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Your Excuses Are Costing: You MORE Than You Think (S5) S37:E4 Tuesday · Inspirations for Your Life

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right welcome to another episode of the ever
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I great question I'm John C Morley I'm
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a serial entrepreneur I'm an engineer marketing specialist
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video producer podcast host coach keynote speaker passionate
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lifelong learner a graduate student at Montclair State
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University and so grateful now to be a
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published author yes ladies gentlemen it is great
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to be with you here our master topic
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in case you missed it uh when we
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announced it on Saturday by the way we
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start on Saturday we roll all the way
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through the week and we finish up ladies
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gentlemen on a Friday Friday we go Saturday
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through Friday that's that's how we work okay
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um our master topic this week is your
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next level will demand a different you a
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different kind of you so today I'm looking
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at excuses and what they may really be
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costing us real obstacles exist the problem begins
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when an explanation for something difficult becomes permission
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to stop moving let's get into our 30
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points I know you guys are excited as
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much as I am number one guys every
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excuse has a hidden cost it does it's
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just the way it is an excuse may
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give you relief today but what does it
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cost you tomorrow time opportunity confidence relationships right
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money progress let's look beyond the immediate comfort
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okay let's do that all right number two
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stop protecting reasons you cannot begin we can
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all make excuses right but how about actually
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hunkering down and actually doing something your reason
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may be legitimate but repeatedly defending why you
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can't start won't move you forward put some
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of that energy into finding a way to
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begin and I know it's going to sound
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hard because it's not comfortable and you'd rather
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do things that are comfortable but I've told
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you before success does not lie where comfort
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is success starts where it's a painful I
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just said uncomfortable number three calculate yes calculate
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what waiting is costing you is it another
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week a month a year that's not always
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free opportunities disappear problems grow and time unfortunately
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doesn't come back now I've said this before
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ladies you know the door may appear for
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you right now and even though that door
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may appear in the future again if you
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do see the door again it's probably going
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to be locked okay the excuses can sound
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completely reasonable number four the strongest excuses often
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sound logical something can make perfect sense and
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still prevent you from moving forward and you
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know we can spend so much time saying
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you know what this is why I shouldn't
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do it this is why it's not right
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for me okay why don't we actually spend
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as much time making excuses as we could
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be doing solving the situation number five stop
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turning explanations into permanent limitations people do this
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every single day and they kick themselves in
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the foot without even knowing it an explanation
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describes what's difficult today it shouldn't automatically become
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a prediction about what's impossible tomorrow and I
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think when people think about that concept about
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you know what's impossible they're like oh my
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gosh what am I supposed to do what
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am I supposed to say all I know
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is that this is harder than I thought
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it was going to be and then you
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decide not to go anywhere and that's a
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very very big problem for a lot of
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people because they put themselves into this box
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that they really don't want to be in
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but somehow they put themselves in it number
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six your circumstances matter guys but so do
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your choices you have freedom of choice and
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circumstances absolutely matter in our life but choices
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often remain inside them an identity where your
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decisions still have influence so that's important to
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know the identity and to identify it so
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you can actually act upon it quickly number
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seven identify what you actually control in your
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world you may not control the situation but
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you can often control your preparation response effort
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learning and next move focus there okay what
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we focus on is what we bring about
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so we put our thoughts on the good
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things what we want more of that's going
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to come in our life number eight guys
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are you ready for number eight I think
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you are stop spending energy defending inaction okay
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a lot of you'll do this well you
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know the reason I'm doing this is because
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of this and this is exactly the way
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who do you have to prove it to
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who stop doing that how much energy are
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you spending explaining why something can't happen put
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some of it toward finding at least one
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possible way to move forward right some people
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just like to oh they like to just
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argue they like to spend a lot of
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time doing this and they burn their steam
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and their energy and they could have actually
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been solving the problem number nine replace these
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simple words I can't with a better question
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ask what part of this can I do
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or what would make this possible what would
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it look like when it's successful what would
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it feel like when I've accomplished this better
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questions will help your mind search for options
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and you know again it's what we're focusing
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on what we're thinking about that's bringing about
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our life if we don't understand those things
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today then we're just going to have ourselves
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going down this path that we really don't
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want to be at okay number 10 ask
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what would make progress possible hmm maybe you
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need information training help guidance time or a
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smaller first step determine what's actually missing you
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know a lot of times whether it's uh
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people that I mentor to be speakers or
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to be uh podcasts guests or uh hosts
