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Think Bigger Than This Moment (S5) S15:E4 · Inspirations for Your Life

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shall we?
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This is Inspirational History of Life.
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As I said, it is Tuesday, April 7th,
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2026.
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And we're doing this thing which is all
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about to think bigger than the moment, which
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is what we are today.
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Think bigger than the actual moment.
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Oh, everyone, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and
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a passionate lifelong learner.
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And soon, guys, to be a published author.
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That's going to be very soon.
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The master topic for the week on Inspirational
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History of Life is how to rise into
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what's next in your life.
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So our granular topic fits that very, very
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well.
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So let me say something that might hit
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you hard.
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Are you ready, guys?
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Brace yourself.
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You're not overwhelmed because life is too much.
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Are you ready?
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You're overwhelmed because you're thinking too small for
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what you're facing.
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See, the moment you elevate your thinking, you
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don't just change how you feel.
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You change what's possible.
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Yes, I know.
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Put that in and try to sink your
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teeth into that for a little while.
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So let's move right into our first topic,
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which is number one, lift your view when
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you zoom out.
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So problems lose power and purpose gains clarity
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when you do this.
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But sometimes people get stuck in their ways
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and they don't do this for a host
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of many, many reasons.
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So let's stop making excuses and let's go
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ahead and start doing this.
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All right.
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Number two, guys, think beyond today's pressure.
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What feels urgent now is often irrelevant later.
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I know.
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It's like you worry about things and nine
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out of 10 of those things actually don't
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even come to pass and they actually turn
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into a ditch before you actually get to
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them.
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Number three, guys, urgency is not destiny.
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Just because something feels intense does not mean
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it defines your future.
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I know it may sound like that because
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everything's closing in around you, but it's not.
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Number four, guys, higher thinking calms and lower
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fear.
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So elevation will replace the panic with perspective.
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And I said, guys, when we have perspective,
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our life will change around us.
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Our life will change around us.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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to understand, is that perspectives become our reality.
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And our life is shaped from our perspectives.
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Does that make sense?
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I hope it does.
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Number five, look past the immediate mess.
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What you focus on determines what grows, what
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will flourish in your life.
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If you don't want something to grow, then
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take your attention away from that.
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What we attach to, we grow.
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What we detach to loses its energy and
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thus loses its ability to show up in
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your life.
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Number six, guys, your mindset sets your altitude.
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You will never rise above the level of
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your thinking.
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So start learning today that it's your mind
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that's creating a reality.
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Even if you're not getting that today, then
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you might say, John, it's not working.
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But you know, it's actually working behind the
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scenes.
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It's just things don't show up on your
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timeline.
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Unfortunately, guys, that is the ultimate truth.
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So learn to change your thinking.
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Wherever we put our thoughts, that's where energy
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is going to flow.
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So just remember that and make that a
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new staple in your daily practice.
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All right, guys, number seven, rise above small
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thinking.
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Limitation begins in the mind before it shows
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in life.
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So if we limit ourselves here, then we
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limit our body.
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And if we limit our body and our
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mind, we limit the potential possibility of our
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life.
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So let's realize that whatever we have up
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here can expand into our life.
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If we don't have it here, then we're
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blocking it from coming into our life.
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That's a very important thing that I want
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to show you.
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And I know you might say, John, but
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you don't understand my life.
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I don't care.
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It doesn't matter what your life is.
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The minute you change your thinking, okay, the
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minute you believe something is possible.
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Let's take my book, for example, which is
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about to be released very, very soon.
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Actually, I believe it's next.
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Not this Friday, guys.
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It's going to be next Friday.
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Wow, I can't believe it's finally coming out.
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That thought of producing a book was only
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a thought, but then I took the inspired
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action and I did the work and I
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created the book.
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Right?
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And that came because of my motivation, but
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because of my discipline that I wanted.
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Once I knew it was something I wanted,
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my discipline didn't stand in the way to
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make sure that I actually got it.
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Number eight, guys, bigger perspective creates better choices.
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A bigger perspective creates bigger choices and better
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choices.
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So when you think of big, vast, right,
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you have better choices and clarity produces a
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smarter action.
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Let's think about it like this.
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If you are a small fish and you're
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in a very small pond, your possibilities are
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limited.
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But if you're a small fish in a
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huge pond, well, that changes things, right?
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It changes the ability for that fish to
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grow into that potential.
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So if you are somebody that's looking at
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small opportunities, okay, if you look at large
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opportunities, then those can actually become a reality.
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But it's how you believe.
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I think that's the most important thing.
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How you believe is how it changes and
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how it works.
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But if you don't understand that, then I
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think that's a very important thing to understand.
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If you don't understand it, then you're saying
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to myself, oh, my gosh, John, I don't
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quite get it.
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I don't know what that means.
