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156. Embrace the Challenge · Your Enriched Self

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Speaker 1: I said it before, I'll say it again. A few
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Speaker 1: years ago, I heard a quote from Michael Beckwith that says,
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Speaker 1: nothing new comes into your life until you are grateful
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Speaker 1: for what you have now. And that quote, that conviction
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Speaker 1: behind that quote, that sturdiness and the foundation of what
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Speaker 1: that says, spoke to my heart, and ever since that time,
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Speaker 1: I have really been intentional and mindful about gratitude. Now,
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Speaker 1: one of the things that I do as a reminder
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Speaker 1: to you is to put yourself in a space to
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Speaker 1: be grateful. Now. I know life is lifing, I know
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Speaker 1: the world is ever changing. I know your world has
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Speaker 1: a lot of changes and the cycle will continue, and
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Speaker 1: with those changes will come challenges, opportunities, headaches, heartaches, storms,
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Speaker 1: all of the things. But inside of all of that,
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Speaker 1: there are some things for you to hold on to,
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Speaker 1: for you to embrace, for you to be grateful for.
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Speaker 1: My intention of talking about this is so that you
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Speaker 1: can be intentional about focusing on things to be grateful for,
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Speaker 1: because I promise you life is going to give you
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Speaker 1: enough things to focus your attention on. What's not going right,
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Speaker 1: what didn't happen right, what's not happening as planned or
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Speaker 1: desired for your life. But if you were to just
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Speaker 1: take a few moments out of your day and focus
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Speaker 1: on what has gone right, what is going right, what
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Speaker 1: you have in front of you, I promise you will
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Speaker 1: see many, many blessings in your life. And not only
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Speaker 1: will you see those blessings, you know what I know
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Speaker 1: when you start to focus on a thing, not only
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Speaker 1: will you see the things that you were blessed with,
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Speaker 1: You're going to start experiencing more blessings. And that is
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Speaker 1: because you are going to have a perception and a
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Speaker 1: perspective of gratitude. It literally is the biggest and best
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Speaker 1: life hack you can have. Once you start on that trajectory,
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Speaker 1: you start talking about the things you're grateful for. You
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Speaker 1: start paying attention to the things that you want to
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Speaker 1: be grateful for. You are just grateful for what you have.
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Speaker 1: It changes your conversation, your mood, It changes the aura
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Speaker 1: that you bring into a room, that you bring to
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Speaker 1: a conversation. People take notice of the kind of spirit
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Speaker 1: that you have. It is just the best way to
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Speaker 1: live your life in complete and total gratitude. A couple
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, I'm going to share my gratitude moment, and
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Speaker 1: I hope that you have one in your heart that
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Speaker 1: you can share to the world. My gratitude moment that
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Speaker 1: I'm sharing with you today is brought to you by
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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. I was sick, and I don't
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Speaker 1: get sick very often, and as odd as this sounds,
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Speaker 1: when I get sick, I don't know how to get
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Speaker 1: myself well again. And that is because I'm out of
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Speaker 1: practice with being sick, and so I have to kind
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of scatterbrain the first couple of days, and
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Speaker 1: then a few days later I figure out, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: gotta do this, I gotta rest, I got a water,
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Speaker 1: you know. I start to apply some of the things
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Speaker 1: that I believe are the things you do when you
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Speaker 1: try to get better. And I tell you what, when
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Speaker 1: I was kind of going downhill and I didn't recognize
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Speaker 1: that I was sick, I just thought it was just
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Speaker 1: a fatigue. You know. I do boot camp and a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things, and I just thought life was
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Speaker 1: happening and I was just getting really tired at you know, life.
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Speaker 1: But it turns out I was actually sick, and I
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Speaker 1: didn't know for about halfway through the process of being sick.
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Speaker 1: This is how bad I am about even recognizing that
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Speaker 1: I am sick. I say all that to say, when
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Speaker 1: I recovered, I recognize how much I operate each and
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Speaker 1: every day at a hunt at one hundred and fifty percent,
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Speaker 1: And on those days when I was feeling eighty percent,
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Speaker 1: I was still giving my best. But man, doesn't it
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Speaker 1: feel good to feel good? And I want to celebrate
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Speaker 1: with you this simple thing. And that's what I said.
