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How to Really Get Your Wife’s Attention Back | The Warrior Kings Podcast Ep.105 · The Warrior Kings Podcast : Men's Self Help Masculinity Podcast

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  I used to be the guy who made a big deal about everything.
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  I let my emotions control my life.
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  I was a nightmare to communicate with.
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  I thought I was doing everything right.
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  And in the end, when my life fell apart, I realized something
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  critical. I wasn't acting like a man.
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  Once I learned what it means to be a man and how to effectively
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  communicate with women, my entire life changed.
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  Now I'm in the marriage of my dreams with the woman of my
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  dreams, living the life of my dreams.
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  But what most men don't understand about that is that
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  that had to start with me. Things weren't going to change
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  until I changed. If it's your first time here, my
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  name is Michael Riggs. I'm a full time author,
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  entrepreneur, men's personal development and marriage mentor,
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  husband and father of six. And I teach men all over the
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  world how to live fully optimized, leveled up lives.
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  So if that's something you're into, definitely stick around.
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  Subscribe to this podcast, subscribe to this channel,
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  wherever you're getting this because this is what I do here
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  every week. And today I'm going to be
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  talking about one simple practice that has the power to
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  transform form every aspect of your life and level up your
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  marriage like you didn't even know was possible.
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  Stick around. Hello and welcome to the Warrior
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  Kings podcast. I'm your host, Michael Riggs
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  here to assist you on your journey to living a fully
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  optimized, leveled up life as a man.
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  So again, welcome and welcome back to the Warrior Kings.
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  This is episode 3 in my new marriage series.
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  So if you missed the 1st 2 episodes, lots of critical
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  information in those. So definitely go back and listen
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  to those after this one because this is just one Part 1 aspect
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  of the whole that makes up how to have a happy, thriving
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  marriage and how to be the best husband that you can be.
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  And this is going to be a five part series.
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  So over the next two weeks, we will be continuing on with this
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  series. Yeah, 4th of July weekend.
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  It's the 250th birthday of the nation.
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  Totally crazy. Last night when I'm recording
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  this last night was the 4th of July celebration.
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  And it was just a big deal and a lot of positivity.
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  It felt really good. So I hope you had a good time.
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  I hope you are well, wherever you're getting this.
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  Hopefully you're not too tired from the weekend.
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  And if you're listening to this later on, it was the 4th of July
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  when I recorded this. But with all that being said,
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  let's dive right into the episode.
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  And the first thing that I want to talk about is why men stop
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  listening, which is also the topic of this episode, is the
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  importance of listening and listening to your wife
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  effectively. The thing about us as men is
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  we're kind of wired to decide what information is practically
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  useful and what information isn't.
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  And that information that we deem as not practically useful,
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  again, we kind of unconsciously train ourselves to decide what
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  information is practically useful and what information
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  isn't. And we find ourselves just not
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  listening at all. And women process communication
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  through feelings and through connection.
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  Women want to be heard. They want to feel like they're
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  being understood. They want to feel like they're
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  being cared for by your attentiveness to them and what
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  they're saying. So let's say, for example, your
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  wife is yapping about the mundane everyday life.
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  She might be talking talking about what Susie is going to
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  wear to the baby shower, and she might be talking about the
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  errands that she had to run earlier or just talking about
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  the regular business of life and the regular business of the day.
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  And so that might cue you that she's just yapping about
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  mundane, regular, everyday things.
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  And so you put your mind and your attention on something that
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  you feel like is more important. And then you miss the part where
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  she mentions the important appointment on Saturday.
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  And then when Saturday comes, you might have been here before.
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  It's a complete shocker that there's something really
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  important to do that day. And she might tell you, I told
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  you back on Tuesday, what do you mean?
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  You had no idea that this thing was coming.
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  This not listening kind of naturally happens over time.
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  We all do it. You're definitely not alone in
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  this. But it's a matter of training
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  yourself to actually listen to everything your wife is saying.
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  Because here's the thing, It might not seem like that big of
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  a deal, but it builds resentment over time.
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  If you're a married man, you probably are if you found this
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  episode and you're listening to this, but I guarantee you, you
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  have heard the phrase once or twice or many times.
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  You ever listen to me? It might not seem like that big
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  of a deal to kind of tune out sometimes the things that you
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  think aren't that important. But it's building resentment
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  over time and it's making her feel like she's not heard, that
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  she's not understood, that you don't care about what she's
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  saying. It might be if you have problems
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  in your marriage that have gotten really bad, that she's
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  just completely checked out and stopped talking to you about
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  everyday life. She just says he doesn't listen
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  to me anyways, so why even talk at all?
