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[EP23] 2025: Manifest Future You Now · AWAKEN with Dylan Ayaloo: Inner Work, Healing, Yoga & Meditation

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  So I want to start off first with, I'll start off with the New Year's message, Christmas, New Year's.
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  I've had a little bit of time to contemplate and I've also let myself, gives myself some time to rest.
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  And as I was sitting with what I'd like to share, you know, from the perspective of inner work, obviously, because that's my area of expertise.
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  and looking at life as it stands right now in the world in all the different you know perspectives
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  like economy and technology and politics and finance and all of that which I'm not an expert
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  in any one of those fields but you know I know the broader kind of strokes or where things are at
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  right now the condition the state of the world today and with you know technology growing at
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  I think the pace of 200 years in a year if I'm if that's not out of date yet I think that was one
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  of the things I saw you know in this last year in 2024 with AI and robotics and also the state of
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  you know the world economy and global let's say levels of peace which is not very peaceful in
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  some places it's the opposite and also then you know zooming into ourselves and as I say always
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  our outer world is a reflection of our inner world.
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  And I've certainly felt, you know,
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  the acceleration of pace of things this year,
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  but I've had a not a normal year, whatever that is,
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  whatever my normal year was going to be,
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  I didn't have that.
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  I had a different year this year with, you know,
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  with the passing of my mom earlier this year,
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  the beginning of this year.
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  So I think, you know, it comes down to,
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  when I look at it from any and all angles,
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  the word that comes to me, at least for now,
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  I'm going to be bringing it into my newest resolutions and into 2025.
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  I think more than ever now, the word is authentic or authenticity.
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  Or you could say real or be real or get real.
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  So these are just different ways of saying the same thing.
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  And if your fear is, will my job be taken by AI one day soon?
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  The answer is authenticity.
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  the relationship that I want? The answer is, I would say, authenticity. In a world of instant
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  gratification, instant everything, more instant than ever, the one thing that still stands stronger
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  than anything else, I'd say, about the only thing in many kind of arenas is realness, is authenticity.
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  so fear not you can just let you know the crowds go in that direction that they're going and i
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  can't remember very clever person some one of those clever people said go in the opposite
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  direction maybe it was warren buffett or one of those people with a lot of experience
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  right in life and in an area of their life so in case you know you've been worried this year
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  in 2024 and you know things have been happening around you in all sorts of good and maybe also
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  crazy ways I think more than ever you know the focus in my opinion is authenticity you know being
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  real getting real with ourselves to begin with and then you know with our lives so for me as I'm
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  entering into the new year that's I've just started focusing on it today and thinking about
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  and that's what kind of stands out to me you know so in your journey today wherever you are
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  I would say it's a good time to assess right I think a lot of us do this kind of period or
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  of assessment of our year that's gone past and I'll speak for myself I normally look at the
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  year gone and the year that is coming and this time I think what I want to do is look at the
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  year gone and the last decade gone and the decade that is coming and coming as in what I'd like to
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  make happen what I'd like to call forth and make happen and reverse engineering the results of what
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  I'd like to happen 10 years from now and beginning that process today and you know if whatever your
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  dreams and aspirations are that you'd like to call forth and manifest you know if you would you know
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  this i think is a powerful thing about our mind is that we can play things out we can play thoughts
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  out right without having to live it first we can do it in our minds so what if you know what are
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  the areas in your life that you'd like to be different and i'm you know should we all do that
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  every year and the difference between the things that actually manifest as in come true and the
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  things that don't what are the differences what actually worked and didn't work what didn't go to
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  plan right or was just completely left field like some of us got this year i got mine at the beginning
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  of the year and changed my year completely and so therefore what are you prioritizing right what
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  are you going to be putting your time and effort and energy and resources into this year that is
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  going to give you the results not just a year from now you know in well towards the end of next year
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  around this time 27 to the 31st or the first right next year and 10 years from now and if you look at
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  the results that you want you know maybe it's more love more joy more peace more fun more adventure
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  more abundance more purpose more meaning you know whatever it is for you and or anything else that i
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  haven't mentioned and however you'd like that to make manifest in your life right to for you to
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  make manifest in your life challenge your thinking by expanding it to 10 times right that the results
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  or results that you'd like or 100 times and you know if you were to expand that to 100 times the
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  results that you'd like what would have to be different you know how would your thinking have
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  to be different? What actions would you take differently? Rather than if you've been going
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  at a linear pace in the last year or maybe last decade, sometimes it's just playing the same game
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  in a different field, you know, with a different team or different teams, different league,
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  right, so to speak. So for some of you, you know, you're running businesses and it's like, okay,
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  the same thing that you're offering, you know, to a different crowd could afford you to 10,
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  I'm just using that as an example because some other areas in our life may be not so tangible.
