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How Clarity and Agency Transform Your Life · Candid Coach Conversations

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  Hello there and welcome
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  Yeah.
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  to Candid Coach Conversations.
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  I'm Kimberly Boyd, founder of Live Life Fully,
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  and today I have with me my dear friend and Certified Live Life Fully Coach Amanda
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  Kaufman. Hey Amanda.
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  Hi, Kimberly.
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  I'm so glad you're here with us today.
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  is it raining where you are?
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  It was this morning. We're kind of having
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  like Texan rain, you know? Like it's like Armageddon kind of rain
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  and then perfectly sunny a few hours later.
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  It's awful.
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  my gosh. Okay, so talking about that,
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  ~ Armageddon Rain. So you know we had all those amazing
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  Mm-hmm.
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  twenty-something year olds. I mean like literally,
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  they were so awesome. We had not met everybody before and so
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  It was an awesome group of human beings at our house from Thursday,
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  and then the last two left today.
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  Anyway, you want to talk about every bed full.
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  I bought some cots that had mattresses on them.
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  We we were to the brim. so much fun.
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  Anyway, it was celebrating Meredith's birthday,
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  as you know. Anyway, so much fun.
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  Well, our boat
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  was not working and we found that out fourth of July weekend.
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  It would turn on and start, put it in the water and it would just turn off.
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  So well
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  It started, but when you put it in gear,
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  that's the word, not the water.
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  But put it in gear, the boat stopped.
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  So the
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  Mm.
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  boat people, our friend people who sell boats,
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  they came out, sent some guys out here and they were like,
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  Well, we're gonna have to pull it out of the water.
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  So they towed it wherever they towed it and took it into the shop
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  and then they called us and we knew we were having a boat jet ski day
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  all day on Saturday. So
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  Long story short, our boat was not going to be ready in time.
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  It's something with the computer chip thing,
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  I don't know, above my head.
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  So anyway, this man was like, I know this is important to you and
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  I think your daughter's amazing.
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  I'm gonna let you borrow my boat.
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  Okay, what? Anyway, let us borrow his boat.
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  So here we are, Saturday. So I cooked every meal,
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  breakfast, lunch, and dinner, very intentional with my time.
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  Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Thursday,
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  Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And today I'm like,
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  y'all are on your own.
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  The day with the least amount of people.
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  I'm like, I'm not cooking.
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  But so we are, I am served breakfast Saturday,
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  and while all those kiddos I say kids,
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  young adults were eating, I start making all these sandwiches.
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  42 made-to-order sandwiches. Anyway,
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  so I'm making the sandwiches. Andrew walks up behind me and he goes,
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  Honey, we have got to get on the water.
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  And I'm like, I know, I know. It's 1045 in the morning.
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  I'm like, I know, I know. And he goes,
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  No, no, no. There's a storm brewing.
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  Like, what?
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  He goes, yeah, if we're going out on the water,
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  we gotta get out there and get back.
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  And I'm like, all right. Now it was sunny at our house.
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  We are all loaded up on that boat,
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  all 42 sandwiches, 900 bags of chips,
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  all the coolers are full. Load up on the jet skis,
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  three on each one.
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  Boat, every seat is packed, and we are outta here.
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  We are headed to Pine Island. Amanda,
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  you want to talk about Armageddon Rain?
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  The radar was off by a couple of hours.
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  Skies turn dark and
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  Yeah, big storm. Now all the kids are in the water.
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  They're playing frisbee. They're throwing the ball.
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  They met up with some other people that were out there.
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  They're playing volleyball. And I'm telling you,
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  that rain was coming down so hard.
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  I thought it was hailing. It was hitting us so it was coming sideways.
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  So everybody's up underneath the boat,
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  underneath the tunes.
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  trying to stay dry and to not get injured by the raindrops.
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  Anyway, super fun. And I have no idea what got me there.
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  'cause you said Armageddon Rain.
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  Yeah.
