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Speak Clearly (S5) S12:E5 Wednesday · Inspirations for Your Life

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  Well, hey guys, and welcome to Inspirations for
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  Your Life.
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  It's great to be with you here.
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  It is a Monday, yes, a wonderful Monday.
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  And although Monday is not the start of
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  our week, it is the start of most
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  people's work week.
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  Our weeks start on Saturday and they finish
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  up on a Friday.
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  So we're already on our third day of
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  our master topic, which is Seeing Clearly.
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  It's great to be with everyone.
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  content, articles, reels, and yes, so much more.
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  So guys, without any further ado, let's kick
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  the show off.
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  All right, everyone.
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  So this is Inspirations For Your Life.
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  This is series five, which means we're in
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  our fifth year.
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  We're already four years and almost a little
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  more than three and a half months into
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  the fifth year.
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  This is show 12, episode number three, and
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  it's about wake up.
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  Yes, the master topic of the week is
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  seeing clearly.
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  When your vision sharpens, your decisions improve.
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  Hey guys, I'm John C.
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  Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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  podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and
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  guys, yes, a passionate lifelong learner.
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  And pretty soon guys, I am going to
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  be a published author and I am so
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  thrilled with that.
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  This episode is about waking up to your
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  own awareness.
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  By the way, there'll be more details as
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  we get closer.
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  The book is scheduled to be dedicated to
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  my parents on April 16th or 17th.
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  We'll be doing that live on the air
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  and then the book will be officially open
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  for orders the end of April.
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  I'll be starting my official book tour in
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  June, so definitely stay tuned for that.
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  Also I will have the book on Amazon.
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  It'll be, I believe, on Marginal Press.
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  It'll also be on ACX on Amazon Audible,
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  so you can get it there as well.
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  So this episode, ladies and gentlemen, is about
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  waking up to your own awareness, sharpening your
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  thinking, and making intentional choices and decisions that
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  align with your goals and of course your
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  values.
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  Now, strong lives are built when awareness replaces
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  assumption and intentional choices replace drift.
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  You know, a lot of people get confused
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  with this, but this is how it works.
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  So this is Wake Up Monday, and again,
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  awareness begins, ladies and gentlemen, with transformation.
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  Everything starts with noticing.
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  And it could be a subtle notice.
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  It doesn't have to be anything really big.
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  Noticing what's happening in your mind and the
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  environment around you.
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  I think a lot of people miss the
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  environment around them because they're so busy they
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  don't have time to quiet the chattering monkeys
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  in their head.
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  Awareness, guys, is the spark that ignites growth.
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  Without it, decisions are reactive.
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  And we talked about proactive and reactive, haven't
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  we?
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  So proactive is when we do things like
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  when we talked about the fire, being ready
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  for the fire.
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  Nobody wants a fire, but being prepared for
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  an emergency is much better than trying to
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  get ready for the emergency when the emergency
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  is currently happening.
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  Honest thinking, guys, improves growth.
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  Being truthful with yourself about where you are
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  and what's working allows you to make adjustments
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  that actually move the needle.
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  We've talked about the needle before.
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  A needle was talked a lot about when
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  we think about meters and things.
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  That's where the needle comes from.
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  Clear vision strengthens decisions.
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  When your vision is sharp, every choice aligns
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  with your goals.
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  Decisions become easier, and they appear more confident
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  because they are.
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  Facing truth, guys, builds confidence.
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  Avoiding reality wastes energy.
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  So let's stop that.
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  Confront challenges head on to develop self-assurance
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  and authority over your life.
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  Awareness removes confusion.
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  Chaos comes from, well, unexamined assumptions.
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  Mindful attention clears the fog so you can
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  see the path forward.
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  We all know we've been in the car
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  before, and maybe the temperature is not balancing
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  properly with the outside, the inside, and it's
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  getting too foggy.
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  So what do you do?
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  You throw in the defrosters.
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  And sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn't.
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  So honest reflection fuels improvement.
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  Take stock daily, guys.
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  You don't have to make this public.
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  You can just do this yourself.
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  Review what has worked and what's working for
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  you now, what didn't and what to do
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  differently this time.
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  Self-reflection is a compounder of results.
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  So clear thinking builds strong plans.
