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Awareness & Mindful Action (S5) S11:E1 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, and happy Saturday to you,
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I know I am.
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All right.
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So again, welcome, everyone.
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This is Inspirations for Your Life.
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It's series five, show 11, episode number one.
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Forge your inner power.
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That's what this whole week is about, forging
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your inner power, intentional action, and clarity.
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Oh, who am I?
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Oh, sure.
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I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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I'm an engineer, marketing specialist, video producer, podcast
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host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and a
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passionate lifelong learner.
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This episode focuses on how cultivating awareness, clarity,
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and intentional action can amplify your personal power
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and help you take control of your life.
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Today, like I said, is Saturday.
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Today, it is March 7th.
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And we're all about awareness and mindful action
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today.
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So awareness transforms unconscious habits into intentional actions.
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Every moment is nothing more than a choice
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of our life.
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Pausing before reacting multiplies decision impact.
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Hesitation is a superpower, guys.
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Observing patterns prevents repeated mistakes.
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Your past is your teacher.
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Yes, it is.
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Every small choice reinforces self-trust.
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Trust builds momentum.
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Deliberate micro-actions compound into lasting change.
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Tiny wins become breakthroughs, guys.
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So avoid energy, draining distractions, protect your mental
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bandwidth.
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Mindful attention enhances intuitive decision-making.
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Clarity comes from, yes, presence.
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Observation reduces the risk of impulsive errors.
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Noticing that before acting is the key.
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I've always said to you that we need
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to be more proactive instead of reactive.
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I used the example of a fire a
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long time ago.
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You need to be prepared for the what
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-if fire.
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You need to know how to handle things,
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not when the fire happens, but before the
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fire.
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Awareness, guys, clarifies daily priorities.
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Focus your energy where it matters.
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Focused attention protects mental bandwidth.
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Guard your mind like a vault.
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Recognize impulses before they hijack your energy.
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Awareness is control.
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You know what's really important in our life?
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Our energy and also our time.
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Those are two very important things.
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Mindfulness clears mental clutter.
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Simplicity drives effectiveness.
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Lots of people want to make things more
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complicated and hard, but they don't need to
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be.
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They just need to be mindful of what
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they have and make things simpler and things
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can grow.
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Being present is important because it increases the
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effectiveness.
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And I tell you to stop multitasking and
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start mastering.
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So many people I know want to multitask.
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Why?
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Because they think that is the way they
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should be going.
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That's the way it appears to them.
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They think that they should be doing that,
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but not necessarily are doing that.
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And I think that's an important thing for
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a lot of people to understand is that
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we have to be mindful of these situations,
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all right?
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Notice forbidden traps.
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Before falling, awareness creates boundaries.
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Now, I don't say that to scare you.
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I say that so that you are, let's
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say, on track with it, okay?
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Awareness converts obstacles into opportunities.
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When we become aware of something, we pay
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attention to it and then our mind focuses
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on it and suddenly everything else kind of
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fades in the distance and we actually see
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that challenge as an opportunity and we can
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use that as leverage.
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Not something we should fear, not something we
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should run away from.
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Just because something is different or uncomfortable doesn't
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mean it's not good for us.
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Well, take lima beans, take broccoli.
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I know when I was younger, I never
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used to like lima beans or broccoli or
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anything like that.
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And I tried them, didn't like them.
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And then later on, I grew a taste
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for them and I actually felt they're good
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for me.
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Another thing was liver.
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My grandmother on my dad's side, his mother,
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would make liver.
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And everybody else would give him things like,
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oh, liver.
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But she made it, I tried it, and
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everybody was like, tell me, oh, you're gonna
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hate it.
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And I had, and I loved it.
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So I think being open is important to
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change and also important to us becoming a
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better version of ourself.
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Detect harmful patterns early for resilience.
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This is a big key.
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When you're a pattern recognizer, that's what insurance
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people do, right?
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They look for patterns.
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And if there's a certain pattern, well, then
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they try to see if that person falls
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in that pattern.
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If they do, oh, and they either raise
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their rates, possibly lower them or take another
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action.
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So resilience prevention beats repair.
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We need to be resilient every day and
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we need to get better at it.
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It's not about becoming the best in 24
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hours.
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It's about understanding how we can make a
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difference in our lives.
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That's really, I think, the most important thing
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I can tell you.
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It's about making that difference in our lives.
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And when we talk about making difference, I
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think that's something that a lot of people,
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I don't know, I think they just don't
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quite understand like what that means.
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Making a difference is something a lot of
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people out there get fearful about, why?
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Well, because they don't think that they can
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do something.
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And that belief is 99% of why
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they're not getting it done.
