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207. Stay Ready for Transformation · Your Enriched Self

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friends from all across the globe, and welcome
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Speaker 1: to your Enriched Self podcast. I am your host, my
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Speaker 1: Lee Noir. I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach,
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Speaker 1: and what that means is I am here to help
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Speaker 1: you navigate and be your advocate for your mindset. Listen,
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Speaker 1: I understand that your life, this world, what you do,
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Speaker 1: keeps you busy and buzzing and moving, and oftentimes there's
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Speaker 1: not enough time. Well let's say you don't make enough
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Speaker 1: time to manage your thoughts, to gather your thoughts. And
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Speaker 1: so that said, you tend to go way off the
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Speaker 1: beaten path, and sometimes you lose sight of what's important,
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Speaker 1: You lose sight of your focus, your priorities. And so
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Speaker 1: this podcast, these conversations are intended to help you manage
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Speaker 1: your mindset. The thing is, everything that you are going
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Speaker 1: to pursue or you have pursued, started with a thought,
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Speaker 1: and if not managed properly, you are living the manifestation
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Speaker 1: of those thoughts. And so I know that if you're
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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, you want to be the best
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Speaker 1: version of yourself. And so I know, and you will
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Speaker 1: know if you don't already know that It starts with
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Speaker 1: your thoughts, and that's what we do on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: We talk about mindset, fusion topics, self care, soul care,
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Speaker 1: and again all the decision points that will come about
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Speaker 1: from the thoughts, and those thoughts will then inspire the
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Speaker 1: words and the world or to become the action and
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Speaker 1: the activity that you take when you step into the
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Speaker 1: world to become more of your enriched self. So that's
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Speaker 1: what we do on this podcast. If you are new
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Speaker 1: to this platform, to this podcast, I want to welcome you.
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Speaker 1: I know that you were brought here on purpose, for
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Speaker 1: a purpose, So thank you for being here. And if
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Speaker 1: you are a repeat listener, that means you've been on
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Speaker 1: this journey for me. You've been on the journey with me,
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Speaker 1: if not for the last four years, at some point
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Speaker 1: of this four year journey of this podcast, you've joined
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Speaker 1: in the conversation, you've participated, you've shared, like you've followed,
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Speaker 1: and I want to thank you from the bottom of
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Speaker 1: my heart. If not for you, we wouldn't have a podcast. Now,
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Speaker 1: before we get started with this week's episode, one of
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Speaker 1: the things that I pride my self in doing is
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Speaker 1: making a deposit into the bank of you, and I
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Speaker 1: do that by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a great
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Speaker 1: way to start your day and to command your mourning.
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Speaker 1: And this week's affirmation is every challenge I face is
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser. Every challenge I
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Speaker 1: face is an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser. Every
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Speaker 1: challenge I face is an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser.
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Speaker 1: Now let's get ready for it this week's episode of
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Speaker 1: the Your Enriched Self podcast. I'm sure we've all heard
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Speaker 1: the saying change is inevitable. When I started my Masters
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Speaker 1: of Business Administration studies a few years ago, I remember
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Speaker 1: my first day of class being told to change before
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Speaker 1: you have to. And that is a quote by Jack Welch,
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Speaker 1: and that quote that talk track has stayed with me
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Speaker 1: for some time. I think change is inevitable. I actually
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Speaker 1: know as well as you that change is inevitable, and
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Speaker 1: I encourage you to adopt the mindset to change before
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Speaker 1: you have to. And I think over the years and beyond,
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Speaker 1: we've had to make changes outside of our own voluntary
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Speaker 1: activities and the way life presented itself. Oftentimes when we're
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Speaker 1: changing is because in fact, we must change to be
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Speaker 1: able to adopt and to be able to survive. And
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Speaker 1: that's when change feels rushed and we feel not prepared
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Speaker 1: and unready for what's to come. And so in this episode,
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Speaker 1: because change is in fact inevitable, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: about you, but there's so much change happening in my
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Speaker 1: life and has been for these past few years, and
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Speaker 1: most definitely in this year of twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: so I want to focus this episode this week on
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Speaker 1: how to already be ready for transformation. And I know
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Speaker 1: that seems like a big thing to grasp, right It
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Speaker 1: feels very ambitious to already be ready for transformation. But
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Speaker 1: what I want in that is for you to be
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Speaker 1: aware that you are going to put yourself on a
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Speaker 1: fast track to get ready when change comes knocking. And
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Speaker 1: that's when it feels uncomfortable, and that's when it's hard
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Speaker 1: to adopt, and that's when it's difficult to navigate it.
