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231. Green Onion Effect · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but when you look around life,
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  Speaker 1: you'll notice these lessons that come about. And one such
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  Speaker 1: lesson occurred with me about three weeks ago. Was making
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  Speaker 1: and preparing a meal and I used a green onion.
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  Speaker 1: So if you know a green onion, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a stock. The very top of the onion is green
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  Speaker 1: and the bottom has kind of a white bottom which
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  Speaker 1: includes some roots, white roots at the bottom. And typically
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  Speaker 1: when I'm done with really any type of vegetation or
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  Speaker 1: any herb, when I'm done with it, I just discarded.
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  Speaker 1: I throw it away. This time around, however, I decided
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  Speaker 1: to take that bottom part which has the roots what
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  Speaker 1: I call the white roots, and put it in water
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  Speaker 1: and just put it by my windowsill in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been about three weeks, and guys, I have
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  Speaker 1: a fully developed almost green onion stock which is ready
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  Speaker 1: for me to use to prepare meals or whatever garnishes
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to use it for. And I just
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  Speaker 1: thought that to be really interesting, Like, I've never done
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  Speaker 1: anything like this before, So for those of you out
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  Speaker 1: there who've done these types of things, I typically stay
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  Speaker 1: away from plants and things because I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: have a green thumb like my sister does. She can
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  Speaker 1: do this stuff. She does this stuff with her eyes
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  Speaker 1: clothes my mother. Growing up, I would watch for take
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  Speaker 1: an old potato or an onion or a pepper and
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  Speaker 1: just start growing herbs and spices right in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Never done anything like that. Decided to try it. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what now, I am not an onion farmer, but
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  Speaker 1: I tried something and it yielded results. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about today, because the first thing
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  Speaker 1: that this whole process has taught me is that time
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  Speaker 1: is going to pass with or without your permission. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're planting. You may not be
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  Speaker 1: planting a green onion in your kitchen or in any herbs,
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  Speaker 1: but you maybe decided sometime this year that you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to start saving money, and maybe you started your investment strategy,
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  Speaker 1: your saving strategy, whatever strategy that you're on, and now
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  Speaker 1: you're watching your account grow and bloom and you're going,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. All I had to do was get started.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yes, time is a f but it was
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  Speaker 1: the intention, because time is gonna go by no matter
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  Speaker 1: what time is going by. But what is your intention?
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  Speaker 1: About the things that you say you want to do again.
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  Speaker 1: You might say I want to start, I'm gonna start XYZ,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to school, I'm gonna start my business,
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  Speaker 1: i'm gonna start my podcast, I'm gonna write my book.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, I'm gonna do it. But in two
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  Speaker 1: months you might be in the same spot. So what
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  Speaker 1: is gonna make the difference is going to be your intention.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. One of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I intend to do is read a book and improve
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  Speaker 1: my reading time and my reading practice, right, and I
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  Speaker 1: haven't I do that, but I haven't done it with
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  Speaker 1: specific books. Have a lot of great books in my
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  Speaker 1: collection and some I haven't cracked open. Now I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible very often, but there are other books that
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  Speaker 1: I do want to get to that I do not
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  Speaker 1: read at all. And so I want to work on
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  Speaker 1: building a reading habit increasing my reading and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to start with not waiting around for the right time,
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  Speaker 1: but just doing it. So that might be, for example,
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  Speaker 1: reading five pages a day, because you know, I like
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  Speaker 1: to break it down to practical steps that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Reading five pages a day might be what it takes
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  Speaker 1: for me to start reading those books. Maybe you are
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  Speaker 1: on and off your health journey, and maybe you're making
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  Speaker 1: it too complicated, too complex, you're trying to boil the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: which means you're doing way too much. Perhaps it's just
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  Speaker 1: taking a ten minute walk, and for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who are working in office, it might be that you're
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  Speaker 1: just walking two flights of stairs, or you're walking a floor,
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  Speaker 1: you're making a couple of rounds. There's so many ways
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  Speaker 1: that you can target these moments knowing that time is
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  Speaker 1: going to pass. You're gonna get a lunch hour, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a fifteen minute break, and if you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get one, you should be taking a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minute break. And when you take your fifteen minute break,
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  Speaker 1: what is your intention on that break, Because whether you
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  Speaker 1: have and you plant that intention out there or not,
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  Speaker 1: the time is going to pass. The second thing that
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  Speaker 1: this whole process with my green onion has taught me
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  Speaker 1: is that it's small, it's almost silly, but it creates results.
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  Speaker 1: Because honestly, I didn't know what this was gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to try this. It was I had
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  Speaker 1: a couple water, I had this piece of the green
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  Speaker 1: onion that I was getting ready to discard. I said
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  Speaker 1: why not? And I think we don't say why not enough.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to do too much. I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to go buy soil. I didn't have to go build
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  Speaker 1: a garden. I did not have to overthink it. I
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  Speaker 1: simply just said, you know what, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be thrown away. This looks like I can grow roots
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  Speaker 1: with it. I have water. I know those things go together.
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  Speaker 1: And that small obvious thing in your life, the thing
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  Speaker 1: that you're staring at right now, if you look around
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  Speaker 1: the room that you're in or your surroundings, you'll realize
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  Speaker 1: that there are things you can go do without doing
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  Speaker 1: too much that can yield significant results. The thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is a lot of people don't make changes. And
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  Speaker 1: I find this so much with fitness. Like I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna say I'm a fitness guru, but I've been involved
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  Speaker 1: in a fitness journey for gosh, probably half my life.
