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Focus on YOU Every Day: Transform Your Life with Powerful Morning Motivation · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to be truly happy when you're not
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Speaker 1: being yourself. And most of us have no clue who
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Speaker 1: we are.
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Speaker 2: We all have situations that don't look like they're going
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Speaker 2: to work out. We don't see how we can get well,
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Speaker 2: how we can accomplish a dream, how our family.
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Speaker 3: Will be restored.
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Speaker 2: All the circumstances say it's not going to happen.
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Speaker 1: How much of life do you feel like you control
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Speaker 1: or how much does life control you? Do you tend
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Speaker 1: to control more of what's going on or events controlling
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Speaker 1: it if you focus on what you can't control, if
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Speaker 1: you focus on the past, if you focus on what's
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Speaker 1: missing from your life constantly, that pattern of focus will
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Speaker 1: make you frustrated, overwhelmed, and depressed. It won't even matter
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Speaker 1: if you're taking antidepressants. If you keep focusing on what
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Speaker 1: you can't control, what's missing from your life, you're going
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Speaker 1: to feel depressed, though you can take as many NDID
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Speaker 1: presents as you want. Focus equals power.
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Speaker 4: Complaining, crying, whining, griping a Bible word called murmuring.
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Speaker 1: See that'll ace your future.
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Speaker 4: Spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five and
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Speaker 4: you may have begun what's known as is economic cancer
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Speaker 4: of the bone. Surely they will soon haul you off
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Speaker 4: into a financial desert and there let you choke on
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Speaker 4: the dust of your own regretting.
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Speaker 5: And not only is it important for you to know
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Speaker 5: it's possible for you to choose your future, but it's
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Speaker 5: necessary that you work on yourself, that you develop yourself.
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Speaker 5: It's necessary that you get the energy drainers out.
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Speaker 3: Of your life.
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Speaker 5: People who don't want anything, people who.
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Speaker 3: Are not striving, people.
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Speaker 5: Who are not challenging themselves, people who aren't growing, people
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Speaker 5: who have stopped dreaming. It's necessary that you align yourself
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Speaker 5: with people and attract people into your business to a
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Speaker 5: hungry people who are unstopped and unreasonable, people who are
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Speaker 5: refusing to leave life just as it is, and who
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Speaker 5: want more.
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Speaker 3: My mother used to.
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Speaker 5: Say, birds of a fellow flock together.
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Speaker 6: If you run around with.
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Speaker 3: Losers, you will end up a loser.
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Speaker 5: It's necessary that you get the losers out of your
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Speaker 5: life if.
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Speaker 6: You want to live your dream.
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Speaker 7: The challenge of life I have found is to build
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Speaker 7: a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what
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Speaker 7: you want to be, but it's a story about who
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Speaker 7: you want to be. It's a resume that doesn't just
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Speaker 7: tell a story about what you want to accomplish, but
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Speaker 7: why a story that's not just a collection of titles
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Speaker 7: and positions, but a story that's really about your purpose.
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Speaker 7: Because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in
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Speaker 7: a hole, that is the story that will get you out.
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Speaker 3: What is your true calling? What is your dharma? What
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Speaker 3: is your purpose?
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Speaker 8: You can't connect the dots looking forward, You can only
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Speaker 8: connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that
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Speaker 8: the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have
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Speaker 8: to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever,
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Speaker 8: because believing that the dots will connect down the road
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Speaker 8: will give you the confidence to follow your heart even
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Speaker 8: when it leads you off the well worn path, and
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Speaker 8: that will make all the difference.
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Speaker 6: Just stand, you keep standing. You keep standing, no matter
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Speaker 6: how rough the sea, You keep standing. And I'm not
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Speaker 6: talking about just water. You keep standing no matter what.
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Speaker 1: You don't give up.
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Speaker 6: It doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live.
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Speaker 6: What matters to me most is how I live. Ysall
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Speaker 6: one question, a question that I was asked all my
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Speaker 6: life by a third grade dropout. How you're living how
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Speaker 6: you live it? Every day ask yourself that question, how
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Speaker 6: you're live in Here's what a cook in the dining
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Speaker 6: center would suggest you to live this way, that you
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Speaker 6: would not judge, that you would show up early, that
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Speaker 6: you'd be kind, that you make sure that that servants
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Speaker 6: town is huge and used, that if you're going to
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Speaker 6: do something.
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Speaker 3: You do it the right way.
