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Your Goals DON'T Matter If Your Standards Are Too LOW (S5) S37:E5 Wednesday · Inspirations for Your Life

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Yes.
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All right.
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Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the ever
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-popular inspirations for your life show.
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I am John C.
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Morley.
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I am a serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist,
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video producer, podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate
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student at Montclair State University, a passionate lifelong
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learner, and so gratefully, gentlemen, to be now,
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yes, a published author.
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It is so great to have you here.
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Thank you so very much.
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So our master topic this week is your
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next level will demand a different you, yeah,
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a different you.
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So what do we mean, what do we
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mean when we say a different you?
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I think that's really the big question, right?
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Yeah.
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So today, I'm talking about something that may
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matter even more than the goals you write
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down on paper, the standards you live by.
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You see, you can have enormous goals, but
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if your daily standards don't support them, those
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goals remain wishes.
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Let's get into our 30 points that can
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help us get on track with this.
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Number one, guys, goals tell you the direction.
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They identify destination you're trying to reach, but
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knowing where you want to go doesn't guarantee
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you'll make the choices required to get there.
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And that's the choice.
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A lot of people don't believe that.
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But then they're wondering, well, gee, why am
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I not getting where I want to be?
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And there's a reason for that, right?
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You're doing the same thing over and over
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again and you're expecting different results.
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That's really important.
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So your goals tell you what you want.
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Your standards determine what you'll tolerate.
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And what you tolerate eventually becomes your new
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normal, guys, your new normal.
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I think those are important things for us
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to understand, but let's dive in.
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So the first thing is goals give us
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direction.
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They identify the destination you want to go,
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but knowing where you want to go doesn't
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guarantee, as I said, you're going to get
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there.
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Number two, standards determine what you tolerate.
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Your standards determine what you repeatedly accept from
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yourself, other people, and even the environment around
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you.
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So what you tolerate has an enormous influence
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on what becomes your normal.
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Number three, raise what you expect from yourself.
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Don't only ask what you want, ask what
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you're willing to expect from yourself consistently.
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Growth often begins when expectations rise before your
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results do.
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Number four, stop normalizing behavior you know isn't
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helpful.
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If you know a behavior is taking you
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backward, stop treating it as normal simply because
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you've done it a long time and it
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must be the right thing.
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Familiar doesn't mean productive.
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Familiar doesn't also mean successful either, unfortunately.
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Remember, we've got to get out of that
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comfortable seat and into something that's uncomfortable if
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we want success.
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Number five, decide what is no longer acceptable
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to you.
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Growth sometimes requires drawing a line, deciding which
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habits, behaviors, and even patterns you're no longer
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willing to carry into your future.
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And that's a choice, ladies and gentlemen.
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You've got to make that choice yourself.
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I can't make it for you, but hopefully
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if you're not happy with where your life
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is right now, you're going to change.
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Number six, your boundaries reveal your standards.
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A boundary shows what your value is, enough
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that you want to protect it.
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Your time, your energy, attention, relationships, and a
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commitment all need boundaries if they're important to
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you.
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If they're not, then a boundary is not
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going to exist, but sometimes people exploit your
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boundaries, so it's important to know what they
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are.
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Number seven, stop tolerating chronic disrespect, okay?
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You don't have to accept repeated disrespect simply
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to keep the peace.
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Healthy standards include expecting basic respect while giving
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that same respect to others.
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Sometimes you get this from people that are
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younger than you, sometimes older than you, and
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they think they're all that.
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I think the big thing in life is
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realizing that none of us know everything and
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that we're always growing and that when we
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have that humble attitude, there's so much more
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we can do and so many more people
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we can help.
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And when we help others, we actually wind
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up helping ourselves.
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That's the real secret.
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Number eight, raise the quality of your own
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work.
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Hmm, that's an interesting thought.
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Before demanding more from everybody around you, look
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at your own output.
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Look at yourself, ask whether you're producing work
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that genuinely reflects what you're capable of doing.
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If it's not, it might be time for
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you to change, right?
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Number nine, become somebody who finishes.
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Hmm, what does that mean?
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Starting is exciting, right?
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But finishing builds credibility.