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Speaker 1: If you go into it knowing that whatever it is
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Speaker 1: that you're getting ready to embark upon will have a
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Speaker 1: different face, it will have a different frame from where
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Speaker 1: you've been, it definitely helps to digest the idea that
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Speaker 1: what this transformative event will do is going to be
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Speaker 1: different it's going to feel different, it's going to wear
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Speaker 1: differently than you've ever done before, and at least you
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Speaker 1: know that going into it, versus having to jump in
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Speaker 1: and not know what's ahead. So today I want to
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Speaker 1: give you some tips for staying ready for transformation to
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Speaker 1: help you on the journey that you are in right now,
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Speaker 1: a journey that you are likely to embark upon, if
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Speaker 1: not now, sometime in the future. Now I want you
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Speaker 1: to imagine, and you probably have already been here, because
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Speaker 1: I think we've all experienced these transformative events in various scenarios.
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Speaker 1: I had a friend recently shared with me that she
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Speaker 1: got a call from her agent. She's an actor, and
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Speaker 1: the agent basically told her, I need you to be
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Speaker 1: ready for this upcoming gig opportunity. That same friend told
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Speaker 1: me a few years back that she had just spent
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Speaker 1: time doing this elaborate hair style and the agent called
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Speaker 1: and said, hey, I booked you a gig. This is
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Speaker 1: what the look needs to be, and she had to
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Speaker 1: undo the entire hair style. So it was a night
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Speaker 1: of her and a few of her friends coming over
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Speaker 1: to help undo what she had just spent money on
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Speaker 1: and obviously spent time to do. But to be ready
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Speaker 1: for this thing. And I know those sound like extreme
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Speaker 1: examples of you know, literally changing your look to be ready,
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Speaker 1: but knowing where you are in life. Right, Perhaps you
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Speaker 1: have been applying for a job opportunity and it landed, right,
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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Maybe it's in another city, Okay.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps you got a phone call that you need to
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Speaker 1: become the caretaker for a loved one, right, Or a
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Speaker 1: quiet opportunity knocked on your door because of a business
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Speaker 1: opportunity you were pursuing, and now you have the funding
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Speaker 1: and now you have the partnerships and it's time to act.
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Speaker 1: These moments require quick decisions. Got to be on your feet.
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Speaker 1: You have to have that personal readiness. And you don't
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Speaker 1: want to start getting ready when these things happen, because
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Speaker 1: that's when overwhelmed takes over. That's when you feel like
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Speaker 1: can I actually do this? That's when doubt creeps in,
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Speaker 1: That's when fear creeps in. So what we're talking about
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Speaker 1: today is intended to eradicate the doubt and the fear.
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Speaker 1: And I know those things are going to creep around,
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Speaker 1: but to put them at bay so that you can
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Speaker 1: deal with and decision with what you have in front
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Speaker 1: of you. So the first tip I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about is is to anchor your mind. I talk about
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Speaker 1: mindset because I do believe that everything starts in the mind.
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Speaker 1: But anchoring your mind through daily discipline and what that
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Speaker 1: means is for me and I talk about this a
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Speaker 1: lot on this podcast because as an emotional wellness and
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Speaker 1: empowerment coach, it is very important to have a habit
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Speaker 1: of exercise, a habit of meditation, a habit of journaling
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Speaker 1: to help you in the mental gym. Right, Yes, exercise
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Speaker 1: is great, but there are mental activities in this mental
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Speaker 1: gym that you need to participate in because as you
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Speaker 1: do that. I know one of the things that help
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Speaker 1: me with my life journey is getting on a exercise regimen.
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Speaker 1: And when I started the regiment, it wasn't about exercise
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Speaker 1: for a number of hours, it wasn't about lifting a
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Speaker 1: certain amount of weights. It started off as just being consistent.