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Speaker 1: Gratitude is just the little things. Feeling one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: changes how you move, how fast you move, where you go,
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Speaker 1: what you do if you go, what you do when
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Speaker 1: you get there. It changes everything. And so I am super,
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Speaker 1: super grateful for the fact that I feel better, that
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Speaker 1: I can operate at one hundred, one hundred and fifty percent.
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Speaker 1: I'm just grateful that I can do the things that
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Speaker 1: I get to do each and every day. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I get to go to the gym in the morning,
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Speaker 1: I get to spend time with my family, get to
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Speaker 1: do these things. And I know there are people who
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Speaker 1: don't get to do those things for many other reasons, right,
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Speaker 1: And so being at one hundred percent and giving my
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent to those I love and those that
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Speaker 1: love me is so important to me. And so I
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Speaker 1: am super grateful for that. What are you grateful? Oh,
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Speaker 1: my friends from all across the globe and welcome to
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Speaker 1: the You're Retel Podcast. I am your host, mii Ley Noir.
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Speaker 1: I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach. And what
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Speaker 1: we do and what we talk about here on this
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Speaker 1: podcast is all around your mindset. Now, everything that you
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Speaker 1: can conceive starts with a thought, and so your thoughts
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Speaker 1: are the birthplace for everything that you will be living
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Speaker 1: and are living right now. And so that's why your
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Speaker 1: mindset and the conversations you have with yourself aka self talk,
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Speaker 1: are so important. So that's what we do each and
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Speaker 1: every week. We talk about mindset fusion topics because I
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Speaker 1: know if you're listening to this podcast, you want to
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Speaker 1: show up as the best version of yourself in this world,
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Speaker 1: and it starts with your mindset. Now. If you are
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Speaker 1: new to this platform, if you're new to this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I want to welcome you. I want to thank you
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Speaker 1: for being here. I know that you were brought here
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Speaker 1: on purpose for a purpose, and so I want to
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Speaker 1: thank you for being here. If you are a repeat listener,
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Speaker 1: I am so thrilled that you're back You've been rocking
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Speaker 1: with me for over one hundred and fifty plus weeks,
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Speaker 1: and here we are almost celebrating our three year anniversary
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Speaker 1: of this podcast, and I could not have done it
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Speaker 1: without you. So thank you, thank you, thank you from
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Speaker 1: the bottom hunt my heart. Thank you for being not
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Speaker 1: just a listener, but someone who is participating by sharing
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Speaker 1: your feedback with me, sharing with your friends and family,
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Speaker 1: but also by participating in your work to become the
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Speaker 1: best version of yourself to enrich your life. Life. So
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. Now, if you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, before we get started into this week's episode,
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Speaker 1: I always make a deposit into the bank of you,
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Speaker 1: and I do that by way of affirmations. Affirmations are
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Speaker 1: a great way to start your day and to command
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Speaker 1: your warning. And this week's affirmation is I embrace challenges
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Speaker 1: as opportunities to grow. I embrace challenges as opportunities to grow.
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Speaker 1: I embrace challenges as opportunities to grow. Now, let's get
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Speaker 1: ready for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self Podcast.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but you are
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Speaker 1: a lifelong student in this thing called life. My mother
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Speaker 1: used to say when we were growing up it was
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Speaker 1: almost on repeat that you are never too old to learn,
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Speaker 1: and this week I was reminded of that. I remember
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Speaker 1: a coach sharing with me that what challenges you will
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Speaker 1: change you, and I've held on to that. Well, after
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Speaker 1: what I've experienced this week, I will say this, every
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Speaker 1: challenge you face is a foundation for your greatest growth
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Speaker 1: and learning, and I can stand on that. So this week,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about a personal story
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Speaker 1: that happened recently that challenged me, and it brought me
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Speaker 1: to these lessons and these key takeaways that I want
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Speaker 1: to share with you today. Now, there was a time
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Speaker 1: in my life as I was thinking about this challenge
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Speaker 1: and what I was able to do inside of this,
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about there was a version of myself.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if this is true for you,
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Speaker 1: but there is a version of you that would or
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do some of the things that you're doing now,
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Speaker 1: whether it's what you deem as brave or what you
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Speaker 1: deem as you know, kind of shying away. I'm speaking
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Speaker 1: about my version, and there's a version of me that
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Speaker 1: would not have taken on that challenge. There's a version
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Speaker 1: of me that would not have been bold enough to
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Speaker 1: raise my hand and say, yeah, I want to do it.