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Train yourself to follow through, especially after the
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excitement of beginning has disappeared.
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I think it's like, you know, you get
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a new toy or you get a new
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gadget.
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It's like, okay, I want to play with
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it.
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Right.
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But then that whole newness wears off.
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It's like, I don't really want to do
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this anymore.
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Right.
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It's kind of like takes a seat in
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the closet.
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Number 10, stop accepting your weakest effort as
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normal.
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So many people do it because they say,
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well, gee, that's all I'm capable of that
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I'm never going to be anymore, so I'm
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just going to accept that I'm not going
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to be anymore.
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Well, of course, with that attitude, of course
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you're not.
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Everyone has difficulties.
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We all do.
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The problem is when minimum effort becomes your
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permanent standard, don't allow an occasional low point
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to become your everyday expectation.
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Number 11, guys, protect your time more carefully.
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Your calendar reveals priorities that your words sometimes
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don't.
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Treat your time as something valuable because once
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it's spent, you don't get it back.
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You don't get it back.
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Number 12, expect honesty from yourself.
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Be truthful about what you're doing, what you're
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avoiding, and where you're falling short.
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You can't improve something you're unwilling to see
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clearly.
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Number 13, improve what you repeatedly overlook.
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I think the reason we overlook something is
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because, well, we get into a pattern and
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I figure, well, it's okay this time, right?
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I'm going to overlook it this time.
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Small problems become standards.
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When they're ignored long enough, guys, if you
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repeatedly notice something that needs improvement, stop walking
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past it, pay attention to it.
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Change.
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Even if it's something small, it doesn't have
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to be something big.
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Number 14, stop making exceptions that destroy the
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rule.
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One exception can become another and another until
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the standard just disappears.
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Flexibility matters, but don't repeatedly negotiate away something
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you said was important to you, right?
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I think a lot of people do this
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because they feel, well, you know what?
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It's going to be too hard for me
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now.
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I don't know if I want to do
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this.
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It's not that they don't want to do
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it.
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It's that there's no work.
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And once they realize the work and they're
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like, well, wait a minute, maybe I shouldn't
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be doing this anymore.
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Maybe this is too hard for me, right?
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Maybe.
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But when you start to get to the
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bottom and say, wait a minute, this is
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something I can do.
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Then I can make changes.
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And you see what our mind and body
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see that we're making some progress.
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We're motivated.
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Now I said that motivation comes in and
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comes out, right?
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It wanes in and out, but it's our
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discipline that keeps us on track.
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Of course, the motivation can give us a
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cookie, right?
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But motivation is not something we live for.
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It's great when we have it, but don't
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operate your whole life if you don't have
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it.
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Number 15, your environment reflects what you tolerate.
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Look around you, everyone.
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Your environment can reveal what you've accepted right
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now.
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Sometimes raising your standards means changing what you're
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willing to live or work around every single
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day.
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Not just today, not just tomorrow, but every
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single day of your life.
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And I think if you get that concept,
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you're gonna be like, wait a minute.
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Now I see why this is happening now.
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Now I get the whole point.
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Um, that's important for you to understand guys,
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very important for you to understand.
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Number 16, raise your communication standards.
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How about this?
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Say what you mean.
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Clearly no jargon words, listen carefully, respond respectfully.
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Don't expect healthy relationships while accepting poor communication
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as normal.
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If you do, you're going to accept that
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standard and then you're going to show everyone
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else that it's okay to not communicate with
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me effectively.
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Is that the message you want to send
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out?
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I don't think so.
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So communication isn't just key for ourselves.
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It's key for other people.
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So they know what we expect.
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Number 17, demand more preparation from yourself, right?
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Preparation changes performance.
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If you didn't know whether you're an athlete
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and you're getting ready to go on the
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field or, you know, uh, do something else
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that's athletic, um, you have to know that
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preparation is key.
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You know, you prep in anything, uh, doing
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a lot with baking and culinary.
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We have something called mise en place came
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from the French before you can bake something
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properly.
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You have to do your mise en place.
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Your mise en place is what ingredients you're
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going to have the, uh, quantities of each
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ingredient and you measure those out and then
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you can make sure you're on track, right?
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So preparation changes performance.
