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176. Own Your Accomplishments · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: My friends from all across the globe and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Your Enriched Self Podcast. I am your host, my
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  Speaker 1: Lee Noir. I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach.
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  Speaker 1: And what that means is I want you to show
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  Speaker 1: up in this world as the best version of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And so each week we talk about topics and we
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  Speaker 1: have conversation about things that are going to enrich your life,
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  Speaker 1: enrich your mind, enrich your space, enrich your world so
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  Speaker 1: that you can become more of your enriched self. And
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  Speaker 1: so I want to welcome you to this podcast. If
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  Speaker 1: this is your first time being here, I know that
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  Speaker 1: you were brought here on purpose, for a purpose, and
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  Speaker 1: if you are a repeat listener, we have been doing
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  Speaker 1: this all twenty twenty four. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: we have been podcasting together for three years. I want
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  Speaker 1: to thank you for being here every step of the
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  Speaker 1: way and look forward to many more opportunities to reach you,
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  Speaker 1: teach you, and provide you what you need to be
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  Speaker 1: the best version of you every single day. Now, before
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  Speaker 1: we get started with the podcast, if you know you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things I do is I make a
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  Speaker 1: deposit into the bank of you, and I do that
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  Speaker 1: by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to
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  Speaker 1: start your day and to command your warning. And this
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  Speaker 1: week's affirmation is I am open to the lessons that
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  Speaker 1: this day will teach me. I am open to the
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  Speaker 1: lessons that this day will teach me. I am open
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  Speaker 1: to the lessons that this day will teach me. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your
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  Speaker 1: Enriched Self podcast. It is rather normal to be excited
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  Speaker 1: about something new, and as we approach a new year,
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  Speaker 1: we approach twenty twenty five, I want you to keep
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  Speaker 1: that excitement because you're gonna need that momentum as you
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  Speaker 1: start your year and as you move into the new year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before we get ahead of ourselves, I need you to
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  Speaker 1: pause in the space that you're in now. And if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't do this in twenty twenty four or at
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty four, I think it is
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  Speaker 1: still a good time to make room for this activity.
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  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, this is something I recently did myself. I
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  Speaker 1: was along the way as we were approaching like the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, starting to reminisce and
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  Speaker 1: write down, recollect. As a matter of fact, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my accomplishments in twenty twenty four, because I know
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  Speaker 1: that we are looking ahead again, excited for and you
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  Speaker 1: are excited for the new year and ready to start
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  Speaker 1: on your path, on your journey to accomplish the things
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  Speaker 1: that you set for yourself, the goals that you started
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  Speaker 1: to create for yourself going into this new year. But
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  Speaker 1: I think it's critical that you spend time looking at
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  Speaker 1: or writing down, capturing all your accomplishments of the previous year.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna surprise yourself the things that you
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  Speaker 1: did in twenty twenty four, the things that you accomplished,
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  Speaker 1: And when you think about doing this work, this critical
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  Speaker 1: work of capturing your accomplishments, I don't want you to
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  Speaker 1: simply look at the tangible things. There are some things
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  Speaker 1: that you achieved in twenty twenty four that are intangible.
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  Speaker 1: These are things like maintaining boundaries you set. These are
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  Speaker 1: things like saying no to things that didn't serve you
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  Speaker 1: and saying yes to things that did. These are things
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  Speaker 1: like putting yourself back on your priority list. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the intangible things that help you achieve a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the tangible goals that you may have on your list
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  Speaker 1: of things that you wanted to go after in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. So I think it's important for you to
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  Speaker 1: do this work. As I mentioned, I recently did this work.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I met a friend for
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  Speaker 1: coffee and we sat and one of the first things
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  Speaker 1: we did I invited her to do with me is
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  Speaker 1: let's spend ten minutes ten minutes. It was a ten
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  Speaker 1: minute exercise writing down your accomplishments, writing down to things
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  Speaker 1: that we accomplished in twenty twenty four. What I thought
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  Speaker 1: would be just a routine, Let's capture some things, let's
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  Speaker 1: celebrate our wins, and you know, let's look forward to
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  Speaker 1: the things that we want to do in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And as I was jotting down all these things, the tangible,
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  Speaker 1: the intangible, the little wins, the big wins, and all
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  Speaker 1: the things in between, the things I celebrated and when
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  Speaker 1: the ten minute window expired, they admitted that it was
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  Speaker 1: a challenge. It was a struggle to capture their accomplishments.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, she admittedly said she crossed
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  Speaker 1: out the word accomplishments and instead put experiences. And she
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  Speaker 1: wondered to herself, and we started having conversation as to
