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Making Effective Action Automatic · The No Cry Zone

• 0:46
  SPEAKER_04: Step on into the no-cry zone for a sharper take on life.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_04: I'm Jim Best.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_04: You might already be aware, but I feel better telling you as one of our no-cry zone insiders.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_04: Brazen Kandor just recently announced, due to the success of their most recent album, Wait What, that they are working on their next songs for an album tentatively titled Naked But Bold.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_04: Our intro song today is one of the songs slated for that new album.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's called Threadbear.
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  SPEAKER_04: And here's where we need you to play a part.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_04: They want to hear from you.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_04: Do you like the song?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_04: Would you like to see Threadbear on the new album?
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  SPEAKER_04: Please tell us what you think with a quick email to media at upwardsbest dot com.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_04: Now today in the no cry zone, I'm going to show you how to make effective action automatic.
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  SPEAKER_04: In part one, stop waiting or hoping to feel like taking action.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_04: You do know that you must take effective action consistently to attain your better life.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_04: You know it, I know it, everybody nods their head when they hear or read it.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then most people do nothing.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_04: Simply knowing it doesn't necessarily get you off the couch, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't write the proposal, start the conversation, or finish the project, does it?
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  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes the gap between knowing and doing is where a better life gets stalled.
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  SPEAKER_04: And sometimes, unfortunately, sadly, it gets parked.
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  SPEAKER_04: Today we're going to talk about closing that gap.
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  SPEAKER_04: How do you make effective action automatic?
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  SPEAKER_04: Not every decision is going to be automatic.
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  SPEAKER_04: You still need judgment, but the habit of getting yourself into useful action without requiring a fresh motivational speech every time.
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  SPEAKER_04: Think how powerful that will be in your life.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because if you have to talk yourself into every worthwhile thing you do, you're giving yourself an awful lot of opportunities to talk yourself out of it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now this is an important starting point.
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  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't have to be heavy.
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  SPEAKER_04: But it is necessary.
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  SPEAKER_04: Let's begin with your self-image.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because if I told you you could change your life without addressing your self-image, I doubt that you would believe me.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now, when you describe yourself, do you describe someone who acts, who takes effective action, who makes things happen?
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  SPEAKER_04: Or are you someone who has ideas?
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  SPEAKER_04: Someone who wants things, someone who could do quite a bit if the circumstances were a little more cooperative.
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  SPEAKER_04: There's a big difference, isn't there?
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  SPEAKER_04: Now, most people will say I take action, but think about it.
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  SPEAKER_04: How many people do you know in your life that actually are action-oriented?
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  SPEAKER_04: That actually have a bias for action, not many.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I think we all have a tendency to overestimate our willingness, ability, readiness to take action.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now, for self-image, I'm someone who follows through is a useful identity, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_04: But you have to give yourself something real to base it on.
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  SPEAKER_04: Start with a promise you can keep today.
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  SPEAKER_04: Make the call you've been postponing.
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  SPEAKER_04: Put the first paragraph on the page.
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  SPEAKER_04: Complete one useful step.
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  SPEAKER_04: It can be smaller, it can be gigantic.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's your choice.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's a beauty of free will.
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  SPEAKER_04: Complete one useful step before opening the endless parade of distractions that are gonna come your way.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes we create them them ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_04: Once you take that step, acknowledge, celebrate what you did.
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  SPEAKER_04: Not, well, that was hardly anything, or I've got a long way to go.
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  SPEAKER_04: Say that is what following through looks like.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's what it feels like.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's what it feels like to be action-oriented.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's what it feels like to have a bias for action.
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  SPEAKER_04: You're collecting evidence about yourself.
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  SPEAKER_04: Positivence.
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  SPEAKER_04: Give yourself accurate credit for it.
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  SPEAKER_04: And when you miss, which might happen, not necessarily.
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  SPEAKER_04: But don't turn a missed action into a permanent identity.
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  SPEAKER_04: I didn't follow through yesterday, described an event.
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  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't describe you.