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  Which also takes me to what I wanted to talk to you about today.
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  ~ so the storm passes a couple hour and a half later being pummeled by rain.
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  And we've never stayed out in a storm before.
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  And I'm like, we have got all these people out here that we're responsible for.
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  my gosh, they're gonna have bruises from these raindrops hitting so hard.
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  Anyway, everybody survived. It was super fun,
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  even though it was raining. And then suddenly the sun just pops out.
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  And it was sunny the rest of the
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  Like it had not rained a drop.
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  All that to say is it takes me to what I wanted to talk to you about today,
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  which is intentionality. And I kind of sprinkled that word in earlier because
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  I was so super intentional about my time all last week,
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  even about how much like intentional about the time I was going to dedicate
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  to place the grocery order for all that food.
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  But
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  I wanna talk not but and I wanna talk to you about intentionality.
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  and I wanna know, Amanda, what does that word mean to you?
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  intentionality well you know life a good life i think is lived somewhere
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  in between responding and reacting to the situation and having some kind
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  of an intentionality you know
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  Right.
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  so when i was a lot younger i was very much the spot very spontaneous very reactive
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  very responding to like what life was handing me and i
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  thought that life was kind of happening out there and then the quality
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  of your life was based on the circumstances you found yourself in.
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  And to me, intentionality is this is this activation of,
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  well, what's your agency and all of that?
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  Cause it's so true that like the crazy storm,
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  there like
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  Yeah.
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  there's nothing you can do about that,
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  really, except for your intentions around your thinking.
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  Your intentions around like, hey,
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  we gotta keep these not kids, young adults,
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  but okay, I hear you kind of kids safe.
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  You're like, we got we're responsible for so many people.
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  And you know, when I think about what makes people pretty miserable in life
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  is when they have a really strong intention for how things are supposed to go.
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  And God, universe, whatever is like,
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  hey, what's up? You know, and it gives you something else.
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  And that inflexibility to deal with the
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  the suck or sometimes even good stuff.
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  Like the there's a lot of people that they'll get a surprise,
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  like a birthday party surprise,
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  and they're like, I hate surprises.
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  And I'm like, okay, that's one way you can live your life.
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  but I think intention is really it's really connected to engagement,
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  like really engaging with your life.
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  And when we talk about living life more fully,
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  like to me, intention is a massive part of it.
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  Yeah. And it's not about getting what you want all the time.
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  I think that's where people get a little little squirrely on that one.
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  Yeah.
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  And I love that
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  what popped up for me, Amanda,
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  is whatever it is in the situation,
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  the storm, the life, whatever happens,
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  is like really identifying, okay,
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  so this is the situation, and now what?
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  Rather than the doom and gloom,
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  party's over, I'm gonna be
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  Yeah.
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  mad.
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  Exactly. How dare it rain? We live in Texas,
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  y'all. If when it rains, it rains big 'cause that's that's where we live.
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  Yes, indeed. Well, so two years ago on Meredith's birthday,
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  golly, we had a big day planned and that hurricane barrel or however
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  you say the name came through and
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  Took out a bunch of stuff on our property and a tree,
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  a big branch, fell in my husband's arm.
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  He was gonna move the tree. This in case there was an emergency,
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  he was gonna go move a tree up off the driveway so we'd be able to get out.
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  So he's on the tractor. And as he's moving these big trees out of the way,
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  another one, big, huge branch falls and
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  gets his arm and I'm like, Well I'm glad you were trying to make a
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  way out 'cause now you've made the way in for the ambulance that has
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  to come get you. So that was two years ago.
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  So this year when it that first raindrop and the big claps of thunder,
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  Meredith goes
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  Is it gonna rain every year on my birthday?
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  And I'm like, okay, that might be a little dramatic.
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  And she's like, you know what?
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  It is what it is. Let's get in the water,
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  y'all. So they all start jumping off.
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  But yes, she had that quick mindset shift,
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  being intentional. This is the situation.
