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Focus, Prioritization & Clarity (S5) S10:E4 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Whoa, hey guys, good evening, it is John
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C.
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Morley here, serial entrepreneur.
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Today's March 3rd, it is, yes, Tuesday all
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day.
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It's great to be with you here on
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Inspirations for Your Life, as I was just
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finishing up some other things, and I have
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a great show for you tonight, as always.
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The book is coming a lot closer than
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So, really excited.
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The chapter that I'm working on now, and
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then one more chapter, it's A Day in
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All right, so let's kick this show off.
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Are you ready?
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I know I am.
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All right.
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It's Inspirations for Your Life.
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In case you guys didn't know that, the
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whole topic that we're mastering this week is
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owning your choices, clarity, courage, and calmness.
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Tuesday, today, March 3rd, we're all about focus,
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prioritization, and clarity.
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Oh, who am I?
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Sure.
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I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and
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a passionate lifelong learner.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, and it's great to
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be with you here.
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And pretty soon, a published author, so really
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excited about that.
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All right, so today, I'm diving into how
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focus, prioritization, and clarity convert your intention to
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measurable results, right, the ROI, and also protect
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your energy, because I think that's a problem.
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A lot of people will get somewhere, but
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then they lose their energy and create this
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unstoppable momentum that you're going to be so
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proud of, all right?
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So focus, ladies and gentlemen, turns intention into
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measurable results, okay?
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It doesn't just happen by, you know, snapping
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your fingers or clapping your hands or yelling.
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It doesn't happen like that.
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It happens by purposeful intention, just like myself
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writing this book.
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The book didn't just happen.
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The book happened because of a purposeful intention
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that I've had for a while, and I
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said, I got to write this book.
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The true story is that I had another
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book I wanted to write, but I wasn't
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ready to write that book yet.
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So I put that book on a back
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burner, and I started writing this book, which
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I thought was more important.
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It's about how 10 years of my life
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changed my entire life.
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So you're definitely going to want to read
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that.
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The title will be revealed when we make
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the title public.
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That'll be happening, that'll be happening like May,
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no, it'll happen March 1st, actually.
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March, let's see, March, no, no, no, no,
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sorry.
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It'll happen right about middle to late April,
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sorry, and the book tour will start right
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around May 1st.
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That'll be where the book tour starts.
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So concentration on one key goal multiplies your
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impact every single day.
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But the key, guys, is you have to
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do it over and over and over again.
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That's a challenge.
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Prioritization ensures energy is spent on what matters
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most.
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Every choice either moves forward with you, or
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unfortunately, guys, it drains your time and of
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course, your precious energy.
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And there's no real way to understand that
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until you've been part of a situation.
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And I think it's important that you understand
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like, you know, what's happening, why things are
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going a certain way.
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And I think that's something that a lot
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of people, for whatever reason, they just get,
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I don't know, they get stuck in this,
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they get stuck in this enigma, they don't
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know what to do or what to say,
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and they get in this procrastination jail, basically,
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which is not a good thing, guys.
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It's not a good thing.
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So I want to let you know that
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you have the tools to do what you
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want to do, but you've got to have
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the intention to put those tools to use,
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all right?
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Clarity, ladies and gentlemen, simplifies tough decisions.
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Remove the noise in your life, and you'll
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see the path very clearly unfold before you.
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Avoid forbidden distractions.
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Those time-stealing habits sabotage you silently, whether
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you're aware of it or not.
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Concentration multiplies effort, impact, deliberate focus amplifies even
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small actions.
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Key actions build unstoppable momentum.
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Start with high-leverage tasks for compounding success.
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Clear objectives, ladies and gentlemen.
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They will guide choices, your daily ones.
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And you know what?
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Those daily choices are important because it could
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turn the overwhelming things that you may have
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in your life into actionable steps, and I
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think that's a really important one that a
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lot of people don't realize, is that when
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we get overwhelmed, it's like, oh my gosh,
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where do I go from here?
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What do I do from here?
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And I know that that can really take
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a toll on a lot of people, all
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right?
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But the key to getting out of all
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this is, ladies and gentlemen, intention, intention.
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That's the key, guys.
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It's intention.
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And the key is to do it not
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just once, but continuously.
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Avoid overcommitting, guys.
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I know we want to be nice guys
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and ladies, but we need to realize our
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own cup needs to be full.
