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Ep157. Harnessing Your Strengths for Authentic Authorship - Mike's Creative Process. · The Inner Wealth Podcast

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something missing in your life?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Do you ever feel the need to escape your business?
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Are you running your life or is your life running you?
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: I'm Mike Kitko and I'll help you design and create a life so authentic and aligned with who you really are you'll get excited just to wake up.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I'll help you create real wealth, success and freedom from the inside out.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you into my world a little bit more.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: I've produced 150-some episodes of the Inner Wealth Podcast and it's been running for just about three years now.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: So I've kind of talked, told a lot of stories about my life and my mission and my transformation and evolution.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: I've let you in, you know, to a large degree.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I want to let you in just a little deeper to something that's that's kind of near and dear to my heart and that's about my creative process, and I want to.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: I love, love, love, love to record podcast episodes.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: I love to produce content like blogs, and I'm a published author.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: I love writing.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: If you ever go to Facebook, go to my Facebook page, my personal page, and I do a lot of.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: It's almost like my diary.
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  Speaker 1: I share my thoughts and I share my insights and I kind of share my journey in the world on Facebook through my content.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: And there's one thing that there's one piece of content creation that sometimes gets me into a little bind and I want to share this little headlock that I experienced.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: And then I want to share the evolution beyond that headlock and how I kind of solved it, because I just recently solved that problem.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: When I look at writing a book, I've got a couple books.
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  Speaker 1: My first book was the Imposter in Charge.
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  Speaker 1: That was published in 2018, 2019.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great book.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the process, but I almost didn't make it all the way through that book.
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  Speaker 1: I mentally and emotionally ejected from that book about two-thirds of the way through.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily, at the time I had a book coach a publishing and a book coach and because I wanted to learn how to write a book and she did a great job teaching me how to write a book Thanks, nancy.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: But I had to coach and then I had my wife and my wife was like you're going to get this goddamn book done, like she wasant that we were going to publish that book and if it wasn't for those two, that book would not have gotten published 100% chance, because I, like, two thirds of the way through I was done with it.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: And that seems to be what happens with every book that I write and we can call it project or book because they, like.
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  Speaker 1: I've written probably seven books that never made it to publication because I ejected just a little early.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that I don't want to finish these.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not scared of publishing books.
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  Speaker 1: I there's a, there's been this expectation that I've set in my mind and expectation for what a book should be that I produce, that I publish.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: And these didn't meet that expectation.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: So this is the headlock that I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: When I think about publishing a book, I think about like 50,000 words, I think about somewhere between 30 to 50,000 words, and if you look at most self-help, personal improvement, there's somewhere between probably 30 and 50, maybe even 60,000 words, somewhere in that realm, probably around 200 to 250 pages, and the Impostor in Charge was 185 pages.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: So that was I.
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  Speaker 1: Actually during the project, I was writing chapters, making them long, because I had the expectation of these books being longer, being in that 200 to 250 page range.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: It was an expectation that I had.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody instilled that expectation in me.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, nancy Erickson was my book coach.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy said the book is finished when the book is finished, not at a page number and not at a word count, and I heard it.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: But I didn't listen.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: And I heard Nancy say that.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: But I still had this expectation that this book would be 30,000 to 50,000 words long.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: And I've written somewhere around seven books in the process since the Impostor in Charge.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: Actually I have a digital product called the Prosperity Principles.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: It's available on interwealthglobalcom as well, but that's digital only.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: But I've probably written seven other books since the Prosperity Principles and I've ejected early because they didn't meet this false expectation of length or of duration.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: Like they, they didn't meet this snapshot, this image that I had in my mind for what a Mike Kitko book should be.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: So I ejected from projects and and I there's seven things that I would, seven books that I could have written.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: Now what I did do in the process is like when, when I was, when I ejected from the first book, the, the second, the second book, I would, I would kind of cannibalize some of the parts from the first book into the second book, so that.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: So it's like some of the content moved across across the the the content, you know, as I, as I jumped from book to book, but not all of it.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: It's almost like I just wrote it, spent time and then just ditched it.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: Now there was some good content in all of these books.
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  Speaker 1: There was some really valuable content.
