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How to Make Every Opportunity Count (S5) S32:E3 Monday · Inspirations for Your Life

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  Good evening, everyone.
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  All right, guys, so this is Inspirations for
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  Your Life.
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  The Master Weekly Topic, Series 5, Show 32,
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  Build a Life That Truly Matters.
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  And the granular today is Series 5, Show
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  32, Episode Number 3, How to Make Every
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  Opportunity Count.
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  Yeah.
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  Welcome, once again, everyone, to the ever-popular
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  Inspirations for Your Life show.
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  I am John C.
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  Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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  podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student at
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  Montclair State University, a passionate lifelong learner, and
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  now so grateful to be a published author.
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  Yes, guys, great to be with you.
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  Many people spend their lives waiting for the
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  perfect opportunity, believing success will arrive at just
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  the right moment.
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  The truth is opportunities rarely announce themselves.
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  They often appear as difficult conversations, unexpected challenges,
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  new relationships, or problems waiting to be solved.
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  See, the people who achieve extraordinary things aren't
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  necessarily luckier than anyone else.
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  They are simply better prepared to recognize opportunities,
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  the signals, and courageous enough to act upon
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  them.
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  Today, I'm going to explore 30 principles with
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  you that will help you make every opportunity
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  count and build a life that truly matters.
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  Are you ready?
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  I know I am.
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  Number one, guys, opportunities surround you.
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  Opportunities exist everywhere, but you'll only recognize them
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  if you're paying attention for them.
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  Keep your eyes open because your next breakthrough
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  could come from the most unexpected place.
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  Number two, stay prepared.
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  Preparation creates confidence.
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  The more you learn, practice, and improve, the
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  more ready you'll be when opportunity arrives.
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  Number three, recognize possibilities.
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  Don't focus only on obstacles.
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  Train yourself to see possibilities where others see
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  limitations.
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  Number four, think positively.
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  A positive mindset doesn't ignore challenges.
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  It believes that every challenge contains the potential
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  for growth.
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  That's a real key.
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  Number five, take initiative.
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  Don't wait for someone else to create opportunities
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  for you.
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  Take the first step and begin creating your
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  own right now.
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  Number six, act with confidence.
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  Confidence doesn't require certainty.
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  It comes from believing you can learn, adapt,
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  and overcome whatever comes your way.
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  Number seven, don't wait.
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  There will never be a perfect moment.
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  The best time to begin is often right
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  now.
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  Stay curious.
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  Curiosity opens doors that routine often overlooks.
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  Ask questions, explore new ideas, and remain eager
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  to learn.
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  So not only will you be a great
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  student, but when you do that, you will
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  actually become someone that other people want to
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  interact and be part of.
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  So I think that's a very, very key
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  thing, guys.
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  Number nine, learn quickly.
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  Every experience offers a lesson.
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  The faster you learn, the faster you grow.
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  That's key, guys.
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  Number 10, adapt often.
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  Life changes constantly.
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  Those who adapt continue moving forward while others
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  remain stuck.
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  Yeah, nobody wants to be stuck.
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  Number 11, solve problems.
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  Every problem you solve creates value for someone.
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  People who solve meaningful problems naturally create meaningful
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  opportunities.
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  Build momentum in everything you do.
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  Small actions lead to bigger opportunities.
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  Keep taking consistent steps.
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  This is key, guys.
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  Keep taking those consistent steps forward until progress
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  becomes momentum.
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  It's like when you start the engine, you
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  might not be able to start it right
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  away.
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  You do a couple times, and then once
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  it turns over, it keeps running.
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  But once it runs, it stays running.
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  Number 13, stay focused.
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  Distractions steal opportunities.
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  Keep your attention on your goals and avoid
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  wasting energy on things that don't move you
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  forward.
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  Number 14, keep improving.
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  Never stop developing your skills.
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  Your knowledge and your character are key.
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  Continuous improvement prepares you for greater opportunities.
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  Number 15, believe in possibility.
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  The greatest accomplishments often begin with someone believing
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  that something difficult is still possible.
