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252. Victory in the Final Stretch · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, I did a half marathon, and
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  Speaker 1: for someone who hadn't trained as much as I should have,
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  Speaker 1: it was actually gone pretty well until that last half
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  Speaker 1: a mile. Somewhere along that last half a mile, I
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  Speaker 1: got a cramp and I thought, Man, I'm so close
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  Speaker 1: to the finish. How could this happen now? And I
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  Speaker 1: think so many of you have been in positions where
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  Speaker 1: you've run your race and you're close to the finish.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the finish, you can taste it and
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  Speaker 1: feel it, the energy is alive around you to get
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  Speaker 1: to it, and then all of a sudden, a mishap,
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  Speaker 1: a fall, a slip, something that would keep you from
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  Speaker 1: achieving the one thing you have spent months, weeks, for
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  Speaker 1: some people years trying to accomplish. I want to let
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  Speaker 1: you know, just like I did that year, that season
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  Speaker 1: of my half marathon, I pushed, I gritted. I had
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  Speaker 1: a good partner with me on that race who allowed
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  Speaker 1: me to and actually stayed with me through that tough moment.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to let that cramp get to me.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you what. If you are having
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  Speaker 1: a cramp in your race, it could literally stop you.
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  Speaker 1: But my mindset was bigger than the pain, and this
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  Speaker 1: episode is talking about that mindset. It has to be
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  Speaker 1: bigger than the pain. It has to be bigger than
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  Speaker 1: your ego, because sometimes our own ego, where we think
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  Speaker 1: we should be, and where we think we are when
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  Speaker 1: we compare ourselves to others, can slow us down. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to go into this season of whatever you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to accomplish and make sure your mental game is sharp,
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  Speaker 1: because I tell you what, in that season, my body,
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  Speaker 1: my physical body, wasn't sharp enough to get me through it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a mental work that got me to achieve
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  Speaker 1: that goal I had worked so hard to accomplish. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: your day and to command your morning. And this week's
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  Speaker 1: affirmation is, I stay focused on the finish line, trusting
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  Speaker 1: every step I take brings me closer to my goals.
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  Speaker 1: I stay focused on the finish line, trusting every step
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  Speaker 1: I take brings me closer to my goals. I stay
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  Speaker 1: focused on the finish line, trusting every step I take
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  Speaker 1: brings me closer to my goals. Now, let's get ready
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  Speaker 1: for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self podcast.
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  Speaker 1: A few months back, there was a video circulating on
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  Speaker 1: social media around a marathon finish, and if you've seen it,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. It was the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six Delaware Marathon and there was someone videotaping or
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  Speaker 1: you know, recording the finish and I'm outdoors. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: love the birds when they chirp in? And this person
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  Speaker 1: was so enthusiastic, and they were really excited because they
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  Speaker 1: saw a runner emerging from the back contending with the
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  Speaker 1: person that was approaching the finish line. And so they
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  Speaker 1: started speaking life and affirming and encouraging and just generating.
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  Speaker 1: So much excitement. You can hear it through the video recording,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously that's part of it, but the main thing
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  Speaker 1: was to watch this runner emerge from the back and
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  Speaker 1: do something that's really tough. If you've been out there running,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. Those last few meters
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  Speaker 1: getting to that finish line. If you are gunning it,
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  Speaker 1: you can really make up some time. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 1: seen Olympians have seconds that they were able to shave off,
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  Speaker 1: and that makes a difference between a win and a loss,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly in this case, this individual who was gunning
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  Speaker 1: it through from the back pushed through so far and
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  Speaker 1: so fast that he claimed the title. He earned the
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  Speaker 1: title of the race. It's interesting to see how many
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  Speaker 1: people in the comments and even when the news broke
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  Speaker 1: about this, because it was pretty monumental moment where you
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  Speaker 1: think the person that was running ahead of the pack
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  Speaker 1: had already kind of claimed this race as their own,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was probably heartbreaking for him to watch
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  Speaker 1: this thing be in his mind taken away from him.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not what happened. What happened was the young
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  Speaker 1: man who was sprinting from the back, using the last
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  Speaker 1: bit of energy he had This is a marathon, people,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six point two miles of intensity of rethinking your life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I do that on a five mile run
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  Speaker 1: or a three k a five k which is three
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  Speaker 1: mile run. I can only imagine you know, doing that
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  Speaker 1: on a marathon season. And this guy did the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: thing claim aimed, earned the title of marathon winner twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six for the Delaware Marathon. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a really big moment for all of us to think
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  Speaker 1: about the races we run. Like everyone in this life,
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  Speaker 1: whether you consider yourself a runner or not, guess what
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you, you are a runner. There
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  Speaker 1: is a race in this life that you are running.