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  I'm gonna make the best of it.
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  And jumped right on in.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm sorry to hear about the the arm.
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  That's awful. but and I think it's also a really good demonstration of intention,
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  right? Like like really pause.
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  What is that saying? Like good intentions pave the way somewhere awful.
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  Yeah.
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  ~
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  and and I think like intention's not probably enough because you you know,
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  obviously
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  you've got to respond to the situation and the and the cards that you're dealt.
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  and you're so right, like how how Meredith changed her mind.
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  so often like people treat bad news or just even
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  not my preference news honestly ~ as being this
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  very long-lasting, never-changing situation.
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  ~ and I hear I hear this a lot with people when they're like,
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  this always happens to me.
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  This always happens to me. Or I never get this.
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  And a lot of like this black and white thinking.
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  And intention can be such a really powerful tool.
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  for creating a live where you ~ a life where you live more fully
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  so like I'm thinking about I'm thinking about like career for example you know
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  Huh.
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  I I started my career with pretty basic intentions of like hey you know
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  I wanna I wanna make more money than maybe more people that I know and
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  you know I'd like to do something that's that's gonna challenge and stimulate
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  me and I want it to feel worth it you know very
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  broad intention. And then I I got going down the path.
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  And as I went down the path, I started to get more clarity about what
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  was I actually good at versus what I thought I was good at.
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  What was really interesting
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  Yes.
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  versus kind of interesting. And and as I go,
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  as I go, as I go, I'm getting more and more of this clarity.
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  And ~ it caused me to revise my intentions and to realize and recognize that it's
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  like, well
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  We're not just in a job to make money forever.
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  I mean, that's obviously a pretty important responsibility we all have.
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  And there's so many ways to add value in the world,
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  and there's so many ways to to do that.
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  So when I got clearer about like,
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  hey, the intention behind my career,
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  for example, isn't just a paycheck.
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  It's this sense of impact and this desire you know
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  Here's what I realized is work represents at least two-thirds of your waking hours,
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  at least. And so
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  Right.
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  many people just tolerate a job because they think,
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  well, is again that reactionary respondent thing.
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  It's like, well, this is all that's available around here.
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  Well, for someone like me, I get something like this.
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  And there's just like all this narrative about it.
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  And it's true that's probably gonna require effort and change in order
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  to shift that circumstance. And not everything you try is gonna work out.
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  And without that intention, then you're just kind of doomed.
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  And so for me, even though I was in a really good job,
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  a good career for a long time,
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  it became less good because it was falling out of an alignment with what
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  I was really valuing at that juncture of my life.
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  And what I realized was
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  Yeah.
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  the reason I wasn't making a change is because I had a major gap in my skills.
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  I didn't know how to sell. I didn't know how to market.
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  I didn't know how to write a business.
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  I had this vision. Okay. I had this idea when I was starting my business
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  of forming an LLC and getting the paperwork in order with such like something
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  out of the second half of Law and Order.
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  Yeah.
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  you know, and there's gonna be a big judge in a trial and it's gonna you know,
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  I'm gonna have to have a fancy lawyer and all this kind
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  of stuff. And you're
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  Yeah.
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  laughing at me, rightly so, because I didn't know.
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  I had no idea. So my brain just like references the series that
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  Yeah, but
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  I watched growing up.
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  Yeah, you know, Kung Kung.
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  Yes. I heard
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  it.
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  So I so I share all of that, you know,
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  that we don't know. Like when we're when we're when we're going after a new goal,
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  the intention is kind of like that compass that points us in a direction.
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  And so eventually I realized there were like perfectly good websites online that
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  would help you with this process.
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  I remember my first business, I formed it while I was breastfeeding my baby,
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  who's like nine now.
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  ~ and I got it done in forty-five minutes.
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  And if you if you know much about motherhood at that stage,
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  that is very sleep deprived. I was able to get it done.
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  All right.
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  No lawyers, no judges, just favorite.
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  No.
