Speaker 1: that started out simply doing hair in her home, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually she found a space in a shop and she
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  Speaker 1: had a regular clientele, and over time she started to
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  Speaker 1: develop hair care products. This person now owns warehouses. This
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  Speaker 1: person now has products on shelves and target in Sally's,
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  Speaker 1: in Walmart, all over the place wherever here products are sold.
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  Speaker 1: But it started with a vision that took years. It
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  Speaker 1: took her twenty plus years to go from a kitchen
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  Speaker 1: sink to having werehouses of product and multiple platforms in
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  Speaker 1: which she can distribute those products. It takes time because
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  Speaker 1: it was a meaningful goal. If it's meaningful and you
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  Speaker 1: want to achieve it, it's going to take time. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to work the plan because in your plan,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna serve as a blueprint to help you towards
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  Speaker 1: the vision. Success doesn't happen overnight. It happens over many nights.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, it happens overnight, but over many, many, many nights.
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  Speaker 1: And the key is just trusting the process. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that sounds cliche, and I know it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: everybody says trust the process, but you've got to trust
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  Speaker 1: the promcess. I mean, it goes back to what do
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  Speaker 1: you believe in? If you don't believe that this is possible,
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  Speaker 1: then what is a stranger gonna believe? What is your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor gonna believe? What are your family members are gonna believe?
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  Speaker 1: You manage this whole thing. This is your blueprint, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to believe that what you're doing. Being patient
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  Speaker 1: in this process is key. Listen, I'm saying this because
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying this for me. I have goals. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. The changes I'm making, I've only made them
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  Speaker 1: in two weeks, and I was looking for results because again,
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  Speaker 1: we live in a microwave society, and I wasn't looking
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  Speaker 1: for overnight results. I wasn't looking for instant results. I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping for results after a couple of weeks. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it takes time to go from point A to point Z,
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  Speaker 1: and so that requires you to align with your goal.
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  Speaker 1: So each day I have to remind myself, what is
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  Speaker 1: your goal? Did you do anything towards that goal today?
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing about vision, is like you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to do something each day to keep that vision alive,
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  Speaker 1: because the vision can go flat if you put nothing
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  Speaker 1: towards that vision. And it doesn't necessarily have to be
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  Speaker 1: a financial thing. You could put some thought towards it,
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  Speaker 1: some activity towards it. You have to put some energy
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  Speaker 1: towards the vision. You can go back and look at it,
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  Speaker 1: you can tweak some things, but you've got to put
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  Speaker 1: energy towards that vision because it's working that plan consistently.
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  Speaker 1: If you do it every day, that means you're aligned.
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  Speaker 1: If you're line, you know what your long term goals are.
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  Speaker 1: If you know what your long goal term goals are,
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  Speaker 1: you have actions. Your actions now have a purpose. You're
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  Speaker 1: driven by that purpose, and therefore you're not gonna be scattered.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna be you're not gonna be reactive, You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be proactive because again, you're visualizing this step by step.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna encourage you in this season where so
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  Speaker 1: many want to throw in the towel, close the book,
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  Speaker 1: close up shop, I'm gonna encourage you to stick with
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  Speaker 1: the plan, keep working the plan. There was a reason
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  Speaker 1: why you set this in motion for your life, because
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  Speaker 1: there's something you're trying to change, there's something you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to create legacy for. So I just want you to
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  Speaker 1: keep working the plan. The plan. As you work it,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna promote consistency, it's gonna help you build those
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  Speaker 1: resilient muscles, and if you align your actions, you will
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  Speaker 1: manage to that long term vision. Again, you are the
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  Speaker 1: common denominator of your life. Your future depends on the
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  Speaker 1: foundation you're building today, and so if you want long
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  Speaker 1: term success, if you want long run success, you have
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to stick to the long game. I
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