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Be It and You Will See It: The Missing Piece of Be, Do, Have · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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  Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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  I'm your host, Jon Street,
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  and each week we bring you conversations
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  with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals
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  who have aligned their life with purpose
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  and every Thursday for Revolution of Purpose Conversations.
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  Welcome back to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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  I'm Jon Street, mindset coach, speaker,
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  author of the book, Revolution of Purpose,
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  and someone who is passionate
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  about helping people identify your purpose,
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  ignite your transformation, and implement your vision.
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  Today, I wanna talk to you about a teaching
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  that has shaped the personal development world for decades.
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  It's known as Be, Do, Have.
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  Many of you have heard it before.
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  If you've been following me teaching for a long time,
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  I have been teaching this.
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  It is an idea that is simple.
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  Most people believe that when they have something,
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  they'll do the necessary things
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  to become that person that they want to be.
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  So in other words, when I have more money,
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  I'll start investing,
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  or when I have more confidence, I'll take that chance,
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  or when I have more time, I'll start pursuing my purpose.
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  But the Be, Do, Have model challenges this way of thinking.
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  It's sort of like society says,
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  when I have the money, I'll invest,
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  and then I'll be a wealthy person.
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  And Be, Do, Have instead says,
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  no, first we must become that person,
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  and then do the actions, and then we'll have the results.
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  This is a really powerful teaching.
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  It was made popular by Bob Proctor, Jim Rohn,
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  a lot of others, and it is something that I really value.
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  And over the last few days,
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  I've actually been asking myself the question,
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  what if we've misunderstood the Be, Do, Have teaching?
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  What if in personal development,
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  we're missing something that is an important key
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  to Be, Do, Have actually working in people's lives?
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  What if many people are getting stuck
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  because they think being is something passive?
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  What if the Be of Be, Do, Have is not passive at all,
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  but it's actually an action?
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  Because here is what I've learned.
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  You don't think your way into a new life.
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  Yes, thinking is important.
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  And yes, if you can see it in your mind,
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  you can hold it in your hand, all of that is true,
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  but you can't just think.
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  You have to act your way into your new life.
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  Every action is a vote for the person that you're becoming.
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  And that's what we're gonna talk about here today.
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  The missing piece of the important teaching,
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  Be, Do, Have.
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  It's not that in the personal development circles,
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  we have Be, Do, Have wrong.
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  We just have the word be wrong.
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  I think that so many of us have just misunderstood it.
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  When people hear be, they often think,
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  okay, I have to think differently,
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  or I have to visualize myself differently.
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  Maybe I have to write different affirmations.
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  Maybe I have to imagine myself differently.
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  And while all of those things have value,
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  they're just incomplete
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  because being isn't merely something that you think.
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  Being is something that you know.
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  Being is something that you embody.
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  Being is something that you practice.
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  Being is something that you demonstrate through action.
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  Think about a chef, for instance.
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  Let's say that you have a person who wants to become a chef.
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  They go to cooking school.
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  They start cooking.
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  They start, they open a restaurant.
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  They're serving food.
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  They're selling food.
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  They know they're a chef.
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  They don't have to keep telling themselves
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  every day they've become a chef.
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  They don't buy a big chef's hat and put it on
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  and look in the mirror and say, you are a chef.
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  I believe you're a chef.
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  No, they take the actions to change their identity.
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  Being is something that you demonstrate
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  through your actions.
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  A confident person doesn't simply think confident thoughts.
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  A confident person takes confident actions.
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  Likewise, a healthy person doesn't just simply
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  imagine being healthy.
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  You know, what would it be like if I were healthy one day?
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  I guess that makes me a healthy person.
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  No, a healthy person starts to make healthy choices
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  and take healthy actions.
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  A leader doesn't become a leader
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  just because they thought about starting a business
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  or maybe they order business cards that say CEO.
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  They become a leader because they lead.
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  Being is not a noun.
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  Be, do, have.
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  Being is a verb.
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  It is an active action verb, as a matter of fact.
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  It requires movement.
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  And so I think this is where so many people get stuck.
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  And maybe they say manifestation doesn't work for me.
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  Be, do, have doesn't work for me.
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  And that's because you've got to move past the affirmations.
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  You've got to move past the looking in the mirror
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  and telling yourself who you are.
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  You have to go to where being is a knowing of who you are.
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  Stop trying to convince yourself that you're someone
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  without doing the things that that person would do.
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  You really have to put the action behind it
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  to become that person.
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  Every action is a vote for who you desire to be.
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  One of the most powerful realizations
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  that I've ever had in this
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  is that when we take an action toward our identity,
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  we are voting for ourselves.
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  Every workout we do is a vote.
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  Every healthy meal we do is a vote.
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  Every difficult conversation we have is a vote.
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  Every sales call we have is a vote.
