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Why Small Actions Change Everything (S5) S17:E3 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, good day, it is John
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C.
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Morley here, Serial Entrepreneur.
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So this is Inspirations for Your Life.
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Why small actions change everything.
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That is basically series five.
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And you know, it is show number 17
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and it's episode number three.
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And it is a Monday.
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Yes, it's a Monday.
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It's April 20, 2026.
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And the master topic that that all ties
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into for the week is how people actually
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take control of their life decision.
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The question is, do people take control or
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do they get pushed into something?
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Because I've said this before, just because you
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don't make a decision doesn't mean you've not
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made a decision.
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By you not deciding is actually you deciding.
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So you can read more about that in
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my book, Drained to Driven, and all some
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other great insights.
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But a lot of people just move through
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life and they don't really take the time
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to enjoy every moment.
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That could be eating, that could be walking,
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that could be enjoying a beverage, that could
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be, you know, just sitting outside or walking.
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So ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, passionate
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lifelong learner.
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And now, guys, very proud to be a
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official published author.
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So today, I'm not talking about massive breakthroughs,
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okay?
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I'm talking about something far more powerful.
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And like I told you, we're on a
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live environment.
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So again, we could get people around me,
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behind me, above me.
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Noises happen.
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We're not in a studio.
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So we're talking about something more powerful than
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what you imagine.
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Small actions, guys, because most people are waiting
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for a big moment to change their life.
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And I got news for you.
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The big moment is never going to happen
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to you unless you embrace the small moment.
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So a big decision, a big opportunity, a
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big shift.
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But real change doesn't happen that way, guys.
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It happens quietly.
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It happens consistently.
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And it happens through the smallest repeat actions
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that you take over time.
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Are you ready, guys?
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Let's get into the main topics.
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Number one, when we understand the small inputs
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compound results, they build over time.
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So what seems insignificant today becomes undeniable tomorrow,
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okay?
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And again, tiny actions, number two, scale faster
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than expected.
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Small steps kind of stay small.
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But when they get repeated, they really start
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to branch into something.
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So I think these are important things to
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notice.
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And so many people, if you just sit
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outside, like fly on the wall, and you
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observe people, whether they're talking, whether they're on
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their phone, whatever they're doing, they're not into
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the moment.
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They're into so many other things that they're
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trying to multitask because that's what the generation
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is saying you need to do.
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But multitasking is not great, I got to
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be honest with you.
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Number three, consistency beats intensity.
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I've said this before, and I'm going to
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say it again, every time.
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Because what you do regularly matters more than
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what you do occasionally.
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If you do something great one day, but
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then the rest of your week, you just
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don't do anything, that's going to be a
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problem for you.
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So if you, let's say, watch you eat
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on one day, and then on this day,
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you don't watch what you eat, and then
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over here, you actually come and now you
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watch, that's not going to be a big
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difference, okay?
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So number four, guys, minor shifts create major
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change.
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A slight adjustment, repeated daily changes directly, completely
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will change your life.
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Number five, guys, daily habits shape identity.
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So whatever day you have actually defines you
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by what you're doing over and over again.
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Not by what you do one day.
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One day doesn't set the pattern or the
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trajectory of your life.
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You don't become something big overnight.
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You become it daily.
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I didn't write Drained to Driven in five
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minutes.
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It took me some time.
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It took me several months.
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But it was consistent effort, working on it,
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then editing it at the end, and just
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being consistent doing a little bit each day.
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Working on part of a chapter, a concept,
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and then staying with that all the time,
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and the book got finished.
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Number six, guys, repetition builds momentum.
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The more you do something, the easier it
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becomes.
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I can speak about this being in grad
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school, a lot of times we're learning new
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formulas, and the formula seems like a real
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pain in the butt, okay?
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But when you've done it over and over
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and over and over again, it seems like
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the easiest thing because now it becomes comfortable.
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I've said that when something is uncomfortable, that's
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when success starts to breed.
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Number seven, guys, small wins reinforce behavior progress.
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So encourage more progress is what it's about.
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And I think most people are looking for
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the giant win.
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They're looking for that big, grand gesture, but
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the truth of the matter is, that's a
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movie.
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This isn't a movie.
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This is your life.
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So we need to start embracing every breath,
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every step, every thought you take, because the
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thoughts are what's going to lead you to
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the inspiration.
