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Your Old Life Doesn't Fit You Anymore(S5) S34:E6 Thursday · Inspirations for Your Life

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Alright guys, so let's get ready to show,
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So this is about building a life.
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You don't need to escape from series five,
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show 34.
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That is what the master topic is for
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this entire week.
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Yes.
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So the granular topic for today, Thursday, August
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20th, 2026.
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Your old life doesn't fit you anymore.
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Series five, series five, show 34, episode six.
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And it's Thursday.
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Before we get into our show, I want
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to give a shout out because, you know,
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on Sundays and Thursdays, we give a shout
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out to local businesses like coffee shops, restaurants,
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etc.
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Today's shout out is going out to the
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team.
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Actually at a little honey coffee shop.
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They're located guys in, I believe it's in
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Ridgewood, New Jersey, right on 35 Godwin Avenue.
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Yes, it's great to shout out to them.
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And so why am I doing this?
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Well, I'm reaching out to them and many
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others to ask them to visit jcmacademy.com
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let us know that you'd like to host
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It's completely free.
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We do a live show at your facility
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Go to jcmacademy.com and let's help build
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community together.
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So a little bit about this little special
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place.
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So they've got some interesting little drinks and
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beverages.
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And so yeah, just just taking a look
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at their restaurant, their website, I should say.
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You know, they have lots of different things.
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As I'm looking at the menu, they have
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the daily rituals, things like espresso starting at
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$4 and they have things like Americanas and
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they have smoothies starting at $8 like a
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Ruby Glow, Indigo Glow, Golden Glow, specialty teas
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and coolers for basically just starting at $5
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and up.
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Craft shake and espresso starting at $6 and
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up.
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Artisanal cold foam.
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They've got basically you can choose the the
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drink base.
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So this is what they've got here on
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this menu and it looks like mostly they're
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they're sharing their their drinks.
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I didn't see that they have any snacks
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or anything or any beverage.
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Let me see here.
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It looks like it does.
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I don't think they have any actual.
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They don't have it listed on their website.
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I mean, they may.
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Actually, I see I see some pictures for
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different things that they have, like different kinds
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of breakfast items, you know, like muffins and
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things like that.
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But what I don't see is I don't
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see them on the menu.
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So that might just be something special that
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they do.
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So definitely check that out.
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Let them know that you heard about their
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place on the Inspirations of Your Life show.
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Yes.
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So grateful to be with everyone here tonight.
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So welcome, everyone, to the ever popular Inspirations
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for Your Life show.
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I am in case you guys did not
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know John Seymour Lee.
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I'm a serial entrepreneur.
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I'm an engineer, marketing specialist, video producer, podcast
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host, coach, keynote speaker, a graduate student at
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Montclair State University, a passionate lifelong learner, and
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so grateful now to be a published author.
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Yes.
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So grateful for all of that, ladies and
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gentlemen.
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Thank you so much for the love.
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Have you ever looked at your life and
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realized that, hey, something that once fit perfectly
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doesn't fit anymore?
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Maybe like the thing you took out of
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the box, you're like, I can't get it
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back in the box that way.
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It's impossible.
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Like once you take it out, like it's
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just not meant to go back in, you
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know, those times, right?
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Maybe it's a goal.
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It's a routine.
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It's a role.
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It's an environment, relationship, or even your definition
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of what we call success.
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That doesn't automatically mean you made a mistake
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guys.
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It might mean you've grown.
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Yeah.
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Today I'm exploring 30 ways to recognize when
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your old life no longer fits and how
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to start building around the person you're becoming.
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Number one, your old life doesn't have to
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fit forever.
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Nope.
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Something can have been right for you once
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without being right forever.
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Growth sometimes means acknowledging that what worked in
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one chapter doesn't belong in the next.
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And that's hard for a lot of people
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to fathom or to swallow that pill, right?
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Because it changes who they are.
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Number two, notice how you've changed.
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Think about who you were several years ago.
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Your experiences have probably changed your priorities, abilities,
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expectations, and perspective.
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Give yourself credit for that evolution.
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Number three, let your priorities evolve.
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Priorities aren't permanent guys.
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No, they're not permanent contracts.
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What mattered enormously at one stage of your
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life may naturally become less important as something
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else begins to matter more.
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Hmm.
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So what does that mean?
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Well, our life changes, our life morphs, and
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we discover things about ourselves and others that
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we didn't know before.