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  Speaker 1: There was some content that could have really really helped people.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: And I know there's another local coach, local to the St Louis area, another local coach and author, and when I mentioned this to her she said she said, mike, we all, all authors, we outgrow our works, but they'll help somebody.
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  Speaker 1: So it's almost like we have a duty and an obligation to write this stuff and then get it into the world so that we can help the people that need help.
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  Speaker 1: It's selfish thinking about your view and your take on a project, get it on paper, get the project done, wrap it up and publish it because it's going to help somebody.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what your perception is, matter what your perception is and even when you outgrow it because we do, we outgrow the work that we do the Impostor in Charge.
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  Speaker 1: By the time I was finished writing it, I would have written a completely different book.
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  Speaker 1: So we outgrow this content, artists and content creators, we outgrow our work, and it doesn't mean it's not valuable, it just means we wouldn't duplicate that at that moment.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: But anyway, as I was doing these seven books that I ejected from, I would get close to the end and I have outgrown it, or it didn't meet this expectation that I had for the page length, and I would give up on it and then it would sit on my desktop my desktop or my laptop for for a while until I got new inspiration.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: And then, when I got new inspiration, I had a new idea.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: Then I would go and grab some of that, I would cannibalize that and I would go and grab some of the content that I had already written and, you know, put it in various places and, and you know, I would just keep.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: And right now I have a book on my laptop and it's called Choose your Destiny.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: It's about the three C's clarity, certainty and commitment and it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the book that I would write right now, but it is in some people's hands to see if we want to publish it.
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: But anyway, the point being is, this headlock that I have is I want to get more works into the world.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: I have this block that's keeping me from actually hitting go and getting it out there, and it's not fear of people reading it and people finding out, that doesn't matter to me, I produce stuff weekly.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: It's just that there's this expectation that's not met.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: I hope that makes sense, because the reason I'm telling you this is I have a new project that I'm working on and right now the book project is called.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: The working title is called Inner World, outer World, and it's about the spiritual work that I've done to transform my life and how.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: Doing the spiritual work in your life is what creates material transformation, material changes.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: So every change that I've made in my material world has come from a spiritual change, and a spiritual change meaning the way I think about things, the way I believe about things, the way I feel about things, the way I identify things, the importance of things in my life, in my mind and my body has shifted and that's what's caused me to lose 100 pounds and be the fittest I've ever been, to build an awesome business, and that gives me time, freedom and financial freedom and I'm not a very busy man.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: My family's traveling to Cancun, mexico, this coming week.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: We get to travel a lot, we do a lot of cool things, and it's that business that has given us that ability and the impact that we make.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: And my marriage is completely different.
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  Speaker 1: The way I interact with people, my circle is completely different, and all of those changes happen because of the spiritual changes that I made.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: The inner world when you shift your inner reality, your external reality, it shifts itself, and I've shared this on this podcast many, many times and it's kind of the message that I love sharing with people.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: It's the message that I love delivering the most is, when you change who you are, everything else in your life changes.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: And if you look, most people are focused on changing their circumstances, but they're trying to stay the same.
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  Speaker 1: But when you change yourself, your circumstances magically change, because your circumstances are just a reflection of who you are.
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  Speaker 1: So when who you are changes, so do your circumstances, and that's what inner world outer world is going to cover, and that's what inner world outer world is going to cover.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: It's my journey, my spiritual journey, and this is really the book that I've always wanted to write.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I had the courage to write it because it's very woo, it's a lot of woo and it's very spiritual, very in-depth in terms of the spirituality of my Kitco.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: But the spiritual transformation creates a material transformation.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: That's the, that's the whole point, and I've it's probably gonna, it's probably gonna land somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 words and in the past I wouldn't.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: Right now, as it sits on my laptop, there's 9,000 words and I got a couple more chapters to write.
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  Speaker 1: So this is going to be a really, really short book.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the revelation, I guess realization.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Here's the right.
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  Speaker 1: So this is going to be a really, really short book.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the revelation, I guess realization.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the epiphany that I recently had that helped me overcome this headlock is there's a handful of books.
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  Speaker 1: There are a handful of books Like as a man Thinketh, like the Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale, there's a couple of Stuart Wilde books that these books are really short.
