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Fall Into Focus: Finish Strong in Q4 · R.E.A.L. Talk for REAL L.Y.F.E.

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  Welcome to Real Talk for Real Life, where we are realizing everyone is always
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  learning and living your full experience.
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  I'm your host, Coach C, and this is your Fearless Friday episode, Fall into Focus.
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  Real talkers, can you feel it? There's a fresh wind blowing.
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  And I mean that literally because fall is here.
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  The temperature is changing. The leaves are getting ready to change. The season is shifting.
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  But I need to know, are you?
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  Because we are walking into the final quarter of this year and I don't want
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  you looking at Q4 like the year is already over.
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  Baby, there is still time on the clock.
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  And anybody who knows anything about the game knows you don't stop playing because
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  you're in the fourth quarter. You lock in.
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  So this Fearless Friday, I need you to do something with me.
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  Fall into focus.
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  Some of us started this year with goals, plans, promises we made to ourselves.
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  This is going to be my year. I'm finally going to do it.
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  I'm going to start the business. I'm going to take care of me.
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  I'm going to get serious about my health.
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  I'm going to go back to school. I'm going to stop entertaining what drains me.
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  And somewhere between January and September, life started life-y.
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  Some things didn't happen when you thought they would.
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  Some plans changed. Some doors closed. Some distractions showed up, and maybe you changed.
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  But hear me, a rough beginning does not require a rough ending.
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  It has never only been about how you start.
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  It's about how you finish, and you still have a whole quarter left.
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  Listen, let it fall. Look at what happens in nature.
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  The tree doesn't spend fall chasing every leaf that drops. It releases what
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  has completed its season.
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  And some of us can't focus because we're still trying to hold on to everything.
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  Old disappointments, old habits, old relationships, old expectations,
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  old versions of ourselves, even fear.
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  But you cannot reach for what's next while using both hands to hold on to what's over.
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  So as we step into this new season, I'm challenging you. Let go of fear.
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  Not because fear will never show up.
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  Fear is a feeling, not a forecast. You don't have to wait until you're fearless to move.
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  Move with it. Move through it.
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  And move anyway. then live in favor walk like you understand that every closed door wasn't rejection
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  every delay wasn't denial every detour wasn't destruction sometimes what didn't
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  work was making room for what will
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  and finally allow it to fall anything that no longer serves the person you're becoming Let it fall.
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  The habit, the excuse, the distraction, the need for everybody to understand
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  you, the fear of starting again, because every leaf that falls creates space for another season.
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  Now lock in. Real talkers, we've got October, we've got November, we've got December.
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  That's enough time to change a habit, enough time to restart a goal,
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  enough time to finish something you abandoned, enough time to make one decision
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  that changes the trajectory of what's next.
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  Stop mourning January.
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  Use October. You don't need another New Year's resolution. You need focus.
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  And that's exactly where we're headed for season seven.
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  This October, we're falling into focus.
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  We're getting intentional about what deserves our energy.
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  We're deciding what comes with us and what gets left behind.
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  And we're finishing this year with purpose.
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  Here's your fearless homework. Before this weekend is over, I want you to write down three things.
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  One thing you're letting fall, that means something that no longer deserves your energy.
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  Second, one thing you're bringing back into focus, that goal,
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  promise, project, dream, or piece of you that got pushed to the side.
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  And finally, one thing you will finish before December 31st.
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  Not try to finish, not hope to finish, we'll finish.
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  Because Q4 isn't your permission to coast, it's your invitation to close.
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  Let go of fear, live in favor, let what no longer serves you fall.
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  And real talkers, fall into focus because the year ain't over and neither are you?
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  This is Real Talk for Real Life, and as always, we will decide, commit, succeed.
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  Keep learning. Keep living. This is Real Talk for Real Life,
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  where everyone is always learning, and you're living your full experience.
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  This is Coach C. I'll see you in the next one.