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Momentum Action & Living Deliberately (S5) S9:E7 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, good evening.
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It is John C.
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Morley here, serial entrepreneur.
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All right, guys, it's great to be with
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you.
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Thank you so much for joining me here
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on Inspirations for Your Life.
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We have an amazing topic that we're actually
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closing out this week.
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All right, guys.
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All right, so let's kick this show off.
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Are you ready?
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I know I am.
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So this whole week, if you've been following
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me, we've been talking about owning your path,
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momentum, action, and of course, living deliberately, a
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very passionate life.
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So yeah, very interesting thing to talk about.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm your host.
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I'm John C.
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Morley.
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I'm a serial entrepreneur.
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I'm an engineer.
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I'm a marketing specialist.
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I'm a video producer, podcast host, coach, keynote
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speaker, graduate student, and a passionate lifelong learner.
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And pretty soon, guys, I will be a
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published author, and I'm really excited about that.
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So the master topic, building unstoppable momentum through
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consistent action, deliberate living, and intentional energy alignment,
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that's what this whole week has been about.
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So welcome, everyone, to the Inspirations for Your
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Life show.
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As I said, I'm John C.
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Morley.
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Today, I'm diving into momentum, action, and living
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deliberately, the tools, choices, and habits that perform
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ideas and transform them into real results.
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You'll learn how small intentional steps create compounding
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success, how avoiding distractions and forbidden shortcuts protect
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your focus, and why deliberate living multiplies the
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impact of every effort.
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All right, guys.
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Let's just kick it off.
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So our first point section is about viralness
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and the ability to understand momentum, action, and
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living deliberately, guys.
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Momentum is built through consistent action, not occasional
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bursts.
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Small steady efforts compound faster than sporadic sprints.
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I think a lot of people don't realize
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that, or people don't understand that, and it's
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not anything hard.
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It's just that people need to understand that
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we have power in our lives.
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We have power.
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And this power is something that a lot
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of people don't realize that we have, but
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we do have this power.
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I think that's an amazing thing.
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And action, ladies and gentlemen, transforms ideas into
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results.
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Without moving strategy, it's just theory, guys.
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But we have to take the action so
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we can get it to manifest what we
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want.
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All right?
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Living deliberately multiplies the effect of effort.
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Being intentional turns every step into progress.
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But some people, for whatever reason, they don't
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want to be intentional.
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Is it that they just don't want the
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work?
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No, I think the reason is they are
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scared, and it's uncomfortable, okay?
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If you don't understand that, then maybe you're
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not pushing yourself to the next level.
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Life has to be a little bit uncomfortable.
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I'm not saying it's got to be painful.
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I'm saying it's got to be a little
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uncomfortable so you can push yourself a little
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bit.
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Avoid forbidden shortcuts that give instant gratification, but
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block long-term progress.
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Quick wins often cost more in the long
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run.
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I think that's something that a lot of
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people, like, they don't understand that.
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Those quick runs really do cost more.
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Momentum increases with focus and energy alignment.
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Your energy follows attention.
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Use it wisely, guys, every single day.
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It helps you, and it helps others.
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Action creates clarity and direction.
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Doing helps you see what works and, guys,
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what doesn't work.
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Deliberate choices prevent reactive mistakes.
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I've talked about this before.
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If we are proactive, it's a lot easier
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to fix something and be ready than if
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we're reactive.
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That's, you know, that's like the bull in
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the china shop, right?
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Deliberate choices prevent reactive mistakes.
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We want to be proactive.
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Pause before responding.
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Your intentionality shows, guys.
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It really does.
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Small actions compound into massive outcomes.
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Micro habits today are milestones tomorrow.
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So, that small act that we started, whether
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it's drinking water, whether it's living in gratitude,
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it becomes part of us.
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It becomes part of us, and I think
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that's something that a lot of people, like,
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they don't realize, you know, like, what that
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is or why that is, all right?
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Micro habits today are the milestones of tomorrow.
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Avoid distractions that break the momentum.
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Digital noise and unnecessary inputs, you know what
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they do, guys?
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They steal your precious results.