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So conscious living, guys, sustains focus.
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Autopilot drains potential.
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We talked about this before.
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It's very easy to engage autopilot.
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Autopilot not only can suck up your energy,
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it also can suck up your time.
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And our time, I don't know about you,
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is extremely precious.
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So we need to make sure that we're
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using every moment, every second in a manner
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that is gonna be best for our life
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and others.
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Awareness strengthens emotional control.
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Calmness is strength.
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Mindful choices accelerate growth.
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Intentionality compounds it.
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So we make the choice, but when we've
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made a choice that's intentional, that's when it
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compounds, all right?
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Awareness sharpens judgment under pressure.
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Clarity prevails in chaos, in chaos.
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So if you wanna get rid of that,
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you wanna get rid of that challenge that
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you're having, get rid of the chaos.
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And you'll see clarity will return to you
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almost immediately.
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Correct energy, guys, leaks before it expands.
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Vigilance preserves power.
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So that's talking about conserving energy.
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That's talking about conserving time.
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That's what it's about, guys.
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It's about knowing, not every minute, but knowing
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that I'm gonna do this task, do that
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task.
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Now, before I did the show today, I
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actually had studying to do.
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I'm getting ready for a midterm.
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And in my master's class, I'm taking basically
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advanced computers and assembly.
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And it's not that this stuff is hard,
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but it needs practice.
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Because when you do it multiple times, it
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just comes on autopilot.
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And that's a good autopilot.
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That's an autopilot that kind of gets you
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through the flow.
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That's not an autopilot that's gonna waste my
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time.
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So by putting in time now, which a
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lot of people don't study weeks before, the
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exam is actually on March 18th.
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And I started studying well before that.
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There's only 20 questions that are multiple choice
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and other two that are like essay.
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And enjoying studying is something that I really
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feel good about.
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Because when I learn this stuff, and when
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I use these principles, I'm like, I own
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this.
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And I feel so great that I have
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these tools right in my back pocket.
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Awareness, guys, fuels quiet confidence.
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Inner power is built, it's not shown.
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Intentional attention prevents regret.
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Make choices you can own.
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I know a lot of people that rush
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for choices.
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And unfortunately, when they rush for choices, they're
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not the right choice.
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I think that happens because a lot of
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people just don't, they just don't get why
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something's not working.
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And I know a lot of you're saying
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to me, John, that makes sense, but it
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doesn't affect me.
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It does.
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First of all, I wanna tell you something.
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And I know a lot of you may
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not agree with me.
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If you are playing the game of denial,
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which is not a river in Egypt, it
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most definitely is affecting you.
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Now, whether you wanna admit it, that's up
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to you.
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Now, you don't have to admit it publicly,
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but you do need to admit it to
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yourself because if you don't acknowledge it, how
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are you ever gonna make a change in
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your life?
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That is probably one of the most important
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things that I can tell you.
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If you don't make that change, then I
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feel that a lot of things are gonna
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potentially, oh, they're potentially gonna go wrong for
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you.
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Not because you want them to go wrong,
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but just because you're not prepared for the
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situation.
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Align actions with values.
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Integrity fuels momentum, guys.
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Awareness uncovers hidden opportunities.
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What you see guides you.
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What you see guides you.
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Micro decisions create outsized impact.
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Small wins drive transformation.
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Small wins, not big wins, small wins.
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Awareness multiplies clarity and focus.
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Attention compounds the results, okay?
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Mindful action builds momentum.
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We like momentum, right?
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Deliberate steps accelerate the progress.
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So mindful action gets the engine started, okay?
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And once we have that, the engine gets
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started, okay?
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But when we take deliberate steps while the
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engine's running we accelerate our progress.
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We get the engine to work much more
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efficiently.
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Awareness fortifies identity.
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Self-trust shapes the character.
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I've talked a lot about character before, right?
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Character has to do with who you are
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right now, who you're becoming.
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And character actually gets defined with you by
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what people don't see.
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So the you that is around when you're
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alone actually helps define the public you, right?
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That's an important thing.
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So living deliberately begins, guys, with noticing.
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Presence is the foundation of personal power, presence.
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Presence, awareness, being mindful.
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You might say, gee, John, this is all
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about meditation.
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No, meditation's a very big help for this.
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In your life, if things are all out
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of whack and you're wondering why you're not
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connecting to opportunities, I'm gonna tell you why.
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It's because you're focused on the past, you're
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focused on what went wrong, and you need
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to focus on the future, okay?
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You also need to focus on what Neville
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Goddard said, which is living the feeling of
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the wish fulfilled.
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He taught something really great and so did
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this other guy, Joseph, teach something well.
