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Are You Actually Excited to Wake Up to Your Life? ?(S5) S34:E7 Friday · Inspirations for Your Life

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  Well there, hello everyone, and welcome to the
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  ever-popular Inspirations for Your Life show.
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  It's great to be with you.
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  It is Friday.
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  This is August 21st, 2026, and you know
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  what Friday means, don't you?
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  All right, guys, let's get into the show.
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  Are you ready?
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  I know I am.
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  This is the last time I'm talking about
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  this, because it's the end of our master
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  Build a life you don't need to escape
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  from.
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  It's not something you just hear in the
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  movies.
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  Series five, show number 34, and today's granular
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  topic to bang this topic in, are you
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  actually excited to wake up to your life?
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  Series five, show 34, episode number seven.
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  Great topic.
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  Welcome, everyone, to, again, the ever-popular Inspirations
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  for Your Life show.
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  I'm John Seymourly.
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  I am a serial entrepreneur, in case you
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  guys didn't know that.
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  I'm an engineer, marketing specialist, video producer, podcast
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  host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student at Montgomery
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  State University, and a passionate lifelong learner.
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  And I'm so grateful now to be a
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  published author.
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  Yes.
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  So, we spent the week together talking about
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  building a life you don't need to escape
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  from.
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  And today, I'm bringing you everything full circle,
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  together, with one very personal question.
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  What is that?
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  Are you actually excited to wake up to
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  your life?
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  You know, when I meet new people, one
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  of the first things I ask them is,
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  what is it that makes you want to
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  get out of bed every morning?
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  And they look at me like I'm funny.
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  I'm like, no, I want to know what
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  motivates you.
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  Okay?
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  Ladies and gentlemen, you can achieve goals, earn
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  recognition, stay incredibly busy, and keep building for
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  tomorrow.
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  But if the life you're creating doesn't feel
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  meaningful when nobody else is watching, it's worth
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  asking this important question.
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  It's all that the achievement is actually building,
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  or is it just kind of leading us
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  nowhere?
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  Today, let's explore 30 ways to create a
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  life you genuinely want to wake up to.
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  Are you ready?
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  I know I am.
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  Number one, decide what a good life means
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  to you.
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  Before you build a good life, define one.
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  What does it actually look and feel like
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  for you?
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  Success becomes much easier to pursue when you're
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  not chasing somebody else's definition.
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  Number two, stop copying somebody else's definition.
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  What works beautifully for another person may definitely
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  not work for you, and it could make
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  you miserable.
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  See, their career, lifestyle, priorities, or ambitions don't
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  automatically belong in your life, and you shouldn't
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  expect them to.
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  Build according to your own values.
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  You know what I'm talking about, guys, your
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  core values.
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  So build around what gives your life meaning.
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  Identify what makes your days feel worthwhile.
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  Meaning can come from relationships, creating, learning, helping
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  others, building something, solving problems, or experiencing life
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  more deeply than you thought possible.
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  Number four, create mornings worth waking up for.
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  See, your morning shouldn't always begin with dread
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  about everything waiting for you.
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  Give yourself something meaningful to anticipate, even if
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  it's small.
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  Number five, choose work you can respect.
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  You don't have to love every moment of
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  work, but ideally, you should be able to
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  respect what you're doing, how you're doing it,
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  and what your effort contributes.
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  Important, right?
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  Number six, build relationships you want to maintain.
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  Strong relationships require time, communication, honesty, and of
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  course, effort.
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  Invest in people you generally want to remain
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  part of your life.
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  Number seven, make room for experiences that matter.
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  I think a lot of people, you know,
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  they chase their tail around, and they wonder,
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  why am I not happy?
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  It's simple, because you're chasing somebody else's dream.
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  A full calendar isn't necessarily a full life,
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  guys.
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  Leave room for experiences that make you curious,
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  connected, challenged, excited, or simply happy to just
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  be there.
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  Number eight, stop sacrificing everything for later.
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  Preparing for the future matters, but don't sacrifice
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  every meaningful part of today for tomorrow that
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  continually moves further away.
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  Number nine, guys, create something you're proud of,
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  you know, something that makes you want to
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  continue.
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  Build work habits, relationships, projects, and routines that
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  you don't constantly fantasize about abandoning.
