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121. Count it All Joy · Your Enriched Self

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  What if you knew with all certainty that everything that you have experienced, everything
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  you are experiencing right now, are going to lead you to the destination that
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  you have been desiring, the destination, the alignment to the dream, to
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  the thing that you want to accomplish in this life. What if you knew
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  that with all certainty that no matter what step you take, it was the
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  right step. It was directional, it was intentional, and it would still
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  lead you to a place that aligns perfectly with your destiny. I want you
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  to think about that because I want you to know that you are in your
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  life, experiencing it only as you can, on purpose, for a purpose,
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  to create the best version of you, a version of you that can
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  take a step into that new place that is equipped to experience the life that
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  you have been dreaming of. I believe that is your truth. But what
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  do you believe? This is a season that you've got to believe more about
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  you, about your destiny than you have ever believed. Hello, my friends
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  from all across the globe, and welcome to the Your Rich Self Podcast.
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  I am your host, Smi Lee Noir. I am a mindset coach and
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  your mindset advocate. And I know this time of year, especially this time
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  of year, there are so many things, so many places that you need
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  to be and do, and so I've honored created a special place for you
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  to just breathe, for you to realize that you need a moment, because
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  I know if we don't do this here, you're not going to take a
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  moment for yourself elsewhere. And so I've created this your enriched Self space,
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  this podcast platform, so that you can be and do and give yourself,
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  gift yourself time to become more of your enrich self. And so that's what
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  this podcast is and what it has been. So if you are new to
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  the space, I want to welcome you and thank you for being here.
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  I know that you are brought here on purpose, for a purpose. And
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  if you are a repeat listener and you've been writing with me on this journey
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  of becoming more of your enrich self, I want to thank you from the
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  bottom of my heart because without you, without your perspective, your insight,
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  your participation, your DMS, your feedback, we wouldn't be here today.
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  We are at episode one hundred and twenty one and it is because of you,
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  and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart now before
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  we get started into this week's episode, and it's going to be good.
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  It's going to be great if you know, you know. We start each
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  episode where I make a deposit into the bank of you, and I do
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  so by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to start your day
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  and to command your morning. And this week's affirmation is I stand in the
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  joy that I cultivate from within. I stand in the joy that I cultivate
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  from within. I stand in the joy that I cultivate from within. Now
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  let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self podcast. We've
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  all lived in a life to know that the journey comes with struggle. That's
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  just part of the package of living in this life. But what if I
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  told you to count it all joy? And if that sounds familiar to you,
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  it is a biblical perspective. So in the Book of James, Chapter
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  one, Versus two and three, it's reads, my brethren, count it
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  all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your
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  faith produces patients. And there are some other versions of this biblical perspective written
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  as such. Consider it a share gift. Friends. When tests and challenges
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  come at you from all sides, you know that under pressure, your faith
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  life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try
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  to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you can
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  become mature and well developed, not deficient in any way. And so I
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  was recently inspired by this counted all Joy with a friend of mine. I
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  had caught up with her after she had gone through quite a tumultuous time,
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  and that time really had occurred over the course of the last couple of years.
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  She had just dealt with one thing after the next thing after the next
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  thing. And it was interesting as I watched her do her thing. She
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  still lived, She still lived life as fully as she possibly could. If
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  you didn't know her and you watched her just walk into the world, wake
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  up, own the day, and do the things, you would never know
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  what she had dealt with. And I think that's the case with pretty much
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  anyone we interact with, whether it's family, friends, or people you work
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  with. You don't know the shoes that person is wearing. I know the
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  shoes they retired from. You don't know the shoes they're walking in. You
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  don't know what you don't know, and in this case, I didn't know.
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  I did know what this person had dealt with and they were finally in
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  a winning space, a winning season, if you will. And I asked
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  her, I said, how do you feel about finally arriving in this place
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  that you're in? And she said, you know, I can't celebrate.