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Speaker 1: What that helped me to do was to begin to
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Speaker 1: trust myself with the fact that I can do something
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Speaker 1: even when I don't feel like it, because that's what
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Speaker 1: consistency essentially is. It is doing a thing every day,
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Speaker 1: being committed to it and not letting your feelings get
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Speaker 1: in the way because trust me, there were many mornings
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel like going to the gym, I didn't
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Speaker 1: feel like running, but I did because the goal in
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Speaker 1: that season was to be consistent. The thing about working
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Speaker 1: out and having these habits of exercise and meditation and
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Speaker 1: really working on that mental gym is that it helps
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Speaker 1: to keep you sharp, helps to keep you clear, and
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Speaker 1: you become adaptable again. These small activities, this daily discipline
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Speaker 1: shows up in other places in your life because the
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Speaker 1: working out for me started off as a fitness journey,
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Speaker 1: but it started to bleed into wellness that I can
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Speaker 1: push through tough times, I can be resilient and I
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Speaker 1: can finish what I start. And I believe that you
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Speaker 1: two can finish what you start by facing these transformational events,
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Speaker 1: these transformative events in the moment, taking it on in
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Speaker 1: the moment, and doing it through daily discipline. The other
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Speaker 1: tip I want to share is curate your input, and
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Speaker 1: curating your input is going to help you to shape
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Speaker 1: your mindset. And what I mean by curating your input
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Speaker 1: I talked a little bit about this last week. When
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Speaker 1: you think about the input, the things you put into
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Speaker 1: your spirit, the things you put into your igates and
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Speaker 1: your airgates. Right, that's where transformation begins. You start to
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Speaker 1: feed yourself these thoughts. You start to feed yourself these
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Speaker 1: ideas through the things that you are listening to, the
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Speaker 1: things you're watching, the conversations you have, the books you read,
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Speaker 1: the websites you go to, the environments, the communities that
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Speaker 1: you start to live and work and play in. All
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Speaker 1: of those spaces help to stretch your thinking. You have
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Speaker 1: new insformation and new perspectives, and that helps you to
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Speaker 1: move out the negative. The negativity for sure, but also
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Speaker 1: the mental clutter. See. The thing about it is, and
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Speaker 1: that's why I talk about being a mindset advocate, is
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Speaker 1: because we all have a fair amount of mental clutter.
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Speaker 1: Think about from the time you rise up in the day.
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Speaker 1: And I remember having this conversation a couple years ago.
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Speaker 1: I was in a session with some mentees that we
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Speaker 1: had through a program at my office, and we had
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Speaker 1: a couple of mentors in the room, and I remember
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Speaker 1: stating that it is so important to have mental clarity.
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Speaker 1: And one of the things that we do to cloud
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Speaker 1: that every day without thinking about it is our devices.
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Speaker 1: For some people, they go to bed with the phone
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Speaker 1: literally in bed, wake up with the phone in bed,
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Speaker 1: and the first thing they do before even given thanks
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Speaker 1: for the day, before even recognizing their aliveness and alertness
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Speaker 1: and all the things that come with just being able
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Speaker 1: to breathe, is a jump on the phone. And depending
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Speaker 1: on the news of the day, the cycle of news
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Speaker 1: for the day, the stories, depending on what comes out,
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Speaker 1: and typically it's not gonna be good, right, we know
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Speaker 1: it's always gonna be the drama, the issues, all of
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Speaker 1: the salacious details, nothing that says it's a good day.
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Speaker 1: Here's a good news story that launched overnight or that
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Speaker 1: happened yesterday, and we're still talking about it. They've already
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Speaker 1: moved on to the next thing that's gonna blow up, literally,
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Speaker 1: And that's what you feed your mind. And so when
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Speaker 1: I say mental clutter, that's how some people's day start.
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Speaker 1: That might not be how your day starts. That certainly
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Speaker 1: is not the way my day starts, but for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people, it starts that way. And I remember
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Speaker 1: telling somebody in that session, don't turn your phone on
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Speaker 1: first thing in the morning. Allow yourself that moment of thankfulness,
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Speaker 1: that moment of gratitude, that moment of quiet, that moment
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Speaker 1: of stillness before you start to get everything moving, turning
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Speaker 1: on the TV and the music and the sounds. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you think about the clutter that you collect throughout
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Speaker 1: the day, at every stop of the way, maybe you
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Speaker 1: stop for gas, right the traffic you you know, the
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Speaker 1: people are honking, the traffic jam, the things that are
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Speaker 1: going through your mind, the presentation you have. First thing
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Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, you walk into the office,
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Speaker 1: your computer is not you know, operating as designed I mean,
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Speaker 1: and all throughout the day to conversations, and then you
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Speaker 1: got to travel back home. Just think about all the
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Speaker 1: things we're collecting throughout the day, and so doesn't it
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Speaker 1: make sense to make time to mentally declutter, to eliminate
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Speaker 1: the negativity, to remove the distractions, the things that drain
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Speaker 1: your energy. Doing those things certainly get you prepared for change.