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  Create things you actually want to keep developing.
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  Number 10, build freedom into your definition of
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  success.
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  Success isn't only about having more, it can
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  also mean having choices, freedom over your time,
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  attention, direction, and priorities can be enormously valuable
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  too.
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  So number 11, let your values, this is
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  important, influence your choices.
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  Values shouldn't exist only as words.
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  They should influence what you accept, reject, pursue,
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  protect, and prioritize.
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  Number 12, stop designing your life for appearances.
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  That's over.
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  A life can look impressive from, well, I'm
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  going to say the sidelines or outside and
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  feel completely wrong from the inside.
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  So don't build primarily for applause, approval, or
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  comparison.
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  Number 13, choose experiences over unnecessary approval.
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  Sometimes living authentically means making choices other people
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  wouldn't make.
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  You don't need universal approval to enjoy a
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  life that genuinely fits you, no.
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  Number 14, build a life that feels good,
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  privately.
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  Here's an important caveat, a test.
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  When nobody is watching, posting, praising, or evaluating
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  you, do you still like your life?
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  Tough question, right?
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  Private satisfaction means more than public satisfaction.
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  Number 15, make your home somewhere you enjoy
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  returning to.
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  Home doesn't need to impress everyone else.
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  It should be a place where you can
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  recover, think, feel comfortable, and enjoy spending time.
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  I think a lot of people, when we
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  think about spending time, they acknowledge it, but
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  then they really don't get into that moment.
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  They don't really believe what's going on.
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  I think that's a very important thing.
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  Number 16, create what work you have and
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  make sure it doesn't consume your identity.
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  Work can be meaningful without becoming everything you
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  are.
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  You see, you're still a person when the
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  meeting actually ends.
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  The computer shuts down and the project is
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  finished.
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  So what I want to say is, number
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  17, protect the people who make life richer,
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  who give you the experiences that make you
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  so happy to get up every morning.
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  Don't continually sacrifice important relationships because something less
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  important feels urgent.
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  Protect time for the people who genuinely add
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  meaning to your life.
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  And I think as you traverse through life,
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  you're going to be like, I don't exactly
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  know what that is, but later on, you'll
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  be like, wait a minute, I get it
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  now.
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  This makes a lot of sense, and I
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  guess I should pay more attention to it,
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  right?
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  And I think that's going to have an
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  interesting moment for you, right?
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  A moment that maybe you'll be like, oh,
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  wait a minute, is that really the right
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  thing or is that the wrong thing?
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  And I know that can sound, right?
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  But I think the most important thing is
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  that it does something pretty amazing, okay?
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  It does something amazing because it gets you
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  to see that your life is more than
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  just a facade.
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  It's more than just one moment.
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  It's a culmination of things.
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  It's learning, it's experiences, it's growth, it's challenges.
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  Number 18, guys, give yourself meaningful things to
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  anticipate.
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  Hmm, what do I mean by that?
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  Anticipation, well, it can bring energy into ordinary
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  weeks.
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  A conversation, trip, event, project, meal, hobby, or
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  a new experience can give you something positive
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  to look toward.
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  Number 19, stop waiting for retirement to start
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  living.
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  Live now.
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  Don't spend decades telling yourself you'll finally enjoy
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  life later.
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  Build the pieces of life you want now
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  while you're still enjoying and working toward the
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  future.
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  Enjoy the process.
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  Number 20, build health into the life you
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  want.
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  A future becomes much harder to enjoy if
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  reaching it requires continually neglecting yourself.
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  And, you know, a lot of times I've
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  learned this, you neglect yourself not because you
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  want to, but because you're putting somebody else's
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  priorities above yours.
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  And when that happens, you're saying yes to
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  them, but you're really saying no to yourself,
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  and you're going to be resentful for it,
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  and you don't want to do that, guys.
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  Make physical and mental well-being part of
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  the design rather than an afterthought, right?
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  That should be like the main event.
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  I think that's an important piece.
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  But here again, a lot of people just
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  don't get it.
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  They don't understand what that means.
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  They don't get it.
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  They don't understand it.
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  But if you could take a moment to
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  become aware of your surroundings, aware of your
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  challenges, aware of your life, aware of where
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  you're going, you might be able to say,
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  hey, wait a minute, I can do this.