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  Honestly, that might be how she feels and that's why she seems
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  detached, disconnected and cold and distant and all those sorts
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  of things. If overtime you have displayed
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  to her without even meaning to that you don't care that she's
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  talking, you don't care what she has to say, she just won't talk
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  at all. She won't open up to you, she
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  won't share things with you. And that is one of the costs of
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  never listening to your wife. Wise men listen more than they
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  speak. That's why they're wise.
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  Every opportunity to listen is an opportunity to learn.
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  And if you're not listening and if you're not learning, you will
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  never be the wise man. And when it comes to not
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  listening, tuning out, you know, I made that mistake so many
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  times in the past in my relationships.
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  So I knew when I first started dating my now wife, I wanted to
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  make sure that I listen to everything she's saying.
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  I wanted to train myself to truly listen and not allow
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  myself to drift into old patterns, old mistakes.
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  So I made a point that every time she was speaking, I was
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  listening to her and I was listening attentively.
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  You know what I mean? And we were hanging out one
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  night and she was talking to me and she stopped in the middle of
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  what she was saying and realized and said, wow, you really
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  listened to me. I'm not used to that.
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  She said you actually listened to me because I was actually
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  making such a point to look her in the eyes when she was
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  speaking, respond to what she was saying appropriately,
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  letting her know that she was heard and understood by
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  gesturing and nodding my head and things like that.
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  You know, these little subtle cues to let a person know that
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  you are listening, receiving what they're saying rather than
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  checking out, thinking about something else, staring off into
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  space. You know what I mean?
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  I made a point to actually listen to her and then she
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  actually pointed it out and she's like, I'm not used to guys
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  listening to me like that And listen, that is how rare it is.
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  If you can train yourself to do this and this doesn't just go
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  for your marriage, it goes for all of the people in your life,
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  all of your relationships, your friendships, your professional
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  relationships. If you train yourself to truly
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  listen as a man, you are a rarity because that is so rare.
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  If I can be hanging out with a beautiful woman and she
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  recognizes that I'm actually listening to her and points that
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  out, that's how rare that is. Really quick.
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  Let's go through four ways that actually listening benefits your
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  marriage. And the first one is that it
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  builds trust. And when she feels like you
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  don't care about what she's saying, if she thinks that you
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  never listen, she will pull away.
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  She won't open up to you. So truly, truly listening to
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  your wife allows her to trust you.
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  She feels like she can share anything with you.
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  You are the guy who is going to listen to everything that she's
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  saying. And here's another thing, even
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  if you don't get it or it's something that you don't care
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  about, listen anyways. Allow her to feel like you care.
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  Allow her to feel, you know, it's not all about you
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  understanding it or getting it or caring about it or thinking
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  that it's exciting or cool. There are many things that women
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  talk about that we as men do not care about.
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  It's just a fact. But if you listen anyways, that
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  allows her to feel loved and understood and like you actually
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  care about what she's saying. And that's the trust aspect of
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  it. That's why she will open up and
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  share more with you instead of thinking he doesn't listen to me
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  anyway. So why even speak?
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  And the second one is almost the same thing but it's sharing.
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  The more that you listen to her, the more she will share with
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  you. That's you truly getting to know
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  her as a person. The couples who have the big
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  blow up divorces are the couples who never truly knew each other
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  in the 1st place and never took the time to learn and grow and
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  understand each other. The more open she can be with
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  you, the more she will share with you and the more you will
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  get to know her. And if you committed to spending
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  the rest of your life with this person, don't you want to truly
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  know them? The comp complexities of their
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  mind, every little thing, their history, the stories that they
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  have to tell from their life. So one moment you could be truly
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  attentively listening to some mundane, boring thing that you
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  don't care about, allowing her to feel heard and like you care
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  about what she's talking about. And then the next minute she
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  could share something really important from her internal
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  world that allows you to get to know her better and ultimately
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  makes the bond and the connection stronger.
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  Which brings me to the third thing, which is connection.
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  Truly listening to her allows her to not feel like she's doing
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  life alone. Loneliness in a marriage is one
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  of the most destructive forces to a marriage.
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  It will completely destroy a marriage.