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  Speaker 1: why accomplishments were hard to capture. What was a routine
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  Speaker 1: activity turned into a larger assignment on this quest to
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  Speaker 1: better understand why accomplishments, why identifying the things that she
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  Speaker 1: had accomplished was a hard thing for her to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because this is a person that I know,
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  Speaker 1: and so there are things in the year that we
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  Speaker 1: were able to share about those accomplishments, those wins that
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  Speaker 1: this person had, And so I started sharing back some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I know they had accomplished, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't even put it on their page. Why is that?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it that you accomplished and these were some
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  Speaker 1: significant things? Why is it that you accomplished significant things
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  Speaker 1: but you don't acknowledge them as accomplishments, You don't capture
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  Speaker 1: them as accomplishments. And I think one of the reasons why,
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  Speaker 1: at least this is a reason I shared with this individual,
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why they struggled, because I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: they were curious why they had struggled so much. I
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  Speaker 1: did my assignment, and I was able to capture I
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  Speaker 1: did the very same assignment, and I was able to
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  Speaker 1: capture a plethora of things in various categories across the
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  Speaker 1: many walks of my life in twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 1: again knowing this individle, knowing what they had accomplished, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed really foreign to me that they didn't recognize any
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  Speaker 1: of the things that, for a fact I knew they
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  Speaker 1: had accomplished as accomplishments. And what I think it is,
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  Speaker 1: especially in today's society, when there's so much that weighs
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  Speaker 1: in our social spaces and on the social platforms, if
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  Speaker 1: it isn't big enough, if it isn't grand enough, if
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  Speaker 1: it isn't large enough, then it's not enough. And when
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  Speaker 1: we feel like it's not enough, that means we haven't
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  Speaker 1: rose to the occasion, it hasn't met a standard, or
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't rose to a level that we can call
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  Speaker 1: a thing that we did as an accomplishment, as a
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  Speaker 1: new skill, a new way, a new ability that we
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  Speaker 1: were able to pick up learn apply in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: That's simply what an accomplishment is. And I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: have come to believe that some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: you have done completed are not significant enough to be
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  Speaker 1: accounted for and recognized as an accomplishment. So therefore, you
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  Speaker 1: deem it as insignificant. Therefore, you don't even recalled the
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  Speaker 1: thing that you did, the new thing that you did,
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  Speaker 1: the new skill that you learned, the moment you started
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  Speaker 1: saying yes to you and know to the things that
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  Speaker 1: don't serve you. You don't see those things as accomplishments
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  Speaker 1: because again, they don't tally up on the big screen,
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  Speaker 1: on the big board as a win. And I need
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  Speaker 1: you to change that. But in order to change that,
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  Speaker 1: I need you to do this exercise. It is a
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  Speaker 1: simple exercise. You need a pen, a paper, and an alarm.
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  Speaker 1: Set your alarm for ten minutes, and write down your
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  Speaker 1: accomplishments in twenty twenty four. That's it. The reason why
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  Speaker 1: I want you to do this is because it's so
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  Speaker 1: easy to go after the next thing. And that's another
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  Speaker 1: reason why I believe so many of you are entrapped
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  Speaker 1: into this mindset of what an accomplishment is. And that
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  Speaker 1: entrapment is because when we accomplish something, when we complete something,
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  Speaker 1: we go on to the next thing. And oftentimes you
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  Speaker 1: didn't even celebrate what you did. You didn't celebrate this
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  Speaker 1: new skill, you didn't celebrate anything about what you did.
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  Speaker 1: You just went to the next thing, because again, society
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  Speaker 1: has a grind culture, and when you get this done,
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  Speaker 1: you got to go get the next thing, and you
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  Speaker 1: got to go get the next thing. And you're constantly
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  Speaker 1: running after the next thing. So when are you celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the last thing, the first thing, the best thing for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're not. You're running after the next thing, and you're
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  Speaker 1: exhausting yourself. So yes, it is hard to recognize a
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  Speaker 1: win when you're exhausted, when you are spent. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be your challenge before you start chasing
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  Speaker 1: after all the things you got to do in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, I challenge you first to acknowledge the things
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  Speaker 1: that you did in twenty twenty four, and perhaps you
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  Speaker 1: can get better at those things. But guess what, you
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  Speaker 1: started it, You got to the start line. You completed
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  Speaker 1: it right. You didn't quit on yourself. So many of
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  Speaker 1: you didn't quit last year. You might not have finished,
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  Speaker 1: but you didn't quit. You didn't quit. And the way
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  Speaker 1: you were set up in the past, you would have
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  Speaker 1: quit on yourself. You would have stopped doing the thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm asking you to rise up from where you
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  Speaker 1: are with a new mindset that I didn't quit. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish the way I wanted to finish, but I
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  Speaker 1: never quit on myself. I never gave up on myself.