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Number four, stop forcing yourself into outdated roles.
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Sometimes we continue playing a role because other
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people expect it from us.
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Ask whether that role still represents who you
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actually are.
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Number five, build around who you are now.
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Don't design today's life around yesterday's identity.
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Look honestly at your current strengths, interests, responsibilities,
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and ambitions.
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Then build from there.
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Number six, release the goals you no longer
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want.
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A goal doesn't deserve permanent loyalty simply because
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you once wrote it down.
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If you genuinely no longer want the destination,
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reconsider why you're still traveling toward it.
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Number seven, make room for new interests.
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Growth can introduce interests you never expected.
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Give yourself permission to explore them without needing
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to justify why they're different from what interested
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you before.
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I think that's a key.
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Number eight, update your definition of success often.
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Success at one stage might mean achievement, recognition,
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or growth.
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Later it might include freedom, impact, relationships, creativity,
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or time.
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Define success for who you are today, not
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who you were.
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Number nine, stop living by an old version
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of yourself.
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Don't keep making decisions based on what the
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old you would have chosen.
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The person making today's decision has more experience
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and information.
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That's important to acknowledge and respect.
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Number 10, allow your ambitions to mature.
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Changing an ambition doesn't necessarily mean reducing it.
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Sometimes ambition becomes more focused, meaningful, and aligned
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with what you know and now value.
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Number 11, guys, choose relationships that support growth.
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Strong relationships shouldn't require you to remain exactly
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who you are or who you were.
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When they began, things can change.
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Surround yourself with people who can respect your
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evolution.
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Number 12, build routines for your current reality.
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A routine that worked years ago may not
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work today.
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Your responsibilities and goals change, so allow your
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routines to change with them.
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That's key, guys.
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Number 13, stop defending choices you've outgrown.
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There's no need to do that anymore.
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I mean, you're not trying to impress anybody.
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You don't need to keep defending a decision
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simply because you once believed strongly in it.
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New information can justify a different choice.
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Number 14, give yourself permission to change direction.
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Changing direction isn't automatically quitting.
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Sometimes it's the intelligent response to discovering that
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another direction fits you better.
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Number 15, let new strengths reshape your future.
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You may have developed abilities you didn't possess
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when you created your original plans.
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Let those strengths open possibilities you couldn't previously
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see before.
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Number 16, build around what you've learned.
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Experience should change something.
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Take lessons from successes, disappointments, mistakes, relationships, and
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challenges and use them to design what comes
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next.
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Number 17, stop maintaining appearances that no longer
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fit.
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Don't maintain an image simply because people are
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accustomed to seeing you that way.
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Your life should be built around authenticity, not
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appearances, guys.
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Too many people get this wrong.
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I think it's because they're trying to impress
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other people, okay?
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Trying to impress other people.
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And that impress doesn't really do much for
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a lot of people.
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It just says, hey, this is who I'm
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trying to be.
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Number 18, let your actions actually speak the
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way you want them to.
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So choose environments where you can expand at
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your own pace and comfort level.
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Some environments encourage curiosity and growth.
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Others continually push you back toward an older
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version of yourself.
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Notice where you have room to expand.
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Number 19, let experience change your thinking.
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You aren't required to hold every opinion forever.
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Experience can reveal information you couldn't have understood
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before.
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Allow yourself to reconsider that.
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Number 20, redesign what isn't working anymore.
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When something repeatedly doesn't work, don't automatically try
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harder using the same structure.
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That's insanity, right?
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Einstein said it.
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Doing the same thing over and over again,
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expecting the results that is insanity.
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Sometimes the structure itself needs redesigning.
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Number 21, stop being loyal to an outdated
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plan.
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Plans are tools, not masters.
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If circumstances, knowledge or priorities have changed, update
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the plan instead of sacrificing yourself to it.
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I think that's another one that we've got
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to be aware of, like a caveat, right?
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Something I think that can give us a
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lot of strength.
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And guys, it can give us a lot
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of wisdom, a lot of wisdom, wisdom that
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maybe we never knew existed.
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Number 22, build for the person you're becoming.
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That sounds complicated, but really, guys, it's not.
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So think for just a moment.
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Can you do that?
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Great.
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Think beyond who you are today.
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What skills, habits, relationships and environments would support
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the person you want to become?
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Next, number 23, allow your identity to expand.
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You don't have to fit inside one label.