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  Ask yourself, does your wife feel like she's doing life alone
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  because you never take the time to listen to her, to consider
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  how she feels, to see the world through her eyes?
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  Is it possible that sometimes she feels really deeply lonely
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  because she has no one to talk to?
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  And you might say something like, oh, she talks to her
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  friends all the time. She talks to her mom and her
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  sisters, and whatever it is, there's plenty of people who
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  listen to her. What I'm saying is that you're
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  supposed to be the one person that she can tell everything to.
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  She can be completely honest with that she can completely
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  open up to and share everything with.
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  And everybody needs that person. So once you start effectively
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  communicating, she will be that to you as well.
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  You can share more with her. The connection has to be there.
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  The open communication, the truly listening has to be there
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  in order for the marriage to be successful, to be happy, to be
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  thriving. One of the primary reasons
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  people have affairs is the feeling of loneliness, the
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  feeling that they're doing life alone.
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  So when somebody comes along and starts truly listening to them,
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  making them feel loved, making them feel heard and understood
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  when at home, they feel like nobody cares about anything that
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  they say, doesn't consider how they feel.
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  That's why people have affairs, that's why they cheat, is
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  because somebody is making them feel like their spouse
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  ultimately should have been making them feel.
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  And with that being said, I do not think that cheating or
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  having an affair is OK in any way.
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  I'm not like giving excuses for having affairs.
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  I'm just saying if you want to prevent something like that
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  happening, which does happen in reality, we live in the real
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  world. You want to be the person that
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  she can open up to, that she can feel loved by, that she can
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  share everything with, so she doesn't have to sneak around and
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  share everything with somebody else.
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  Her feelings, her internal world.
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  Oh, he understands me so much. I've never experienced that
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  before. He actually makes me feel like
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  he's listening to me. Do you want somebody else making
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  your wife feel like that or are you going to make the effort to
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  train yourself to actually listen so that never happens?
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  You are the one who makes her feel loved.
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  The fourth thing is getting the details right.
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  You're not missing anything. You know when the appointments
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  are. You know to pick up almond milk
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  on the way home from work or whatever.
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  You know the things that she loves and enjoys, so you know
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  how to buy her gifts when holidays come.
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  Truly listening allows you to get everything right.
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  You understand what I'm saying and what one hack for this is.
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  Use the Notes app in your phone. Every time that she mentions
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  something. For example, every time she's
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  shopping online or scrolling on social media or something and
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  she mentions something that's like, it would be really cool to
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  have that. That would be really useful to
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  me. I wish we had this thing.
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  Take a note of it. Then you know what to gift her
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  when it's her birthday or your anniversary or a holiday comes
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  up. You have an entire running list
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  of things that you know that she wants because she told you about
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  it. Most men don't even listen, so
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  they don't even know what their wife likes when a holiday comes.
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  They're like like, I have no idea how to shop for this person
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  because basically honestly, I don't even know them.
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  Keep another note in your phone or use the calendar app.
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  When she says that something is happening or something is coming
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  up, there's a family get together or an appointment or
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  all these things, immediately put it on your calendar and then
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  set a reminder like a day or two before.
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  That way you always have the details right.
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  You always know what's going on. And this once again, allows her
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  to feel like you actually care. If every time there is a
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  responsibility, you're completely oblivious to it, that
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  plays into her feeling like you don't care.
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  And again, so why even talk at all?
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  That also plays into her feeling like she is doing life alone.
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  She says I have to manage everything and I'm not even
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  going to bother telling him because he doesn't listen
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  anyway. So I'm just going to manage
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  everything by myself. That's doing life alone.
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  That's not being a husband and wife.
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  That's not sharing life together.
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  You understand what I'm saying. Truly, truly listen to
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  everything your wife is saying. And when she says something
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  important, if what it takes is writing it down, putting a note
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  in your phone, putting it on your calendar in your phone with
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  reminders, if that's what it takes, then do that.
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  There is nothing wrong with that.
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  In fact, I bet she would even appreciate it.
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  She says, what are you doing? I'm putting a note on my
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  calendar on my phone so that I don't let this slip that in no
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  way communicates I don't care. So I have to write it down as
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  saying I really care about this. So I want to make sure I get it
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  right and it shows responsibility and I truly think
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  she would appreciate it. And I want to pause here for a
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  second because I know some of you guys are listening to this
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  and you're thinking, OK, I get all of these concepts.
