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SOUL SURGERY – Heal Your Mind, Transform Your Life · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: In this issue, you'll discover how a little creative thinking
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  Speaker 1: can lead to big rewards, and then you'll hear why
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  Speaker 1: it's important to embrace new ideas, to experience failure and
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  Speaker 1: reshape attitudes.
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  Speaker 2: Failure is a gold mine.
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  Speaker 3: Successful people have it.
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  Speaker 2: One time or another experienced catastrophic failure. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who have rolled up his sleeves and gone to work
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  Speaker 2: on a project in which they earnestly believed, only to
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  Speaker 2: discover themselves ridiculous and embarrassing failures in spite of all
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  Speaker 2: their plans and work. As a result, these people had
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  Speaker 2: to sit down and perform ruthless surgery upon their souls
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  Speaker 2: to examine themselves and the cause.
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  Speaker 3: Of their failure. The person who settles in for a.
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  Speaker 2: Lifetime of doing an average job in an average way
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  Speaker 2: experiences neither success nor failure, but rather a lifetime of
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  Speaker 2: middle level performance. The single element permanently inhibiting his success
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  Speaker 2: is not a lack of inspiration or talent necessarily, but
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  Speaker 2: the absence of catastrophic failure and the soul surgery that
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  Speaker 2: follows it. The element lacking is shock therapy failure, the
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  Speaker 2: bucket of ice cold water that forces him to take
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  Speaker 2: inventory reorganize, re educate himself, and realize that a large
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  Speaker 2: success in any field takes large effort and unflagging persistence
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  Speaker 2: and dedication. Don't let a big failure or a series
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  Speaker 2: of little ones keep you from trying again. William Blake wrote,
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  Speaker 2: if the sun and the moon should doubt, they'd immediately
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  Speaker 2: go out. Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in
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  Speaker 2: an imperfect world. We set a goal of perfection before ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: and groaning, we conclude that it cannot be achieved.
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  Speaker 3: The best way is to forget doubts and set about
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  Speaker 3: the task at hand. While the battle is being fought or.
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  Speaker 2: The cake is baking in the oven, leave the outcome
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  Speaker 2: to the future where it belongs. Failure is the best
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  Speaker 2: guarantee of future success.
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  Speaker 3: To fail, we have to try to do something.
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  Speaker 2: This in itself is an achievement, regardless of the outcome,
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  Speaker 2: So try again and build your success upon the failures
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  Speaker 2: of the past. Go after that dream in your heart,
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  Speaker 2: give it everything you've got, and don't concern yourself about
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  Speaker 2: the outcome. Leave that to the future where it belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Concentrate only on your goal and on doing your best.
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  Speaker 2: Worthy tranps cannot be won without faith enough to maintain
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  Speaker 2: our integrity.
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  Speaker 4: A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
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  Speaker 4: Everything comes if a man will only wait. I have
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  Speaker 4: brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a
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  Speaker 4: human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and
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  Speaker 4: that nothing can resist a will that will stake even
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  Speaker 4: existence for its fulfillment. If you only care enough for
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  Speaker 4: a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you
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  Speaker 4: must then really wish these things, and wish them exclusively,
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  Speaker 4: and not wish at the same time a hundred other
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  Speaker 4: incompatible things.
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  Speaker 3: Just as strongly.
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  Speaker 4: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good
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  Speaker 4: we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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  Speaker 2: More than anything else, a person's manners tell the world
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  Speaker 2: who and what he is. To be well mannered is
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  Speaker 2: to do the thing you should do, although you're not
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  Speaker 2: obliged to do it. In our day to day lives.
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  Speaker 2: Manners are of more importance than laws. That is, the
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  Speaker 2: law touches us only here and there and now and then,
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  Speaker 2: but manners vex or pleas us, debase or exalt us constantly.
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  Speaker 2: We do not know a man until we know how
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  Speaker 2: he spends his leisure. It is when a man ceases
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  Speaker 2: to do the things he has to do and does
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  Speaker 2: the things he likes to do that the character is revealed.
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  Speaker 2: It is then we see the inner man, his real self.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that's always bothered me is how a human
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  Speaker 2: being can live for thirty or forty or fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: And find no interest, no charm, and excitement in the world.