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the concept of becoming a host a lot
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of people is very daunting so we start
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with something very simple we start with maybe
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just recording themselves in front of their iphone
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or their camera and just seeing how does
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that feel doesn't feel so bad does it
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number 11 stop waiting for ideal conditions I've
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already said this to you guys before they
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don't exist ideal conditions rarely arrive learn how
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to make responsible progress even when everything isn't
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perfectly aligned and that's not hard to do
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but so many people have gotten their let's
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say feet so deep in the ground that
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they feel they've got to argue with everything
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that they've got to figure out how to
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not make it work would it be nice
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if these people actually would say gee you
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know what I can make it work maybe
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I should actually give that a try number
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12 guys use what you already know look
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at the knowledge you have right now experience
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you possess the skills your relationships the tools
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and time you may already have enough to
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begin but you're psyching yourself out because you're
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trying to take a gigantic step when all
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we need to do is take one small
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step and again one small consistent step every
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day not a huge gigantic step and then
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the next day we don't take any I
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think that causes some people to really get
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down in the dumps like well I can't
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do this every day no one's asking you
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to just take a small step consistent progress
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every day moves mountains okay we don't get
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the success by doing everything all once as
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much as you think that's the way it
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works it doesn't work like that and the
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sooner you realize that the sooner you're gonna
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say wait a minute I can be successful
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that's right start smaller instead of starting bigger
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number 13 if the full version isn't possible
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right now why not shrink it down shrink
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the first step down maybe break the first
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step at a two or three or four
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even five small little mini steps 10 minutes
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guys beats zero right doing something for 10
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minutes beats zero so if maybe you're working
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as like oh I can't do a half
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hour I can't do an hour but you
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could do 10 minutes right 10 minutes is
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better than nothing number 14 please stop comparing
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your resources with somebody else's I know you
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might think that you have no chance because
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their resource is bigger than you but they
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had to start somewhere too you know someone
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else may have more money time or even
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experience than you do that's their starting point
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not yours learn how to work intelligently from
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yours we want to work smarter and not
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harder and as we do that we say
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wait a minute I'm actually getting this or
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this is making sense to me right but
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we have to first believe in that step
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and we have to take a step that
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we believe we can take right number 15
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guys work around your limitations intelligently adjust the
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schedule you have change the methods learn something
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new ask for help a limitation doesn't always
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require surrender so um you know whether it's
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learning whether it's a relationship whether it's volunteering
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whether it's anything you know we don't achieve
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success on our own this is something I
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learned a long time ago success is really
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possible because of teams now maybe you're saying
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John the team isn't present but yeah maybe
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you do have a team in some parts
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and teams help you become successful a lot
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quicker than you would on your own so
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there's nothing wrong in having a team remember
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there is no i in t-e-a
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-m a team is not a group a
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team is a team when you play baseball
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you play football you play soccer lacrosse or
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a number of other sports you're part of
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a team and when we have team captains
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and they have these big egos and they
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don't want to pass the ball or they
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don't want to give a beginning player a
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chance that's not really meeting with team spirit
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right a team works with each other a
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team gives each other opportunities a team helps
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people when they're not able to do something
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they motivate them they help them do what
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they need to do and they want them
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to learn number 16 guys don't confuse difficulty
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with impossibility I think no matter where you
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are in life the word impossible comes up
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instead of the word maybe improbable improbable means
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it's not likely but it still can happen
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impossible is like you shut the door like
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there's no way that you're going to get
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right so we just got to think a
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little bit different we got to think a
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little more strategically and when we do this
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guess what happens we see something from a
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different perspective and we even make some small
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steps those small steps eventually will get us
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to our success so difficult means something requires
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effort and adaptation impossible means it cannot be
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done all know the difference again difficult difficult
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needs effort right needs some type of effort
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maybe it's a person maybe it's more knowledge
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maybe it's more financial resources impossible means it
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cannot be done at all right so if
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you had the money and you had the
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skills could you do it yeah so it's
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not impossible it's just difficult and difficult is
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something we can use our mind to brainstorm
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to get creative to find solutions for all
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right number 17 this is an important one
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stop collecting reasons to quit you even start
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maybe five minutes you're like oh how do
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I get out of this how do I
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stop when you're discouraged every setback can look
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like evidence to stop right now start looking
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for evidence that continuing is possible and actually
