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Integrity Over Image (S5) S8:E2 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, good evening, it is John
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C.
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Morley here, serial entrepreneur.
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So like I said, it is so great
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All right.
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Are you ready, guys?
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I know I am.
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So like I said, welcome, everyone, here to
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Inspirations for Your Life.
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I am John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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podcast host, coach, graduate student, a passionate lifelong
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learner, and pretty soon a published author.
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So today's episode is titled Integrity Over Image.
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In a world filled with external pressures and
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constant comparisons, it's easy to get lost in
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the shuffle, in the need to impress others.
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But today we're going to explore the importance
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of integrity, a quality that builds stronger foundations
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than any image could ever.
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And that might be hard for some of
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you to realize or to captivate.
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So let's dive in together into why integrity
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and when chosen over image leads to sustainable
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success, clarity, and yes, guys, inner power.
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So number one is integrity over image.
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Integrity outlasts performance.
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Integrity is built through actions, not applause.
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It's something that stays long after the spotlight
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fades.
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And I think a lot of people, you
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know, they don't realize that they do something
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for the spotlight.
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But then when the spotlight fades, like, oh,
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my gosh, like, what do I do now?
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What am I supposed to do?
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And I think that's a very important thing
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to realize is that.
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If you have integrity and the spotlights go
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out, well, you can get the spotlights again
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because you are a person that's authentic.
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All right.
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Number two, guys, image fades, character compounds, while
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the image may change, true character builds over
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time and creates value.
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Remember I said to you guys, we have
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to be.
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Basically, accountable when somebody is watching and even
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when they're not watching, I think that's an
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important thing that I want to share with
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you, even when they're not watching, we need
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to be accountable.
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All right.
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Number three, guys, doing right builds stability when
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your action aligns with your value.
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You create a strong foundation that won't waver
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in times of uncertainty.
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Yes.
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Does that make sense?
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If it doesn't, let me know.
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Let's go on to the next point.
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Next point is really important.
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I think when we understand about not wavering
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uncertainty, but let's talk about integrity.
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Integrity removes the need to impress when you
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act with integrity.
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You no longer need validation from others.
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You become your own measure of success.
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OK.
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And so that's another very key point.
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Number five, quiet consistency beats loud claims.
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Consistency speaks louder than empty promises.
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People trust what they can rely on, not
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what's flashy.
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You might think the flashy gets people's attention,
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but the truth of the matter is it
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really doesn't.
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It gets their attention for a very short
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window and then.
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It's like, well, they even have your attention
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at all.
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You might know people on the streets and
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they call to get your attention, you know,
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or maybe you're at a game and they're
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like, you know, soda here, popcorn here, pretzels
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here, ice cream here.
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Right.
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And they get your attention for a short
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while.
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But then you know what happens?
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You lose it.
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And what gets your attention even more is
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that you're already hungry.
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So it's fulfilling a need that you have.
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But if you're not hungry and you're hearing
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soda here, beer here, popcorn here, and you
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just ate so they get your attention, but
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then you're like, oh, I'm not interested.
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And you kind of like block them out,
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don't you?
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Number six.
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Alignment feels steady when your inner values align
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with your actions.
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There's a piece that comes from knowing you're
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on the right path, guys.
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You're on the right path.
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I think that's an important thing to understand.
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If you don't understand that, then maybe you're
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going to be lost.
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Number seven, integrity is to advise decisions when
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you know who you are and what you
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stand for.
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Decisions become easier and more intuitive when you
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adapt this mindset.
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Number eight, self-respect is built privately.
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The way you treat yourself when no one
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is watching forms the core of your self
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-respect.
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So you might think that no one is
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watching you.
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And I don't really have to act a
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certain way, but I'm telling you, you do,
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because when no one's watching you, that's when
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your core gets built.
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OK.
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That's the truth, guys.
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Number nine, integrity creates calm confidence.
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When you're aligned with your values, you don't
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need to worry about impressing others.
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Your confidence comes from within.
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OK, not outside you.
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You might think it's coming from outside you,
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but that's an illusion.
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It's coming from within you.