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  Every boundary we set amongst toxic people
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  to live the best life we can live is a vote.
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  Every time that you choose courage over comfort,
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  you are casting a vote.
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  Not a vote for who you were,
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  but a vote for who you're becoming.
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  You are casting a vote for the be of be, do, have.
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  Many people think identity comes first
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  and then action comes later,
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  but I've really found that identity and action
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  are constantly shaping each other.
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  Instead of looking at be, do, have as a linear,
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  I believe we should start looking at be, do, have
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  as a circular, because we have to do the action to be,
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  and then that action causes us to do the things
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  that that person would do,
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  and then we have the things that person would have,
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  which causes us to do more action,
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  which makes us be more and more of that person,
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  which means we take more and more of those actions,
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  which means we have more and more of the results.
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  Stop thinking, I'm gonna think about who I should be,
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  and then I'll do those actions,
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  and then I'll have the results.
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  Instead, jump into the loop.
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  Jump into that circular action of being that person
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  and doing more of the things that person does
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  and having more of the results,
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  so you do more of the things and you be more of the things.
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  Just look at be as an action, do as an action,
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  and even have is an action,
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  because you realize to have the things
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  that our desired person has, we have to accept those things.
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  We have to know that we're worthy of having those things.
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  We have to do the actions to get them,
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  and we have to accept them.
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  Identity is an action,
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  and it, with doing, is constantly shaping yourself.
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  Your action confirms your identity,
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  and the more evidence that you create,
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  the more that you begin to believe in yourself.
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  You believe, and the more you believe, the more you act,
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  and the more act you, the more you have,
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  and you just keep adding to this cycle,
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  and eventually, that cycle
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  becomes a full-life transformation.
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  You don't become a different person
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  and then start taking different actions.
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  You start taking different actions
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  until they build a different person.
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  I certainly lived this in my own life.
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  At one point in my life, I weighed well over 350 pounds.
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  I was struggling with so many health issues,
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  and I couldn't even take long walks.
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  I was getting sicker and sicker and so unhealthy,
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  and let me just be careful here
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  because I know a lot of times,
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  there are people who talk about a health transformation,
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  and they say it in a way that is very judgmental,
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  and so just because I'm at a different place
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  on this particular journey
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  does not mean that I'm judging anyone for not being there.
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  This is not about body size.
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  This is not about fat phobia.
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  This is not about appearance,
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  but this is about my personal transformation
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  because no matter what it is,
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  everyone has a mountain that they're climbing,
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  and what happened to be one of mine was my weight.
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  It was rooted in food addiction and sugar addiction,
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  and here's what I learned through my process
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  of losing about 120 pounds.
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  I didn't wake up one morning
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  and magically become a healthy person.
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  For 45 years, I had been very unhealthy,
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  and so it didn't just change overnight.
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  I didn't suddenly believe that's who I was,
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  so I did the things.
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  It wasn't like be, do, have, and then it just worked.
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  I didn't stand in front of a mirror
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  and convince myself that I was healthy,
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  and then I started to do the right things.
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  What happened for me was so much simpler.
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  I just started taking small, healthy actions.
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  I started making some better choices.
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  I went walking when I didn't feel like going walking.
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  I went and exercised at the gym
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  when I didn't feel like exercising at the gym.
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  I remember one night, it was eight o'clock,
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  and it was my day to go to the gym,
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  and I didn't feel like going.
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  It was raining outside.
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  I'm like, who goes to the gym at eight o'clock?
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  I'm not that guy, and then I just stopped myself,
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  and I was like, I am that guy.
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  All I have to do to be that guy
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  is actually go to the gym at eight o'clock.
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  It was the action that made me believe that I was that guy.
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  I made different decisions around my food.
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  I made different decisions around my activities
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  and my exercises and the weights that I was doing.
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  Everything was just working in a cycle
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  to help convince me of who I was becoming.
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  Over time, those actions created evidence,
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  and that evidence created belief,
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  and that belief strengthened my identity.
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  It gave me hope that the old me did not have to dictate
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  who the current me was,
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  and eventually, I wasn't trying to become a healthier person.
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  I was a healthier person, not because I said I was,
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  not because I just looked in the mirror
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  and kept saying, John, you're a healthier person,
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  but because I was taking those actions.
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  I was living like a healthier person lives.
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  The doing created the being,
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  and then that being produced the results.
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  That is true for health.
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  That is true for business.
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  That is true for relationships.
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  That is true for your purpose.
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  The doing creates the identity
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  that brings about the results.
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  You know, there's this saying out there,
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  it's very, very famous, fake it until you make it.
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  I have never loved that phrase.
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  I just always felt like it sounded
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  like someone's pretending, you know?
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  It just implies that someone's putting on a mask,
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  that they're not real.
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  It implies acting like something that you're not.
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  And I don't like that.