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  Speaker 1: They're like 45-minute audio books and when I go for a run I'll put as a man Thinketh on and by the time I finish my run I've already finished that book.
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  Speaker 1: So I've probably consumed that book 150 times in my life and it's an awesome book.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with the Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale, the Stuart Wilde book, you know, 150 times in my life and it's, it's an awesome book.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: Same thing with with the strangest secret by Earl Nightingale, the Stuart wild books some of the Stuart wild books that are really, really short.
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  Speaker 1: They're more like a short lecture than than a book.
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  Speaker 1: I love those books and when I think about listening, re-listening to an audio book, I always go to the short ones first, because I love the format of short books.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely do.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: I don't love really really long books.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: Right now, in in our book study in the inner wealth mastermind, in our book study, we're we're reviewing, uh and we're studying a book called, uh, the levels of energy by Frederick Dodson.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it's awesome, it's a great book and and it's very educational in terms of spirituality and the shift of consciousness as we, as we make the spiritual change.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's, it's an awesome book.
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  Speaker 1: That thing is long and it's probably going to take us, you know, maybe two years to study this book, but anyway, this thing is long.
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  Speaker 1: But I love, love, love I can't emphasize that enough Super short books and I always have, and I've tried to force myself into writing books that I wouldn't love to read.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say that again, I tried to force myself to write books that I wouldn't love to read because they're too long and there's too much detail and there's too much information.
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  Speaker 1: I like.
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  Speaker 1: I like quick hitters.
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  Speaker 1: I like books where there's no fluff, there's not a lot of there's.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of theory, there's just, there's just good, solid knowledge and wisdom, and it's delivered swiftly, it's delivered intensely and it's in your face and there's no fluff, there's no theatrics to it.
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  Speaker 1: I love those types of books, and this book Inner World, outer World is shaping up to be exactly that, and I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've also learned something about myself, and I always knew this.
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  Speaker 1: I love to speak more than I love to write, and I always knew this I love to speak more than I love to write, and I always had the expectation that I needed to type.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: I needed to type my books, and typing on the laptop for long periods of time Anything that's long starts to lose my attention.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: So when I go to a baseball game, when I go to some kind of a musical event, a concert, like, give me 10, 15 minutes of the experience and I've had enough, I'm done.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: I just want to see it, I want to hear it, I want to experience it, I want to be in its energy and I want out.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: So sitting in front of a keyboard for long, long stretches is just not in my DNA, it's not in my makeup and that's one of the reasons that, after a while, I lose my excitement, my passion for typing and finishing these books.
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  Speaker 1: Know what we live in, like.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: This is 2024.
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  Speaker 1: And we live in an amazing world and there's a lot of awesome technology and I started using it and what I did is I took my phone and I hit record on a voice memo and I started talking.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: And I started talking and I started.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I started talking about the introduction, started like telling a story and making an introduction.
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  Speaker 1: I also did this with a prologue and then then I started documenting after I had the introduction, you know, and I knew where I was going with the book.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Then I started listing out the uh, the, the chapters that I wanted to cover, and I didn't worry about the flow, I just started listing all the different chapters and on these voice memos, voice recordings, I'll just sit outside on my patio, I'll hit record and I'll just jam and these sections they'll be 10 to 14 minutes long of spoken word and it feels really good because I talk and speak better than I type and it's long of spoken word and it feels really good because I talk and speak better than I type and it's easier for me to talk than it is for me to type and it's more fun for me to talk than it is for me to type.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So to think that it has to be a certain length and have that expectation, to think that I have to type it out in order for it to be okay, these things have been debilitating to my creative process and now that I'm voice memoing these things and voice recording them and then throwing them through a transcription service and I get the transcription of that, then you can also throw that through.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I've got Mike Kitco AI, where ChatGPT has been programmed with all of my content, all of my blogs, all my podcasts, all of my books, and it speaks like me, kitco AI, and I tell it to edit and take out redundancy and to edit spelling and to edit grammar and to edit punctuation and to make it easier to read while keeping it in my voice.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: No-transcript.