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  You've been listening to this marriage series and you're like,
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  I get the concepts, but I don't really know how to implement
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  these things into my life. How do I actually train myself
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  to be a better listener? How do I train myself to be a
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  good husband? How do I retrain 10 years of bad
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  habits? That's exactly what the Reforged
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  Husband Complete system walks you through step by step in a
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  way that you can actually implement and execute.
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  Reforged Husband is an online program that I created that is
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  the fast track to learning everything that I learned,
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  everything that I know about marriage, relationships and
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  communication with women. And you might be saying hope.
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  Here it is. He's trying to sell me
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  something. Well, fine.
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  The last guy I talked to who went through the program said
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  that his wife started noticing the changes that he was making
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  after the the first lesson. So you either want the challenge
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  or you don't. And the link for that is in the
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  description of this podcast episode.
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  That's the Reforged Husband Complete System by Michael Riggs
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  that's going to put you through video lessons, reading portions,
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  exercises, and weekly challenges that you can begin implementing
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  to become the best husband that you can be right away.
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  The next thing that I want to touch on today is conflict
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  resolution and how men and women approach conflict from 2 totally
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  different psychological positions.
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  Men are usually logic driven. When something's broke, we want
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  to fix it. We want to get to the source of
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  the problem and fix it. We also want to win.
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  When there is a conflict, we want to overcome it.
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  We want to win that thing. We want to come out on top.
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  It's our nature as men. But women are emotions driven.
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  They just want to feel heard. They want to feel understood.
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  Most importantly, they want to feel loved.
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  And that might be really confusing sometimes.
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  If you're someone whose wife gets really emotionally worked
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  up, if she even sometimes raises her voice, that's her trying to
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  get you to care. And that could be really
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  confusing because you're like, how does she want to be loved
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  when she's being so chaotic? How is that looking for love?
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  But here's the thing that you need to realize that in conflict
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  as a man, it's not about being right.
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  The best thing you do when there's a disagreement or
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  there's a conflict is just listen to her and allow her to
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  feel loved, understood, seeing heard, like you actually care,
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  even if you don't understand what she's upset about or what
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  she's talking about. And when you truly listen to
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  her, you might get to the source.
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  You might realize the actual problem, the underlying thing,
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  which is usually something that has nothing to do with what
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  she's actually saying or talking about.
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  That's another little trick. Something that you need to
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  realize is that the thing that a woman is complaining about is
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  rarely the thing that she's actually upset about.
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  There's something under there. There's something hiding that if
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  you truly listen and you're attentive to her and allow her
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  to feel loved and understood, you will get to the source of
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  that thing. But as men, we make the mistake
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  of trying to go into fix it mode or going into one upping mode
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  because we either want to fix the problem, fix her, or we want
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  to win the argument. Those are those are the only two
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  paths that men usually take. The third path, the alternate
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  path, the one that actually works is just listening,
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  allowing her to feel heard, loved and understood.
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  And the worst thing that can happen in a conflict is what I
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  call the one upping trap. So she says something that
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  finally pushes your buttons, and then you say something back
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  that's a little bit meaner, and then she says something just to
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  get back at you. And you were wanting to win at
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  this moment, so you say something back again and it just
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  goes back and forth. That is what I called the one
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  upping trap. Each person is trying to one up
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  the other person until it just gets way out of hand.
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  And you have said way more things than you ever should have
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  that you're definitely going to regret later.
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  Before that even happens, realize that whatever you're
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  going to say is probably stupid and not even true and should
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  just never even be said. So you might ask, how do I
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  accomplish that? How do I stop an argument in its
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  tracks before it even happens? What do I do when she says
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  something that actually pushes my buttons?
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  Well, for one thing, don't be a wuss.
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  Be unmovable and be unshakable. Nothing can hurt your feelings
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  or piss you off too much. Remind yourself that you love
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  her, respect her, and want what's best for her so you're
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  not going to lash out at her. And the most effective way to
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  end a disagreement or a conflict is just to shut up and actually
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  listen to what she's saying. Allow her to feel heard,
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  understood, and loved. Then there's nothing for her to
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  battle against because ultimately that is what she's
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  battling for. If she is fighting you, If she's
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  even escalating, which I'm not saying is OK, but it does
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  happen, If she is escalating, that is her trying to get your
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  attention on the the fact that she wants you to understand.
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  She wants to feel loved and heard.
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  That's what it really comes down to.
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  It's not that she's trying to get you to understand whatever
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  she's ranting and raving about, no matter how ridiculous it
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  might seem, she's trying to feel that you actually care.
