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Pick Yourself Back Up and Keep Going – The Power of Persistence in the Face of Adversity · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's funny about that part time savage thing in there, man,
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  Speaker 1: where I can totally dog myself.
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  Speaker 2: It's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: All this became nice making up mother bacon and eggs,
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  Speaker 1: mother protein shake early morning, and I stopped having those
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  Speaker 1: hard conversations.
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  Speaker 2: With myself, boy, my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: That's why my first hate my ass, boy, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: hard on me. If I'm hard on me, I don't
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  Speaker 1: give about you. I don't give about what you don't give.
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  Speaker 1: We think about me nothing else. Hard on myself, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Every morning I woke up, all right, mothercker, I call
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  Speaker 1: it my morning meeting, my morning meeting.
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  Speaker 2: We all have these meetings off the day long. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we go to work. We're working for somebody else. They
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  Speaker 2: want a meeting because they want to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: So we all sit our asked down, try and make
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  Speaker 1: them better, try to make them more money, try to
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  Speaker 1: make them more powerful.
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  Speaker 2: We don't do that for ourselves. Every morning I wake up,
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  Speaker 2: I used to.
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  Speaker 1: I had to get back into it again because in
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  Speaker 1: that chapter, you see, I get kind of look that
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  Speaker 1: only me and I wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what did you do step yesterday? Where were you at?
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  Speaker 1: And I just go through to analyze my life, and
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  Speaker 1: then I went through period of time there, man, where
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  Speaker 1: I stopped having those conversations. You know how you Let's
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  Speaker 1: say you and your wife go out, and let's say
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just make up a story here. You and your
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  Speaker 2: wife go out and you see your cousin, and your
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  Speaker 2: cousin's fat as. I don't know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: they are not. Hope they not, if they are apologized.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe. So they go out and you see your cousins.
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  Speaker 1: She's fat as, he's fat as, whoever, And you guys
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  Speaker 1: get back in the car and you, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you see the motherfucking marry Joe, how fat she was.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We go back and the hard conversation that you should
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  Speaker 1: be having married Joe. Hey, married Joe, you gained some weight,
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  Speaker 1: hunt sister from kind of big.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I do to myself.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people that we see all day long,
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  Speaker 1: we see them, we don't have the hard conversation when
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  Speaker 1: we walk around. Rather you hate me and get better
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  Speaker 1: than like me and statas. And that's how I feel
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  Speaker 1: about David Goggins. Rather me hate I hate you, David, man,
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  Speaker 1: I hate you David. But I get better from it.
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  Speaker 1: I get better from it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why when people see me and I know you,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're in my little foxhole. If you're in my.
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  Speaker 1: Fox how and you become a piece of shit, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: come here, brother, let me talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Brother.
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  Speaker 1: People don't like that, man, But I'm not gonna allow
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  Speaker 1: you to go to a place that's gonna be hard
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  Speaker 1: to get out of.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard.
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  Speaker 1: If I allow you gain five more pounds, or allow
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  Speaker 1: you to take four more days off of school, or like
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  Speaker 1: to keep on procrastinating in your life. And I see it,
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  Speaker 1: and I tell Jennifer behind your back, I'm doing you
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  Speaker 1: no freaking justice, zero justice. So where this world is now,
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  Speaker 1: you can't say a motherfucking thing I do. I still
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  Speaker 1: do and I always will. Don't like me, don't like me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good with that.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what's going on with like fat models.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of Like you're.
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  Speaker 5: Beautiful no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, I have no problem
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  Speaker 1: if you want to be fat. I have no problem
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  Speaker 1: to anybody if you want to be whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: And make sure you. If you're fat, go be fat,
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  Speaker 2: Go be real fat. But let's be real. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to be nobody does. That's why I said it, man,
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  Speaker 2: nobody does. It's not true.
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  Speaker 5: They will pretend.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine with it.
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  Speaker 4: But if I could give you a button that you
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  Speaker 4: could push and skinny, all of a.
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  Speaker 1: Sudden you have this incredible body, you take everybody to
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  Speaker 1: push that button. But what happens is never get in
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  Speaker 1: this world where it gets hard, you know, And so
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  Speaker 1: the harder it is, the more you start to push back,
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  Speaker 1: and the more you push back, and then it's not
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  Speaker 1: right for people to talk about. Not right for like,
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  Speaker 1: let's say you are fat. I was fat. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I talk about it. Go ahead and say something with
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  Speaker 1: the gir I was fat too, and it was hard
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  Speaker 1: at every day to get up. I know what it
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  Speaker 1: feels like when you roll your fat ass out of
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  Speaker 1: bed and all you want some fuking damn cinnamon buns
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  Speaker 1: and shit if can chuck and chuck and milkshake.
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  Speaker 2: I know what it is. I know exactly this, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't want it more than you, and so many people
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  Speaker 1: just want it.