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  SPEAKER_04: I never followed through hands that event control over your future.
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  SPEAKER_04: You surrender your self-image to inaccurate exaggeration.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now make the next useful move count.
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  SPEAKER_04: Make it and count it too.
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  SPEAKER_04: Second, line up your actions before you feel like doing them.
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  SPEAKER_04: This is an exercise we had recently in the no-cry zone, where we just brainstormed all the things possible that we could do to have a better life.
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  SPEAKER_04: Write them down, make a list, store them up for when you're ready.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then you know what?
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  SPEAKER_04: Become an expert at getting ready.
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  SPEAKER_04: If tomorrow morning begins with what should I do today, you've left yourself a lot of room for wandering.
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  SPEAKER_04: Too much room.
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  SPEAKER_04: Try ending today.
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  SPEAKER_04: In fact, don't try, just do this.
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  SPEAKER_04: End today with a decision about tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_04: Remember, give your action-oriented self something to do.
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  SPEAKER_04: You like to keep busy.
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  SPEAKER_04: What will you do?
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  SPEAKER_04: When you will you begin?
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  SPEAKER_04: What do you need to be ready?
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  SPEAKER_04: I'll work on my book as a wish with a folder attached.
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  SPEAKER_04: After breakfast, I'll open chapter three and work on the opening for 20 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_04: Gives you an entrance, gives you a starting point.
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  SPEAKER_04: Remember, even the fastest thoroughbred horse has to line up to race.
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  SPEAKER_04: Once you decide what you're going to do, you have a time, you have a place to start.
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  SPEAKER_04: You have a manageable commitment to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_04: Leave the document open, put the materials where you use them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Write the name and number of the person you need to call.
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  SPEAKER_04: Line it up for success.
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  SPEAKER_04: Make it easy.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then make a backup plan.
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  SPEAKER_04: Maybe everything doesn't go exactly as you anticipated, but you still, the person of action with a bias for action, you need to get things accomplished.
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  SPEAKER_04: If the morning gets interrupted, when will you pick it up?
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  SPEAKER_04: When will you start again?
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  SPEAKER_04: If you can't do the full session, what smaller action still serves a purpose for you?
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  SPEAKER_04: You don't need to decide whether your life begins better every morning.
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  SPEAKER_04: Decide on an action you're going to take that keeps you moving on the direction.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now arrange something that supports the decision you have made.
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  SPEAKER_04: Third, create momentum.
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  SPEAKER_04: We talk a lot about this because it is the easiest way to keep moving in the direction of your better life.
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  SPEAKER_04: Momentum in your life doesn't require something enormous to happen first.
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  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't need somebody else's approval.
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  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't need somebody else's acknowledgement.
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  SPEAKER_04: You don't need motivation.
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  SPEAKER_04: Remember, the perpetual momentum engine is mindset.
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  SPEAKER_04: I can create my own momentum.
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  SPEAKER_04: Focus.
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  SPEAKER_04: I know what I want to do with this momentum.
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  SPEAKER_04: Effective action.
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  SPEAKER_04: Somebody has to get things started.
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  SPEAKER_04: It may as well be you.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then allow yourself to form the supportive habits.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then you establish the net positive lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can create your own momentum by taking effective action.
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  SPEAKER_04: Notice that word.
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  SPEAKER_04: Effective.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can spend an afternoon rearranging your workspace and feel very active.
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  SPEAKER_04: But if the thing you needed was to write a proposal, did you actually start the proposal?
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  SPEAKER_04: Activity deserves a question.
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  SPEAKER_04: What is this accomplishing?
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  SPEAKER_04: Or even more directly, is this moving me towards my better life?
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  SPEAKER_04: And choose an action that changes something relevant that makes a difference.
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  SPEAKER_04: Send the question, draft the offer, practice the skill, make the phone call, find the missing information that will let you make a confident decision.
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  SPEAKER_04: A useful first action gives you something to work with.
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  SPEAKER_04: It puts a stake in the ground.