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  Yeah, you can.
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  Number 21, guys, I ask you to create
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  memories.
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  Create memories, right?
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  That's a very, very important one for us
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  to acknowledge.
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  You need to create those memories.
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  And those memories, guys, are going to take
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  you to an entirely different place.
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  Number 21, create memories while building success.
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  Don't make every year solely about accomplishing the
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  next objective.
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  Make room for moments you'll remember for reasons
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  that have nothing to do with productivity.
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  Number 22, let achievement support your life.
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  You see, ladies and gentlemen, achievement should create
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  opportunities, resources, confidence, choices or impact that make
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  your life richer and fuller.
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  Let success serve something larger than just itself.
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  Interesting concept.
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  But when we embrace that, our life can
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  change quite a bit.
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  Number 23, stop letting achievement replace your life.
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  There will always be another goal if achievement
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  becomes the only place you allow yourself to
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  feel valuable.
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  You constantly need another accomplishment to feel complete,
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  to feel whole.
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  And I know that's not what you want.
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  But you wind up down this pathway because
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  of other people's thoughts, other people's beliefs.
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  I think that's a very important thing that
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  we have to recognize.
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  We have to realize what this means to
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  us.
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  And how this can make a difference in
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  our lives, right?
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  That difference, guys, can be something that literally
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  changes who you are, right?
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  Changes who you are.
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  And that's pretty important if you ask me.
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  Number 24, build enough instead of endlessly chasing
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  more.
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  More isn't automatically better, guys.
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  At some point, ask what enough looks like.
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  Enough money, enough commitment, enough possessions, enough recognition.
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  Knowing what is sufficient can create freedom.
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  So freedom is a big choice.
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  A choice that many people give up because
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  they're trying to do something else that may
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  not matter as much.
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  I think that's really the big question.
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  How do we do that, right?
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  How do we do that?
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  I think that's an important piece, right?
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  An important piece of where we're actually going.
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  I'm just saying, guys, that's a very, very
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  important thing.
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  A very, very important thing.
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  But we've got to be aware of these
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  things, okay?
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  Number 25, know what you're unwilling to sacrifice.
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  That sounds like a real interesting one, but
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  it's the truth.
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  Decide what success isn't allowed to cost you.
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  Your health, your integrity, your relationships, your time,
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  peace.
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  Knowing your boundaries makes difficult decisions clearer, clearer.
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  That's what it's about.
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  So if you could be clear on one
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  thing in life, I want to ask you,
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  what would that be?
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  Would that be having more time?
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  What would actually that be?
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  What would that be?
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  I think it might get us to ask
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  some important questions.
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  Some questions that maybe we're afraid to ask,
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  but these questions can make a huge difference
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  in our life if we embrace them.
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  You see, a lot of people think that
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  if you do the same thing over and
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  over again, and it doesn't work, you just
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  keep doing it eventually until it works.
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  No, that's Einstein's lesson to us.
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  That's insanity.
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  You don't do the same thing over and
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  over again and expect the results.
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  That is insanity, okay?
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  That is very important, guys, for you to
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  recognize and to understand.
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  If you just did something to go through
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  the motions, do you think you'd enjoy it?
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  I'm going to tell you, probably not.
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  And not because you don't want to, maybe
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  because you're burned out.
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  You're burned out, right?
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  That's a very key thing.
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  Knowing that people expect you to change your
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  life and make sacrifices because of them.
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  So my question is, why the heck are
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  you doing that?
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  Why are you putting their needs before you?
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  I'm not saying you can't do it once
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  or twice, but don't let it dare ruin
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  who you are.
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  Number 26, guys, create a future that excites
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  you.
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  When you imagine the direction you're heading, there
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  should be something there that genuinely interests you.
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  Don't build a future solely because it sounds
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  impressive.
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  Number 27, make today's choice support that future.
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  That future.
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  The future isn't built, guys, in one enormous
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  decision.
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  It's built through repeated choices.
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  What you do today should make tomorrow's life
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  more possible.
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  Number 28, build something worth waking up.
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  That's powerful, guys.
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  Give yourself reasons to get out of bed
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  every morning that extend beyond just the obligation
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  of what you've committed to doing.