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  Speaker 2: The easy way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, it's not so what they start to
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  Speaker 1: do is they build this narrative it's okay, when the
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  Speaker 1: narrative should be you need to can work harder, you
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  Speaker 1: need to can discipline your mind better. We need to
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  Speaker 1: help people more than just saying it's okay, it's okay
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  Speaker 1: that you're not willing to can help yourself out.
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  Speaker 2: That's not okay. It's not okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's not acceptable, even though it's your life. If that's
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  Speaker 1: if that's acceptable, that's unacceptable. And there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in this world. Me included that if I accepted that,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be anywhere. So yeah, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: just can they start creating a narrative about themselves that
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  Speaker 1: make it okay, the ultimate get out of jail free car.
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  Speaker 1: And now the world is set up. They have so
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  Speaker 1: many yards, your free cards. Everything is okay, and you
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  Speaker 1: can't say a motherfucker thing about it.
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  Speaker 6: You cannot let go the past. Only a fool will
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  Speaker 6: let go the past. When you say let go, what
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  Speaker 6: you're trying to do is to change it. You cannot
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  Speaker 6: change it. Or should I come to terms with it?
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing to come to terms with. It just doesn't
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  Speaker 6: exist except in your memory. You mayt treasure your past. Pleasant, unpleasant, nasty, horrible, beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: Everything is there in the bag. They're not living things.
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  Speaker 6: They're only memories, right, you must know how to use
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  Speaker 6: them to make yourself into a much bigger human being
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  Speaker 6: than what you are right now with all these experiences.
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  Speaker 6: Instead of that, you try to hurt yourself with it.
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  Speaker 6: This is a choice you have. Whenever something that we
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  Speaker 6: don't want happen to us, we can either become wounded
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  Speaker 6: or wise. Every memory, pleasant and unpleasant memories of life,
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  Speaker 6: can be used to your advantage. If a lot of unnecessary,
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  Speaker 6: unpleasant things happen, you should become wiser sooner than everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: You have to hit rock bottom. That's the way it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: rock bottom is beautiful. The struggle of the struggle of
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  Speaker 4: coming back, it's beautiful. That's struggle. You know, it's hard.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like it's beautiful the way you're going
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  Speaker 4: to it. But it's just being being tested, and without
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  Speaker 4: a test, there's no testimony. Life tests you. Sometimes life
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  Speaker 4: annihilates you, but it's only up to you if you
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  Speaker 4: want to take some more. It's going to dish it out.
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  Speaker 4: But eventually, if you don't quite it be merciful to you.
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  Speaker 3: Do the best you can. If that's not your philosophy,
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  Speaker 3: I would ask you to amend it. Let me give
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  Speaker 3: you the best of ancient script. Here's what it says.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever your hand's fine to do, do it with all
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  Speaker 3: your might, do it with all your strength, and do
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  Speaker 3: it with all your power. What a good philosophy. That
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  Speaker 3: kind of philosophy revolutionize your life if you haven't picked
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  Speaker 3: it uply.
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  Speaker 2: I'm most sure exactly why humans are this way.
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  Speaker 1: We don't respect anything that's given to us easily, even
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  Speaker 1: at the most basic.
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  Speaker 3: Level, Even with something as simple as words, You have
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  Speaker 3: to sit there and think about it to really truly
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  Speaker 3: put respect on it. But that's how we are.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest advice I can give you right now, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest advice that anybody could give you, eighty five to
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  Speaker 1: ninety percent of life is.
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  Speaker 2: Just showing up. Show up.
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  Speaker 1: If you show up, there's a chance something could happen.
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  Speaker 3: Life isn't forever. It finally comes to an end. That
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  Speaker 3: the longest life is brief. The sunrise doesn't last all day,
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  Speaker 3: the sunset doesn't last all night. When those pieces of
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  Speaker 3: time comes, what you've got to do is get up
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  Speaker 3: a little earlier, stay up a little later. Don't waste
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to talk to someone, Don't waste the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to have a meeting, Don't waste the chance. Don't let
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  Speaker 3: them all pass. This is the time to massively increase
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  Speaker 3: your numbers. Take advantage.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be so hard on yourself. It does not bode well.
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  Speaker 5: You are a magical, powerful, spiritual being who came here
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  Speaker 5: to incarnate into a physical materium body to have what
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  Speaker 5: are the three things, direction, dignity, and purpose. And if
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  Speaker 5: you dwell and think about what those three things are
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  Speaker 5: in your life.
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  Speaker 2: That'll keep you busy for a while.
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  Speaker 5: That's the kind of time that you spend with yourself
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  Speaker 5: that's really important, because the end result of that will
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  Speaker 5: give you a much clearer picture of who you are
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  Speaker 5: and what you believe, and that empowers you and strengthens you.
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  Speaker 5: And when somebody says anything negative about you, or you
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  Speaker 5: hear something water off your duck's backed, that's their issue,
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  Speaker 5: it's not your issue.
