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The Answer to Success – The Power of Focus and Determination · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I think the number one thing that keeps people from
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  Speaker 1: being successful is their fear. A whole bunch of different forms.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's about the people around you and how they'll
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  Speaker 1: perceive you, you know, because you know, maybe you grew
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  Speaker 1: up in a household where you know, things weren't accepted,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, maybe your parents sitting accomplished things and
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  Speaker 1: then they put that kind of insecurity on you. These
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  Speaker 1: are the things that I feel like sometimes it prevents
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  Speaker 1: people from being who they want to be, because all
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  Speaker 1: it takes is somebody wanting to take a step, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and there are certain things that a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in this world are sitting there thinking in their minds
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  Speaker 1: and they're just not gonna do. Like I used to
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  Speaker 1: always try to pull a lot of people and be
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  Speaker 1: like you what you can do this, You can do this.
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  Speaker 1: But the people that hear that motivation over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they take that step. Some people just have it
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  Speaker 1: in them early. It just starts and they're just getting
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  Speaker 1: the muscle memory of just doing things. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: things in our lives that we are scared about, but
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  Speaker 1: we're still here. We may have passed all these things,
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  Speaker 1: and if you fail so what you know, you start over,
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  Speaker 1: you do it again. But most people that fear of
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  Speaker 1: failure is the thing that I think prevents them from
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  Speaker 1: like really really being successful. Then also it's like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other things that are just difficult to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you tell people the answer to success,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of hard stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Let your success feel itself around you, let it construct
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  Speaker 3: around you.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta work hard, right, Nobody wants to hear that
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants to shortcut. You know, some people understand that,
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  Speaker 1: they like they appreciate the progress. You know, if you
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  Speaker 1: tell people right now, hey, if you want to lose
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  Speaker 1: this many pounds, this is what you gotta do. There's
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  Speaker 1: no short solution. But every time there's still people out
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  Speaker 1: there selling whatever herbal life treatment or whatever to try
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  Speaker 1: to get you the quick, short route because people believe that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna do it the easy way,
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  Speaker 1: and there is no easy way. So when I tell
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  Speaker 1: people that it's very blunt, it's very straight to it.
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  Speaker 1: You have to want to do it. But the best
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  Speaker 1: way I try to explain it is like you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're chiseling in a rock, you know you can
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  Speaker 1: chisel for a long time, and you can chisel one
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  Speaker 1: hundred times, two hundred times, three hundred times and it
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  Speaker 1: won't break. And then when you get the five thousand times,
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  Speaker 1: it finally breaks. But all the work that you did
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  Speaker 1: is what made it break. It's not like you just
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  Speaker 1: the last one just broke it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It takes that. But sometimes people don't want to start
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  Speaker 1: their journey, you know, they don't want to get on
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  Speaker 1: the mission of, like you know, becoming the best that
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  Speaker 1: they can be.
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  Speaker 3: Move away from your past and move toward a new purpose,
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  Speaker 3: a purpose that gives you the success you've always wanted,
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  Speaker 3: the success that leads you to a future you deserve.
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  Speaker 3: Bring your life into the direction you want, the direction
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  Speaker 3: to change your perception, your perspective. This is the power
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  Speaker 3: you've earned. Don't let yourself be taken by one more mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let yourself slip from one more wasted opportunity. Have
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  Speaker 3: the confidence to take action, Have the confidence to appreciate
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  Speaker 3: the decisions you make. To make every choice with the purpose,
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  Speaker 3: the purpose to change, to improve. As a collective a society,
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  Speaker 3: we all want similar things. We all want to succeed,
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  Speaker 3: to improve, to be better people. We all slip, but
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  Speaker 3: that's how life functions. That's the only way for us
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  Speaker 3: to learn. You can be more, you can have more.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we spend way more time in our
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  Speaker 1: own minds than we do talking to other people. Like
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  Speaker 1: you really spend a lot of time trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. There's all these thoughts that come to you,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's like you know, things around you, people talking
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  Speaker 1: to you, people close to you, things you see TV. Whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and you're bringing in all these different things trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out your path and life, you know. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it starts with having some like real understanding of
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  Speaker 1: what your strengths are. It's about being honest. You know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people just aren't honest with themselves. You're
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  Speaker 1: telling yourself this thing, but you like, there's so many
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  Speaker 1: people that say, oh, I'm gonna be an entrepreneur, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do this, and if you really dive down into deep,
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  Speaker 1: they don't really believe it, you know, And it's that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You can unlock that, but you have to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to unlock it. There's a conscience that's sitting right
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  Speaker 1: here telling you this thing and you try to brush
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  Speaker 1: it off. You have to be very honest with yourself
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  Speaker 1: and then if you're not, that doesn't mean you can't succeed.