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  Speaker 1: You must take a moment to celebrate that there are
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  Speaker 1: so many intangibles for me last year. There were things
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  Speaker 1: that I had not done for myself in a number
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  Speaker 1: of years that I was able to do in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Intangible things. I mean I talk about me
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  Speaker 1: attending this boot camp and having perfect attendance for six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big win for me to commit to
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  Speaker 1: something for six weeks, no excuses, being there every day,
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  Speaker 1: and as a matter of fact, I challenge myself in
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  Speaker 1: that time to have a good attitude about it, not
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  Speaker 1: just to show up, but show up in power, show
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  Speaker 1: up choosing to be the best version of myself, show
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  Speaker 1: up to learn, change my mindset from oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: how am I gonna do this? To look at what
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  Speaker 1: I get to do. There were so many pages that
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  Speaker 1: turned last year for me, and I'm sure there are
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  Speaker 1: pages that turn for you in terms of areas of
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  Speaker 1: accomplishments what I like to call small winds. And I
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  Speaker 1: know culture doesn't celebrate the small wins. I'm creating a
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  Speaker 1: mindset that I'm winning at the little things, so I
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  Speaker 1: can go after the big things. Take the small wins,
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  Speaker 1: because those small winds will build a momentum for you
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  Speaker 1: going into doing that next big thing, or that first
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  Speaker 1: big thing, or that new thing. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: want you to do this exercise of twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: because if you can look at all that you did,
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  Speaker 1: and I even challenge you when you do it, think
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  Speaker 1: about where you were mentally, you are going to see
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  Speaker 1: a level of growth just from the way you think
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  Speaker 1: about who you are as a person and think about
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  Speaker 1: what you can do and the confidence you have now
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  Speaker 1: that you will now use to go into the new
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  Speaker 1: year simply because you took some time to reflect, to relate,
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  Speaker 1: and to recognize that you are a winner. And it
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  Speaker 1: may not be by the standards of the world. The
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  Speaker 1: stands are of culture, the stands of society. But you
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  Speaker 1: have to create your own measures of success. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this on the platform. I talk about my run
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  Speaker 1: journey and how I started. It took me twenty one
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  Speaker 1: minutes to run my first ever mile, and now I
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  Speaker 1: can do that in ten minutes. In some cases, you
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  Speaker 1: got to start somewhere that was my start, and as
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, last year was the first year
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  Speaker 1: in a number of years that I started seeing a
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  Speaker 1: ten plus minute mile. But it took practice, it took patience,
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  Speaker 1: it took persistence, and it took taking the small wins.
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  Speaker 1: I remember on one of the last assessments that we
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  Speaker 1: did for our two mile runs, and I was disappointed
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  Speaker 1: because I did not achieve what I wanted to achieve
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  Speaker 1: on that two mile run. I think I shaved off
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  Speaker 1: about point sixteen seconds on that run. And I told
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  Speaker 1: my coach and she said, do you know what that
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  Speaker 1: means when you were able to cut back that much
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  Speaker 1: time on a run? And I think it was around
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  Speaker 1: the time just after the Olympics, where we had seen
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  Speaker 1: some phenomenal races. We had watched some photo finishes, as
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, multiple photo finishes, and it was
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  Speaker 1: fractions of a second. And she reminded me that that
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  Speaker 1: was fractions of seconds that I had discounted down to
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  Speaker 1: I didn't accomplish what I wanted to. I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to the number I wanted to. She reminded me that
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  Speaker 1: you made a difference. It may not look like a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but in some settings that is amazing, and it reminded
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  Speaker 1: me right then to celebrate it, right then, to recognize it.
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  Speaker 1: It reminded me that I had accomplished something I had
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  Speaker 1: not done before. And I am here to remind you
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  Speaker 1: to recognize the accomplishments that you've done, the things that
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  Speaker 1: you have achieved, and when you do and be proud
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  Speaker 1: of what you've done, I know you still got a
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  Speaker 1: road ahead where you have a great foundation to keep moving.
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