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  Speaker 3: Having a healthy and mature attitude about the past can
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  Speaker 3: make a major difference in anyone's life. One of the
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  Speaker 3: best ways to approach the past is to use it
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  Speaker 3: as a school, not as a weapon. We must not
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  Speaker 3: beat ourselves to death with past mistakes, faults, failures, and losses.
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  Speaker 3: The events of the past, both good and bad, are
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  Speaker 3: all part of the life experience. For some, the past
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  Speaker 3: may have been a harsh teacher, but we must remember
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  Speaker 3: to let the past educate us and bring the value
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  Speaker 3: of its experience into our lives. It is easy to
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  Speaker 3: allow the past to overwhelm us, but the good news
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  Speaker 3: is that it is also easy to allow the past
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  Speaker 3: to instruct us and to increase our value. Part of
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  Speaker 3: the miracle of our future lies in the past. Past lessons,
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  Speaker 3: past errors, past successes. The collective experiences of all that
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  Speaker 3: has happened to us can either be our master or
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  Speaker 3: our servant. That is why it is so important to
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  Speaker 3: gather up the lessons of the past and invest them
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  Speaker 3: in the future. If we can establish that kind of
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  Speaker 3: intelligent approach to the past, we can dramatically change the
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  Speaker 3: course of the next twelve months. Each of us will
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  Speaker 3: be somewhere in the next twelve months. The question we
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  Speaker 3: must ask ourselves is where developing a new philosophy about
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  Speaker 3: the past is the key to changing our current attitude.
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  Speaker 3: Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is
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  Speaker 3: nothing we can do to change the past. Our feelings
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  Speaker 3: of regret, remorse, and bitterness will prevent us from designing
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  Speaker 3: a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.
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  Speaker 3: How effectively we use the present is largely determined by
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  Speaker 3: our attitude about the past. Until we amend our philosophy,
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  Speaker 3: we cannot repair our attitude. And if we cannot repair
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  Speaker 3: our attitude, our future is going to be filled with
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  Speaker 3: the same sense of regret, remorse, and bitterness that currently
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  Speaker 3: has us by the throat. We cannot move forward into
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  Speaker 3: a brighter future until we have closed the door on
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  Speaker 3: the darkness of the past. The current moment is where
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  Speaker 3: our better future begins. The past gave us a wealth
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  Speaker 3: of memories and experiences, and the present gives us a
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  Speaker 3: chance to use them wisely. The present brings us an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to create an exciting future, but the promise of
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  Speaker 3: the future demands that we pay a price in the present.
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  Speaker 3: The opportunity of the current moment must be embraced or
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  Speaker 3: the rewards of the future will be withheld. Our goals
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  Speaker 3: and ambitions of the past are bringing us present rewards.
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  Speaker 3: If our current rewards are small, then our past efforts
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  Speaker 3: were small, and if today's effort is small, the future
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  Speaker 3: reward will be small as well. Today brings to each
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  Speaker 3: of us one four hundred forty minutes eighty six four
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  Speaker 3: hundred ticks of the clock. Both the poor and the
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  Speaker 3: wealthy have the same twenty four hours of opportunity. Time
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  Speaker 3: favors no one today merely says, here, I am, what are.
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  Speaker 2: You going to do with me?
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  Speaker 3: How well we use each day is largely a function
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  Speaker 3: of attitude. With the right attitude, we can seize this
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  Speaker 3: day and make it a point of new beginning. Today
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  Speaker 3: does not care about yesterday's failures or tomorrow's regrets. It
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  Speaker 3: merely offers the same precious gift another twenty four hours
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  Speaker 3: and hopes that we will use it wisely. The greatest
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  Speaker 3: opportunity today brings is the opportunity to begin the process
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  Speaker 3: of change. Today, the present is the moment when we
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  Speaker 3: can inaugurate our new voice coming into power. It can
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  Speaker 3: be a new change of mind, a new attitude adopted
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  Speaker 3: about who we are, what we are, what we want,
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  Speaker 3: and what we are going to do. Today can also
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  Speaker 3: be exactly like yesterday and the day before and the
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  Speaker 3: day before. It is all all a question of attitude.
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  Speaker 3: Our attitude about the future is also of great importance.
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  Speaker 3: In their Classic Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant wrote,
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  Speaker 3: to endure what is, we must remember what was and
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  Speaker 3: dream of things as they will one day be. Our
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  Speaker 3: attitude about the future depends on our ability to see
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  Speaker 3: the future. Each of us has the inherent ability to dream, design,
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  Speaker 3: and experience the future through the power of an imaginative
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  Speaker 3: inner eye. Whatever the mind has the capacity to imagine,
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  Speaker 3: it also has the ability to create. Just as the
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  Speaker 3: body instinctively knows how to perform the miracle of health,
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  Speaker 3: the mind instinctively knows how to perform the miracle of wealth.