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Don't constantly rely on last minute effort when
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you had the opportunity to prepare properly.
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I mean, there's going to be those times
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when you may have to put the last
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minute effort in, but don't you dare make
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that your standard every day, because if you
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do, you're going to say to yourself, you
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know what?
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I'm really not worth it enough.
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And I don't want to put the time
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in.
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You're saying I don't want to be successful.
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That's what you're telling yourself.
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Number 18, stop celebrating intentions without execution.
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This is one of my favorites.
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Good intentions matter, but intentions aren't the results
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guys.
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Eventually something has to move from what you're
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planning to what you're actually doing.
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Make reliability part of your identity.
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Become somebody whose word means something.
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If you say you'll do something, follow through
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reliably, create trust with others and with yourself.
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See, when you start creating trust with yourself,
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you know what happens?
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You start to naturally create trust with others.
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And that's a pretty remarkable thing when you
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can actually do that.
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Okay.
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Number 20.
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Choose quality when shortcuts are tempting, you know,
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um, many years ago, I learned this, uh,
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caveat.
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You could pick, basically you can pick two,
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you can't have three.
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Okay.
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Speed is one thing.
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Okay.
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Price and quality, speed, price, and quality.
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You can pick two.
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If I give you the speed and I
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give you the quality, don't expect the greatest
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price.
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If I give you the best price and
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the best speed, don't expect great quality.
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So the point is, is that you have
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to pick two.
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And the third one is the one that
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is apparently not that important to you.
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Number 20, choosing quality when shortcuts are tempting
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is something that a lot of people will
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just give up with.
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Shortcuts aren't always bad, but be careful when
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saving effort means sacrificing something important.
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We just learned that if you want to
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have the cheapest product and the fastest, well,
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I guess that means you're going to sacrifice
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quality.
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Is that what you really wanted?
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Because see, intentionally, that's what you're choosing.
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Ask whether the shortcut improves efficiency or simply
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lowers your standard.
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When you lower your standard, ladies and gentlemen,
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guess what happens?
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Other people's standards that you expect go down
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for you.
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That's a problem.
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Number 21, did you know that your standards
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operate when nobody is watching?
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Yeah.
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This is where your real standards appear.
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Not when there's a huge audience before you.
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What do you do when there's no applause,
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supervision, a deadline, pressure, or an audience watching
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you?
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Your character shows up in those private choices,
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guys, every single time.
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And I think this is something that a
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lot of people, like they don't realize, they
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don't understand how it works, but I want
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to tell you that this is key, guys.
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This is key.
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It is so very key to understand how
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this works in our lives and how we
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can make these kinds of choices.
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So I think the biggest thing for our
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life today, for a lot of people to
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actually understand is our choices, guys.
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It's our choices.
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And our choices seem to be something easy,
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right?
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But sometimes, you know, they're not.
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Okay.
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And I say this to you because see,
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your goals, guys, they absolutely, absolutely matter, but
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if you treat them like they don't matter,
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then how are you supposed to, how are
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you supposed to live?
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Like how?
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Right.
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That's my big question I have for you.
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How are you supposed to live?
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Right.
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How do you live with that?
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And maybe you're like saying, well, you know,
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I don't know how I'm supposed to live.
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Right.
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I don't know how I'm supposed to live.
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All I know is that this is the
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way I want to be right now, but
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it may not be the way in the
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future.
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Right.
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Those are things I think a lot of
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people miss, right?
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People miss these kinds of things.
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And when people miss these kinds of things,
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I think the biggest thing for us to
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realize is that we have the ability, ladies
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and gentlemen, to make a choice.
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We can make a change in our life.
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Okay.
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And I say this to you because with
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the change we make, we can affect how
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we move forward.
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Right.
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It's not a one, two, three thing, guys.
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It's something that takes time in our life,
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right?
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We have to learn how to work around
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limitations intelligently, not complain about them.
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And you know, ladies and gentlemen, stop collecting
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reasons to quit.
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So many people I know do this and
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then they're not happy with what they're doing.
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Right.
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They're not happy with what they're doing.
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And I think that's a very big problem
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for a lot of people.
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Okay.
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Find evidence that progress is possible, guys.
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Right.
