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Well, hello there, everyone.
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It's so great to be with you here
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on the Inspirations for Your Life show.
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It is Thursday.
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It is June 25th, 2026.
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And what does that mean?
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Well, first of all, it means we're on
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day six, but also means because it's a
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Thursday or a Sunday, it means we're going
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to do a community spotlight, which we'll do
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in just a moment.
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If you guys have been here before, I
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want to say thank you and welcome, but
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also welcome back.
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If this is your first time, well, welcome.
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It's great to have you here.
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So go check that out.
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I have myself a delicious aro water with
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some fresh lemon, and it is very tasty
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and healthy for you.
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So let's kick this show off.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Inspirations for Your
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Life.
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Our master topic is Protect Your Energy Like
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It Builds Your Future, Series 5, Show 26.
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The episode topic for today is Long-Term
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Thinking Wins Series 5, Show 26, Episode 6,
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Play the Long Game.
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And before we get the show officially kicked
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off, we're going to give a shout out
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to the Saucy Cup.
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Yes.
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So the Saucy Cup is actually a, they're
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a cafe.
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They're on 48 Mountain View Boulevard in Wayne,
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New Jersey.
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So we are reaching out to them for
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a couple of reasons.
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First of all, they have some different coffee
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specialties like a Corlato, Espresso, Americano, Cappuccino, Flat
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White, Cold Brew, Coffee Hot, Coffee Iced.
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They have some milk-based beverages, Espresso Latte,
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Matcha Latte, Milk Tea, Chai Latte, Hot Chocolate.
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And they got some signature lattes like Latte
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Biscotto, Dolce Baklava, Cinnamon Social Latte, a Caramel
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Miso Latte, Tiramisu Latte, Vanilla Bean Latte, Cinnamon
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Toast Crunch.
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They've also got some things like Strawberry Matcha,
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Vanilla Bean Matcha Latte, Banana Matcha, Maple and
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Sea Salt Matcha, Ube Matcha, Lavender Matcha, Brown
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Sugar Matcha.
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They've got syrups.
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They got cold foams.
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So they've also got Plain Croissants, Nutella Croissants,
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Almond Croissants.
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They have got Coconut Cream Croissants, Coffee Croissant
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Donuts, a Biscoff Cookie Butter Donut, Forged Cheese
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Quiche, Hash Brown Bread with Cheese.
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They've got some toasts like classic Avocado Toast,
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Mediterranean Toast, Banana Peanut Butter, Whipped Rigotta, Rise
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and Shine Wrap.
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They have a Breakfast Club Wrap.
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They also have some appetizers, Angela's Arancini, Two
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Large Meat and Peas or Cheese Rice Bowls
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served with your choice of sauce, and Maureen's
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Meatballs with Fresh Rigotta, tender Italian-style meatballs
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simmered in a rich tomato sauce topped with
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creamy fresh rigotta and sprinkled with, I guess,
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a hint of Parmesan.
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They have Caesar Salads, Mozzarella, and they have
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other stuff too.
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So it's not just a place you can
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go for just your coffee or your latte.
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So a big shout out to the Saucy
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Cup.
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Again, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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I'm reaching out to you today, Saucy Cup,
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to say thank you so much for being
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in business.
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And we're hoping that you would like to
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ask us to, yes, be at your location
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so you can host us for a free
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It is about 27 minutes after the show
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is over.
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Basically, it's 50 minutes before the show to
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prepare, 50 minutes after the show we break
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down.
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We're actually going to do a quick little
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author talk on my brand new book, Drained
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to Driven.
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We will do a Q&A, and then
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we'll do an author signing.
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We would love to do that.
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All right, guys, let's get back to the
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show, the reason we're here.
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All right, so it's about the long game,
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right?
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Welcome, everyone, to the ever-popular Inspirations for
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Your Life.
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I am John Seymourley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing
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specialist, video producer, podcast host, coach, keynote speaker,
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yes, graduate student, passionate lifelong learner, yes, at
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Montclair State University.