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  SPEAKER_04: It gives you a response, a draft, a result, a clearer understanding that asks, what does this make possible next?
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  SPEAKER_04: And what is my next best move?
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  SPEAKER_04: That's how you keep your perpetual momentum engine turning.
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  SPEAKER_04: My personal momentum engine begins again with mindset.
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  SPEAKER_04: I can create my own momentum, then focus.
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  SPEAKER_04: Where do I want it to take me?
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  SPEAKER_04: Then the effective actions that you've already written down and have ready for you.
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  SPEAKER_04: What will actually help?
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  SPEAKER_04: Then those supportive habits.
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  SPEAKER_04: How do I make that action easier to repeat so that it feels natural, so that it feels fun, so that it feels satisfying?
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  SPEAKER_04: And the purpose is a net positive life.
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  SPEAKER_04: One useful action doesn't finish that process.
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  SPEAKER_04: It gets you moving in your chosen direction.
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  SPEAKER_04: Fourth step: vivid mental rehearsal, not affirmations, not just visualization, but vivid mental rehearsal.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't just picture the finished product, the applause, or the happy ending.
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  SPEAKER_04: Picture yourself doing the work.
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  SPEAKER_04: Feel yourself having completed it successfully.
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  SPEAKER_04: Imagine sitting down at the desk, opening the file, seeing the sentence that needs fixing, and then the satisfied look you will have when the project is completed and gets the results you have decided are relevant and meaningful and significant for you.
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  SPEAKER_04: Imagine the moment when you want to check your phone.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then rehearse what you'll do.
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  SPEAKER_04: Leave the phone alone and finish the paragraph.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you need to have a difficult conversation, rehearse your opening.
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  SPEAKER_04: Hear yourself speaking clearly.
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  SPEAKER_04: Imagine the other person disagreeing and yourself staying composed enough to listen and respond effectively.
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  SPEAKER_04: Give your rehearsal some detail.
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  SPEAKER_04: Where are you?
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  SPEAKER_04: Where is it taking place?
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  SPEAKER_04: What do you see?
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  SPEAKER_04: What words will you use?
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  SPEAKER_04: What distraction might appear?
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  SPEAKER_04: How will you handle it?
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  SPEAKER_04: I will tell you that when I originally began facilitating meetings as a manager, I would literally write some things down and have to read them during the meeting just because it was important and I knew that I wasn't particularly good yet at carrying a point and making my message clear.
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  SPEAKER_04: I became better at it, thankfully, but it was through the vivid mental rehearsal.
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  SPEAKER_04: So go through that, become excellent at the vivid mental rehearsal, and then take the actual step.
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  SPEAKER_04: Rehearsal should lead you toward the work.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you spent an hour imagining a five-minute phone call, it's time to make the call, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_04: So here is your assignment before part two.
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  SPEAKER_04: Choose one effective action you've been postponing.
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  SPEAKER_04: You don't have to take the most difficult one, although you can if you want to.
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  SPEAKER_04: But choose one.
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  SPEAKER_04: Describe it clearly.
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  SPEAKER_04: Line it up, rehearse the beginning, including the point where you might resist.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then do it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sounds simple, I know.
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  SPEAKER_04: Simple, but not easy.
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  SPEAKER_04: Billions of people never come close to achieving their dreams.
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  SPEAKER_04: Break away from that group.
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  SPEAKER_04: They may be wonderful people, but that's not what you signed up for.
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  SPEAKER_04: And in your heart of hearts, you know that, and you will never be happy if you settle for less.
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  SPEAKER_04: Give yourself a piece of evidence that you are someone who acts, someone who takes effective action, someone who has a bias for good results.
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  SPEAKER_04: In part two, we'll look at the cost of failing to act, the useful moves that carry little risk, and the situations where something simply must be done.
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  SPEAKER_04: Meanwhile, here is Brazen Kandor.
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  SPEAKER_04: Remember, cast your vote, give your opinion, let me hear your voice.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_04: Media at upwardsbest.com.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_04: Do you like the song Threadbear?