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  Speaker 1: It's doing an astounding job.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I'm finished this book it'll be somewhere between 10 to 15,000 pages or 10 to 15,000 words.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: It'll have been created in a way that's really easy for me and really fun for me, and then I get to sit down wall to wall and go through this book and look at the flow, and it'll be the first time that I've ever read what I've spoken.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Instead of reading something that I've already written, I'll be reading something that I haven't read yet, that I haven't really written.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: That's all I can.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It's the best way I can say it, and I'll get to see what I unpacked in these voice recordings and then I can start cleaning it up and then I can start rearranging it and reorganizing it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And I have a feeling that my authorship career is about to take off, because I always had this vision of being a serial author.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: It just nauseated me to sit down and actually type on a laptop to create this content.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And I think I've solved all those little hiccups and headlocks and now I'm actually churning out some content.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So I think we'll have this thing done.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I think I can have this thing wrapped up, probably by the end of the year.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: No, I should be able to have it wrapped up by the end of the year and we'll see what publication is going to look like.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: But, guys, here's the main message that I want to share with you, and here's why I'm sharing this, and we'll see what publication's gonna look like.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But, guys, here's the main message that I wanna share with you, and here's why I'm sharing this, because I didn't wanna just tell you a story about me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I wanted to connect it to you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You are built in a specific way, for a specific reason, and there's resistance inside of you, and that resistance is very, very telling.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: There's certain things that you get excited to do and there's certain things that you don't get excited to do.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: There's certain things that you're good at and there's certain things you're not good at.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: There are certain things that inspire you and there are certain things that nauseate you.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Pay attention to all this because they're all telling you what's perfect for you.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: They're all telling you how to use your talents.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: There are certain things you want to do and there are certain things you don't.
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  Speaker 1: These desires, these talents, this inspiration it's pulling you in a direction and it's trying to guide your ship in a way that's perfectly suited and perfectly natural for your unique design.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: That's perfectly suited and perfectly natural for your unique design, and you're not designed like anyone else.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: In our, in our inner wealth, mastermind.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We also have a soul sciences call, which is to dive into human design and gene keys and soul sciences and and and a lot of really woo, woo, uh personality platforms that help you understand your genetic blueprint and your design and what you're gifted for and or gifted at and talented with, and and what you're like, what you really desire in this world, what you're really after in this world, and these, all these personality profiles, they, they, they point you in a direction to help you get on your purpose, in your purpose and on your natural path.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Because when you're on your natural path, when you're in your purpose, life gets really, really fun and uncomplicated and it's expansive.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And when you're on your natural path, everything that you need to serve your spiritual purpose starts showing up.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Listen to what's happening in your mind and body and don't fight your design.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Listen to your design, learn from your design, work with your design, not against it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I'm a gifted speaker.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: These podcast episodes, when I write them, all I have or when I record them, all I have is a topic.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I don't even have a title, I have a topic, and then I just sit down and hit record for 20 minutes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I don't have a script.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: They're not pre-planned.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I'm very gifted when it comes to jamming off the cuff on a topic, on an idea, on a concept.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Not everybody's like that, and if you're not, then don't try to do that, but if you are, use it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I've had people tell me you need to plan and script.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: No, I don't.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I don't need to, because when I don't good things happen, understand your design, look at what's happening in your mind and body, pay attention to the resistance, pay attention to the I get to's and pay attention to the I have to and really monitor them, because in your desires they're pointing you in a certain direction.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You are perfectly suited to carry out your spiritual purpose in this world.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: You are perfectly suited to carry out your material purpose in this world.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And if you don't know if you're in your purpose or not, you're not, because when you're in your purpose, when you're working in your purpose, when you're operating in your purpose, you know it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: You know it, you feel locked in and then you can start utilizing all of your gifts and talents and strengths and your natural instincts and natural abilities.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: But you've got to stop fighting your design first.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I hope this is helpful, now that I've stopped fighting my design.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: My design is starting to take me to magical places, because this thing that I'm writing right now is the one that I've always wanted to write and it's some of the best work I've ever done.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Guys, I look forward to getting this out in the world and I thank you again for jamming on the podcast with me.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: These are a pleasure, because I love creating content for the world, for consumption.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Move the needle in some way, shape or form, every day and every week.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Thanks for being part of my family, thanks for being part of my life, and we'll see you next time.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: If you enjoyed what you heard and you want to learn more, go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcom for more tools and resources.