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I'm a graduate student, and I'm so grateful
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now to be a published author, yes.
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So today, I'm focusing on a mindset shift.
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What's that about?
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I'll let you know.
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It's something that separates temporary success from lasting
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success.
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Long-term thinking is the key to success,
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not the quick wins, okay?
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Not fast validation, but building something that actually,
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well, lasts.
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Yeah, try that for a change, right?
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Instead of just doing one thing that doesn't
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last, do something that lasts.
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The core message is most people optimize for
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speed, okay?
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But speed without direction, it leads to instability.
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It's kind of like doing anything without consistency
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and structure.
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It's just going to fall apart.
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Long-term thinking is different, guys.
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It prioritizes sustainability over excitement.
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It focuses on depth over immediacy.
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And it understands that real results require time,
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something a lot of people don't get.
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And then they get mad while things aren't
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working.
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So let's get into my 30 insights for
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today.
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So number one is short-term wins can
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undermine long-term success.
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What feels like progress today can create limitations
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tomorrow.
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And number two, long-term thinking requires discipline
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over urgency.
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You must choose patience instead of reaction.
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Number three, thinking beyond today creates stronger outcomes.
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Future focus improves present decisions.
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Number four, patience multiplies results over time.
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What grows slowly often grows stronger, right?
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Number five, fast money rarely creates lasting stability.
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Speed often removes structure.
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And we need structure and we need stability,
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right?
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We need structure.
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We need consistency.
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We don't need speed.
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Number six, sustainable systems always outperform quick wins,
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hands down.
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Longevity, longevity beats intensity every single time.
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Number seven, delayed gratification is a form of
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power.
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Control over impulses builds what?
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It builds strength.
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Yes, it builds strength, ladies and gentlemen.
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Number eight, stop chasing immediate validation.
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Don't do it.
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Short approval cycles weaken long-term focus.
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And I think that's something that a lot
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of people, well, they get misinformed about.
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And they think it's okay to go another
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way because the quicker way seems like the
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way to riches.
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Number nine, legacy is more important than likes.
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Impact outlasts attention.
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Number 10, skills matter more than trends.
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Trends fade, skills compound, just like the interest
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in our bank accounts.
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Number 11, thinking in years improves decision quality.
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Time perspective changes outcomes.
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Time perspective changes outcomes.
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Number 12, guys, most people overestimate short-term
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gain.
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They misjudge immediate impact.
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Number 13, most people underestimate long-term growth.
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Compounding is often invisible early.
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And that's hard for people.
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If they don't see something to change, then
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they're like, well, maybe I shouldn't do it
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because I'm not seeing anything happen.
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Number 14, consistency is the foundation of long
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-term success.
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Repetition builds momentum, guys.
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Number 15, time rewards disciplined behavior.
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Structure compounds quietly.
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Impulsive decisions, well, they just weaken future outcomes.
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Reaction reduces stability every single time.
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Number 17, planning before execution improves the results.
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Failing to plan is basically planning to fail.
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So why not plan to succeed?
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Clarity must come first.
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Number 18, guys, stability creates stronger progress than
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chaos.
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Chaos might seem like it's got its act
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together, but when you look at chaos, it's
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like, oh my gosh, that's like a real
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thing that I think drives people crazy.
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Like why that's not working the way you
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want it to?
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And I think that can be hard for
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some people to understand.
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Consistency beats randomness.
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It does.
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I know as you're listening or watching this,
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you're like, well, John, I've tried that, but
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that didn't work for me.
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I get that it didn't work for you,
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but maybe what you have to do is
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embrace it, okay?
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Embrace it.
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If you can embrace something, I find that
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it will do a lot for you, all
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right?
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It's not about the fact of what it's
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gonna do right now.
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It's about what's gonna happen down the future.
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I think those are the biggest things that
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a lot of us oftentimes miss.