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Speaker 1: I want to try it. And here's the reason why
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Speaker 1: I have to kind of go back and think about, well,
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Speaker 1: where was my mindset? And I have to say that
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Speaker 1: I had an unnurtured mindset. And there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: you out there. There's a lot of people that have
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Speaker 1: unnurtured mindset. And all that means is just like a flower,
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Speaker 1: and just like your plans, and you know, anything that
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Speaker 1: requires growth, you have to spend time with it. You
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Speaker 1: have to or the nutrients into it, you have to
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Speaker 1: water it, you have to show love to it to
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Speaker 1: nurture it. And I wasn't doing that. I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of people find themselves. A lot of you might
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Speaker 1: find yourself in a position where you're not nurturing your
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Speaker 1: greatest asset, which is your mindset. Like I said, everything
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Speaker 1: starts in the mind. So if that area isn't cultivated
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Speaker 1: or being cultivated, because you have now deemed yourself, I
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Speaker 1: am a lifelong student of life. Right, if you cut
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Speaker 1: yourself off that your K through twelve or your higher
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Speaker 1: learning is the end of your education, you are missing
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Speaker 1: out on some of the best and most fruitful years
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Speaker 1: of your life because those challenges, like I said, are
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Speaker 1: the foundation for your growth, your greatest growth, and your learning.
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Speaker 1: And so as I was thinking about, well, why did
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Speaker 1: you raise your hand this time, whereby you would have
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Speaker 1: never done that in the past, or never did that
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Speaker 1: in the past, And so here's a challenge. It sounds
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Speaker 1: really really simple, but these are the types of things
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Speaker 1: I would stay away from. And there's so many things
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Speaker 1: like this. So I'm at boot camp. This is probably
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Speaker 1: something that you're familiar with me talking about. And we
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Speaker 1: have run day Monday now Sunday night. I was out
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Speaker 1: and I got in late, and so I didn't do
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Speaker 1: my normal run time, which is the seven am run
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Speaker 1: time that I like to run. I like because I
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Speaker 1: like that at hour of the day. So I ended
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Speaker 1: up running in the evening. Well, running in the evening
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Speaker 1: is not for the week because that heat is different,
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Speaker 1: it hits different, it feels different, and my body knows
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Speaker 1: that at the end of the day I want to
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Speaker 1: be in, not out. So it's a lot of mental
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Speaker 1: checks for me going on all of that. To say,
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Speaker 1: I went to the six pm run, and I say
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Speaker 1: all that because at the five am run, the coach
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Speaker 1: challenged everybody in the camp. Right, So we have three
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Speaker 1: different camp sessions, the five am, seven am, and six pm.
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Speaker 1: And so she challenged everyone in the five am session
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Speaker 1: and consequently the seven am and the six pm session
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Speaker 1: to take the challenge and run the entire route right
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Speaker 1: going up to the main hill. So we run, we
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Speaker 1: do like anywhere between three to four miles, and that
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Speaker 1: first mile is a challenge, right, The first mile of
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Speaker 1: anything that you do in life is going to be
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Speaker 1: a challenge. And that was a challenge indeed, right was
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Speaker 1: to run that mile non stop. Now that's not something
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Speaker 1: I've done in this camp, and so that was a challenge.
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Speaker 1: Someone had done it at five am. I believe someone
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Speaker 1: may have done it at the seven am boot camp,
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Speaker 1: and several of us raised our hands and said yes
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Speaker 1: to do it at the six pm and I was
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Speaker 1: one of those people. Now, again this is going back
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Speaker 1: to the girl who would never especially in a group setting.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm definitely not doing it. But this time
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Speaker 1: around I did. And I have to think about my
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Speaker 1: unnurtured mind mindset as a reason why I didn't do it.
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Speaker 1: And here are the things that weren't nurtured for me.
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Speaker 1: Number One, I did not want to try, and try
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Speaker 1: get such a bad reputation. And for me, here's why
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Speaker 1: try gets a bad reputation because try doesn't guarantee success.
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Speaker 1: That's what I realized when I kind of went back
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Speaker 1: and played the tape in my mind. Why would I
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Speaker 1: think this way? Is because I want to success. Everybody Again,
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Speaker 1: you wake up in the day, you wake up every day,
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Speaker 1: you want to win, and so trying doesn't guarantee a win.