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  I'm just observing. She said, I've been in observation mode for the longest,
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  for the last couple of years. Like I said, this has been
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  something she has walked through every day for almost two three almost three years.
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  She said, I feel as though I had to and experience the connections,
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  the people, all of the experience, the different walks that she had to
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  step into, some prepared and most unprepared. She said, I'm just in
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  a space observing, grateful, but recognizing that I met some great people in
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  those two years. And man, is that perspective or what that's biblical and
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  that's natural and that supernatural perspective to walk away from something that most would say
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  was the hardest part of their lives, the worst part of their lives for
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  some would author it as such. And this individual said, you know what,
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  I can look around at all the people I saw on the journey,
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  from the beginning of it to the end, and I saw myself in some
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  of those people. And I met people that don't even recognize how much and
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  what they meant to me in that time. She recalled to me a person
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  that bought her coffee one day. She remembered that level of detail about an
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  experience where she was in line and someone just said about your coffee, And
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  it was those small moments that's what her reflection point was. She didn't talk
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  about the bad times, she didn't talk about the struggles. She literally was
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  in the season of counting it all joy, and I want you to get
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  closer to that season. I know it's difficult, I know it's challenging.
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  I'm not gonna say what this person went through, but they went through a
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  very hard life situation. Nothing I would want for myself, for anyone.
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  I know, I didn't even want it for her. But she did it
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  with such grace, and then she came out of it with a different perspective.
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  Like I said, it's very biblical to be in this place to count
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  it all joy, to know that yes, they're gonna be twisting turns along
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  the way. The road isn't gonna be easy, but we at the end
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  build enough strength to become the architects of our own greatness. And I can
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  hear her, I can see her, and I can feel her step into
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  that greatness, and that is powerful and it's a great moment. And when
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  I think about the count It All joy, I think about the endurance that
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  you come away with. I think about the fact that the perseverance that you've
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  had to withstand through it all, and the maturity again going back to becoming
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  more mature and well developed, as the Book of James refers it to,
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  I think you get it right. It's the idea that despite challenges, we
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  should find joy in the process. I know you've heard joy on the journey,
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  and we know that the journey is filled with struggles, or you will
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  encounter struggles. But what if you started to look at the areas in that
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  struggle that led you to your personal growth, that led you to being more
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  resilient and become more mature and more of a complete, well rounded in the
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  we talk here on this podcast about becoming more of your enriched self. Counting
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  it all joy is finding those enriched moments, counting those enriched moments, counting
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  your blessings. It is an emphasis on the things that you were able to
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  transform, really your power. Like I said, you're stepping into your greatness.
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  So you're going to push through the adversity. You are going to develop
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  a level of strength, a level of character, and some new insights which
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  will translate to wisdom once you start applying it. Because there was so much
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  on her journey that we didn't even get a chance to talk about, but
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  the little that she pulled out was enough for me to see that yes she
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  had heartache, yet she had discomfort. Yes there was disappointment, but in
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  the end, she was able to navigate the hardships. She was able to
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  turn the adversity now into a moment of counting it all and using it now
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  as a stepping stone for the next thing. Because that's what we do with
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  this stuff, right. We take these lessons learned, we take these lessons
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  earned, as I've talked about here on this podcast, and we recognize that
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  it is a stepping stone to our own evolution. We are the architects of
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  our evolution. Ultimately, it's a mindset. Your mind has to be set,
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  no matter what you're going through, you have to be your own encourager.
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  I talk about the internal coach. You have to be your internal coach
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  because you have to push past the challenges and recognize that the challenge is simply
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  another opportunity to learn and transcend where you are currently limited. So I have
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  often referred to life as a classroom when you go through these difficult moments,
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  because you can't count only the joyous moment, and so count it all.
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  Joy is, as you can imagine, counting it all joy, the challenging
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  moments, the moments where it was hard to navigate, and everything in between,
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  the successful moments, the moments where you felt like you were on top,
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  and you were in fact on top. That's counting it all joy.