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And then it is, let's say, pouring out.
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That's powerful, guys.
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Number ten, character doesn't need validation.
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Character is not about others and what they
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think of you.
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It's about how you act when no one's
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around.
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So I got back to that point when
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no one's around.
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Why?
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Because when you can act a certain way,
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no one's around, that's going to be your
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go to, that's your staple, that's going to
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be your autopilot.
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But if you're conscious of it, like, oh,
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I want to do this because someone's around,
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you're not going to keep doing that, right?
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That's important.
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And all of you're saying, oh, John, you
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know, that's not true.
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It is true.
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Because you become what you think about most
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often, and you also become what you do
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most.
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And so what you do most of what
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you think about, that's what's forming who you
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are right now.
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That's the truth, guys.
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Number eleven, integrity reduces mental noise.
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When you live authentically, your mind becomes quieter
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as you're not caught up in the game
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of keeping up with appearances.
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Number twelve, alignment removes tension.
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Being true to your values removes the tension
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between who you are and who you're trying
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to be.
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And I think tension comes a lot of
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different ways and a lot of different times.
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So that's important to to understand.
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And so, you know, that's really, really, really,
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really important to to know.
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All right.
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And so I think when we can think
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about these things, we're going to get something
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also very interesting.
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Doing right builds trust.
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Trust is earned by consistently doing the right
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thing, even when it's hard.
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And yeah, guys, when no one is watching.
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Number 14, integrity creates emotional safety.
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When you live with integrity, you feel safe
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in your own skin, which makes you less
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reactive and more at peace.
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Number 15, images that you have in your
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own image seeks applause.
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Integrity seeks peace.
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Image is for approval, but integrity is for
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inner peace.
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The external doesn't last, but the peace from
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the integrity does.
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So your internal can override your external every
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single time.
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I think that's an important thing to to
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realize is that you can rewrite the memory
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of your outside by your inside and your
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inside thoughts and aspirations echo into your actions
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outside and who you are.
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Number 16.
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Character creates resilience.
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The strength of your character is what keeps
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you going.
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When things get tough, it's your resilience and
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action.
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Integrity stabilizes emotion.
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When you stay true to your values, your
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emotional state becomes more stable and you can
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handle challenges better.
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That's another important one.
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Challenges don't just happen.
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They, well, transform because of actions you've taken.
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One of my favorite phrases, and I use
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this all the time, is that money flows
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to me easily because of the actions that
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I take.
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Let me say that again.
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Money flows to me easily because of the
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actions that I take.
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Money flows to me easily because of the
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actions that I take.
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Now, I didn't believe that many years ago,
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but that started becoming a staple for me.
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And now it's just on autopilot that money
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flows to me easily because of the actions
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that I take.
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Number 18.
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Self-honesty builds clarity.
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Being honest with yourself is the foundation of
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clarity.
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When you know what you truly want, decisions
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become clearer.
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Number 19.
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Integrity protects the energy.
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When you live with integrity, you conserve your
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energy for the things that truly matter instead
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of wasting it on maintaining an image.
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OK, I think that's an important thing to
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understand.
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Number 20.
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Consistency strengthens identity.
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Your identity is shaped by what you consistently
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do, not by what you say.
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Once in a while, that is, right?
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So you have to realize that you're doing
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this all the time, not just for that
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one off moment.
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I think that's an important thing.
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Number 21.
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Number 21 is integrity compounds over time.
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The more you live with integrity, the more
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powerful and resilient you become.
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You see, integrity isn't just a one trick
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pony, a one time act.
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It is a daily choice that you incorporate
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into who you are, to your being, to
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your personality, to your character.
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And the people that don't incorporate this are
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what I want to call the people that
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are just kind of flying by life to
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see their pants.
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They're hoping that maybe they'll get lucky, but
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they don't really have a plan.
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I've said this before, guys.
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If you fail to plan, you have planned
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to fail.
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Let me say that again.
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If you fail to plan, you plan to
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fail.
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If you fail to plan, you have planned
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to fail.
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OK, that's important.