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Oh, and if you guys are thirsty, I
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know I didn't tell you this evening, don't
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forget to get yourself an RL water or
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a drink or a snack or fruit or
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something like that.
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Feel free to do that, all right?
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Avoid that overcommitment to protect the focus.
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Say no, it's a strategic advantage, all right?
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That's important.
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And laser focus produces exponential progress.
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Consistency beats intensity every single time, not just
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once, guys, but every single time.
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And when we think about this, it's like,
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how do I be consistent when I'm not?
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Things around me are falling apart.
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Well, you look at what you're doing now
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and you focus on the good in your
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life, right?
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That's probably the most important thing.
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Prioritization, ladies and gentlemen, prevents energy leakage.
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Misaligned tasks are hidden drains on your productivity.
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And the thing is, most people don't realize,
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I talk about this in my book, by
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the way, most people don't realize that these
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hidden holes that we have, these taps, I'll
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call them, they're draining us.
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And it really doesn't come full circle until
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either it causes us to shut down by
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force or forces us to take a rest
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or something like that, or possibly gets us
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to see a different light.
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But many people don't take their body's cue
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seriously.
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Oh, I can push it, I can push
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it, I can push it.
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What happens in your car if the car
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is on E?
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Well, depending on what kind of car you
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have, you might have 10 miles, you might
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have 12 miles, you might have three miles,
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two miles, one mile, or you might have
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zero miles.
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Yeah, you're riding on fumes, so that's not
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good.
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Clarity, ladies and gentlemen, reduces uncertainty.
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And confident decisions come from understanding the priorities.
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What are your priorities in life?
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Do you know what they are?
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Or do you constantly get befuddled by, well,
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I just got to do everything that I
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have to do, and hopefully everything will catch
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up.
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That's not the way to do things, guys.
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We have to realize that what you're doing,
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you're doing for you, you're not doing it
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for other people.
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Now, when you do something good and you
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make a change in your life, I got
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to promise you, other people are going to
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get curious to say, hey, what are you
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doing?
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It's the subtle effect that has more empowerment
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than, hey, look at me, look at me,
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look at me.
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When you're quiet and you have that subtle
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effect, it changes you.
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It changes you.
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Focus routines, guys, strengthen the habits in your
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life.
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Repetition creates reliability and it builds a mental
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muscle, just like I do weights every day.
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When you focus on something, when you concentrate,
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when you do something consistently like that, you
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build your mental muscle.
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And when your muscles get stronger, they serve
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you a lot better.
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Avoid shortcuts, guys, that compromise the success, that
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you're on the path to attaining.
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True progress is built, it's not hacked.
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I know a lot of people that, you
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know, they see success and then they mock
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it.
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You remember, guys, I was talking about a
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story where I literally went into these Facebook
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groups and I was just blowing out of
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the water in them.
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Now, I don't say this to brag, I
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say this to let you know what happened.
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So this one particular group that I was
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in, I became like the top level, I'm
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going to say in less than a month
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or two.
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It got so bad with the people in
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the group that they thought I was spamming
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the group, but I wasn't.
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I was putting out content that actually educated
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people and got great interactions.
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I had 5,000, 10,000, 20,000
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comments.
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One person makes a comment to me saying,
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you know, stop your spam.
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I messaged them and I say, it's not
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spam.
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I said, it's educational posts.
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And every time I posted, they'd be like,
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oh, here's another spam post.
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And I said to him, you know, why
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don't you post something?
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He came back to me and says, I
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do, they don't go anywhere.
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So the fact that you're jealous that my
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content is resonating with people, that's not good.
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You know what he did?
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He told the admin.
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I was only there a few months, making
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a pretty big name for myself.
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And he was there probably years.
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I didn't like the fact that my name
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kept popping up for him.
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But you know what, guys, you're going to
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get this in life.
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You're going to get people that try to
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get you to act with haste, to act
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with no integrity, to act because it'll make
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you less successful.
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It's pretty bad when people out there are
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trying to give you help on how to
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become less successful.
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I don't know what to say about that,
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guys.
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I think that's just downright wrong, right?
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Downright wrong.
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But people do it every day.
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They do it every single day.
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And that's an important thing to realize, that
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it happens every single day.
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You have to be mindful of these things.
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And you have to understand that your deliberate
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choices that you make every day in your
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life, set the benchmarks, plant the pillars for
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what you're building.
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And I want to tell you something else.