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A lot of you put up with them
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because, oh, you know, it's just once, it's
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just this, it's just I don't care, I'm
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just going to be kind, but you're actually
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hurting yourself.
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Momentum, ladies and gentlemen, accelerates when routines are
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consistent.
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Discipline beats motivation every time because we can
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lose our motivation, but our discipline is something
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I feel that we have to keep strong.
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Action reinforces confidence in your abilities.
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Success breeds self-belief.
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That's a cool one, guys.
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Success breeds self-belief, and what we believe
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is what comes about, guys.
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That's an important, a very, very important thing
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that a lot of people, I think, miss,
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okay?
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So, moving on to the next point, which
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is an interesting one, and that is living
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deliberately reduces stress and uncertainty.
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Predictable habits calm the mind, okay?
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Living intentionally, living in the moment, being grateful.
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Avoid those forbidden paths that compromise your trajectory.
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Say no to shortcuts that dilute focus.
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See, momentum is maintained through resilience and follow
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-through.
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Bounce back, ladies and gentlemen, and stay committed.
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Don't just do it once.
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Make it a micro habit, and let that
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micro habit become a habit that you do
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every single day.
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Action, ladies and gentlemen, strengthens self-discipline and
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its focus.
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Every completed task reinforces your willpower.
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Some of it, a lot of people, like,
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they give up on because they think that
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what they did is not reversible, or they
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think that they don't really have what they
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need.
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Belief is really important, and when you have
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others around you, whether it's family, whether it's
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friends or colleagues, and they support you, that
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goes a long way.
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Deliberate living, guys, clarifies priorities, and know what
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matters, and align your energy together, guys.
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Align your energy together.
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Avoid shortcuts that undermine long-term goals.
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Quick fixes often cost your vision, and I
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don't mean your vision, the way you see.
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I mean your perception of reality.
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So reality, ladies and gentlemen, occurs because of
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your perception.
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Because of your perception, that's why we get
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reality.
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If you change your perspective, your reality actually
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changes, guys.
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Momentum produces belief in your vision.
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Momentum is not something we just do one
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day.
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Momentum is something we have to keep doing
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day in and day out, even when the
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grind gets tough.
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Results feed inspiration and consistency.
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Results feed inspiration and consistency equals results, which
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come from your core values.
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And your consistency comes from what?
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Your discipline.
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Your discipline.
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Action, ladies and gentlemen, ensures accountability for the
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results.
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Action.
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Action creates results.
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Doing what you say builds credibility.
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Now you'll find that if you do something
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once, it doesn't build the credibility right away.
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It takes time to keep going back over
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that.
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Living deliberately builds personal authority, guys.
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Integrity and action earns trust.
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But I want to tell you something.
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Integrity is not a quick win.
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It's not a quick fix.
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It's not a band-aid.
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Integrity is developed by who you are when
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no one's around.
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Of course, it gets built when people are
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around, but what you choose to elicit in
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people around comes from when you're alone, when
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no one else is watching.
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That's where your true integrity gets built.
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Not when you're on stage.
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Not when people see you and what you're
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doing.
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Of course, you're going to act good then,
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but it's what you do when you're alone
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that changes that trajectory.
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Integrity in action earns trust.
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So integrity, doing something good, and eliciting that
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action earns the trust, but not on the
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very first time.
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Avoid behaviors, guys, that drain the energy or
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focus that you have.
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So protect your mental and your emotional bandwidth.
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I know that sounds hard, but we have
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to conserve our mental power and our emotional
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power, our bandwidth.
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There's a limit to how much we can
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take in and give out.
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So we have to channel that properly.
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So protect your mental and your emotional bandwidth.
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Not just once.
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Do this daily.
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Momentum compounds as small wins accumulate.
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Celebrate progress to fuel further action.
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Celebrate progress to fuel further action.
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That's an interesting one.
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When we celebrate our progress, we're going to
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want to take future steps.
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Okay?
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Action, guys, aligns energy with values.
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And, of course, our objectives.
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Do what your goals demand, not what's convenient.
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You're looking to make sales?
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Don't do what's convenient, what's easy.
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Do what your goals need.
