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I Am What I Choose to Become: Unlock Your Power · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There are many people who have the limitations in their minds,
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  Speaker 1: who have lost that fire in their eyes. Most people,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, go to their graves living a life
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  Speaker 1: far below their potential. I'm the question this, if you
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  Speaker 1: die today, what ideas, what dreams, what talents, what gifts
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  Speaker 1: will die with you?
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  Speaker 2: You have the ability to do more than.
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  Speaker 1: You can ever begin to imagine.
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  Speaker 2: It's what you create. It's the habit of what you
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  Speaker 2: put in your head. See, someone can tell your whole
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  Speaker 2: life you're a piece of crapping part You go, you're
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  Speaker 2: full of it. I'm gonna show you lots of people
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  Speaker 2: who have done that. They never bought it. Or someone
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  Speaker 2: tell you're beautiful your life, You go, I'm not really beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So what people tell you doesn't matter at all. It's
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  Speaker 2: what you stack, it's what you assemble.
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  Speaker 3: You need to believe and know that your one decision,
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  Speaker 3: one relationship, one meeting, one book, one thought, one something
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  Speaker 3: away from a completely different life.
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  Speaker 2: It's an effort play.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't have self confidence, you've never kept the
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  Speaker 3: promises you make yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Check that box.
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  Speaker 3: If you have self confidence, you've started to keep the
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  Speaker 3: promises you make yourself So if I'm gonna get up
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  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna work out, I'm gonna do ten reps
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  Speaker 3: in the gym, I do one more. I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 3: forty five minutes on the treadmill.
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  Speaker 2: I do one more.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make ten contacts in the day, I
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  Speaker 4: do that and one more. There's a lot of times
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  Speaker 4: where I don't know how I'm going to move forward,
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  Speaker 4: But I ask myself one question, can you take another step?
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  Speaker 4: And that answer is always yes.
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  Speaker 5: You're passing through that keyhole.
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  Speaker 2: But if you pass through.
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  Speaker 5: It, then something massive opens up on the other side.
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  Speaker 5: And it is definitely the case.
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  Speaker 6: That disciplinary institutions universities are exactly that is, there are
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  Speaker 6: places of guidance, and there are places to encourage people
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  Speaker 6: to develop the discipline that's necessary to see beyond the discipline.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's why we have disciplines, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: the words aren't there by accident. And once that the
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  Speaker 5: discipline was established, then the disciplined mind.
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  Speaker 6: Could explode in every direction, which is precisely what happened.
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  Speaker 5: And so, and that's the thing about growing up is
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  Speaker 5: that when you're a teenager and a young adult, you
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  Speaker 5: have to sacrifice everything you could have been as a child,
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  Speaker 5: to be the one thing that you're aiming at. But
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  Speaker 5: then that opens up and the universities are part and
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  Speaker 5: parcel of that process.
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  Speaker 2: Change is automatic, but progress is not start today right now?
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  Speaker 2: What do I really want in depth? One of the rituals?
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  Speaker 2: Don't get me there, and then get yourself to start
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  Speaker 2: a few those actions and lock them in place. If
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  Speaker 2: you make the change in yourself, you're going to be proud.
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  Speaker 2: And no amount of money or accolades from other people
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  Speaker 2: can mirror the feeling of being proud of knowing you've
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  Speaker 2: taken back control of your life. Everything in life is
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  Speaker 2: always changing. We don't have to work on.
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  Speaker 7: Change the major key to the good life. Every day
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  Speaker 7: in a thousand different ways, we are trying to improve
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  Speaker 7: ourselves by learning how to do things. We spend a
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  Speaker 7: life time. I'm gathering knowledge in classrooms, in textbooks and experiences. Now,
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  Speaker 7: if knowledge is power, if knowledge is the forerunner to success,
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  Speaker 7: then why do we fall short of our objectives? Why
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  Speaker 7: in spite of all our knowledge and in spite of
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  Speaker 7: our collective experiences, do we find ourselves aimlessly wandering, settling
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  Speaker 7: for a life of existence rather than a life of substance.
