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SPECIAL PODCAST: It’s Smart to Think about Winning, Not Losing · Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to the special weekend edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Naughty but Nice Show. I'm your host, Rob Shooter, and
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  Speaker 1: you probably know me as a gossip columnist and entertainment
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  Speaker 1: reporter a level the tea or the dish on celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also a best selling author and one of
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  Speaker 1: the world's most respected experts on change, on happiness, on habits,
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  Speaker 1: and so for ten minutes each weekend, we put out
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  Speaker 1: these special bonus podcasts, and we don't talk about celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we don't even focus on them, not one
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  Speaker 1: little bit. What we do is talk about and focus
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  Speaker 1: on you. Today's topic is it's smart to think about winning,
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  Speaker 1: not losing. One positive thought at a time is the
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  Speaker 1: only way to win the game of life. Hopefully, it's
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  Speaker 1: a game we're all playing for a very long time,
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  Speaker 1: so don't be in too much of a rush. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I want you all to slow down, to take a
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  Speaker 1: breath and live each moment to its fullest while learning
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  Speaker 1: the rules you're going to need to know if you
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  Speaker 1: are going to win. To get the best results, you
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  Speaker 1: need to play with a clear head. You wouldn't expect
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  Speaker 1: to win a game of tennis or even can't if
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  Speaker 1: you are feeling down, negative, and exhausted. So how can
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  Speaker 1: you expect to win the most important game you will
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  Speaker 1: ever play, the game of life without clarity. I have
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  Speaker 1: played it both ways. I've played it with a negative
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  Speaker 1: mindset and also a positive mental game, and trust me,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, the latter is much much better. We all
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  Speaker 1: know what it's like to be in a bad place,
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  Speaker 1: a place where it is hard to believe that things
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  Speaker 1: are ever going to get better, and they won't if
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  Speaker 1: you are waiting for somebody to come and save you. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: be the solution and start thinking about winning, not losing.
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama said the following quote. Change will not come
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  Speaker 1: if we wait for some other person or some other time.
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  Speaker 1: We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are
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  Speaker 1: the change that we seek. I know this to be
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  Speaker 1: true because I've failed at the game of life for
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  Speaker 1: a really long time. I knew I needed to make
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  Speaker 1: big change. I knew that nobody was coming to save me,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't know what those changes should be. That is,
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  Speaker 1: until I allowed myself to start thinking about winning, not losing.
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  Speaker 1: Playing a bad hand can be made better if you
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  Speaker 1: make good choices, reject the negative voice, inside your head.
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  Speaker 1: You know the one, that nasty voice that plants horrible
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  Speaker 1: for it's nasty, lies, overstays, it's welcome, and never shuts up.
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  Speaker 1: You know that voice. Arm yourself with a positive mental
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  Speaker 1: game so that the moment you hear those negative voices
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  Speaker 1: come in, you slam the door shut on them right away. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: close the windows too, because negativity is all around us
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  Speaker 1: all the time, and we have to protect ourselves. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's so sneaky and so devious that you won't even
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  Speaker 1: know it's there until you start to think about winning.
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  Speaker 1: Then you will discover that, like all those horror movies,
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous voices are coming from inside the house.
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  Speaker 1: Alicia Keys said the following quote, No one will take
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  Speaker 1: care of you if you don't take care of yourself. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: get into the habit of what I like to call
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  Speaker 1: the positive mind game, a game that I play all
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  Speaker 1: day long. The rules are simple. You need to challenge
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  Speaker 1: yourself to be more positive in every aspect of your
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  Speaker 1: life by considering the endless solutions rather than the mounting problems.
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  Speaker 1: For example, my little adorable doggy Dorby Wolf Wolf Wolf
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  Speaker 1: needs to go for a walk every morning. Get six
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  Speaker 1: thirty am. Now I moved his dinner back, and how
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  Speaker 1: I pushed it back an hour. So now this walk
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  Speaker 1: is at seven thirty am, which is still an hour
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  Speaker 1: before Daddy likes to get out of bed. However, after
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  Speaker 1: months of moaning that there is no snooze button on
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  Speaker 1: a dog, I started to play the positive mind game
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  Speaker 1: and transformed the negative into a positive. Let me explain now,
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, at seven point thirty, when I walk
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  Speaker 1: down twenty fourth Street as the city starts to come alive,
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  Speaker 1: wake up and stretch, it's actually kind of amazing. I've
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  Speaker 1: got to meet people in my building who I have
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  Speaker 1: never met before, and I've ended up actually becoming really
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  Speaker 1: friendly with one of my morning neighbors and his beautiful
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  Speaker 1: standard poodle, Hello Lola. Plus, I get an extra hour
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  Speaker 1: each morning now to focus on myself before my phone
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  Speaker 1: starts to blow up with all the breaking celebrity news
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  Speaker 1: pouring in from around the world. It was during those
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  Speaker 1: sixty extra minutes I now get every day that I
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  Speaker 1: finally got to finish my book the forward answer it
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  Speaker 1: would never have had. And if Darby hadn't got me
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  Speaker 1: up in the morning to take him outside, I've come
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  Speaker 1: to see my mornings now as a blessing living in
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  Speaker 1: a city I adore knowing unconditional love from my little
