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Momentum Spiral: How to Stop Waiting and Start Becoming · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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  Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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  I'm your host, Jon Street,
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  Welcome back to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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  I'm Jon Street, mindset coach, speaker,
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  author of Revolution of Purpose,
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  and someone who is passionate
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  about helping people identify their purpose,
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  ignite their transformation, and implement their vision.
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  Today, I want to share with you something
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  that I think is very exciting.
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  It is a new principle that I've discovered
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  that will help you get unstuck
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  and move forward with consistency.
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  And I'm calling this the momentum spiral,
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  the missing piece of be, do, have.
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  I talked about this a little bit on the last solo show,
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  but I've really been digging down deep into this
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  over this last week.
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  And I've realized, even though I've taught the concepts
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  of be, do, have for years,
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  there are so many people that I know that get stuck in this
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  and they get stuck in that becoming.
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  They get stuck in the initial part of be, do, have.
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  So if you're not familiar with the concept,
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  it's very, very famous in personal development work.
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  But be, do, have says that first you become the person
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  that is your goal-achieved self,
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  and then you will naturally start to do the things
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  that that person does,
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  and then you'll have the things that that person has.
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  It's taught on like a linear be, then do, then have.
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  And in fact, if you've listened to this podcast
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  for any length of time,
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  you've heard me say that who you are determines what you do
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  and what you do determines what you have.
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  And that is absolutely true.
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  I absolutely believe that.
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  But the more I study this, the more I'm learning
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  that there are a lot of different teachers out there.
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  Some who are identifying identity as the major key
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  to change.
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  Some identify mindset, thinking your way there.
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  Some emphasize action and how important action is.
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  Some teachers are out there emphasizing self-image
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  and how that self-image is the thing
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  that's gonna change your life.
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  There are other teachers out there emphasizing faith
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  and some emphasizing habits.
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  Some are out there saying,
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  just think your way to a new self.
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  And some are out there saying, no, just do it.
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  You've got to start doing the things.
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  And what I'm realizing is all of these different voices
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  are not actually disagreeing with one another.
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  They're just describing different parts
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  of the same process.
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  What if be, do, have is not some straight line?
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  What if it is not some linear time thing
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  that we're looking at?
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  What if be, do, have is part of a spiral?
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  What if identity, action, and results
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  are constantly creating identity, action, and results?
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  And what if understanding that could explain
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  why some people transform their lives
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  while others stay stuck for years?
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  Today, I wanna share with you what I am calling
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  the principle of directional momentum.
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  And the model that illustrates it is the momentum spiral.
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  Let's dive in.
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  One of the biggest traps that we see
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  in personal development is waiting.
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  People want to wait until we feel ready.
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  Wait until we're thinking like we're ready.
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  Wait until we feel confident.
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  Wait until we think confident.
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  Wait until we feel like the person that is doing the thing.
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  And we've all done that.
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  We do this in different areas of our life,
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  whether we realize it or not.
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  I'll start the business when I feel like an entrepreneur.
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  I'll write the book when I feel like a writer.
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  I'll get healthy when I feel like a healthy person.
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  The problem is that many identities
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  are formed through action.
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  Not before action, but after action.
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  Let me break this down with a pretty simple example.
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  Let's talk about learning to swim.
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  You don't become a swimmer by reading books
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  about learning to swim.
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  You don't become a swimmer
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  by watching YouTube videos about swimming.
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  You don't even become a swimmer
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  by saying affirmations that you are a swimmer.
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  Now, at some point, you get in the water.
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  At some point, either someone teaches you lessons
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  or you start getting in there
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  and moving your arms and moving your legs.
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  And when you get in the water,
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  you start to gather evidence.
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  You start to float.
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  You start to kick.
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  You start to move forward.
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  And eventually, your mind says,
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  okay, okay, maybe I'm becoming a swimmer.
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  The identity of becoming a swimmer
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  is following the evidence of your action.
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  We cannot just think our way to our new identity.
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  We can't just feel our way to our new identity.
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  As I said in the last solo show,
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  being of be, do, have is an action verb.
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  And there's even more to that.
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  There has to be a do before you get to the be.
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  There has to be action
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  that helps you get to that new becoming,
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  to that new identity.
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  This reminds me of something
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  that James Clear teaches in Atomic Habits.
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  Really wonderful book.