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What is down the future?
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What is it there?
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And I think a lot of people, like
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they don't necessarily get that.
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So they figure that they're just gonna do
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what they need to do.
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And that's gonna be it, right?
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That's how they work.
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But they miss some big golden opportunities, okay?
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They miss some big golden opportunities.
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Number 19, compounding appears slow before it becomes
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explosive.
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And that's why people lose momentum.
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You're like, oh, it's not going anywhere.
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Hurly, patience.
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Hides later acceleration.
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If we could just have an ounce or
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two of patience, we'll see that it was
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all worthwhile, all right?
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Number 20, commitment is required for long-term
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success.
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Commitment is required for long-term success.
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Short-term focus breaks systems.
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So we've gotta make sure we focus all
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the time, not just when it's comfortable, when
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it's convenient for us.
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We've gotta focus day in and day out.
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But some people are gonna be like, well,
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you know what?
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I'm only gonna focus when I have the
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time to do that.
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And you're gonna miss lots of opportunities because
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of that.
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Number 21, frequent pivoting slows real progress.
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I know I've seen it with myself.
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You know, you have things on a calendar
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and you task and you move from one
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to another.
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If you figure out this and you stay
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on one type of task, whether you were
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sorting, whether you were posting social media, you
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don't keep moving back and forth.
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You finish one type of task, then you
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move to the next.
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A good example of this is if you're
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on the assembly line and maybe you're making
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something, it could be for a volunteer, a
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food bank or something.
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And you're trying to switch around between putting
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the potatoes on the plate, putting utensils together,
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putting the corn on the plate, then putting
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this other side of the plate.
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If you have somebody doing each step, it's
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a lot better.
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Or if you didn't have the people, you
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could put all the corn, put everything on.
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So you put one thing on at a
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time and you move.
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So you're actually doing one task.
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But if you had multiple people, that would
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be a lot easier.
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So a lot of people vacillate between one
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to the other because they get impatient.
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And then they notice they're making mistakes.
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So they don't go any further.
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Number 21, frequent pivoting slows real progress.
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Direction must be maintained at all costs.
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Even when it seems like it might not
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be the right thing to do, you just
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sort of do it.
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And when you do it, you may have
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this aha moment or an epiphany.
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But I got to tell you guys, it
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doesn't happen right away.
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Right?
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You do something for a while, you gain
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some knowledge, and then guess what?
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You move forward, right?
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You move forward.
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Number 22, time must be a given for
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systems to work.
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Premature judgment destroys the growth, every little bit
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that's there.
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Number 23, depth is more valuable than any
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amount of speed.
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Strong foundations take time.
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They take time.
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Number 24, long-term focus filters unnecessary distractions.
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When we stay focused like a laser beam,
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nothing else is going to get in our
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way.
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Clarity removes noise, right?
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Maybe you start a project and you're like,
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you know, I'm going to get this thing
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done or I'm going to study, I'm going
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to get this done.
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No matter what it takes, I'm going to
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make sure any distraction does not get in
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my way.
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That's probably a very important thing.
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Number 25, patience is a strategic advantage.
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It improves decision timing, day in and day
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out.
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Number 26, burnout often comes from short-term
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thinking.
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What can I get in the short term?
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What can I get right now?
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Causes us to go really high on stuff
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and we don't know like what we're doing.
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And suddenly it's like, oh my gosh, what
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am I going to do?
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And I think that becomes a real problem
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for a lot of people because they're like,
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I'm not where I want to be.
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So let's frustrate myself a little more and
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then maybe I'll get where I want to
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be.
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Oh, I'm just going to burn out.
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Pacing, ladies and gentlemen, protects energy, right?
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It doesn't matter what you're doing.
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If you know how to manage your energy,
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you can do a lot of things.
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You can do less things.
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But I found that I can get tired
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not by the amount of things I do,
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but how I manage my energy.
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That's not even whether I'm working hard or
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not.