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  I think a lot of people, when they
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  hear that, and they hear from other people
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  that you can't do something, they're like, okay,
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  I guess I can't do it.
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  And a lot of people don't share that
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  they can do something.
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  They just share that they can't do something.
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  I think that's a big – I think
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  that's something that a lot of people miss.
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  They miss that whole concept that they are
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  bigger than the problem.
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  You know, all the storms you have, okay,
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  you'll weather any of them, okay?
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  But a tough person is around after the
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  storm.
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  So storms come and go.
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  But your resilience, your attitude keeps you to
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  last through any storm.
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  Number 16, stay disciplined.
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  Opportunities don't just arrive when it's convenient.
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  Discipline keeps you prepared even when you don't
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  immediately see results.
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  See, the habits you build today determine whether
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  you'll be ready when tomorrow's opportunities appear.
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  Will you be ready or you'll be saying,
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  oh, I'm not ready for that opportunity?
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  Can you come back tomorrow?
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  Can you come back next week?
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  And I tell people this is a pretty
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  interesting thing, and that is one thing.
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  What I want to tell you is that
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  when you think about these opportunities, right, you
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  think about how they're going forward.
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  A lot of people don't understand how our
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  thoughts make these opportunities become easier.
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  Number 17, guys, turn setbacks into lessons.
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  Not every opportunity works out the way you
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  planned.
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  And that's okay.
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  Every disappointment teaches something valuable.
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  Instead of asking, why did this happen to
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  me?
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  Ask, what can I learn from this?
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  Different way to pose it, right?
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  Lessons gained through experience often become your greatest
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  advantage.
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  Your greatest advantage.
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  Number 18, guys, number 18, keep moving, keep
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  moving.
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  That's important.
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  Momentum is created by action, not by waiting,
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  not by procrastinating, not by stalling.
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  So progress feels slow.
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  Every step forward is building confidence, right?
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  Experience and resilience are your keys.
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  Don't allow the temporary obstacles or, you know,
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  these barriers that get in your way to
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  stop permanent progress.
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  Number 19, invest wisely.
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  Your time, energy, and attention are valuable resources.
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  Invest them in people, skills, and opportunities that
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  align with your long-term goals, instead of
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  wasting them on distractions that provide little lasting
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  value, guys.
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  Yeah.
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  Number 20, build confidence.
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  Confidence grows through action.
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  Every challenge you accept, every problem you solve,
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  and every opportunity you pursue strengthens your belief
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  in yourself.
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  So when we overcome, let's say, a challenge,
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  we build that confidence.
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  And that confidence helps us to grow even
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  more.
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  So it builds more confidence, and the energy
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  is positively contagious.
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  Other people want to be part of your
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  circle or your, let's say, two to five
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  feet range so they can gain that.
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  It's earned, ladies and gentlemen, through experience, not
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  osmosis, all right?
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  Number 21, think creatively.
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  Sometimes the greatest opportunities appear when you stop
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  looking for ordinary solutions.
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  I want you to challenge yourself to think
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  differently.
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  Starting today, ask better questions and consider possibilities
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  that others may have overlooked.
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  So when we ask better questions, we get
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  better answers.
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  I've told people this with technology.
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  If you put in better input, you get
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  better output out.
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  We just have to think about what that
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  means.
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  That's a whole key, guys.
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  That's a key.
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  Number 22, stay optimistic, okay?
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  Optimism allows you to see potential where others
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  see problems.
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  A positive outlook doesn't guarantee success, but it
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  helps you recognize opportunities that negativity often hides.
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  So it's like what we're looking for.
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  And if we're looking for something and we
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  miss it, it's like, oh my gosh, what
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  am I supposed to do?
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  And then you're like, I don't know.
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  So you get taken off by that.
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  And that causes you to get to a
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  whole new level.
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  And that level, I think, will not only
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  build your confidence, but it will cause you
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  to learn things that you didn't even know
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  were possible.
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  I think that's a real important thing.
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  So we want to have positivity so we
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  don't have any negativity because negativity shields us
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  from the good that we have to be
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  able to see and opportunities that are there
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  for us.