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Speaker 1: What you're feeding your mind now, you're feeding your mind
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Speaker 1: with possibilities, instincts, and new perspectives right from these new
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Speaker 1: environments and these conversations and the books that you're reading
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Speaker 1: or whatever you read nowadays. Right, those things are going
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Speaker 1: to get you in a place where you are going
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Speaker 1: to be all ready aligned for change. And finally, the
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Speaker 1: last thing is to practice your decision readiness. And this
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Speaker 1: is probably the most important because, as I mentioned, when
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Speaker 1: you get the when you get the news, whatever the
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Speaker 1: thing is, it shows up in the form of you
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Speaker 1: need to make a decision, and oftentimes a pretty quick
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Speaker 1: one at that. So your decision muscles have to be
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Speaker 1: prepared to fire up to execute on that move, so
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Speaker 1: to speak. These decisions must be as you grow into them.
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Speaker 1: They need to be small and intentional choices you make
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Speaker 1: every day. I know that in the gym, when you
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Speaker 1: want to build muscles, you need to of course use weights,
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Speaker 1: but you need to have progression of weights to really
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Speaker 1: start seeing how strong your muscles can be and grow.
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Speaker 1: And so similarly, to have strong decision making muscles, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to make those strong decisions throughout the day,
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Speaker 1: and these intentional choice that you're making right You might
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Speaker 1: be saying yes to a challenge, you might be saying
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Speaker 1: yes to setting a boundary. You might be willing to
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Speaker 1: act without overthinking. And honestly, that for me has been
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Speaker 1: probably the biggest one. For me, I used to spend
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Speaker 1: so much time overthinking a decision. I mean, up until
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Speaker 1: recently I found myself slipping a little bit and I
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Speaker 1: have at work, I have a responsibility for some approvals
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Speaker 1: for communication, and I remember one day, because I fall
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Speaker 1: on the side of being very amicable when it comes
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Speaker 1: to decisions, I want to make sure everybody's okay. But
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Speaker 1: oftentimes you're put in a position where you just you
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Speaker 1: need to be the decision maker and be the final
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Speaker 1: decision maker. And I remember something being delayed, not necessarily delayed,
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Speaker 1: but somebody was waiting on it decision because I had
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Speaker 1: kind of punted it over to my partner and I said, hey,
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Speaker 1: what do you think about this? And my partner said
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Speaker 1: to me, you know that we're the decision makers. Whatever
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Speaker 1: you say, I say. If I feel differently from what
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Speaker 1: you think, then i'll say something. But whatever you think,
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Speaker 1: I trust you with that level of responsibility, that level
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Speaker 1: of authority. And I needed to hear that. I needed
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Speaker 1: to hear that because I was starting to go back
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Speaker 1: to what was familiar. I'm not gonna say fall back
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Speaker 1: into my old ways, but what was familiar for me
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Speaker 1: when it comes to decision making was to punt it
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Speaker 1: back to the other side, just to make sure everything
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Speaker 1: is cool. But if you're already in the position of authority,
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Speaker 1: which from where I'm sitting, you are the decision maker.
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Speaker 1: You are the authority of your life. So you can
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Speaker 1: make that decision and it might be the maybe not
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Speaker 1: the best decision long you know, long term, short term,
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Speaker 1: but guess what, you can always make another decision. That's
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Speaker 1: the beautiful thing about it. And so I say all
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Speaker 1: that to say, you do these things moment to moment,
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Speaker 1: day by day. You're making these decisions, You're growing these muscles.
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Speaker 1: That way, when big change arrives, when you get the
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Speaker 1: phone call that you've been waiting on, for the business,
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Speaker 1: for the venture, for whatever it is, you will be
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Speaker 1: confident to make a move because you've allready gone through
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Speaker 1: the training, You've already done the reps. You know what
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Speaker 1: it feels like to put more weight on it. You
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Speaker 1: know what it feels like to me make a decision
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Speaker 1: and not know like if it's going to be the
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Speaker 1: perfect decision. And by the way, no decision is perfect.
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Speaker 1: We talk about that a few episodes back. But you
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Speaker 1: will be prepared to do it with your mind and
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Speaker 1: your heart, and that is probably the most important thing
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Speaker 1: there is when it comes to your readiness, your mind
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Speaker 1: and your heart alignment. I want you to ask yourself
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Speaker 1: this as we close out this episode, as we close
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Speaker 1: out the importance of navigating the transformation, knowing that transformation
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Speaker 1: is in fact an inside job, not with when the
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Speaker 1: change arrives, but all the things you do day to day,
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Speaker 1: those small things, so that you are ready when it happens.
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Speaker 1: I want you to ask yourself this, If the opportunity
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Speaker 1: of a lifetime came tomorrow, am I already the person
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Speaker 1: who can step into it? I hope you enjoyed this
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