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I think when we understand these kinds of
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things, our life actually matters more than we
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think.
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More than we think.
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Sometimes that thought is something that just appears
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to us, but then another time it'll be
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fleeting.
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And we're like, wait a minute.
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Why did I make that choice?
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Why did I go that way?
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And I think the biggest reason is maybe
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you don't know why you went that way.
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And I'm going to tell you guys that
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this is about you and your choices in
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life.
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If you don't have these choices in life,
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you're going to be so disappointed with yourself.
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You're like, you know what?
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Why did I do it that way?
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Oh, because I thought I would take a
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shortcut because I figured that nobody's really going
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to care that I took a shortcut.
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And you're right.
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Maybe no one's going to know because you
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did it in private, but you know, what's
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going to happen.
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That private world is going to filter into
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the public world.
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They're going to be like, oh my gosh,
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what am I doing?
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What did I just do?
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Like how, why am I acting that way?
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I think that's something again, that a lot
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of people they miss and they miss it
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because they believe that they can skip.
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They believe they can cut corners, right?
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You all know that it's not great to
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cut corners.
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I'm sure you know that, right?
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But if you do cut corners, what's going
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to happen?
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You're going to have a problem and you're
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going to say, gee, why am I dealing
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with this?
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Right.
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So these are important things for all of
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us to really understand.
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Very, very important things.
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Quality is the key guys, even when a
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shortcut seems like it's going to be the
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answer.
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And I think another big thing is we
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got to become selective about what gets our
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energy, who gets our energy and what projects
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or things.
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Not every problem deserves your attention.
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Not every invitation deserves a yes.
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Not every argument deserves your participation.
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Your energy is limited.
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So decide carefully where you're going to invest
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it.
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I was at the airport today, flying back
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from Southwest Florida.
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And this one airport, Southwest Florida, is an
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amazing airport.
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Never had any problems.
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Never had any complaints with that.
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So I was on the line that I
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don't have clear there.
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But luckily it was an early flight.
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And because it was not like, you know,
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a holiday time, it was very easy.
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I think it was like number six in
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line.
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So I get up there.
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I always take my shoes off, my belt
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off because I go through pat down because
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I don't want to go through those radiations
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because they're not good for our body.
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They've actually shown in some parts of the
20:53
world that they've unzipped people's DNA and caused
20:56
them damage permanently, but that's a whole other
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story.
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So I was on the line.
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I unzipped my laptop bag, which is TSA
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friendly.
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So I get up there and he's like,
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laptop's going to come out.
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I said, this is a TSA friendly laptop
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bag.
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Well, you're not pre-check.
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I said, I know I'm not pre-check,
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but this is a TSA friendly bag.
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It does say pre-check.
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It says friendly because I've been doing this
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for quite a long time.
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He's getting really annoyed with me.
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And I said, look, sir, I don't want
21:29
to spend any energy on this, to be
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honest with you.
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So I'm just going to ask you to
21:34
get me a supervisor and I'll deal with
21:36
them.
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I thank you for your understanding.
21:38
And he's like, well, you know, the hat's
21:39
got to come to us and the glasses.
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I said, no, it's not.
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I said, I'm going to talk to the
21:43
supervisor.
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I think I'm done with you right now
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with all due respect.
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And I don't want to put any more
21:48
energy toward you.
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I want to talk to a supervisor, please.
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And last time that happened, just to let
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you know, I had my glasses stolen and
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my hat was damaged.
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So I want to hold on to them
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myself, please.
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Thank you.
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So I get the supervisor.
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He comes up and he's very nice.
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And he says, John, he says, well, they
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did change the standard a while back that
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they no longer support TSA friendly bags.
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I said, OK, no problem.
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All the guy had to do was tell
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me that not act like a jerk.
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I said, I've been flying this airport many
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years.
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So I just gives you an example of
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when you don't want to put the energy
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into that.
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Number 24, protect your attention from constant interruption.
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Attention has become incredibly valuable because so many
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things compete for messages, notifications, conversations, distractions.
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It can fragment our focus, create periods where
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important work receives your complete attention.
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Number five, raise standards gradually but permanently.
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You don't need to transform everything overnight.