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Speaker 1: It's a fifty to fifty shot. But it starts with
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Speaker 1: do you have confidence in your abilities? Do you believe
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Speaker 1: that it's worth it to try? Because the way I
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Speaker 1: used to believe is that it's pointless. Why try when
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the outcome is going to be.
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Speaker 1: Here's the fact balacy in that. The fallacy is if
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Speaker 1: you never try, you will never know. You will never
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Speaker 1: know what you're capable of, you will never know where
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Speaker 1: you can grow from, you will never have any indicators
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Speaker 1: for your success. You won't know what milestones you have
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Speaker 1: to get to because you're not willing to try. And
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Speaker 1: so that was one of the areas where my mindset
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Speaker 1: was unnurtured. The other one that I recognized to was,
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Speaker 1: like most of you, I because this is statistically true.
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Speaker 1: Most people have the fear of failure and I had
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Speaker 1: that fear right because here's the thing. If you try,
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Speaker 1: there's a potential you will fail. But if you don't try,
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna fail, You're just gonna be mid. And
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Speaker 1: if you hear the culture talk about mid, mid isn't good.
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Speaker 1: Mid isn't man. Nobody wants to be men men, right,
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Speaker 1: So the point here is you have to recognize that
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Speaker 1: failure is part of the journey. And I know you've
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Speaker 1: heard it from me, I know you've heard it elsewhere,
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Speaker 1: but the fact is it's true. You look at successful
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Speaker 1: athletes it's Olympic season, and if you hear their stories,
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Speaker 1: if you listen to some of the podcasts these people
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Speaker 1: have been on, if you hear how they have overcome failure,
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Speaker 1: that's the story right there. You overcame your greatest fear,
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Speaker 1: your greatest challenge in your life because you had to fail, first,
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Speaker 1: find your way, and then go forward. You fail, first,
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Speaker 1: you find your way, and then you go forward. I
15:54
Speaker 1: spoke about the swimmer Simone a few weeks ago and
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Speaker 1: how she took all of she took the failure that
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Speaker 1: she had and went back and studied her success journey
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Speaker 1: to get back on top. A lot of us forget
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Speaker 1: our successes. We focus on the mistake, what seems to
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Speaker 1: be a mistake, and that holds us back from even trying,
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Speaker 1: from even going forward, from attempting, and that is unfortunate.
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Speaker 1: And that's where I was again, a nurtured mindset, that's
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Speaker 1: what I'm calling it, at least okay. And the last
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Speaker 1: thing was I had a pessimistic view of things because
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Speaker 1: here's how I thought about it. Well, yeah, people can
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Speaker 1: do this thing, but can I do it? As a
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Speaker 1: pessimistic view, you don't know if you can until you do.
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Speaker 1: It comes down to doing the thing. It wasn't out
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Speaker 1: look of pessimism, to be honest with you, and that
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Speaker 1: is so not like me now. But it took time,
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Speaker 1: it took perspective, it took experience, it took failures. And
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Speaker 1: so you are not out here giving the world your best.
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Speaker 1: And I'm encouraging you to give the world your best.
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Speaker 1: And guess what your best today may not look like
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Speaker 1: your best three years from now. And I say that
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Speaker 1: from experience because when I started this podcast, what I
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Speaker 1: used to do to prepare myself for a podcast and
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Speaker 1: how I prepare today are very different. And I was
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Speaker 1: super nervous every single podcast episode, truth be told, it
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Speaker 1: was challenging, it was nerve wracking. I was trying to
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Speaker 1: read things and it was a lot going on. And
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Speaker 1: I learned that over the years, I can just speak
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Speaker 1: from my heart. I know what I'm want to talk about.
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Speaker 1: I know what I but it took years to get there.
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Speaker 1: And so your best today and your best three years
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Speaker 1: from now or three months or not are going to
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Speaker 1: look different, in some cases, significantly different. And you know
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Speaker 1: what that's called, my friends, learning, That means you are
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Speaker 1: an active student in this thing called life, and you
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Speaker 1: are applying the lessons learned. That being said, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about the key lessons that I learned taking on this challenge.