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  SPEAKER_04: Should it belong on Raisin Kandor's next album?
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  SPEAKER_04: Join me for the next part two.
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  SPEAKER_03: It feels like the world might have been happy because the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: Meanwhile, I'm feeling thread.
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  SPEAKER_04: Welcome back.
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  SPEAKER_04: We are making effective action automatic in the no-cry zone today.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now let's consider a mindset that can change the way you look at delay or reluctance.
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  SPEAKER_04: There is nothing worse than failing to take action.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's a forceful statement.
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  SPEAKER_04: Here's where I want you to apply it.
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  SPEAKER_04: When you know something important needs attention, and continuing to avoid it is making the situation worse or just wasting time.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because we often give action a very thorough inspection.
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  SPEAKER_04: What if it doesn't work?
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  SPEAKER_04: What if someone objects?
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  SPEAKER_04: What if I get turned down?
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  SPEAKER_04: Meanwhile, doing nothing slips through without much scrutiny.
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  SPEAKER_04: What if you keep postponing the conversation?
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  SPEAKER_04: What if you never asked a question?
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  SPEAKER_04: What if another month passes and the opportunity closes?
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  SPEAKER_04: Inaction can have consequences even when it feels comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_04: You may not experience a dramatic failure.
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  SPEAKER_04: You may simply keep living with a problem that could have been addressed, living with an opportun without an opportunity that could have been explored, and frankly, just settling for a life that you're not really truly happy with.
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  SPEAKER_04: Of course, effective action sometimes means waiting deliberately, recovering, gathering more effective information, or deciding against a bad idea.
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  SPEAKER_04: The question is whether your choice serves the situation.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm waiting until Friday because I need the figures is a decision with a reason and a date.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'll get around to it can go on indefinitely.
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  SPEAKER_04: So ask yourself, what is failing to act costing me?
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  SPEAKER_04: What is my reluctance costing me?
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  SPEAKER_04: Time?
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  SPEAKER_04: Confidence?
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  SPEAKER_04: An unresolved obligation?
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  SPEAKER_04: A missed opportunity?
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  SPEAKER_04: A chance to learn?
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  SPEAKER_04: Someone else's trust?
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  SPEAKER_04: And what could an effective action begin to improve?
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  SPEAKER_04: Give both sides a fair hearing, but don't let the hearing last forever.
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  SPEAKER_04: The sixth way to make action easier is to identify moves that carry no meaningful risk or very little risk.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you look for these, you will become very effective at finding them.
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  SPEAKER_04: You don't have to make the whole commitment to make a useful move.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can ask for information before making a purchase.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can draft the message before sending it.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can practice your presentation before delivering it.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can investigate an opportunity before giving up the position you have.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can test an idea on a small scale before committing substantial time or money to it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes we picture only the biggest possible action and then use its risks to justify taking no action at all.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_04: Make the action smaller without making it pointless.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_04: Remember, Michelangelo didn't paint the whole Sistine Chapel at one moment.
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  SPEAKER_04: He started probably in a little small corner and worked his way up to the full ceiling.
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  SPEAKER_04: What can you do that improves your position and leaves your options open?
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  SPEAKER_04: And be honest about the risk.
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  SPEAKER_04: A question can revive reveal private information.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_04: A trial can cost money.
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  SPEAKER_04: A conversation can affect a relationship.
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  SPEAKER_04: Low risk still calls for judgment, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER_04: But it can give you a sensible place to begin.
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  SPEAKER_04: Suppose you're considering a new line of work.
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  SPEAKER_04: You don't need to announce a new career by lunchtime.
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  SPEAKER_04: You might identify three people who understand the field and arrange one conversation with one of them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Suppose you want to finish a creative project.
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  SPEAKER_04: You don't need to solve the publishing, marketing, and distribution questions before you write the next page.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_04: Suppose there's tension with someone you care about.
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  SPEAKER_04: You may be able to begin with there's something I'd like us to understand better.