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Not something I want to, let's say, you
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know, scare you on.
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But I want to tell you that if
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you do not have a desire in your
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life.
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Did I ever think I was going to.
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Be three chapters and nearly a quarter of
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the way through a book.
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I know I've been thinking about writing a
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book for years, and the book that I
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had planned on writing first was a very
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complicated book, it had all these different exercises
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and different parts and different things that would
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come with it, like toys and stuff.
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And I realize, you know, John, I need
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to start simpler.
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I need to start with a book that's
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about who I am and about some lessons
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that I learned from some life changing events,
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things that might have, let's say, set someone
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else off or maybe demotivate someone.
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It didn't.
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It made me stronger.
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Number 22.
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Quiet discipline builds power, true power comes from
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the quiet discipline of staying true to your
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values, even when it's hard.
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Integrity reduces inner conflict when your actions match
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your beliefs, your experience, less inner conflict and
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more peace of mind.
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See, this is something that a lot of
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people don't get when you can get rid
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of the conflict, when you can get rid
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of the noise around you.
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All right.
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You can write a book like I did,
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right, I think those are some powerful things
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when we think about, you know, writing a
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book and what it could do.
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Um, and I think, I think a lot
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of people don't necessarily get this, but I
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want to tell you how true it is.
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Okay.
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Doing less wrong creates freedom.
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24 doing less wrong, creates freedom.
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Sometimes freedom isn't about doing everything perfectly.
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No, it's not.
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It's about doing fewer things that compromise your
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values.
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I'm going to give you an example.
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So, uh, being a video producer and media
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creator or content creator for a long time,
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um, I have found some of the magic
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of how we, how to get yourself exposed,
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how to start going viral on groups.
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And you know what happens once in a
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while, when you start getting up to their
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different levels on groups, right?
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Like you have rising contributor, you have, uh,
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you have top and then you have world
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contributor or something.
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And people, when you start getting up to
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these levels, they start getting jealous.
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This is like, Oh, you know, did you
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really create that?
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I mean, like that's a bad attitude to
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have.
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And when what you're doing is working, do
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people think that by knocking you, it's going
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to basically get you to change?
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No, maybe somebody who's not confident in themselves,
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but somebody who's confident looks at them and
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says, okay, that's somebody who's insecure about themselves.
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I'm not going to bother with that person.
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Number 25 guys, character creates momentum.
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When your character drives your action, momentum builds
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naturally.
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It becomes part of who you are.
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Remember I said to you that money naturally
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flows to me through the actions I take
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money naturally flows to me through the actions
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that I take money naturally flows to me
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through the actions that I take many years
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ago, I had that same ability, but I
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hadn't done something pretty cool, which is having
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the awareness.
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I'm not going to get into a two
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D today, but awareness is very important.
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I also talk about it in my book.
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I think when we start to understand what
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awareness is, the subtleties of awareness and how
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awareness can change our perception and that can
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change our character and our personality and also
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our integrity that leads me to my next
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point, guys, number 26, integrity builds confidence has
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your integrity strengthens, so does your confidence, confidence
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that doesn't depend on approval, but on your
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trust, like in these groups, am I looking
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for approval?
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No, but when I see that 500, 600,
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700 people in just a couple of days,
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love my post, I'm doing something right.
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And if there's one or two people, I
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remember the one group person made a comment
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and normally I would just leave it go,
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but I said, I'm going to respond, but
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I'm not going to keep like a ping
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pong back and forth.
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And I said to him, I said, you
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know, um, it's nice of you to put
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your two cents in.
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Maybe you should actually create a post.
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He came back and said, oh, I did.
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It didn't get to the top.
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I just ignored it.
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So people that get jealous or people that
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get, uh, threatened, even though you're not trying
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to threaten them, decide to be defensive because
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they think that they can short circuit you,
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that they can break you, that they can
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stop you on your path.
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I'll give you an example.
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It was a couple of years ago, I
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was starting a new, um, group and this
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one group was already around and, um, I
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came up with a name and this other
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group found I had the name.
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They told me, oh, you can't have that
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name.
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I said, why not?