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  Speaker 2: If someone should steal ten dollars from us, it might
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  Speaker 2: take us days to get over it. Yet how much
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  Speaker 2: priceless time do we steal from ourselves. Someone has calculated
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  Speaker 2: that the average person is given about a half million hours,
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  Speaker 2: give or take one hundred thousand or so, and it's
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  Speaker 2: up to each of us to determine what his time
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  Speaker 2: on earth is worth in whatever values he feels.
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  Speaker 3: Are important to him.
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  Speaker 2: But if we don't get what we want out of
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  Speaker 2: this life, it's seldom because we're not given enough time
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  Speaker 2: for it. We have more than enough time, As with
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  Speaker 2: most everything else, it's what we choose to do with
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  Speaker 2: it that makes all the difference. Each of us has
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  Speaker 2: a tendency to underestimate his own abilities. We should realize
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  Speaker 2: that we have deep within ourselves in preserve bore of
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  Speaker 2: genius that can be tapped if we'll just dig deeply enough.
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  Speaker 2: In order to spot and seize an opportunity, or even
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  Speaker 2: to recognize an opportunity, we have to know where we're going,
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  Speaker 2: what it is we want to do and accomplish. It's
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  Speaker 2: always been the tendency of the human being to mistake
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  Speaker 2: the obvious for the truth, to see only the surface
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  Speaker 2: entirely that which lies below. It seems with us in
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  Speaker 2: our age, we're concerned more with what a person or
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  Speaker 2: a thing looks like than with what is underneath. Ours
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  Speaker 2: seems to be an age of use and beauty, of
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  Speaker 2: bright teeth, clear eyes, abundant health, so that we can run,
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  Speaker 2: not walk, to those events calculated to distract us. And
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  Speaker 2: this superficial attitude is as absurd as that of the ancients,
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  Speaker 2: which held that the sun traveled around the earth because
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  Speaker 2: that's what it appeared to do. That which is good
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  Speaker 2: or even great is always hidden from our view. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: causes anything in creation to be what it is is
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  Speaker 2: that which we cannot see by looking at it. There
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  Speaker 2: is just as much for him or her as there
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  Speaker 2: is for anyone else. It's a matter of building upon
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  Speaker 2: our strengths instead of decrying and wailing and gnashing our
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  Speaker 2: teeth over our weaknesses. When we start thinking in new directions,
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  Speaker 2: which is the definition of genius, we tend to challenge
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  Speaker 2: everything we presently take for granted and throw out the
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  Speaker 2: window for a while all of our comfortable knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: how things are or how they should be.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: This is the sort of information that we need to
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  Speaker 2: remind our children of it, ourselves, but particularly our children,
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  Speaker 2: so that they don't happen to look like the picture
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  Speaker 2: on the package of baby food or the ads of
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  Speaker 2: the magazines and on television.
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  Speaker 3: They won't be scarred by unthinking. Children are adults.
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  Speaker 2: Whose frame of reference is the common, the superficial.
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  Speaker 1: They are all kinds of people in this world. Those
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  Speaker 1: who are content to lead go nowhere lives, and those
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  Speaker 1: who make the most of every opportunity they find. These
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  Speaker 1: are the people who transform even their handicaps into assets
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  Speaker 1: and add meaning to their lives. In short, they program
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  Speaker 1: themselves for achievement. You too, can design your life by
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  Speaker 1: the goals you set for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing commonplace in the world except the mental attitude
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  Speaker 2: of man. Her attitudes are the result of choice. Each
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  Speaker 2: of us chooses his or her attitude a human being
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  Speaker 2: can grow accustomed to and take for granted the most
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  Speaker 2: wonderful and astonishing things, not just the miraculous world about him,
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  Speaker 2: but his work as well, and the people with whom
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  Speaker 2: he works, and the people with whom he lives. After
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  Speaker 2: a while, the glow, the radiance seems to fade, even
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  Speaker 2: from the most wonderful and delightful.
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  Speaker 3: Aspects of life. And that's too bad it should ever happen.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Aurelia is, a brilliant, thoughtful emperor of Rome about
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  Speaker 2: two thousand years ago, said every man is worth just
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  Speaker 2: so much as the things are worth about which he
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  Speaker 2: busies himself. Every man is worth just so much as
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  Speaker 2: the things are worth about which he busies himself.