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Speaker 1: Number One, if I'm being honest, I did not want
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Speaker 1: to go run on Monday. Now that's not typically me,
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Speaker 1: but again because I changed the time of day I
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Speaker 1: would normally go. I wasn't really keen and excited about
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Speaker 1: running at six pm. But I know that I want
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Speaker 1: to get better at running, and I know it's not
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Speaker 1: going to happen if I stay home. So the first
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Speaker 1: key takeaway is you're only going to get better. You're
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Speaker 1: only going to get the opportunities when you show up.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to get it done, if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get it get involved, you've got to show You got
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Speaker 1: to show up. So if I hadn't showed up, I
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Speaker 1: would not have taken the challenge. And if I didn't
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Speaker 1: take the challenge, I would not have allowed myself space
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Speaker 1: to accomplish that goal. I was very excited and super
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Speaker 1: proud of myself, not just for showing up, but saying
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Speaker 1: yes to that challenge. And that is where opportunities open.
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Speaker 1: That's where new opportunities present themselves when you show up.
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Speaker 1: That's where doors open. And for some of you, there
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Speaker 1: are doors that are being open for you, but you
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Speaker 1: are not on the other side to walk through it.
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Speaker 1: And you know exactly what I'm talking about. Those things
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Speaker 1: that you're avoiding attending, those places you don't want to go,
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Speaker 1: those are the places you're going to grow. You cannot
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Speaker 1: avoid it because you need that. That is your foundation
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Speaker 1: for your greatest growth and learning, and you're not going
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Speaker 1: to have it if you're not present. The other thing,
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Speaker 1: and this is something my coach said, you gotta let
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Speaker 1: your intentions be known because again, I was that girl
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Speaker 1: that if that was presented to me in the past,
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Speaker 1: I would probably skittishly raise my hand because I was
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Speaker 1: kind of like on and off the fence, a flip flopper.
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Speaker 1: There's many names for people like me, right like, I
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Speaker 1: want to do it, but I don't want to do
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Speaker 1: it in front of this group because if I don't
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Speaker 1: get it done, then I'm in front of a group
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Speaker 1: of people and blah blah blah blah blah. So I
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Speaker 1: wasn't in a space of vulnerability. Let me just sum
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Speaker 1: it up to vulnerability. Vulnerability is crucial. You have to
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Speaker 1: be able to voice the things you want to do
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Speaker 1: and accomplish. Because once I said yes, the other four
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Speaker 1: people said yes. She immediately put us and partnered us
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Speaker 1: with a mentor a run mentor, if you will, And
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Speaker 1: that person was the person that helped us get over
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Speaker 1: those humps. You know, the places where you want to quit,
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Speaker 1: the places where you want to stop, the places where
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Speaker 1: you want to pause, the places where you're mentally questioning yourself.
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Speaker 1: Those individuals were there. They weren't running for me, but
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Speaker 1: they were helping me make that mental run because everybody
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Speaker 1: knows running is really a mental game. And if you
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Speaker 1: didn't know that, then you do know that now it
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Speaker 1: is a mental space. You have to clear your mind
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Speaker 1: of any limitations that you might have, and that's really life.
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Speaker 1: Life is a race. We hear that analogy a lot,
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Speaker 1: but in that sense, it is true that you have
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Speaker 1: to clear your mind when you get ready to do
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Speaker 1: something because if you leave those limiting beliefs around, they're
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Speaker 1: going to hinder you from accomplishing what you set out
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Speaker 1: to do. And again, I'm super proud that I was
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Speaker 1: able to do that, but having that person on my
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Speaker 1: side was important. Why that happened is because I allowed
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Speaker 1: myself to say, yes, I was open about my goal,
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Speaker 1: and my goal was I wanted to accomplish that straight
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Speaker 1: run route. Having this mentor meant I have somebody to
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Speaker 1: hold me accountable, because you and I know that when
22:15
Speaker 1: you have to hold yourself accountable, or when I have
22:18
Speaker 1: to hold myself accountable, we kind of give ourselves some leeway.
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Speaker 1: But again, if you're going to get through the challenges,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get the learnings from it, but you gotta
22:30
Speaker 1: get through it. So vulnerability is super important and the
22:35
Speaker 1: last thing is give it your best shot. And I
22:40
Speaker 1: know that sounds very maybe cliche or what have you,
22:43
Speaker 1: but say yes. That was the thing I was afraid.
22:48
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say no, but I wouldn't say yes. I learned.