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  Speaker 1: That you are you know, you've been training for and
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  Speaker 1: you've been practicing for, and now you're here. You're on
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  Speaker 1: the day. You're in the moment of giving it all
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  Speaker 1: that you got. And let me tell you what. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot stop. You cannot rest, you cannot pause, you cannot chill,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot do any of that until you know that
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  Speaker 1: you have crossed the finish line. And you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you get started on a mission, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: marathon for example, or just anything that you're doing in life,
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  Speaker 1: it does feel like it's gonna take a long time
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  Speaker 1: to get there. I mean twenty six point two miles.
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  Speaker 1: I mean some you know, very seasoned runners can do
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  Speaker 1: that in a you know, sub two hours or three.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it took me when I did my half marathon,
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  Speaker 1: it took me sub three hours. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: just just up under or just above three hours to
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  Speaker 1: finish a half. But there's season people who can do
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  Speaker 1: a full in three hours or two hours. But it
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  Speaker 1: takes practice. It takes a lot of logistics of the
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  Speaker 1: mind and the body and having everything work in alignment.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's so important that yes, the way you
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  Speaker 1: start the race may seem like, oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 1: have so much ahead of me, but when you're getting
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  Speaker 1: close to that finish line, let me tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing like that last few meters getting to that
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  Speaker 1: finish And you know, it's not how you start. It's
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  Speaker 1: not how you start, it is how you finish. And
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  Speaker 1: so I just want to let everyone know the importance
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  Speaker 1: of what happened in that Delaware marathon, right that from
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  Speaker 1: the back, if you decide when you are making strides
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  Speaker 1: in your race that you're going to take your foot
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  Speaker 1: off the gas that you're going to pause for a minute,
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  Speaker 1: that can be That could be the determination of how
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  Speaker 1: you end up the outcome that you have. Right, Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the things that we are striving for are so close
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  Speaker 1: in our reach. All we have to do is keep
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  Speaker 1: striving for it, and then we're closer to reach it
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  Speaker 1: so we can clinch it. Because that's what you've been
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  Speaker 1: training for, that's what this whole season of your life
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  Speaker 1: has been dedicated to, getting you ready for a day,
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  Speaker 1: for to day, for this day, whatever it is. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to miss that moment. And unfortunately the
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  Speaker 1: person who was leading the pack, who started getting comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: started you know, I wouldn't say getting cocky, but just
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  Speaker 1: getting relaxed in the season and being relaxed sometimes will
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  Speaker 1: mess up your destination. It will mess up your plans
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  Speaker 1: right that you had because I'm sure at one point
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  Speaker 1: this person had turned around and saw, wow, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only one in the sight of this finish, and so
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  Speaker 1: I got this. This is mine, right, And I want
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  Speaker 1: to caution you when you get to those points, when
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  Speaker 1: you see that it is yours and you are so
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  Speaker 1: sure that you are going to clench it, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to encourage you to gun it like this guy did.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 1: Encourage you to get your own mental cheerleader like this
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  Speaker 1: spectator did. Where they were, you know, cheering this person
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  Speaker 1: on enthusiastically with lots of energy, beautiful harmony, affirmations you
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  Speaker 1: got this, keep going, get it, get it, get it,
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  Speaker 1: and yes he got it in the end. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna encourage you to do today as
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  Speaker 1: you go forward and prepare for your thing, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: your next season, your next thing, your race, the thing
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  Speaker 1: you want to complete. You're just a few meters out.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear that internal cheerleader, what I
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  Speaker 1: call your internal coach, coaching you to finish, coaching you
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  Speaker 1: to give your all and do your best and don't
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  Speaker 1: stop until you can rest at the end. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's time to keep going. It's time to soar, it's
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  Speaker 1: time to show up for yourself like you've never done before.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be doctor Susie. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, but I just want you to feel that.