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Never stop building.
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Keep building your entire life.
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If people tell you that you shouldn't build
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or people tell you you shouldn't do this
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or do that, if you're growing and you're
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helping others, there are a lot of people
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in this world that unfortunately are, sad to
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say, jealous.
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Makes me think of a song.
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You remember Nick Jonas?
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Jealous.
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It just blows my mind how that happens.
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So I was in this chat with this
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guy.
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And I was telling him I've been really
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busy.
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I'm working on my master's and my PhD.
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And he goes, well, and then I have
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a book coming out.
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He goes, oh, well, my, okay.
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So it was like, can you top this?
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And the sad part was, he was well
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over a teenager.
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He was practically even almost an adult, maybe
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close to my age, maybe a little younger.
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And that's how we act.
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That's what social media is about.
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I think that's the wrong reason for social
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media.
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Social media is designed to bring people together.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's designed to create a culmination.
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Ladies and gentlemen, these people, whether they're on
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Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, whatever, you don't get a
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lot on LinkedIn.
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You get on LinkedIn is you get the
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people trying to tell you, oh, I looked
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at your profile and you know, you're gonna
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be a great fit.
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And can you send me your WhatsApp number?
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Nope, block.
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Why is it that people on LinkedIn feel
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they have to pitch you?
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Don't they know that by doing that, we're
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gonna click one button and say block?
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Don't they know that?
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But they keep pushing.
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Is it because they don't know?
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Or is it because they like the feeling
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of getting rejected?
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I'm not sure.
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Attention, ladies and gentlemen, to management is a
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modern superpower.
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You know, when I have conversations with a
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lot of these people on LinkedIn, I never
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pitch anybody.
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I listen to the conversation intelligently.
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I give some feedback.
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I ask some questions.
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They might ask some questions back.
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And I usually respond back with two or
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three sentences.
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They might send me a book and I
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send two or three sentences.
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I think when your motive is not to
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dominate, but just to be present, other people
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become aware of that.
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And it might go from a stranger to
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maybe a LinkedIn connection to maybe even somebody
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who's respected in the industry.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I wanna tell you right
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now, guard your mind like it's a rare
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resource.
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Because if you don't, people will exploit it.
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And by exploiting it, they're also gonna take
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your energy and drain you.
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Prioritize results, guys, over busyness.
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I know we want to show we're busy,
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but who do we need to prove we're
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busy to?
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Nobody.
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Prioritize the results, ROI.
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Motion is not always progress.
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Looking busy is not always success.
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It's an illusion to you and other people,
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but it's not always success.
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Clarity allows confident action knowing your why makes
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the how easier.
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I love that, guys.
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If your why can make the how easier,
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that's an amazing thing.
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One task, guys, just one task at a
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time will maximize impact.
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Multitasking kills momentum.
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I don't know if you know that.
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So many companies want you to multitask, but
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really what you're doing is you're dividing yourself
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into like a million pieces.
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And when you do that, you know what
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happens?
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You're not giving your undivided attention.
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I would rather have five minutes of your
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undivided attention than 40 or 60 minutes of
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your non-undivided attention.
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You're probably not even gonna remember what I
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was talking to you about in that, let's
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say, 40 minutes.
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But in that five or 10 minutes of
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undivided attention, just to me, it's gonna make
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sense.
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It's gonna show you the value that I'm
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trying to offer you.
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Avoid the mental clutter.
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It happens everywhere.
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Personal, business, volunteering.
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Declutter your mind to focus on what actually
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matters.
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Align actions with long-term goals.
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Small daily decisions compound into destiny.
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Clarity reduces hesitation.
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Confident decisions, well, they generate immediate results.
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When you show confidence, it's not something you
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brag about.
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It's a presence that's there that people sense.
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You're a bit around somebody who, let's say,
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is very calm, very well-mannered, and respectful,
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but knowledgeable, but also not trying to raise
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their voice louder than yours.
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In fact, when you raise your voice, they
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lower theirs.
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Makes you something like, I understand, sir, that
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you're upset, or I understand, Joe, that you're
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upset, and I'm here to help if you
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want my help.
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So there's no reason you should stand around
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and get kicked like a punching bag.
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And what I learned not too long ago
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is that one of the most precious skills
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you can have is executive tempering.
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All right, John, what is tempering?
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Tempering is holding back with a presence.
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That's wild.
