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#156 - What Does Success Mean to You? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So what does success mean to you? Are you a person that is driven by success?
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  Is that determining your own happiness, whether you achieve it or not?
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  We're gonna take a look at this. I'm gonna break it down as much as I can, humanly possible.
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  And we're also gonna take a look at Kevin O'Leary sat down with Stephen Bartlett
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  on A Diary of a CEO and they discussed a lot of things, but I wanted to specifically
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  focus in on, zoom in on when he brings up entrepreneurship.
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  And if you're familiar with Kevin O'Leary, he's on Shark Tank.
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  He's on a number of different things.
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  Goes by the name Mr. Wonderful. How I would like to have that name be applied
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  to me. But, you know, we all have our crosses to bear.
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  We're going to skip over to this. And I'm also going to, I might,
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  you might get a little dizzy today because I might try a few things,
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  but stick around for that.
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  All right. So this is towards the beginning of the conversation.
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  And he's saying the moment in his life that he said, I don't want to be the
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  person scraping gum off the floor, but I want to be the person owning the store.
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  And this is from Kevin O'Leary when he worked at an ice cream parlor back when he was in high school.
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  You realize that there's kind of two people in life. There's the entrepreneur
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  is the person that owns the ice cream parlor and there's the person that scrapes it off the floor.
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  That provoked a question to me, which is, do you think anybody can own the ice cream parlor?
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  I do think anybody can be an entrepreneur no i've
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  tried to teach it and i mentor it
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  all the time to the ceos that i work with there are some attributes of people
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  that can do this a certain element of risk tolerance a certain element of focus
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  and then the other element which i've really started to believe in of late is
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  karma luck you need to be lucky you need it's like napoleon was once asked who
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  are your favorite generals and he said.
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  My favorite generals are lucky generals, my lucky generals.
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  And I'm starting to think that in life, particular entrepreneurship,
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  you look at the difference, the path of success and failure, and nobody.
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  Okay, I want to stop right there because that was very eye-opening to me.
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  And it's something I've actually been dwelling on lately.
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  And it's this whole thing of luck. What you would call luck,
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  is that the same thing as just God's blessing?
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  Is that, I think there is such a thing of luck, But I think God is so above
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  that, that he's in control of even luck itself and luck itself.
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  And when he compares luck, karma, I've never thought of them the same way.
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  I've never really said this, it's equivalency between them two.
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  Seems like karma is more like what you put in is what you get.
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  If you do bad things, you get bad things. If you do good things, you get good things.
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  So I think that almost goes almost in direct contrast to luck.
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  So I'm surprised he said that and he kind of equated the two.
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  But this is something I've always thought about.
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  Some people either got it or they don't.
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  And this can go with just success in nature and you're running a business or
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  being successful on a football field or any type of like space in life that you find yourself in.
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  But I really want to kind of zoom in on this for you personally.
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  What is, are you a person that is driven by success?
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  Like, is that even on top of your mind? Because I don't know if everybody is,
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  that is something they're even concerned about of achieving something.
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  Are you going towards a goal in life or are you just passing through?
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  And most of my life, I am just passing through. And I don't think it's hard
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  to be just locked in, dead set on moving the needle and making gains in life
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  and like going towards something that you really want.
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  And I think the people like, that is almost the difference between we're all different.
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  Nobody's the same. And it's like only those few people that are just,
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  they're just psychopaths for success.
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  They are just violently going after something that they have to have.
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  And they can't think of anything else but achieving this one thing. They are obsessed.
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  They are obsessed. Kevin O'Leary brings up his relationship with Steve Jobs,
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  and he worked at Apple for a long time,
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  and he has so many stories about working with Steve Jobs and almost like that
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  he did not like the guy. He hated him at times.
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  But as you can see in their conversation, he really ultimately loved Steve Jobs,
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  and he has a deep sense of love in his heart for Steve Jobs and all that he did for him.
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  And it was because Steve was mean to him and he was mean to everyone.
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  He says, not being nice is just noise.
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  Being a person that just gets stuck on things that don't matter is just noise. I'm locked in.
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  He's just dead set on just making people the, the best product possible and
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  telling them what they needed and what they wanted.
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  And there's so many famous lines from Steve Jobs. He said, they don't know what
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  they want. I'm going to tell them what they want, which brings me up to.
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  The iPhone. I'm sure most people have a phone. You might not have an iPhone.
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  But it's something I use all the time.
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  But that man, Steve Jobs, in being able to create something like this,
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  putting a computer inside of the phone and just, it's the simplicity and ease
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  of use that makes it different as opposed to anything.
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  If you're Apple, you don't go back. Once you go Apple, you don't go back.
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  I don't think, you know, but with them raising the prices, that's where it kind
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  of gets a little bit tough because they are extremely expensive at times,
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  but comparative to other, and I know other people out there might be just up
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  in arms and screaming because they're,
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  you know, they believe in the galaxy and all those other, I don't even know
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  what there's, those other phones that are out there that say like,
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  whatever, the Samsung and all those different ones out there.
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  But just the iPhone itself is just a beautiful thing.
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  It's a beautiful thing. But I almost think that like the creation of Apple and
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  technology that is out there,
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  and I wanted to show this while I'm even pulling this up I wanted to just check this
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  might give you the dizzy moment okay because I'm gonna switch it up
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  a little bit you know I just wanted to I wanted to throw
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  that out there you know just give you a little bit of a behind
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  the scenes action you might not want behind the scenes and you can also see
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  you might not know that I got Kansas City on look at that Kansas City it's Kansas
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  City-lish but there we go baby and you can see what kind of notes I got back
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  here I wanted to show everybody I got the NFL NFL NFL action but Besides,
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  I mean, just it is a beautiful thing.
