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Well, hey guys, good evening, it's John Seymour,
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your serial entrepreneur.
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All right, guys, so.
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Tonight is going to be a pretty interesting
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show, this whole week's engaging show, so today
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is Saturday, it's January 10th, it's 2026.
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And this is a Saturday, and that means
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it's a brand new master topic for everyone.
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So let's kick this off.
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Yes.
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Inspirations for your life show, guys.
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It is great to be with you.
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It's the Daily Motivational Show.
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And we're talking this week all about winning
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without losing yourself.
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And this is series five, show three, episode
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number one.
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So purpose without pressure is what we're out
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today.
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By the way, guys, I am your host,
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John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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It's always such a privilege and a pleasure
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to be with you guys here on the
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show.
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Not only am I a serial entrepreneur, I'm
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also an engineer, marketing specialist, video producer, and
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of course, yes, a passionate lifelong learner.
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So welcome back to the Inspirations for Your
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Life show.
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It's the Daily Motivational Show.
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It's designed to help you grow with intention,
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clarity, and confidence.
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And again, I'm your host, and it's such
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a privilege and such a pleasure to be
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with every one of you here.
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Thank you so much for coming back and
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soaking up all this great information.
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And so, ladies and gentlemen, of course, being
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a passionate lifelong learner, life always gets more
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fun.
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This show isn't about hype or hustle for
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the sake of hustle itself, because a lot
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of shows out there are about that hustle
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or about that stuff that's really not true.
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It's about building a life that actually works
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professionally, mentally, well, and emotionally.
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And today's episode is about quiet power, winning
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without losing yourself.
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So let's get right into our first topic,
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okay?
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Number one, you don't have to prove your
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purpose to live it.
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Purpose isn't a performance.
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You don't need to announce or defend it.
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When something is real, it doesn't need permission.
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And so we call that authenticity, something that
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I think a lot of people miss.
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But authenticity is a very, very important thing.
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And again, it's something that a lot of
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people, like I say, they definitely miss this.
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So let's get off the point number two.
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Number two is purpose.
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Purpose doesn't scream.
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It shows up daily, okay?
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So purpose lives in consistency, not drama, okay?
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And so small choices, guys, that's right.
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Small choices are really the key.
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They're the key with everything you guys do,
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all right?
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They help us shape the big futures, the
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bigger picture.
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I think sometimes, you know, we get lost
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along the trail.
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And, you know, that's completely okay to get
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lost.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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But we do have to make sure that
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we get ourselves back on track, all right?
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So that is very, very important for each
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and every one of us.
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So stop chasing urgency, guys.
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Start choosing direction.
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Urgency creates stress.
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You haven't guessed that already.
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Direction creates results.
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So let's keep focusing on direction, all right?
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All right, number four, being aligned beats being
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busy.
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Busy drains you.
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Alignment moves you forward.
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Number five, purpose grows in stillness, not chaos.
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Quiet allows us to clarify and to get
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things to the surface.
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Number six, guys, number six is I think
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is a very important one.
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And that's you're not too late.
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You're never too late.
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You're learning.
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There is no universal timeline for growth.
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It's whenever we're ready for it.
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So whenever we're ready for it, that's when
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growth is ready to show up for us
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in our lives every single day.
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So I think that's a very, very important
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thing for everyone here to understand.
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Number seven, guys, quietly.
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Clarity outperforms the loud confusion.
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Clear focus beats the frantic movement.
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Number eight, purpose isn't bound.
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It's built, guys.
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Purpose is constructed through choice and courage.
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A lot of people think you just get
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it.
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You don't.
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You become it.
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Number nine, guys.
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You don't owe the world speed, depth and
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mastery.
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So, guys, I want you to definitely do
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this.
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I want you to take your time.
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That's right.
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Depth and mastery, they take time.
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So don't be upset if things don't go
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the way you want right away.
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If there's noise cluttering you, you're not getting
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results.
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Calm down.
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You'll execute better that way and you'll produce
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lasting outcomes and results.
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You know, you and many other people will
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be very happy and proud that you have.