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So when somebody sees that I'm tempering a
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situation, it could be an argument, a disagreement,
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they don't put as much fuel into it.
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See, I'm not trying to win an argument.
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I'm trying to just be present, listen to
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the other party, share my side.
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I might win, I might lose, but to
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me, it's not an argument unless two people
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are fighting.
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If one person's saying something, okay, I understand
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what you're saying, and I'm just curious.
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I'm sure you have a reason for stating
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that.
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What is it, and what makes you feel
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that way today?
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They're gonna go bonkers.
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They're gonna be like, huh?
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I'm yelling at you and I'm expecting you
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to, you're expecting me to what?
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Yell back?
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I don't do those things.
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That was stuff I did in high school.
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I don't do those things anymore.
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Well, if I'm not gonna argue with you,
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then how are we gonna get anything settled?
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Who says we have to settle anything?
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Who says we even have to be here
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today?
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And when you start putting these questions in
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people's heads, they're like, wait a minute, this
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is not fun.
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I'm not getting a rise at this person.
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I'm pushing their buttons, but they're not reacting,
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right?
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When you don't react to someone else's stimuli,
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they stop pushing.
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They stop pressing.
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They start realizing that, hey, I am doing
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this, but it's not having an effect on
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this person.
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It used to, but it's not now.
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Focused action prevents wasted time.
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Execution beats endless planning.
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I know a lot of people that wanna
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plan forever.
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The planning procrastinators, right?
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Avoid distractions.
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Hijacking attention.
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Your environment shapes your focus.
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So if you can be calm, peaceful, someone
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with intent, you make a difference in your
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life and everyone else's life.
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It's not about trying to be the loudest
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person.
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No, it's just being present.
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Prioritization, guys, compounds effectiveness.
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Stacking high value actions that accelerate your success
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and hopefully the success of other people.
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You see, guys, clarity sharpens intuition for complex
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choices.
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Clear minds make better calls.
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Focus prevents regret from missed opportunities.
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Attention on what matters leaves no room for
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doubt, guys.
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Work on aligning your priorities with your core
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values.
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When your actions match your values, momentum just
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becomes effortless and uses basically almost no energy.
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Clarity ensures consistency in results.
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See, reliable outcomes come from steady, deliberate effort.
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Avoid energy-draining shortcuts.
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Quick fixes often cost more, guys, in the
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long run.
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Might seem like you're getting somewhere, but you're
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really not.
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Focus effort multiplies outcomes beyond effort alone.
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Leverage your energy wisely.
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Prioritization plus clarity, P plus C, create unstoppable
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progress.
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The combination of smart choices and decisive action
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generates compounding momentum.
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That's a pretty important thing, guys.
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And as I'm wrapping up here with you
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guys tonight, remember, focus and clarity.
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They're not just ideas.
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They're both actionable choices that you make in
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your life every single day, every single.
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So when you make a conscious decision to
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prioritize intentionally, you protect your energy and you
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act with deliberate clarity.
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See, progress compounds quietly, but something happens about
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the quiet.
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I had a situation the other day where
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somebody was a little bit upset because they
26:50
were doing something wrong.
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And it's not about pointing out that they're
26:56
wrong, but it is about getting respect.
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And I say to people, I understand you're
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under the gun.
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I understand you're having a challenge.
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And I also expect you to act in
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a professional and courteous manner to me.
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Otherwise, I'm gonna leave.
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People go bonkers with that.
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When you calmly put on your jacket and
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get ready to leave, they start to get
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a little nervous.
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They go, where are you going?
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Well, I'm gonna leave.
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There's no point hanging around here with someone
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just yelling at me.
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Hopefully that opened your eyes the first time
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it happens.
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But the key is not to yell back.
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No, the key is to deescalate the argument.
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And it's not an argument if one person
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is speaking loudly.
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It's not an argument guys.
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It's somebody yelling, but an argument takes two
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people, two people.
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Remember that guys, it takes two people.
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Well, this has been fun guys.
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You can catch all of my latest shows,
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of course, and episodes and additional tools at
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believemeachieved.com.
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And when the book is announced, you'll be
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able to catch it there.
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It'll be right at the top.
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These are all available, these forms of content
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24 seven, 365 days a year.
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And they'll help you strengthen your clarity, your
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confidence, and build deliberate action.
28:40
Hope you guys have a fantastic one.
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I'll get you real soon.
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Be well, everyone.