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  Number 23, guys, keep growing.
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  Growth should never, ever stop.
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  Every book you read, every conversation you have,
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  and every skill you develop, and every lesson
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  you learn prepares you for greater opportunities ahead.
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  Number 24, every opportunity teaches.
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  I don't care what it is.
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  You may not like the opportunity, but it's
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  still going to teach you.
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  And I think that's a very important thing
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  for us to actually embrace.
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  Very important.
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  Every opportunity teaches.
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  Whether an opportunity leads to success or disappointment,
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  it always leaves you with greater knowledge to
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  do something again or to stay clear of
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  something.
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  Every experience expands your perspective and prepares you
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  for the next challenge.
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  Because if you try to just skip the
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  steps, right, you know how we used to
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  do like paint by number, you connect the
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  dots, you have to go in the order
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  of the numbers or the letters.
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  If you go out of order, what happens?
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  It doesn't look like much.
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  This is why learning how to count when
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  you're young was very important, learning the alphabet
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  was important.
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  And when you follow the letters, you're able
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  to create something.
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  Somebody that would say, hey, now follow the
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  numbers backwards or follow the numbers by skipping
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  five to get something.
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  These are all different things you can do.
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  And when we apply this knowledge, it's pretty
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  amazing what we can accomplish, guys.
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  Really, really amazing.
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  Number 25, I want you to stay intentional.
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  I know I say this word every day,
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  but your life needs to consist with intentional
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  pieces.
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  If it doesn't, it's like you're just going
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  through the motions.
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  So stay intentional.
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  Don't drift through life hoping something good will
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  happen.
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  It's nice to have those thoughts, but you
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  need to take the action from your inspired
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  thoughts.
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  Live with purpose.
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  Make decisions that align with your values, your
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  goals, and the future you're working to create.
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  I'm not saying you're going to know exactly
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  what that future is or where you're going
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  to turn, but what I'm telling you is
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  you're going to make that future.
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  You're going to make it, okay?
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  But you've got to believe in yourself, and
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  you've got to take those steps.
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  And those steps, guys, might not be like
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  walking on sand.
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  They might be like walking in almost hardened
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  concrete, feeling like drudgery.
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  But you can get through it.
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  Every step makes you stronger, builds the confidence,
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  builds your resilience, okay?
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  Number 26, build experience.
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  Experience is one of life's greatest teachers.
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  Every project, every conversation, every success, and every
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  setback adds another layer of wisdom that no
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  classroom can fully provide.
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  Let me see if that explains it.
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  So I've gone to Europe many times, and
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  I'll go back again, but I was with
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  a group called American Leadership Study Groups.
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  I don't think ALSG, I don't think they're
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  even in business anymore.
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  Yeah, it was American.
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  I don't think they're still American Leadership Study
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  Group.
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  I don't think they're still around anymore.
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  So according to this, they're a domestic for
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  -profit corporation, and they were filed in 1967,
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  and they're currently listed as, right now, they
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  dissolved.
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  They were in Massachusetts, so they're not around
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  anymore.
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  But the whole thing with them was that
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  it wasn't just about taking a trip.
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  It was about gaining knowledge.
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  Somebody said to me, John, you could take
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  French.
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  You could take Italian.
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  You could take all these classes.
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  But what you're going to learn by going
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  to that country for just a month will
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  probably be more than you learn in a
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  few years in school.
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  That's powerful, guys.
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  That's powerful.
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  So that means that we learn by, what
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  am I going to say, guys?
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  We learn by immersion.
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  We learn by immersion.
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  That's a very profound thing, that we can
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  learn by immersion.
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  That's how we learned the English language, in
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  case you didn't know that.
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  That's exactly how we learned the English language.
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  You learned it by immersion.
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  And when you're part of something, it changes
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  you.
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  And it gets you to think differently, just
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  like your goals.
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  If you want a goal to happen, embrace
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  the goal.
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  Create things that would be as if the
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  goal happened.
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  And I think that's hard for a lot
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  of people to understand.