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You know, a wise person once told me,
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John, a long time ago, develop a system
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of something you do every day.
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Maybe you don't like the prospect.
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Maybe you don't like to get leads.
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But maybe if you did a process every
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day, and it was just a couple things,
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and you kept doing it over time, you
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know what happens?
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People will respond.
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Sales is a numbers game.
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When we realize that, and we take small
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actions every day, even if they're small, but
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they're consistent, we're eventually going to hit something
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positive.
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Do what your goals demand from you, not
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what it is that's convenient.
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Convenient is comfortable.
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Convenient doesn't rock the boat.
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Convenience is just living.
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It's not thriving.
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It's surviving.
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It's not thriving.
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Deliberate choices, guys, strengthen the identity that you
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have.
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Repetition, however, shapes character over time.
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Repetition shapes your character over time.
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And repetition, from when you're alone, starts to
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mold that ego, mold that character of yours.
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Avoid forbidden distractions that erode progress.
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So focus attention is your most valuable asset.
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Sometimes people say, oh, I'll give you a
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few minutes.
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And my question is, I'd rather have five
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minutes of your undivided attention than 30 or
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45 minutes of your divided attention.
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Because I know that if you're giving me
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undivided attention, if I have five or 10
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minutes, I'm going to get you paying attention.
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If I get divided attention, you might not
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even remember what I'm talking about.
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You might not even remember, I don't know,
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you might not even think that this is
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something you care about.
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But when you give me your undivided attention,
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that's priceless.
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Let's think about in terms of marketing, right?
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If there's a billboard, and there is, let's
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say, four spots on the billboard, and you're
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on one spot, all right, good.
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You're on two spots.
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You're probably going to come up more.
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But let's now say there were 50 ads
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on that bulletin board, and you were only
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on to like a digital sign.
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You were only on it once, right?
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Now, if we do the math on this,
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this is where it gets kind of, I'm
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going to say it gets kind of fun.
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So there's 50 ads, okay?
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50 ads on that bulletin board.
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In an hour, your ad is going to
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show 1.2 minutes, even if we rotate
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them around, right?
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Roughly 1.2. It's 1.2 minutes for
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every commercial in the hour of 50.
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Now, that would be giving us, that's if
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we give them each equal time.
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We could choose to play one five seconds,
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10 seconds, and everybody gets 10 seconds, right?
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But it's the 1.2 formula that gives
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you how long it's going to show.
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So let's say, for example, that now, I
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don't know, let's say, for example, that I
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took that, and 1.2, okay?
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And that's what it is, right?
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But if I said, for example, let's say
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that you had the 60, right?
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If you do that same thing, all right?
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And you said there's 50 ads.
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Now, let's say the 50 ads, but the
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thing you're realizing is that if I was
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in all 50 of the ads, I'd be
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playing all the time.
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If I was in 25 of the ads,
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my time would be different.
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Momentum transforms effort, guys, into pure confidence.
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Action eliminates self-doubt.
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A formula, a mindset, a process eliminates self
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-doubt in our lives and others.
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Action, guys, maintains forward movement during challenges.
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Progress, even in small increments, matters.
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You don't have to do a lot of
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things, guys.
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You really don't.
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What you do have to do is you
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have to do them consistently over time.
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Now, I don't mean you do something once
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and then you don't do it again for
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a while.
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You do it daily.
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You do it daily.
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And I think the consistency is what helps
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people to understand, okay?
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And I don't think a lot of people
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understand this.
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I don't think they understand why people are
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the way they are.
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But I'm going to tell you this.
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The reason people are the way they are,
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the reason why people don't want to make
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a small dent, because they figure it's not
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going to be amounting to a hill of
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beans.
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But if you looked at all those dents,
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and by dents, I don't mean dents in
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a car.
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I mean that you're taking some action.
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You could look at this after a certain
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period of time and say, wait a minute.
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I've got my numbers.
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I know what I did.
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I know what my response rate is.
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And when you do it as a mechanical
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thing, as a system, it's just something you
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do like brushing your teeth or walking.
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Guys, I want you to know living deliberately
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ensures meaningful impact in your life and also
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others.