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The inspiration is what's going to take you
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to your success.
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You won't see results, guys, right away, so
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don't get disappointed.
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But they're building.
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They're working behind the scenes.
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Have you ever gone to a movie or
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a play, and a lot of times you
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know you're waiting there, but it didn't start
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yet?
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Well, they're working on the set behind the
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scenes, and then you see this fantastic Broadway
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play.
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Number nine, compounding takes time.
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Growth accelerates after consistency.
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Growth accelerates after consistency.
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And I think the more that we can
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be consistent, and I can share this with
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you in my math or my engineering problems,
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the more I do something, the more consistent,
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but not just a consistency.
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I notice the learning curve basically gets smaller
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so that I learn more in a short
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amount of time because of the consistency.
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So spending a large amount of time is
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going to be frustrating, but if you do
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short chunks, you keep taking the short-term
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and basically transferring it to your long-term
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memory.
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So number 10, guys, what you repeat grows.
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Whatever you feed expands.
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So what we think about, we bring about.
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I've said this many times before, but these
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are really important points that I think set
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the path for our lives.
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Whatever you feed expands.
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So when you focus on a thought, wherever
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you put your energy basically, so when you
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focus on a thought, the energy is going
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to flow to that idea, whether you want
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it or not.
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So it's about the thing that it's not
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just conscious minds.
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It's unconscious minds.
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I don't know if you guys know this,
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but throughout your entire day, you're actually being
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programmed to do things that you may or
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may not even want to do, but the
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environment around you is actually making you do
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things.
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You're saying, oh, that's not possible.
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Yes, it is.
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You go to a store and you suddenly
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buy extra junk that you don't need.
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That's an impulse buy.
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It doesn't work on everybody, but a lot
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of people, it does tempt them and they
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do buy that last thing that they don't
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really need.
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So what you repeat, you reinforce.
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You can hear the truck backing up.
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Like I said, I'm right here.
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There's actually a construction site not too far
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from me.
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They're actually building a new STEM center.
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So again, we are on a live, active
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campus with live people, live noise, live environment.
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It's fun, but it's also challenging.
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Number 11, guys, simplicity sustains progress.
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Simple actions are easier to maintain long term.
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Again, you're going to hear planks.
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You're going to hear all kinds of stuff.
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That's kind of the fun of being in
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a live environment.
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So simplicity sustains progress.
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When we make a concept simple, it's easier
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to repeat.
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And when it's easier to repeat, we can
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thus be consistent at it, maintain it, and
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we can actually get better at it over
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the long term.
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Number 12, guys, oh, and the sun has
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just come out.
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This is beautiful.
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Small effort removes overwhelm, right?
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You don't need to do everything.
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Just something.
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Number 13, guys, momentum builds gradually.
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Movement creates more movement, right?
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Movement creates more movement.
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When your body is standing up or you're
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sitting and you're starting to move one part
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of your body, it's like the rest of
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your body wants to get in too.
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Maybe you start dancing.
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Maybe you start dancing with your feet.
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And then your arms and your legs, your
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chest, everything wants to get involved with the
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dance.
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So that's what we mean about momentum.
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And momentum is energy, guys.
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Momentum is energy.
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That is important.
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Number 14, guys, inputs define results.
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What you put in determines what comes out.
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We said this before, but if we don't
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understand what goes in and we don't know
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how or we don't know what's being put
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in, then what we're getting out is just,
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well, a mystery.
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Sometimes we might like it.
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Sometimes we won't.
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But if we become aware of the inputs
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that our body is susceptible to, you know,
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see, touch, hear, touch, I see, hear, touch,
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taste, smell, proprioception.
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So every awareness right now, for example, I'm
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sitting here talking to you guys on the
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show.
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I can feel wind against my neck.
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I can actually, just as I said that
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I feel more wind, I can actually feel
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the temperature in my socks, in my feet
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right now.
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It's not too cold, but it's not actually
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very warm either.
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So it's kind of in the middle.
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I also can feel the texture right now
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as my feet are on this patio concrete
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here at school.
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I can feel the texture of my feet
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against the shoes and the soles against the
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concrete.
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And I think there's lots of things to
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become aware of.
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So just sitting here, and I've done this
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before, I could be aware of the building.