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And that is, it is done.
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Very powerful, let me say it again.
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It is done.
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Whatever you're trying to do, it is done.
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It is done.
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You feel how that feels?
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It is done.
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Just like relaxes your body and takes away
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any stress.
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Show, commentary, and insight.
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You know, we've talked about a lot of
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important things today, and hearing things are great,
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seeing things are great, but you know what
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really makes the difference, what really moves the
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needle?
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It's doing.
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Now you might say, John, I'm an auditorial
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learner, or I'm a visual learner.
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Even if you're auditory or you're visual, I
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still wanna tell you that doing things kinesthetically
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and actually taking part of them really will
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keep that needle moving.
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So when I'm practicing for my test, it's
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not just listening, it's not just seeing, it's
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doing.
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It's actually taking the time to write out
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the problems, to practice them, and to self
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-navigate.
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So if I notice that something's wrong, like,
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oh, wait a minute, I gotta go back
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and double check.
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And there's other ways I can go back
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and check to see if I got the
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right answer.
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So one of the things we're doing right
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now is we're working in binary, which is
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base two, and we're also working in hex,
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which is base 16.
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I know what the answer should be, but
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I need to make sure I get it
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with the digits, if that makes sense.
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You know, when we get up every morning,
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okay?
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And the first thing you might notice could
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be your heartbeat.
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It could be the temperature of your skin
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against the blankets or the sheets.
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Maybe you notice the sound of your air
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conditioner.
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In your home, or your heat, right?
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Or maybe you notice something else.
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And that sound kind of grounds you.
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And after you notice that sound, you start
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to realize that you are present.
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Present, what does present mean?
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Present is to be here now.
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If you're listening to a friend and that
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friend is talking to you, and you are
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present with him or her, you're gonna hear
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what they're saying, not just the sounds, but
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you're gonna be able to tell what's going
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on.
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You're not trying to rebuttal it, guys.
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You're not trying to rebuttal.
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And I think that's an important thing to
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understand that you're not trying to rebuttal it.
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You're not trying to rebuttal it.
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And I know that's something you're probably saying
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to me, John, that sounds crazy.
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But I wanna tell you, it is not
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crazy.
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I wanna tell you that right now.
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It is not crazy, all right?
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It's not crazy.
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You can do this.
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But 95% of it comes from belief.
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We've talked about belief before, right?
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Belief is that stuff you can't touch or
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see, but it's part of you.
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And that is kind of the hidden fuel
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that could propel you forward, or it can
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act like a drag and pull you back.
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So many people I know are not present.
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They say they are, but then when you
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have a conversation with them, they're out in
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left field.
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I'll give you a perfect example.
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So a friend that I met recently, I
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could tell they weren't fully present all the
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time.
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Didn't make a big deal of it.
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And the first thing I said to myself
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is, their birthday's coming up, I'm gonna remember
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their birthday, okay?
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Of course, I got a thank you.
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Even for the holidays, I sent them some
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homemade cookies.
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But you know what happened when my birthday
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rolled around?
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Absolutely nothing.
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Okay, maybe the person didn't wanna send me
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a card.
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No big deal.
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Not even a acknowledgment of happy birthday on
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my Facebook wall, or even a text to
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say happy birthday.
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What I did get is some people just
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trying to tell me that, well, just, hey,
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how are you?
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I don't know about you guys, but hey,
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how are you?
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Is not being present for me, all right?
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It's not being present.
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Now, I don't ridicule anybody, but I know
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that that person is not in alignment with
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my energy.
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So I'm not gonna spend time with them.
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Does that make sense?
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So again, it's not about being judgmental, but
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it's about being around people that recognize your
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energy, that recognize presence, that appreciate presence, and
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that are present.
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I can be present for someone, but if
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they're not present for me, guess what?
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That's a one-way relationship, a one-way
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friendship.
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And when somebody texts you and just say,
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hey, how are you, but can't acknowledge when
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your birthday is, you might say, well, John,
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maybe they didn't know when your birthday was.
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Facebook kind of tells everybody when your birthday
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was.
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So I went through my wall a couple
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of times and say, maybe I missed their
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comment that said happy birthday, right?
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So I went through once after my birthday,
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and then a few weeks later, I went
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by and I'm like, nope, this person never
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wished me happy birthday.
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I went through all the several hundred people
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on Facebook that wished me happy birthday, which
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again, I'm very grateful for.
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So being present means that your actions are
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in alignment with your core values.
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Being present is about being truthful, guys.
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When you are present, what matters is the
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moment, not anything else.
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I've had other people that have not been
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present and I've written them off, not been
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nasty to them.