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  be my new thing.
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  Yeah. So yeah. I I could go I could wax poetic about intentionality.
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  I I think at the end of the day it's it's almost like that decision
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  you make in advance about
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  What?
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  about what you'd like to how you'd like something to turn out or how you'd like
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  to show up to a situation.
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  Yes. I I agree with you. ~
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  Yeah.
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  my gosh, wholeheartedly. And I don't know I don't know that people think
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  of it like that. Like we're certainly not taught as children to think about
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  the outcome or the desired outcome and how we want things to go before
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  we actually start. I don't I don't think we're taught that way.
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  If you think
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  about this, and I've thought about this,
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  we're trained from a very young age to value other people's opinions more than
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  Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  our own. And I call them OPOs.
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  OPOs.
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  And and like other people's opinions are actually important.
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  Like there's a reason that we are raised that way.
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  And what I would suggest is that.
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  It's important, but it's also not the only thing.
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  And if you if you if you live your life according to everybody else's opinion
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  of what your life is supposed to look like,
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  that to me is the path to to feeling very misaligned,
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  very dissatisfied, very, you know,
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  you can actually have this is mind blowing,
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  but you can have a huge amount of success
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  Yeah.
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  on paper and not feel fulfilled and not have any like meaning in what you're doing.
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  Right.
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  And like I said, it's two-thirds with the career thing,
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  it's like two-thirds of your live of your life force.
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  And some people,
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  Yeah.
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  it's like that that's a okay, like they're okay with going through
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  the motions on that part of it and living life to the fullest in the other third.
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  And that's that's a strategy and you can totally do that.
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  And I think what really matters is that you have intention behind that
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  and that you're not feeling this sensation of of almost like a victimhood.
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  Of well, this is you know, I was living up to other people's expectations,
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  I was living up to society's expectations,
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  I was living up you know, I never had time to think about what I actually want.
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  I'm like, Well, no one's gonna hand you that time.
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  That takes intention, just
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  Right.
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  It does, absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  So in thinking about intention and thinking about starting a business,
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  because you did. You while breastfeeding completed the forms for your LLC.
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  Which by
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  the way does not make me Wonder Woman,
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  a wonderful woman, but not Wonder Woman,
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  you know? Like I that that should tell you how not hard it is,
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  not how crazy I am.
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  Yeah. So if somebody did want to set ~ start a business,
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  a side hustle even, maybe it's not maybe they're not gonna replace their entire
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  career, they want a side hustle,
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  how can they get more intentional?
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  Like what are some things you would suggest?
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  my gosh. Okay, so the first thing I would say is break up with this idea that
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  it all has to be hard at all times.
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  Just break up. Like
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  Amen.
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  just don't call, don't text each other,
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  just break up with it, you know?
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  you know what I did exactly.
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  Yeah. Hello. I am breaking up with you today.
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  Here's here's the real truth. Did you know that everyone whoever makes money ever
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  is in business?
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  It's just some of us decided to sell 100% of our available hours to one buyer.
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  Right.
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  So that's what it means to be employed,
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  right? So as if if look like if I was if I was ~ working in any job,
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  I'm essentially saying I will sell you my waking hours and focus.
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  And in exchange, I will abide by your employee handbook.
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  I'll follow your policies, I'll follow your processes,
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  I'll do what you ask in exchange for.
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  The pay and the benefits. That's business,
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  baby, right? That's business. So,
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  but I know
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  Yeah.
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  that's probably not what people mean,
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  but the reason why I think that's a really important distinction is because
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  if you realize that you you're already in business,
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  you're already doing
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  Yeah.
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  it, it takes so much of the sting out of the complexity.
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  Because you know, if there's one thing that entrepreneurs like to talk about
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  is how hard it is, it's like our favorite.
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  We love talking about how hard it is.
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  and
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  There's parts of it that are hard,
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  but aren't there things about your job that are hard?
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  Aren't there things about your family that are hard?