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I could be aware of the color of
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the building, like right to my right.
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If you guys, if I turn the camera
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here, you guys can see, this is actually
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the hall in which you guys can see
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that.
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Actually, I actually got to turn the camera
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to my, to my, there we go.
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And you guys can actually see it right
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over here.
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But this is University Hall.
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If I can kind of give you a
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little view of it.
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Can you see it?
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Hopefully you can.
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There's another building over there.
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And the building has a certain architecture to
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it.
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It has a certain color to it, a
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certain texture to it.
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In addition to that, the other thing that
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I noticed being here is I noticed the
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different sounds from the wind, even though it's
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not very vigilant.
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I noticed the bells or the chimes.
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I noticed when they were unloading stuff.
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Some people are opening a door, like there's
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some maintenance people here and they're doing some
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work and they open a door.
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So you can become aware of all these
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different things.
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And I think when we can become aware
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of things, we're able to understand everything much
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better.
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So for example, if we're in a movie
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theater, right?
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And let's say there's no sound at that
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movie theater.
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Well, we're going to miss a big part
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of that movie, right?
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You know, maybe you've gone to a theme
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park, beginning with a D or one beginning
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with a U.
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I'm not going to mention their names.
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But they add a lot of things.
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So they add animatronics.
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They add things to give us more awareness,
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like things that we can feel, things that
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we can smell, touch, right?
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They also create different types of motion patterns
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for us.
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Some can make you a little bit nauseous
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if you go too fast.
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But these are all things that we can
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gain awareness from.
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And just like that building, and just like
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I can notice standing here, sitting here, and
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I can notice the sky, and I can
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notice that there's clouds up in the sky.
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You may or may not, I don't know
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if you guys can see that.
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Let me just see if I can show
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you.
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Can you see the clouds?
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Okay, yeah, kind of hard to see, I
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know.
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So there's clouds.
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There is also, as I'm sitting here, there
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is an awareness that I have of the
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space that I'm in, okay?
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Noticing the proximity right now.
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Like I said, I'm watching.
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There's some repair people here.
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They're repairing a door, trying to do something.
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And I'm aware of all these different things
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around me.
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Across to me on my right, your left,
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there's a student sitting on their laptop doing
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some reading or studying.
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I'm aware of all the trees around me,
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okay?
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I am aware right now of just the
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environment.
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That I'm in like this little courtyard here,
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okay?
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And I'm aware of that.
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Other things I could be aware of, there's
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different people that walk in and walk out
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at different times.
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So I think what I want to tell
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you is awareness is a big key to
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success.
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If we miss awareness, then we really miss
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the signals that could take us forward or
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push us backwards.
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And that's an important thing to understand.
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So as I said, the inputs define the
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results.
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And those inputs come, ladies and gentlemen, from
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your awareness.
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Number 15, volume creates impact.
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More reps lead to stronger outcomes.
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For those of you that do, right?
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If you do three sets of 15 or
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three sets of 10, right?
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The more reps you do, okay?
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The more reps you do, the stronger the
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outcome actually becomes.
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So if you started, for example, with a
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set, and let's say one set has 10
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reps in it.
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So you might do three sets of 10
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reps.
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The more reps you add helps.
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And sometimes what we'll do is we'll make
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it to be more sets and less reps.
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The reason is we get a little break
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between the sets.
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And I think these are important things.
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You don't need a perfect plan, guys.
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You need a consistent action.
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You need that every day.
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You can't say, well, gee, you know what?
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I don't want to do it today, okay?
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Because I don't feel like it.
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And you can't do that because you're going
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to break your pattern.
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Once you've gotten into a pattern, and once
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you're doing it so much that it just
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becomes automatic, like I got to do that,
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that's when life starts to change.
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It won't change overnight.
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Number 16, guys, small changes reduce risk, okay?
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Big changes fail fast.
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Small ones stick.
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We could talk about a car dealership and
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how they decided to make this a huge
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expansion, or one that I know of not
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far from us in Naples, Florida, where this
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guy was opening a pizzeria.
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He got a little bit, let's say, too
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aggressive, and he decided to buy another store
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next to him.
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So he was double.
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What happened a few months?
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He couldn't pay his rent.
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And he also opened another store in another
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part of town, and he couldn't pay that
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one either.
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So then he went out of business.
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So we got to be careful about these
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things.