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But it's something that you can definitely do
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in your life every single day of your
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life.
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All right, guys, let's move on to point
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number nine.
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Are you ready for point number nine?
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Okay, point number nine is a very interesting
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one.
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And the thing I want to tell you
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is that your perspective changes your reality, okay?
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So start changing it today.
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Number nine is temporary discomfort is not final
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truth.
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It's not the final outcome.
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Just because it hurts or it's a little
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discomforting, it's usually not painful.
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It's just a little bit uncomfortable, right?
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It doesn't be your end all.
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And it doesn't mean that it lasts.
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If you ever had your wisdom tooth pulled
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or a tooth pulled, and, you know, that
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feeling, that discomfort was with you for a
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few days to a week.
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But then it went away, and it wasn't
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a pain.
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It was just a discomfort.
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The best way I can describe it is
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if you ever burnt your mouth.
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I don't want you to do that.
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But if you ever did, it feels funny.
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It feels different inside.
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And that feeling is uncomfortable, but it's not
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painful.
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And so where the uncomfort lies is where
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success starts to breed.
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I think that's important for us all to
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learn.
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Number 10, guys, stop shrinking to fit the
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moment.
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You were not built to stay small, okay?
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You were not built to stay small.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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to acknowledge is that whole moment, right?
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Is stop shrinking to fit the moment.
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You were not built to stay small and
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don't stay small.
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That's really, really important, guys.
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I mean, really important for you to understand.
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And if you understand that, then you'll start
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expanding.
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And the more that you expand, the more
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the things around you will expand.
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So when you get put into a small
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environment, you're limited.
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When you get put into a large environment,
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your capabilities grow.
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Number 11, guys, protect your mental horizon.
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What you allow into your mind shapes your
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direction, okay?
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And that's a key point that a lot
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of people miss, how it shapes our direction.
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It might not be immediately, but it does
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happen.
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Number 12, guys, choose perspective over panic.
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Control your thinking and you control your response.
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Learn to control your thinking because when we
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are controlled, we can make better decisions, better
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choices, and have a better outcome and therefore
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lead more optimally to success.
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Number 13, guys, think from the future backward.
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Act like the version of you that already
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succeeded.
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I already have all the things I need
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and I'm looking back from that point.
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And when we can see things as a
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repeat, it changes our entire life.
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It changes our entire perspective, all right?
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That's a real important one to think about
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because if we know this is possible, then
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we know that our life can change almost
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on a dime.
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Now, I'm not going to say that you're
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going to get the results overnight.
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I'm not going to say that to you.
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Definitely not going to say that to you.
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But what I am going to say to
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you is that if you are persistent, okay,
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what you persist will continue, all right?
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But if you give up too early, you
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could miss that opportunity.
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That's a real important one.
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So think backward as if you already have
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something and then, you know, refer to that
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as already having it.
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Your body gets confused and doesn't know whether
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you have it or not and therefore, it
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expects it.
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Number 14, guys, live from principle, not pressure.
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Too many people I talk to, regardless of
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their age or their job title or function
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or role in life, they're all thinking from
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pressure because that's how corporate America has taught
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them.
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Corporate America has taught people that everything is
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about the dollar, but it's not about the
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value.
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It's not about the service.
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It's not about the product.
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It's about how much money we can squeeze
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out of people by eliciting the least amount
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of values and accountability as possible every time.
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I'm not saying everybody does this, but I'm
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saying that it's the way a lot of
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publicly traded companies operate today.
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And this is what's kind of hurting corporate
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America.
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You know, we think of companies like the
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ones I own.
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They're not large, you know, 10 million employee
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companies.
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But I like that because we're about value.
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We're about truth.
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We're about accountability.
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Where you go to a lot of these
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people and your concept gets lost in the
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wind, just being honest.
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Number 15, keep your eyes above the nose.
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Huh?
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What do you mean, John?
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I'm talking about distraction destroys direction.
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When you've got a distraction, it's going to
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interrupt your progress.
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And then you're going to lose hope.
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You're going to lose the thought that the
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potential is even possible.
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When the potential is even more than possible,
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it's just that you have to believe in
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yourself.
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That's really key, guys.
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Number 16, vision makes the discomfort of the
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pain lighter.
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And it really does.
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Purpose changes how you experience the struggle that
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you are going through.
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What do I mean by that?
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Whether it's academics, whether it's sports.
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When you know why you're doing this or
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why you want to lose the weight or
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why you want to gain your degree, when
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you know the why, it makes the challenge
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that much more fun and more meaningful that
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you've got to achieve it.
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Number 17, think in decades, act today.
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Long-term thinking creates the short-term discipline.
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Let me say that again.
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Think in decades, act today.
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Long-term thinking will create the short-term
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discipline, which will last decades.