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  I believe 100% that our power is in our authenticity.
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  And so we need to awaken to who we truly are to make it.
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  So I prefer a different phrase, be it and you will see it.
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  To me, be it and you will see it does not mean pretending.
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  It means becoming, it means awakening to who you are.
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  It means aligning with that version of yourself
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  that we are called to be that is already within us.
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  If you want to become a writer, then write.
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  If you want to become a speaker, then speak.
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  If you want to become healthy, then make healthy choices,
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  do healthy things.
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  If you want to become a leader, then lead.
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  Don't wait until you feel like that person.
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  Act like that person, not from ego
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  and not from performance, but from alignment.
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  You don't become the person
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  and then start acting like the person.
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  You act in alignment with your wish fulfilled,
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  as Neville Goddard would say,
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  with that future version of yourself
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  until eventually you realize,
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  I am that person in the present.
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  It's not the future anymore, it's here.
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  I love the scripture that talks about
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  how we can point to the mountain and say,
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  mountain be moved and it'll be moved
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  and cast into the depths of the seas.
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  And I think it's really awesome
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  because I think that whether you come
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  from a Christian religion or any other type of religion,
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  as long as you believe that there is a higher power
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  that you can tap into, that you can move mountains.
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  But here's the thing, sometimes moving that mountain
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  doesn't mean the mountain gets out of your way.
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  Sometimes we move the mountain by taking a step
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  and then another step and then another step.
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  And every step we take over that mountain,
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  the mountain's starting to go further
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  and further behind us.
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  Faith is movement.
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  And this is really where purpose
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  and spirituality come together.
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  Many people think faith is belief,
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  but I believe faith is movement
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  because faith is taking the step
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  when you can't see the entire staircase.
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  Faith is climbing the mountain
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  when it hasn't moved out of your way
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  and learning that as you climb
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  and God, the universe is giving you the way over the mountain
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  that the mountain is slowly going behind you.
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  Faith is stepping out of the boat
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  when you don't see a way to not drown.
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  Faith is trusting that your actions matter
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  even when the results aren't visible yet.
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  The seed grows underground
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  long before it breaks through the soil.
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  And that growth is happening even when you can't see it.
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  But most people, they wait for certainty.
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  It's a lot easier to just stop and say the affirmations
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  than to actually take the action.
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  But certainty comes after you take action, not before.
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  You don't get step two until you take step one.
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  The universe rarely reveals the entire journey.
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  God rarely hands us the complete blueprint
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  and says, okay, this is where you wanna go.
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  This is where you're gonna have to do
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  step by step by step.
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  Now, usually faith is required.
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  Surrender is required.
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  Trust is required.
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  And we're just shown one step
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  and then maybe the next step
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  and then maybe the next step.
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  The people who transform their lives
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  aren't the people who know the most.
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  They're the people who move.
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  So after thinking about this for several days,
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  here's where I landed.
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  I still believe in Be, Do, Have.
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  I believe in it more than ever, as a matter of fact.
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  But I do think we need to understand it differently.
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  I do think that this very teaching
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  that has set some people free
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  has also kept some people stuck.
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  Be, act from the identity of the person you are becoming.
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  Act from the identity of the person you are becoming.
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  Do, take consistent actions
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  that align with that identity.
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  Have, receive the results that naturally follow.
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  Being is not passive.
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  Doing is not optional.
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  Having requires acceptance and trust.
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  All three, Be, Do, Have, are actions.
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  And when all three are active,
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  transformation becomes inevitable.
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  That is my hope to you today as you see this.
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  I want you to know that you cannot lose
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  when you actively be that person,
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  when you actively do the things that person would do,
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  and you actively accept and have
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  the things that person would have.
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  Transformation is inevitable.
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  You just have to flow in it.
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  You're awakening to what is already within you.
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  As we wrap up, I wanna leave you with three questions.
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  I want you to ask yourself, who do I want to become?
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  I wanna ask yourself,
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  what action would that version of me take today?
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  And then ask, what am I waiting for before I take it?
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  And then let me challenge you.
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  Stop waiting to become that person.
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  Say the affirmations.
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  Say them in a mirror, write it down, journal it.
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  Those are amazing things.
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  But then once you do, put that action with it.
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  Start casting votes for that person you desire to be.
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  One action, one decision, one choice at a time,
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  because every single action is a vote
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  for that person you're becoming.
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  Thank you so much for joining me
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  on another episode of Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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  If today's conversation resonates with you,
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  then be sure to subscribe.
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  Please leave me a review.
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  Share this episode with someone who needs it.
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  And remember, you don't think your way into a new life.
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  You act your way into a new identity.
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  Every action is a vote for that new identity
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  that you are becoming.
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  So be it, and you will see it.
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  Until next time, identify your purpose,
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  ignite your transformation, and implement your vision.
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  God bless.