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In fact, trying to change everything at once
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can make change harder to sustain.
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Raise one standard, practice it consistently and make
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it part of your new normal.
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That's right.
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I said your new normal.
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Number 26, make excellence repeatable.
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Excellence shouldn't require a rare burst of motivation.
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Build routines that help you produce quality consistently,
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not just on a one off.
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The goal isn't one extraordinary performance followed by
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10 careless ones.
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Make your best practices repeatable.
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And you can.
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Number 27, stop waiting for somebody else to
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demand more from you.
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Don't always require a boss, a teacher, a
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coach, a customer, a mentor or a deadline
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to force you into action.
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Learn to demand preparation, reliability, focus and quality
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from yourself before someone else has to request
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that.
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Number 28, your goals need standards, guys.
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And that's the key.
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They need standards so that they can grow.
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We like to say your goals need standards
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to be basically the support underneath.
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A goal without supporting standards is very fragile.
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If your goal requires consistency, but you tolerate
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constant excuses, there's a conflict.
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If your goal requires focus, but you tolerate
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endless interruptions.
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That's a problem, guys.
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There's a conflict.
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Build standards that support the destination.
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Number 29, what you tolerate eventually becomes your
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new normal.
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This is one of those most important ideas
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in today's show.
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What you repeatedly tolerate becomes familiar to you
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and becomes a pattern.
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If you tolerate unfinished work, unfinished work becomes
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the new normal you accept.
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If you tolerate constant lateness, lateness becomes normal.
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This is why I have a policy on
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my team.
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If someone's late on a project on the
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third time, they're done.
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They're gone.
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If you tolerate poor communication, poor communication becomes
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the normal that you accept.
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If you tolerate wasting your own time, wasting
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your time becomes normal for you.
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But it teaches others that that's what you
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put up with.
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But this works in the other direction, too.
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If you expect preparation, preparation becomes a new
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normal.
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If you expect follow through, follow through becomes
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a new normal.
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If you protect your time, protecting your time
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becomes a new normal.
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If you expect quality from yourself, quality becomes
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the new normal.
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Pay attention to what you're teaching yourself to
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accept.
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All right, this is important.
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And number 30, raise your standards and watch
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your choices begin to change.
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This is where everything comes together full circle.
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When you genuinely raise a standard, you don't
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just change what you want.
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You begin changing the decision you made.
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You prepare because being unprepared no longer meets
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your standard.
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You finish because constantly leaving things incomplete no
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longer meets your standard.
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You protect your time because allowing everyone and
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everything unlimited access to it no longer meets
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your standard.
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You communicate clearly because unnecessary confusion no longer
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meets your standard.
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You follow through because reliability is becoming part
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of your identity.
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You choose quality because you're no longer comfortable
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putting your name on work that you know
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doesn't represent your capabilities.
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That's why standards can have such a powerful
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influence on your life and others.
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A goal says, I wanna get there.
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A standard says, this is how I operate
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while getting there.
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And that's an important distinction.
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You can set a goal once, your standards
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show up every single day.
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They show up when you're tired, right?
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They show up when you're excited.
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They show up when something becomes inconvenient.
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They show up when nobody is watching.
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They show up when taking a shortcut would
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be easier, right?
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Many people wanna take a shortcut.
27:04
Many people wanna go home early before they've
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actually finished.
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Many people wanna take a shortcut because they
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feel that if they take the shortcut, they
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can do that again tomorrow.
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And there's no real need to finish it
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anytime soon.
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If I get it done this year, that's
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all I care about.
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That's a poor standard to adopt, but people
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do it all the time.
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The thing I wanna say to you is
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that people show up when taking a shortcut
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would be just easier.
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So they take the shortcut.
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They show up when taking the shortcut would
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be easier because somebody else says, I'll take
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the shortcut.
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Or you know what?
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I wanna go home early.
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That's not really being accountable.
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They show up when you have to decide
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whether you're going to keep the commitment or
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not.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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Please go ahead and check out more of
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this great stuff.
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Danny, thanks so much for your comment today.
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Yes, we will definitely pray for Brian and
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wish him all the best on his healing
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for a safe journey and a remission out
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of cancer.
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Thank you so much for tuning in.
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