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  And in that book, he says,
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  every action you take is a vote
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  for the type of person you wish to become.
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  Think about that.
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  He's not saying every thought,
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  but every action is a vote.
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  One action does not create identity,
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  but repeated actions create evidence.
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  And that evidence creates belief,
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  and that belief creates identity.
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  James Clear is describing a key component
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  of this momentum spiral,
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  that action influences your identity.
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  You can't just think about becoming a swimmer.
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  You can't just meditate about becoming a swimmer.
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  I love meditation.
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  I love visualization.
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  It is absolutely huge,
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  but it is just an additional component to that becoming.
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  If you don't take any action along with it,
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  then all you're gonna be is someone
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  that wishes they could be a swimmer.
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  You have to get in the water.
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  Now let's talk about a different group
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  of teachers out there.
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  These are the action-oriented crowd.
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  These are the athletes, the coaches,
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  the Navy SEALs, the just do it people.
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  These are the people like Mel Robbins,
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  or people like many of the elite athletic coaches,
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  people who say, take that first step.
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  Just do it.
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  Just start before you're ready.
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  Action creates clarity.
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  And for years, I thought that this sounded different
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  from the identity-based teachings,
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  but now I think they're describing another part
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  of the same spiral.
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  The Jim Rohns of the world who are out there saying,
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  get up every morning at 5 a.m. and win your day.
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  These are important teachings.
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  These are teachings that absolutely, you know,
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  inspire me to want to get up early and win my day.
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  But they're not different than the mindset teachings
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  of Bob Proctors and others who say,
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  well, no, first you've got to envision your day.
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  They're just saying a different part of the same spiral
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  because action really does create clarity.
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  Action creates evidence.
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  Action creates feedback.
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  Action creates learning.
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  Action creates confidence.
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  It's not the other way around.
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  You don't become confident and then act.
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  Often you act and then you get the confidence.
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  The confidence follows your action.
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  Think about leadership for that matter.
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  John Maxwell often says that leadership
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  is something that's developed, that's not granted.
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  Nobody wakes up one day and they feel like a leader,
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  but they begin leading.
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  They make mistakes.
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  They learn from their mistakes.
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  They influence people and eventually
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  they develop that leadership identity.
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  Action precedes identity.
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  The identity strengthens future action
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  and the spiral just continues and continues and continues.
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  And you may say, well, John,
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  when we're talking about action,
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  what about the times that things don't go well?
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  Or what about the times when things mess up?
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  That's all part of the spiral.
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  That's all part of the universe
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  making you become the person you want to be.
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  By taking action and then failing miserably,
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  you're learning and then you get up
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  and realize I never failed because you never fail.
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  Everything is happening for you.
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  Nothing's happening to you.
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  And so you're going through this spiral of momentum again
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  and you get to control which way the spiral goes.
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  You're always in this momentum spiral.
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  So if you take an action and it doesn't go well,
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  and then all of a sudden you start saying,
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  well, then I'm not that person.
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  I'm not the person that can do this.
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  I can't do this.
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  What was I thinking?
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  And you get into fear,
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  then you're still in a momentum spiral.
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  It's just, you're spiraling out of control.
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  You're spiraling into depression.
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  You're spiraling to guilt and into shame.
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  But if you take that setback and you say,
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  yeah, it knocked me down and that was horrible,
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  but it's like that Chamba Wamba song.
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  I get knocked down, but I get up again.
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  You're never gonna keep me down.
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  Then that momentum continues to build.
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  What can I learn from this and how can I move forward?
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  And that's how this momentum spiral continues
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  to work for you and getting you to your goal achieved life
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  instead of working against you.
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  And so here's where Maxwell Maltz enters the conversation.
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  Because I wanna talk to you a little bit
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  about image and the feedback loop.
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  In Psycho-Cybernetics, Maltz taught
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  that people act in accordance with their self-image.
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  And I believe he was absolutely right too.
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  Because where does self-image come from?
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  It comes from our experience.
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  It comes from our evidence.
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  It comes from our perception, our interpretation,
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  our action, our results.
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  A person who repeatedly experiences success
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  begins seeing themselves differently.
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  A person who repeatedly experiences failure often does too.
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  A self-image that influences future behavior
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  is based on how you're seeing yourself.
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  It's the behavior that creates more results.
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  The results reinforce that self-image.
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  And this really brings me to the principle
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  of directional momentum itself.