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You can develop new abilities, interests, responsibilities and
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ambitions without abandoning everything you've been before.
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Number 24, choose goals that still excite you.
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Look at your current goals and ask whether
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they still create genuine energy.
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A meaningful goal should pull something out of
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you beyond the obligation.
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It's got to be about a passion.
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Number 25, let growth change your destination.
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Sometimes growth doesn't merely change how you reach
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a destination.
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It reveals that you want a completely different
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destination.
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And that's worth recognizing.
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It happens, guys, you know how?
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It happens because of our character.
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The thing we do and no one's watching
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actually filters down to what people are watching.
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I think that's an important thing to us
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to be aware of.
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Number 26, make your life reflect your evolution.
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How do you do that, John?
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It's not hard.
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If you've changed internally, okay, but everything around
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you remains designed for who you used to
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be, eventually you'll feel the conflict.
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Let your external choices reflect your growth.
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Number 27, stop apologizing for becoming different.
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You don't need to apologize because your priorities
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matured, your interests changed, or your standards evolved.
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Growth naturally creates differences.
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I think that's something that a lot of
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people, I don't want to say they miss
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it intentionally, but they miss it.
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They overshoot it because they're too busy trying
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to prove who they are, and not who
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they actually want to be.
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And they don't get grounded in what they're
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actually doing now.
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So I think those are, I think those
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are very important things that we all should
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think about.
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Number 28, please build forward instead of backward.
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How do you build backwards?
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Well, how do I say this?
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You build backwards by adopting the things that
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were in the past, trying to accommodate those
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things, and not working on the new stuff,
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right?
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So don't spend all of your energy trying
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to recreate an earlier chapter because it feels
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familiar.
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It feels warm.
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It feels good.
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I've said to you guys time and time
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again, success happens where you start to get
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uncomfortable.
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Now, a lot of you are saying, John,
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I don't want to feel uncomfortable.
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Well, then you don't want success.
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See, we have to do something new before
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we can grow.
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We have to.
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If we don't do that, then how do
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we become better with ourselves?
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How do we become better?
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How do we become better?
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That's a true, true thing.
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I think a lot of us don't realize,
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don't realize like how that works or how
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that connects to us, right?
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Just because it feels familiar doesn't mean that
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that's the path we should take.
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Take what was valuable from the past and
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use it to build forward.
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Forward sometimes gets confusing because we don't always
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know how to go forward.
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We may know we don't want to go
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backward, but yet we don't always know how
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to go forward.
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I think that can be a real challenge
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for people.
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How do we prevent ourselves from going backward?
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It's really simple.
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We look at where we are today.
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We look at how we're growing.
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That's the key guys.
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That is absolutely the key, right?
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That's an important, important key that lots of
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people do not understand.
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Number 29, your life should grow as you
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grow.
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As your knowledge, abilities, perspective, and priorities expand,
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your life should have enough flexibility to expand
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with them, not against them.
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I think sometimes we're so busy trying to
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prove things to ourself and to others that
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we completely miss the boat.
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We miss our plane.
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We miss the agenda.
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We miss our core purpose.
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So when we miss our core purpose, can
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we get it back?
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Absolutely, we can get it back, but it
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might not come back instantaneously.
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We might have to do some work, right?
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Success lies where we get uncomfortable.
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Success lies where we become uncomfortable.
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I didn't say painful, I said uncomfortable, okay?
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I think that's an important piece that many
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people kind of miss.
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Does that make sense guys?
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I think that's an important piece to understand.
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Knowing where we were, knowing where we are
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now, and knowing where we want to be.
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We don't have to have all of the
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answers to be on a path of success.
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We have to acknowledge where we want to
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go, and we need to be alert to
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things in our environment that could affect our
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direction.
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Our direction.
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What does that mean?
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It means that we can easily be taken
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off our direction by what people say, think,
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and share with us.
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Number 30 guys, build a life that fits
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who you're becoming.
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You aren't building only for today's version of
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yourself.
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I hope not.
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Create enough room for continue learning, new opportunities,
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changing ambitions, and the person you're still becoming.
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Because even though you're not where you want
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to be yet, enjoy the journey.
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The journey is so amazing.
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When we're grateful for the journey, we learn
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along the way.
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As I get ready to wrap up the
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show today, one of the hardest things about
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growth is realizing that something doesn't have to
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be bad for you to outgrow it, right?