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Speaker 6: That cook would tell you this that it's never wrong
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Speaker 6: to do the right thing.
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Speaker 3: But how you do anything is.
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Speaker 6: How you do everything, and in that way you will
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Speaker 6: grow your influence to make an impact. And that way
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Speaker 6: you will honor all those who have gone before you,
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Speaker 6: who have invested in you. Look in those unlikeliest places
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Speaker 6: for wisdom. Enhance your life every day by seeking that
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Speaker 6: wisdom and asking yourself every night, how am I living.
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Speaker 9: One person can change the world by giving people hope.
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Speaker 9: So if you want to change the world, start each
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Speaker 9: day with a task completed. Find someone to help you
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Speaker 9: through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair
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Speaker 9: and that you will fail often. But if you take
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Speaker 9: some risks, step up when the times are the toughest,
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Speaker 9: face down the bullies, lift up the down trodden, and
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Speaker 9: never ever give up. If you do these things. The
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Speaker 9: next generation and the generations that follow, we'll live in
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Speaker 9: a world far better than the one we have today,
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Speaker 9: and what's started here will indeed have changed the world
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Speaker 9: for the better.
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Speaker 10: Let's look at this idea of specificity for a minute.
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Speaker 10: Like a winter home in Hawaii, very nice. But if
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Speaker 10: I say I will own a two bedroom beachfront phill
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Speaker 10: on the west coast of Maui, Hawaii by June first,
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Speaker 10: two thousand and three, does that sound a little more clear. Yeah.
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Speaker 10: And until you get specific like that, the creative part
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Speaker 10: of your brain won't jump in and decide how to
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Speaker 10: help you get there. And that's why a lot of
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Speaker 10: people never get their dreams because they don't make them
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Speaker 10: specific enough. You got to get real, nitty gritty, break
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Speaker 10: it down how much by When I want a better
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Speaker 10: relationship with my husband, Well, what does that mean? But
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Speaker 10: if I say I want to spend an hour a
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Speaker 10: week sitting opposite my husband talking about real things that matter,
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Speaker 10: no TV on, eye to eye communication, now that we
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Speaker 10: can measure, did you do it for an hour? Want
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Speaker 10: to have more fun? What does that mean? But what
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Speaker 10: if I say I'm going to listen to comedy albums?
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Speaker 10: Twice a week for a minimum of an hour. You're
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Speaker 10: probably going to have more fun. So make it specific,
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Speaker 10: make it, make it real. Some people say, you know,
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Speaker 10: I want our business to increase, well, how much by when?
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Speaker 10: Want the reading scores to go up into school? How
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Speaker 10: much by when? Until you have that, you're not going
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Speaker 10: to make progress. How many people's dreams never get completed
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Speaker 10: because they're not clear about the specific number of how
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Speaker 10: much by whim? I told you earlier in the program,
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Speaker 10: we said we're going to sell a million and a
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Speaker 10: half books in a year and a half, and that
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Speaker 10: directed our behavior. Recently, we just said we're going to
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Speaker 10: sell a million books in one day. We had one
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Speaker 10: hundred and one bookstores involved in a book signing. We're
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Speaker 10: going to try to be in the Guinness Book of
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Speaker 10: World Record for the largest book signing ever done. Now,
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Speaker 10: I don't think we sold.
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Speaker 1: A million books. Maybe we sold a.
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Speaker 10: Couple hundred thousand. But by holding that question and trying
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Speaker 10: to figure out how to do it, it moved us
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Speaker 10: toward that goal. And maybe it'll take us two years
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Speaker 10: to figure out how to sell a million books in
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Speaker 10: one day, but it gets the thinking to expand out
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Speaker 10: into that arena. So it's making sense. Okay, so you
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Speaker 10: want to have those goals. Now, the other thing you
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Speaker 10: want to do is break your goals down. Many of
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Speaker 10: you have big goals and hunger in the world. That's
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Speaker 10: a pretty big goal. You know, have world peace, achieve
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Speaker 10: a certain level of spiritual oneness with God or life
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Speaker 10: big goals. When you first look at it, it's kind
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Speaker 10: of overwhelming. But what if we were to break that
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Speaker 10: down into little steps. It says, Okay, I want to
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Speaker 10: go to college and get a PhD. Gosh, I'm only
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Speaker 10: a high school student. But the next step would be
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Speaker 10: finish the mass class, get an a in this right,
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Speaker 10: for a brochure from a college, get a catalog, pick
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Speaker 10: one or five colleges that I want to apply to.
