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#1746 Self-Examination - Harps · The You Project

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  Speaker 1: Good team. I hope you will self examination you, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about you, reflecting on you, finding a little bit of awareness,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of accountability, bit of contemplation, not self loathing,
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  Speaker 1: not kind of beating ourselves up, just trying to be
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  Speaker 1: more aware of the me that you in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of all of the non me and you stuff. Self
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  Speaker 1: examination is a worthwhile, if not always comfortable, component of
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  Speaker 1: the personal transformation journey. It's largely about self awareness and
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  Speaker 1: the recognizing of habits, patterns, behaviors and choices which can
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  Speaker 1: fit anywhere on the scale from toxic and destructive to
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  Speaker 1: positive and life enhancing and potentially magical. This process is
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  Speaker 1: not about self loathing or overthinking, as I said, but
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  Speaker 1: rather it is a strategic, rational, and productive exercise, not
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  Speaker 1: an emotional orderstructive one. It's something I practice daily and
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  Speaker 1: have for a long time, and it's a great way
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  Speaker 1: to step out of the moment and to find clarity
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  Speaker 1: and perspective. So I've got what have I got here?
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  Speaker 1: I've got about ten questions self examination, questions that I
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  Speaker 1: use for me, that I've used in coaching with people,
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  Speaker 1: and that I want to share with you today because
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  Speaker 1: I think for some of you not for all of you,
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  Speaker 1: depending on where you're at, what you're up to, but
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  Speaker 1: for some of you these will provide a level of
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  Speaker 1: clarity and awareness and perhaps a potential starting point for
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  Speaker 1: this LITTLEX size. So remember self examination Question one is
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  Speaker 1: what am I currently doing? Which is essentially a form
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  Speaker 1: of self sabotage. Remember, we can't change the thing that
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  Speaker 1: we don't see or acknowledge, And again not about beating
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  Speaker 1: yourself up, just acknowledgment awareness. What's that thing? And so
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  Speaker 1: the thing that you self sabage, it could be I
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  Speaker 1: used to train well, eat well, sorry, train well, lift well,
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  Speaker 1: sleep well. My lifestyle was awesome. But I self sabotage
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  Speaker 1: with food, right, How else did I self sabotage? I
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of potential and creativity that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: use because I was too scared. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be embarrassed. I didn't want to fail. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: people to think less of me. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be rejected. I wanted to belong. So I'd conform and
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  Speaker 1: and i'd kind of I'd play small. I'd play small.
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  Speaker 1: And it took me a long time to get the
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  Speaker 1: courage and to get the confidence to be able to
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  Speaker 1: just lean into the fear, not overcome the fear. The
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  Speaker 1: fear for me, the fear never goes away, it's the
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  Speaker 1: volume goes down. And some things I'm not fearful of anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but there'll always be some form of fear. So what
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  Speaker 1: am I currently doing? What are you currently doing? Which
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  Speaker 1: is essentially a form of self sabotag? Getting in your
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  Speaker 1: own way? Number two, If ten out of ten is
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  Speaker 1: you using all your potential? What's your current number? Where
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  Speaker 1: are you at? And if you know that you've got
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  Speaker 1: power and potential and possibilities in you that you are
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  Speaker 1: not exploiting, that you are not tapping into, there's a
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  Speaker 1: little rabbit hole you can go down today to think of.
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  Speaker 1: What is that about? What is remember metacognition? Thinking about thinking,
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  Speaker 1: think about think about why do I do that? Why
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  Speaker 1: one do I self sabotage? And two? Why am I
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  Speaker 1: not using my potential? What's the real reason? Not the bullshit?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm pretty busy? Fuck all that. That's not true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you might be busy, but that's not the reason.
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  Speaker 1: What's the reason. What's the reason? Are you prepared to
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  Speaker 1: fail to fall down, to look silly, to get embarrassed,
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  Speaker 1: to fuck up, to get up, fuck up, get up.
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  Speaker 1: If you're prepared to do all of that, then you're
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  Speaker 1: a big chance of exploiting and using and benefiting from
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  Speaker 1: more of what you have to work with. Number three
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  Speaker 1: is do I invest more of my time and energy
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  Speaker 1: in problems or solutions? How many people do you know?
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  Speaker 1: And you might be one of them, But whenever you
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  Speaker 1: meet that person or talk to that person, there's always
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  Speaker 1: a thousand problems of rarely any solutions, and they're all
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  Speaker 1: They live in the problem, They inhabit the problem, they focus,
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  Speaker 1: they obsess, they self pity about the problem. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying there are no problems. Of course there are problems.