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  Like, hard's not really to me,
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  like it's so relative, and it's really not a defining characteristic
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  of whether you do the thing or don't do the thing.
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  Right.
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  if you want to start a business,
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  it really is actually this simple.
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  Talk to people who want a thing.
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  And
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  I think something like 68% of businesses in the United States,
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  small businesses, are services.
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  So the thing is probably going to be selling your time to do something based
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  on your expertise. It could be a product-sized thing,
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  or maybe it's a blend of those things.
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  But the way I think of it is what is a problem that someone else
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  has that you're happy to solve?
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  And
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  Yes.
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  for pay, right? Like you're happy to be paid to solve that thing.
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  And that's that's a in terms of actually.
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  Transacting and
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  being compliant
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  Yeah.
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  and all that kind of stuff. Yes,
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  you form an entity, typically like an LLC.
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  depending on the business that you're going into and all that,
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  those details could shift and change.
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  But by and large, it's it's a very simple sole proprietorship registering with
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  the state that you live in, registering with the federal government to
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  get an EIN number. And what that lets you do is it lets you open a bank account.
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  Once you have a business bank account,
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  You need a way to collect money.
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  So very typically you're gonna sign up with something like a stripe,
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  a PayPal, a square. And what that allows you to do is it allows you to
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  it makes it easier to buy from you,
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  essentially at the end of the day,
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  is because you can say is that Visa or MasterCard,
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  right? And once you got that going,
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  really the rest of the business,
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  like for the rest of the business's
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  Just
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  life, it's asking people, Do you want this?
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  And then for the
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  Yes.
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  people who say yes, you
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  Sell it to him.
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  And I'd love that you talked
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  That's it.
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  about jobs also because well so many things popped up for me.
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  I'd love that you talked about jobs.
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  Like you're already agreeing to sell your time because I do talk with people when
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  I'm coaching people, for example,
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  a teacher.
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  When I'm working with a teacher and she's talking about the rules
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  and the regulations, she or he about the s rules and regulations of the state
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  and of the district and the all the things that come with that,
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  I'm like, okay, so like you're the CEO of your classroom.
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  Like even though you have these people above you or the state
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  Or whatever above you, you still are the CEO of your classroom.
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  That's one thing that helped me every day.
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  Like I remind myself, I'm the CEO of my life.
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  And I can get really intentional about the time that I spend on my Live Life Fully
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  company, on my counseling center,
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  on the time with my friends. Like I'm the CEO of my life,
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  no matter what I'm doing.
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  A fact that's one of the
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  reasons I adore you, right? Is is because you do get that.
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  And and I think you
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  Yeah.
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  know what we're really talking about is this idea of agency.
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  And you know, when you have agency,
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  Yes.
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  it basically means that you know that you can make a decision here.
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  And when people are the most miserable,
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  at least, at least as I've I've noticed in our in our society here
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  in the United States and and maybe in in in Canada,
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  can't speak to cultures beyond,
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  but
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  In our culture, for sure, the most miserable people are the ones who
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  do not feel free. And but but I think the problem is that they have
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  an interesting idea about what freedom really is.
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  You do have freedom, and that freedom is to make a new choice.
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  Now, do you like your options?
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  Maybe you don't. Are you feeling like your life is operating according to your
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  Preferences? Prob probably not.
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  Like when I'm thinking about when somebody's feeling very constrained.
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  Like I I used to work in corporate America and like I did not like the reporting.
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  It was not my favorite. I did not like some of the posturing and things that
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  we have to do, you know, in corporate culture.
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  Like those kinds of things like were not my preference.
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  But let's
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  Right.
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  be let's be very clear. That does not make them bad.
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  That just means that
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  I did not prefer to spend my time in that way.
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  I did prefer
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  Right.
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  to spend my time in other ways.
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  And so then I made a choice. And I and I chose a more entrepreneurial route
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  for my career. That doesn't mean that it's bad to choose corporate or or
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  bad to go bureaucratic, but it is a choice.