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But too many people are saying to me,
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John, well, you know, I did this for
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one day, two days, three days, 47 days,
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I did it for 14 days, but I
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didn't see anything.
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Okay, so now I'm going to stop.
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Well, why are you going to stop?
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Because I'm not seeing anything.
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But you just started.
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You've only been doing this a month.
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You've only been doing this a week.
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You've only been doing this three days.
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The human mind and body gets very, how
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can I say, finicky with the fact that
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it has not seen an ROI or results.
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Do the act and keep doing it until
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it becomes a habit.
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When you forget that it's a habit and
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you keep doing it, that's when the results
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start to pay off.
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When you keep saying, oh my gosh, is
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it working yet?
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Has it become a habit yet?
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When it's become a habit and you just
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do it and something pops up, oh, that
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good habit made a change for me.
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Number 18, elevation changes your interpretation.
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What once looked like failure becomes feedback.
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Feedback allows us to change the courses that
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we take and change the direction.
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Feedback from a GPS, we're going the wrong
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way?
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Please make a legal U-turn as soon
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as possible.
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Or rerouting at the next traffic light, make
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a right.
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Then make the left onto Mountain Street.
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You get the idea.
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So, it gets you back on track.
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I think sometimes when we don't have a
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definitive way to get back on track, we're
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lost.
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And the difference between being lost, knowing you're
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lost, and getting away back is a big
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difference.
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So, if you're lost and you don't know
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how to get information or how to get
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back, you may stay lost for a very
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long time.
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There's another kind of loss where you think
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you know where you're going, but you're actually
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lost and you get more lost by the
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moment.
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When you know you're lost and you have
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a plan to get back on track, that's
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when success happens.
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Number 19, do not, do not, do not,
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do not, do not let the low moment
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define the whole story in your life.
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Let me say that again.
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Do not let the low moment or moments
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define the whole story in your life because
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they are not.
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They are nearly a chapter.
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That one chapter is not your ending.
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It is one part of your life.
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One chapter.
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Somebody has a bad chapter and they're like,
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oh, I'm done with life.
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When you hopefully read my book later on,
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you're going to see the challenges I went
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through and how these challenges for me were
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not just things I had to do, but
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things that really resonated with me and they
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caused me to change my entire trajectory of
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where I was going or I would not
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be where I am today.
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That's the important thing.
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You know, I didn't have a podcast or
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several podcast shows 14 years ago.
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Didn't have it.
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I had a little tiny radio show.
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Very tiny.
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And one of the challenges, I didn't talk
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about in my book, I had somebody actually
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pay money for my spot.
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And when the station found that my spot
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was worth so much money, they took me
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off the air.
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I'd never work with that station again.
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And their attitude was, John, you're too good
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to not catch on.
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You'll do great.
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And they were right.
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But hitting me below the belt, that wasn't
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the way you build a bridge.
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It's the way you break one.
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A wise person once said to me, John,
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you know, you may not know how to
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build the bridge in life.
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And that's okay.
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Let the bridge be built for you.
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When it happens, proudly and gratefully walk across
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that bridge.
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That's what our subconscious will do.
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When we put the idea in our subconscious,
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the bridge and the circumstances will come into
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exact alignment for us to walk across that
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bridge.
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With that element of gratitude, humbleness, being proud.
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Number 20, guys, learn to train your mind
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upward.
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Growth is not automatic.
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It is intentional.
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So growth doesn't happen because you just want
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it.
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Growth has to happen because you have said,
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this aligns with my core values.
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Now, maybe you haven't said those words directly,
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but that's why your growth happens.
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It's because it aligns with your core values.
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Those are the things that you hold so
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near and dear to your heart, that you
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live your life for.
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There, what gives your why?
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It's loudness.
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And when I need loudness, I don't mean
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being loud.
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I mean, giving it the value, giving it
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you the motivation, giving you the nudges that,
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hey, I got to stick with this.
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When I had my broken tib and fib,
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it was an easy time.
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I'm not going to reveal the whole thing
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here, but being able to do that day
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in and day out, and it was only
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a few months of discomfort.
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And also, I talked about how I felt,
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how others felt, and how that whole thing
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changed my life.
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You're definitely going to want to read that
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book.
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Number 21, wider perspective reduces fear.
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Clarity replaces anxiety.
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It does, guys.
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Clarity will replace anxiety time in and time
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out.
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But too many people don't sit around to
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get clarity.
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They're like, oh, it doesn't make sense.
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So we're just going to stop.
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Stop what?
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Well, I don't understand.
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So we're just going to stop.
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So because you don't understand something, you're going
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to give up.
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Well, I'm not giving up.
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I'm stopping.
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Well, let me lighten you up here.
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If you stop with no intention of going
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back, you've quit it.