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  Thoughtful planning isn't about rigidity.
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  It's about constructing a map that guides your
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  actions with clarity and precision.
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  Now, I'm not going to name any people,
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  but there was a group on one of
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  these social platforms, and the group, let's say
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  admin, was getting so, how can I say,
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  demonstrative about the premise that they were knocking
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  out people that really should be in the
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  group.
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  And so people even came up and said,
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  you know, I think the real problem is
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  not these people.
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  The real problem is you.
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  You're getting too retentive.
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  And I see where they're coming from.
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  So insights improve strategy, guys.
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  Understanding patterns and predicting outcomes make you smarter,
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  proactive, instead of being reactive.
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  When we recognize patterns in our life, whether
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  that's for education or anything, we are able
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  to recognize them in the future and like,
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  oh, I get this.
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  I know how to apply this, right?
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  This happens a lot in math and also
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  a lot in science.
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  Strategy comes from deep insight, not guesswork.
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  Awareness reveals opportunities by noticing subtleties others just
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  seem to overlook.
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  You can easily identify opportunities before they become
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  obvious.
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  But I got to be honest with you,
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  it takes some time.
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  It takes some effort.
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  You're not just going to do this at
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  the drop of a hat or the snap
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  of a finger.
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  Clear thinking, guys, reduces mistakes.
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  It really does.
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  A mind trained to see clearly cuts down
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  errors, protects energy, and prevents wasted effort.
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  Truth, guys, strengthens leadership.
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  Leaders who face reality inspire trust.
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  Honesty in decision-making creates influence that endures.
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  Honest evaluation builds progress.
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  It measures results without a bias.
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  If a tactic fails, learn from it.
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  If it succeeds, replicate it and do more
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  of that.
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  Progress comes from objective assessment.
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  Awareness sharpens direction.
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  When you know what matters, it's easier to
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  focus your energy where it counts most.
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  But many people are still focusing their energy
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  on things that appear to be what they
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  need or what their ego is telling them,
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  but not really what they should be working
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  on.
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  So insight builds understanding.
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  Seeing the connections others miss gives clarity to
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  complex situations and strengthens decision-making.
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  Now, if you're going to rely on your
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  ego all the time, this is not going
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  to be an easy feat for you because
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  you're going to be constantly fighting with your
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  ego.
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  So let the ego go a little bit
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  and allow the rest of you in the
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  environment to guide you.
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  Clear thinking supports discipline.
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  When your mind knows what is essential, following
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  through just becomes natural, simple, and more consistent.
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  Awareness, guys, expands possibilities.
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  Being conscious of your thoughts today and surroundings
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  of the environment reveals choices you might have
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  ignored.
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  Honest thinking builds wisdom.
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  Daily self-examination turns experience into actionable intelligence.
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  That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
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  I said it helps you turn experience into
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  actionable intelligence.
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  It does not happen on a dime.
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  You have to intentionally want to turn the
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  experience into intelligence.
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  Insights strengthen judgment.
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  Seeing patterns and potential outcomes equip you to
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  make smarter, faster decisions.
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  Under pressure, that is, okay?
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  So awareness builds resilience.
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  Recognizing challenges before they overwhelm allows you to
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  respond rather than react.
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  And I've said to you, it's better to
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  be proactive than reactive.
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  Reactive gets done from the ego standpoint.
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  Reactive does not happen because of the calm,
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  the intelligence, the interpolation that we've gotten from
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  data and experience in the past.
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  It doesn't happen from that.
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  Clear vision drives success.
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  When your end goal is sharp, vivid, your
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  actions align naturally with progress.
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  It's like Legos or any kind of Lincoln
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  Logs.
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  They just kind of naturally go together, right,
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  when they're at the right angle and at
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  the right place.
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  Understanding improves outcomes deliberately, okay?
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  Analysis reduces errors and increases the likelihood of
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  favorable results, all right?
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  That's important.
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  Insight fuels progress.
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  Regular reflection on lessons learned accelerates the growth
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  and avoids repetitive mistakes.
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  See, once we make a mistake and we
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  don't acknowledge that mistake, we keep making it
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  over and over and over again, and it
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  becomes a habit, and it's hard to undo
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  that programming.
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  Honest awareness improves leadership, guys.