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  So when you actually start listening and responding to her
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  appropriately and saying I can see how you feel like that,
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  things like that, that allow her to know that you actually care
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  about what she's saying, that's when she feels safe.
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  That's another thing, feeling safe.
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  Women want to feel safe, so when you are actually listening and
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  receiving what she's saying, there's nothing left for her to
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  battle for. She has you, she has your
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  attention, she knows that you love her.
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  So remember this mantra. I love her, I respect her, I
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  want what's best for her. Every time that something annoys
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  you, pisses you off, pushes your buttons, stop right there and
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  repeat to yourself in your head. I love her, I respect her, I
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  want what's best for her. Remind yourself to listen more
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  than you speak and then just do that.
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  I'm telling you right now, dude, this has the power to transform
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  everything in your marriage. Truly listening to your wife is
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  going to level up your marriage. That might be like the number
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  one thing that changes everything.
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  When I teach this to guys and they actually start implementing
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  it in their lives, just simply listening to their wives, it's
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  like, wow, why didn't I do this before?
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  This has completely changed everything.
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  So please take this seriously. I might sound like I'm just
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  going on and on about a really basic thing, but I can't stress
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  the importance of this enough. Now, let's use an example.
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  Say there's a couple, their names are Bob and Jen.
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  Bob comes home late from work. He's a little bit later than
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  usual. And this has happened a few
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  times, which has been kind of perturbing his wife.
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  And when he comes in, she's sitting at the table with the
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  dinner that's been sitting there getting cold, and she's been
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  building resentment. It's been spinning in her mind.
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  And the first opening line, the first thing as she says to him,
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  is a jab, just to get his attention, just to get at him,
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  to poke at his buttons, you know what I mean?
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  Now, Bob has two options here. Either he can lash back and say
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  something stupid and fall into the one upping trap, which just
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  escalates until one person is sleeping on the couch and one
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  person sleeping in the bed, and then they both feel stupid in
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  the morning. Or he could stop, go and sit
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  down at the table with her, remind himself I love her, I
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  respect her, I want what's best for her, say hey, I'm sorry I'm
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  late, how are you? What's going on?
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  And if she continues on expressing herself, Bob just
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  listens. He just sits, he's calm, he's
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  composed, and he listens. He didn't let that jab get to
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  him. Even though it might have made
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  him feel a little bit pissed off inside.
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  Even though he felt like lashing back and starting an argument,
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  he didn't. Those are the two options that
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  Bob had. Either have a really crappy
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  night and just keep these marriage problems going, or just
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  sit down, listen, and resolve the issue before bedtime.
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  Arguing in conflict is stupid and it can go on for hours and
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  it it just gets Dumber and Dumber and never gets more
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  constructive. Rarely ever does anybody come
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  out of a heated argument better than they went into it.
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  That's not effective communication.
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  It's just stupid. So that's another thing.
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  Just remind yourself that conflict is stupid.
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  Say I'm not doing this anymore. Say I don't think we should be
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  talking to each other like this anymore.
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  Let's sit down like adult people and talk about it and let me
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  just truly listen to how you feel.
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  Because here's the thing, When Bob sits down at the table with
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  Jen and just truly listens to her, likely she would open up
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  and share more with him and feel loved.
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  And then he would realize that it's not really about that he
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  was coming home a little bit late for work.
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  And it's actually much deeper than that.
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  There was actually way more going on in her mind.
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  And he gets to truly know her and understand her and they come
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  to a real constructive conclusion together.
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  Doesn't that sound way better? And another thing I wanted to
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  touch on today is the difference between big picture issues and
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  in the moment conflicts. Men often look at the big
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  picture. We kind of keep a running tab of
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  everything. There's this big picture that
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  all comes together to be this one big thing.
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  Women, however, when they're in conflict or when they're upset
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  about something, they feel how they feel in that moment.
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  There is no big picture other than the thing that's happening
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  right now, like how she feels right now and how she feels can
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  change at any moment. But sometimes there are big
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  picture issues, and these are the ones that are critical for
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  you to pay attention. They're the things that she
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  mentions multiple times. She can recall exact dates like
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  this happened last Tuesday or whatever.
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  That's a good clue that it is a big picture issue, and the big
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  picture issues are the ones that build resentment.