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rewarding I know you're going to say John
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I want to give up because it's too
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hard because it's uncomfortable those are the words
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and a lot of people want to bow
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out when they hear it's going to be
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uncomfortable but you know what's on the other
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side of uncomfortability success number 18 find evidence
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that progress is possible once you do that
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your life really changes quite a bit you've
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learned before haven't you right you've done difficult
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things before you've adapted before you've solved problems
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before I'm sure you have let those experiences
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speak for themselves to remind you that you
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have made progress in the past and you
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can make progress again in the future right
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think about something right now that you didn't
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think you ever could do but you got
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it done right what was it I remember
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uh when I started out to being a
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um a cub scout and then I went
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on to become um basically a uh we
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blow then I became a scout and then
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I worked my way up to become an
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eagle scout something that wasn't easy it was
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difficult it was uncomfortable but I'm so glad
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that I stuck with it and then I
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became an eagle scout an eagle scout just
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like your education is something you have for
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life no one can ever take it away
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from you number 19 number 19 is a
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real important one I ask you ladies gentlemen
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to take responsibility without attacking yourself all right
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that's a that's a big one there John
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I know so let me try to break
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it down accountability isn't about beating yourself up
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the nuns most people think it is but
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it's not admit what you could have done
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differently learn from it and use that knowledge
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to move forward with it right when something
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goes wrong in your life and you had
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a bad experience don't think about the experience
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and how you feel just keep the lesson
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and throw everything else out okay I don't
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want you to relive the whole emotional experience
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and it was a bad one I just
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want you to keep the lesson all right
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number 20 guys excuses protect comfort more than
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potential and people we've learned in life want
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to be comfortable an excuse may protect you
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from rejection uncertainty hard work or even change
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but protecting yourself from discomfort can also protect
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you from growth that's a mouthful and why
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is it people don't want to trudge through
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a little bit of cold water dive into
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the pool right well I'm gonna dip my
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toe when it feels a little too cold
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just get in right just get into the
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water number 21 your future pays for today's
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delays procrastination sends the bill forward missed opportunities
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weaker preparation and growing problems may eventually become
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your future's responsibility number 22 please stop letting
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temporary obstacles become permanent identities I'll give you
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an example so you're on the road right
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and there is a roadblock there's a detour
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okay let's figure out how to go around
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it might not be comfortable your GPS might
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not know the way I was on one
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the other day where a road was closed
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and then I got to the other end
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and I was like there's a cop and
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like okay now what do I do I
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was it was closed two times we'll just
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go to the end make a left and
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guess what I learned another way to get
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somewhere that my GPS didn't know and that
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I can use if there's bad traffic in
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the future so that was a positive thing
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number 22 as we know this struggling today
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doesn't mean you're permanently incapable you may simply
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be learning don't turn a temporary problem into
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who you believe you are and I think
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that's what causes people to stop there was
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a story many years ago about an elephant
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a very baby elephant and this baby elephant
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was tied to a stake when it was
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really little and a few months later the
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elephant tried couldn't break free of this of
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the stake and longer tried a year went
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by tried and then you know what after
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that the elephant never tried again the elephant
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got very big but it basically reprogrammed its
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mind to think that it wasn't strong enough
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the elephant could have stopped that state and
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got out but because of the mindset the
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elephant got programmed into it never tried again
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that happens to us in life we might
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have not been good at something in the
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beginning but now with our skills and our
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experience we can try again and we can
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crush it number 23 be resourceful before asking
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for perfect circumstances ask what can I do
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with what I have right now seek better
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resources but don't remain stationary while waiting for
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them that's important guys number 24 progress doesn't
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require permission many people think it does those
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are the ones that are left behind you
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don't need everyone to understand or approve your
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goal before you're gonna be responsibly moving forward
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or working toward it no don't worry about
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what other people think number 25 make the
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next move available to you you don't need
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step 10 yet make the call ask the
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question open the document learn the skill take
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whatever the next move is available right now
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number 26 stop arguing for your limitations when
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someone offers a possible solution notice whether you
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immediately explain why it won't work don't become
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more committed to defending the limitation than solving
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it number 27 your reasons may be real
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and still need a solution that's okay you
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may genuinely lack time money knowledge or the
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resources that's real okay but if the problem
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matters you still need to ask what can
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be done about it right now number 28
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accountability gives us all leverage when you identify