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They said, well, it's too close to our
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name.
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And then they told me their group was
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trademark and all this stuff.
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So I went online, I've incorporated companies before
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and trademark stuff, but I went online and
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then I went back and I said, Hey,
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uh, by the way, you're not trademarked or
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incorporated or anything like that to that name
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we now are.
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And this is an informal cease and desist.
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So go away.
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And then I blocked them.
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You know, I'm not looking to be nasty
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to people, but when people, let's say show
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their head in the way that they gotta
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be better than you.
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I'm not better than anybody.
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I want to help myself grow.
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I want to help other people grow, but
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people that are trying to be that, um,
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you know, like that, I'm going to call
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it that, that odd ball, right.
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In, in, in, um, in the collection of,
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of the ping pong balls or in the
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collection of the bouncy balls.
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Remember when you used to jump in the
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balls, right.
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And they're all, let's say green, but then
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there's happens to be one red one down
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there.
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And they want to be that red one.
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They want to be different, not because they
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want to make a difference, but because they
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just want to upset the apple cart, that's
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powerful guys.
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That's really, really powerful.
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And this book, when it comes out, I
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can't tell you how just me writing the
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book is giving me an awareness of things
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that I learned and I'm relearning them even
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deeper.
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It's going to be amazing.
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Number 27, alignment replaces stress.
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When you align your actions with your core
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values, guys, stress just decreases, it melts, you
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know, like a butter, uh, by a hot
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flame.
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You don't have to fight against yourself anymore.
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Guys realize that you have the choice.
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You have the opportunity to move forward.
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Regardless of what other people are saying around
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you, that's all just monkey chatter.
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Okay.
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That's what you have to realize.
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You are stronger than that.
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Okay.
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Cause they're going to be people that are
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going to knock you off your game.
21:41
Whether you're in football, whether you're in baseball,
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basketball, or whether you're just in life, people
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are going to do this.
21:46
It's just life as a game.
21:48
I don't want to knock somebody off, but
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what do I do when I'm competitive?
21:52
I'm knocking them off, but I'm not being
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rude.
21:54
I'm being competitive.
21:56
What a lot of these people are doing
21:57
on social media is they're being vindictive.
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They're being rude.
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Uh, there being some words that I'm not
22:04
going to mention here, like four letter words,
22:06
because they have a very big EGO and
22:10
I'm just going to tell you that.
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Right.
22:12
I always tell you guys can like me.
22:13
You can love me.
22:14
You can hate me.
22:14
I don't care.
22:15
Of course I like you to love me,
22:16
but I realize that you may not be
22:20
in alignment with me and that's okay.
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Number 28.
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Sharpen judgment.
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That's what integrity does.
22:30
When you live with a true integrity, you
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become better at making decisions because your trust,
22:37
your values, and your instincts are more congruent.
22:41
They're more in a line.
22:44
You can't get an alignment in two minutes
22:46
to be in alignment.
22:49
You need to have awareness and not just
22:52
of yourself of many other things.
22:54
And then when you get an alignment, do
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you recognize things that have to change or
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do you suddenly say, Oh, wait a minute,
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I'm perfect.
23:03
Cause I'm far from perfect.
23:05
I'm always looking to become better.
23:07
Help you become better version of themselves.
23:08
Help me become better version of themselves.
23:10
That's where my slogan comes from.
23:12
Believemeachieve.com.
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Number 29 guys being real beats being liked.
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I'll be real and authentic any day over
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worrying about who likes me.
23:25
People respect authenticity more than they respect the
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facade.
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Okay.
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The facade, you know, when you think about,
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um, let's say an edge on a building
23:37
could be an awning coping or something, or
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the facade, meaning, uh, the extension of you
23:43
that really isn't you, it's a false front
23:45
you put on because, well, you're trying to
23:48
hide the you that you don't want people
23:50
to see.
23:51
Being real is far more valuable than being
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liked.
23:55
And if you don't believe that you need
23:59
to change, because if you're waiting for every
24:02
person to pat you on the back, shake
24:04
your head, Oh, good job, John.