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So a small change might be something like,
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when we serve food here, we're going to
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have a signature napkin, or we're going to
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make sure that we put a certain type
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of free app on the table, a couple
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of them, so people can taste it, and
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maybe they might order that app today.
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So that could be how that works.
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Number 17, guys, big results start small.
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I've said this before.
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Every major outcome that's ever happened began with
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a step.
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You can't complete a marathon until you first
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put your foot forward for the very first
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step.
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You can't complete a repair until you take
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the step to get the screwdriver.
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You can't learn something until you take the
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step to want to learn, be open to
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learning.
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Number 18, guys, patterns scale very fast.
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What you repeat is automatic.
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But be careful with what you make automatic.
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If it's something that dwindles away your time
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or dwindles away your purpose, you're going to
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be chasing an eight ball and saying, you
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know what, I feel like my day slipped
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through my fingers.
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Because you're not aware of the moment you're
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in.
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If I took nine out of 10 students
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at this campus, and I asked them, are
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you aware of anything?
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They'd look crazy.
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They'd be on their phones, you know, like
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this, walking across campus, doing some stupid stuff.
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And if I asked them, are they aware
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of what's around them?
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Are they aware of the sunshine?
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Are they aware of things?
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Now that I told them about it, they
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probably are.
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But they weren't aware of it before.
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And the pattern interrupt comes where we need
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to automatically start slowing down.
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And becoming aware of these things around us.
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Something drain-to-driven actually does a really
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good job of explaining firsthand.
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Number 19, guys, discipline beats burst.
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Short-term effort fades.
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Structure states.
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Structure states.
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The bursts may seem like they're doing this
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phenomenal job.
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But they quickly burn out.
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Number 20, guys, minor upgrades stack.
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Each improvement builds on the last thing that
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you worked on.
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The last thing.
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Small improvements, guys, don't stay small.
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Nope.
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They get bigger.
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I remember the first time I built our
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own custom website with our own system.
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It was very small.
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It was one page.
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And then we added all these modules.
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And now we're out to like a scheduling
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system.
21:06
And that's a whole other thing.
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But my point is it started with just
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something that could manage webpages correctly and properly.
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And be 100% secure.
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Not something that had a million features.
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It had the core features.
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And then we added on additional options as
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we needed to.
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But we made sure that that was going
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to be scalable.
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And able to work in any of the
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environments we deployed it in.
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Number 21, guys, growth builds quietly.
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Most progress happens before it's visible.
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Yep, that's true.
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Most progress happens before it's visible.
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It's like the iceberg.
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The real heart or the meat of the
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iceberg is below.
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Way, way down.
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Not at the tippy top.
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Number 22, guys, persistence multiplies results.
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When we're consistent, we can actually get better.
22:16
I'll give you an example.
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So many years ago, I didn't know I
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played pool pretty well.
22:22
Even have my own stick, have my own
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cue things to, you know, basically make sure
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the stick is good and all ready for
22:29
the ball before we play.
22:31
But I didn't understand stick etiquette.
22:33
I didn't understand how to play.
22:35
I didn't understand how the angles work.
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But once I started to play and I
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was consistent with it, okay.
22:42
And again, we're in a live environment here.
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And it looks like there might be like
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an ROTC or something that's doing some type
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of a run or a walk or something.
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Looks like that's what they're doing.
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So again, we're at a live campus here
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today.
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And again, you just never know what you're
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going to get, who you're going to get,
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or what they're going to do.
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Number 23, guys.
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I always try to pick a location that's
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kind of out of the beaten path, but
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somehow things sort of still find me.
23:19
Number 23, structure creates stability.
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Systems hold the progress in place.
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You might have one of the most complex
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things you have to do, right?
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Create a system for it.
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In my book, I share how the systems
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I built have helped me and continue to
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help me grow every single day.
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People say to me, John, why didn't you
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do this earlier?
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Because I wasn't aware.
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Because I wasn't aware.
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And that awareness awakening changed my life.
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Number 24, guys.
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Stability creates consistency.
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When things are stable, they repeat almost effortlessly.
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So I've said to you guys that success
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starts where it gets uncomfortable.
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Well, then how is that working, John?
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Well, once you learn the pattern or once
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you know what to do, it's not hard
24:14
anymore, okay?