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It's just how I'm managing.
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And am I around people that's allowing me
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to recoup my energy or am I just
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becoming a funnel, right?
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Where it just goes out and there's nothing
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for me to do.
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Number 27, guys, sustainable pace produces consistent outcomes.
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Wow.
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Balance outperforms intensity every single time.
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But again, you got people that are upset
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because things aren't working the way they want
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and they feel the solution is to complain.
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Okay.
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That's important.
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I think when we can understand the real
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truth, that's when life starts to open up
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for us.
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But when we try to take in too
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much at one time, we get into the
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state of overwhelmingness and stress hits us, right?
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Do you remember the show with Lucy and
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Ethel and they were on the chocolate line,
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right?
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They never worked the chocolate line properly in
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their life, but they were on the chocolate
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line and basically they say, you know, take,
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she said, take, the lady said, you know,
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take the chocolates.
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I put them in the box, you know,
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chocolate, put in a box, chocolate in a
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box.
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So they're doing, she said, well, this is,
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Ethel, this is easy.
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We can do this.
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And then all of a sudden they're doing
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well.
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She goes like, all right, speed up.
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Speed up the lines.
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Oh my gosh.
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And they're like, moving faster.
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And she's like putting some of her shirt,
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and she's like, you saw them.
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That's overwhelmingness.
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And when we get overwhelmed, we sometimes want
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to say I had enough.
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I don't want to do anymore.
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And it isn't because you're bad at it.
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It's because you never learned the skill.
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You never learned the skill.
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That's important guys.
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It's skill.
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And maybe you don't quite understand why that
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makes sense in the beginning, but I want
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to tell you something.
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It does make sense.
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The more that you can understand the flow,
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because the thing with Ethel and Lucy, if
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they would have gotten used to how to
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manage things with that speed, and then they
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sped up, they would be more accustomed to
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how to perform the task.
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When you're younger, do you learn how to
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crawl, walk, or run first?
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You certainly don't learn how to run first.
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And you don't learn how to walk first.
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You learn how to crawl first.
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So we have to crawl before we can
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walk.
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We have to walk before we can run.
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We can't suddenly go from crawling to running.
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We can't.
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The body cannot adjust to that.
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Whether we're talking about skiing, first thing they
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teach you is pizza, right?
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With the skis, you have to ski.
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You have to put the pizza, the wedge
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to go slow.
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And everything has steps.
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But sometimes people get impatient that there are
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steps.
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And they're like, oh my gosh, what am
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I supposed to do?
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Nothing.
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You're supposed to realize that things take time.
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And when things take time, you start to
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get a culmination of knowledge.
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It may not hit you all at once.
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And that's perfectly okay.
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But each day, each time you do something,
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you become a little wiser.
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You know, you recap a little more knowledge.
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Your body also learns things in positioning, okay?
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With proprioception and how our body is.
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And our body just learns how to work
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better together.
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But we can't learn this if we never
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understood how to put chocolates in a box,
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right?
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We have to understand it.
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We can't walk and we can't run if
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we never explored crawling when you ride a
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bike.
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Do you just get on the bike and
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ride?
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No, you start with training wheels.
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Because we have to build up our confidence
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and we have to learn how to pedal.
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And then after we do that, we have
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to learn balance, right?
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We know how to pedal.
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A little bit scary when the training wheels
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come off.
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We just have to keep pedal, pedal, pedal,
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pedal, pedal, pedal.
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Pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal,
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pedal, pedal, pedal.
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Keep pedaling and the bike stays afloat.
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It's balanced.
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Number 28, vision must remain stable over time.
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Constant change weakens the direction.
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And I think a lot of people think
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that if you keep pivoting, you're gonna be
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more successful.
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Think of it like this, ladies and gentlemen.
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If you take your eyes, right?
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And you were to focus on something far
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away.
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And then to focus on something else far
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away.