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  It's still a choice. And the question is,
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  are you are you activating agency and saying,
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  yes, I'm here?
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  Because my intention is to use my life force to accomplish A,
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  B, and C. And because I am deciding to do so,
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  CEO of my life, right? Or leader of my life,
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  whatever resonates for you. Therefore,
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  yeah, there's gonna be some client compliance stuff.
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  You know, there's gonna be so like there's no such thing as
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  a life without suffering. So maybe for the choices that you're making.
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  There's a certain kind of suffering you're inviting in,
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  and it's it's not because you it's your preference,
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  it's not because you even enjoy it.
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  It's not even like we could debate the politics and all of that kind
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  of stuff all day long. But when you remember your intention behind
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  the reasons that you chose this path,
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  Right.
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  you can appreciate A, the path you're on,
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  but B, you can also recognize your capacity,
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  your agency to choose a new path.
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  Yes. And I think that's one of the things I love so much about coaching.
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  And when I say that, I mean about me being coached by my coach and when
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  I'm working with people as their coach is that these new realizations
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  and these aha's and unlocks really,
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  like unlocks occur through coaching.
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  And I love it.
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  Because yes, there's choice like you were talking about.
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  And sometimes for me, it's I may not like the compliance that it's in front of me,
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  even on my own health journey.
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  Like
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  There's things I have to be compliant with that are not my favorite.
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  And it is a choice I make to do it so that I can remain alive.
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  And then also when if I think that I'm truly stuck,
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  like if I get in that of, ugh,
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  like the state says this or whatever it is,
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  and like I don't have any options.
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  I have no choice. I have to do it this way.
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  When I start thinking like that,
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  I'm like, okay, Kimberly, what's a reframe?
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  What's a new thought?
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  That will serve better, serve me better and the people that I'm working with.
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  Absolutely. You know, one of my favorite techniques
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  when I when I when I fall into that,
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  because look, we're all human beings.
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  We we have like reasons we default to this thinking.
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  It is cognitively way easier, emotionally way easier to assign blame outside
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  of ourselves. Like that's totally
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  Absolutely.
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  the reason why we do that. And so my favorite technique,
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  really, for real, when I'm feeling like I have no choice and there's
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  no options and I'm screwed, then ~ I get I eat a sandwich.
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  'Cause so often the issue for me is physiological.
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  I'm like, I'm literally like, I got low blood sugar,
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  I didn't sleep good last night.
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  There were you know, had an argument with my spouse or something like that that like
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  took me off my game and I'm I'm a little a little off center or whatever.
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  So like just take a beat I think sometimes with living a more intentional life,
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  one of the things I didn't really anticipate and now I realize it's so so true,
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  is you need the space to reflect and connect and recenter.
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  So that you can see things like that in the long game.
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  So often the stuff that we don't want to deal with or the the pains
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  Yeah.
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  in the butt of our modern life,
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  it it comes down to a short-term pain for a long-term gain.
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  And when you give yourself the space
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  Mm-hmm.
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  and like the energy to be able to consider those things,
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  you start to realize like, wow,
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  there's actually a lot more in my direct and immediate control than I thought.
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  And now I get to choose, and now because I'm
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Choosing, even if I'm choosing to do the same crappy thing,
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  it just hits so differently, and you can you can honor that struggle.
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  The the you know, I I love that phrase,
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  honor the struggle. It's like I like that phrase,
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  and I like the struggle is guaranteed,
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  but success isn't. And
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  Yes.
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  that's such a beautiful reminder,
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  too, because like I think one of the ways that we get twisted up about
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  the whole intentional living thing,
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  because if you ask somebody straight up on the street or in a coaching session.
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  Are you living intentionally? Scale one to ten.
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  It's difficult.
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  On average, you're gonna hear eight.
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  Most people think that they are.
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  Right. Right.
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  But that same person might confuse intention with certainty.
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  So,
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  Correct.