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  Speaker 1: boy Derby. I'm even slightly embarrassed to admit that, after
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  Speaker 1: all these years of thinking otherwise, I'm actually a morning
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  Speaker 1: person who knew and it's all because I chose to
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  Speaker 1: look at doing exactly the same task in a totally different,
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  Speaker 1: positive way. Change the way you think, and you will
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  Speaker 1: change your life. Oscar Wilde said the following quote. The
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  Speaker 1: optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the whole. See
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  Speaker 1: the doughnut, my friends, And if you can't change your situation,
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  Speaker 1: you can change your mind, which is exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: did just a few weeks ago, jumping into a tank
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  Speaker 1: car early one morning after walking Derby, feeling grumpy, tired,
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  Speaker 1: and overworked. I was heading to Good Day New York
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  Speaker 1: to talk with one of my favorite people in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: Rosanna Scatto, about last night's Grammy Awards. There was literally
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with this picture except my attitude. As we
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  Speaker 1: shot up Eighth Avenue in a chauffeur driven card that
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  Speaker 1: the show had provided, I put down the notes and
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  Speaker 1: I looked out of the window it was a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: day outside and I was about to ruin it. I
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  Speaker 1: caught myself, and just like that, I stopped. I refocused,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought about winning. Of all the entertainment experts
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  Speaker 1: in the world, New York's Top morning show wanted me,
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  Speaker 1: what was my problem with that. You can be angry
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  Speaker 1: when you get the wrong order at Starbucks, or you
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  Speaker 1: can be grateful you can afford a cup of coffee
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  Speaker 1: that's six seven dollars. You can snap back when someone
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  Speaker 1: pushes in front of you at the supermarket, or you
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  Speaker 1: can shake it off and think about the delicious treats
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have for dinner. The point is, smart
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  Speaker 1: people understand that in a world where circumstances are out
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  Speaker 1: of your control, you get to control the way you react.
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  Speaker 1: Realize that the small decisions you make every moment add
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  Speaker 1: up to define who you are in the big picture.
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  Speaker 1: Stop getting in the way of your story and start
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  Speaker 1: enjoying what is outside of your window. Henry Matisse said
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  Speaker 1: the following, I love this quote. There are always flowers
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  Speaker 1: for those who want to see them. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see the flowers. I want to be that person. Here's
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  Speaker 1: an exercise you can do that will help see if
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  Speaker 1: you can go an entire without complaining. I know from
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  Speaker 1: experience it's actually a lot harder than it sounds. Write
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  Speaker 1: down every single time you can plain in the next
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and I promise you that by the
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  Speaker 1: time you go to bed, you will complain one more time.
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  Speaker 1: About how long the list is. Mine was over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and that was on a day that I considered
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  Speaker 1: to be a pretty good day. Think about it. If
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  Speaker 1: every complaint you have is just sixty seconds long, when
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  Speaker 1: you complain one hundred times a day, one hour and
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes is wasted on evading responsibility and finding a solution.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson said the following quote, You don't have a
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  Speaker 1: problem if the problem can be solved by doing something
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  Speaker 1: about it. I would argue most of our problems can
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  Speaker 1: go away if we do something about it. I remember
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  Speaker 1: being invited to this really fancy book party David Zizenko.
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  Speaker 1: It was at the Dream Hotel. You know him. He's
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  Speaker 1: made a career out of writing those eat this, not
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  Speaker 1: that books, Eat this, not that it's a franchise. He's
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  Speaker 1: got so many of those books out that he has
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  Speaker 1: created a little empire. We knew each other a little
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  Speaker 1: bit professionally from being on the same daytime TV circuit,
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  Speaker 1: but we weren't close friends. I had a lovely time,
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  Speaker 1: and later that evening I found myself standing alone in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom, holding his book in one hand and the
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  Speaker 1: secret of his success in the other. Dave was successful
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  Speaker 1: not because he was telling people what they should and
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  Speaker 1: should indeed, but rather because he was identifying a problem
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  Speaker 1: and offering a solution. Replacing the bad with the good
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  Speaker 1: was a brilliant idea. Inspired I realized that is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what we need to be doing with the way we think.
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  Speaker 1: The next time you have a bad, negative thought, replace
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  Speaker 1: it with a good positive one. Pull that sucker out
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  Speaker 1: that negative thought like it's a weed before it takes root,
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  Speaker 1: and just as importantly, fill the hole it leaves behind
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  Speaker 1: with a rose. It's not enough to just get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the bad. We need to replace it with something good.
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  Speaker 1: Think this not that. Think winning not losing. When she
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  Speaker 1: replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start seeing positive results. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening. I love doing these
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  Speaker 1: short podcasts on the weekend. The response has been overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: Because of this podcast. I was back on Gma talking
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  Speaker 1: about the forward answer. We got back into the top
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  Speaker 1: fifty bugs. It's amazing, so thank you everybody. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep doing this podcast as long as you keep listening.
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  Speaker 1: And let's sign off with our little signature. Remember, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be naughty, you've got to be nice.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, everybody, pip it. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: nice with Rom.