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something you can influence you gain leverage accountability
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isn't punishment guys it's discovering where your power
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still exists number 29 the longer you wait
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the more expensive some changes become problems compound
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opportunities disappear have it strengthened skills take time
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to develop don't assume tomorrow's price will be
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the same as today's i think that's a
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misconception that so many people have and then
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they're like kicking themselves well why is it
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like this well because you said it was
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going to be like this and your thoughts
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create your reality number 30 stop financing your
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excuses with your future that's what you're doing
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by you creating these really outlandish excuses you're
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paying a big price for delaying your future
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this is what i want you to remember
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everyone when you postpone learning something you know
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you'll need for your future actually pays for
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it sometimes twice when you ignore a small
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problem until it becomes larger your future pays
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for it when you avoid an important conversation
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your future pays for it and when you
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spend years waiting for perfect circumstances and opportunities
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your future pays for it this isn't about
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denying reality maybe you don't have enough time
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right now maybe you don't have all the
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resources maybe someone told you maybe you tried
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before and you fail like that elephant did
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but that elephant could surely break out of
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that stake now but it won't because it's
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mind's condition to believe it's not strong enough
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and ask some questions what can i do
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from here right now maybe you can't take
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10 steps but you can take one or
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part of one maybe you can't afford the
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entire solution but you can start researching it
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now maybe you can't control someone else's decision
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but you can control your preparation and your
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responses now which will affect others maybe you
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can't change yesterday but you could change what
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you repeat tomorrow that's resourcefulness speaking guys and
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it connects directly to our master topic as
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you probably know your next level will demand
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a different you a different kind of you
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maybe that difference is you stopping and waiting
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for perfect circumstances don't do that maybe that
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difference is you start smaller instead of refusing
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to start maybe that difference is you move
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forward without destroying your confidence maybe that difference
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is you say this is difficult without concluding
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i can't do it it's a little hard
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but i'm going to keep working at it
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think about one excuse you've been repeating what
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is it protecting you from what is it
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costing you to keep using that excuse what
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happens if you repeat it for another year
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now identify one more availability issue to you
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right now what could you do what could
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change you don't have to solve everything today
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guys all right you need to prove that
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movement is possible your reasons may be real
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your obstacles may be real your circumstances matter
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but so do your choices in life we
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have freedom of choice use what you have
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start smaller when necessary work around limitations intelligently
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take responsibility without attacking yourself find your next
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move make it a game it's gonna be
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a lot of fun right it'll be a
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lot of fun i think when we approach
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life as a game it becomes fun and
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we get resourceful very quickly because we like
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being challenged ladies and gentlemen if you don't
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know who i am by now allow me
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to introduce myself i'm john c morley as
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i said i'm a serial entrepreneur engineer and
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much more and this has been another amazing
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episode of the powerful show inspirations for your
25:53
life you know ladies and gentlemen um at
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the end of december december 31st we'll be
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closing out our fifth season and january 1st
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we'll be starting our sixth year on the
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air that's like amazing i'm so grateful to
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all of you that have been following us
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and um yeah there's just so much we're
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doing and yes guys another book is coming
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out i'll share more about that as it's
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going to release it's gonna be a book
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about ai the truth that ai the world's
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never going to tell you so here's what
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i want to leave you with a few
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nuggets if you will the longer you wait
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the more expensive some changes become in the
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future the way i can express this is
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uh being in software engineering when we develop
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what we want in the beginning it's a
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lot less costly when we have to make
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changes after the system has released it can
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cost 60 to 100 percent more to incorporate
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those changes in so they're going to work
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properly okay those are important things and i
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think as we understand when things are expensive
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expensive doesn't just mean money expensive can mean
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our time can mean our resources okay those
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are important things so the longer you wait
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the more expensive some changes become and that
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could preclude you from actually doing something in
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life ladies gentlemen don't spend tomorrow paying for
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an excuse you can begin solving today stop
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finding some excuses with your future because every
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time you do this ladies gentlemen you delay
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that beautiful future that you're worth and if
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you only knew every time you opened your
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mouth or you said something in your mind
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that's going to delay you and how if
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you wouldn't have said that you could be
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further think about that elephant today right if
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that elephant kept trying and never gave up
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guess what happened the elephant could crush that
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steak all right it could have crushed that
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steak i invite you to please check out
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believemeachieved.com for more of my amazing inspiring
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creations at believemeachieved.com i'm john similarly serial
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entrepreneur i'll catch you again for another amazing
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episode tomorrow be well everyone take care