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Speaker 10: You know, just keep breaking it down to little steps
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Speaker 10: and then figure out how to get all those steps
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Speaker 10: done and put a date by each step, and then
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Speaker 10: start doing the plan. Someone said, if you fail to plan,
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Speaker 10: your planning to fail. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 10: Absolutely. Of one of my friends said, success by the
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Speaker 10: yard is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. So
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Speaker 10: we just break it down in the small pieces. I
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Speaker 10: was reading the Guinness Book of World records because we
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Speaker 10: were thinking about being in there, and this guy set
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Speaker 10: a goal to eat an entire bicycle, tires and all.
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Speaker 3: Now, how do you do that? Right?
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Speaker 10: Well, it took him seventeen days. But what he did
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Speaker 10: is he kept cutting the bicycle up and then melting
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Speaker 10: it down into little, swallowable pieces and he ate them.
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Speaker 10: I don't know how much state in but he ain't right.
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Speaker 10: But the point being, anything can be done if you
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Speaker 10: break it down small enough makes sense, So don't let
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Speaker 10: the bigness of a goal overwhelm you.
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Speaker 11: I don't know if you'd agree with me on this,
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Speaker 11: but in many ways, one of the key factors to
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Speaker 11: legendary success isn't your natural ability. It's not whether you
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Speaker 11: have the right product. It's not whether you're in the
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Speaker 11: right field. It's not whether you've had a blessed background.
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Speaker 11: It's not whether you have the right IQ. I want
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Speaker 11: you to really think about and deconstruct and play with
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Speaker 11: maybe later tonight in your journal. I want you to
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Speaker 11: deconstruct this idea of confidence. And it seems like a
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Speaker 11: very simple word, but just think about it in your
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Speaker 11: own life. When you have confidence, or we could even
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Speaker 11: call it fire, when you have that fire within you,
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Speaker 11: that confidence, that interior bravery. You almost have this power
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Speaker 11: to do whatever it takes to get your brave vision done.
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Speaker 11: You see, in this world, it's not about you know,
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Speaker 11: in many ways, your strategy and your business, or your
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Speaker 11: ability in your life. It's about this thing called confidence.
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Speaker 11: And we have all had these times in our lives
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Speaker 11: when we are full of confidence, and what other people
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Speaker 11: see as a problem, we simply do see as an opportunity.
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Speaker 11: People see it as a stumbling block or a wall,
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Speaker 11: and we see it as a stepping stone or this solution.
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Speaker 11: And so confidence is something that you really want to
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Speaker 11: wire in. Confidence is something you really want to develop.
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Speaker 11: Confidence is a practice. Confidence is a muscle, and like
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Speaker 11: any muscle, the more you focus on it and practice
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Speaker 11: it and train it, the stronger your confidence is going
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Speaker 11: to grow.
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Speaker 3: And I just have to say it again.
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Speaker 11: When you are at a place in your life when
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Speaker 11: there is an ongoing, steady stream of confidence moving through
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Speaker 11: your mindset, moving through your heart set, you do the
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Speaker 11: heroic in your business and you achieve the remarkable in
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Speaker 11: your life.
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Speaker 3: Lebron shows up.
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Speaker 12: This dude comes in fifteen minutes before practice, and Lebron
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Speaker 12: gives him that look like, hey, do what's going on here?
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Speaker 12: He's like, what do you mean, I'm fifteen minutes early.
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Speaker 12: He's like, you should have been here an hour ago.
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Speaker 12: And when he says that to this dude, the guy
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Speaker 12: knows Lebron's been there for two hours.
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Speaker 3: So all I ask you to do. Like, here's a.
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Speaker 12: Guy, probably the best that's ever walked out on a
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Speaker 12: basketball court. Short to Michael Jordan, but both of them
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Speaker 12: had one thing in common. They worked Okay, wasn't about
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Speaker 12: their just their talent. It was about their work ethic.
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Speaker 12: People knew them for their work ethics. So just ask
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Speaker 12: yourself this week, do people know you for your work
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Speaker 12: ethic or are people like, man, you work hard? Are
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Speaker 12: people actually commenting about you showing up early and staying late?
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Speaker 12: Because if they're not, then you're just you're just blending
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Speaker 12: in with everybody else's work ethic.
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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, talent will not win
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Speaker 3: the game. It is work ethic that will win the game.