24:16
It's not hard anymore.
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It's not as uncomfortable.
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But in order to grow, you have to
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keep pushing yourself to doing things that are
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uncomfortable, not painful.
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I said uncomfortable.
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Number 25, guys.
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Consistency creates outcomes and results follows repetition.
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So results will follow the repetition.
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In a few minutes, we're going to have
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a whole bunch of people walking behind me
24:39
here.
24:39
So consistency is what turns the effort into
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results.
24:44
It's not like you're just going to wake
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up one morning and bam, it's going to
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hit you.
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No.
24:50
Those are the people that get extremely disappointed
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in life because they don't put the effort
24:55
in.
24:55
People think showing up is the total answer.
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It's not.
24:59
Showing up is a big part of success,
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but it's not the entire piece.
25:03
Like I said, it's a live environment here.
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So we have students walking behind, around.
25:08
And again, this is just one of the
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things you get a benefit or non-benefit
25:12
here, our pitfall of being on campus.
25:15
Again, before we were very quiet and now
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it's like we're the last few minutes and
25:18
then we're getting all these people just popping
25:19
up.
25:20
So focus compounds faster.
25:23
Distraction slows growth.
25:25
Focus accelerates it.
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That's pretty cool.
25:29
Number 27, guys, small progress prevents stagnation.
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Small progress.
25:33
When I was writing my book and I
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started several years ago for another book I
25:38
was going to start, I had it on
25:41
the calendar.
25:41
I scheduled it, but I never would put
25:43
the time into actually write the book.
25:46
And I would have it on a calendar
25:48
and I'd be like, oh, I'll do it
25:49
another day.
25:49
And I never would do it.
25:52
What got me to write it was a
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system.
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You know what?
25:54
I need to outline.
25:55
Then I got in the outlining for a
25:57
couple of weeks.
25:58
And I'm like, oh, wait a minute.
25:58
I've done enough outlining.
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I need to stop the outlining and actually
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write.
26:02
And then if there's something different, I could
26:05
change it.
26:06
But I need to get something down in
26:07
the system, in the computer.
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So as I said, small progress prevents stagnation.
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And that is consistent small progress, okay?
26:17
Number 28, guys, repetition creates an identity.
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You become what you repeatedly do.
26:24
You want to be a great actor?
26:26
Keep repeating it.
26:27
You want to become a student?
26:30
Keep repeating that behavior.
26:32
You want to become a great leader?
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Keep doing it.
26:36
Keep repeating it.
26:38
Leaders are not born, guys.
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They are made.
26:41
I know.
26:41
I went through scouting and that was the
26:45
shift.
26:46
When I was doing it, I didn't realize
26:49
how scouts was shaping me to be a
26:53
great leader.
26:54
I didn't know that.
26:55
I knew there were some great skills, but
26:57
I didn't really appreciate it back then.
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Now I do.
27:02
So direction shifts gradually.
27:04
Change doesn't feel big, but it is.
27:08
And when it happens, you're like, oh my
27:09
gosh, is that really happening?
27:12
Number 30, small actions win long-term.
27:15
The smallest consistent actions always beat the biggest
27:17
occasional ones.
27:20
A lot of people say, you know, I'm
27:21
going to domino that.
27:22
And that's great.
27:22
You want to domino it.
27:23
But are you going to keep being able
27:25
to do it consistently?
27:26
Nope, you're going to burn out.
27:28
Small actions today create big outcomes tomorrow.
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You don't need to build the entire palace
27:34
of Rome in one day.
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Here's the shift, guys.
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You don't need a massive change right now.
27:40
You need a small action you can repeat
27:43
daily, consistently.
27:45
Because the problem isn't that people don't want
27:48
to grow.
27:49
Nope.
27:50
It's that they overestimate what needs to happen.
27:54
They wait for motivation.
27:55
They wait for the right time.
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They wait for something big.
27:59
But growth doesn't wait, guys.
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It builds quietly, daily, through repetition.
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So instead of asking, what big move should
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I make?
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Ask, what small action can I repeat today?
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Because that answer is your future.
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Pretty cool, guys.
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For insights, check out BelieveMeAchieve.com, including my
28:22
book.
28:23
And I'll catch you guys real soon, because
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your next level is not built in one
28:26
moment.
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It is built one action at a time.
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So get started now.