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Number seven, guys.
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Um, purpose, uh, number 11, excuse me, a
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purpose.
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It feels calm, not frantic.
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Alignment brings grounded energy.
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I think when we can understand what grounded
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energy is, well, we can actually make some
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pretty interesting calculated decisions and maybe we couldn't
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in the past, so that's really important number
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12 guys.
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Yes.
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Number 12, number 12 is, um, is very
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important.
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Uh, we're 12 is progress.
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Doesn't need applause.
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Growth counts even when it's unseen.
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Now, a lot of people might say, John,
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you know, I can't do something when I
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don't see it, but that's exactly when things
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can happen when they are not seen.
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Okay.
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When they are not seen.
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Um, that's important to understand.
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Um, so let's dive into a little more.
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Okay.
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Number 13, when it's right, it feels grounded.
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Um, it has a purpose.
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It stabilizes rather than shaking you up at
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your core.
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And some people, you know, they feel the
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only way they're going to learn is to
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get shooken up at the core, but that's
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not really what it's all about.
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Um, I think most people get a little
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bit impatient.
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Okay.
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Um, they, they get impatient and the reason
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they get impatient, um, because they want everything
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now.
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And I know we all get impatient sometimes,
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right?
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But we have to be patient and wait
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for things to come to us.
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I mean, that's a, that's a lifelong lesson.
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I think that everybody in life has just
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been trying to learn from time to time.
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Um, you know, they, they, they just, they
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try to learn that from time to time
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and they try to realize what's actually going
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on.
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And so when we think about this, we
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can actually, uh, ask ourself, you know, what
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is really going on in our life?
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I mean, I think that's the problem.
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Um, if we don't know what's going on,
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it's like, well, how do we take it
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from part a to part B or even
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to jump someone else?
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We can't.
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Um, and it's not because we don't want
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to.
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It's because we don't know the path.
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We don't know the roadmap.
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It's like getting up in the airplane and
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we don't have a flight plan, right?
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We could guess, but there could be problems.
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There could be planes on that track, right?
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So we have to know our course of
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direction every single day.
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All right.
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Every single day.
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Uh, that's important to understand.
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We have to know what it is every
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single day.
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And once we know what it is, then
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we can move forward and then we can
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actually explore and say, oh, this is what
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we need to be doing.
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This is not what we need to be
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doing.
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Does that make sense?
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Everybody.
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So knowing our direction, knowing our coordinates, uh,
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allow us to plan, um, how we're going
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to execute something.
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Okay.
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Uh, I think that's, uh, I think that's
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important to, to realize how we're going to
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execute something.
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Um, and so we don't have to know
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the entire piece.
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Okay.
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But we do need to have an understanding
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of where we want to go.
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Okay.
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Um, a lot of people think they know
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where they want to go and they focus
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on going there and they get the direction
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to going there, but that's really not where
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they wanted to go.
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Does that make sense?
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They went there because, well, they thought that
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was the place that was, that was the
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place they, that was the place they thought
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that they wanted to go, but for whatever
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reason, they went to this place, but it
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didn't have anything they needed.
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It wasn't going to advance them.
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It's like never played chess or never played
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any board game.
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You have to collect certain pieces along the
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way.
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Right.
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And so what am I going to get
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if I don't get to the next spot?
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Right.
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If I don't start putting houses on my
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properties that I bought, how am I going
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to gain money back?
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Right.
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Put houses or put hotels.
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So people land there.
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I can have a higher rent for that.
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That's how that works.
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Number 14 direction always matters more than the
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pace.
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So slow movement in the right direction still
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wins every single time.
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And I think a lot of people, they
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want everything now.
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They want everything very, very fast, but being
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fast is not enough.
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Being fast can actually harm or hurt you
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and it can harm or hurt you.
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You know why?
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Because it's going to be challenging.
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Challenging when you don't understand where to go.
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Um, that's important to know.
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And when we start to realize or have
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these little mini epiphany moments, that's when we
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have to say, okay, self I'm getting this
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sign that I shouldn't do this, or I'm
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getting the sign that I should do this.