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  It's hard.
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  I get it.
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  But if you do it day in and
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  day out and you keep showing up, you're
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  going to be amazing.
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  So building experience is not the easiest thing.
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  But when we build experience, we're able to
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  transform our lives a lot faster than if
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  we didn't.
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  Immersing yourself in the culture, being with somebody,
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  hearing how they talk, and being right in
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  the thick of it.
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  I mean, that's pretty amazing.
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  I know I went there with – Google
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  wasn't that popular back then for translating, so
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  I had a little translator.
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  I had a little book, actually.
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  It was a translating book.
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  And I would look up certain words of
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  people, like, oh, he's trying to learn a
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  language.
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  And they were kind.
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  Most places were very kind when they knew
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  you were trying to speak the language.
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  Number 27, guys, this is not easy.
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  Trust yourself.
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  I know everybody around you is going to
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  say no, but you've got to believe and
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  trust yourself.
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  So believe in your current ability.
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  Even if it's not what you want, so
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  you can adapt, solve problems, and keep learning,
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  guys.
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  You don't need to know everything before taking
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  the next step.
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  You'll be able to say, well, I don't
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  know what I've got to do.
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  You don't need to know everything.
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  You need to know you want to take
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  the next step.
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  Maybe you know a few things, and that's
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  really all you need to know is you
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  can learn that next step.
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  That's very important, guys.
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  Very important.
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  Very, very important to understand that concept.
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  The concept that it's okay not to know
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  everything.
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  It's okay to keep learning.
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  It's okay to be wrong sometimes.
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  You're going to learn from that mistake.
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  You're probably not going to do that again.
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  You're not going to do that again.
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  But I know trusting in ourself is hard
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  when we just learn something, like a new
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  skill.
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  Trust that you'll continue growing along the way,
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  learning and changing and morphing.
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  Nothing wrong with that.
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  That's pure success.
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  Number 28, success, ladies and gentlemen, if you
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  have not guessed it by now, does not
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  favor people sitting on the couch.
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  Does not favor procrastination.
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  Does not favor, you know, putting it off.
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  Success favors one thing, consistent, constructive action.
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  Ideas have value.
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  They do.
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  But action creates results.
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  The people who consistently move forward are often
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  the ones willing to act while others continue
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  waiting for perfect conditions.
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  If you want to keep waiting for those
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  perfect conditions, keep waiting.
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  And you're like, when am I going to
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  get my chance?
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  Well, probably not for a while because there's
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  never going to be a perfect time, a
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  perfect moment, a perfect day, a perfect experience.
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  It's not going to be there.
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  You need to adapt to what's there, learn
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  and grow into it.
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  And the more you do that, the more
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  resilient you become.
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  The more resilient you become.
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  Number 29, guys, every chance matters.
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  I don't care if it's a big chance
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  or a small chance.
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  Every chance matters.
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  Don't dismiss an opportunity because it seems small.
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  Many of life's biggest breakthroughs begin with one
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  conversation, one meeting, one introduction, or just one
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  simple decision to say the word yes.
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  A lot of people I know are afraid
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  to say the word yes.
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  They feel it's going to be like a
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  doomsday.
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  It's not.
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  But you definitely need to embrace what that
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  is.
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  And the more you embrace it, the more
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  that you can change.
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  That's very important, very, very important to understand.
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  But you guys can do this.
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  You absolutely can do this.
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  Number 30, opportunity rewards preparation.
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  Luck may open a door.
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  Great.
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  But preparation determines whether you're ready to walk
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  through it.
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  Now, I'm going to tell you something else.
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  People say, oh, you know, John, I don't
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  want to go in the door yet.
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  I'm not ready.
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  The door's open right now.
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  Yeah, I'll get it later.
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  Now, that door may come around and you
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  may see it.
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  But it's got to be locked.
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  Or you'll never see the door again.
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  Continue learning, improving, and preparing because the opportunities
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  you're hoping for may arrive sooner than you
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  expect.
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  That's a mouthful, guys.
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  A real mouthful.
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  I want to close this show today.