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  So you can kind of figure out the difference, like is this
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  something that she's upset about right now or is this a big
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  picture issue that I really need to pay attention to and change
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  before it's too late? You can tell the difference when
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  she starts citing specific events or past dates when things
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  happened. Big picture issues are the
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  source of deep resentment. These are the things that when
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  you realize what they are, they require your immediate
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  attention. So if she mentions something,
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  something upsets her all the time, she's mentioned it
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  multiple times. Pay strict attention into that
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  and do your best to change that thing because the point that I
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  want to make here is that women often don't do that.
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  There isn't like a big picture where they're keeping a tab, a
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  running tab of every wrong that all comes together to be this
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  one whole thing. Usually what they're upset about
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  is how they feel right then. It's something that's very
• 22:34
  recent. But if there is something that
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  is an ongoing thing, that's different, and that's why you
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  should pay attention to that. That's something that is
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  building true resentment over time and quietly eroding your
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  marriage. Even if you think that it's not
• 22:47
  that serious, even if you think it's this dumb trivial thing,
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  that's not that big of a deal. If she's mentioning it over and
• 22:53
  over and over again, it is a bigger deal than you even
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  realize. So pay attention to that.
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  So have control of yourself. Have control over your life.
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  Be like a wise king, not a puppy dog.
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  Puppy dogs react to everything. Squirrel, you know what I mean?
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  Don't be like a puppy dog. Have control over yourself.
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  Don't lash out. Don't lash back.
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  Truly listen. Train yourself to truly listen.
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  You remember back towards the beginning of the episode, I
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  pointed out that if you can train yourself to truly listen,
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  you're a rare man. That is rare for men.
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  People will appreciate that. Your wife will appreciate that.
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  Just like my wife said when I first started seeing her.
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  They will feel like this guy truly listens to me.
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  I'm not used to that. Why is kings listen more than
• 23:35
  they speak? Are you leading your life like a
• 23:37
  wise king or like a fool? Remember, wise men listen more
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  than they speak. That's why they're wise.
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  Every opportunity to listen is an opportunity to learn.
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  And if you are not listening, ultimately you are not learning.
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  And if you are not learning, you will never be the wise man.
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  Now, if this opened your eyes at all and you want to go all the
• 23:55
  way, you, you're saying to yourself, I want to be the best
• 23:57
  possible husband that I can be. I want the full transformation.
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  Don't forget to go check out the Reforged Husband Complete System
• 24:04
  and the description of this podcast episode.
• 24:06
  And on the next episode of this series, we're getting into the
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  stuff most men forget, but their wives never stop thinking about.
• 24:14
  We're going to get into how you can actually reconnect with your
• 24:17
  wife, how to make her feel seen, beautiful and desired, and how
• 24:21
  to bring the intimacy back. But that's what I got for you
• 24:24
  guys today. I hope you got something out of
• 24:26
  this episode. I hope I was effective in
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  teaching you this material today.
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  I realized about halfway through that I was feeling a little bit
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  off, you know, but I really hope you got something out of this.
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  I I hope that this helped you and benefited you in your life
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  and in your marriage to get you one step closer to being the
• 24:42
  best husband that you can be for your wife.
• 24:44
  Because listen man, your marriage deserves you being your
• 24:48
  best self. That's really what it comes down
• 24:50
  to. Like I said, when my life was a
• 24:52
  mess, when my life fell apart, when I had no idea what I was
• 24:55
  doing, I had two options. Either I could keep doing that
• 24:58
  or I could level up and I chose to level up.
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  Now I'm living my dream life with my dream wife.
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  We have 4 awesome kids together. Life just keeps getting better
• 25:06
  and better, but that had to start with me.
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  I had to transform. I had to level up myself.
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  I had to look within and say, hey dude, what is wrong here?
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  What do we need to figure out? What do we need to fix?
• 25:18
  Because you can't fix your life by trying to fix everything
• 25:21
  that's external. You can only fix your life by
• 25:23
  fixing yourself. That's just a fact.
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  But as always, thank you so much for watching and listening
• 25:29
  today. I love you, I'm proud of you.
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  There is a great calling and a purpose for you in this life.
• 25:34
  You listening to this right now. A life of overflowing abundance
• 25:37
  awaits you on the other side of you deciding to make the switch,
• 25:40
  make the change a level up every aspect of your life.
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  A life of overflowing abundance away to you.
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  I love you. I'm proud of you.
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  Get out there, kill it. Have a good week and I'll catch
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  you on the next one. Thanks guys.
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  Bye.