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  Speaker 1: And go ahead and check out that video. It's I
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  Speaker 1: might link it here from one of the news stations
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  Speaker 1: that had it, but it is such a powerful realization.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I took the lesson out of it immediately
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  Speaker 1: when I saw it. I've always heard it's not how
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  Speaker 1: you start, it's how you finish. I worked in sales
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  Speaker 1: and was a sales manager for you know, at least
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  Speaker 1: a decade, and so I understand having goals and having
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  Speaker 1: a month long season of you know, having expectations that
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  Speaker 1: you have to achieve, and how sometimes looking ahead of
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  Speaker 1: that month, it may look like dismal, like how am
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  Speaker 1: I going to get this done? And I'm to I
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  Speaker 1: have to rally my team. It's not just a meet thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: I had to rally a team of people around me
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  Speaker 1: in my organization to get to this goal. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it seemed as though there wasn't enough month left. But
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  Speaker 1: what it's not what month is left, is what do
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  Speaker 1: you have left in you to give to poor to
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  Speaker 1: show up and do your very very best. Right, Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: your very best doesn't land you as the winner. But
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  Speaker 1: in this case, in this case where you saw this
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  Speaker 1: person go on pause and started to just relax a
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  Speaker 1: lot more than they should have, this is the moment,
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  Speaker 1: right because you know, I'm not here to POOPU on
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  Speaker 1: the person that tried to push past that finish with
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  Speaker 1: what they had left in the tank, and they just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. That's different I'm talking about when we
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  Speaker 1: are still in it and we still have maybe another
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent to pour into it. I encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: take that twenty, take that ten, take that five. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if it's one percent more. You know, two
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  Speaker 1: percent or two degrees more is boiling point? Right? Two
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  Speaker 1: degrees more can get to a boiling point. There's a
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  Speaker 1: book call I think it's called two degrees or maybe
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  Speaker 1: one degree, but that separates something from boiling to not
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  Speaker 1: boiling at one degree. And so you are a degree away, right,
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  Speaker 1: a run away meters away, a moment away. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to lose it. I want you to stay
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  Speaker 1: in it. And it's going to start with being in
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  Speaker 1: practice showing up. And I'm going to say this over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. I've said it
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  Speaker 1: a time before and I'll say it again. Consistency is key,
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  Speaker 1: and consistency can be showing up differently. And what I
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  Speaker 1: mean by that is there's some days that you can
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  Speaker 1: go out there and you can give it one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty percent, but you showed up. And there's another
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  Speaker 1: day that you can go out there and you can
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  Speaker 1: give it two hundred percent, but you showed up. But
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  Speaker 1: then there's a day where you can give eighty and
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  Speaker 1: that's all you got and you showed up, and there's
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  Speaker 1: another day you can give ninety five and guess what,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay because you showed up. Consistency is showing up
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. And I think a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: we think consistency has to be equal to or better
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  Speaker 1: than the last time. And I'm going to challenge you
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  Speaker 1: that that is not the case. That just showing up
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  Speaker 1: and putting what you have available out there is enough
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  Speaker 1: for you to do that thing, to be in that season,
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  Speaker 1: that space. And so that's what I want to share
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  Speaker 1: with you today.
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  Speaker 2: Again, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
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