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I've just decided to move on with my
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life.
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Is that being rude?
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Is that being selfish?
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Is that being stuck up?
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No, it's being protective of my energy.
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And you should do the same thing.
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You should do the same thing.
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Be protective of your energy, be protective of
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your presence.
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And if other people are not present for
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you, well then, that's a big problem.
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That's a very, very big problem.
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And you gotta address it because if you
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don't address it, and if I would have
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went back to this person that texted me
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and said, hey, look, this is what's going
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on.
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If I would have went back to that
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person, then I could maybe, I could understand
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that, I could understand that.
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Maybe you don't understand it.
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Maybe you know what presence is, but you're,
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let's say, lying to yourself.
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And I know people do this because, oh,
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I wanna give him a break.
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Sure, I get it, give people a break.
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But when you are constantly present for someone,
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even if it's not every day, even if
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it's just once in a while, and they
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don't show up for you, or they show
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up in the wrong energy, that needs to
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change.
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Because my life is valuable, just like your
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life is valuable.
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And I don't wanna have my presence in
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the presence of someone else who's half present.
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That's disrespectful to my life.
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Just like I wouldn't want that for you.
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I would want you to be present with
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people, to meet with people.
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I don't care whether we're talking about business,
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personal life, whether these are relationships that are
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friends, or romantic relations, whatever they are, you
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as a person deserve to have people in
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your life that are present, whether it's acknowledging
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your birthday, or whatever it is.
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And through all my years of life, I've
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learned that there are people out there that
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appear to be present, but it's a facade.
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They do it because it's an act they
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play.
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But when you need them to be present
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for you, they're too busy.
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They don't have time.
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I don't know what to say, other than
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protect your presence.
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Because protecting your presence protects your energy, which
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protects and shows respect for you.
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I know this was a heavy topic today,
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and we just started this week.
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But presence, presence can be something like you
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going outside and being present in nature, right?
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You're present, you hear, you feel, you can
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touch nature, the trees, feel the wind.
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Not being present would be out there, and
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maybe you have your headphone on, and you're
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not even paying attention to any part of
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nature.
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It's okay if you wanna put your headphones
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on, but you should have a little bit
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of a acumen for nature.
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Maybe you're on a hike.
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Maybe you're listening to some music.
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No problem, but you're still present.
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You're in the moment.
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You're walking, you're looking, you're appreciating what's around
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you.
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Presence is not something somebody tells you to
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be.
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It's something you desire to be because of
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your core inner values.
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I talk a lot about that.
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I've been talking a lot about your core
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values.
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So guys, each of these points today represent
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a pillar of actionable personal development.
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Awareness, guys, is not passive.
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Nope.
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It's an active skill-based practice that allows
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you to recognize patterns, anticipate challenges, and respond
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intentionally.
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Small daily actions, when aligned with your goals
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and aspirations and values compound into significant long
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-term results.
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If you pause before action is not hesitation.
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It's strategic control.
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So taking that step to pause is absolutely
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okay.
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It's okay to do that.
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And I don't mean that in a bad
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sense, guys.
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I mean that in a way that hopefully
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can make a difference in your life.
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All right?
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That can make a difference in your life
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because if it can make a difference in
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your life, then I feel you can make
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a difference yourself.
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You can make the difference yourself.
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And that self, guys, is something pretty amazing,
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right?
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It's amazing because you can understand.
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That's important.
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I think a lot of people don't realize
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what that means.
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And it means something pretty special, okay?
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It means something very special because if you
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understand that whole concept, right, it makes a
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difference for you.
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It makes a difference for you.
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And that's something I want all of you
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to understand.
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I want you to understand that right now.
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Because if you don't, you're gonna miss the
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boat.
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You're gonna miss the boat.
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Pausing is not hesitation, it is strategic control.
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Every decision made with attention, reflection, strengthens self
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-trust and cultivates resilience.
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Forbidden distractions or shortcuts may offer immediate relief,
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but they will inevitably erode long-term clarity,
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trust and confidence and momentum.
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By intentionally noticing these traps, you protect energy
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and ensure your effort translates into meaningful progress.
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Mindful action also sharpens regulation.
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Awareness of your impulses, energy leaks and environmental
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stressors allow you to act with calm power.
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Focused attention increases clarity, decision-making and productivity.
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While conscious alignment between actions and values builds
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personal credibility and self-respect.
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Remember guys, momentum is created by repeated deliberate
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micro actions.
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Each conscious choice contributes to compounding growth, your
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identity, your discipline and personal power.
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And these are built in small but intentional
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moments.
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So stay connected and remember guys, your awareness
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is key to being present.
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Take care everyone.