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I should respond.
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I should react.
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Right.
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That's the whole, that's really the whole, that's
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really the whole key in life.
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Right.
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That's a very, very important thing for everyone
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to understand.
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Number 15 purpose doesn't exhaust you.
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Resistance does.
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Fighting alignment will drain the energy out of
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you every single time.
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Yes, it will.
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Every single time it will drain the energy
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right out of you.
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Uh, be like you burn out.
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Success does not require self-destruction.
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A lot of people think it does.
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And what does this do?
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It complicates things.
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It makes you well, keep starting back off
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at the drawing board all over again.
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It's not like you wanted to do that,
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but you're forced to do that.
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So that's what goes on.
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Um, you know, that's important to know.
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Um, so we've got to think about where
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we're going.
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We got to think about why we're going
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there and how is this going to make
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us a better version of ourselves?
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How is this going to help us?
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Or how is this going to land us
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to go somewhere different?
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How is it going to take us to
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a level that most people like just don't
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realize?
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And I want to tell you that it's
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important.
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It's important that, um, you realize what's going
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on in your life.
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Okay.
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Um, it's very, very important to, to realize
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that.
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And when you realize that it's like something
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will snap, something will clip in your mind,
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right?
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Um, so that's important to see.
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That's important to know.
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Um, because when that happens, people suddenly
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say, okay, um, you know, it's okay, and
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this is where we're at, but do we
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really want to be this way or do
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we not?
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And I think that comes down to a
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message that links back to our core values,
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our core values about who we are, about
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what we do, about why we do things.
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That's where that comes from.
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Number 17, calm decisions age better.
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Wisdom compounds over time.
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So let's enjoy time.
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Let's embrace it.
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Let's not try to rush time.
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Number 18, purpose survives doubt.
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Ego doesn't.
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Purpose endures uncertainty.
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So life is all about purpose.
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It's all about where we are, what we're
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doing, why we're doing certain things.
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And I think when this starts to kick
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in, you're like, okay, now I'm starting to
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understand like why I did that.
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Now I'm starting to realize why I'm thinking
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that way.
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All right.
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Um, it's not hard, but sometimes it gets
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confusing.
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We think that we're on the right track.
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Um, but then we're actually not even in
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the right stadium and you might've spent all
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this time to figure out you're actually were
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in the wrong stadium.
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Forget what track you were on.
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You were in the wrong stadium.
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It's like being in not just the wrong,
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uh, terminal, the airport, you were in the
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wrong airport instead of being in LaGuardia, you
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were in Newark or instead of being Newark,
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you were in LaGuardia.
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And that happens when we look at the
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big picture of our life.
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The big picture doesn't always get revealed when
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we're hustling and bustling and, you know, moving
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around so very quickly in life.
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I think that can be a challenge for
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a lot of people.
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Number 19, you're allowed guys to move slowly
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and still win.
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Consistency keeps you in the game.
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Let's remember that it's not a fight for
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how quick we can do something.
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It's about being consistent.
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It's about the resilience we have.
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I've, I've mentioned this to you guys a
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few times before.
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And you might say, John, I've heard this
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before.
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I know you've heard it before, but are
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you living up to it?
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Are you actually being that, or are you
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just kind of throwing off the side?
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Okay.
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What are you doing?
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I think that's a problem for a lot
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of people because they're focused on one direction.
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Like I told you, they were focused on
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getting to LaGuardia when they're supposed to be
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at Newark.
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And this is all because he or she
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missed the granular details.
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If you ever, uh, watch some of these
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shows, like the greatest challenge.
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And I remember watching the show, uh, not
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too long ago and one team was eliminated
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because, well, they got tickets to the wrong
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destination and there was no time for them
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to get back and get to the right
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destination.
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Number 20 guys, peace is a productivity multiplier.
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Calm your focus.
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This will sharpen the execution that you need.
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Number 21, alignment beats acceleration.
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Every single time speed without purpose leads to
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break down, which is why we've always got
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to be focused.