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  SPEAKER_04: When would be a good time to talk?
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  SPEAKER_04: A small move can produce useful information.
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  SPEAKER_04: Useful information can make your next move much more clear.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now you have somewhere to go.
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  SPEAKER_04: Seventh.
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  SPEAKER_04: Identify the situations where something must be done.
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  SPEAKER_04: There are moments when do I feel like it is no useful no longer a useful question?
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_04: You made a commitment and a deadline is approaching.
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  SPEAKER_04: Someone is relying on you, a problem is getting worse.
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  SPEAKER_04: Something must be done.
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  SPEAKER_04: You still have choices about how to respond, but avoiding the response doesn't remove the obligation.
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  SPEAKER_04: Think about an important bill that is due.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you can pay it, pay it.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you can't, find out what arrangements are possible.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ignoring it does not improve your position, does it?
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  SPEAKER_04: What about a commitment?
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  SPEAKER_04: You can no longer meet.
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  SPEAKER_04: You may need to renegotiate it.
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  SPEAKER_04: You may need to tell someone promptly.
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  SPEAKER_04: Silence leaves them planning around a promise you already know you can't keep that to wrecks relationships, frankly.
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  SPEAKER_04: The action may be uncomfortable, the delay may be considerably more costly and even more uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now, here's a useful phrase.
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  SPEAKER_04: Something must be done, and this is what I will do next.
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  SPEAKER_04: That gives urgency a direction.
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  SPEAKER_04: And a sense of urgency is ninety percent of the time a positive element.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because urgency by itself can turn into worry.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can spend the whole afternoon thinking about how badly something needs doing.
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  SPEAKER_04: But a sense of urgency gets you moving.
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  SPEAKER_04: Identify the response.
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  SPEAKER_04: What must be addressed?
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  SPEAKER_04: By what time?
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  SPEAKER_04: What is the next effective action?
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  SPEAKER_04: When will you take it?
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  SPEAKER_04: Put those answers somewhere, you'll see them and remember them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then follow through.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now let's bring the seven pieces together.
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  SPEAKER_04: See yourself as someone who acts and build evidence for that self-image.
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  SPEAKER_04: Line up useful actions before you feel like doing them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Create momentum with actions that accomplish something relevant.
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  SPEAKER_04: Rehearse the work vividly, including how you will respond to resistance.
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  SPEAKER_04: And remember that resistance may be from you.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_04: Recognize the cost of failing to act when action is needed.
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  SPEAKER_04: Find useful moves with little risk and identify the situations where something must be done.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can begin using all seven with one situation today.
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  SPEAKER_04: Put it into practice.
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  SPEAKER_04: Finish this sentence.
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  SPEAKER_04: The effective action I have been postponing is blank.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then this one.
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  SPEAKER_04: And finally, I will do it at such and such time.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_04: Make a commitment to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_04: The goal is to make effective action your usual response to something that deserves your attention.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_04: You'll still have moods, you'll still have reluctance, you'll still encounter uncertainty.
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  SPEAKER_04: Some days will be more difficult than others, but you can have a next move ready.
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  SPEAKER_04: A good move, an effective move.
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  SPEAKER_04: You can know why it matters, and you can become someone who follows through even when the feeling hasn't arrived yet.
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  SPEAKER_04: Your better life needs that person.
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  SPEAKER_04: And you can be that person today, tomorrow, and the rest of your better, phenomenal life.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_04: I'm Jim Best.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_04: This is the no-cry zone for a sharper take on life.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_04: Remember, aspire, thrive forward, come upwards with us.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_04: Grab yourself a marvelous week on your way out.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_04: They are your reward for being a person of effective action.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_04: Join me next week.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_04: And thank you.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_04: Your thoughts are threadbare, worn and spent.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_03: You are weary worn and bent.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_03: Please don't think that I don't care, but I am also threadbare.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_03: It feels like the world has been almost like a life, fair distance, things we plan, things we do instead.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_02: Between the two might be comfortable, or simply just the calm before the storm.