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  Speaker 7: There may be many answers to this question. Your answers
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  Speaker 7: may be different than your associate, or your spouses, or
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  Speaker 7: your friends. The fundamental answer is the absence of discipline.
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  Speaker 7: Applying all that we know discipline, self discipline. We might
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  Speaker 7: add one more word here, consistent consistent self discipline. It
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  Speaker 7: doesn't really matter how smart you are or how much
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  Speaker 7: you know if you don't use it.
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  Speaker 5: And once you're disciplined, like you're like a sharpened sword man,
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  Speaker 5: like a well tempered blade, and then you can go
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  Speaker 5: out there and operate in the world. The reason that
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  Speaker 5: discipline is necessary is because you're a mass of competing
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  Speaker 5: short term interests. And so the question is then, well,
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  Speaker 5: which short term interest should win out? And the answer
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  Speaker 5: to that is none of them. They need to be
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  Speaker 5: organized into a hierarchy that makes them functional across time
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  Speaker 5: and across individuals.
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  Speaker 2: They're really simple things you do right now to change
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  Speaker 2: your life. You can go to experience it that day,
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  Speaker 2: and then you get momentum day one, day two, day three,
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  Speaker 2: day four, and all of a sudden, now what used
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  Speaker 2: to be hard to do is easy to do. And
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  Speaker 2: I think for anyone you've got to understand anyone can
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  Speaker 2: learn anything, and I'm just not willing to settle for
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  Speaker 2: a life without passion and aliveness. That's just like, there's
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  Speaker 2: so much to learn, there's so much to grow. And
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  Speaker 2: then my view is what's next is always better if
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  Speaker 2: I make it so. It's my job to make it so.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's how we have to navigate the
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  Speaker 2: most us. Most of us have been conditioned not to
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  Speaker 2: take a rest.
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  Speaker 4: And once you peel the crows, you know, peel that
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  Speaker 4: crust away, it's either you really are you open your mind.
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  Speaker 6: To whole another world.
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  Speaker 4: So I've opened my mind to hold another world that
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  Speaker 4: most people can't even fathom because they haven't dug deep.
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  Speaker 4: So they think. People think I'm crazy because I found
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  Speaker 4: a whole other way of living. I think they're crazy
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  Speaker 4: for never even trying to get to the other side
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  Speaker 4: of whatever is in front of them. So what drives
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  Speaker 4: me every day is finding more of myself and be
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  Speaker 4: my best. Is a never ending journey.
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  Speaker 3: If you study a subject every day for one hour
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  Speaker 3: a day, five days a week, in five years, you
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  Speaker 3: will become an expert in that area. Some things simply
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  Speaker 3: have to be done every day. You know, the old
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  Speaker 3: saying an apple a day keeps the dog away. Well,
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  Speaker 3: eating seven apples all at once isn't going to give
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  Speaker 3: you the same benefit. If you want to improve, intentional
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  Speaker 3: growth needs to be a habit. A habit is something
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  Speaker 3: I do continually, not once in a while. Motivation may
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  Speaker 3: get you going, but the positive habits you develop and
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  Speaker 3: practice consistently are what keep you improving. As I have
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  Speaker 3: work to improve on a day by day basis, two
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  Speaker 3: words have helped me to stay on track. The first
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  Speaker 3: is intention. Every morning, as I start my day, I
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  Speaker 3: intend to learn something that day. This develops a mindset
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  Speaker 3: in me to look for things that will help me improve.