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To keep doing that quickly, it takes time
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to keep focusing from here to maybe something
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close, like your finger here.
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It takes a couple seconds, right?
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It's not instantaneous, but you can develop that
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muscle in your eye to do it almost
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automatically.
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Number 29, trusting the timeline reduces frustration.
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Timing is part of success, guys.
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Let's just be honest about that.
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Number 30, long-term commitment builds real results.
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Everything meaningful requires time, okay?
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Everything meaningful requires time.
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And I think a lot of people that
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hear this and be like, oh, John, you
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know, this doesn't make sense.
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But when you do, it does.
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Before we get into our closing tonight, again,
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I wanna give that shout out to those
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at the Saucy Cup, the owners, the employees,
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and everyone at Saucy Cup in Wayne, New
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Jersey.
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Again, I have not been there.
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Definitely would like to pop by.
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Would love them to invite us.
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They are open, guys, Wednesday to Monday.
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Okay, so Monday to Wednesday or Wednesday to
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Monday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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And they are closed on Tuesdays.
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They say the Saucy Cup is proud to
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be a place where friends meet, ideas flow,
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and moments are shared.
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Just go to jcmacademy.com and let's continue
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And I hope you guys will get back
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to us at the Saucy Cup.
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Again, they are located, ladies and gentlemen, in
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Wayne, New Jersey.
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If you were just tuning in now and
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you didn't get where they are, they are
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right in Wayne, New Jersey on Mountain View
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Boulevard.
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48 Mountain View Boulevard in Wayne, New Jersey.
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Of course, 07470.
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All right.
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So before we wrap up the show, here
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is the truth.
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Are you ready for the truth?
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Can you handle the truth?
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If you're only thinking about today, and some
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people do this, you're limiting tomorrow because success
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is not built in bursts.
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It's built in time.
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And you see, ladies and gentlemen, time rewards
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those who stay consistent, those who stay patient,
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those who stay focused, those who stay committed.
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And these might just seem like words, but
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if you actually slow down and try to
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process them, you're like, wait a minute, John,
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this actually makes some sense what you're saying.
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Yeah, it does.
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If you can just stop the movement for
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a moment and embrace the actual time, the
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moment that you're in right now.
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Most people don't stop even a minute, right?
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They're always on the go.
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We have so much to be thankful for,
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and our life can be so much richer
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when we enjoy each moment.
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And you could start doing that right now.
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You could start doing tomorrow.
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It's a very important thing when we become
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part of the process.
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Many people don't want to hear it's going
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to take time.
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But what I found is that when you
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say something's going to take time, you know
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what happens?
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You actually wind up taking less.
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When you acknowledge that it's going to take
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time, you sometimes will get there a lot
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faster than you expected to get there.
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Because you are not just chasing results, guys.
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Do you know what you're really doing?
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You are building something, not just anything, something
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real.
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And the minute your mind and your body
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start to realize that, your actions, your emotions,
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your thoughts, which we always said create our
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reality, they change.
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When your energy changes, people around you change.
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I was at an event the other day,
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and the people were very nice.
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But I also could tell they were very,
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let's say, high-strung.
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And it was a high-strung way in
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the sense that they were just trying to
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get everybody to feel comfortable so they would
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join this group.
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When somebody is too overly welcoming to, hey,
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John, it's so great to see you.
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How are you, man?
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Never saw this person before in my life.
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And suddenly you're doing that.
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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 guys.
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This has been Inspirations For Your Life.
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And this is where long-term thinking wins.
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So stop with the short-term.
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Think about things as a long-term project.
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And the results will be exponential.
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I hope you guys have a great rest
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of your day, great rest of your evening.
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And I want you to start thinking long
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-term.
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What I'm doing today, am I doing something
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for the greater good of all concerned?
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Not just today, tomorrow, and days in the
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future.
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If I am, I'm on the right path.
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Have a great one, everyone.
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Be well and start thinking long-term.
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Your life will change for the better.
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Thank you.