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104. Success Tool · Your Enriched Self

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  This weekend to go out for an early morning run, and unfortunately I did
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  not get moving as early as I had planned. So by the time I
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  got out it was sunny, it was sunning, it was hot, and
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  so when I got out there, I immediately started my run journey. I
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  did not stretch. I did not do any type of warm up or any
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  of the things that I know I should be doing prior to go in for
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  the run. For me, the first mile of every run is always that
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  what are you doing? Mile? And in that mile I realized that I
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  had messed up. I had messed up and I did not do the prep.
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  By then, I was already fully invested in the run, so I
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  had no desire to turn back. I decided to keep going. But it
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  was a painful run. It was pretty much a run that I was struggling
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  in that first mile. Now, by the time we got to mile to
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  and of course concluding with the third mile, things had kind of leveled off
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  a bit. But the lesson didn't leave me. I got the lesson,
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  and the lesson is don't skip the steps. Don't skip the prep. Preparation
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  is a very important part of getting to the place of success. It is
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  a marker of success. Preparation is an important part of many of the things
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  that you are going to do, and in this case, it was very
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  important that I had prepared before I started that run, and in not preparing,
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  I set myself up for the potential to fail. Because think about it,
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  how many times have you gone out to do something without the right preparation
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  and you had to go back to start. You had to go back to
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  the beginning because you did not have the tools that you needed to keep the
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  momentum going and sustain what you started. That could be a reason why right
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  now today you are back at the starting line, and we need to talk
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  about that. We need to talk about the importance of you preparing for today
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  so that you can be ready for what's coming tomorrow. My friends from all
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  across the globe and welcome to the Your and rid Self Podcast. I am
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  your host, Smiley Noir. I am a mindset coach and your mindset advocate.
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  And what that means in this world, there is so much happening every
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  single day, every single moment. There's so much talk about AI and everything
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  else that's happening in the marketplace and the business place, and your home space,
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  and this is the place to drown out the noise and get back to
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  center. There are limited spaces in your life right now where you can just
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  spend time with your thoughts, and that's what the Your Enriched Self podcast is
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  all about. We know that everything that you aspire to do, to be,
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  and how you want to live starts with your thoughts. And that's going
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  to mean managing your mindset. That's going to mean eliminating the waste and all
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  of the noise and the things that are keeping you from becoming your enriched self.
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  So I've curated this space. I've done it on purpose because I know
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  what you need. I need it to listen. I'm feeding you with this
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  information, but I'm also the one preparing because there's so much out there.
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  If you're not careful, you might be digesting things thoughts, ideas, ideals
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  and values that are not aligned with you and who you are. And I
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  want you to become more of your rich self. So that's what this podcast
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  and this platform and this space is all about. So if you are new
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  here, I want to welcome you. Come right on in. There is
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  a place for you at this table, and it is designed to ensure that
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  you become more enriched, become the best version of yourself. So I want
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  to welcome to you. I want to welcome you here and thank you for
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  being here. And if you are a repeat listener, if you have been
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  rolling and writing with this podcast, I want to thank you for your participation.
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  I want to thank you for being here each and every week. We
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  are now on episode what one oh four, So I want to thank you
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  for that. I want to thank you for your commitment to becoming more enriched
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  and doing it each and every week. Now, before we get into this
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  week's topic, I want to make a deposit in the bank of you at
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  some thing I do each and every weekend. I do it by way of
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  affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to start your day and to command your
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  morning. And this week's affirmation is I will be fearless today. I will
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  be fearless today. I will be fearless today. Now let's get ready for
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  this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self Podcast. Have you ever been at
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  a construction site and watched the workers of that construction site set things up and
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  set things in motion. Let's take it a little bit more practical, have
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  you ever watched your mother, your aunt, a friend prepare something in the
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  kitchen? I think baking, because there are several ingredients and steps that need
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  to happen before you get down to enjoying that cake or whatever you're baking.
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  If you've ever been a part of that, whether you have been the one
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  preparing or the one in waiting, there are steps to every process that you're
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  going to encounter in life. I shared a little bit about my reset lesson
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  knowing better as a runner. I've been running for ten plus years now,
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  I think fifteen plus years at this point, and there are things that as
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  a runner that I need to prepare for before I start that run. And
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  this week I learned a valuable lesson about the importance of stretching and doing the
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  things I need to do to prepare for that run. I will tell you
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  that one of the things we don't think about when we look at the word
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  prepare or preparation or preparing is we don't look at preperation as a tool.
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  We look at preparation as things that need to happen. But all of those
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  things that need to happen, all of those ingredients, the size, bold
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  the measuring cup, whatever, if you're baking a cake, for example,
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  all of those things are necessary tools because even if you have the right ingredients.
