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FIRMNESS OF PURPOSE – Stay Focused, Stay Unwavering · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Despite the great and certain worldly rewards for staying healthy
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  Speaker 1: and fit, they are not the soul, or even the
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  Speaker 1: main reason to seek and embrace the habits of good health.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest benefits to health are found in the mind
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  Speaker 1: and spirit and soul of the seeker. Being a person
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  Speaker 1: of strong character is the best prescription for a sound
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  Speaker 1: mind and a sound body. If you are a person
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  Speaker 1: of strong character, you will promise yourself that you will
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  Speaker 1: achieve your goals or what. It doesn't matter because you
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  Speaker 1: never consider that possibility. You have made a promise and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to keep it. When you set out to
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  Speaker 1: drive to the grocery store, you don't stop at the
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  Speaker 1: doorway and think what will I do if I don't
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  Speaker 1: make it. You simply intend to get to the grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're going to get there. You will get there.
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  Speaker 1: It's simply assumed. Fear is simply the inability to make
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  Speaker 1: a promise to yourself. It kicks in when you start
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  Speaker 1: thinking about all the bad things that can happen to
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  Speaker 1: you on the way to your destination, and before long
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking, wouldn't it be easier just to stay home?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it safer to just stay in bed. Isn't it
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  Speaker 1: better to pull the covers up over my head? When
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  Speaker 1: you were learning how to walk, you made a silent
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  Speaker 1: promise to yourself that you were going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It may have been scary at times. You surely stumbled
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  Speaker 1: again and again, surely fell from your eyes, but no matter,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't even think about that each time you fell.
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  Speaker 1: You forgot about it as soon as you regained your feet,
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  Speaker 1: because you had promised yourself you were going to walk
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  Speaker 1: across the room, and you did it. How long did
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  Speaker 1: it take? Who cares you did it? Ask yourself? Are
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  Speaker 1: you a person who comes to a fork in the
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  Speaker 1: road and turns right or left? Or do you stop
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  Speaker 1: the car, scratch your chin and say, well, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: go this way, and then again maybe I'll go that way,
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  Speaker 1: and in the end you go nowhere. Are you the
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  Speaker 1: kind of person who comes to a decision and puts
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  Speaker 1: it into action, or are you someone who says, well, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but then again, maybe not having to is a lot
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  Speaker 1: stronger than wanting to. But often, and especially when you're young,
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  Speaker 1: that difference isn't always clear until someone points it out
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  Speaker 1: to you. You have enough talent and intelligence to really
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  Speaker 1: accomplish a lot in life, but you just don't have
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  Speaker 1: enough reasons to make it happen. A person of truly
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  Speaker 1: strong character sees success as an adventure, not as a
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  Speaker 1: point with an estimated time of arrival. True patience is
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  Speaker 1: more than just a waiting game. Patience doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: sit around hoping for something to happen. Patience is not
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  Speaker 1: a passive quality. Sometimes patience can mean doing something else entirely,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about another venture, taking off in a different direction.
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  Speaker 1: You give events a chance to run their course. Impatient
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  Speaker 1: thinking can lead a person into some very big mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: You have to lose your life in order to find it.
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  Speaker 1: If you have your health, you have everything. Lose your health,
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  Speaker 1: and there isn't enough money in all the world to
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  Speaker 1: make life good or to make you feel like life
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  Speaker 1: is worth living. You have to lose one way of
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  Speaker 1: living in order to find a different one, one that's
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  Speaker 1: better suited to who you are at this particular time.
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  Speaker 1: But you can do that, though it takes character. You
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  Speaker 1: have to lose your life in order to find it.
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  Speaker 1: But you can lose your life and you can find
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  Speaker 1: a new one. A healthy attitude, your attitude the slant
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  Speaker 1: you put on things. The way you lean into life
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  Speaker 1: or back away from it is all part of your character.
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  Speaker 1: Good health is more than just the absence of illness.
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  Speaker 1: It's more than just not being sick. Good health is
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  Speaker 1: the direct result of right thinking and right living, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, of strong character. Anybody who does the same
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  Speaker 1: thing every day, year in and year out, with no
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  Speaker 1: break or vacation is probably in no position to even
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  Speaker 1: know whether he or she is in good shape. You
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  Speaker 1: can't know what you have until you leave it or
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  Speaker 1: lose it get something else. You just can't sharpen your
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  Speaker 1: mind like a pencil, so it comes to a fine point,
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  Speaker 1: but always gets shorter and shorter until it's worn down
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  Speaker 1: to a stub and has to be discarded. Remember, every
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  Speaker 1: dream is a vacation. Feeling right makes others feel right,
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  Speaker 1: and they in turn give back what's inside them, the
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  Speaker 1: very confidence that you give out. A patient man is
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  Speaker 1: always richer than an impatient one, even if the patient
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  Speaker 1: man has less money. A patient man is always richer
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  Speaker 1: than the impatient one because the patient man can always
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  Speaker 1: afford to wait. The patient man is never desperate. The
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  Speaker 1: patient man has time to spare, while the man in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry is always on the verge of bankruptcy is
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  Speaker 1: far as time is concerned, in any situation you can
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  Speaker 1: think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear,
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  Speaker 1: while patience is substance and strength. You should simply refuse
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  Speaker 1: to compromise. You should similarly refuse to accept pettiness or
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  Speaker 1: dishonesty or unethical behavior in any form. If your character
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  Speaker 1: is good and strong, there are certain things that you
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  Speaker 1: simply refuse to accept in yourself or in other people.
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  Speaker 1: In your work, you refuse to accept anything less than
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  Speaker 1: your best effort. That doesn't mean that things will always
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  Speaker 1: work out exactly as you hoped and intended, but that's
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  Speaker 1: not the point. So embrace your fear, take it inside yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and use it as a foundation for true courage. There
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  Speaker 1: will always be variables you can't control, but your effort
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  Speaker 1: level should always be maxed out regardless. Very few people
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  Speaker 1: are able to develop this kind of intrinsic motivation. That's
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  Speaker 1: just an axiom of human nature. Let's suppose that there's
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  Speaker 1: a vast, hugely powerful force that nobody can withstand, and
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  Speaker 1: this immense force is always active and in furious motion.
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  Speaker 1: It never rests. It's like a slowly flowing river that
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  Speaker 1: can eventually carve the Grand Canyon out of solid rock. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in trying to achieve your life's goals, prefer to fight
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  Speaker 1: against this great force? Would you want to struggle against
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  Speaker 1: this mighty power that has all the odds overwhelmingly in
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  Speaker 1: its favor, or would you rather enlist this great power
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  Speaker 1: in your cause and make the inevitable work for you
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  Speaker 1: instead of against you. By the way, time is that
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  Speaker 1: great power I'm talking about. History proves that time is
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  Speaker 1: the strongest ally you can possibly have, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: the odds against you or the level of adversity you're facing.
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  Speaker 1: Time gives strength to those who have it on their side.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you ever choose to fight time when you
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  Speaker 1: could have time on your side? Who wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: harness the great river of time that flows through all
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  Speaker 1: of life to understand