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  Speaker 1: It means that now you're very honest and knowing you're
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  Speaker 1: not as good, then you can work on getting good.
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  Speaker 1: But if you think you're already good at it, you
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  Speaker 1: don't work on it. So I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time just reflecting on like, man, what am I good at?
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  Speaker 1: Like I used to think, like I'm going to the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was unrealistic about it. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: start to see people that are way bigger, way faster,
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  Speaker 1: and you're not telling yourself the truth. If you're just like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to the NBA, you start with doing what
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  Speaker 1: you're passionate about, right because there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that are going through life right now trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. Like, man, I don't know what I
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  Speaker 1: wanna be. I don't know like I was at that moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about money. I wanna make it very clear.
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  Speaker 1: The money will come if you focus on passion, you
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  Speaker 1: focus on information and relationship. And I'm gonna stand on
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  Speaker 1: the top of the mountain and sing that all day
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully it has a real impact on people's lives
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  Speaker 1: and I'm go'a feel good about that. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: feel good if I go to the grave as being
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  Speaker 1: the only person with the information and the money and
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  Speaker 1: I just had all this money. I'm'na feel good if
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to impact a lot of people and that
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  Speaker 1: don't have access to this information and a good life,
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  Speaker 1: a quality of life, and they have one. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That makes me feel real good.
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  Speaker 4: I think the true measure of wealth is it's happiness, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like I really do. And it's not saying that I'm
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  Speaker 4: against money. I'm not against that at all, because you
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  Speaker 4: gotta gotta work hard make your money to take care
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  Speaker 4: of your family and be able to bless people. But
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a lot of people with so called
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  Speaker 4: wealth and they don't have joy and they don't have happiness, right,
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like joy, happiness is peek and peace.
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  Speaker 4: It's the most important things we can possess. Right then,
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  Speaker 4: for most people, the material possessions they feel are the
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  Speaker 4: most important. For me, when you got joy, when you
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  Speaker 4: got peace, when you got happiness, I think that's true
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  Speaker 4: wealth because you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Put a price on that having a purpose. It's that
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  Speaker 2: thing that.
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  Speaker 4: Makes us tick, that gets us up every day and
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  Speaker 4: gets us over the hump of opposition and adversity. And
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  Speaker 4: the reason that I champion adversity in opposition is because
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  Speaker 4: I think for the most part in life, people pretty
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  Speaker 4: much know what to do when things go right, right Like,
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  Speaker 4: when things go right, they know how to feel, they
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  Speaker 4: know how to act, how to react. But it's when
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  Speaker 4: that opposition and that adversity comes and it creates a
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  Speaker 4: level of misunderstanding. Right now the vision is blurred. Now
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  Speaker 4: you don't have clarity about what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: Now you question if your existence matters. And I think
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  Speaker 4: when you have a purpose, it's powerful because in the
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  Speaker 4: midst of the opposition, it makes you realize that you've
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  Speaker 4: been put here for a certain reason. You can be great,
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  Speaker 4: but you living on a reserve. Right, You don't empty
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  Speaker 4: the bucket. You didn't give everything you had to every
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  Speaker 4: aspect of your life. Like for most people, they're great professionally,
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  Speaker 4: but they end up becoming a public success and behind
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  Speaker 4: closed doors their private failure. Not because they don't have
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  Speaker 4: the talent or the skill set, they don't have the
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  Speaker 4: character right that they can apply it and be consistent
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  Speaker 4: in every aspect of their life and empty out everything
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  Speaker 4: they got to everything right now. One would say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 4: when do you turn it back right? You find pockets
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  Speaker 4: to turn it back right. Of course, you don't just
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  Speaker 4: give everything you got all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You get to a point to where you learn to
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  Speaker 4: be efficient and effective in every aspect of your life.