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  I mean I had the right running shoes and I had the right wicking
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  gear. I have my utility belt or running belt on with all of the
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  bells and whistles were needed for me to get on that run. But the
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  one thing we don't think about is the importance of preparing the mind. For
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  sure, I did not prepare my body as I mentioned. I didn't do
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  the stretching and all of the things that I needed to do. But there
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  is a part of preparation where your mind has to get set. Think about
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  it like get ready, get set, go that get ready is to almost
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  list out, think about what it is that you have on your list of
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  things that you want to accomplish. We are wrapping up the month of July,
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  and so there are probably some things you maybe haven't gotten to yet,
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  and I'm going to encourage you to stay the course. I'm going to encourage
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  you to get to finish. There are moments in life where you almost have
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  to go back to start, and I want you to finish. I want
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  you to finish this month strong, and I want you to go into the
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  next month prepared to finish the month stronger. Yeah, we're not waiting until
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  the next month to finish. We're gonna finish what we started this month,
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  and then we're gonna go into the next month with the spirit of finish,
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  with the expectation that we will finish. No more restarts, going back to
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  start. We're gonna have to take what we have, with all the ingredients
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  that we have, and we're going to have to get really clear on the
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  tools that we need so that we can finish. And as I will propose
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  to you, your mindset has to be the first place that you prepare because
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  again, if you have all the things ready, if I don't have a
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  mind that says you got this, it's going to be very difficult to get
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  past all those ingredients without the right thought process. But as much as people
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  will pour into you and encourage you to go after it and do it,
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  it starts with you believing in yourself. And that's why I say mindset is
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  the first step. We're gonna get to the physical things. I promise you
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  we will. Those things are important as well, but this is the first
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  place. This is the birthplace of your success. This is the birthplace of
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  you getting started and moving in the forward direction, because we're not going back
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  to start. If I know you, if you are listening to this,
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  I know you're tired of restarting, and I know you've done it for so
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  many years, months, weeks, and you are ready to push forward.
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  And I'm here to encourage you, to cheer you on, to look at
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  you and say you better not look back here. You want to go forward
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  and you need to go forward. So believing in yourself is step one.
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  Once you believe in yourself, then you have to prepare to do the work.
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  Because again now you've got all a good gear and all the things that
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  you need. But first step is to believe in yourself. Here's another piece
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  of mindset that we need to tackle, we need to really wage war against,
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  and that is the negative self talk. And oftentimes when you are preparing
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  for something, when you are thinking about what you want to do next,
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  because I know, I know that you have it in your heart, you
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  have it in your mind to go and execute a thing. I don't know
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  what that is for you, but I know there is a thing that you
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  want to execute on. But your negative self talk by way of all programming
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  has wired you in such a way that you keep retelling these stories, and
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  these patterns shape and they form. And what I want to tell you is
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  scientifically, every once in a while, I got to bring some science up
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  in here, right there is a term called neuroplasty, and what that essentially
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  means is that you have the ability, not me. I know I'm talking
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  to you about this. I know I'm going to encourage you through this episode
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  and in the many ways that we will connect, But it is you that
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  has the ability to change the architecture of information in the pathways in your brain.
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  And that's why self talk is very critical, very important to your preparation.
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  I know it's not a thing we talk about when you go out there
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  in the world. Everybody tells you to get the checklist, right, just
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  go get the checklist, get things checked off the checklist. You can do
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  all of that and come right back to start again in the next week,
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  in the next month, in the next year. I pray that is not
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  your situation, but it's going to start with your mindset. Mindset is just
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  as an important tool as me having a pair of shoes going out there to
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  run on Sunday. Mindset is just as an important tool for me to have
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  the right wicking gear when I'm going out to run, and so on and
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  so forth. That mindset is a tool for your success, and I want
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  you to be successful on executing, on finishing. But the other part of
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  preparation is getting into a state of practice. For example, I want to
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  run a half marathon in the coming months, and I'm not going to be
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  able to get up in the morning one day and decide I want to run
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  a half marathon. Now I can believe in myself that I will do that.
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  But on the other side of preparation as a tool is that there are
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  going to be days, week and hours of me putting myself on the pavement
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  and practicing, getting my endurance up and my stamina up, and understanding what
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  my body needs. Along the way. That practice is also steps that I
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  can't skip. If I want to do a half marathon, I've got to
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  put myself in a position to practice so that i can get to performing.
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  So I can get to performing in the way that's going to allow me to
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  complete this half marathon, which by the way, is thirteen point one miles.
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  I want you to look at each and every practice like a tool.
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  Just like constructing the cake or building the house or whatever it is. There
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  are tools along the way. There are things that need to be executed so
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  that this next thing can be executed, and so that's what needs to happen.
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  The last thing I want you to think about is lack of preparation.
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  And I think there have been several quotes out there in the world. Let's
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  say, you know, lack of preparation as a plan to fail or all
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  of those types of things. I don't necessarily believe that if you don't prepare,
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  you're doomed to fail. What I do believe is when you don't prepare,
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  you have less tools to be successful. When you don't prepare, you
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  have less tools to be successful. So this weekend, I didn't prepare for
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  that run again. I didn't set myself up, set my body up to
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  be ready to sustain that run. I look at failure as I did not
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  complete. I completed that run. Now I was tempted to stop. I
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  was tempted to go back to start. I was tempted to call it quits.
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  I was tempted to walk. There were a lot of temptations that were
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  rushing through my mind, but I decided to push through. They're going to
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  be times in this process of preparation that you're going to have to push through
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  to finish, and that is an important part of again giving your brain the
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  message that and this then becomes evidence to your brain that the thing you may
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  have once feared, the things you may have once avoided or put off,
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  you are now willing to go into it boldly, with bravery, fearlessly.
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  And now you have built a cool, calm confidence about yourself. And that's
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  going to take you a long way. That's going to help you change the
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  architecture and the information pathway in your brain. And those are the things that
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  are important for you to not just get ready, let's stay ready. I
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  you can from this episode and do what you must in the next one hundred
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  and sixty eight hours to become more of your enrichised self until we meet again.