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  Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed the fitness journey. It may have been difficult,
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  Speaker 1: it may have been challenging, but it has always been
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  Speaker 1: enjoyable for me. And when people see me, I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: comments from people like, oh my gosh, you're up at
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  Speaker 1: four in the morning, you at the gym at five,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing this, you're doing that. You know you're having fun.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what I need to do to get started.
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  Speaker 1: And I always tell people five jumpin jacks. I walk
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  Speaker 1: around your house, walk up and down your driveway, and
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  Speaker 1: they look at me like I have ten heads. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, start small, take a small step.
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  Speaker 1: The small steps matter. But everybody wants me to say,
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  Speaker 1: get a gym membership, by this type of wicking gear,
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  Speaker 1: buy these shoes. I don't care what you have. I
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  Speaker 1: think what you have. Just like me with my green onion,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have anything. I had the basically the remains
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  Speaker 1: of a green onion and water. That was all that
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  Speaker 1: I had. I didn't have any fancy plant pot to
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  Speaker 1: put it in. I didn't have any fancy strategy. Well
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be by this windowsills since against some
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  Speaker 1: I had nothing but a silly idea. And you might
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  Speaker 1: have a silly idea or a one step thing or
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  Speaker 1: something that you didn't have to overthink. I challenge you
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  Speaker 1: to go do it. For example, if you are in
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  Speaker 1: the habit of, you know, trying to get some things done,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a phone call. Maybe it's a website search
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  Speaker 1: that you need to do. A lot of times we
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  Speaker 1: think I need to get in contact with the right people.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just researching who are the right people? What
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  Speaker 1: are the right things to say when you talk to
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  Speaker 1: these people? What things should I be thinking about when
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  Speaker 1: I approach these people. It's a simple thing. It may
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  Speaker 1: be again in that same spirit sending the emails. The
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  Speaker 1: one email, one thing leads to the next thing. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we overcomplicated. We think that we have to
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  Speaker 1: before I approach said person, I have to have all
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  Speaker 1: the details. I have to understand all the things. I
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  Speaker 1: have to have all my ducks in a row. When
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  Speaker 1: you don't, you can actually come as you are with
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  Speaker 1: what you have, and that's enough to get things started.
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  Speaker 1: And that's definitely something I learned with my green onion.
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  Speaker 1: And the last thing I will say in this journey
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  Speaker 1: is we throw away things that still have potential. We
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  Speaker 1: do you know again, I basically almost threw away an onion.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't an onion at the time. I had already
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  Speaker 1: used all the parts that I could use at the time.
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  Speaker 1: But there's something else within that, and there are things
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  Speaker 1: that you might have thrown away because it didn't get finished,
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  Speaker 1: or it wasn't as perfect as you had wanted. It
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  Speaker 1: might have been a good idea, but you didn't develop it,
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  Speaker 1: and it may be something that you've been dreaming about.
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  Speaker 1: But because it didn't materialize or you didn't get the
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  Speaker 1: validation from the people you wanted, you decided it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: good enough and it was either too late to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You already tried it, So what's the point. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: not enough to do anything with because that's initially how
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  Speaker 1: I saw it, and it's not gonna matter. It's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna matter what I do it or don't. And I
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  Speaker 1: want you to rethink that, because those are the traps
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  Speaker 1: where we never arrive to the place of potential. We
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  Speaker 1: never see what's beyond the horizon. We just know what
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  Speaker 1: it looked like now, what it looked like then, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't have any idea, we don't have any thought
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  Speaker 1: about what it could look like in the future. And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get into the habit like my onion.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to say said to me, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: done yet. And I want you to say to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is that you are working on whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is that you thought was too late to work on,
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  Speaker 1: or you were already had tried it, or whatever the
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  Speaker 1: case may be. I want you to say, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: done yet. I'm not done yet. There's still life left
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  Speaker 1: in me. There's still ideas, there's still witty thoughts, there
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  Speaker 1: are still new strategies and approaches that I haven't tried.
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  Speaker 1: You are not done yet. It right. These old goals,
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  Speaker 1: these old dreams, these old ideas, even the old versions
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  Speaker 1: of you, there are things you can do with that
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  Speaker 1: that you can build from that. The thing is, we
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  Speaker 1: want to go and change it all. We want to
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  Speaker 1: replace it. We want to I mean, I always find
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  Speaker 1: it fascinating to watch people go to like a good
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  Speaker 1: will or a secondhand store, buy a piece of furniture,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, some type of chatchkey in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a bowl. I've seen people take these beautiful
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  Speaker 1: crystal bowls and turn it into a big, beautiful candle
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  Speaker 1: that they use as a centerpiece. And it's just taking
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  Speaker 1: something that was old and not necessarily replacing it, but
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  Speaker 1: replanting it, repurposing it, reusing it. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: that's fascinating that people can take a table and chairs
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  Speaker 1: that look like something, you know, raggedy and old, and
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  Speaker 1: converted into something that is very useful and beautiful in
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  Speaker 1: some cases. So I learned a lot from this basic
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  Speaker 1: experiment that I didn't even know I had participated in.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to think about the things in
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  Speaker 1: physical look around, but look around in the inventory of
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  Speaker 1: all those things you had tossed away even at the
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  Speaker 1: throw stuff away. Nothing wrong with that, but I promise
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