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  And once you go Apple, you do not go back. Let me switch back.
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  Nothing dizzy action. But Steve Jobs, like, I don't know if it's somebody that
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  I want to aspire to, like to be him, because it seems like you sacrifice a lot.
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  For, for that. If you go for that, it's like, I think not everybody is wired that way.
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  Like Elon Musk, he is wired a certain way. And just, there's all these crazy
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  CEOs out there and crazy business owners.
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  I think if you want to be successful, you have to be a little bit crazy.
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  I think you have to be a little bit nutso to actually, to accomplish something.
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  Because if you're, if you're scattered everywhere in all different directions
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  and you allow things that don't matter to just take place on your plate,
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  you're not going to get anything. You're not going to get anywhere.
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  You're not going to achieve what you want to achieve.
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  And he, and Kevin O'Leary, he talks a lot about this between the signal and
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  the noise and what, and it's the, a person that is able to discern between signal
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  and noise is the person that can be great.
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  And not everyone has it. and it's like are
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  you going to be locked into accomplishing whatever it is
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  you say you have you're you're stepping in your day you you
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  have five things that you're going to get done you're going to get them done no
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  matter what you are going to get them done and that's
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  the signal and everything out it's discerning between what comes in your life
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  what's thrown in your lap is that noise or signal is this helping me get those
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  things done that I'm going to get done I'm obsessed enough over it that I'm
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  going to do it but I just don't think everybody is like this and And I think
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  that's probably good that not everybody's like this.
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  And he's asked, was Steve happy?
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  And he's like, you probably have to ask his wife. You'd have to.
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  To me, he just looked angry.
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  He just looked upset and mad. He was a meanie.
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  He was a meanie. He was not the nicest person, but he got the stuff done.
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  And what he created was, as we are living with now, and the ramifications of
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  what he did, which is insane.
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  But man, like, are you a person that is out there that you want to step into this, into your life?
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  Are you at this top of your mind that you want to achieve something?
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  Are you geared up for that?
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  Are you locked in for that? Or do you have to sacrifice happiness for that?
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  Can we, can the success of it? I think because we all have a motor running inside
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  of us, always, we always have a motor.
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  And some people's motors turned up and some people's motors,
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  not as much, but it's always going.
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  So if it's like, if we can get the destination, if we can get the,
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  the crosshairs straight and we're going towards something, I think that's the biggest thing.
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  I think that's the biggest thing. And it's like, how much is your motor going to?
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  Drive you to it. I think what we do have control over is the things that we
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  put in place, the things that we are going towards and the things that we were moving out,
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  the obstacles in our way that are going to get in the way of achieving what
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  we want to achieve. But it does, it becomes like philosophical.
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  Like say I do get everything I want. I mean, would Steve Jobs have got enough?
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  Like would he have like, say he created the iPhone and then he created something else, the iPad.
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  And like when, when have you reached the destination? I think it like,
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  it's corny to say sometimes, but it is the journey, you know,
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  it's, and you don't know, like, so say,
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  take a, like a step back in your life, what you are going towards,
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  what you are wanting to achieve, where are you at in the, the spectrum or in the, the ride?
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  Are you at the, like the middle part at the beginning part? Like you're,
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  you're just grinding away, but you have to have those years of grinding away
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  to achieve what you ultimately are going towards.
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  I think just fixating your mind on something. If you are a person out there
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  that wants to do something, because it can't be just fluff.
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  It can't just be meaningless money.
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  Money is just, it is a by-product. It can never, it can never be the end game
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  because if it's the end game, it's meaningless. It's worthless.
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  It's worthless. It's not something that we're going to carry with us,
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  you know, to our deathbed.
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  It's not good. It's not, But it's the relationships that we've had with people,
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  the people that we've poured into to actually make a difference in this world
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  that's going to have lasting effect.
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  The things that you create and the things that you are going towards and what
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  you are building, they can have lasting effect if they are honest to goodness, good things, you know?
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  So sometimes I think we just need to check ourselves. And so we don't just spin our wheels.
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  Sometimes it feels like it's easy to spin your wheels and almost to kind of
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  recalibrate. What am I doing?
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  Why am I doing this? What's going on? Like, what's the point of anything that I'm going towards?
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  Am I just, I think it's so easy just in life. You're just like,
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  just passing through. And it's just like, nothing makes sense.
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  It's all just like getting from one day to the next. Like we're just this on this ride together.
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  You know, it's like, is success going to make sense of it?
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  Is success going to give a point to a point to the whole, like a punchline?
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  I don't think it ultimately will, but I mean, having a drive for whatever you're
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  going towards, make it the best you can,
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  you know, pump as much into your, pump your blood,
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  sweat, and tears into it, you know, and really, I would say just recalibrating
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  what's the point of it and make it for good, make it for good,
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  you know, and the things that we do for people and the things that we do unto God,
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  that's the only thing that's going to last in the end.
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  We're not going to have a U-Haul going to our funeral and bringing a lot of
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  stuff, but it's the people at your funeral that you might not even known that
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  you had an impact on in their life,
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  that you might have changed the trajectories in their life just by being you
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  and the best version of you.
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  So if you've enjoyed this video, hit this other video on this side out over
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  here, and I'll see you on the other side. Peace.