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  you know, I'm certain that if I stick with this path,
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  or I'm certain that if I do this thing,
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  then I'm gonna get what I ultimately want.
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  And that's that is not the same thing,
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  I don't think. So then when they
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  Yeah.
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  encounter the lack of success or the additional struggle they weren't anticipating,
• 24:12
  then intentionality flies out the window really fast.
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  We default back to our patterns.
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  Right.
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  Yes, and I love that distinction.
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  Intentionality and certainty. Love it.
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  Yeah, I agree. It's
• 24:23
  Yeah, but certainly.
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  there's a difference there.
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  Yeah, love it. my gosh. Okay, so the things that stood out to me
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  is about intention is really gaining clarity,
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  tapping into who am I, who do I want to be,
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  what is important to me, getting clear about that so that you
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  can get more intentional with your time,
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  whether you're wanting to start a a new business,
• 24:46
  a new venture, change jobs, change your relationships,
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  change the relationship you have with yourself,
• 24:52
  as well as
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  Others. and then I wrote down alignment.
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  So really identifying what does get me into alignment with all those things,
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  with the person I want to be, the relationships that I want to have,
• 25:05
  the career that I want to have,
• 25:07
  and the future. Like what future do I want to have?
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  And to get an alignment so that will happen.
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  That's what I'm gathering from you,
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  Amanda. Yeah.
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  I agreed, yes,
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  all the way. And and I think like something that people don't always
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  get until they start to get it is handling the disappointment when you
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  ~ le
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  set a good intention and it doesn't work out.
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  So if
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  you you don't really brought it up for me is when you were mentioning like
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  relationships, for example.
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  Yeah.
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  How many people have you talked to over the years?
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  I know I've definitely had this experience even personally
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  Mm-hmm.
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  where
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  You have such a good intention for like where your relationship's gonna go,
• 25:42
  Yeah.
• 25:42
  maybe
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  like in your marriage or with your kids or with your friends,
• 25:46
  or maybe there's somebody that you're super excited to connect with,
• 25:49
  and you're like, great, great intention.
• 25:50
  Actually, business owners, right?
• 25:52
  Maybe you've got this great intention,
• 25:53
  you know, of somebody's gonna be there,
• 25:55
  gonna be your next customer. You're so excited they're gonna be your next customer.
• 25:58
  And like, so you have this great intention for the relationship,
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  but then there's a misunderstanding or a miscommunication or a ball gets dropped
• 26:04
  Right.
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  Or you got so excited you forgot to ask what they were excited about,
• 26:11
  right? And like these things happen,
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  and I love thinking about relationships,
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  because relationships in particular can be so messy when it comes
• 26:18
  to having intention, because most people do live in this like reactive responding
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  kind of a place.
• 26:24
  Sure.
• 26:24
  And so the power of intention
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  is that you get to know your reasons that you are doing what you're doing.
• 26:31
  you might have people who disagree with your actions or the things that you
• 26:36
  do or do not do. And like that,
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  Right.
• 26:39
  that is
• 26:39
  certain. That's gonna come up.
• 26:41
  And so what's helped me a lot as I've become an entrepreneur is really because some
• 26:44
  people like they don't like certain kinds of marketing or they don't they don't
• 26:47
  agree with your perspective or the things that you do.
• 26:50
  I've had people have taken issue with my hair,
• 26:52
  which I don't understand, but it can happen.
• 26:55
  and if you just know the reason you're doing this stuff,
• 26:57
  what your intention was
• 26:59
  You can recover from almost anything and I think it's especially
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  as important in relationships.
• 27:03
  Yes. So good. When you know your intention.
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  Yes. And that's going back to having clarity and staying true to your heart
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  and true to who you are.
• 27:14
  Exactly.
• 27:15
  Love it. So good, Amanda. I'm so glad you came today and chatted with
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  us about intention and intention for one's life.
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  Thank you very much.
• 27:25
  My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
• 27:27
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