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  Knowing your strengths and your weaknesses strengthens your
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  ability to lead and inspire others.
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  Clarity supports better action, guys, so when we
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  get clear, we know where we're going.
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  When the windshield in our car doesn't have
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  snow on it or doesn't have fog on
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  it, we can actually see where the heck
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  we're driving.
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  Actions become more effective when guided by a
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  clear, prioritized plan.
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  I just told you that when your windshield's
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  foggy, you shouldn't attempt to drive, right?
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  You have a clear vision, or if you're
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  wearing eyeglasses, even I wear sunglasses, if your
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  glasses are cloudy, suddenly things are not sharp,
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  and you're missing details, not just small details,
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  but big details.
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  Awareness improves timing.
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  Recognizing the right moment to act increases efficiency
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  and impact.
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  Clear thinking increases your efficiency, just like a
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  clear window increases your ability to drive properly.
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  Eliminating mental clutter lets you focus on the
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  tasks that truly matter, but sometimes our ego,
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  well, puts up these blocks, and it becomes
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  this tug-and-pull game, tug-of-war
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  with our one side of our mind and
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  the other side, right, because of the ego.
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  Insight, ladies and gentlemen, strengthens planning.
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  Understanding potential obstacles before they arise allows preemptive
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  action and smoother execution.
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  We've talked about preparing for emergencies, whether it's
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  the fire.
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  I use the fire a lot because that's
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  an important one, right?
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  So what you should have is you should
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  have an escape plan.
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  You should know at least two ways to
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  get out of your home or your building.
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  You should have the go-to plan of
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  what you're going to grab, your go-bag,
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  your emergency stuff, that's it, not everything else,
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  not the kitchen sink.
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  Where are you going to meet when this
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  happens?
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  How are you going to get out of
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  your home or your building?
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  Practice this.
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  Don't just say we're going to do this
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  in an emergency.
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  We'll actually practice it.
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  Yeah, that's just as good as like nothing.
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  So you want to practice this and get
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  comfortable so that going to that place, doing
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  these things, the stop, drop, and roll, it's
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  not something like, oh, let's try that the
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  first time.
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  No, no, no.
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  During a fire, it should not be about
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  being reactive.
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  It should be about being proactive.
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  There are certain things in a fire you're
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  going to be reactive to, and that's OK,
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  like fire and smoke.
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  But the rest of it, you should be
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  proactive and expect and know how to respond.
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  Honest awareness, guys, fuels growth.
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  Continuous self-evaluation ensures that learning compounds over
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  time, over time.
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  The key is it doesn't have to happen
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  overnight.
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  I said over time.
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  Clarity creates opportunities.
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  Clear priorities free up mental and physical energy
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  to seize what others miss.
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  And that's the difference between a successful person
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  and a non-successful person is that the
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  non-successful person is still looking at the
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  clouds.
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  They're still looking at the picture from, let's
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  say, weeks, days, months, or years ago.
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  They're not looking at the picture of the
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  situation with today's mindset.
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  Wake up to what matters, guys.
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  Awareness, honesty, insight, and clarity combined to produce
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  deliberate action that transforms your life.
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  This is your moment to move intentionally rather
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  than drift.
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  And I think when we hear about the
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  conversation of drift, we're like, oh, well, if
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  I drift, it's no big deal.
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  I can just get back on track.
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  Yes, you can.
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  But every time you fall off or you
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  drift, you have to recalibrate again.
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  I'm going to use this to analogy that
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  is very clear to me and hopefully to
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  you.
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  I started competitive sailing when I was not
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  even, like, seven.
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  I learned how to sail when I was,
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  like, four or five.
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  And the thing about it is that if
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  you are in a race, competitive racing on
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  B-Cats and Sunfish, which is what I
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  learned on, if you understand that maybe you've
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  drifted from the position of the wind, a
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  choice that you made.
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  And let me just give you a couple
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  examples.
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  Now, forget the race for a moment.
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  But let's say if you drift one side.
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  If you drift one side, it might be
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  hard for you to get back because now
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  you're not going to just let the sail
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  out halfway beyond a reach or all the
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  way beyond a run.
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  You might not have to tack back because
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  the other position is actually almost in the
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  wind.