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  Speaker 3: And that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: And once in a while, it's good to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at what we're doing and what we're noticing. What
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  Speaker 2: catches and holds our interest? Are we conscious of a
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  Speaker 2: miracle that consists of our living here on this small
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  Speaker 2: blue planet? Do we find awe an inspiration from the
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  Speaker 2: mystery that surrounds us during our personal holiday on earth?
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  Speaker 2: If we think about it, the sameness of our lives
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  Speaker 2: will vanish, The ordinary will be a thing of the past,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll begin to notice and enjoy life again and
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  Speaker 2: all that it entails. We won't take people for granted anymore,
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  Speaker 2: or our work or our lives. Before we turn loose
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  Speaker 2: of anything to which we've set our hand in mind,
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  Speaker 2: we should ask ourselves, is this up to my standards
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  Speaker 2: of quality? And because quality of any sort is a
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  Speaker 2: journey more than a destination, we should also ask ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: how can I.
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  Speaker 3: Improve on the quality of what I do?
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  Speaker 2: Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it,
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  Speaker 2: and a man becomes great because he has the proper
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  Speaker 2: stuff in him. I think that the most fortunate adults
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  Speaker 2: are those who are living well today but who knew
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  Speaker 2: a deprived childhood. It's also true I think that the
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  Speaker 2: most creative people are those who had a rough time
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  Speaker 2: as kids. Children raised in poverty, or if not poverty,
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  Speaker 2: at least on the wrong side of the tracks, must
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  Speaker 2: fall back on their imagination for enjoyment. Their lives are
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  Speaker 2: filled with day dreams. Their imaginations become wonderfully active in
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  Speaker 2: an instant. Their Greek surroundings, convenation in the warm, sunny
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  Speaker 2: world of their minds, all sorts of wonderful things can
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  Speaker 2: happen to them under almost all conditions. There's a world
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  Speaker 2: to be enjoyed, but the most fortunate people seem to
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  Speaker 2: be those who knew a certain amount of privation. Success
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  Speaker 2: beyond anything we might now imagine, lies in wait for
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  Speaker 2: those who can put together enough courage to actually live
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  Speaker 2: for life.
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  Speaker 3: You know, most people live in two worlds.
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  Speaker 2: There's the real world, the world in which they work
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  Speaker 2: and move and live, and there's the world of the imagination,
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  Speaker 2: the world they would secretly like to live in.
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  Speaker 3: What keeps them from moving from the world.
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  Speaker 2: Of reality into the world of their imagination is habit
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  Speaker 2: and the fear of falling fat on their face, and
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  Speaker 2: the attempt and losing even the little which they presently am,
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  Speaker 2: and perhaps looking ridiculous in the eyes of their loved
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  Speaker 2: ones and friends. What we fail to realize is what
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  Speaker 2: Threaux discovered, that if one advances confidently in the direction
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  Speaker 2: of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which
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  Speaker 2: he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected
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  Speaker 2: in common hours. Life pays off most handsomely when we're
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  Speaker 2: doing that which we most want to do, When we're
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  Speaker 2: actually living the life we have imagined for so long,
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  Speaker 2: it does mean that we should live the life that
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  Speaker 2: we know deep down in our very being and we
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  Speaker 2: would most like to live. It means that we should
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  Speaker 2: be doing that which every indicator of our makeup, every
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  Speaker 2: fiber of our being, tells us we should be doing,
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  Speaker 2: and has been telling us for some time. What an
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  Speaker 2: idea tugs at us day after day, year after year,
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  Speaker 2: when we think about it as we lie awake in bed,
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  Speaker 2: or the first thing when we wake up, or every
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  Speaker 2: time there's a lull in our days. When it worries
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  Speaker 2: our consciousness like a puppy with a slipper, then it's
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  Speaker 2: time to do something about it. And even though making
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  Speaker 2: the move might seem to jeopardize everything of order in
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  Speaker 2: our lives. One of the ultimate tests of faith is
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  Speaker 2: our capacity to go on believing that somehow the right
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  Speaker 2: is the right, even when right is on the scaffold
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  Speaker 2: and wrong seems.