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Align each step with your bigger vision.
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Avoid forbidden shortcuts that compromise integrity.
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Ethical alignment sustains long-term success, guys.
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Momentum, action, and deliberate living together create unstoppable
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success.
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When all three converge, nothing can stop you,
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nothing.
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But people get disillusioned.
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They get frustrated because of something they saw
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or something they felt, but it was a
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minor setback.
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It wasn't there to get you to give
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up, but people lose heart when they don't
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reach the top right away and they figure
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they're never going to reach the top.
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I got news for you.
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People like Einstein and Thomas Edison.
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Do you guys know how many times it
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took Thomas Edison to make the electric light
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bulbs?
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Anybody know?
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If you had to take a guess, it
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wasn't five, a thousand attempts.
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But you know what he said?
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999 ways that it would not work.
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Now, this is the analogy that's been used
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for years.
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But actually, we found that that number was
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actually wrong.
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It's the number everybody's been using for a
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while, but it's wrong.
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He failed 2,774 times before the 2
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,775th time actually worked.
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Each failure was seen as a step closer
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to finding a solution.
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Edison viewed his failures positively, considering them as
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eliminations of unsuccessful options.
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The mindset helped him persist through numerous challenges
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in his quest to invent a commercially viable
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light bulb.
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Now, while Edison is credited with the invention
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of the light bulb, he improved upon existing
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designs.
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His version was notable for lasting over 1
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,200 hours, making it practical for widespread use.
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That's pretty impressive, guys.
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Let me ask you something.
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Do you spend 999 times or ways before
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you give up?
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Most people give up in two or three
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times, maybe 10 times.
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But do you spend 2,774 times?
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Or 999 times?
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No.
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Is it because you're not committed?
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Bingo.
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Is it because you've gotten too emotionally overdrawn
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and burnt yourself out?
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Bingo.
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Yes.
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Those are the reasons, guys.
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But see, nobody ever wants to share the
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real reason why.
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Nobody wants to share the real reason why.
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Nobody wants to share it.
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And it's OK that they don't want to
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share it.
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But what I want you to know is
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you're missing a very big part of success
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if you give up the first time you've
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failed.
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You know, a wise person who I've gone
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to their sales training several times, Tom Hopkins,
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does a sales boot camp training.
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I'm not sure if he still does it.
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He does it in Arizona.
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It's the Tom Hopkins boot camp.
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And I don't know if he still does
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it or not.
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It's the Tom Hopkins Foundation.
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And he does different events.
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He speaks around the world.
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He does a cabin retreat event that he
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does.
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But I don't know if he still does,
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if Tom Hopkins still does, I think it
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was called sales boot camp.
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I don't know if he still does it
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or not.
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I'm guessing he doesn't do it in person
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anymore.
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He has published books.
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He has some techniques of what he's done.
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His published books lead him to Amazon.
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But it's funny, I don't think he does
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the actual boot camp training anymore.
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I don't think he does.
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So he did it in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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And it was a pretty amazing thing that
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he did because what he would do when
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you get there, he would go through these
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things.
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So one thing I was talking about, he
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has this thing about failure, which he teaches.
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So he says, one of the things he
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said about failure is he says, I never
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see failure as failure as only a way
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to practice my technique and perfect my performance.
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I never see failure as failure as an
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opportunity to laugh.
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I never see failure as failure, but only
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as an opportunity to win.
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I never see failure as failure.
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And so that's his whole modus, but it
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was different.
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When we went to the camp, you were
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given like fake money and people be quizzing
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you on these different techniques and you never
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could not play.
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It was like a whole week of this
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strategy.
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But I guess people don't want to spend
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the money to go down.
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It was a lot of fun.
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It was a very intense sales training.
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I said to people, if you don't make
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the sales training, well, you're fired.
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Because anybody that could get through that weekend,
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they're the kind of people I wanted on
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my team.
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So I hope you join tonight and you
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help you stay focused and become unstoppable.
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Have a great one, everyone.
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I'll catch you real soon.
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Be well.
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And remember, you need to have momentum and
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action, which is backed by discipline.