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  Making every opportunity count isn't about saying yes
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  to everything.
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  You don't need to be a yes man
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  or a yes lady.
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  It's about becoming the kind of intentional person
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  who is prepared and courageous enough to recognize
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  opportunities when they appear.
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  The more you grow, learn, and take action,
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  the more opportunities you'll begin to see.
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  Remember, opportunity doesn't usually arrive wearing a name
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  tag or holding a megaphone saying, hey, I'm
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  over here.
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  It often looks like hard work, a difficult
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  challenge, an unexpected conversation, or a problem waiting
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  for someone to solve.
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  Stay curious.
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  Stay disciplined.
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  Keep improving.
• 24:14
  And never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever stop
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  believing that your next opportunity could change your
• 24:24
  entire life.
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  I thank you so much from the bottom
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  of my heart for choosing to join me
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  today for another amazing episode of the ever
• 24:33
  -popular Inspirations for Your Life show.
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  I am John C.
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  Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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  podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student at
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  Montclair State University, passionate lifelong learner.
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  And so grateful, ladies and gentlemen, now to
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  be a published author.
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  The words I say to you next are
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  these.
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  Until next time, remember that extraordinary lives aren't
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  built by waiting for opportunity.
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  They're not.
• 25:10
  If you think you're going to get your
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  ticket or your golden ticket because you got
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  lucky, like Willy Wonka, you know, and how
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  that guy advertised and how the kid actually
• 25:24
  bought the candy bar and they didn't win.
• 25:28
  And then the other candy bar, they won.
• 25:30
  And the Grandpa Joe and the kid, they
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  went off.
• 25:34
  And then he said it was all a
• 25:37
  waste of time.
• 25:40
  Until he had to test Charlie Slugworth, who
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  was, he thought, the bad guy.
• 25:50
  And he took the gobstopper, which was what
• 25:53
  Slugworth wanted, and he put it on the
• 25:56
  desk.
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  And as soon as that happened, he changed
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  his whole, like, modus.
• 26:02
  He was like, now he trusts that person.
• 26:04
  And now they could move into this whole
• 26:06
  factory together.
• 26:07
  That was an amazing change of life.
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  See, they're built by recognizing them and preparing
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  for them and taking action when they arrive.
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  Too many people think once they arrive, okay,
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  I'm done.
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  I don't need to learn anymore.
• 26:24
  I know so much.
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  Those that do that are going to be
• 26:28
  destined to be sorry.
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  Because things morph.
• 26:33
  Things change.
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  I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, please keep
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  growing.
• 26:42
  Please keep believing.
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  And please keep building a life that truly
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  matters, not only to you, but to other
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  people.
• 26:52
  And you might do all these things I
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  said today, and you'll be like, John, it
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  didn't work.
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  Well, if you ever played basketball or any
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  other sport, do you become an expert the
• 27:04
  day out of the gate?
• 27:06
  Or maybe you're riding a horse or you're
• 27:07
  fishing or whatever you're doing.
• 27:09
  Do you become an expert as soon as
• 27:11
  you sign up?
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  No.
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  You work at something.
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  It doesn't work.
• 27:19
  You retool.
• 27:21
  I remember taking my very first computer science
• 27:24
  course.
• 27:25
  I learned basic probably before I was even
• 27:28
  in high school.
• 27:29
  It was actually at an IBM summer computer
• 27:31
  camp.
• 27:32
  And it was amazing.
• 27:34
  Coding and figuring out what worked and what
• 27:36
  didn't work.
• 27:36
  It was absolutely amazing.
• 27:40
  And getting to think and create something before
• 27:44
  I was even in high school.
• 27:47
  That was powerful, guys.
• 27:49
  I remember my Atari 800 or 1200 when
• 27:54
  I actually wrote my first program.
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  Have yourself a great rest of your day
• 27:57
  or evening, and do check out BelieveMeAchieve.com.
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  And let's make every opportunity count.
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  That's right.
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  Right, yeah, yeah.
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  Oh, that's nice you won.
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  You got to pick the queen of something.