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We've always gotta be knowing what we're doing,
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right?
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If we don't, and we've spent all this
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time, let's say working on a task and
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we were undoing something instead of putting something
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together, we just wasted all that time, number
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22, not every moment needs an action.
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Pausing prevents the wasted effort, but some people
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feel that, you know, we should never pause,
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we should never take a break.
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I'm here to tell you, you've got to
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take a break.
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You've got to pause sometimes you've got to
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take a pause sometimes.
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And if you don't, then you could miss
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something.
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We have to approach things strategically.
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Think of it like gambling and I'm not
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a gambler, but think of it like gambling.
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Okay.
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So if you're playing blackjack and you ask
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the dealer to hit you and you go
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over 21, will you lose, right?
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If you know you're close, you're going to
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tell him to stay, but gambling, it's either
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all or nothing.
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So we put something down and you lose
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what you lose everything.
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If you win, you win.
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But when you move on, sometimes people say,
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well, gee, I don't want to just gamble
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a little bit, I want to gamble everything.
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And that's not smart.
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This also happens a lot in negotiations.
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Sometimes there's a deal on the table and
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you say X dollars or X thousands.
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And then you kind of agree, but then
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you want to push further for more.
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You know, the person was willing to accept
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1600, 25,000, wherever it was.
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Now you want to push for 30,000.
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And I say, no, you can't go back
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to 25,000.
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You lost.
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So we have to be cognizant of our
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surroundings and how things are playing.
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Number 23 guys, purpose whispers before it roars.
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I think that's a very, um, I think
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that's a very, very important.
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That's important.
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That makes sense.
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I hope it does listen early guys.
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Don't be such in a jump to make
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it being centered as a competitive advantage, calm
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down and stand out in the chaos.
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And you'll be grateful that you actually did
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that.
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You don't need permission to live intentionally.
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Your values don't need approval.
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I want to share another thing.
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Um, recently I was making a post to
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a social media group and one that I've
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been in for many, many years.
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And I decided to approach this a little
22:52
bit differently.
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I decided to basically not talk about myself,
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even though I wasn't selling anything or promoting
23:00
anything.
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I decided to just go in there with,
23:02
um, a neutral view of something that we
23:07
all had a commonality for in the group.
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And do you know what happened guys?
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Something very amazing happened, something amazing.
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What do you think happened?
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I'm going to tell you what happened.
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Something very interesting happened.
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So this particular group, I'm not going to
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name the group for, obviously for security reasons,
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um, but this post that I made, okay,
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is still on the top from five hours
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ago.
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It has four likes and has 16 comments.
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That's, that's pretty impressive guys.
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Is that impressive to you?
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It's, it's very impressive to me.
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And I can tell you that, um, it's
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something a lot of people, they don't realize
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it, they don't realize like what it means
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and to be in this group for many
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years and to finally have something that made
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a, a very, very big impact.
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Okay.
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Um, that's pretty important guys.
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Very important.
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But if you don't know where things are,
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like in this group, I could have totally
25:21
been in a different place.
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What does that mean to you?
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What does that mean to you?
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What does it really mean to you?
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It means that we have to be understanding.
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And if we don't, then we're going to
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be pitching the wrong way.
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Like with this group that I was with,
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I was wondering why I was going nowhere
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and it wasn't the people.
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It wasn't how I was posting.
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It was the content of my post.
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As I said, your values don't need approval,
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but you got to make sure an alignment
26:51
with things.
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And if you don't, that can be a
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serious, serious problem.
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You don't need approval, but you do need
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to be in alignment if you want to
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go somewhere.
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So number 26 purposes, patient growth and allow
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it to unfold over time.
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Number 27, sustainable success feels boring at first
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consistency builds what excitement can not ever.
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Number 28, slow growth compounds.
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Best steady progress becomes unstoppable.
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We're 29 inner clarity beats external validation.
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Trust yourself guys.
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You're very smart.
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Purpose doesn't chase trends.
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What's aligned lasts.
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So align your thoughts with where you are
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and you'll get amazing results.
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who want to win without losing themselves.
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