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  Build projects.
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  Explore relationships.
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  Take new experiences and set new goals and
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  paths that create genuine energy.
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  Genuine energy.
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  You have the power, guys, to do this.
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  Number 29, don't escape your life.
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  Why don't you start designing the life that
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  you've been waiting for your entire life?
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  If you're constantly counting down until Friday, vacation,
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  retirement, or the moment you can get away,
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  pay attention for once.
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  Maybe something doesn't simply need escaping.
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  Maybe it needs redesigning.
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  Maybe the thing you're missing is a change
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  so you don't burn out.
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  Number 30, create a life you genuinely want
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  to wake up to.
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  This is where everything we've discussed this week
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  comes full circle and comes together.
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  So protect your energy.
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  Create room for yourself.
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  Put effort where it matters.
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  Enjoy the present moment.
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  Allow your life to evolve as you do.
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  These are powerful things, guys.
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  I hope these are not just words going
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  in one ear.
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  I hope you're really paying attention to them.
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  And then, ladies and gentlemen, build something you
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  actually want to live and be part of.
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  As I get ready to close not only
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  today's show but this whole topic of the
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  week, building a life you don't want to
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  escape from, I want you to think beyond
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  accomplishments for just a moment.
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  Can you do that?
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  Imagine there are no titles.
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  I know we hear things all over the
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  world like, this person's this, this person's that.
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  I'm not saying titles are bad, okay?
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  But what I'm saying is this is something
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  that can make a difference if you really
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  try, if you really try.
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  But you got to try.
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  I don't just mean once.
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  Again, imagine no titles.
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  No audience for just a moment.
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  No social media.
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  Whoa, I must be really knocking some people.
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  No applause.
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  No pats on the back.
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  Nobody that you're trying to impress.
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  Could you do that for just one day?
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  And if you could do that, would you
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  still want the life you're building?
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  One of the joys I have in being
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  an author, being a serial entrepreneur, engineer, market
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  specialist, video producer, graduate student, passionate lifelong learner,
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  I love my life.
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  I love the things that are happening in
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  it.
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  Are there frustrations sometimes?
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  Sure there are.
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  But I learn from them.
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  And they help me each day to become
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  better.
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  So when those things rear their heads, I'm
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  like, I know the way.
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  See, ladies and gentlemen, that's a powerful question.
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  Because success can sometimes become something we perform
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  instead of something we experience.
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  Experience.
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  Maybe you want ambition and achievement.
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  Great.
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  Maybe you want meaningful work, stronger relationships, more
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  authentic ones, more freedom, better health, more experiences,
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  continued learning, more time.
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  Just explore things that make you curious, that
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  put a smile on your face.
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  You see, great things are happening if you
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  pay attention.
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  Those things don't have to compete.
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  The goal isn't to abandon responsibility, let's be
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  clear, or to stop striving.
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  The goal is to make sure all that
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  striving is actually taking you somewhere you want
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  to go.
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  Don't spend your entire life, guys, preparing to
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  live later.
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  Enjoy people while they're here on this earth.
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  Create precious memories while you're building a life
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  here.
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  Protect your health while you're pursuing success.
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  Make your home somewhere you enjoy returning to.
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  Give yourself things to anticipate.
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  Know what you're unwilling to sacrifice.
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  Let achievement support your life instead of becoming
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  a substitute for it.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know by
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  now, I'm John Seaworthy.
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  I'm a serial entrepreneur, and I thank you
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  so much for choosing to join me today
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  for another amazing episode of Inspirations For Your
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  Life.
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  This week, ladies and gentlemen, we've explored what
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  it means to build a life you don't
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  need to escape from.
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  Now, the final question belongs to you.
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  Are you ready for it?
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  Are you actually excited to wake up to
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  your life?
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  If the answer is yes, appreciate what you
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  built and keep developing it and be grateful.
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  However, if the answer is not yet or
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  no, don't just escape it.
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  Design it.
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  Redesign it because your life isn't something that
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  begins after the next achievement.
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  It's happening now.
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  Create a life you genuinely want to wake
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  up to.
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  And check out BelieveMeAchieve.com for more of
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  my amazing, inspiring creations.