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  We don't get to pick and choose. We get to participate. And I
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  often call life a classroom. And I've told my kids, listen, the
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  only way you're going to be the best version of you is that you don't
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  look at the other person's paper. The reason why, in this classroom called
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  life, we're all taking a different test, We're all going through a different
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  trial. And these tests and trials are there for us to get an assessment
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  of our understanding. And I remember I used to pray about God give me
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  the patience, and I thought, no, I don't want to pray that
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  prayer anymore because I don't want to be tested on how patient I am.
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  And then I would find myself waiting in a space that I did not want
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  to wait. I was wasting time, and I thought, well, you
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  wanted patience, here is your test. Did you pass this lesson? And
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  so you're going to go through these tests because it's going to help you know
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  what you know and know what you don't know. The tests are going to
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  help you to understand when to apply. Sometimes we do it too soon,
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  like it's said in the Book of James. You don't want to do it
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  prematurely. You don't want to step away too prematurely, and you don't want
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  to step into this thing prematurely. So you're gonna have to know when to
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  apply. And then finally, it helps you to begin to trust the process,
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  to trust your process, because the only person that's going to know how
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  to do this is yourself. And so in this classroom of this comfort that's
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  what I'm gonna call life, there are going to be uncomfortable moments here.
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  Think about a seed and that seed that is in the ground that you planted.
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  In order for it to break free, it has to break that shell
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  to sprout, and so that is a level of discomfort. But what happens
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  from that is growth. What happens from that is broken barriers to get to
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  the place of growth. And then you get the lesson. You understand in
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  that moment or moments of having to break the barrier, what type of tools
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  you needed to break the barrier, and when you came up and you started
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  to sprout, what you needed in that moment to continue to grow and grow
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  efficiently and effectively. The other thing about this Counting It All joy season is
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  that you have to be able to turn disappointment into determination. And disappointment is
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  the most bitter pill that you can swallow, but it can be a great
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  motivator all at the same time, you have a choice when it comes to
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  turning your disappointment into determination. You have a choice to channel disappointment, channel
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  the despair, or breakthrough and choose to be more determined than ever. One
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  thing about disappointment is that if you've ever been there, it can help you
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  restrategize or come up with a new approach, come up with a new strategy,
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  a new way to do something. It helps you to rethink possible,
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  what is possible in my life? What is possible in this moment. I
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  remember hearing this years ago that everything is figure outable. Some of my most
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  disappointing moments put me in a space of there is a way to do this,
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  and I'm determined to find a way to do this. And so I
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  don't know what you're faced with, or what you feel like you can't figure
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  out, or what you've been disappointed about, but I know you can turn
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  and emerge that to a space of success. And then the final thing that
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  I want you to think about is go from your grit to your greatness.
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  Your grit it's the space where you have to demonstrate your ability to be passionate,
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  and that's going to require you to be messy, to be loud,
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  to use your voice, but that is going to help you create your greatness.
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  To step into your greatness, to be willing to in that grit season,
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  confront the opst and eliminate the distractions. That's what the grit season is
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  all about. It's a heads down, no holds bar focus so that you
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  stay on task, so you stay diligent, so that you persevere and you
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  get to your greatness. I'm excited for this journey that I'm on in life,
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  and I've certainly had my share of disappointments this year, but I've been
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  able to count so much joy on my journey, and I encourage you as
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  you look toward your new year, your new season, but whatever is coming
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  new for you, I want you to start to count it all joy.
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  I want you to recognize that your seasons, even the best ones, are
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  going to come with struggle. Struggle included, no batter reason needed, it
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  works, You will get that struggle. Don't worry about the setback. Know
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  that there is a comeback after the setback. Know that you can take your
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  trial to an opportunity, and then you can be triumphant. And surely with
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  all the twists and turns you're going to deal with for the rest of this
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  year and even into next, I know that you have what it takes to
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  figure it out and rise to your greatness. I hope you enjoyed this week's
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