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  Speaker 1: I have problems. Everyone has problems. Everyone has challenges and
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  Speaker 1: issues and good days and bad days and catastrophes and
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  Speaker 1: breakthroughs and breakdowns. That's the human experience. We're not pretending
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  Speaker 1: that life's awesome when it isn't. Sometimes it's dog shit
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's bloody rainbows and puppies and unicorns and
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  Speaker 1: everything in between. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: we still need to You and I still need to
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  Speaker 1: navigate the messiness of our own life. So we acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the problem, We speak it out, we identify it, and
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  Speaker 1: then we immerse ourself in the fixing, in the problem,
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  Speaker 1: solving in the solution. Self examination. Question number four, What
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  Speaker 1: am I currently avoiding, delaying, or denying? This is where
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  Speaker 1: the rubber hits the road. These questions are hard, These
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  Speaker 1: questions are not comfortable, These are not fun. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're ready for these questions, and maybe you're not. And
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  Speaker 1: remember again, not so. I say this a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just true. This is not about beating you up.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about you beating yourself up. It is
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  Speaker 1: not about self loathing. It's just about recognizing what are
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  Speaker 1: the habits and behaviors and words and ideas and stories
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  Speaker 1: that I create, that I do, or that I believe,
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  Speaker 1: or that I hold on to or that I repeat,
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  Speaker 1: which are actually holding me back. Number five. We spoke
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  Speaker 1: about fear before. This is a little bit of a repeat,
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  Speaker 1: But that's all right. What fear is currently getting in
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  Speaker 1: my way? What's the fear that you need to address?
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  Speaker 1: What's the main fear that stops you from opening the
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  Speaker 1: door on all that you can do be create? What's
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  Speaker 1: that fear? For me? There have been many fears but
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, because I was simultaneously felt like
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  Speaker 1: an impostor. I had I don't know if I had
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  Speaker 1: a big ego, but I definitely had ego because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think I was great, So I didn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: I had a big ego. I actually thought I was shit.
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  Speaker 1: I had self doubt, I had an underwhelming opinion of
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  Speaker 1: my own ability, and I think for me for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, my fear is that I just didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to be exposed for the fraud and the idiot that
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was. While I still don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: a genius and I don't think I'm the fucking high
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  Speaker 1: watermark for high performance or success, I kind of understand
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  Speaker 1: now that a lot of that self talk and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those stories for me were just fear that
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  Speaker 1: really really got in my way. Number six ties in
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  Speaker 1: with that Number six is what is my most limiting belief?
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  Speaker 1: They kind of tie in number seven. This can be
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  Speaker 1: a confronting question. Am I proud of the way I
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  Speaker 1: live my life? So is the way that I typically
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  Speaker 1: do life, The way that I treat people, the way
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  Speaker 1: that I treat myself, the way that I manage my
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  Speaker 1: body and my health, the things that I say, the
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  Speaker 1: things that I purport to be, or the things that
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  Speaker 1: I purport to value, are my values and beliefs aligned
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  Speaker 1: with how I actually live? Is my day to day
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  Speaker 1: behavior a reflection of who I want to be and
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  Speaker 1: who I say I am and how I want to be?
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  Speaker 1: Because when the way that I live is a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of my values and beliefs and purpose, then I'm living
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  Speaker 1: in alignment number eight. What is my body telling me?
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  Speaker 1: It's a no brainer. We've all got one. You've got one,
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  Speaker 1: I've got one. You can't get a new one. I
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  Speaker 1: can't get a new one. That's your only bloody addition,
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  Speaker 1: your best look after it. It's always talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's telling you something. It's smart, it's a genius. It knows,
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  Speaker 1: and it's trying to tell you. And subconsciously, deep down
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  Speaker 1: it's prodding you. And you know, And there are some
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  Speaker 1: of you listening to this, And no, I'm not a prophet,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have any incredible insight, but I just
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  Speaker 1: know this statistically, there are people listening to this right
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  Speaker 1: now who are putting their metaphoric fingers in their ears.
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  Speaker 1: And some of you, hopefully you won't, but some of
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  Speaker 1: You may very well wait till shit goes horribly wrong
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  Speaker 1: before you pay attention to your body. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: I know that is because it happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It happens all the time all around the world. And
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  Speaker 1: I have trained and worked with and coached and counseled
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people who have waited until stuff fell apart,
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  Speaker 1: until the catastrophe. Don't wait for a catastrophe. Don't wait
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  Speaker 1: for stuff to break. Question nine? Question nine is this
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  Speaker 1: what are my results telling me? Your results are your feedback,
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  Speaker 1: your data that kind of gives you insight into what's
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  Speaker 1: working and what's not, what's efficient and what's not. So
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  Speaker 1: just like your body is always telling you something, so
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  Speaker 1: your bank balance balance is telling you something. Your relationships
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  Speaker 1: are telling you something. The way that you work your
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  Speaker 1: results at work, the way that you study your academic results.
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  Speaker 1: Like your life is a source of feedback, your world
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  Speaker 1: is all always telling you something. Pay attention. Last one
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  Speaker 1: for the moment is what's one uncontrollable What's one thing
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  Speaker 1: that isn't in your control that you waste energy on.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it again, what's one thing that you have
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  Speaker 1: no control over that you consistently waste energy on. That
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  Speaker 1: could be the weather, that could be other people, that
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  Speaker 1: could be that could be dickheads on social media. It
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  Speaker 1: could be a million things. What's that thing that you
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  Speaker 1: need to let go of, stop wasting energy on so
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  Speaker 1: that you can do better, think better, and create better.
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  Speaker 1: There we go self examination. Enjoyed a team Cinemarrah