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Speaker 12: So when I saw this, I'm like, here's a guy
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Speaker 12: top of his games, got all the money you could
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Speaker 12: possibly he could never spend all his money.
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Speaker 3: Impossible, He'll be a billionaire.
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Speaker 12: Okay, and he's showing up two hours early to make
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Speaker 12: sure he plays the game, to make sure he's in
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Speaker 12: physical condition, to make sure that he could stay in
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Speaker 12: the game.
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Speaker 3: Long pass it. He didn't even need it. He's got
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Speaker 3: all his rings.
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Speaker 12: I got to tell you, I was so inspired by
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Speaker 12: because I got a bunch of partners.
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Speaker 3: I got guys that I do business with. I got
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Speaker 3: one of them in particular, that I'm having some problems with.
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Speaker 3: He told me, man, if I had your money, dude,
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Speaker 3: I would retire.
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Speaker 12: He said there to me, over and over, and I
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Speaker 12: hadn't been listening to it enough to understand he wants
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Speaker 12: to go lay down.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you cannot run. What's that thing called you did?
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Speaker 3: You can't do an iron Man with that attitude. Don't
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Speaker 3: know why you'd want to do an iron Man.
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Speaker 13: But I'll tell you what if you could do an
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Speaker 13: iron Man and then take that and add it to
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Speaker 13: your to your to your career, to the longevity of
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Speaker 13: your career, you know, because look, it's going.
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Speaker 12: To be five years from now, ten years from now,
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Speaker 12: it's gonna be twenty years. You're gonna look back and say,
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Speaker 12: and the marketplace is going to reward whatever you do
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Speaker 12: every day.
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Speaker 14: It's easy to discard, say ten terrible ideas and go
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Speaker 14: after the one good idea. But when you start to
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Speaker 14: get a little bit of momentum, you can drown yourself
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Speaker 14: in good opportunities that aren't great opportunities. And if you
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Speaker 14: scatter your focus you try to do seventeen different product lines,
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Speaker 14: you can kill your business really easily, particularly when you
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Speaker 14: have a small team. So I think asking yourself repeatedly,
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Speaker 14: what is the one project, the one initiative, the one
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Speaker 14: campaign that, if successful, will render the rest of these
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Speaker 14: things either unnecessary or much much easier. What is that
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Speaker 14: one step? And I've called it this lead domino before,
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Speaker 14: But what is the one thing on this list of
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Speaker 14: seven different campaigns that will make all the other ones
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Speaker 14: around relevant or much easier?
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Speaker 3: How do you? I mean that's a tough answer, isn't it?
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Speaker 10: Because they all sound good?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think they can. And I think that what
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Speaker 14: it comes down to oftentimes is it returns back to measurements.
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Speaker 14: So how are we defining success? Like, if we want
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Speaker 14: to grow the company, let's just say what does that
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Speaker 14: mean in three months, six months?
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Speaker 3: What are we measuring?
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Speaker 14: Why are we measuring those things? And you know what
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Speaker 14: is a sort of a comfort goal, meaning like, Okay,
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Speaker 14: we think we can easily hit this number.
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Speaker 1: What is a.
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Speaker 14: Stretch and what is like hollelulia, we threaded the needle
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Speaker 14: and then come up with a really concrete number to tackle.
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Speaker 14: And once you have that number, then you can look
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Speaker 14: at those five and say, right, which of those are
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Speaker 14: going to serve us right now? And I'm dealing with
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Speaker 14: that increasingly so because I have all these different branches
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Speaker 14: of content and activities and angel investing and so on,
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Speaker 14: It's very easy for me to get scattered. It's never
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Speaker 14: been easier. So I have to continually ask that, typically, what's.
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Speaker 3: Your main focus now?
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Speaker 8: If you had to boil it down to one.
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Speaker 14: My main focus right now is building the building my podcast,
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Speaker 14: Tim Ferra's Show up to a point where it's consistently
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Speaker 14: in the top ten to fifteen on iTunes, so that
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Speaker 14: I can establish a presence and name recognition in Hollywood
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Speaker 14: and entertainment, which I can leverage then for the TV
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Speaker 14: show and film projects that I'll be expanding into in
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Speaker 14: the next three to nine months. And specifically, what that
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Speaker 14: means is targeted advertising for the podcast, specifically towards people
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Speaker 14: who are producers, agents, actors, directors in Hollywood, in New
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Speaker 14: York City, all of that can be quantified.