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  Every thought, every action, every identity,
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  and every result contributes momentum
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  toward a future outcome.
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  The key word here is direction
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  because the spiral is always running, always.
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  The question is never, am I in a momentum spiral?
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  The question is what direction
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  is this momentum spiral moving?
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  Is this moving toward abundance
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  or is it moving toward scarcity?
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  Is it moving toward purpose or is it moving toward apathy?
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  Is it moving toward physical health
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  or is it moving toward physical disease?
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  Is it moving toward connection or toward isolation?
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  Toward your dream life or is it moving away from it?
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  The spiral doesn't care.
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  It simply amplifies the direction
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  that you're pointing it in.
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  And you know, this really explains something
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  that I've noticed for years.
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  Success compounds, but so does discouragement.
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  One small healthy choice leads to another.
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  One workout leads to another.
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  One pound loss leads to another.
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  One encouraging result creates another action.
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  And suddenly someone is living a completely different life.
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  One small step toward a business
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  you've always wanted to do leads to a success.
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  One small step toward repairing a relationship.
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  Seeing a counselor, helping your marriage
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  leads to one other thing, one other thing.
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  And before you know it,
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  you're leading a different life of encouragement
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  that's taking you toward the area
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  that you want to go in life.
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  But then the opposite can happen too.
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  One disappointment becomes a story.
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  One story becomes a belief.
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  And then that belief becomes your identity.
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  And then that identity creates more disappointing actions.
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  And then the spiral begins moving downward.
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  It's the same principle.
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  It's the same momentum spiral.
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  It's just going in a different direction.
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  We get to harness the direction this is moving in.
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  You know, one teacher who has influenced me deeply
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  is Neville Goddard.
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  Neville taught that we must occupy the state
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  of the wish fulfilled.
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  Many people interpret this as merely thinking differently,
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  but the deeper invitation is to begin living
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  from that state.
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  Act from it.
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  Choose from it.
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  Move from it.
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  And every action taken from that state
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  strengthens the state.
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  And here again, we see this spiral.
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  Identity influencing action.
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  Action reinforcing identity.
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  And so it continues.
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  So after years of teaching Be, Do, Have,
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  here's what I've come to believe.
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  The Be, Do, Have principle is not wrong.
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  And those who teach it are spot on.
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  The action-oriented speakers of the world are not wrong.
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  They are absolutely spot on.
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  The self-image teachers in the world are not wrong.
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  The leadership teachers in the world are not wrong.
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  The habit experts are not wrong.
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  They are all correct.
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  But they are all describing a different aspect
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  of a larger process.
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  And that process that I call the momentum spiral.
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  You don't think your way into a new identity.
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  You act your way into a new identity.
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  And then that identity begins acting through you.
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  For me personally, this certainly happened
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  in my weight loss journey.
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  When I was 350 pounds, I didn't just sit there
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  and meditate about how I would look at 230 pounds.
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  I first had to believe that I could do it.
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  So I took a walk and then I took another walk
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  and then I took another walk
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  and then I started going to a gym
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  and then I hired a trainer.
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  And each result that I saw, each pound that I lost,
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  each time I showed up for myself,
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  I created more evidence that I could be
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  the person I wanted to be.
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  And that caused me to do more aligned actions.
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  And then I started to have the results,
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  which led me back into the spiral to do more things
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  that made me feel like the person I was going to be.
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  Instead of be, do, have, I was in the cycle
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  of doing the things that led to the identity.
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  And the identity caused me to do aligned actions,
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  which led to the results,
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  which caused me to do more things
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  that reinforced the identity.
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  And before you knew it, I'd lost 120 pounds.
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  The first action creates the direction.
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  And then the repeated action creates the momentum.
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  And the momentum determines where the spiral leads.
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  The question is not whether you're in the spiral.
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  You are always in a momentum spiral.
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  The question is, what direction is it moving?
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  Is it getting you toward your goal achieved life?
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  Or is it taking you back into old patterns,
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  old loops, old paradigms and ways of thinking?
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  What action will you take today
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  to begin creating momentum toward the life you truly desire?
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  I'm Jon Street,
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  and I'm so glad that you watched this episode today.
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  If it resonated with you, please like, share,
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  please subscribe, help me get this word out there
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  to help everybody know that they have a momentum spiral
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  that they can put in action towards their goals.
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  Thanks so much, and I'll see you next time.