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  And if you go in the wind, you'll
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  be in irons.
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  So we've got to be proactive.
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  So, yes, you can drift, but it might
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  take you two, three or four times longer
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  to get back.
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  If you're in a race, and let's say
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  I got off the wind, okay, and now
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  I can't round the buoy as close as
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  I want, I've got to be careful because
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  I might be too far away from the
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  buoy.
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  I'm going to lose time.
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  Or I might get too close to the
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  buoy, and if I hit the buoy, you
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  know what happens?
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  I've got to reroute it because that's how
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  I am, right?
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  You know I'm all about intentional things, right?
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  I'm about doing things that are intentional, integrity,
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  right?
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  But some people might say, you know what,
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  I don't need to do that.
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  I'm just going to do what I want
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  to do.
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  And then you're going to get some people
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  that aren't happy with you, and they're going
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  to tell you that you better reroute the
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  buoy or we're going to protest.
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  You're like, well, what's a protest?
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  I don't care.
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  Until you understand what protest means, protest means
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  you're basically going into like an informal hearing
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  where you've got one or two boat captains
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  and skippers basically filing a formal complaint against
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  you.
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  And the race committee has to decide, are
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  they legitimate?
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  Do they have proof?
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  And if you have even one, two, definitely
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  three, you're hands down.
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  When there's a protest, usually several people for
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  principle want to come and be like reporting
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  it.
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  And when the race committee sees this, they're
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  like, okay, this person is disqualified.
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  And then you're ahead of that boat.
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  So what can happen is by not rounding
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  the buoy, you either might be pushed one
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  or they might totally disqualify you from the
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  race.
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  So in the case of this goes, it
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  might be the sense that the other boats
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  are far away, so they might just disqualify.
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  So if you're in position, let's say, one,
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  and there was two and three, well, now
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  you're going to be in position, let's say,
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  you'll be in the third position if that's
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  the ones that you're rallying with.
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  So when we lose our position, when we
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  lose our spot and we drift, we could
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  drift a lot of ways.
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  It could be spiritually, it could be mentally,
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  it could be physically, even our exercises.
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  When we drift, the further and longer that
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  we drift, the harder and more challenging it
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  is to get back on track.
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  We may drift and lose time, we may
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  lose money, we lose other resources.
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  And these are the key things when we're
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  talking about wake up.
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  Wake up is the fact that, hey, the
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  world is moving and you're missing everything going
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  right by you.
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  It's right here, but you're not paying attention
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  to it, so it's just going right over
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  your head.
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  And I know that sounds hard to believe,
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  but people do this more than not than
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  you'd expect in life.
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  Somebody will say to you, well, I understand.
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  And now you've done these things and they
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  say they understand, but really they don't.
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  And now you start explaining something to them
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  and because they don't even understand the premise
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  of where you're coming from, now you've got
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  to restart all over again.
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  This can happen with vendors, this can happen
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  in other relationships.
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  It can happen in a lot of different
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  places.
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  It can happen with yourself.
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  I use the example of racing, of let's
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  say, you know, exercising, even staying healthy.
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  Once you drift, it is hard to get
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  back.
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  Not to say you can never get back,
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  but it becomes harder.
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  And if we think about wake up, right?
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  Wake up in the morning, like when you
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  get up or wake up from a nap,
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  your body comes back online.
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  The best way to explain this is if
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  you think of, let's say, technology.
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  And let's say when you power something down,
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  it goes offline.
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  When your body is sleeping, it kind of
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  goes offline except for certain functions like your
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  heart and things like that.
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  There are certain parts of your body that
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  always keep working.
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  But when the rest of your body comes
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  back online, you're now tuned into what's going
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  on.
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  There's a certain part of your body that
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  never really goes offline.
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  But when all of your senses come back
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  online and you're alert and awake, you can
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  be as precise to hear even the drop
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  of a pin.
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  And you might say, John, I can't.
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  Well, pretend right now for me, if you're
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  not driving, that you're sitting on the edge
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  of your favorite chair.
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  Now pretend for a moment that you are
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  the most fierce, ferocious lion.
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  You're quiet.
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  And you're listening for any sound in that
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  forest that you could gather prey on.
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  The sound so silent that you could hear
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  the drop of a pin.