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  Speaker 3: The other word is contemplation. Time alone is an essential
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  Speaker 3: for self improvement. When I spend time thinking about my challenges, experiences,
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  Speaker 3: and observations, it allows me to gain perspective. I can
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  Speaker 3: evaluate any losses and I can learn from them. Contemplation
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  Speaker 3: time by myself also gives me time to do positive
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  Speaker 3: self talk. The most important words we will ever utter
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  Speaker 3: are those words we say to ourselves about ourselves when
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  Speaker 3: we are by ourselves. During these conversations, we can beat
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  Speaker 3: ourselves up and make ourselves feel really small, or we
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  Speaker 3: can learn and build ourselves up so that we become better.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to spend some time each day to
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  Speaker 3: try to improve yourself, you might want to begin by
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  Speaker 3: asking yourself three questions at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: As I do, They are, what did I learn today?
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  Speaker 3: What spoke both to my heart and my head? How
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  Speaker 3: did I grow today? What touched my heart and affected
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  Speaker 3: my actions? What will I do differently? Unless I can
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  Speaker 3: state specifically what I plan to do differently, I won't
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  Speaker 3: learn anything. One of the things I don't do is
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  Speaker 3: compare myself to others during that time. There's a reason
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  Speaker 3: for that. Desire is to not become superior to anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: I only want to be superior to my former self.
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  Speaker 3: Intention and contemplation assist me in doing that. Intentional improvement
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  Speaker 3: is within the reach of anyone, no matter how experienced
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  Speaker 3: or green, educated or ignorant, rich or poor. To start
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  Speaker 3: improving today, do these three things decide you are worth improving.
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  Speaker 3: To improve yourself, you must believe you can improve. Author
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  Speaker 3: Dennis Whitley has a wonderful definition for personal development. He
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  Speaker 3: says that it is the conviction that there is value
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  Speaker 3: in your dreams. Personal development. He says is the belief
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  Speaker 3: that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed
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  Speaker 3: to develop yourself. It gives you permission to invest in
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  Speaker 3: yourself so you can develop your own potential. You can
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  Speaker 3: invest in yourself. You don't need anyone's dreams but your own,
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  Speaker 3: and you don't need to become anyone other than yourself
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  Speaker 3: at your best. The great philosopher Thomas Carlyle once wrote,
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  Speaker 3: let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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  Speaker 3: I can't think of a better definition of success. Life
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  Speaker 3: challenges us every day to develop our capabilities to the fullest.
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  Speaker 3: We're successful when we reach for the highest that's within us,
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  Speaker 3: when we give the best we have. Life doesn't require
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  Speaker 3: us to always come out on top. It asks only
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  Speaker 3: that we do our best to improve at whatever level
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  Speaker 3: of experience we are currently on. Pick an area to improve.
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  Speaker 3: You will have plenty of time to improve other areas
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  Speaker 3: of your life. Focus on the one now that makes
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  Speaker 3: the most of your strengths and is closest to your
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  Speaker 3: sense of purpose. Suggesting you to spend an hour a
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  Speaker 3: day improving in that area, Then take it slow but steady.
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  Speaker 3: Always overestimate what we can get done in a day
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  Speaker 3: or a week, But we underestimate what we can get
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  Speaker 3: done in a year. Just imagine what you will be
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  Speaker 3: able to get done five years. Find opportunities to improve
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  Speaker 3: in the wake of your losses. Focused strategic improvement is
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  Speaker 3: important to success, but so is learning from our losses
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  Speaker 3: as they come. However, let me say this, some lessons
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  Speaker 3: in life cannot wait. You must make the most of
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  Speaker 3: them when they occur. If you don't examine what went
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  Speaker 3: wrong while the details are fresh, you may lose the
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  Speaker 3: ability to learn the lesson. Besides, if you neglect to
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  Speaker 3: learn the lesson immediately, you may experience the loss again.
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  Speaker 3: Business professor George Knox said, when you cease to be better,
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  Speaker 3: you cease to be good. When you stop growing, you
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  Speaker 3: cease to be useful. A weed in the garden of prosperity.