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This could be relationships, it could be tasks
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you do, it could be a business, it
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could be your hobbies, it could be your
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passions.
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A goal can once have been meaningful to
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you for many years.
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A routine can once have worked for you
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for a long time.
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A role can once have represented you in
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your whole life, okay?
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A plan can once have made perfect sense
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to you.
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And you can still reach a point where
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none of them fit anymore.
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That doesn't necessarily mean failure.
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Sometimes that evidence points to the fact that
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the person who created the original plan has
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learned something and he or she is changing
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the map.
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So look at your life and ask yourself
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this question.
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What am I maintaining simply because it belonged
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to an earlier version of me?
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Maybe there's a goal you're pursuing out of
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a habit.
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Maybe there's a routine you've never reconsidered, right?
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Just maybe.
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Just be open to this, okay?
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Maybe you're protecting an image that doesn't represent
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you anymore.
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Maybe you're staying loyal to a plan even
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though your experience has shown you a better
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direction.
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Growth should be allowed to change your answers.
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Take what you've learned with you.
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Keep the relationships, experiences, values, and lessons that
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still matter.
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But don't you dare force yourself backward.
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Just because the old version feels familiar, comfortable,
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warm, you're never going to grow.
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You're never going to grow, guys.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am, in case you
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did not know, John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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And I thank you from the bottom of
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my heart for joining me for another amazing
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episode of the ever-popular Inspirations for Your
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Life Show.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please, please, please, please, please
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notice how you've changed.
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I know you probably say you haven't changed,
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but you have changed, guys.
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You have changed.
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Start to let your priorities evolve.
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Update your definition of success.
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Choose goals that still excite you.
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Give yourself permission to change direction more than
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once if you want, as long as they
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align with your new core values.
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You don't have to become the person you
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once expected yourself to be.
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No reason for that.
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You get to keep learning, guys, your entire
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life.
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You get to keep learning your entire life.
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That's priceless.
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You get to keep evolving.
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You get to evolve.
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You get to keep learning.
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You get to keep sharing.
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That's powerful.
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And you know what, ladies and gentlemen, you
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get to keep building.
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Our whole life is building.
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Maybe we're not where we want to be
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yet, but we need to enjoy the journey
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that we're on as we're getting to our
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destination.
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Because getting to our destination is just part
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of the fun to learn and traverse along
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our pathway.
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You know, ladies and gentlemen, your old life
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doesn't have to fit forever.
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I know people around who say, well, you
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know, it's got to fit.
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You know, you're this and you're that, and
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you have to do it this way.
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Says who?
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Well, says my mom, says my father, says
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my brother, says my cousin, says my sister,
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maybe says my boyfriend, says my girlfriend.
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Okay.
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That's important, guys.
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Very important to acknowledge that whole concept.
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Acknowledge it.
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Don't try to change it right away.
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Just acknowledge it.
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As I said, your old life doesn't have
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to fit forever anymore.
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Your life should grow as you grow.
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So build a life that fits who you're
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becoming.
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One of the most devastating things you can
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do is prevent yourself from moving forward because
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you're scared, because you're uncomfortable, because you're worried
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about what people will say, because you don't
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think you're good enough, or because you don't
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think you're enough, because you haven't developed the
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confidence yet to believe that you are so
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powerful and there's so much you can do,
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guys.
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Everything starts with a thought.
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Everything.
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My computer, my keyboard, my phone, everything started
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with a thought, and then moved from there,
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and then inspired thoughts caused an action to
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happen, and that action created a reality, a
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tangible product or a tangible service.
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So I think those are very important things
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for us to recognize.
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Do you think about these things or do
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you just kind of go day by day?
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So again, your old life doesn't have to
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fit forever.
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That's been a misnomer that we've been taught
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for years and centuries.
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Your life should grow as you grow.
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So build a life that fits who you're
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becoming.
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Not saying that every step of the way
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is going to be peaches and cream, because
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it's not, but it will teach you things
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you never would have learned.
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You'll become a better person and you'll have
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new insights, ones that would never have reached
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you before, because now your mind has changed.
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Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget to stop by
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basically this little place here called the Little
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Honey Coffee Shop.
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As I said there, I think you definitely
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will enjoy it.
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They are located at 35 Godwin Avenue in
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Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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And if you're watching tonight, I hope you
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will definitely invite us to be a guest
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at your facility to host this Race is
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Your Life show.
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Have a great one, everyone, and be well.