22:52
Speaker 1: The lesson I learned is just say yes and give
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Speaker 1: it your best. I'll repeat, just say yes and give
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Speaker 1: it your best. Even if you feel unprepared. Even if
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Speaker 1: you feel unprepared, you can do it. You have what
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Speaker 1: it takes to do it. You can push through those doubts.
23:12
Speaker 1: You can push past those doubts, and you can start
23:16
Speaker 1: working towards goals. And that's a key component to you winning.
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Speaker 1: To me, being at the top of the hill and
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Speaker 1: being able to celebrate after, you know, taking lots of
23:28
Speaker 1: deep breaths because I was definitely winded, but I pushed
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Speaker 1: myself past my limits and I was super proud that
23:34
Speaker 1: I gave it my best shot. So those are the
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Speaker 1: lessons I learned. Here's something I want you to take away, right.
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Speaker 1: I have two key takeaways here. One is you are
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Speaker 1: going to be empowered through your experience. You participating, Me
23:50
Speaker 1: participating and stepping out of my comfort zone. It has
23:54
Speaker 1: now unlocked a version of me that knows I can
23:57
Speaker 1: do hard things. I don't have to question myself now
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Speaker 1: that can I do it? I now have evidence. Now
24:04
Speaker 1: I have created an evidence file in my mind that says,
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Speaker 1: remember the time that you said yes to this challenge
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Speaker 1: and you push past your limits and you were able
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Speaker 1: to execute and get it done. Yeah, I remember that time. Okay,
24:20
Speaker 1: that's evidence that you can do hard things. You can
24:25
Speaker 1: overcome the fear of failure because now you're in front
24:29
Speaker 1: of a group of people saying yes, I'm gonna do it.
24:31
Speaker 1: You don't know if you're going to do it or not,
24:33
Speaker 1: but you are willing to overcome that so that you
24:37
Speaker 1: can arrive at great greater confidence that you can be
24:40
Speaker 1: more determined than ever when you are faced with the
24:43
Speaker 1: next thing. And so that changes how you face future opportunities.
24:48
Speaker 1: Remember I talked about showing up in that room, showing
24:50
Speaker 1: up in that space, being in a place where you
24:53
Speaker 1: can open the door that is, or walk through a
24:56
Speaker 1: door that has been opened for you. That can't happen,
24:59
Speaker 1: meaning you have future opportunities because you're not able to
25:05
Speaker 1: approach them in a confident manner, in a positive space,
25:09
Speaker 1: with a more proactive mindset. And now I can do
25:13
Speaker 1: that until the next new challenge I come across and
25:18
Speaker 1: I have to do and repeat, rent and repeat the
25:20
Speaker 1: same thing. And then the last thing I'm gonna say,
25:22
Speaker 1: as I started this podcast off, is gratitude season. Every
25:26
Speaker 1: day is gratitude day. Every season is gratitude season. And
25:30
Speaker 1: so gratitude helps you through those challenges. Gratitude, I mean,
25:36
Speaker 1: when I was done with this, I was so grateful
25:39
Speaker 1: for the person that was assigned to me to help
25:42
Speaker 1: me with this. I was so grateful that I did
25:44
Speaker 1: not give up. I did not allow the limitations to
25:49
Speaker 1: be the thing that kept me. And I was grateful
25:53
Speaker 1: that I put myself in a position to learn and grow,
25:56
Speaker 1: put myself in again a position where I can walk
25:58
Speaker 1: through a door right, and I look forward to other challenges.
26:04
Speaker 1: I look forward and I have a new sense of
26:06
Speaker 1: purpose when it comes to this type of thing. All
26:10
Speaker 1: because I said yes, all because I showed up, All
26:13
Speaker 1: because I was willing to be vulnerable and voice and
26:16
Speaker 1: share what it is that my goals would be. So
26:20
Speaker 1: I just want to say to you that I want
26:22
Speaker 1: you to look at these flavors of life that come
26:27
Speaker 1: up as your challenging opportunities. There are opportunities to help
26:33
Speaker 1: you get more growth and empower yourself to be the
26:38
Speaker 1: best version of yourself. I certainly hope that my story
26:41
Speaker 1: inspires you to take on your own challenges with confidence.
26:47
Speaker 1: And so until next time, I want you to keep pushing.
26:49
Speaker 1: I want you to keep pushing those boundaries, and I
26:52
Speaker 1: want you to embrace new, challenging opportunities. I hope you
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