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  So what could be and would you like to be different?
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  Or what do you need to make different?
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  So that if you want non-linear as an exponential result,
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  these are some of the things that you might need to change.
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  And knowing that also, the reason I said 10 years is because, as I'm sure you've heard,
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  we underestimate what we can make happen and make achieve in 10 years in a decade and we you know
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  overestimate what we can achieve in 12 months so maybe that's also why every year i find myself
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  kind of not hitting certain kind of goals because they're too big and also i want it now rather than
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  making it big and being willing to stick with it long term right so if i look back on my last one
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  or two decades of my life, there were certain things that I stuck with for, you know, over a
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  decade, like my yoga studio, for example, and it did get to a point, you know, where I dreamt when
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  I began it or couldn't dream of before I began it. So what are some of the things that you would
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  like to make happen? And if you kind of, you know, expanded the time horizon and allowed yourself to
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  slow down and take smaller steps and, you know, in smaller increments in a world that demands more,
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  I say the world demands more time, but actually we let ourselves get distracted. That's kind of what I mean.
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  We distract ourselves, right?
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  If we talk about from a place of taking responsibility for our own lives,
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  we allow ourselves to get distracted.
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  So therefore, our priorities get mixed up. Therefore, our results are mixed up.
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  And if you look at the results that you have today, you could say, you know, you can reverse engineer that.
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  What happened in the year?
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  If you look at your schedule and if you look at your bank account, as in like where we focused our resources, right?
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  Our time, effort, energy, focus.
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  That's the result that we have today.
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  And when I look at this year and where I'm at right now, that's true for me in my life.
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  Where I've put my resources.
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  And as you know, lots of people have said it, right?
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  It's not a question of resources.
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  It's always a question of resourcefulness because we have an infinite amount of resources within us.
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  24 hours you know one person will go and change the world in 24 hours and someone else will barely
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  get out of bed that day right if at all so as you contemplate the beginning the end of this year in
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  the beginning of 2025 you know these are some of the messages i have so i think the message is like
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  you know around authenticity i'm just looking at my notes over here i've actually made notes you
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  You know, dare to be real, I'd say.
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  It's the only way.
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  You know, whether it's you wanting to be effective,
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  like stand out on social media,
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  or, you know, build a business,
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  or get into the relationship, you know,
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  that you've been dreaming of and yearning for,
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  or healing the relationships that you're in,
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  or your body and your health.
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  You know, any area that I look at.
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  any area, it's this.
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  This would be the answer.
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  I'd say get real and be real.
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  So real, authenticity is the word that comes to me.
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  So therefore being willing to have an honest look at things
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  without judging yourself and beating yourself down
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  and actually looking at, okay, this is the state of affairs right now in my life.
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  This is where I'm at.
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  Am I happy with that?