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  Speaker 3: We are what we are today because as we were
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  Speaker 3: what we were yesterday, and our thoughts today determine our
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  Speaker 3: actions tomorrow. Those who learn from their losses give themselves
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  Speaker 3: that permission. As your friend, I give it to you also.
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  Speaker 3: Knowledge may come from study, but wisdom comes from learning
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  Speaker 3: and improving in the wake of your mistakes. I always
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  Speaker 3: try to remember that I am a work in progress.
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  Speaker 3: When I maintain that perspective, I realize that I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be perfect. I don't have to have it
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  Speaker 3: all together. I don't need to try to have all
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  Speaker 3: the answers, and I don't need to learn everything in
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  Speaker 3: a day. When I make a mistake, it's not because
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  Speaker 3: I'm a failure or worthless. I just didn't do something
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  Speaker 3: right because I still haven't improved enough in some part
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  Speaker 3: of the process, and that motivates me to keep growing
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  Speaker 3: and improving.
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  Speaker 7: Every time you reach the next level, you grow, and
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  Speaker 7: every time you grow, your potential changes. After you conquer
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  Speaker 7: that challenge, you discover that what you are now capable
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  Speaker 7: of has changed. You have more strength to conquer higher mountains.
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  Speaker 7: If you are going to reach your true potential, you
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  Speaker 7: have much bigger challenges to face. There's an unlimited amount
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  Speaker 7: of mountains to climb because your growth is unlimited, and
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  Speaker 7: because your growth is unlimited, that means your potential is
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  Speaker 7: also unlimited. It's never ending, a never ending journey of
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  Speaker 7: growth and expansion. Your growth is unlimited in every area.
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  Speaker 7: What can I do now to make those changes so
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  Speaker 7: I can reach the next level in my health? Because
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  Speaker 7: the new energy I will get from better health is
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  Speaker 7: going to help me get to the next level in
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  Speaker 7: other areas as well. What can I learn or commit
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  Speaker 7: to now to make that area of my life better?
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  Speaker 7: Can my mental health and self image be better? What
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  Speaker 7: can I work on every day to make sure my
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  Speaker 7: inner talk and sense of self is better? Because the
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  Speaker 7: better I feel about me, the better I am going
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  Speaker 7: to show up in this world. When I get to
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  Speaker 7: the end of my life. I want to know for
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  Speaker 7: sure I left nothing on the table. I want to
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  Speaker 7: know I gave my heart and soul to reach my
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  Speaker 7: truest potential. I want to know I did all I
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  Speaker 7: could to carve out the greatest version of me. No regrets.
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  Speaker 7: That's what it's about, having zero regrets. And you can
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  Speaker 7: only have no regrets if you gave every ounce of
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  Speaker 7: your soul while you were alive on this planet. Every
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  Speaker 7: area can be mastered, So I am going to master
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  Speaker 7: every area. What's the point in having one piece of
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  Speaker 7: the pie. I'm cooking the whole thing. So I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to enjoy the whole thing, piece by piece until my
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  Speaker 7: soul is full, and it will never be full until
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  Speaker 7: the end of my life. When I look in the
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  Speaker 7: mirror and can say, honestly, I gave everything to be
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  Speaker 7: my very best, and I'm proud of who I have become.
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  Speaker 7: Until that day, I will not stop. I want to
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  Speaker 7: know what my life would be like if I just
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  Speaker 7: gave everything I have for my goals and dreams, not
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  Speaker 7: just one day every day. What if I got better
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  Speaker 7: every day, not just one day, a new piece of
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  Speaker 7: knowledge I could use to benefit my future? How great
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  Speaker 7: could I become? Ask yourself that question? How great could
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  Speaker 7: I become? What areas of my life could be the
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  Speaker 7: very best they have ever been? What could I commit
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  Speaker 7: to right now to make absolutely sure I am pushing
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  Speaker 7: for my highest potential. I want you to make that
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  Speaker 7: commitment today. Do whatever you must do to ensure you
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  Speaker 7: get to the end with no regrets.