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  Speaker 3: To be on the throne.
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  Speaker 2: All the great ventures of our lives require faith enough
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  Speaker 2: to bear the burden of our doubts so that we're
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  Speaker 2: able to take the first step in the direction that
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  Speaker 2: we wish to go. Enough of faith to keep on
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  Speaker 2: going through struggle and strain, and maintain integrity on the way. Faith,
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  Speaker 2: as the ancient seer wrote, is the assurance of things
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  Speaker 2: hoped for the conviction of things not seen. And we
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  Speaker 2: need to exchange a life of doubt diversified by faith,
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  Speaker 2: or one of faith diversified by doubt. When a person
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know what Harbury's making for, no wind is the
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  Speaker 2: right wind. You have to know what you're shooting for
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  Speaker 2: to see the opportunity by which we're all surrounded. If
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  Speaker 2: a man is working toward a predetermined goal and knows
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  Speaker 2: where he's going, that man is a success. If he's
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  Speaker 2: not doing that, he's a faith The opposite of courage
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  Speaker 2: in our society is not cowardice. It is conformity.
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  Speaker 4: People acting like everyone else without knowing why, without knowing
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  Speaker 4: where they're going. These people believe that their lives are
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  Speaker 4: shaped by circumstances, by things that happen to them, by
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  Speaker 4: exterior forces. The only man who succeeds is the man
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  Speaker 4: who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. He's the man
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  Speaker 4: who says I'm going to become this and then begins
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  Speaker 4: to work toward that goal. And have you ever noticed
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  Speaker 4: that a man who becomes successful tends to continue to
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  Speaker 4: become successful. And on the other hand, have you noticed
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  Speaker 4: how a man who is a failure tends to continue
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  Speaker 4: to fail. It's because of goals. Some of us have them,
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  Speaker 4: some don't. People with goals succeed because they know where
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  Speaker 4: they're going. Now, it stands to reason that a person
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  Speaker 4: who's thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going
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  Speaker 4: to reach it because that's what he's thinking about, and
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  Speaker 4: we become what we think about. Conversely, the man who
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  Speaker 4: has no goal, who doesn't know where he is going,
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  Speaker 4: and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion and
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  Speaker 4: anxiety and fear and worry, becomes what he thinks about.
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  Speaker 4: His life becomes one of frustration, fear, anxiety, and worry.
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  Speaker 4: And if he thinks about nothing, he becomes nothing. Now
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  Speaker 4: think of a ship leaving a harbor, and think of
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  Speaker 4: it with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The
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  Speaker 4: captain and crew know exactly where it's going and how
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  Speaker 4: long it will take.
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  Speaker 3: It has a definite goal.
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  Speaker 4: Nine hundred and ninety nine times out of ten thousand,
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  Speaker 4: it will get to where it started out to get. Now,
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  Speaker 4: let's take another ship just like the first, only let's
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  Speaker 4: not put a crew on it or a captain of
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  Speaker 4: the helm. Let's give it no aiming point, no goal,
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  Speaker 4: no destination. Just start the engines and let it go.
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  Speaker 4: I think you'll agree with me that if it gets
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  Speaker 4: out of the harbor at all, it will either sink
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  Speaker 4: or wind up on some deserted beach at Drylan.
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  Speaker 3: It can't go.
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  Speaker 4: Any place because it has no destination and no guidance.
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  Speaker 4: It's the same with a human being. Why do men
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  Speaker 4: with goals succeed in life and men without them fail? Well,
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  Speaker 4: let me tell you something which, if you really understand it,
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  Speaker 4: will alter your life immediately. If you understand completely what
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you, from this moment on, your
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  Speaker 4: life will never be the same again. You'll suddenly find
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  Speaker 4: that good luck just seems to be attracted to you,
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  Speaker 4: The things you want just seem to fall in line,
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  Speaker 4: and from now on you won't have the problems, the worries,
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  Speaker 4: the gnawing lump of anxiety that perhaps you've experienced before, doubt, fear, well,
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  Speaker 4: they'll be things of the past. Is the key to
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  Speaker 4: success and the key to failure. We become what we
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  Speaker 4: think about
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  Speaker 2: H