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And I know we're not quitters here, but
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I know the circumstances might drive us to
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quit.
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So we might need to take a pause
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in our life.
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We might need to step back.
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But don't you dare quit.
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I'm telling you right now.
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Because there's so much out there for you
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to have if you just believe.
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Number 22, guys, set your attention where growth
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lives.
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What you focus on expands.
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What you focus on expands.
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Just like the concept of our thoughts create
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our reality.
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What we focus on, the thoughts that we
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focus on, whatever we focus on, that's where
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the energy flows to.
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There's always going to be people in your
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life, they're going to be like, oh, I
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don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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But you need to stay on your course.
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I don't care if it's raining.
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I don't care if it's snowing.
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You get my point.
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I don't care what excuse gets thrown your
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way.
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I don't care if you break a leg.
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I don't care if you get injured in
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other ways.
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I don't care if you have a cold
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or what it is that you have.
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That is a minor setback and excuse to
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not allow you to go forward.
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I did all these things while I had
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my broken tib and fib.
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I didn't allow that tib and fib to
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get in the way of what I wanted
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to get done in life.
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It was a little bit harder.
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It was more challenging.
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People thought I was nuts, but guys, I
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persevered.
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I got through it and it changed my
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life.
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Did I know that 12, 14 years later,
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I was going to write a book about
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me breaking my tib and fib and how
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that whole experience changed my life?
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No, I didn't know.
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I knew that when I broke the tib
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and fib, I just know, oh my gosh,
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what am I going to do now?
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And that first moment was now what happens
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to my life.
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Like that happened, but then within 24 hours,
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I snapped out of that moment because we
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all like, oh my gosh, now what do
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I do?
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What do I do?
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What do I do?
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Again, I'm not telling you the whole book,
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but I changed.
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First, it seemed like a subtle shift and
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then it was like a big light went
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on and I just kept moving toward the
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bigger light and that bigger light actually helped
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me change my trajectory.
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Number 23, guys, refuse the gravity of negativity.
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I know negativity is heavy and it can
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weigh you down.
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You're not required to stay low.
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No, negative people in situations and circumstances, they're
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everywhere.
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So we have to be filters.
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We have to block those things.
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We have to keep those things that are
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draining our energy away.
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Like I talked before about people, good people
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that you're around.
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You feel like your energy is kind of
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recharged.
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Those are the people you want to be
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with and usually they will find that you
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charge them as well.
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But if you're around somebody and they're taking
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your energy, they might be the nicest people
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in the world, but they're draining your energy.
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It's actually taking your cup.
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So you can't be full.
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So you can't have the success you want
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because your cup's never full.
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And if your cup is never full, you
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can never help yourself.
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And if you can't help yourself, you cannot
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even begin to want to help other people.
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If you want to, you won't have the
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strength or the energy.
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Number 24, high standards require high thinking.
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You cannot build big with small beliefs, right?
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Let's take Disney for a moment, right?
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Disney could not build big on its beliefs
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if it didn't believe that it could.
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That's a very important one, guys.
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Very important one, very important one.
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Number 25, mental elevation creates emotional stability and
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it creates this inner sense of calmness.
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So why wouldn't we want to elevate ourselves
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up to the highest level, to the highest
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standard?
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Number 26, guys, choose what lasts.
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Temporary wins do not build permanent success.
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They don't.
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They usually wind up taking things from you
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and they don't allow you to grow.
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Number 27, let meaning outrank the mood all
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the time.
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Discipline beats emotion every single time.
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Thought leadership starts inside the mind and body.
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Before you lead others, you must lead your
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own thinking first.
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Like I said, you've got to have that
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cup for yourself full.
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If you don't, you can never begin to
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help others.
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That's important, guys.
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You lead others.
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You must lead your own thinking first.
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Number 29, see from above, not below.
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Distance creates power and clarity.
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It creates power and it creates clarity.
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So by us being removed from a situation,
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we're able to get a different perspective on
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something.
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And when something happens like that, usually we
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will get a retuning to be clear on
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the objective.
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Think higher than the moment, guys.
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Your future depends on your perspective and you
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create it every single day.
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If this spoke to you guys, here is
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your next move.
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Stop reacting to what is happening right now.
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Start thinking about what you are going to
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do.
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Because the truth is, you do not rise
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by fixing every problem.
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You rise by outgrowing the level of thinking
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that created them.
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The moment you think bigger than the moment
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you are in, you take back your power.
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You gain clarity, you regain control, and you
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stop into this new way and become a
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version of yourself that is no longer limited
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by what is in front of you.
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You're not stuck.
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You're just thinking too small for where you
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are meant to go.
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For more insights, inspirations, and strategies to elevate
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your life, visit BelieveMeAchieve.com, guys.
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And start becoming the you you've always wanted
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to be.
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Take care, everyone.