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  Speaker 4: And for most people, it's not a problem with skill set,
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  Speaker 4: it's a problem with character and empty the bucket is
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  Speaker 4: having the right character to be consistent and empty out
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  Speaker 4: everything you've got in every.
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  Speaker 2: Aspect of your life.
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  Speaker 4: Either somebody is in the midst of adversity or it
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  Speaker 4: just came out of adversity, or it won't be long
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  Speaker 4: where they head into adversity. So you need to be
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  Speaker 4: prepared either way. And so we all go through adversity opposition.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the thing that makes us all in
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  Speaker 4: common as people, right, no matter if you're from London, Atlanta, Florida, California,
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  Speaker 4: New York, like, we're all going to go through.
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  Speaker 2: Something at some point a phase in our life. Right.
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  Speaker 4: And as cliche as it sounds when a quote says,
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  Speaker 4: it's never about what happens to you, it's about how
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  Speaker 4: you respond to it.
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  Speaker 2: That's very true, right.
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  Speaker 4: But in the same sense, I think what's most important
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  Speaker 4: is when we go through something, what's the perspective that
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  Speaker 4: we have of it?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Because for most people, when you go through something, the
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  Speaker 4: person's natural perspective is Okay, what did I lose?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 4: What happened to me? Like I took a loss. Right,
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  Speaker 4: people never look at it and say, okay, man, tell
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  Speaker 4: me what did you gain? Even though I know it
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  Speaker 4: hurt you didn't want to go through it, but look
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  Speaker 4: at it in a way to where you can say,
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  Speaker 4: what's the lesson in this?
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  Speaker 2: Right? What would you say? Life is trying to teach
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  Speaker 2: you from dealing with this?
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  Speaker 4: And so when I went through it, my perspective was, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: what can I extract from them to apply to other
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  Speaker 4: areas and aspects of my life that I feel can
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  Speaker 4: help other people? And I firmly believe the quicker you
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  Speaker 4: can shift your perspective from yourself to others when you're
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  Speaker 4: in the midst of adversity, the quicker you'll get through it.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Martin Luther King has a quote.
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  Speaker 4: That says life's most persistent and urgent question is what
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  Speaker 4: are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: To help other people. Now, I'm not telling you to
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  Speaker 2: not acknowledge your pain.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that. I'm not telling you not to say, man,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going through this in his heart. I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying when you go through it, look at it,
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  Speaker 4: step back from the picture and say, Okay, I'm dealing
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  Speaker 4: with this. Nine out of ten times, is somebody else
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  Speaker 4: that's either dealt with it or are they gonna deal
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  Speaker 4: with something similar to this? And if I deal with
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  Speaker 4: it in the right way, I can use it to
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  Speaker 4: add value to lives of other people. Like when we
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  Speaker 4: go through situation and circumstance, it's easy to step back
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  Speaker 4: and think, man, I just went through this, and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just my experience.
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  Speaker 4: I firmly believe when we go through things, it's for
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  Speaker 4: us to deal with it, get over it, and reach
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  Speaker 4: back over the hill to help another person. And a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times, like you said, when you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: work through it, you think, man, how can I help somebody?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm trying to get through it myself, right, And
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  Speaker 4: that's a great perspective, right, But when you get through
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  Speaker 4: it right, maybe you can't help them.
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  Speaker 2: When you're in the midst of it, because you're processing it.
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  Speaker 2: But when you get over to Hell
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  Speaker 4: I think it's important, and I think it's vital that
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  Speaker 4: you reach back over to Hell and help somebody that
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  Speaker 4: may be going through a similar situation, and you can
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  Speaker 4: share your values and principles with them, because that experience
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  Speaker 4: that we go through and we deal with is not
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  Speaker 4: just for us.