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  I do this with a lot of my
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  students.
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  I tell people, if I can drop this
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  pin and you don't hear it, your attention
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  is not with me.
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  The subtle drop of a pin doesn't really
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  sound like a pin.
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  It sounds like a little light click.
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  And the first time I did it, I
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  was like, oh, there's no ting sound.
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  I just heard like a click.
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  And that was kind of interesting to me.
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  So waking up is our body using our
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  resources to connect to our environment externally and
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  internally.
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  We hear things, we see things, touch, taste,
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  and observe things.
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  We're even aware of the position of our
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  body.
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  If your eyes were closed, don't do this
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  if you're driving.
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  You could tell whether your hand is up
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  here or down there or your leg or
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  position.
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  Even if your eyes are not open.
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  So when we talk about seeing clearly, yes,
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  it's about waking up.
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  But not just in the sense what you
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  think of waking up from a nap.
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  It's about waking up your senses to their
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  heightened state.
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  So you could detect the drop of a
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  pin like a ferocious lion.
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  When we pretend that we are a ferocious
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  lion and we're sitting on the edge of
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  the chair like that, you could become so
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  intent.
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  And your hearing can get even better.
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  We can create that by causing that moment
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  of focus.
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  That is just so powerful, guys.
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  So the question I want to leave you
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  with today is, are you woken up?
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  When people talk, do you listen?
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  When things move around in the environment, do
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  you listen?
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  Do you pay attention?
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  Or are you like, I didn't hear that.
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  Can you say that again?
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  Or I'll wait to hear it again.
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  You may not get the chance to hear
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  that again.
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  Universe may only knock once.
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  Can you repeat that?
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  I can.
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  But 10,000 people already heard it.
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  And they're probably already going to get it.
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  So you're not even going to have a
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  chance.
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  That's why hearing things, experiencing things the first
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  time is key.
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  You might say, well, gee, who cares whether
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  I'm first or second in line.
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  That's not the issue here.
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  The issue is how many people are going
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  to get to that opportunity first.
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  Will it be you?
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  Or will you be saying, I think you
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  said this, or I think it was about
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  that.
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  But could you repeat it?
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  No, I can't.
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  Because it's already too late.
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  So I want you to wake up in
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  your life.
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  Not just from sleep, but wake up your
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  potential.
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  Wake up to your dreams, to your reality.
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  Wake up to the change that you can
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  make.
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  Wake up to what you're telling your mind.
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  That's important, guys.
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  Remember, everyone, clarity is the foundation of progress.
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  Remember that.
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  Each day, take a moment to simply pause.
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  That's right.
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  Just pause.
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  Reflect.
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  And intentionally choose to realign your actions and
• 25:58
  your core values with the goals and aspirations
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  that you have in your life.
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  Small conscious choices compound into unstoppable momentum.
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  So don't think because this is not a
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  grand thing I'm doing, it's going to have
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  no effect.
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  In fact, it probably will have a big
• 26:18
  impact.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you
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  guys know this, but your choices affect your
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  environment and they affect your perception.
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  A lot of times people's perception is diminished
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  because of what someone else says.
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  Don't allow other people to shut off or
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  diminish your perception.
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  Don't do that.
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  Because once they do and they build that
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  habit into you, you're never going to be
• 26:57
  acute and aware to those things.
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  And that's the difference between success and waiting
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  for it.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
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  Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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  It's always a privilege, pleasure and honor to
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  be with you here.
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  You can catch the latest episode of Inspirations
• 27:13
  for Your Life at BelieveMeAchieve.com.
• 27:17
  The episodes drop, as you know, every single
• 27:20
  day.
• 27:20
  We have these on every day.
• 27:22
  And I want you to watch them and
• 27:23
  listen to them, whatever you choose, and take
• 27:26
  actionable steps from the lessons to elevate the
• 27:30
  clarity in your life.
• 27:32
  Focus, resilience and personal power is the key
• 27:36
  to success.
• 27:38
  Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen, to stop
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  sitting on the bench and becoming a real
• 27:44
  player in life?
• 27:47
  Or do you just want to hope you
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  get the message?
• 27:51
  Because hopers don't become successful.
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  Have a great one, everyone.
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  I'll catch you real soon.
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  Take care.