24:05
Good job.
24:06
Good job.
24:06
You're going to wait all day and you're
24:08
going to burn yourself down.
24:12
I'm just being honest.
24:14
You might not want to hear that.
24:17
And a lot of times I say things
24:18
on this program that you might not want
24:19
to hear, but I think that's why it's
24:21
a good program that helps you grow.
24:23
Number 30 guys, integrity creates direction.
24:28
Direction.
24:29
It gives us focus.
24:31
Integrity not only creates the peace, but also
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gives us a clear sense of direction.
24:38
When we understand a problem, we understand a
24:41
situation.
24:43
We can gain the resources and we can
24:45
very quickly figure out what direction we need
24:49
to go.
24:50
You know where you're going and why you're
24:54
going when you have direction.
24:57
But I'm going to tell you that direction
24:59
is not something you get overnight.
25:00
It's not something that you get by, you
25:03
know, buying it on Amazon or going to
25:05
your local food store.
25:06
Direction is something you have to experience with
25:11
your mind and your body.
25:15
But the question people ask me is John,
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you know, why didn't you get these realizations
25:20
when you were 10 or when you were
25:21
21?
25:23
And back then I probably would have said
25:26
because I didn't want to.
25:28
Now I'm going to give you the truthful
25:29
answer.
25:30
The reason that I didn't get these perceptions
25:34
back then is I was too busy worrying
25:39
about everything else around me.
25:41
And I hadn't developed a sense of appreciating
25:44
awareness.
25:46
There's always something that's happened to me in
25:47
the last five or 10 years, guys.
25:49
It's not something I've had my whole life,
25:51
but it's something that will carry me forever
25:55
and something that has one of the biggest
25:57
assets that I've learned.
25:59
And I love to teach other people how
26:00
to be aware because when we can be
26:04
aware, we can gain the data, we can
26:09
get the numerical values.
26:11
And when we can measure something, guys, guess
26:14
what we can do?
26:15
We can change it because we can measure
26:18
it.
26:19
Now we can alter something to change it.
26:23
The best example I can give you is
26:24
biofeedback.
26:25
I don't know if you guys have ever
26:25
done biofeedback.
26:26
So I did this many, many years ago.
26:29
I remember going to Willowbrook Mall and paying,
26:32
I think it was at the time, I
26:34
think I paid like $120 or $150 for
26:37
this nice little bag with this little tiny
26:40
thing, I still have it, with the little
26:41
headphones and the little thing that goes around
26:44
your finger.
26:45
And what it does is it measures your
26:47
biofeedback.
26:49
And again, if we can know from the
26:52
sounds and we can control it, we can
26:57
affect our stress level.
26:58
We can get ourselves into a lower level.
27:00
We can lower our brainwaves.
27:03
That's pretty cool.
27:05
Right?
27:07
Well, guys, this has been very interesting.
27:09
And at the core of every decision we
27:11
make, there's a choice, the choice to act
27:14
with integrity or to act out of image.
27:17
And to not act, guys, is to act,
27:20
just in case you were thinking, well, I'm
27:21
not gonna do anything.
27:22
Well, you're still acting if you don't act.
27:24
When we choose integrity, we choose to be
27:26
rooted in something far more powerful than temporary
27:29
approval or validation from others.
27:32
Integrity builds strength, clarity, and confidence over time.
27:35
It transforms the way we interact with the
27:37
world and how we view ourselves.
27:40
The key takeaway is simple.
27:41
Let your character, not your image, define you.
27:44
Be consistent.
27:44
Be true to your values.
27:45
And in doing so, you will create lasting
27:48
impact in every area of your life.
27:49
Be sure, ladies and gentlemen, to please check
27:51
out BelieveMeAchieved.com from where am I amazing,
27:53
of course, inspiring creations, long form, short form,
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reels more, accessible 24 hours a day from
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your computer and, of course, your smart device.
28:00
Have yourself a great one, ladies and gentlemen.
28:02
I'll catch you real soon.
28:02
Be well, everyone.
28:46
Not looking to be rude, but I'm just
28:48
being honest.