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  what I'd like is this what I'd like to continue and if not then what you know what results do I
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  want and why and how can I reverse engineer that so that I can have you know and start to start
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  that process right so that's the other message it's like what can you start today that you can
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  realize the results in 10 years and when you have that kind of longer term horizon it probably won't
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  take 10 years and if it did it's okay right like you've planned for it anyway what do you need to
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  the other word is focus what do you need to cut down right to sharpen your focus right to to put
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  your focus on then expand because you know in a world of distractions right like a time where
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  there's endless infinite amount of distractions that we can choose to distract ourselves with
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  or when we are not aware we'll capture our attention and maintain it and pull it away
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  in a different direction if we're not aware, which is why awareness is the very first part
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  of this process, this framework.
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  So what do you need to cut out of your life?
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  That is, what are the distractions?
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  And what do you choose to focus on?
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  What do you choose to commit to?
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  As in, commit means you cut out other options and you put your focus and energy into that.
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  And if you put all your focus and energy into one thing, the chance of that thing actually
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  succeeding, however you define success to be, is infinitely higher than if our attention
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  is distracted and diffused across many things.
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  And if you were to relax the expectation on yourself and your life and expand the time
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  horizon and, in a way, I'm saying be kinder to yourself and more generous to yourself
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  and give yourself more time, yet consistently take action, right?
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  Takes the steps.
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  What could that look like?
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  So as in like slow down, slow down and be consistent, you know?
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  And if you don't have time, then start with small increments,
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  but make it as consistent as possible, you know?
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  In other words, build habit, build discipline, right?
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  These are all things that are kind of unsexy, right?
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  In a world of everything being instant,
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  have it now, right, and mask over everything else.
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  By the way, I don't have a problem with tablets, just to say.
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  And, you know, if you need an excuse, use this time of the year, right?
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  Use New Year as an excuse, as a reset.
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  And look at how many New Years you've had and how many times, right, you've made resolutions
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  and why some of them worked and why some of them didn't, or why none of them worked, or
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  why all of them worked, you know, whatever your state of affairs is.
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  and was and is.
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  And the other thing I'd call attention to is
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  in a world of shallow and instant,
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  go deep.
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  Focus and go deep.
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  Specialize.
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  You know, your attention,
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  focus your attention and become the expert.
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  And in that field, that area,
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  that area of your life,
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  that area of your business or career, right?
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  Because, you know,
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  business analogy it's like the more focused you are the the sharper let's say your niche you know
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  all the kind of people that you are serving the same product same service you can charge way more
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  it's the same thing in our lives like rather than just diffuse attention when you focus your
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  attention your energy your efforts you're much more likely to get greater results but be willing
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  to loosen the grip on yourself and give yourself more time.
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  And as much as I say focus, mud sounds like an opposing view as well.
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  It's like another lesson I had this year, if it's useful to you, you can go ahead and
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  use it, is now not later.
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  Last day this time, I assumed that I would have more time with my mother and I didn't.
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  I had exactly a month and then she was gone.
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  And obviously I had no idea.
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  it makes things that we assume, like I assumed I'd have
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  another decade at least with my mum around and
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  that was not what happened.
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  In a time like this, like Christmas and New Year, we
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  have an opportunity to sit with what's actually really important and
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  I have no regrets because my mum was important to me and
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  I did everything I could to have the most amazing relationship with her
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  but what about you? What's important to you in your life? And what have you been delaying that
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  if you delayed more and if you didn't have another day or if they didn't have another day
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  that you would regret, right? And you would have to carry that and probably work on it. And
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  trust me, it's easier to have the conversation than do decades of work on it later.
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  speaking from experience as well obviously and then base your life on truth you know so
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  so often I learned kind of earlier in this year I went through my process of grief and
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  so much was going through in my mind and emotionally and there were periods where I
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  had like very very low periods you know which I've never hit before in my life and I realized that I
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  was basing my life you know around about that time on my emotional landscape and what I learned about
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  is that this moment I feel this now and next moment I can feel something else.
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  So rather than basing my life on my emotions,
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  to actually allow myself to acknowledge and feel the emotions,
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  but to also look at the truth of the situation.
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  And so therefore I'd say seek out the truth
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  and build your life on the foundation of truth in your life
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  rather than just how you feel right now.